Let’s be clear: the decision by the FA and others to bar trans women from sport is not a requirement on them by the Supreme Court ruling. It is a choice they have made to be exclusionary and intolerant. That’s a choice they are now free to make after the a ruling, but still a choice.

🧵 TRUK United Statement on FA’s Ban on Transgender Women in Football from Age 13 Everyone at TRUK United is deeply disappointed and outraged by the decision announced today by the Football Association (FA) to ban Transgender Women from participating in women's football from the age of 13.

I'm putting together a slide illustrating how generative AI is being forced on people even though they don't want it, and this is sort of funny. Here's are Google's autocomplete suggestions for "google gemini how to", and Bing's autocomplete suggestions for for "microsoft copilot how to".

Heute vorm Wahllokal wurden vom NDR O-Töne fürs Radio gesammelt. "Haben sie gerade gewählt und wie fühlen sie sich" "Ja, gut" 🤷

Historisches für den deutschen Frauenfußball passiert in der Stadt und wir spielen leider zeitgleich (nur 3,5km Luftlinie entfernt, aber was hilft's 😭) www.hsv.de/news/nordder...

Erasing our history won't erase us. Transgender people have always been here — and we always will be.

Yesterday, World Athletics announced new recommended rules that would ban all DSD athletes from competition and require EVERY woman who wanted to compete to undergo a chromosome test. I covered the main bits here:

Die von Studierenden herausgegebene Literaturzeitschrift FU Review (www.fureviewberlin.com) braucht Geld, um die nächsten Ausgaben zu finanzieren. Wer kann und mag, kann über dieses Crowdfunding unterstützen: gofund.me/3c966286

This is no surprise, but worth a reminder that the next Olympics and next World Cup are both in the US

Introducing my new project… Your Wrong (yourwrong.co.uk). It’s all about the language rules and judgements that appear in different forms of popular culture. Films, series, podcasts, music, books, even graffiti! I’d love your help to find examples!

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Notify the train crew of any usual events

Talking object für @theresaheyd.bsky.social und @janapithan.bsky.social

These days, my personal stance on this is: absolutely believe people are showing you who they are, but don't waste your breath trying to pin them on this one thing. ymmv

Look, I don't really want to wade into American politics, but since emblem gestures are my jam, a reminder: gestures are treated in communication as more deniable than words and bad-faith actors can easily exploit this feature.

Btw was sagt ihr zu 'den Kopf von jmd. im Schwimmbad etc. "zum Spaß" unter Wasser tauchen'? 🤽 (Hatte gerade letztens im Schwimmbad mit jemandem aus Süddeutschland das Thema)

TIL dass engl. "dunk" vom Pennsylvania German "dunke" (verwandt mit dt. "tunken") übernommen wurde, und das erst zu Beginn des 20. Jh. (Erster Beleg im OED ist von 1917)

I wonder whether my students will notice this implicit reference to recent events in the example (text is from 1999)

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

I was just trying to look up a rule in volleyball and the whole first page of results are websites that are full of AI generated incorrect information about the rules of volleyball. Absolutely wild.

HEDVIG: So we heard that he enjoys this. DANIEL: Yeah, he likes it. NICOLE: Yeah, he'll never disambiguate, because he wants to perpetuate the variation. DANIEL: That's why I didn't ask what he says. That's why I asked what y'all say, in the department.

DANIEL: I want to know: How do y'all say his surname over there? NICOLE: Labov [la bʌv] [rhymes with above]. DANIEL: Okay! NICOLE: I have, in the department I have heard LaBOVE [lə ˈboʊv]. DANIEL: In the department?

look @nytimes.com you don't know this no one does

sighing and tapping the sign kconrod.medium.com/the-right-do...

eventually i will write a paper about it but ugh. anyways people are often not talking about the grammatical category when they talk about "pronouns"

Mmm...so lecker Ente Hier knusprige

Liebe alles daran.

Success! 🎉 #weuro2025

This. Dazu passt was Kirby Conrod sagt: "The right doesn’t care what a pronoun is. Stop trying to have arguments about grammar when fascists are trying to have arguments about trans people." kconrod.medium.com/the-right-do...

Dear #Linguistics bubble: Next term I'm teaching a seminar on language ideology and EFL. It's mainly for future English teachers in Germany. I want them to learn more about language ideologies in- and outside of school classrooms. Which studies, podcasts, blog posts (and other) would you include?

My colleague, Isabella Bruno, developed a great resource for those who need access to academic publications but are not affiliated with academic organizations.

CFP 3rd conference on teaching gender-inclusive language (free & virtual) Presentation proposals due 10 January 2025. More info: dornsife.usc.edu/center-for-l... Proposal submission: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Good old 90s, when databases on CD-ROMs were potentially dangerous research tools (from Stubbs, Michael. 1998. German loanwords and cultural stereotypes. English Today 14(1). 19–26.)

In the past day I’ve heard two people who really should know better say they asked ChatGPT for factual info. ChatGPT is not a search engine. It is predictive text based on other people’s stolen writing; its whole job is to make stuff up. Please do not ask it for facts. Tell a friend.

Barbra Banda is an amazing footballer. That's the only thing that should be in the news.

The call for papers for our LGaS BAAL SIG is out. See all the info below - It will be my first one as the Convenor of the BAAL SIG and I cannot wait to go back to Manchester next year!

can’t stop thinking about the synchronized slide

There will never be too many angles of this Marta goal 🤩

Liebe Kolleg*innen vom IDS Mannheim haben eine spannende Promotionsstelle zum 1. Februar 2025 zu besetzen - es geht um empirische Genderlinguistik und insbesondere den empirischen Blick auf die Schnittstelle von Sprache und Kognition. Weitere Infos: www.ids-mannheim.de/org/karriere... #Linguistik

In case you're interested in working on language & food with me at FU Berlin, check out this job ad for a (full-time) postdoc position: www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet... (the ad is in German only but I guess auto translation is your friend) #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

I’m a public librarian in a degenerating democracy, and I am pleading: Care about your library. Use it. See what programs and events it offers. And pay attention to its governing body. See who the trustees are. Consider running yourself. Libraries will need all the community support they can get. 📚

I don't want to dwell on it but I once asked chatgpt to summarize an article I wrote to see how it did with summarizing and it completely butchered the central point and reinforced the ideology I was trying to deconstruct lol

new paper from @TanjaSaily and Turo Vartiainen "Engaging with bad (meta)data in historical corpus linguistics" feels like a must read for the corpora folk benjamins.com/catalog/scl....

Weil ich nicht weiß, ob man es im TV sieht, die 4. Offizielle aus Italien hat vor dem Anpfiff Alexandra Popp aufgefordert, die Pride-Kapitäninnen-Binde gegen eine Deutschland-Binde zu tauschen.

Sprachkampf an der Uni Leipzig

I set aside time today for students to identify and vote for the questions they wanted to discuss most. This was the most popular question and same, my amazing students, same.

Heute kam die Mail mit der Ankündigung zwar ca. 5h vor Freigabe der zusätzlichen Tickets um 14 Uhr, aber da ich in der Zeit gearbeitet hab und nicht private Mails gecheckt (soll's geben), wieder leer ausgegangen. Eine Info so ein zwei Tage vorher wäre halt auch wieder nett gewesen. #weuro2025

In Hamburg wurde erstmals ein Flüchtling aus dem Kirchenasyl heraus abgeschoben - ein absoluter Tabubruch. Und wer hat ihn begangen? Eine rotgrüne Landesregierung.

In Steglitz, wo @theresaheyd.bsky.social ?