Mein Blogbeitrag im Mai, via @dehypotheses.bsky.social handelt vom Warten, sowohl vom Warten von Gegenständen und als auch vom Warten von Wissen. wub.hypotheses.org/3450

New blog post by Frederic Blum in our #CALCiP Journal / Blog out now. "How To Visualize Language Polygons with QGIS (How to Do X in Linguistics 15)" calc.hypotheses.org/9287 doi.org/10.15475/cal...

New paper by Robert Forkel and myself in #JOHD just appeared: Extending CLDF -- Towards a Type System for Cross-Linguistic Data doi.org/10.5334/johd...

📣 New blog post! Introducing the web app for the Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications 4.0 🌐 (with @lingulist.de and Robert Forkel). We also discuss the future of CLICS. calc.hypotheses.org/9261 PDF here: doi.org/10.15475/cal...

This month, in our #CALCiP blog / journal, we introduce the CLLD application for the fourth version of the Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications (with @annikatjuka.bsky.social and Robert Forkel). "CLICS⁴ as CLLD Web Application" calc.hypotheses.org/9261 PDF here: doi.org/10.15475/cal...

Version 1.0 of the Grammaticon is now online! This has been in the making for over eight years. Quite a few of the entries are still preliminary, but I hope to expand and improve it over the coming months and years. Comments are welcome! An intro text is here: dlc.hypotheses.org/4316

Finally out, so we have new space for new ideas now.

Database update 🌐 We launched a new version of CLICS 🚀 - the Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications clics.clld.org The paper introducing the new version is available here: aclanthology.org/2025.iwcs-ma...

Mein Blogbeitrag im April geht auf die Idee ein, von offener Forschung endlich auch zu offener Lehre an Universitäten zu gelangen. "Offene Lehre im universitären Kontext" via @dehypotheses.bsky.social wub.hypotheses.org/3421

Advice for @erc.europa.eu : Prohibit the use of LLMs for grant writing. Let applicants sign a declaration that they have not used such systems and that the text is written by them and them alone.

Love this clear-headed idea for ERC — @erc.europa.eu please take note. Innovative work requires independent minds. A policy like this would send the signal that the funder values clear thinking over automated thoughtlessness, quality over quantity, earnest novel work over mediocre rehashings.

I'm hiring! 2 x postdocs in Cognitive Anthropology, Archaeology and Linguistics, to work on the cultural history of Australia and Papua. More details in link below, and please do repost or share elsewhere! www.isle.uzh.ch/en/jobs/post...

'Ah but you're cherry-picking excellent writers. Surely the average person benefits? I myself found it useful this one time' No. None of us benefit from dragging down the level of writing to some lowest common denominator. Have some self-respect. Be ambitious. ideophone.org/find-your-ow...

Yes, #ScientificReports, with my background as a linguist interested in the evolution of languages, I will of course gladly review your paper on photovoltaic systems in 10 days, expect it in 5 🫡

Un nouveau cognat partagé exclusivement par le rgyalronguique et le kiranti: panchr.hypotheses.org/3993

Our chapter on the tree model (with @thomaspellard.bsky.social and @robinryder.bsky.social ) is at last published online: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The March contribution to our CALCiP journal / blog is the possible start of a more detailed series on "Foundations of Formal Etymological Analysis" calc.hypotheses.org/9208 doi.org/10.15475/cal...

Mein Blogbeitrag im März via @dehypotheses.bsky.social handelt vom "Vom Konsumieren von Information" wub.hypotheses.org/3386

13th Summer School of Chinese Lx, July 27-31 2026 @ U. Stuttgart, offering courses on "The Syntax-Semantics Interface of Modern Mandarin", "The diachronic development of the TAM system of Chinese", "The Syntax of Cantonese" and "Sinitic Languages of the Pearl River Region".

Ich habe gerade das Skript zu meiner Vorlesung "Praktische Einführung in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten" im Wintersemester 2025/2026 über Humanities Commons online gestellt, so dass es als Open Educational Resource frei zur Verfügung steht. doi.org/10.17613/b1b...

Ich habe gerade das Skript zu meiner Vorlesung "Sprachmodelle und Sprachverarbeitung" im Wintersemester 2025/2026 über Humanities Commons online gestellt, so dass es als Open Educational Resource frei zur Verfügung steht. doi.org/10.17613/mxv...

New contribution to our Blog / Journal on Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice, this time by our doctoral student David Snee and myself: Computing Detailed Colexifications with Missing Data Information from the CLICS⁴ Collection doi.org/10.15475/cal... calc.hypotheses.org/9164

I just released EvoBib 1.11, my quote and reference collection that offers a bibliography for historical linguistics, linguistic typology, and beyond. Browse online at: evobib.digling.org Get data at: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Mein Blogbeitrag im Februar via @dehypotheses.bsky.social beschäftigt sich mit der Etymologie von Tabuwörtern, die häufig lautmalerisch motiviert sein können. "Vom Winden vor Winden" wub.hypotheses.org/3348

Hm, should I review this super exiting study from Scientific Reports? Or should I leave it to others?

A review article on the interesting technique of Object Naming by our doctoral student Alžběta Kučerová (and to a small degree myself) just appeared in Language and Linguistics Compass. doi.org/10.1111/lnc3...

Infomap by Rosvall and Bergstrom (2008) is so central to my work, I use it in research a lot, but also in teaching, this is such a beautiful algorithm with such a robust and nice implementation!

New preprint by Frederic Blum (major idea and implementation) and me (the one who criticized and commented), introducing a new approach on regularity assessment. "Using correspondence patterns to identify irregular words in cognate sets through leave-one-out-validation" arxiv.org/abs/2602.02221

First contribution in this year to our blog / journal on Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice. "Transparent Application of Text Generation Tools in Scientific Research" calc.hypotheses.org/9138

In the past decade or two, predatory publishers have built a parallel universe of publication opportunities preying on the least privileged & most vulnerable of our colleagues I got my hands on what passes for peer review at one such journal ideophone.org/on-plagiaris...

Mein erster Blogbeitrag im neuen Jahr beschäftigt sich kritisch mit dem Begriff des Halluzinierens von Sprachmodellen: "Vom Fabulieren und Halluzinieren" wub.hypotheses.org/3313

WTF?! 🫣 Is this a joke? www.nature.com/articles/s41... A religious quote, "primitive languages", and nonsense everywhere. Is Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications a scam journal?

Final preprint in this year (I guess), by our doctoral student David Snee, Luca Ciucci, and myself: Variation in Language Phylogenies May Result From Variation in Concept Translation doi.org/10.17613/dpa...

"Da Chatbots weder Urheberschaft noch Transparenz kennen, haben sie die zwei grundlegenden Säulen umgeworfen, die unsere Wissenschaft bisher getragen haben." @lingulist.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy argumentiert, dass gute wissenschaftliche Praxis und KI sich widersprechen.

Final blog post in our CALC-Journal in this year. "Towards a Unified ConversionTable for Semitic Transcriptionsand Transliterations" With our new project member Carlo Meloni. calc.hypotheses.org/9109

📖 ‘To be or not to be?’ That’s just the beginning of a linguistic mystery The linguist Dr Luca Ciucci is among the editors of a new 1,300-page work exploring how the world's languages handle ‘to be’. Here, he reveals more about his research 👇 @lingulist.de #linguistics 🧪

Mein letzter Blogbeitrag in diesem Jahr via @dehypotheses.bsky.social: "Kann man verantwortungsvolle Wissenschaft mit KI betreiben?" wub.hypotheses.org/3240

Professorship in Indo-European Studies at Copenhagen U. (apply by 12 Jan 2026): jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Open letter! Please consider signing --- Gegen die unkritische Anwendung und Implementierung sog. Künstlicher Intelligenz (KI) in der deutschen Wissenschaft und im Hochschulalltag openletter.earth/gegen-die-un...

Mein Blogbeitrag für November, via @dehypotheses.bsky.social, diesmal zum Aussterben von Standardpasswörtern: Von bedrohten Spielarten der Kultur wub.hypotheses.org/3086

Offener Brief gegen die zunehmende unkritische Nutzung von KI an deutschen Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen - bitte teilen! openletter.earth/gegen-die-un...

Talente auf der Bühne, spannende Projekte, lebendiger internationaler Austausch und verborgene Talente: Rückblick auf die Forschungskommunikation 2025 u.a. mit @lingulist.de, @sherbold.bsky.social, @haeussler.bsky.social, @mgrani.bsky.social, @hedwigeisenbarth.bsky.social, @passaudpe.bsky.social:

New blog post in our #CALC in Practice Blog / Journal: "Manipulating Lexical Forms with the PyLexibank FormSpec" calc.hypotheses.org/8877 doi.org/10.15475/cal...

New preprint with Barbara Meisterernst, on a database of qù-tone alternations in Ancient Chinese, now out with Open-Research-Europe, awaiting open peer review. doi.org/10.12688/ope... The database can be accessed at qualternations.digling.org

PHONO-ML Database La base de données de transcriptions phonétiques en chinois moyen produite par Alexander Delaporte et Guillaume Jacques au CRLAO est disponible publiquement : Gitlab Huma-Num = gitlab.huma-num.fr/phono-ml/dat... Github = github.com/alxdrdelapor... Zenodo = doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Mein Blogbeitrag via @dehypotheses.bsky.social für Oktober beschäftigt sich mit wissenschaftlichen Konstrukten und wie man sie kommuniziert. Von gefühlten Tatsachen wub.hypotheses.org/3049

New preprint by Katja Bocklage (PhD in our ERC project) and many others from our chair just published online with Humanities Commons. Testing the Potential of Automatically Inferred Affix Colexifications for Linguistic Typology works.hcommons.org/records/adjy...

We're so happy to share our newest ancient DNA findings in Mongolia on the Slab Grave expansion and its consequences for diverse Bronze Age pastoralists! doi.org/10.1038/s414...