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Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

A new article about how toddlers in Finland's 'language nests' are learning an endangered Sámi language years after the end of boarding schools in Finnish only www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I like how social media enables scientists to actively dispel popular myths & misconceptions about our research. As an illustration, here’s my thread on why there’s no such thing as a “gene for language”... 🧪 1/9

Just discovered an insane new form of co-intelligence where you briefly share the mind of a great thinker in history and then a portion of their mind travels in yours for the rest of your life. Calling it a "book."

To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, how about we also share introductions to the literature of our different fields. I present here a handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com). #language #linguistics #science #academia

Können wir mal über „das gerollte R“ sprechen? Das ist nämlich gar kein Fachausdruck. Schlimmer noch, er ist unterbestimmt. Folgt mir für einen deep dive in die Welt der “r“ -Laute. Es gibt sehr viele verschiedene „r“-Laute, die jeweils sehr unterschiedlich produziert werden, perzeptorisch aber

I think we should be doing as much talking about the economic destabilization that Epstein & Co. were doing as we are about the child sex trafficking. Because, those men plotted a new world order of racial and economic exploitation and then raped children as a treat

#KeinVergessen #WehretDenAnfängen #Hanau #SayTheirNames

February 19th is the anniversary of the domestic right-wing terrorist attack in #Hanau, Germany, in 2020. 🌹 Since February 19th also happens to be my #birthday, I've made a habit of inviting all of you to join me in remembering those of us murdered that day. #SayTheirNames 1/3

Each autistic person is different, but a lot of us share sensitivities and may respond badly to the following types of stimuli: - systemic injustice - dehumanising behaviors - indifference towards facts - lack of commitment to logical reasoning

the "left" broadly advocated for open access community owned gigabit fiber networks while the right coddled monopoly access to the detriment of progress and affordability for four decades

My driver's ed teacher believed that 4% was the same as 1/4. He was a sweet guy who convinced the judge to hand me a driving license after multiple failed attempts. This was by far his biggest mistake, but I had already accepted by then that I would never be able to drive, so not much harm done...

Crochet, solar and wind energy, open source software (especially R, LaTeX, Inkscape), light-based alarm clocks, e-bikes, cargo-bikes, bicycles in general, fast trains, running water,...

New positions in our lab! PostDoc: using tools of CogSci (resource-rational analysis, Bayesian pragmatics) to investigate whether LLMs build causal world models uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... Scientific Project Manager (@PostDoc level) for this 👆 project area uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Are there easy to use solutions for displaying time-aligned interlinear text on a website like at pangloss? (I mean easy as in installing a plugin, not easy as in you can talk to the developers)

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

LaTeX for #lingsky: When doing slides, include the following commands in the preamble after your glossing package (linguex/gb4e/etc): \let\eachwordone=\itshape \let\eachwordtwo=\normalfont

Childism is the most acceptable form of discrimination, exhibit x

Hier benötigt es dringend zahlreiche Unterschriften. Bitte unterzeichnen und teilen. Danke. weact.campact.de/petitions/un...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

“Edge offered intellectually insecure reactionaries a pass. Without even opening a book, they could dismiss all of feminism, postcolonial theory and queer studies. They could […] devote their brains instead to the race science and rape apologetics that now pass for scholarship on edgelord podcasts.”

A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social

Über 120.000 sagen: Rettet die Energiewende! Stoppt Katherina Reiches "Netzpaket"! Auch ein gemeinsamer Appell aus Wirtschaft und Zivilgesellschaft fordert einen Richtungswechsel der Bundesregierung für statt gegen die Erneuerbaren Energien in Bürgerhand. Bitte verbreitet die Appelle!

Reading "The Language of Food" and learned about the concept of "negative differentiation", the phenomenon that we use more specific expressions for negative experiences compared to positive ones (introduced through a study of reviews about beers).

Academics, ich pitche euch ne Idee für 1 Veranstaltung, die ihr an euren Hochschulen planen könntet: Am 19. Mai ist Diversity Tag und am 23. Mai ist Tag des Grundgesetzes. 1 perfekte Woche, um zum Austausch über Gefährdungen der Wissenschaftsfreiheit & Strategien gegen Angriffe einzuladen!

Die AfD bedroht unsere Demokratie. Ihr könnt den Appell unterzeichnen und auf #Prüf Demos gehen oder in eurer Stadt selber eine organisieren

Pathology language focuses on what others can observe. The Neurodiversity Paradigm insists that internal experience matters. If a system defines autism entirely by how inconvenient we are, that system isn’t neutral. Rather, it’s telling everyone what it’s REALLY about.

If only there was an intellectual discipline that could explain why the white men who run universities are so eager to shut down gender studies.

No amount of neurodiversity awareness training will ever make up for the fact that the average person takes it personally when you want to have lunch alone.

Beim Feminismus sollte es nicht um die Gleichberechtigung von Frauen und Männern gehen, sondern um die Gleichberechtigung *aller* Menschen.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Since I'm about to co-teach a class on Raizal (San Andrés islander creole), I made a map to visualize possible African origins of individual Raizal lexemes compiled in Bartens 2003.

Kind of amazing how the right was able to successfully sell so many centrists on a left wing “war on science” because we said phrenology is fake and trans people are real while they continue to deny evolution and climate change

I don't want self-driving cars. I want cars with speed governors and doors that won't open when cyclists are approaching.

Since I'm about to co-teach a class on Raizal (San Andrés islander creole), I made a map to visualize possible African origins of individual Raizal lexemes compiled in Bartens 2003.

Sicherheitsbeamte mit kugelsicherer Weste, Handschellen und Pfefferspray klingeln in Nordhausen morgens bei jungen Bürgergeldbeziehenden, um sie zum 1-€-Job zu fahren. Der SPD-Landrat diffamiert sie öffentlich als "Generation von Faulenzern." Oh Wunder, ich bin dagegen. www.zeit.de/2026/07/buer...

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Geld sparen durch digitale Unabhängigkeit. Wann geht es in Deutschland endlich los? Aus der taz vom 10.2.2026 Steuergeld für Microsoft von Svenja Bergt online unter: www.taz.de/!6152601

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Founders of modern paleontology, and their contributions to systemic racism, classism and sexism (🧵) Henry Osborn (1857–1935), responsible for naming of Tyrannosaurus & Velociraptor; president of ANHM. Co-founder of the American Eugenics Society. Contributing to books later praised by Hitler.

Christians re-interpreting the structure as involving a causative conversion here.

Since presumably the people complaining don’t know Spanish their assumption seems to be that the very presence of Spanish is a political message. This is a great example of a raciolinguistic ideology.

Heute tatsächlich geschrieben "bitte lesen Sie meine Email noch mal aufmerksam". Ende des Semesters und die Geduld auf Grundeis.

The Epstein files: a gold mine for sociologists uncovering the structures of the global elites, especially those not caring about what is moral or legal, and what is not. www.justice.gov/epstein

Hey did I tell y’all what my New Year’s resolution is? 1024 x 768

256 Milliardär*innen leben heute in Deutschland – fast doppelt so viele wie noch vor fünf Jahren. Gleichzeitig lebt jede fünfte Person in Armut. Vermögensungleichheit ist kein Zufall, sondern das Ergebnis von politischen Entscheidungen.

This is excellent & draws out something the rest of the media is ignoring: among other things, the Epstein files have made it super, super clear that the entire "anti-woke" cultural hysteria was engineered by powerful men averse to accountability.

Heute hat das Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) eine wissenschaftliche Studie zum Vermögensteuerkonzept der Linken vorgestellt. Demnach ließe sich mit einer Vermögensteuer auf große Vermögen bis zu 100 Milliarden Euro jährlich einnehmen.