The #DGfS2026 s u u u per awesome programme is awesome!!!11 Check out our AG3, featuring talks by e.g. @stefanhartmann.bsky.social, @theresaheyd.bsky.social, @nordemuriel.bsky.social, as well as @leftyveggie.bsky.social & @alexwillich.bsky.social as co-covenors 👇 www.uni-trier.de/universitaet...

Absolutely pathetic decision from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social - staff suffer, students suffer

Das crazy! Ich wurde für die SZ zum Thema Jugendwort des Jahres interviewt - hier ohne Paywall (checke hätte gewonnen 🥀) archive.ph/202510171219...

World Champions! 💪 🌹 www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

Day 1 #IGDD - a solid start, will we get house tomorrow? #IGDD2025

Wer ist auch auf der #DGT2025 in Braunschweig dabei?

Das volle Video zu den Top 10 Jugendwörter des Jahres. Ja, ich muss dringend zum Friseur 🖖 #jugendwort2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R1T...

Heute Abend cringe unterwegs bei RTL RON (und später RTL) zum Thema Jugendwort des Jahres. Das crazy... Watch me live here um 18Uhr (danach in der Mediathek und auf YouTube verfügbar natürlich) www.rontv.de/live/

Coming home status: its open.spotify.com/track/1b7kLk...

✨Happy World Emoji Day✨ Ich durfte mit ORF Topos über Emoji und Emoticons reden: topos.orf.at/emoji-geschi... Dieses Jahr kommen auch 9 neue Emoji - ich tippe auf Apfelkern als Emoji des Jahres 2026 blog.emojipedia.org/draft-emoji-...

Aaaand at the very next conference: "you can probably understand me better without the microphone haha 🤡" Microphone training for #mennersofacademia when?

Join me and the other @ags-gbi.bsky.social and @wigsblog.bsky.social PG/ECA reps online next Tues (17th June), 5-6pm to hear about the types of careers that recent German Studies PhD graduates are pursuing beyond academia. Free to attend. All welcome. Register here: shorturl.at/KdDL7

Come and discuss "s u u u u u p e r awesome patterns of iNtEnSiFiCaTiOn!!11eleven 😎🤩" with @alexwillich.bsky.social @leftyveggie.bsky.social, Annelen Brunner, and me next year in Trier 👇

🚨 New book alert 🚨 I heard you were wondering when the next edited collection on digitally-mediated communication/corpus linguistics would come out... Pre-order this chunky mf for your library (30.6. is the release date btw) or read it for free #openaccess www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

Confs: Intensification Workshop (DGfS 2026)

Day 2 after the #IFGT2025 in Jyväskylä - it's House! Now time for Karaoke with black metal and Finnish covers of Moskau by Dschjingis Khan

A possible extension for linguistics conference bingo: "I don't need the microphone, you can all hear me, right?" 🙄🙄🙄

Genocide Remembrance Day in Namibia ✊ The German government still doesn't want to pay reparations (instead offering increased "development aid" - a neocolonial term), despite extracting reparations from the Ovaherero and Nama communities www.tagesschau.de/ausland/afri...

For anyone who would like to hear me muse about #languages, #education, #linguistics and #penguins, a recording of my inaugural lecture is now available: youtu.be/VACFboUKp_U Thank you very much to @grabill.bsky.social and @emmacayley.bsky.social for their wonderful introduction and response!

Deutschland ist das neue Belgien 😶‍🌫️ #merz

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment. The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010 www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

Exciting news! ✨ Do you want to ... 👩‍💻... work on linguistic creativity 🌄 ... get to know #Bielefeld Here is your chance: The 1st Summer School on Linguistic Creativity, hosted by CRC 1646, from July 21st-25th 2025. More info here: www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/... #linguistics #BLinguistik

Time for TERF Island to sink into the North Sea (after I'm back from my holiday) www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

Queere Beziehungen werden seit Jahren von Politiker*innen in D geothered... Wie kann das so sein? 😲🤷 Ein paar linguistische Beispiele und Analysen findet man in unserem Artikel: doi.org/10.46771/978...

'Masculinities and Language' by @paulari.bsky.social and me, out now! You can read the whole thing #openaccess here: tinyurl.com/9h6wn83a

👉 INTENSIVIERE D1 LIFE 👈 Neue Veröffentlichung zur #Intensivierung in der digitalen Kommunikation - Deutsche Sprache 1/25 dsdigital.de/ce/x1f621-x1...

pronouns question: is there any published research yet on dude and bro (and probably others) as 3psg pronouns or quasi-pronouns? stuff like "dude knows what he's doing" or "bro thinks he's him"?

📝 How to Get Published – A panel with editors from Language in Society & Journal of Sociolinguistics! 📅 May 8, 2025 | ⏰ 12–1 PM EDT | 💻 Online 🔎 Tips on peer review, editorial decisions & responding to reviewers. ECR & PhD students encouraged to join! 🔗 Register by May 1: buff.ly/zWDc0H5

This week let's celebrate the German language! 👉 Your favourite German word? 👉 That incredible trip to Deutschland? 👉 Your German teacher, aka the best teacher of all time? Use #ShoutOutForGerman and show everyone what German means to you!

Abogeil! The language of German teens on YouTube is now out 🎉🎉🎉 Open access here: doi.org/10.14618/ama... Please buy it for your libraries here: buchshop.ids-mannheim.de/publikatione... @idsmannheim.bsky.social #openaccess

Schau Chef, ver.di sagt ich bin tatsächlich Held der Arbeit

Grüße gehen raus an die stabile @unikassel.bsky.social! ❤️

Save modern languages at Cardiff! www.change.org/p/save-mlang...

Torsten Leuschner with a little Coolio (feat. L.V.) Easter egg in his presentation on irrelevance conditionals... #GHENTstersparadise #IDSJT25

Very enjoyable presentation from Antje Sammel and Melitta Gillmann on Alter/bro/habibi - if anyone needs more DMC data with such vocatives - have a look at the NottDeuYTSch Corpus 😉 lindat.mff.cuni.cz/repository/x... #IDSJT25

When the presenter matches the corporate colour scheme 😍🧡🖤 @sascha-wolfer.bsky.social #IDSJT25

Nicht verpassen: Morgen, am Mi., 12.3, von 10.30-11 Uhr wird Dr. Louis Cotgrove am Stand des IDS-Verlags zu Gast sein und Ihre Fragen zu seinem neuen Buch beantworten: "Abogeil! The Language of German Teens on YouTube". Neu in der Reihe amades (Arbeiten & Materialien zur deutschen Sprache)! #IDSJT25

Ich dachte Mittagessen wäre das wichtigste auf einer Konferenz (nach dem Weinempfang) ⏰ #IDSJT25

The discussion on the language of Martin Luther and if he was influenced by the printers #IDSJT25

Schlage das neue Konzept der Grammatikalisierungs-Guillotine vor, bei der Phrasen ihren Kopf verlieren #idsjt25

Keine Jahrestagung ohne Shame-Gong #IDSJT25

Die Tradition der allerersten Frage der IDS-Jahrestagung lebt weiter 🗣️ #IDSJT25

The day is finally come // Es ist schon soweit! Linguistics conference bingo 2: European Gigolo is ready for the @idsmannheim.bsky.social Jahrestagung #IDSJT25

Request to replace the "Stop" sign at conferences with any number of these

Watch this space... Mittwoch 12.3. 10:30 Uhr // Wednesday 12th March 10:30am #IDSJT25 #Abogeil

It's here! Episode 70 is all about prescriptivism and we have a great chat with @emhumps.bsky.social about it all, from the French academy to pedantry in popular culture and through to how to persuade the pedants in your life that they're just wrong. #Linguistics creators.spotify.com/pod/show/lex...

Lieblingsschild auf der Demo zum feministischen Kampftag heute in Heidelberg (und viele anderen auch)

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!

Ah yes, the use of slurs in presentations without trigger warnings #dgfs2025 🤦 bUt wIsSeNsChaFtsFrEiHeIt

Penny Eckert talking about "cruising" in high schools - luckily, not that kind 😬😬😬😬😬👀 #dgfs2025