Petition for reviewers to stop writing that “the author is ignoring work XZ” & start saying “I would love to see more engagement with work XZ” 🙏 We have no access to people’s intentions, so let’s assume the best in each other, even when being critical 😊

I'm so fucking furious. So, here's my podcast in a podcast app, which now has this nice "show transcript" button Perhaps it's taking you to our free, high quality transcripts that we PAY A HUMAN to make? Absolutely not. 🧵

How does your long weekend look like? For me it’s a mix of journaling + listening to podcasts while the baby naps, and then pizza party & beach time for the first really summery weekend of the year ☀️☕️🏖️

Hi, Leiden 🌺⛵️

*** On Al, scholarships, and the ethics of reading - please join the discussion! *** 🧵 I just declined a review for a paper I suspect has been written with Al (only). Here is the text I sent to the editors, with the quotes from the abstract removed:

Just sent out for the proofs: “How and why choosing the wrong form of address may make you look like a boomer or a Karen: Characterological figures on social media” 😍 Preprint available here: shs.hal.science/view/index/d...

evening chill ✨🌇

There is a university wide technical issue with logins and I cannot connect to any university services, included emails, since this morning. And this is… like, quite nice? freeing? 😶‍🌫️ I will not draw any conclusion from this 😇

The reality of being a parent in academia is that you’re answering emails from your phone w/ a baby sleeping on your lap with 40 fever —not bc I would be a particularly committed person but simply bc no one else can/will take over & I’d rather tackle it than leave it for when I’ll prob be sick too 🙃

Hi from the ‘Dead or Alive? Thinking Autochthonous Heritage, Minority, and Regional Languages and Cultures out of the National Box’ conference, organized in Hannover by Cornelius Herz! Looking forward to various perspectives on language policies, planning, and power 🌟

📣 Noch 6 Tage läuft der Call for Papers für unsere Sektion "Mediale Repräsentationen von Mehrsprachigkeit und Sprachenlernen" an der GAL26 in Lüneburg. @konstanzemarx.bsky.social, @woerfel.bsky.social, Juliana Goschler und ich freuen uns auf Einreichungen. www.leuphana.de/portale/gal2...

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

On an early train to Brussels for the Sociolinguistics Circle! 💺☕️ Presenting later today on what transnational mobility and multilingual repertoires *do* to the perception of dialects. Excited to see new and old faces! www.historicalsociolinguistics.be/slx-circle/

🚀 One week left to apply for my postdoc position in emoji semantics! Join us for: 🔬 linguistic experiments 🔍 semantic theory 🤝 interdisciplinary collaboration 🧑‍💼 developing your own research agenda 💻 digital communication 🤩 a wonderful team 💪 a supportive supervisor #bochum #emoji #linguistics […]

‘Transform overwhelming internal anxiety into a manageable external process.’ [what a promise!!] ‘I don’t have feelings or consciousness.’ 😵‍💫🫠

Dank der Förderung durch die @gal-ev.bsky.social können wir im Oktober eine #ResearchSchool zum Thema #Social #Pragmatics durchführen. Es soll vor allem um Methoden und konkrete Datendiskussionen gehen. Mit dabei: @neous.bsky.social @danielpfurtscheller.at Florence Oloff und Philipp Dreesen #Call

Morgen in #Greifswald und hybrid: Prof. Karen Adkins zu 'whisper networks' und #MeToo als Auftaktveranstaltung der Ringvorlesung "Feministische Epistemologien. Wissen, Macht, Geschlecht" des #IZFG der @unigreifswald.bsky.social izfg.uni-greifswald.de/ringvorlesun...

Now published in IJSL and available open access: Heyd and Flehmer (2026) ⬇️ Ideologies of English, ideologies of gender: Enregisterment of internal and external purism in German language ideologies

Les débats sur l’écriture inclusive invoquent la nécessité d’inclure tous types de personnes (argument pour) vs difficulté de déchiffrage (argument contre). Mais en fait… les motivations sont souvent + politiques que linguistiques ⬇️ @bstorme.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired ~ K.E. Sermonté "I want quiet. I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved."

wishing you a restorative Sunday 🌷☕️📝

mmmhhhh did I miss something? 🫠

In 2019, I defended my PhD on 'It's not X, it's Y' and similar constructions, which I call contrastive negation constructions. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that 'It's not X, it's Y' would become the topic of comment pieces in newspapers. 🧵

Now that you know all about the Mid-Atlantic accent, you will be able to recognize it even in 21st-century media.

view from my classroom this morning 😇

When I tell people here (the Netherlands) that fighting anglicisms is still very much a thing in France, many are surprised… and still… [super interesting mini thread if you read French]

The abstract lmao 🤣 “The big math changes to small math by same change and solve in MATLAB BVP4C. […] Also, hot from electric and warm from move make more hot, so need in work like earth heat take, oil get, and hot change machine in hole thing.”

“After publication […] concerns were raised about the use of non-scientific and nonsensical terminology in the abstract. Upon further evaluation, the Editors noticed inaccuracies within the cited references and some of the equations.” I know editors have so much work but… how did they accept it?!

C’est marrant parce que je n’ai pas le souvenir du tout de « je me réjouis » de mes 15 ans à la frontière genevoise, mais cela me semble un calque de l’allemand « ich freue mich » ☺️

there is sth quite humbling about receiving the ‘royalty statement’ (number of copies sold) of your book after a few years 😅

cardamom bun to make it through grading over 100 essays 😰💪

My university laptop stopped working & so after a few painful weeks w/ a suuuuper slow loan laptop I got a brand new one 🙏 I was about to set it up by downloading all the apps again & I’m thinking… I’m ready for a little spring digital reset 🌷 maybe gain some clarity w/ less digital clutter? 😇

Also very interesting to see how people sum up similar numbers: “70% of Dutch people don’t use generative AI” (AlgoSoc AI Opinion Monitor) vs. “Nearly a quarter of Dutch population use AI programs such as ChatGPT” (CBS, the Dutch national office for statistics) nbs from 2024 / sources below

easy Sunday 🌷

Also sth to remember: Fragmented nights happen wayyyyyy past the first few months for some children!! It’s not only about the newborn stage. We’re talking about YEARS of diminished cognitive capacity and emotional bandwidth

This. I finished my dissertation when my kid was 2.5. She was…NOT a “good sleeper”, and for most of that stretch, I hadn’t gotten more than an hour of uninterrupted sleep at a time (MANY wakeups per night). I marvel at Past Me for writing a whole freaking dissertation in that state.

My invitation to you today: Yes, it may be harder to secure non white, non cis, non hetero, non abled, non male speakers, bc of e.g. care work, needing special accommodation, feeling illegitimate, etc. It is still YOUR job as an organizer to make sure you reach an appropriate balance of keynotes!

The first factor regarding time spent caring for children is night care—and yes, having been pregnant, breastfeeding, or both in the last four years, I can indeed confirm I haven’t had ONE SINGLE UNINTERRUPTED NIGHT in that timeframe.

This is it. After years of extensive coffee sessions in all possible locations it’s time to limit the little treats ☕️🥐 No more coffee pics from now on! Thoughts and prayers 🥲

maybe spring is finally here 🥹 (this was just before 6 pm!!!)

Win of the day: I refused to be part of the scientific committee of an event which was featuring only (white) male keynote speakers, and the organisers managed to secure a wonderful female professor after I raised the issue 💪

Hi, obvious self-promotion post (being busy with 2 little ones means I'm not active on social media): Is Gender‐Inclusive Language Left‐Wing? The Social Meaning of Four Gender‐Inclusive Strategies in French and German with B. Storme, J. Lychnara & G. Deasy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Who doesn't like a 1st of September which is also a Monday? 🥐☕👩‍💻 #BackToSchool #LastQuarter2025

Die @ruhr-uni-bochum.de sucht Katzenvideos für die Wissenschaft! 😻https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/ruhrgebiet/uni-bochum-sucht-katzenvideos-100.amp #Katzenvideo #cats #catsofBluesky #CitizenScience

It's out and #OpenAccess! Beyond Monolingual Views: The Language Ideologies of Multilinguals on Anglicisms in French and German in Critical Multilingualism Studies 🤩 journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/cms/article/...

* ☕☔🌼 * rainy coffee day & encouraging phone call grey skies & bright words slow sip & fresh spark

Forever grateful to reviewers who show genuine enthusiasm for our work, together with constructive criticism 🤓😊 "This preview and sketch of results is strong! I'm really looking forward to reading about the findings."

Our permanent German lectureship now has an extended deadline of 21st July. Apply here: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

🥸📑 Hiding in home office during the NATO summit (🚁🚁🚁) while finalizing the proofs of “Beyond Monolingual Views: The Language Ideologies of Multilinguals on Anglicisms in French and German”, to appear in Critical Multilingualism Studies very soon (#OpenAccess!)

Does anyone have access to the paper Reuse of social media data in corpus linguistics by Mikko Laitinen and Paula Rautionaho, published in the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics? Somehow my institutional access doesn't work... Thanks :) www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...