RE: https://fediscience.org/@tschfflr/116124799617540823 Hi #dhd2026 crowd, I have a #DH job (leading to a PhD) open in my group right now! Tell your students 🤗

Tatjana Scheffler@tschfflr.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 5mo ago

🚨 Job alert in my group: Want to do a PhD in Computational Linguistics working on figurative language (metaphor), on social media data, and in an interdisciplinary digital humanities environment, at one of the largest universities in Germany? Apply by March 30, 2026! Contact me with any […]

🔗 Huvitav väljavõte Propastopi hiljutisest artiklist: "Venemaa mõjutustegevus on liikunud üksikute valeväidete levitamiselt süstemaatilise hirmu ja ebakindluse tekitamise suunas. Fookuses ei ole enam ühe konkreetse narratiivi kehtestamine, vaid pideva pingeseisundi hoidmine, olgu selleks […]

If I ever have the ovaries to leave #academia, this will be the main reason (all post-PhD): 2020: SWE Research Council - rejected! 2021: SWE Research Council - rejected! 2023: NOR Research Council - rejected! 2024: NOR Research Council - rejected! 2025: SWE Research Council + Bank of SWE + MSCA […]

It's the misleading content league table! (from a study which fact-checked posts across content seen in four EU countries): (Most) - TikTok - Facebook - X/Twitter - Youtube - Instagram - LinkedIn (Least) REPORT: Measuring the State of Online Disinformation in Europe on Very Large Online […]

European Union companies' annual purchases of cloud software services that benefit the US economy amount to €264 billion … If the EU were able to produce 15% of the cloud software services it currently purchases from the United States in 2035, this would result in 463,000 additional jobs in the […]

International postdocs: Come to Bochum for a two-week stay to plan a research project and learn how to apply for funding for it in Germany. I'm available as a host for any topic related to my research interests: digital forensic linguistics, experimental semantics/pragmatics, emojis […]

Reading recommendation! 📖 Earlier this year, Vassiliki Geka published an excellent book on Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units: https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027244918 Later this year, Journal of Pragmatics published my review of the book, which you can […]

What did Elon change? A comprehensive analysis of Grokipedia https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09685 Newsletter summary: "Grokipedia cites a Nazi forum and fringe conspiracy websites. A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do" […]

Dear readers of #mastodon! Is anyone familiar with academic literature on communicative efficiency in short-form videos like #tiktok? I'm thinking of ways in which #influencers may adjust their speech to fit into bite-sized clips? Is there any? If not specifically on language, then maybe […]

Ever heard of the Global Fact-Checking Network? Nope, not the International Fact-Checking Network (https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/) - the other, "alternative" one. Anyway, just reading their posts for research purposes. Was positively surprised by their awareness of the role of language, lexical […]

Hello everyone! 👋 After having run a project account for a while, I thought it's high time to put a face to my research. So here I am: an English linguist with an interest in the language of fake news and spoken language (not always together, actually I prefer to take a break from fake news […]