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Vroni Zieglmeier

@vzie.bsky.social

(socio-)linguist and bubble tea aficionado swimming, singing, and researching in berlin, heidelberg, and all over the place

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Theresa Heyd@theresaheyd.bsky.social · last wk.

Das war eine großartige Veranstaltung am Dienstag! 1. Vagrant Gautam über das Verhältnis von NLP und Soziolinguistik mit einem Appell für _epistemological humility_

Vagrant links, daneben eine bunte Vortragsfolie: we get it, NLP Is quuerphobic - why?
Theresa Heyd@theresaheyd.bsky.social · 2w ago

Morgen in Heidelberg noch nichts vor? Kommt zum EZS für diese tolle Veranstaltung: ➡️ Queering Big Data ⬅️ Organisiert von Vroni Zieglmeier @vzie.bsky.social und Samira Ochs @idsmannheim.bsky.social, mit Vorträgen von Jan Oliver Rüdiger @notesjor.bsky.social und Vagrant Gautam @dippedrusk.com!

Veranstaltungsposter Querig Big Data in Pastellfarben Programm Einführung: Vroni Zieglmeier (Universität Heidelberg) Samira Ochs (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache) Vorträge: Öffentliche Raumnahme – wie sich Minderheiten im Diskursraum behaupten. Diskurs-Einblicke aus dem Queeren Korpus Dr. Jan Oliver Rüdiger (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache) Der Vortrag fragt, welchen Beitrag eine korpuslinguistische Perspektive zur Untersuchung queerer öffentlicher Diskurse leisten kann. Ausgangspunkt ist die Beobachtung, dass queere Sprach- und Diskurspraktiken in bestehenden Referenzkorpora bislang nur unzureichend erfasst sind und insbesondere spezifische Gruppenkontexte marginalisierter Communities unterrepräsentiert bleiben. „Queering Big Data“ bedeutet hier, etablierte korpuslinguistische Perspektiven um Daten und Kommunikationsräume zu erweitern, die in groß angelegten, auf gesamtgesellschaftliche Repräsentativität ausgerichteten Korpora häufig unsichtbar bleiben. Anhand queerer Medienquellen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz wird untersucht, wie queere Akteur öffentliche Raumnahme vollziehen, Sichtbarkeit herstellen und Diskurspositionen entwickeln. Im Fokus steht dabei sowohl die sprachliche und diskursive Verankerung queerer Perspektiven als auch die Frage, welches Erkenntnispotenzial die systematische Erfassung solcher bislang wenig repräsentierter Kommunikationsräume für die Korpuslinguistik eröffnet. What NLP should learn from linguistics, and why Dr. Vagrant Gautam (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies) The field of natural language processing (NLP) is concerned with the computational interpretation of human language, including technologies such as large language models, machine translation, and automatic speech recognition. I will begin by providing an overview of how the field currently conceives of queerness both in the research and development of NLP systems, as well as how these systems impact people. T…
Tarik Abou-Chadi@tabouchadi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Being queer means being the target of violence. Every queer person knows this. It's deeply engraved in who we are. We live with it every day of our lives. Not because of terrorism but because it is structurally enshrined in our "free" societies. Violence against queer people is not an exception ...

Vroni Zieglmeier@vzie.bsky.social · 7mo ago

very proud to see a student paper that emerged from one of my courses published in the Heidelberg Journal of English Studies. M Thielebörger discusses political discourse in 'sticker clusters' in the streets of Heidelberg. so cool! journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/hj...

Peeling Back the Layers | Heidelberg Journal of English Studies

Urban public spaces are increasingly shaped by informal visual practices beyond official signage, with stickers functioning as politically charged interventions in the urban linguistic landscape. This study examines political sticker clusters in Heidelberg, a university town characterised by a high concentration of politically engaged students, to explore how public space is contested through visual and linguistic means. Drawing on the concepts of emplacement and transgressive signs (Scollon and Scollon 2003), the paper analyses sticker clusters as layered, polyphonic visual texts (Reershemius 2019), with particular attention to multimodal meaning-making (Bezemer and Jewitt 2018). Building on Awcock’s (2021) understanding of stickers as tools of everyday resistance, the study situates sticker placement within broader contexts of youth-led political discourse. The data consists of photographs of sticker clusters collected in central Heidelberg during the summer of 2025, focusing on sticker-dense locations in public and university-adjacent spaces. Qualitative analysis shows that sticker clusters function as semiotic hot­spots in which political ideologies are performed, contested, and renegotiated through practices of layering and covering. Rather than operating as isolated messages, stickers form dynamic, spatially anchored texts that contribute to grassroots, bottom-up public discourse in student-dense urban environments.

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Prof. Nicole Holliday@mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 9mo ago

My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI”

Why Professor Holliday Doesn’t Use Generative “AI” This is a (very) incomplete list of journalistic and scholarly sources that provide information about limitations and documented drawbacks of variou...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · last yr.

Pretty sure real science is actually reading the papers, thinking very deeply, and more, before writing, not generating literature review-like objects with no authorial intent or legwork

Iain Cheeseman@iaincheeseman.bsky.social · last yr.

Today @anthropic.com released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been game changing— a supercharged research tool. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵 www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...