Übrigens stehen jetzt alle Stellungnahmen zum #WissZeitVG auf der Homepage des BMFTR. Man hat einiges zu lesen... #IchBinHanna www.bmftr.bund.de/DE/Ministeri... @amreibahr.bsky.social @kubon.bsky.social

Der Moment, als die Tagesschau einem Neonazi zur besten Sendezeit ein Interview gibt, weil er eine Wahl in einer Kleinststadt verloren hat. Und man fragt sich: Wieso gebt ihr ihm eine Bühne?!

we ran the numbers-- they are bad

The academic job market in linguistics: beyond vibes

the numbers are also bad

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Ein Argument, das immer wieder gegen das #Gendern vorgebracht wird, ist, dass Deutschlernende ausgeschlossen werden würde. Aber stellt Gendern tatsächlich ein Hindernis für Deutschlernende dar? Dazu ist gestern eine Studie erschienen: www.frontiersin.org/journals/lan... Kurz: Nö, so ist es nicht!

Frontiers | Comprehensibility of gender-fair language among foreign language learners of German: an experimental study

In public and academic debates, the gender star has been criticized for potentially hindering text comprehensibility and imposing an additional burden on lea...

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Greg and I wrote a thing! We present a reasoning-based analysis of projection of the content of the complement of negated "know"-utterances. The analysis also predicts that the belief attribution is weakly projective, a result that is confirmed experimentally! www.meaning-journal.org/index.php/Me...

Greg and I wrote a thing! We present a reasoning-based analysis of projection of the content of the complement of negated "know"-utterances. The analysis also predicts that the belief attribution is weakly projective, a result that is confirmed experimentally! www.meaning-journal.org/index.php/Me...

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

Diversität verbindet. 🎉 Am 18. Mai laden wir herzlich zum Diversity-Tag auf den Campus Beach ein – zum Vernetzen, Feiern und Mitmachen. 🕚 11:30 – 14:30 Uhr. Anmeldung bis 10. Mai: www.uni-stuttgart.de/universitaet/…

🚀 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 […]

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22. März, #schauspielstuttgart: #DSG Präsidentin Prof. Sibylle Baumbach im Gespräch mit Chefdramaturgin und Vizeintendantin Gwendolyne Melchinger für eine "Einführung Spezial" zur #Hamlet Inszenierung von Burkhard C. Kosminski #Shakespeare #shakespeareingermany #shakespearegesellschaft

Interested in science management? Come work with us in Tübingen as a Project Manager for the Germany-wide interdisciplinary research cluster (www.lasting-spp.org)! 3 years, PostDoc-level salary. Please share, or reach out with questions. uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

Do humans assume that AI systems have the expertise to deliver medical or legal advice? Agnieszka Faleńska (www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute...) and I are looking for a postdoc to work on these questions with us. Please reach out for further information www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/de/aktuelles...

Als der Krieg endete, war Simone Veil keine 18 und Vollwaise. Sie sei sich oft vorgekommen wie eine Außerirdische, kaum jemand wollte die Geschichten der Überlebenden hören. Noch Jahre später, da war sie  längst aufgestiegen zu einer bekannten Juristin

This is awesome! I have been curating a list of #linguistics journals, with information on their publishing model (and also on whether they admit submissions created by LaTeX, a high-quality, professional Open Source way to produce scientific documents). uni-duesseldorf.sciebo.de/s/BvRY0u3rDY...

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In the past decade or two, predatory publishers have built a parallel universe of publication opportunities preying on the least privileged & most vulnerable of our colleagues I got my hands on what passes for peer review at one such journal ideophone.org/on-plagiaris...

Postdoc position in Stuttgart, Germany (TV-L 13, 100%) for 18 months, on authority presuppositions in AI systems with Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and me. For more information and application info, see here: safety.https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/team/falensaa/aphic_postoc.pdf

In our new tutorial, @meanwhileina.bsky.social and I walk you through meaningful hypothesis testing using a less known form of calculating Bayes Factor. osf.io/preprints/ps... People transitioning to Bayes often wonder how to decide if an effect is meaningful or not. Here you go... 1/🧵

Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R". stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/ Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...) The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.

Postdoc position in Stuttgart, Germany (TV-L 13, 100%) for 18 months, on authority presuppositions in AI systems with Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and me. For more information and application info, see here: safety.https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/team/falensaa/aphic_postoc.pdf

When people respond "two" to the question "How many animals did Moses take on the ark?" do they actually accommodate a false presupposition that Moses took animals on the ark? Apply for a Ph.D. position to work on presuppositions, deadline 20.12.2025. More info at linguistlist.org/issues/36-3553

Hot off the presses! A new paper by @thegricean.bsky.social (Judith Degen) and me on "Projection inferences: On the relation between prior beliefs, at-issueness, and lexical meaning", in Glossa Psycholinguistics escholarship.org/uc/item/7hb2...

Projection inferences: On the relation between prior beliefs, at-issueness, and lexical meaning

Author(s): Degen, Judith; Tonhauser, Judith | Abstract: Interpreters frequently draw projection inferences, that is, inferences that the speaker believes utterance content contributed in the scope of ...

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I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits (1-year extension possible). Research topic open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching until Summer 2027, light teaching after that (English). Official ad soon. Please share 🙏

More Ph.D. positions available in several projects related to the #SFB Common ground! Please see the list here uni-tuebingen.de/de/283575

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

#OTD 86 years ago, Anita Steube (1939-2021) was born 🎉 She was an expert on German grammar, specialising in the study of syntax and information structure. Another important aspect of her work was the comparison and typology of languages. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

My article about anaphoric accessibility in hypothetical and counterfactual discourse has been officially published in #Semantics & #Pragmatics ✨ doi.org/10.3765/sp.1... ✨

Confs: Formal Diachronic Semantics 10

Confs: Formal Diachronic Semantics 10

Formal Diachronic Semantics 10 (FoDS 10) will be hosted by the Linguistics Department at the University of Texas, Austin from October 16 to October 18 2025. In keeping with its tradition, FoDS brings together scholars interested in the exploration of the semantic and pragmatic aspects of diachronic processes in natural languages from a formal perspective. FoDS has been meeting yearly since 2016. It being the 10th Anniversary of FoDS, we will be marking it with presentations from some key resea

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Umfrage des Verbandes dt Historiker unter Promovierenden. Ergebnis: "Fehlverhalten im Arbeitskontext von Historiker:innen ist leider kein Randphänomen. Über die Hälfte etwa erfahre „implizite Drohung bzw. Einschüchterung“, von Wutanfällen berichteten 29% etc www.historikerverband.de/wp-content/u....

#jobs @uniheidelberg.bsky.social #BLinguistik Akademische Ratsstelle am Germanistischen Seminar