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@lexiecalised.bsky.social

dyke linguist, norwegian londoner by birth, berlinerin by choice

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine

A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

bbc.co.uk

Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Please Use AI

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When there’s good news for once I think it’s important to flag that there is good news for once: www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Hampstead Heath ponds to remain trans-inclusive after public back existing rules

Policy agreement means trans people will continue to have access to Kenwood Ladies’ and Highgate Men’s ponds in north-west London

theguardian.com

lexie @lexiecalised.bsky.social · 2mo ago

👐💬 can anyone recommend some resources on bsl grammar ? is sutton-spence & woll the go-to ? im looking for descriptions of temporal reference and aspect x

lexie @lexiecalised.bsky.social · 6mo ago

registration open for the 79. stuts, the student #linguistics conference 💘

79th StuTS@stuts79.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The 79th StuTS will be 14-16 May in Berlin! Call for Participation and Registration are now open. Send us your abstract if you want to present your work: talks.stuts.de/de/stuts79/cfp And register here: forms.gle/PDAirbSPRd2r... We're excited to hear from all of you! #linguistics #BLinguistik

A post card asking people to send us their abstracts.

79th StuTS @stuts79.bsky.social · 6mo ago

lexie @lexiecalised.bsky.social · 6mo ago

fun linguistics going on with the norwegian commentators reanalysing the italian name of the #biathlon venue anterselva as anters-elv-a (anters-river-fem.def) "the anters river" in their pronunciation

lexie @lexiecalised.bsky.social · 6mo ago

this also goes for chomsky and his contributions to linguistics in light of his connections to epstein imo

Jenny Hamilton@readingtheend.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.

Luuk @highfrontvowel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I’ve got a new Minimalist Program: don’t hang out with human traffickers

Nelli Tügel @nellinelke.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Vermutlich mehrere hundert Tote im Mittelmeer seit JAHRESBEGINN. Zwischen 2014 und 2025: 33.000 – DREIUNDDREIẞIGTAUSEND – Tote und Vermisste im Mittelmeer. Nicht USA, nicht ICE, sondern: Europa. www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...

Migration: UN-Organisation befürchtet hunderte tote Geflüchtete im Mittelmeer

Die Internationale Organisation für Migration hat Informationen über mehrere mutmaßliche Bootsunglücke im Mittelmeer. Hunderte Menschen könnten betroffen sein.

zeit.de

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 6mo ago

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist)@fisherdanar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Look how @nationalnurses.bsky.social (a labor union) is using its power 💪

Kim Kelly@kimkelly.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”

MinnMax @minnmax.com · 6mo ago

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This thread. Let it enliven you

C. Thi Nguyen@add-hawk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out. As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class. Here's what happened:

Rita Werner 🖤❤️@rant-ifa-2024.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Gooo! 🖤❤️ So letzte Etappe. Es fehlen nur noch 1700 Mitzeichner. #BlueskyDoYourMagic

Screen von der Seite des Deutschen Bundestags zum Thema Petitionen. Derzeit ist die Anzahl der online Mitzeichnungen 28309.
Es fehlen also nur noch knapp 1700. Noch acht Tage Zeit.

Rita Werner 🖤❤️@rant-ifa-2024.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Die 20.000 sind fast voll und damit zwei Drittel der benötigten 30.000 Mitzeichnenden erreicht. Bleiben noch 10 Tage Zeit. Bitte helft.

Knapp 20.000 Menschen haben bislang die Petition gegen den Regierungsplan gezeichnet.
Titel: Keine Führung eigener Register zur Erfassung von trans* und nichtbinärer Personen vom 14.07.2025

@glossa-linguistics.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It is unclear to me how much traction Glossa: a journal of general linguistics is getting on BlueSky. I am thinking of switching communication about new papers to LinkedIn, which gives better insight into the # of views garnered. Give us a like if you want Glossa to stay on the Blue side of things.

lexie @lexiecalised.bsky.social · 8mo ago

@lynneguist.bsky.social norwegian language council picks "tekoligark" (tech oligarch) as woty

Johan P@johanp.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Se også: Språkrådet har kåret «tekoligark» til årets ord 2025. www.nrk.no/vestland/are...

Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I cannot stress how important it is that we make “bitch, do something yourself” a language-embedded meme on the level of “kim there’s people that are dying”

feral streep@feralstreeep.bsky.social · 2y ago

there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything

Elizabeth Taylor in an 80s press conference speaking on the stigma of AIDS “…And it so angered me that I finally thought to myself, Bitch, do something yourself.” from the documentary “Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes.”

Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:

1. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that when a 36-year-old writer is asked on a network news show about the Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community particularly in regard to the Well-Known Preponderance of Homosexuals in the Arts she replies that if you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture you would be pretty much left with ''Let's Make a Deal.''

The interviewer's lack of response compels her to conclude that he has no idea what she is talking about and she realizes that soon many of those who do know what she is talking about will be what is generally regarded as dead.

2. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that on New Year's Eve Day…

…a 36-year-old writer takes a 31-year-old photographer to get a chest X-ray and listens to him say with what can only be described as a certain guarded hope, ''Maybe I just have lung cancer.''
3. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer has a telephone conversation with a dying 41-year-old book editor whom even the most practiced verbal assassin has called the last of the Southern gentlemen and hears him say in a hoarse whisper, ''I'm sorry but I just hate old people. I look at them and think, 'Why don't you die?' ''

4. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that an aspiring little avant-garde movie director approaches a fairly famous actor in a restaurant and attempts to make social hay out of the fact that they met at Antonio's and will undoubtedly see each other at Charles's and Antonio's and Charles's are not parties and Antonio's and Charles's are not bars and Antonio's and Charles's are not summer houses in chic Tuscan towns - Antonio's and Charles's are funerals.

5. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer is on the telephone with a 38-year-old art director making arrangements to go together the following morning to the funeral of a 27-year-old architect and the art director says to the writer, ''If you get there first sit near the front where we usually sit and save me the seat on the aisle.''

6. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 24-year-old ballet dancer is in the hospital for 10 days following an emergency appendectomy and nobody goes to visit him because everyone is really busy and after all he's not dying or anything.

7. The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community is that a 36-year-old writer takes time out at a memorial service for the world's pre-eminent makeup artist and a man worth any number of interesting new painters to get angry because the makeup artist's best friend and eulogist uses a story that she has for years been hoarding for her book which she can't write anymore anyway unless she writes it as a historical novel because it's about a world that in the last few years has disappeared almost entirely.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8mo ago

How the cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core and will mean millions more infections ahead

Reports highlight devastating impact of slashed funding, especially in parts of Africa, that could lead to 3.3m new HIV infections by 2030

theguardian.com

lexie @lexiecalised.bsky.social · 9mo ago

an elderly woman is sitting in the back of a red van and asking where are my lesbians ?

ALT: an elderly woman is sitting in the back of a red van and asking where are my lesbians ?

media.tenor.com

Katja Politt@lingucat.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A movie you've seen more than seven times, with a GIF

lexie @lexiecalised.bsky.social · 10mo ago

spannender rbb-artikel und vor allem spannende spracheinstellungen im kommentarfeld

Wie "English only" als Alltagssprache Berlin verändert

In Teilen Berlins wird Englisch zur Alltagssprache, besonders in Cafés, Restaurants und Geschäften. Das finden einige Menschen super - andere stellt es vor Herausforderungen. Von Christina Rubarth und...

rbb24.de

Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 10mo ago

apropos junge Frauen in Städten

Johannes Hillje@jhillje.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“Ich habe gar nichts zurückzunehmen” - sagt #Merz heute zu seiner “wir haben im Stadtbild noch dieses Problem”-Äußerung in Bezug auf Migration.

Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com · 11mo ago

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC

bbc.com

Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Calls: 78th Student Conference on Linguistics / 78. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft

About the conference: The StuTS (Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft) is a three-day student conference on linguistics held biannually. Organized by volunteer linguistics students, it is hosted usually but not exclusively, by German-speaking universities. Since its inauguration in Hamburg in 1987, StuTS has brought together thousands of enthusiastic linguistics students to present their work, learn about exciting new topics in inspiring keynote addresses, talks, and workshops, and me

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Philipp Krämer @phkraemer.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Wogegen die HU klagt: Eine Verpflichtung zu stabilen Beschäftigungsbedingungen. Wogegen die HU nicht klagt: Eine Verpflichtung zu Stellenkürzungen und schlechteren Bedingungen für verbleibende Beschäftigte. Traumhafter Arbeitgeber, so lockt man Spitzentalente an.

Jürgen Zimmerer@juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Deutschland zukunftsfähig machen, Berlin edition: www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

lexie @lexiecalised.bsky.social · 12mo ago

1/ i was spending a couple of months abroad and my then gf set me up with someone she knew (yay polyamory !) who had moved to the same city. i arrive at the pub where we were meeting and realise we have already been on a date a year before in my home city.

The Fence@thefence.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The Fence is FOR LOVERS, so for next issue's Fencepost, we want your most memorable, mundane, mortifying and miserable dating experiences. So please reply, or issue a discrete DM, with your maddest, baddest, and raddest adventures in the dating game.

lexie @lexiecalised.bsky.social · 12mo ago

@lingucat.bsky.social taz.de/Vermuellung-... ist mülllawine schon in deiner tristabensammlung ?

Vermüllung in Uganda: Der Preis des Mülls

Ein Jahr nach der Mülllawine hat Shadia Nanyonjo weder ihr Zuhause zurück noch eine Entschädigung erhalten. Die Stadt lädt ihren Abfall in einem geschützten Gebiet ab.

taz.de

Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm looking to chat with nonbinary and/or trans speakers of several languages, especially including Irish, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Polish, Icelandic - but also any other languages (aside from English / Spanish / French). DM or email me!