Thank you!! Leaving won't be easy, and many things are genuinely uncertain – but the question whether I'll be heading to my new position sufficiently caffeinated has been settled 🙂

DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg@dhssfau.bsky.social · 2w ago

Moments of joy, relaxation, connection, and togetherness. 🌞 Our summer party was not only a wonderful time to celebrate together, but also a heartfelt opportunity to say goodbye to some of our colleagues as they leave the department to begin new journeys. (1/2)

Defended my PhD in computational linguistics! Huge thanks to @schtepf.bsky.social, @michamahlberg.bsky.social, @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social & @paulari.bsky.social, and to my colleagues from DHSS and Computational Corpus Linguistics for the Doktorhut with a working CQL query.

Text and Language Lab@textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 4w ago

We are so delighted and proud to celebrate our colleague Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social on successfully defending his PhD thesis today at the DHSS Department! 🎉 Here are a few smiles, photos, and highlights from this special day. Congratulations, Nathan—we wish you every success in the future! 🥂

📣 Job opportunity: We are looking for up to 5 outstanding postdoctoral or doctoral researchers in #DigitalHumanities to join us at the @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social Please share widely 🙏 ⏰ Deadline: 24 July 2026 For more info: www.fau-jobs.de/jobposting/6...

Poster session at #CADS2026: analysing multimodal narratives in video games. If you missed the fantastic work by @jannoreincke.bsky.social today there is more to come #watchthisspace

At #CADS2026 @andreaswagnr.bsky.social explains the concept of the waterscape and how to study socionatural relations in a corpus of fiction

In the fiction track at #CADS2026 - here is @nfdykes.bsky.social presenting our work with @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social on #janeausten and #fanfiction - the transition to the talk by @mixosaurus.bsky.social couldn’t have been better if we’d planned it

How do LLMs perform as metadiscourse annotators? Javad Haditaghi at #cads2026 introduces a framework combining LLMs and expert validation.

How to kill your darlings: Kathryn Spicksely walks us through the difficult decisions in a participatory corpus study on teachers #cads2026

Shannon Fitzsimmons-Doolan kicks off the Methodological Innovations panel at #cads2026, sharing interdisciplinary work between environmental sciences and applied linguistics

@jannoreincke.bsky.social will present the poster “Playing the climate crisis: Climate emotions in environmental games”, exploring multimodal meaning-making in environmental video games. You can read more about #CADS2026: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/ @corporadiscourse.bsky.social

@andreaswagnr.bsky.social will present “The human-water relationship in 19th century fiction”, examining water-related contexts and waterscapes in literary texts. Related Project: you can also read about his international writing competition: www.dhss.phil.fau.de/2026/03/30/o...

@nfdykes.bsky.social will present two talks: 1. “Body, movement and sensation in fanfiction on Jane Austen”, based on 7,934 English fanfictions and seven original works. 2. “A Multivariate Analysis of Quotation in German Parliamentary Debates”, examining quotation through a corpus-based approach.

"I didn't use AI because it is completely irrelevant and I can think on my own" is the best note on the use of AI in a student paper I have seen so far.

OUT NOW: @timfeld.bsky.social, Fabian Barteld & Alexander Ziem present and evaluate an approach for predicting typical fillers for the slots of grammatical constructions using BERT. They ask: How can language models be used to support the development of linguistic resources? doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

Can BERT predict fillers for construction elements?

Abstract The starting point of this paper is a central problem in constructicography: on the one hand, constructicon projects aim at describing a broad spectrum of constructions based on usage data; o...

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Recent chapters (co-authored w. Jesse Egbert) in Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics: 1. Corpus Linguistics & Register doi.org/10.1016/B978... 2. Register, Text Types, & Genre doi.org/10.1016/B978... Hope they're useful to those interested in #corpuslinguistics and #textanalysis!

Two new book reviews!: @mariannagracheva.bsky.social reviews Le Foll's (2024) Textbook English: A multi-dimensional approach doi.org/10.1075/ijcl... and Holly Baker reviews Kaunisto & Schilk (2024) Challenges in corpus linguistics: Rethinking corpus compilation and analysis doi.org/10.1075/ijcl...

Review of Le Foll (2024): Textbook English: A multi-dimensional approach

Welcome to e-content platform of John Benjamins Publishing Company. Here you can find all of our electronic books and journals, for purchase and download or subscriber access.

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🏆 First prize announced! 🌿 The Birmingham Botanical Gardens have generously offered an annual family pass for the first-place winner of our international writing competition, Our Future, Our Water, Our Stories.

Lovely to meet the TurkuNLP crowd, talk about elusive discourse phenomena, and learn about their work on register and web data – and it was wonderful to see the place I'll be joining this fall. Thanks to the lab and the Human Diversity consortium for having me. ✨ sites.utu.fi/humandiversi...

Thanks for participating the Digital Linguistics seminar! | Human Diversity

Thanks for all the speakers and participants in the Digital Linguistics: Targeting Human Diversity through Contacts seminar on 21 May! As a visiting guest, ...

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Interested in Computational Literary Studies? Then it might be worth following #CCLS2026 today and tomorrow, folks! #ComputationalLiteraryStudies

Andreas Wagner (@andreaswagnr.bsky.social) explains here to young writers how to participate in our international writing competition, Our Future, Our Water, Our Stories. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF1o...

How to Participate in the 2026 Writing Competition – LimeSurvey Tutorial

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Some more explorations of the nature around Turku after some really engaging exchanges, and an unexpected new acquaintance.

Postdoc-Stelle an der Uni Rostock, 50% (unbefristet), 6 SWS, Pragmatik/Textlinguistik: jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/e... Bewerbungsfrist: 15.06.2026 Bonus: Arbeiten in einer schönen Stadt ganz dicht am Meer 🌊 Gerne verbreiten! #Jobs #BLinguistik #linguistics

Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d) - Linguistik

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Looking forward to presenting next week: "Corpus approaches to operationalising elusive discourse phenomena" followed by a talk by TurkuNLP: "From register variation on the multilingual web to human diversity through contacts" 📅 May 21, 14:15 EEST (13:15 CEST) 🔗Zoom sites.utu.fi/humandiversi...

Digital linguistics targeting Human Diversity through Contacts | Human Diversity

Human Diversity seminar: Digital linguistics targeting Human Diversity through Contacts Thursday 21.5. at 13.45-15.15 Tauno Nurmela Hall, Main Building 13.4 ...

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We are pleased that our research associate and doctoral candidate Nathan Dykes (@nfdykes.bsky.social), part of the Text and Language Lab at DHSS FAU under the direction of @michamahlberg.bsky.social, will give a hybrid lecture at the University of Turku, Finland, on 21 May 2026.

Happy to see this paper out (open access) in the Journal of English Linguistics: “Prototypicality of Register Texts: The Language and Communicative Situation of Central and Peripheral Exemplars” doi.org/10.1177/0075... #register #linguistics #prototypetheory

Einmal so viel Faszination für irgendwas aufbringen wie Eros für dieses Baugerüst.

Looking forward to presenting next week: "Corpus approaches to operationalising elusive discourse phenomena" followed by a talk by TurkuNLP: "From register variation on the multilingual web to human diversity through contacts" 📅 May 21, 14:15 EEST (13:15 CEST) 🔗Zoom sites.utu.fi/humandiversi...

Digital linguistics targeting Human Diversity through Contacts | Human Diversity

Human Diversity seminar: Digital linguistics targeting Human Diversity through Contacts Thursday 21.5. at 13.45-15.15 Tauno Nurmela Hall, Main Building 13.4 ...

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We started our weekly meeting by warmly welcoming our new colleague, @jtauber.com (sitting first from the left), who joined us today and immediately hit it off with everyone here. More updates regarding James’s work will follow, but for now, please join us in welcoming James 🙂.

Lust, zu uns an die schöne Ostsee zu kommen? 3 Jahre Postdoc-Stelle (100%) in der historischen SpraWi (Germanistik) in Rostock zum 01.10.: jobs.uni-rostock.de/jobposting/b... #BLinguistik #linguistics #jobs

Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d) - Germanistische Linguistik

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🎉 Congratulations to @tillmannohm.bsky.social from the DHSS team on receiving two awards at Tallinn University! 🏆 Best Doctoral Thesis in the Field of Natural and Exact Sciences Thesis: Designing Processes and Tools to Research Similarity Spaces of Visual Collections Supervisor: Maximilian Schich