Robin Edds 🏳️🌈
@reddsreads.bsky.social
PhD candidate in linguistics at Uni Tübingen, looking at the semantics of evidentiality in Hexagonal French. Recovering philosopher, ex-bookseller, and literary non-hottie. he/them
Just submitted the proofs for "Gendered variation in Mexican slang Data from Twitter and speaker intuitions" co-authored with @thedansimonson.bsky.social over the past 13 years! It should be in the next issue of the journal Spanish in Context
It was published yesterday! I'm grateful to my co-authors for their patience as I was the main reason it has taken over a decade. I hope it's useful. Please don't forget to download the 500 video sign examples from the website. Now on to the Auslan linguistics second edition!
Cambridge University Press - Linguistics@cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 2mo agoOut now! Sign Language Linguistics by Schembri et al. | A uniquely international and comparative introduction to the structure and use of ASL and BSL. Find out more: ☑️ https://cup.org/4uu0pfg
This is my semi-regular shout out to linguists: if you have/are a PhD student who'd write a great book review for the Journal of Linguistics, especially if it'd help increase our global diversity of authors, let me (reviews editor) know a couple of books they/you'd like to review. #linguistics
Upping this again: still 10 days or so until the deadline!
Robin Edds 🏳️🌈@reddsreads.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe're organising a workshop! It's on non-canonical questions! If you're working on NCQs and are looking for a venue to present in, please do consider submitting. Dates: March 2nd-5th, 2027, at DGfS49 in Jena, Germany Submission deadline: July 15th More details: uni-tuebingen.de/en/298455
Pleased to share that “ASL Signbank” through Cambridge Elements (Sign Language Series) is out! It’s free for the next two weeks. You can find it here doi.org/10.1017/9781... Thanks to Erin Wilkinson and David Quinto-Pozos, editors of Sign Language Series, for their support! #ASLSignbank
We're organising a workshop! It's on non-canonical questions! If you're working on NCQs and are looking for a venue to present in, please do consider submitting. Dates: March 2nd-5th, 2027, at DGfS49 in Jena, Germany Submission deadline: July 15th More details: uni-tuebingen.de/en/298455
Workshop: Non-Canonical Questions under the Microscope
uni-tuebingen.de
We're organising a workshop! It's on non-canonical questions! If you're working on NCQs and are looking for a venue to present in, please do consider submitting. Dates: March 2nd-5th, 2027, at DGfS49 in Jena, Germany Submission deadline: July 15th More details: uni-tuebingen.de/en/298455
Workshop: Non-Canonical Questions under the Microscope
uni-tuebingen.de
The UK has really been testing my commitment to delighting in language change this week...
Sarah Kendrew@sarahkendrew.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Britmaxxing" - new levels of cringe achieved in UK politics. ✅🥴
I went from reading a few books a year to around one a week. I wanted to write down how I got there, how it involved rethinking my relationship to attention, and why I believe reading books can heal your brain. I hope this gives you something useful! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/how-i-lear...
How I Learned to Read Way, Way More
I had to rethink my relationship to attention
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
Very cool to see a popular post about Old English on here. Kind of wish it wasn't a screenshot of that racist OE account still on X though
My student is looking for participants for her dissertation experiment (done online! Paid!). DM me if you're interested: Looking for native English speakers in the US between 18-35 years old learning Mandarin / Korean as their second language to participate in an online linguistics study!
me, halfway through rewatching The Devil Wears Prada: ok, so the reason "Get me a table at the restaurant with the good review" does such a good job at conveying Miranda's egocentrism is that it suggests she constructs a "common ground" based only on what she herself knows
Wrote about the elections for the paper (which went to press last night): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
thinking about that time my french coworker thought that Kyoto was just verlan for Tokyo
🐦🐦 Semanticists and the semantics-friendly: If you like thinking about what we mean when we write down a semantic variable, and if you like talking to (other) semantics-adjacent folks about it, join us for OASIS 6 in Lisbon!
OASIS@oasis-ontology.bsky.social · 4mo agoOASIS 6 will be held October 13-16 in Lisbon. Call deadline: May 15. oasis.cnrs.fr/meetin...
Don’t reach for ChatGPT Images or Nano Banana as your first option when creating scientific images There are multiple free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations. #plantscience @stephenturner.us blog.stephenturner.us/p/free-open-...
Free and open-source images, icons, and tools for creating scientific illustrations
Phylopic, NIH Bioart, Bioicons, Scidraw, Open Science Art, Health Icons, Servier Medical Art, Biodiversity Heritage Library, the Noun Project, Segment Anything, Excalidraw, draw.io, Biographics
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I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:
Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds
The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.
bbc.co.uk
Hey if you need something to do over this long weekend, have a go at my PhD student Anna-Merete’s survey. It’s sentences to rate, you just need to have any English variety as your first language, and it’ll take you 10–15 minutes. #linguistics docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Can You Say That?
The aim of this project is to investigate the (im)possibilities of sentence structure in English and Danish, and the differences between the two languages. By contributing, you help further our unders...
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PhD and teaching job in English anyone? 🐦🐦 In Namur, with ME 🥹🥹 and wonderful colleagues 😊 (Working knowledge of French 🥖 is required, though.) Six-year contract (2 x 3). Details here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/417075 or in French here: jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2026-...
Philosophy was mostly "armchair" in the mid-20th century—but it's not anymore! Philosophers have increasingly cited empirical sources and discussed empirical data and evidence. In fact, as of the 2020s, non-empirical philosophy has become the minority.
Proofreading, or How many times can one PhD student misspell "felicitous" as "felictious"?
Promotionsstelle (100%, E13) am Sprachlabor der Universität zu Köln bei Axel Bohmann, in den Bereichen Mehrsprachigkeit, English as a Medium of Instruction und Digital Literacy:
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This needs to be done because Sylvia Townsend Warner deserves all the remembering we can manage
Louise A Ray@louisearay.bsky.social · 6mo ago