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Daniel Jones @narson.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Let’s be clear: the decision by the FA and others to bar trans women from sport is not a requirement on them by the Supreme Court ruling. It is a choice they have made to be exclusionary and intolerant. That’s a choice they are now free to make after the a ruling, but still a choice.

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TRUK United FC @trukunitedfc.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🧵 TRUK United Statement on FA’s Ban on Transgender Women in Football from Age 13 Everyone at TRUK United is deeply disappointed and outraged by the decision announced today by the Football Association (FA) to ban Transgender Women from participating in women's football from the age of 13.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 02/03/2025

I'm putting together a slide illustrating how generative AI is being forced on people even though they don't want it, and this is sort of funny. Here's are Google's autocomplete suggestions for "google gemini how to", and Bing's autocomplete suggestions for for "microsoft copilot how to".

Gemini: autocomplete suggestions include "how to turn off", "how to disable", and "how to remove".

Copilot: autocomplete suggestions include "how to disable", "how to delete", "how to uninstall", "how to turn off", and "how to remove."

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Berit Johannsen @beestween.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Heute vorm Wahllokal wurden vom NDR O-Töne fürs Radio gesammelt. "Haben sie gerade gewählt und wie fühlen sie sich" "Ja, gut" 🤷

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 11/02/2025

Yesterday, World Athletics announced new recommended rules that would ban all DSD athletes from competition and require EVERY woman who wanted to compete to undergo a chromosome test. I covered the main bits here:

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World Athletics wants to go back to mandatory sex testing

This is not the news I was hoping to share with you all, but here we are. Yesterday, World Athletics released a new set of recommendations surrounding the...

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Berit Johannsen @beestween.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Die von Studierenden herausgegebene Literaturzeitschrift FU Review (www.fureviewberlin.com) braucht Geld, um die nächsten Ausgaben zu finanzieren. Wer kann und mag, kann über dieses Crowdfunding unterstützen: gofund.me/3c966286

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Natalie Washington @transsomething.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This is no surprise, but worth a reminder that the next Olympics and next World Cup are both in the US

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Emma Humphries (she/her) @emhumps.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Introducing my new project… Your Wrong (yourwrong.co.uk). It’s all about the language rules and judgements that appear in different forms of popular culture. Films, series, podcasts, music, books, even graffiti! I’d love your help to find examples!

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Steffen @steffenlinguist.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Studienunordnung

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Berit Johannsen @beestween.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Notify the train crew of any usual events

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Lauren Gawne @superlinguo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

These days, my personal stance on this is: absolutely believe people are showing you who they are, but don't waste your breath trying to pin them on this one thing. ymmv

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Lauren Gawne @superlinguo.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Look, I don't really want to wade into American politics, but since emblem gestures are my jam, a reminder: gestures are treated in communication as more deniable than words and bad-faith actors can easily exploit this feature.

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Berit Johannsen @beestween.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Btw was sagt ihr zu 'den Kopf von jmd. im Schwimmbad etc. "zum Spaß" unter Wasser tauchen'? 🤽 (Hatte gerade letztens im Schwimmbad mit jemandem aus Süddeutschland das Thema)

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Berit Johannsen @beestween.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

TIL dass engl. "dunk" vom Pennsylvania German "dunke" (verwandt mit dt. "tunken") übernommen wurde, und das erst zu Beginn des 20. Jh. (Erster Beleg im OED ist von 1917)

Screenshot aus dem OED:
I.1.
To dip a biscuit, pastry, piece of bread, etc., into tea, coffee, milk, soup, etc., to moisten it before eating it. Also: to dip a piece of food into a sauce, dressing, or dip.
I.1.a. intransitive.
1917 The first person we see dunking we shall apprehend as a German spy.
New York Tribune 26 September 9/1

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Berit Johannsen @beestween.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I wonder whether my students will notice this implicit reference to recent events in the example (text is from 1999)

Abschnitt aus linguistischem Aufsatz:
"When it comes to a tabooed topic, succesful communication does not totally but largely depends on the context of the speech act. One can address a taboo directly, e.g. by saying "the princess died in a car accident", but often this is not the recommended strategy, as

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 08/01/2025

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

The image is from a "Transparency Center" document and lists guidelines regarding acceptable and prohibited content for insults. It mentions:

1. Insults about:

Character, such as cowardice, dishonesty, criminality, and sexual promiscuity or immorality.

Mental characteristics, including but not limited to accusations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, as well as unsupported comparisons among politically correct (PC) groups based on inherent intellectual traits.

2. Highlighted section:

The document allows allegations of mental illness or abnormality when tied to gender or sexual orientation, referencing political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality. It also acknowledges the non-serious use of terms like "weird."

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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 30/12/2024

I was just trying to look up a rule in volleyball and the whole first page of results are websites that are full of AI generated incorrect information about the rules of volleyball. Absolutely wild.

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Because Language (becauselangpod) @becauselanguage.com · 26/12/2024

HEDVIG: So we heard that he enjoys this. DANIEL: Yeah, he likes it. NICOLE: Yeah, he'll never disambiguate, because he wants to perpetuate the variation. DANIEL: That's why I didn't ask what he says. That's why I asked what y'all say, in the department.

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Because Language (becauselangpod) @becauselanguage.com · 26/12/2024

DANIEL: I want to know: How do y'all say his surname over there? NICOLE: Labov [la bʌv] [rhymes with above]. DANIEL: Okay! NICOLE: I have, in the department I have heard LaBOVE [lə ˈboʊv]. DANIEL: In the department?

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Because Language (becauselangpod) @becauselanguage.com · 26/12/2024

look @nytimes.com you don't know this no one does

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

eventually i will write a paper about it but ugh. anyways people are often not talking about the grammatical category when they talk about "pronouns"

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Berit Johannsen @beestween.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Mmm...so lecker Ente Hier knusprige

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Berit Johannsen @beestween.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

This. Dazu passt was Kirby Conrod sagt: "The right doesn’t care what a pronoun is. Stop trying to have arguments about grammar when fascists are trying to have arguments about trans people." kconrod.medium.com/the-right-do...

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The right doesn’t care what a pronoun is.

Stop trying to have arguments about grammar when fascists are trying to have arguments about trans people.

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Steffen @steffenlinguist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Dear #Linguistics bubble: Next term I'm teaching a seminar on language ideology and EFL. It's mainly for future English teachers in Germany. I want them to learn more about language ideologies in- and outside of school classrooms. Which studies, podcasts, blog posts (and other) would you include?

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Kris Knisely @krisknisely.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

CFP 3rd conference on teaching gender-inclusive language (free & virtual) Presentation proposals due 10 January 2025. More info: dornsife.usc.edu/center-for-l... Proposal submission: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

University of Southern California Center for Languages and Cultures in partnership with the University of Arizona Gender-Inclusive Language Instruction: Inclusivity in Action 3rd annual conference Free and Online April 4 2025 dornsife.usc.edu/clc

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Berit Johannsen @beestween.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Good old 90s, when databases on CD-ROMs were potentially dangerous research tools (from Stubbs, Michael. 1998. German loanwords and cultural stereotypes. English Today 14(1). 19–26.)

"As Jucker (1994: 154) warns, the OED on CD-ROM can be a "dangerous research tool"."

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

In the past day I’ve heard two people who really should know better say they asked ChatGPT for factual info. ChatGPT is not a search engine. It is predictive text based on other people’s stolen writing; its whole job is to make stuff up. Please do not ask it for facts. Tell a friend.

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Berit Johannsen @beestween.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Barbra Banda is an amazing footballer. That's the only thing that should be in the news.

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Federica Formato (she/her) @genderedform.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The call for papers for our LGaS BAAL SIG is out. See all the info below - It will be my first one as the Convenor of the BAAL SIG and I cannot wait to go back to Manchester next year!

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maggie @maggiemack.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

can’t stop thinking about the synchronized slide

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National Women's Soccer League (Bot) (inactive) @nwslbot.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

There will never be too many angles of this Marta goal 🤩

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Dominic @dmncschmtz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Liebe Kolleg*innen vom IDS Mannheim haben eine spannende Promotionsstelle zum 1. Februar 2025 zu besetzen - es geht um empirische Genderlinguistik und insbesondere den empirischen Blick auf die Schnittstelle von Sprache und Kognition. Weitere Infos: www.ids-mannheim.de/org/karriere... #Linguistik

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

In case you're interested in working on language & food with me at FU Berlin, check out this job ad for a (full-time) postdoc position: www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet... (the ad is in German only but I guess auto translation is your friend) #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

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PG- Postdoc_Vollzeitbeschäftigung

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 07/11/2024

I’m a public librarian in a degenerating democracy, and I am pleading: Care about your library. Use it. See what programs and events it offers. And pay attention to its governing body. See who the trustees are. Consider running yourself. Libraries will need all the community support they can get. 📚

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Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

I don't want to dwell on it but I once asked chatgpt to summarize an article I wrote to see how it did with summarizing and it completely butchered the central point and reinforced the ideology I was trying to deconstruct lol

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Annika Becker (sie/ihr) @annikabecker.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Weil ich nicht weiß, ob man es im TV sieht, die 4. Offizielle aus Italien hat vor dem Anpfiff Alexandra Popp aufgefordert, die Pride-Kapitäninnen-Binde gegen eine Deutschland-Binde zu tauschen.

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Kristin Kopf @kristinkopf.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Sprachkampf an der Uni Leipzig

Toilettenwand:
"Sagt ihr Heidelbeere oder Blaubeere?
Heidel-: IIIIII
Blau-: IIIIII"
"Ich bin amerikaner und hab net bewusst, dass Heidelbeeren und Blaubeeren sind das Gleiche :o"
"Heidelbeere ist der einzig wahre Begriff!
Halt echt nicht aber ok >:-<"

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 14/10/2024

I set aside time today for students to identify and vote for the questions they wanted to discuss most. This was the most popular question and same, my amazing students, same.

Why has there been a larger movement in improving education tech rather than the conditions of the actual teacher?

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Berit Johannsen @beestween.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Heute kam die Mail mit der Ankündigung zwar ca. 5h vor Freigabe der zusätzlichen Tickets um 14 Uhr, aber da ich in der Zeit gearbeitet hab und nicht private Mails gecheckt (soll's geben), wieder leer ausgegangen. Eine Info so ein zwei Tage vorher wäre halt auch wieder nett gewesen. #weuro2025

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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

In Hamburg wurde erstmals ein Flüchtling aus dem Kirchenasyl heraus abgeschoben - ein absoluter Tabubruch. Und wer hat ihn begangen? Eine rotgrüne Landesregierung.

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Hamburg schiebt erstmals Flüchtling aus Kirchenasyl ab

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