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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A thread on writing book reviews in Academia (inspired by @gillianmathys.bsky.social). Book reviews are a very delicate thing. The reality is you get least credit for it even though they matter. Most of us post-PhD, rarely get to read a monograph again from A to Z, unless... we're reviewing it.

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Ellen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I hate that my work is relevant here, but if you want to read an autopsy of the process of imagining fake women, go read the first chapter here, "Impossible Women", it's open access Things Unseen by Ellen Muehlberger - ePub + PDF - University of California Press share.google/rGRTskbSYmmz...

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Things Unseen by Ellen Muehlberger - ePub + PDF

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The oddest thing about the response to this essay is people who say it’s “personal”. You can disagree about some or all of it! I may well be wrong! But it’s not “personal” to analyze a film or other work of art, even negatively. Criticism is more than “Hurray!” or “Hiss!”

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 27/07/2026

Read Emily Wilson’s review in full on the Internet Archive (Sorry for the inconvenience with our website: efforts ongoing.) web.archive.org/web/20260727...

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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man

As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

On the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.

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Cristian Gașpar @cristigaspar.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

well, well, well, the dick measuring context in the Romanian parliament tonight surely was something to behold! ended badly for the ones who started it, who were stupid enough to think the far right can be an accommodating bedfellow. and got royally screwed.

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Cristian Gașpar @cristigaspar.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Great news! Yes, do come to Vienna in June!

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Hearing that the splendid Dame @averilcam.bsky.social has passed. She was an amazing scholar. She will be missed. Please note her memoir and remember to cite her as one of the pivotal founders of the field we now call Late Antiquity. www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

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Brepols - Transitions

Brepols is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of histo...

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Jeannotin @jeannotinskolan.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Une hirondelle ne fait pas le printemps, une isoglosse ne fait pas un dialecte

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Cristian Gașpar @cristigaspar.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

going places, telling stories. next week in #Cluj #Kolozsvár #Klausenburg, I'll talk about Old #Romanian paratexts (possibly the oldest such texts extant) in a 16th.-century liturgical manuscript from #Transylvania. #vernacularization; diachronic #sociolinguistics; #dialectology www.inst-puscariu.ro

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Isaac (proud small hat wearer) Gantwerk Mayer @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

The difference between a linguist and a normal person is that a normal person thinks that Chomsky should’ve stuck to linguistics and a linguist thinks he shouldn’t have done that either

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

I don't know whether it is the #1 Catherine O'Hara accomplishment but the fact that she invented a manner of speaking that no other person in human history has ever attempted for Schitts Creek and made it seem realistic that her character would talk that way felt like a comedy miracle to me

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2025

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Department of Historical Studies at CEU @historicalstudies.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Considering applying to CEU in the coming academic year? We're having online info sessions (via zoom) over the coming months. More sessions to follow in October, November and December. #studyinvienna historicalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2025...

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Info Session for PhD Applications 2025/26 | Department of Historical Studies

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Cristian Gașpar @cristigaspar.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

one particular reason for me to rejoice this morning, beyond the triumph of decency over thuggery in the presidential elections in #Romanian yesterday are the results in my home county, #Timiș, in #Banat: 58.37 % for the pro-European candidate, Nicușor Dan, a spectacular increase from just...

graph with results for Romanian presidential elections, second round, for the county of Timiș (western Romania).

results of the second round of presidential elections in Romania in county Timiș, mapped by electoral circumscription.

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Lauren "Hope is Praxis" Lastname @verbingnouns.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I am *so sick* of generative language models being used for studying anything other than how generative language models work.

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Cristian Gașpar @cristigaspar.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

"Bună dzăua lu' Aźun!" in my #Banat village, today is a special day. early in the morning groups of children, called on this occasion 'pițărăi' [pi.t͡səˈrəj], go from house to house chanting the following ritual text (my voice in the videoclip). www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLdv...

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Cristian Gașpar @cristigaspar.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

December is the only month named after a saint in the traditional #Romanian calendar: 'îndreá' [ɨn'dre̯a] < Latin 'Andrea(s)' (cf. Albanian 'shënëndre' "St. Andrew " & "December"), whose feast (30 November) helps kick-start the last month of the year. alternative names...

mosaic depiction of saint Andrew the apostle

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Cristian Gașpar @cristigaspar.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

a week from today, I will be in lovely #Bratislava to give an invited lecture on "Multilingual Elites and the Impact of Language Contact in 17th-century Transylvania" in the series "Reči o reči" organized by Peter Benka and Ivana Lukáč Labancová at the Department of Slovak...

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Robert Wiśniewski @relicsclerics.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

...and also on how to find those who committed it:)

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Cristian Gașpar @cristigaspar.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

that feeling when you've just pressed the 'send' button to send off an overdue article at the same time as you get an e-mail from the editor to remind you it is overdue. priceless! 🤓😃 #linguistics #dialectology #Romanian #Banat

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Cristian Gașpar @cristigaspar.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

so, this happened today. thank you to the organizers and especially to the amazing audience for a truly exhilarating Q & A session after my presentation! I'm still buzzing. 😃🤓 details: tinyurl.com/3u4593ad

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 10/10/2023

"अहं ते पितास्मि" (ahám te pitā́ ásmi) ~ Darth Veda

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Cristian Gașpar @cristigaspar.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

don't miss the chance to come and join us at our new department! info on application procedure, deadlines, and everything else available at the link below.

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Cristian Gașpar @cristigaspar.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

#Romanian traditional calendar calls the month beginning tomorrow 'Brumărél' [bru.mə'rel], a noun formed from 'Brumar' "November" with the diminutive suffix -el. both go back to 'brumă' "(hoar) frost," descendant of Lat. 'bruma' "winter (cold)." let's prepare for Frosty's little bro! ❄️ 🥶

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Bluesky users handing out invite codes to Twitter users, 1614.

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Cristian Gașpar @cristigaspar.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

just arrived here from that other site, so, greetings to all blueskyers! I'm looking forward to posting and reading about #linguistics, #dialectology, my native #Banat, and everything else that's good.

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