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Jana Pithan @janapithan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

babe wake up, Merz Statement, wie er zum hundertsten Mal die Linken mit AfD und BSW gleichsetzt just dropped

Jana Pithan @janapithan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Jetzt bis zum Ende meines Lebens verzweifelt die KI Stimmen sämtlicher Kundencenter anschreien, dass ich mit einem echten Menschen reden will, dann von der KI Stimme gesagt bekommen, dass ein echter Mensch mir das Gleiche sagen würde, dann auflegen, dann sterben.

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Jana Pithan @janapithan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Just had two days of great discussions at our first workshop "Sociocognitive Underpinnings of Language in Multilingual Settings" in the CRC 1760 "Silence, Noise and Signal in Language" in Konstanz. We heard amazing talks by our invited speakers about language attitudes, multilingualism, and gaming.

A conference room with some chairs and a powerpoint slide on the wall. The slide shows a sketch of two people and the words "Silence" "Noise" ans "Setting" and more written content:
"Some quotes/messages from the talks:
'What appears as chaotic fluctuation (i.e. noise) is often just a very complex, high-variance signal that we have not modeled correctly. Humans are not noisy, but complex.' (Kutlu)
'Accent is not merely a communication feature but a potent social signal that shapes perception, with potentially important societal impact' (Bestelmeyer)
Cluster Analysis to provide a more holistic characterization of interacting variables with participants (Torregrossa)
Utilizing pauses to create social meaning in gaming situations (Werning)"

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Jana Pithan @janapithan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Ein wirklich toller Sammelband von tollen Autor:innen! (bin bisschen biased aber stimmt trotzdem)

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Jana Pithan @janapithan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Schmitz war ungefähr 5 Fußminuten von meiner Schule entfernt und ich habe damals dort regelmäßig mein Taschengeld gelassen. Gut zu wissen, dass eine meiner Lieblingsbuchhandlungen in Essen stabil bleibt.

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Alice Ross @alice-ross.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Oh, look, the stupid plagiarism machine is now a stupid mass death machine.

A screenshot from the long-poisoned social media site X. Sam Altman @sama writes: "Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network.

In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome.

Al safety and wide distribution of..."
The rest of the post is not visible behind an info box reading "Readers added context:

Government officials have contradicted Sam's claim, saying OpenAl will allow the DoW to use their models for "all lawful purposes".
This could allow for uses Anthropic refused to engage in, namely mass surveillance tools and weapons systems with no human oversight."

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Call for Papers, please circulate! Ethics of queer in/visibility Heidelberg, September 30 - October 2, 2026 queer-in-visibility.de Keynote speakers: J Calder (Linguistics, University of Colorado Boulder) Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social (History, University of Warwick)

oil painting La mujer barbuda/Magdalena Ventura con su marido; a bearded woman nursing her baby while standing up.
Queer in/visibility in pink, plus a QR code to the conference website

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

This is outrageous. Academics/universities consistently take the high horse and ask 'what are we going to do about students using AI?!' when there's literally universities teaching courses with AI generated slides... Like come on. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

theguardian.com

‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI

Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

HI. It's me. WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23. Keynote Speakers • Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University) • Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business) • Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern) • Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece) • Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)

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Felix Schmidt @bookschmied.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

✨PUBLICATION DAY✨ Heute ist mein erster Aufsatz erschienen, der im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes „Queer Theory in Transit“ entstanden ist. In diesem Projekt untersuchen wir Prozesse der Rezeption, Adaption und Übersetzung von Queer Theory in deutsche Kontexte. 1/3

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

i have the transphobic author's name muted but i hope if you still somehow think it's okay to watch her shows or read her books or go to her theme parks you reckon with the fact that she is using your money to personally fund the groups that lobbied hard for the transphobic uk supreme court ruling

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

hey, who do I know who works on Irish in linguistics or who has a lot of Irish-speaking friends or email listservs or subreddits or whatever? I'm helping a student who wants to distribute a linguistics survey on/about Irish #linguistics! feel free to dm/email me!

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Jana Pithan @janapithan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

funny, the email I got today called it financial ""challenges"" and "see some colleagues moving to new roles, or possibly leaving the University"

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Pia Lamberty @pialamberty.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Es braucht jetzt keine „Wir bauen die Mauer wieder auf“-Witze, sondern Solidarität mit all den Menschen, die in Gegenden mit rechtsextremer Dominanz leben und trotzdem ihre Stimme erheben.

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Inoffizielle Wahlhilfe für Deutsche im Ausland @auslandswahl.de · 20/02/2025

Wir möchten das ändern und sammeln dafür jetzt Daten zu den Versandzeiten. Diese Daten können dabei helfen, strukturelle Probleme zu identifizieren und den Verantwortlichen Druck zu machen: www.auslandswahl.de/umfrage

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Jana Pithan @janapithan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Habe mal eine patzige Mail an mein Wahlbüro geschrieben, dass meine Briefwahlunterlagen immer noch nicht da sind und was genau sie vorschlagen, dass ich jetzt mache. Wird zwar nichts bringen, aber sie sollen sich zumindest schämen.

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

They arrested people for speaking the “wrong language” during the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, and Japanese Internment. Linguistic discrimination often precedes atrocities. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Yepy1V/

tiktok.com

Oppressive governments love to arrest people for “speaking the wrong language”. The U.S. has no official language, but we’re about to see a lot of citizens detained for speaking Spanish. It’s linguist...

TikTok video by Nicole Holliday

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Publication day: Voices in the Linguistic Landscape, our study on anthropomorphic objects and their first person pronouns. If you are interested in theories of posthumanist sociolinguistics and/or pictures of talking trash cans, this is for you!

jbe-platform.com

Voices in the Linguistic Landscape | John Benjamins

Abstract This paper contributes to the emerging analytical framework of anthropomorphized artifacts as part of Linguistic Landscapes. It describes and analyzes cases where signage, objects, or relate...

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

The money OpenAI is making when you use ChatGPT is funding the inauguration. On top of the catastrophic environmental cost, is it really worth it to save 2 minutes generating generic poorly-written text? (And don’t get me started on the others, especially Uber)

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/12/2024

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

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Jana Pithan @janapithan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

my favourite flavour of Edinburgh signs

a sign in a shop window which reads "Harry Potter Author J.K. Rowling Never Visited This Shop"

a wooden sign in a café saying "HARRY POTTER WASN'T WRITTEN HERE" on it

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

🎉 Accepted for publication: "Voices in the Linguistic Landscape: Anthropomorphization of artifacts and the pronominal construction of speakerhood" Co-authored by @janapithan.bsky.social and myself, to appear in Linguistic Landscape. Everything you ever wanted to know about talking objects!

public trash can with signage: Empfehlen sie mich weiter!

bottle of sriracha mayo with label: I'm so vegan

socks with label: "wash me without your black soks otherwise you'll be messing up my colour palette! (...) let the socks do the talkin'"

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Titus Blome @derlampenputzer.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Me: it is a matter of perspective Reviewer 1: that’s a good point Reviewer 2: you fucking idiot

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