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Evan Bradley @yevb0.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I had luck before on the badsite; let's try bsky: this term I'm teaching intro linguistics with a typology/diversity lens I love to harness expertise of friends/colleagues to show students languages I know little about SO if you know/use/study a language that's not normative AmEng, I need YOU! 🧵

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Philipp Krämer @phkraemer.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Sociolinguists in and around Benelux or working on Beneluxian languages and varieties: come present your work at next year's Sociolinguistics Circle in Brussels! Nous avons hâte om jullie bij ons te verwelkomen - venez nombreux.ses ! Deadline for abstracts: December 1st, 2025.

Call for Papers: Sociolinguistics Circle 2026
VUB - Brussels Centre for Language Studies

We invite abstracts for oral and poster presentations at the 12th edition of the Sociolinguistics Circle, to be held in Brussels on April 24th, 2026.
Contributions should deal with topics in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, dialectology, variationist linguistics, social dimensions of multilingualism and language contact, language policy and planning, or related disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars with a connection to the Low Countries and/or on topics relevant to language varieties used in the Low Countries.

Abstracts should be submitted before December 1st, 2025 via e-mail to
sociolinguisticscircle2026@vub.be.
They should be between 300 and 500 words, not including references. Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts, at most one of which may be sole- or first-authored.
Abstracts should situate the study within the field and clearly identify the research aim, theoretical and methodological framework, main results and implications.
Contributions can be submitted in Dutch, French, or English. Given the Sociolinguistics Circle’s orientation to the Low Countries, we would like to emphasise that contributions in Dutch and French or multilingual formats are warmly welcomed (e.g., presentation in Dutch/French, slides in English).

All submissions will be reviewed by the organising committee.
We aim to decide on acceptance before February 1st, 2026.

Organising committee
Rik Vosters
Wim Vandenbussche
Laura Rosseel
Philipp Krämer

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Super excited to have been a part of the first cohort of #TRILL contributors who piloted the peer review guidelines, which are such an important step towards increasing quality control in #OpenEducation.

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

My contribution is part of #TRILL, the first peer-reviewed database of scholarly teaching materials in #Linguistics, which was just launched: resourcehub.lsadc.org/Channel/TRIL...

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

In my materials, I demonstrate how to set up an engaging, research-based course project that can easily be tailored to different teaching contexts.

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Attention #sociolinguists: Have you ever wanted to do a collaborative class project, but you just weren't sure how? Maybe you didn't have much time or access to the right participants...? If so, check out my new openly accessible, peer-reviewed essay plus #OER: resourcehub.lsadc.org/Play?pId=593...

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Pabst (2025) Pop Music as a Window into Language Variation

This submission describes a four-part portfolio assignment from a master’s-level introduction to Variationist Sociolinguistics that was designed to help students understand the goals and methods of th...

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Lena Ackermann @lenaackermann.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Variationslinguistik bei @realscientists.de 🤩

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I will be curating the Bluesky account for Real Scientists DE this week. Check it out if you want to learn more about my work and speak German (or have access to a translator)!

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Congratulations, Rikker! They're lucky to have you!

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WOinActie.bsky.social @woinactie.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

En ook de derde dag van de estafettestaking in het Hoger Onderwijs, vandaag in Nijmegen, is een groot succes. Het rode vierkant van #WOinActie wappert aan de toren, en duizenden studenten, docenten, wetenschappers en sympathisanten protesteren tegen de aangekondigde bezuinigingen. #DoeHetNiet

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Anne Petterson @annepetterson.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Nijmegen kleurt rood! Vandaag staken we aan de Radboud Universiteit tegen de ongekende bezuinigingen van dit kabinet op het hoger onderwijs en de wetenschap. Samen met studenten en collega’s van de Hogeschool Arnhem en Artez 🟥💪 #WOinActie

Rood vierkant met de tekst “HO kabinet sloopt hoger onderwijs”.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

For information about the reasons for the strike, see this open letter: woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/03/ruim... Below an excerpt: 3/n

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Ruim 160 hoogleraren uit Nijmegen: staak met ons mee!

WOinActie is een beweging van studenten en medewerkers en maakt zich sterk voor de universiteit en haar toekomst.

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Falls ihr es noch nicht mitbekommen habt: Ab heute streiken Kolleg*innen, Student*innen&viele andere gegen die drakonischen Sparmaßnahmen an niederländischen Universitäten. Leiden hat den Anfang gemacht, morgen gehts in Utrecht weiter& Do sind wir in Nimwegen dran. Mehr dazu im Post von Marc 👇🏼

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Proud to see so many colleagues, students, and community members in #Leiden go on strike today to protest the Draconian cuts to Dutch higher education. Tomorrow, Utrecht will follow and on Thursday, we will do the same at Radboud. #WOinActie #stopthecuts

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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Vandaag begint een estafettestaking van de Nederlandse universiteiten. Op een enkele kleine lokale staking na is dit sinds mensenheugenis niet gebeurd. Staak mee! neerlandistiek.nl/2025/03/staa...

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Staak! Staak! Staak!

Vandaag begint een estafettestaking van de Nederlandse universiteiten. Op een enkele kleine lokale staking na is dit sinds mensenheugenis niet gebeurd

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Thanks so much, Catherine! I just sent you an email so you'll have my email address 😊

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Second paper: Wolfram, W. (1994). The phonology of a sociocultural variety: The case of African American Vernacular English. In J. Bernthal & N. Bankson (Eds.), Child phonology: Characteristics, assessment, and intervention with special populations (pp. 227–244). Thieme.

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

First paper: Wolfram, W. (1989). Structural variability in phonological development: Final nasals in vernacular Black English. In R..Fasold & D. Schiffrin (Eds.), Current Issues in linguistic theory: Language change and variation (pp. 301-332). John Benjamins.

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

One of my BA students wants to look at word-final nasal deletion in AAE for his BA thesis. He's struggling to get access to a couple of relevant papers (see below). Can anyone help 🙏🏼?

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Karl Doemens @karldoemens.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

In einer Woche ist 🇩🇪 Bundestagswahl. In Washington, der Hauptstadt des einstmals wichtigsten Verbündeten, sind bis heute keine Wahlunterlagen eingetroffen. Bei einer Postlaufzeit von 7 - 10 Tagen drohen zigtausende Auslandsdeutsche ihres Wahlrechts beraubt zu werden. 🤐

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

FYI: Join the COGEL-sponsored Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on March 7th (9a-9p EST)!: Join the COGEL-sponsored Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on March 7th (9a-9p EST)! Did you know that less than 20% of biographies on Wikipedia are currently dedicated to notable women, and far lower for other minoritized…

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FYI: Join the COGEL-sponsored Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on March 7th (9a-9p EST)!

Join the COGEL-sponsored Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on March 7th (9a-9p EST)! Did you know that less than 20% of biographies on Wikipedia are currently dedicated to notable women, and far lower for other minoritized genders? And that number used to be even…

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Vorgestern gekommen und gleich gestern morgen abgeschickt - aus den Niederlanden sollte das zum Glück reichen...

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Fingers crossed! Ich warte immer noch auf meine Unterlagen...

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

It looks like the position paper is not actually available yet...

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Ich wurde gerade informiert, dass die Wahlscheine in meiner alten Gemeinde wahrscheinlich erst am 10.2. verschickt werden, weil vorher wahrscheinlich keine Stimmzettel vorliegen...

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I'm about to assign this paper to my English Language and Culture students in the Netherlands for the first time. Aside from introducing them to socio-legal scholarship, I hope to raise awareness for how we can share important findings with the broader public-thanks for all the fantastic examples 😍

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Day 1 of the 2025 LOT Winter School is off to a great start! Looking forward to welcoming instructors and participants from all over the world to Nijmegen over the next two weeks

Some of the local organizers of the 2025 LOT Winter School at Radboud University in Nijmegen

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Und dass es sich bei dem Grant um Fördermittel handelt, auf die sich Bewerber*innen aus allen Fachrichtungen bewerben können, was eine faire Beurteilung deutlich erschwert

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Dazu sollte ich sagen, dass zur Verlosung nur positiv beurteilte Gutachten zugelassen werden...

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Gibt es bei uns an der Uni neuerdings auch, allerdings nur für kleine, interne Projekte. Als Bewerberin habe ich das als positiv empfunden - wir haben den Grant zwar nicht gekriegt, aber es lag eben (wie so oft) am Glück und das können wir nun bei Evaluationen auch deutlich machen.

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Maia George @maiageorge.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Ich erzähle das nicht gerne, weil ich meine Ruhe haben möchte, aber langsam kann ich mir das nicht mehr leisten: Ich bin hier nicht geboren und habe mich einbürgern lassen. Wir müssen darüber reden, wie Einbürgerungen in Deutschland laufen. 1/x www.merkur.de/politik/merz...

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Merz gibt deutliche Botschaft: „Aberkennung der deutschen Staatsbürgerschaft“

Merz zeigt sich unzufrieden mit den Einbürgerungsrichtlinien der Ampel. Bei einem Sieg bei der Bundestagswahl hat der CDU-Chef vor, einiges grundlegend zu verändern.

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Happy to see options for virtual participation again! Hope this will be possible again next year so those from far away/with limited travel funding/visa issues/caretaking responsibilities etc. can submit again ☺️

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Cadernos de Linguística @cadlin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Yesterday, we lost William Labov, a foundational figure in sociolinguistics. In his Abralin Talk, Labov reflected on a lifetime of scholarship that has mentored generations and advanced the pursuit of social equity through linguistics.

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William Labov

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I've found your tutorials really helpful in the past and would love one on MFA!

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

A secondary goal is to get students to think about how we can best share linguistic findings with the public, so I am also looking for examples of successful #lingcomm in this area. Shameless self-promotion and re-skeets welcome ☺️

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The class is part of a BA in Engl Language and Culture, so ideally there is some sort of connection to/contact with Engl or the anglophone world. Readings should also be accessible to students w/ limited background in Ling. But please feel free to share recs that don't fit those criteria.

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Happy to share the final reading list, of course! So far, I have readings on discrimination in courtrooms, border controls, housing, hiring, (trans) healthcare, education, (children's) media, and teaching materials, but I am sure there are many others that I don't know about yet.

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I'll teach a BA course on lg and social justice next semester. I'd love to showcase empirical work that demonstrates how the study of lg can help dismantle unjust structures. If you have done any work on this or have strong feelings about what should be included, please let me know below👇🏼

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Love the spicy talk video abstract by the way...🔥🥵🌶️ Made me think it's time for Variety Actors on Actors to move aside so we can get Sociolinguists on Sociolinguists...

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

This promises to be such an exciting contribution to the field of sociolinguistics - cannot wait to read it! Really grateful it will be published open access so my students and I can access it right away...

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Whoa 🤯 Falls es noch nicht zu spät ist, würde ich wärmstens Megabus oder Greyhound empfehlen, falls es die noch gibt. Die habe ich pre-Covid regelmäßig sehr kostengünstig zwischen Toronto und Buffalo genutzt und die fuhren beide bis nach NYC weiter.

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Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥 @kpabst.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Stop de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs!

A red square, in protest of the impending budget cuts in Dutch higher education

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