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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Had a great time at the Queer Linguistics Workshop at the 49th Austrian Linguistics Conference @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social! Huge thanks to organizers Oliver Bunk, Nicholas Catasso, J. Mx Gaul & @vzie.bsky.social for making it possible! (Photo from Martin Stegu's talk)

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Bernie Sanders keeps saying the most wrong headed about AI and paling around with Geoffery Hinton. We write more about it here -- buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

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Bernie Sanders Falls for Mathy-Maths and Doomer Gloom

Bernie Sanders published an op-ed in The Guardian this week, warning of the existential dangers posed to civilization by AI.

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Next week at @unibonn.bsky.social, I’ll be talking about how the battle over gender-just language in Germany is often less about grammar and more about feeling, and why it matters for language scholars engaging in these debates. Details in the flyer and in the link in thread if you are nearby! ⬇️

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Gerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

The Linguistic Justice Foundation is looking for 60 people to make a $5 monthly donation to help support our work pursuing linguistic justice for everyone. Please donate if you can, shar eif you can't. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

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Donate to make a difference for people's right to use, maintain and transmit their languages

Your contribution is helping us drive systemic change for linguistic justice. It helps us to advance public awareness and mass education on language rights and linguistic justice, conduct research, an...

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

In our nation’s capitol promoting gender ideology ✅

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Anyone else in the US having serious delays receiving int’l mail? Several simple letters from Germany have taken 2+ months to arrive recently…other direction is fine, maybe even faster than usual 🤔

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Aniello De Santo @anids.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I feel this needs to be said again but LLMs are not implementing usage-based theories of language unless one interprets the latter in the shallowest, devoid of their most interesting assumptions, way. “Usage” is not just frequency ffs.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2025

here's Eric Trump saying "they" at least 10 times in under 30 seconds

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Week 4 of American Kindergarten going just about as expected ✅ 🏈

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 20/08/2025

Trans people are worth protecting. Not because we are amazing people (although we are) or because we offer a great deal to society (although we do) or because we are fine as hell (we are). We are worth protecting because we are HUMAN BEINGS, and it’s amazing how often that simple fact is forgotten.

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 03/08/2025

If you're going to send me something written by an LLM then save us all time and resources and just send me your prompt instead. I'll value a text that says "Heartfelt condolence message with reference to a list of events" more, because this way I at least actually know what you were thinking

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Just out: new article on gender-just language across 8 first-year German textbooks. I was (mostly) pleasantly surprised! 🙏 to editors Katherine Kerschen, Claire Scott, and @spracheistleben.bsky.social for this special issue on trans and non-binary identity! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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A Comparative Analysis of Gender‐Just Language in First‐Year German Textbooks

This study analyzes the inclusion of binary and non-binary gender-just language in US first-year college German textbooks. The analysis covers eight textbooks, evaluating their use of gender-just for...

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Stella Biderman @stellaathena.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

"It's unclear if this research matters because real users speak English and Chinese" has got to be up there for worst dismissive takes about how multilingual doesn't matter.

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Worth sharing again as Universities start to share congratulatory posts about Fulbright awardees…

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The Layman's Linguist @laymanslinguist.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Amazing things are happening on X: The Everything App

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Dan Walter @spracheistleben.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Very excited that the Special Issue of Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German on trans and non-binary issues in the L2 German classroom is coming together! The full special issue will be released in the fall 25 issue but articles are coming out. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17561221... #linguistics

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Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German: Vol 0, No 0

<em>Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German</em> is a German education journal devoted to the improvement & innovation of teaching and learning German language & culture.

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

It’s a cow, you’re welcome

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 08/07/2025

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

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Cringe: Ästhetik und diskursive Praxis der Schamlust @uebercringe.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Second conference day about to begin, we are looking forward to talks by @larshinrichs.site, @heidevolkening.bsky.social, @ldpres.bsky.social, @theresaheyd.bsky.social, @ryfountain.bsky.social and Chloé Thomas. Cringe in dialectological fieldwork, Bad Poetry, neopronoun affect, and more!

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

heute im Buchstabenmuseum ❤️‍🔥

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Cringe: Ästhetik und diskursive Praxis der Schamlust @uebercringe.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Next week: conference time! We look forward to an interdisciplinary exploration of ambivalent affects and everyday aesthetics: July 7 to 9 at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social as well as online! Keynote: Teresa Pratt (SFSU), Language and affect in interaction and performance

conference poster with details, see https://uebercringe.de/tagung-ueber-cringe/

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Mom for Gliberty @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Someone's never been to the Iowa State Fair.

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Another day, another good one for the final voicing hypercorrection collection

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

BA, MA, and PhD in German-Germanic Studies eliminated at Indiana University. They celebrated their 140th anniversary this year.

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Learning about “ridicule as praxis” - emphasizing the mid-ness of AI is powerful. Great book talk on The AI Con by @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social at @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social in Berlin

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I’d like to meet the intern who got fired for this

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

German vegetarian food be like

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

At @uni-muenster.de working on a new internship opportunity in battery research for @lasiastate.bsky.social German students.

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Just one of my German/Engineering double majors doing great things this summer!

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Berlin for the next 5 weeks 🎉 🚫🇺🇸

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Cringe: Ästhetik und diskursive Praxis der Schamlust @uebercringe.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Bald ist es soweit: vom 7.-9. Juli findet am Internationalen Wissenschaftsforum der @uniheidelberg.bsky.social unsere interdisziplinäre Tagung statt: UEBER CRINGE: Ambivalent Affects and Everyday Aesthetics.

Konferenzposter mit Titel, Sprecher*innen. In einem pinkfarbenen Rahmen ein Bild der Cringe-Skipper.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The lost cause of Gerpanese. #linguistics #language

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

As an American second-language-teaching professor in Ohio, where they have demoted languages from legitimate fields of study to "skills," I am offended by this use of the term "bilingual." It's like the fox rebranding itself as a hen.

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Rare Iowa moment: Drag Queen Story Hour @raygunsite.com / Storyhouse Bookpub for DSM Capital City Pride 🦄 🌈 📕

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Arielle Zibr👻k @zibrak.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

You guys, a conclave of old cardinals can decide on a POPE faster than an academic search committee can decide on the four people we're bringing to campus for an assistant professor search.

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Preliminary review ✅ 😮‍💨

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Looking at teaching a course in English on German Culture and Technology (upper-level gen ed). Any recommendations? 🙏

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

The only convincing evidence I have ever seen of a God is the divine coincidence that German week at Aldi is always during the week I need to bribe my students to fill out evaluations

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Christianity, like all religions, does not have some stable essence outside the lived reality of what people do in its name. Trump identifies as a Christian and white evangelical Christians in the US overwhelmingly claim him. Christians don't get to just toss him aside to save their religion.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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Lindsay Preseau @ldpres.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Student referred to Flavor of Love as “vintage reality tv” 👵

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

Graphic of Washington Post poll from April 18-22, 2025, showing "Majorities of Americans oppose various Trump proposals"

highlighting two lines in particular:
"Increasing the Federal Government's role in how private universities operate" - 28 percent support, 70 percent oppose
"Reducing federal funding for medical research" - 21 percent support, 77 percent oppose

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