iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Ooit stelden @martenvandermeulen.bsky.social en ik onze 10 vragen over taal aan Paulien Cornelisse. Haar antwoorden zijn zo karakteristiek! Wat een gemis. milfje.blogspot.com/2013/06/10ta...

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10^Taal met... Paulien Cornelisse

Foto: Mamvandam Taal: wie is er niet mee bezig? Blogs, twitters, tijdschriften, polemieken, ingezonden brieven, boeken. Er zijn heul v...

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lovely day for a conference! Ethics of Queer In/visibility is on at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social 💜

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

f(x) is actually short for fhtagn of x

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Do you like having high-quality, peer-reviewed, Open Access Books on linguistics? Yes? Is your institution among those that have pledged support for the new funding period of Language Science Press (see thread)? No? Then talk to your librarian! We need you! langsci-press.org/knowledgeunl...

Meme: Bernie Sanders "I am once again asking".
Text: I am once again asking for your support for Language Science Press

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Humandifferenzierung @sortingpeople.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Im Rahmen unserer Interviewreihe stellen wir euch die Forschungsprojekte in unserem Sonderforschungsbereich vor. Wie prägt Sprache unsere Vorstellungen davon, wer als „normal“, kindlich, erwachsen oder behindert gilt ? Das ganze Interview findet ihr auf unserer Webseite (Link in der Bio!)

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ZiF Bielefeld @zif-bielefeld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

... looking for in proposals or want to listen in on reflections about interdisciplinarity, this episode is perfect for you! 🎧 As always, you can listen to the episode by searching for "InterSpaces" on your favourite podcast platform or via the link below: interspaces.letscast.fm/episode/epis...

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Episode #29: On Interdisciplinarity

This episode features the two co-directors of ZiF, Marie I. Kaiser from History of Philosophy, and historian Eleonora Rohland, both professors at Bielefeld University and ‘directing’ ZiF since 2025.Th...

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Benjamin Angerer @benniangerer.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Schism, science, shit, ... : *skey is really the gift that keeps giving.. en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Categor...

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Category:English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *skey- - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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James K. Tauber @jtauber.com · 27/09/2026

A little something I've been thinking about for a while and finally started working on... jtauber.github.io/asterisk/ Feedback welcome!

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Asterisk

A workbench for comparative philology.

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Grammar and Corpora 2027 @gac2027.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Don't forget to submit to Grammar & Corpora #GaC2027 - the deadline is October 15! gac2027.phil.hhu.de

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Grammar and Corpora 2027

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Steffen Höder @steffenhoeder.de · 24/09/2026

Job: Professor, General Linguistics, Kiel University. www.berufungen.uni-kiel.de/de/dateien/o...

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Onze Taal @onzetaal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Betekent dit dat een kwart van deze frikandel niet eetbaar zal zijn? #tkv

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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

#OTD 83 years ago, Brigitte Schlieben-Lange (1943–2000) was born 🎂 A language historian and sociolinguist specialising in Romance languages, she is commemorated in Baden-Württemberg through a programme supporting female researchers with children. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

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Lisa DeBruine @debruine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

❇️ I've updated Data Skills for Reproducible Research to v6.1. The Iteration & Functions chapter has been split in two and I've added some material on unit testing. It's a living textbook, so please submit issues if you find a mistake or something unclear. psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v6/...

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Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

All statistics is spooky because numbers are haunted. But you can make it extra spooky by adding your scary questions to the queue.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 23/09/2026

Just listened to this episode, it’s excellent! You can tell that Paul Allison is an *incredible* teacher. Highly recommended if you’re fixed-effects curious but are new to the party! quantitude.org/s8e03-paul-a...

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S8E03 Control Yourself: Fixed Effects Models with Paul Allison – Quantitude

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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Attending #Interspeech2026 in Sydney? Don’t miss the contributions from the #BielefeldUniversity #Phonetics group! On Sep 29 Farhat Jabeen starts with a survey talk on “Pronunciation Diversity” and an oral presentation on “The (non-)universality of prominence and Intonation Phrases” #LINCC #CRC1646

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Interspeech 2026 - Interspeech 2026

Join us in Sydney for Interspeech 2026, the premier international conference on speech science and technology, celebrating diversity, equity, and innovation from 28 September to 1 October 2026.

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 20/09/2026

Linguistic prescriptivsts make terrible zoologists @StarkeyComics.bsky.social

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Simon Meier-Vieracker @fussballinguist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Liebx [Name der Hilfskraft], ich bin in der misslichen Lage, dass ich zu viel zu tun habe, um mir zu überlegen, was ich ggf. delegieren könnte. Also im Moment: nein, gerade gibt es nichts für dich zu tun, aber ich melde mich, wenn sich das ändert. Herzlich, Simon

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In this paper we talk about the folly of aggregating statistics from incommensurate literatures to arrive at generalized verdicts about science. The same logic applies to all of the above. This kind of metascientific reductionism is neither informative nor any good for science.

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Morten H. Christiansen @mh-christiansen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

📣 I'm recruiting a new grad student at Cornell for F27, so please share the word with possible candidates interested in conversation as it intersects with language processing, evolution, and/or statistical learning, approached using computational and/or behavioral methods. 👉 Email me if interested

Illustration showing two people conversing with each other, with interpretation through pattern recognition involving the integration of multiple cues, including social cues (pointing), the visual environment, what they know about the person they’re talking with, knowledge about the world, prior discourse, cultural expectations, and communicative goals.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/09/2026

I'm excited to share this preprint by my wonderful MSc student Yihsin who's thought deeply about how psychological & neurocognitive theories relate to different types of evidence. Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Beyond Empirical Success: Evaluating Theoretical Virtue Across the Computational Modeling Chain
Authors/Creators

Chuang, Yihsin
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Guest, Olivia1
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Description

Computational models in psychology are typically judged by a single standard: empirical fit. Unfortunately, fit is insufficient, even misleading as a sole criterion, as the same result can arise from fundamentally different situations: theoretically faithful models, mathematically flexible ones, miscalibrated operationalizations, or implementations that compute something other than intended. Distinguishing between these is vital. Our evaluative metatheoretical account recognises that models stand in three distinct relations: a) toward the theory whose causal commitments it purports to capture, b) toward the specification and implementation it purports to compute, and c) toward the phenomenon it purports to explain. Each relation can succeed or fail independently, governed by criteria local to that stage. Importantly, relations are ordered such that theoretical content is transmitted or lost, and losses at earlier transitions are irrecoverable downstream. What a model's empirical success implicates about its theoretical commitments, therefore, depends on whether transitions are secured. Some success or failure profiles support explanatory claims; others only prediction; others establish theoretical coherence without empirical contact. Our account diagnoses what a given model shows, replacing the implicit assumption that empirical success transfers automatically to theoretical understanding with an explicit conditional rendition of what models can and cannot establish.

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Onze Taal @onzetaal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Maakt het toch een net wat minder lekker hapje ... #tkv

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IDS Mannheim @idsmannheim.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#Stellenausschreibung: Am IDS ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt in Vollzeit oder Teilzeit (mind. 80%) eine Stelle als Assistenz der Direktion (m/w/d) (Kennziffer 08/2026) zu besetzen. 🔗 Zur Ausschreibung: www.ids-mannheim.de/org/karriere... ✍️ Jetzt bewerben! #Jobs

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Ausschreibung_3 | IDS

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Right before activating my out of office-reply, I got a very nice email that makes me feel super proud 😊 what a nice way to start a vacation!

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Kitty High-Five: Proud Of You

Alt: Kitty High-Five: Proud Of You

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Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Working on positively-constrained spaces.

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v_i_o_l_a @v-i-o-l-a.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

am montag war ich in der bibliothek unseres instituts für sinologie und ostasienkunde. und konnte nicht umhin, die dort ausgestellte #schreibmaschine für #chinesisch zu fotografieren. 🤩 www.uni-muenster.de/Sinologie/bibli…

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detailfoto einer schreibmaschine für chinesisch vom aktuell eingesetzten zeichen-set

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Was für eine Woche! @thiliel.bsky.social sendet noch mehr #Tristaben: Wirkstofffreisetzung

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Was für eine produktive #Tristaben -Woche: Prozesssteckbriefe gefunden heute!

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

neue #Tristaben beim Annotieren gefunden: Schrottteil

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am revising my Guerrilla Scientific Workflow talk for the LMU open science summer school, tomorrow. The key idea is that open science training provides tools for critiquing published research, for deciding what to trust, and for challenging institutional power.

slide entitled "Nature is Opaque" with a meme picture of people making two lobsters fight. The lobsters are labeled STATISTICAN, and every person in the pic is also labeled STATISTICIAN

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Chonking as the 'process by which small individual pieces of treats are bound together to create a meaningful & fluffy whole'. The result of the process of chonking is called a 'unit' and it is of course absolute, i.e., an absolute unit.

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Lecture-free period is also the time for chonk-checking the cats. Can confirm one is still chonk and will continue her exercise program of chasing toys a lot and the other one is a little more chonk now, which is good, she really needed to up her chonk after a surgery

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Now for some joyful news: Lavender Languages and Linguistics is coming to Germany ✨️

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Philipp Krämer @phkraemer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Our university welcomes applications for 3-year postdoc projects across all disciplines, including linguistics. Applicants need a letter of support from a VUB supervisor. I'd be happy to host a project related to my research areas: please spread in your networks and reach out with proposals!

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ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · 03/09/2026

We're serving a full pot of ReproducibiliTea this September: 4 Sept (12:00 CET) | Bielefeld: Discussing van Rooij & Baggio’s "Theory before the test: How to build high-verisimilitude explanatory theories in psychological science” burst.pages.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/burst/

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Stefan Hartmann @stefanhartmann.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thanks to the organizers of @dgkl2026.bsky.social for an amazing conference! I’m already looking forward to DGKL 2028 in Klagenfurt, and more than happy to be able to work with the newly elected @dgkl-gcla.bsky.social board for two more years!

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