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Professor of Linguistics at Tübingen University

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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026
Nailbiter: www.spiegel.de/ausland/russ...
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Prognosen sehen Kremlpartei Einiges Russland als Sieger bei Parlamentswahl
Die Opposition war nicht zugelassen, das Ergebnis stand quasi schon vorher fest: Wladimir Putins Partei Einiges Russland liegt bei der Parlamentswahl vorn.
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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🤖 “AI models have begun communicating in a strange new version of English that reads like a cross between James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake and tech bro jargon, new research has found.”
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AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon
Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating headaches for monitoring and oversight
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026
substack.com/@etoman/note...
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etoman (@etoman)
There's a bit of me thinking that Amodei, Altman and Musk all know they're at the top of the S-curve for LLMs and are using this as an excuse for the promised AGI not being round the corner.
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Paul Wohlfahrt 🇪🇺 @wohlfahrtp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nach #SachsenAnhalt ist heute ein guter Tag, um in eine demokratische Partei einzutreten 🟣 voltdeutschland.org/mitmachen 🔴 spd.de/unterstuetzen/mitglied-werden 🟡 mitgliedwerden.fdp.de/ 🟢 gruene.de/mitglied-werden ⚫️ www.cdu-deutschlands.de/mitglied-wer... 🔵 csu.de/jetzt-mitmachen/
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Mitmachen
Mitmachen
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pekaschmitt.bsky.social @pekaschmitt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026
substack.com/@statmodelin...
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University professor is a job. Not an award.
Don Rubin said once that a problem with university hiring committees is that they think that they’re giving an award rather than finding someone to do a job.
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026
PhD position on Automatic Speech Recognition in Tübingen! uni-tuebingen.de/de/299892
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Automatic Swabian Recognition
The goal of Automatic Swabian Recognition (ASR) is to build on this foundation to make the archive fully usable for both the scientific community and the wider public by creating a curated, open datas...
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026
www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
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Gerhard Jäger (Tübingen University / Germany): Linguistics Talk
Join us for a linguistics talk by Gerhard Jäger (Tübingen University), our first international talk, exploring other sides to "computational linguistics"…
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 27/07/2026
idw-online.de/de/news875158 Congratulations to Katerina! Well-deserved.
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Katerina Harvati erhält den Albert Einstein World Award for Science
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 27/07/2026
I went to Athens, and all I got is a silly hat and a sillier T-Shirt.
Foto of Gerhard with a T-Shirt showing the Parthenon.
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Florian Schroeder @florianschroeder.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Remigration ist keine Antwort auf den Berliner CSD-Anschlag, denn Rechtsextreme und Islamisten verfolgen im Kern das gleiche Ziel: youtu.be/ADRcdEoX_B4
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Berliner CSD Anschlag - AfD & Islamisten unter einer Decke?!
YouTube video by Florian Schroeder
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Sven Scholz @svenscholz.de · 26/07/2026
Es stehen Wahlen an und Zack, gibt es wieder "ganz zufällig" Anschläge mit Autos als Waffe. Und ich grabe mal wieder dieses 6 Jahre altes Video von @afelia.bsky.social aus. #stochastischerTerror #CSD
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Stochastischer Terrorismus - ein Schnellkurs
YouTube video by Marina Weisband
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Joerg Lau @joerglau.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Dieser Text über den Rechtspopulismus als Folge einer Krise unserer Kultur und Moral ist anregender als vieles andere zum Thema @puettmann.bsky.social www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2026...
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Igor Levit @igorpianist.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
🔥 🔥 @masz.bsky.social 🔥 🔥
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 28/05/2026
open.substack.com/pub/shankarn... "I have said this before, and I want to end this story with it today. All of us should thank whatever gods we have for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius.
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One Day. Two Decisions. A Very Different World.
Two directional breaks in one day.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
OTD in 2002 the NATO-Russia council was founded in Rome. At the event your Prez said it was Ukraine's choice to join NATO & it "could not cloud relations with Russia". Notice how our story has changed?
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 25/05/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... "Americans seem to be mad about everything, or in spite of everything. Rates of teen pregnancy, domestic abuse, vehicle crashes, and violent crime have plummeted. Nobody cares. /1
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The ‘Vibecession’ Is Over. The ‘Permacession’ Is Here.
Why Americans are so unhappy.
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 25/05/2026
If you are based in Europe, it makes sense to migrate your Bluesky account to Eurosky (eurosky.tech) - your Bluesky identity and content will remain the same (if you wish).
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 22/05/2026
I really like claude code, but it can be passive-aggressive at times.
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Michael Kellner @mikellner.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Helft mir bitte diese Studie zu verbreiten! Katherina Reiche will sie in der Schublade verstecken. @sven-giegold.de @ckemfert.bsky.social @beyond-ideology.bsky.social @felixbanaszak.bsky.social @franziskabrantner.de www.t-online.de/finanzen/ene...
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Wachstum durch Energiewende? Reiche lässt Studie verschwinden
Eine neue Studie im Auftrag des Wirtschaftsministeriums zeigt: Der Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien könnte die regionale Wertschöpfung in Deutschland verdoppeln. Die Ergebnisse kommuniziert das Ministeriu...
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 17/04/2026
In case you were wondering what I have been up to recently: codeberg.org/profgerhard/... codeberg.org/profgerhard/...
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wordorder-pcm
code repo for the paper Tracking the change that leads to typological variation: Word order universals and the phylogenetic comparative method
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 08/04/2026
fdat.uni-tuebingen.de/records/ccfp...
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A Phylogenetic Tree of 3,397 World Languages via Multiple Sequence Alignment
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
OTD in 2022 the Bucha massacre. How my trolls reacted(ed).. 1. It never happened. 2. They were all Nazis so deserved what didn't happen 3. They were crisis actors 4. What didn't happen to all the Nazis who deserved it/crisis actors who pretended was on the site of a biolab. 5. Now do Gaza. Repeat.
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 22/03/2026
Claude code is great, but it's also pretty chaotic... User: I want time in kya, not expected substitions per site. Claude: Ok ... 3 hours later ... User: The estimates don't make sense. Claude: You are probably confused because the unit of time are substitutions per site, not kya.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
If Donald asks Zelensky for anti drone systems, he better wear a suit, ask nicely and say thank you.
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 05/03/2026
Ouch.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 27/02/2026
www.anthropic.com/news/stateme... gut
anthropic.com
Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
A statement from our CEO on national security uses of AI
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 26/02/2026
Claude just told me: "However, I should flag some uncertainty: I'm reasonably confident about the general content and the author combination,...
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 24/02/2026
Tübingen stabil
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
OTD in 2022 Russian warship Moskva was told “go fuck yourself”. A short while later it fucked itself and sank. In a land war. By a country without a navy. I remain a master strategist.
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Johann-Mattis List @lingulist.de · 13/02/2026
Hm, should I review this super exiting study from Scientific Reports? Or should I leave it to others?
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Andreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social · 09/02/2026
#NoamChomsky contributed with his ridiculous comments on the Russo-Ukrainian War since 2014 to the coldness of the international left towards Ukraine as a victim of a genocidal war of political repression, cultural annihilation & imperial expansion. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Newly released files shed new light on Chomsky and Epstein relationship
Latest communications undermine Chomsky’s earlier claims that he primarily had financial dealings with Epstein
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
It amuses Prez that half the people now doing mental backflips over Chomsky have blocked Prez over his views on Chomsky.
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Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug @honkhase.de · 03/02/2026
Erm… o.O Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it finance.yahoo.com/news/microso...
finance.yahoo.com
Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it
Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Time to remind of the the official Tankie guide to US-Iran war in 10 rules. 1. Being attacked by a nuclear power no longer means you should surrender immediately. That only applies if Russia attacks
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Frank Sauer @drfranksauer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Wenn deutsche Unis so weiterschlafen, haben wir AGI bevor auch nur eine Prüfungsordnung im KI-Zeitalter angekommen ist. @elvirarosert.bsky.social, Eva Herschinger und ich mit einem konstruktiven Vorschlag, wie man das Problem löst statt es nur zu bewundern. Danke an @taz.de - keine Paywall.
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Künstliche Intelligenz an Hochschulen: Universität radikal umdenken
Für den Umgang mit KI an Unis gibt nur einen Weg: Eine grundsätzliche Neugestaltung des universitären Lernens und Prüfens. Vier Ideen für eine Reform.
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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Giant Pandas are generally only found where SW Mandarin is spoken. The Spatial Congruence Between Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) Habitats and Southwestern Mandarin 🐼 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #linguistics
Map showing the congruence of Giant Panda fossils and SW Mandarin
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Well worth a listen from Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos summit.
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Thomas Pellard @thomaspellard.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
WTF?! 🫣 Is this a joke? www.nature.com/articles/s41... A religious quote, "primitive languages", and nonsense everywhere. Is Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications a scam journal?
nature.com
A cross-linguistic investigation of /h/ symbolism: the case of H2O - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - A cross-linguistic investigation of /h/ symbolism: the case of H2O
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 23/12/2025
📢 Postdoc positions (2×) Global Basic Lexicon (GloBasLex) project (Heidelberg Academy), based at the University of Tübingen. ⏳ until end of 2029 Details: uni-tuebingen.de/en/291885 #linguistics #typology #postdoc #academicjobs
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GloBasLex
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Michael Franke @meanwhileina.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Come work with us!! Two full substitute professorships for Computational Linguistics (1 year) and General Linguistics (1.5 years) at the University of Tübingen. @unituebingen.bsky.social uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet... uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Substitute Professorship in Computational Linguistics (m/f/d, W3, 100%)
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 11/12/2025
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Substitute Professorship in Computational Linguistics (m/f/d, W3, 100%)
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 11/12/2025
uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
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Substitute Professorship in General Linguistics (m/f/d, W3, 100%)
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Prof Gerhard @profgerhard.eurosky.social · 09/12/2025
www.hadw-bw.de/news/digital...
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Digitale Sammlung von Grundwortschätzen für rund 1.500 Sprachen der Welt | Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
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E. Lee van Cleef @workerbee3.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan apnews.com/article/ukra... russians cucks fold again
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US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan
U.S. senators critical of President Donald Trump’s approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war say they spoke with U.S.
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Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen und Rants" Masala @carlomasala1.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
An alle Süßen da draußen. 🇷🇺 führt einen Krieg und bedroht Europa 🇨🇳 dreht uns den Rohstoffhahn ab Die 🇺🇸 fahren auf allen Ebenen mit uns Schlitten Dinge, die ich noch vergessen habe 🇩🇪 Diskurs und Politik: Döner, Stadtbild, Espresso Weiter so. So schaffen wir das. Bestimmt
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