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Raoul Schubert

@raoulschubert.bsky.social
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Linguist, early career researcher and face-blind nerd at Bielefeld University (they/he) Some of my interests: Pragmatics; sociolinguistics; discourse analysis; HRI; language, gender & identity; fictolinguistics (and more) ENG/GER/日本語/繁體中文

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AR Deal @ardeal.bsky.social · 16h
Working with grad students, a lot of what I spend my time on is the parts of the paper "around" the analysis -- in particular the parts that explain to readers why they should care. The pitch! The pitch is the subject of this week's PL post: profling.beehiiv.com/p/your-paper...
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Your paper needs a claim and a pitch
tell us why we should care
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Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social · 18h
missed National Coming Out Day. but came across this screenshot of the mass email i sent 12 years ago!
mass email from me when i transitioned. the body of the email reads-
"about 15 years ago i sent out a mass email stating that i had used the Troy Aikman quarterback rating system to decide that the right choice was to switch email providers from Aol to Comcast. using the same system i'm pleased to announce that the Troy Aikman quarterback ratings system has given me the clarity to go ahead and switch genders.
i'm available to anyone by phone that would like to crunch the numbers. thanks eveyrbody and sorry for the mass email! and thanks Troy Aikman!"
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Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social · 17h
Youtube algorithm working as intended (providing me with niche things to listed to at work) youtu.be/iNKqWaimAc0?...
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Empathy for the Inanimate
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Mary Golda Ross is the first-known #NativeAmerican female engineer & a key pioneer of the US Space Race. #WorldSpaceWeek🚀 A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she spent >3 decades performing aerospace design & engineering work laying the groundwork for modern interplanetary exploration. #WomenInSTEM 🧵
A black-and-white, profile-angle photograph of Mary Golda Ross (1908–2008), the first known Native American female engineer and a key pioneer of the American Space Race, working at her drafting table. Seated and facing left, Ross rests her forearms on a large drafting surface covered in technical drawings and mathematical graphs. She holds a pencil in her right hand and holds up a sheet of paper with her left, seemingly reviewing complex flight paths or rocket designs. She wears a dark, short-sleeved blouse featuring a light-colored collar, a wrist watch on her left arm, and prominent rounded earrings. Her dark hair is styled neatly away from her face, which carries an expression of quiet focus and intellect. Scattered across the workspace are precision drafting tools, including rulers, a t-square, a technical compass, and an ink well, while a mechanical drafting arm anchors the foreground. The plain paneled walls create a minimalist office environment. The overall mood is serious and professional, highlighting a foundational Indigenous woman in mid-century aerospace engineering.
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Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Spotting a typo in an older publication ⚰️
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.
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Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com · 09/10/2026
Announcing the Linguistic Zine Challenge! Make or share a linguistics zine and tell us about it by the end of November, and you could win prizes! (oooh, prizes~~) Thread, or here's a link for the blog fans: lingthusiasm.com/post/8299478...
Linguistic Zine Challenge 
Tell us your story about sharing your enthusiasm about linguistics with people through zines and win prizes! Make your own zine or share an existing linguistics zine and you could have your story featured on a Lingthusiasm bonus episode, win a pop linguistics book, win Lingthusiasm merch, or win a year of Patreon membership to Lingthusiasm bonus episodes! 

Closes: end of day 30th November, 2026 (any time zones)
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Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
New blog post! When did Japanese borrow "fuck"/"shit"/"bitch" from English, and what happened when they entered the Japanese language? Find out below: wesleycrobertson.wordpress.com/2026/10/09/a...
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A (Mediocre) History of English Vulgarities in Japanese
Hi! Here’s a question probably no one has ever asked before: how long have Japanese people been sincerely using swear words borrowed from English? As in, not just listing them in dictionaries…
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Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A little less busy than usual now, so it's time for my semi-annual e-mail to everyone, asking "Hey, would you like to work on anything together?" 😆
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New (less grumpy) profile picture 😆
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Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks for writing! (:
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Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Great blog post! (Your DMs are closed, but I just wnted to say that you cite "Mohammadi et. al (2006)" when the year is actually "2026"!)
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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 06/10/2026
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
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Joel Tillman @jtillman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Happy to boost the og podcast for linguistic newbies, students, and vets 💚
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Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Real lmao
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p...
David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, responded to our request for comment on the paper by saying he was not interested in reading it. “I’m sorry, but I’d rather keep my brain cells,” he said.
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Patrick Skeels @baslogic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New paper forthcoming in Philstudies: There Can Be No Dispute Quick Pitch: You can make arguments from disagreement without disagreement. Contextualists defenses, including appeal to metalinguistic negotiation, are neutralized. Thread: philpapers.org/rec/SKETCB-2
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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#OTD 144 years ago, Lilias E. Armstrong (1882–1937) was born 🎂 A phonetician, expert on English and French intonation and the tone systems of Somali and Kikuyu. She also studied intonation in the context of teaching English as a foreign language. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Crying at how the new intern at work was born in 2005 and knows about the Blair government because "we studied it in sociology".
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alexei l. batishchev @alexeibat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Shirley’s reactions to me doing linguistics all day
A kitty looking into the cameraA kitty yawns bigA tired kitty looks to the sideA tired kitty closes her eyes to nap
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Lindsay Nelson-Santos @newsfromnihon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Fascinating thread about the origins of the term セクハラ and one of Japan's first sexual harassment trials in the early 1990s.
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Jolisa Gracewood @nzdodo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Walked in on the cat making yet another podcast; tiptoed back out. #nzpets
A very hard “excuse you” stare from a black and white cat sitting on a desk, with a microphone set-up at face level.
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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I can’t go to your thing. I have to attend to my agonies
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latina belt sprachbund🇲🇽🇵🇸🎃 @languagespeaker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Love posting this video
youtu.be
Joseph Muscat making a scene at the European Parliament
YouTube video by Gorg Sciberras
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Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
new favourite Smaug dropped
the 1968 "pleasure in reading" edition of the hobbit featuring an adorable bright pink Smaug torching the inhabitants of lake town
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Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Petition to Keep the Academy of Natural Sciences Open to the Public. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
actionnetwork.org
Petition to Keep the Academy of Natural Sciences Open to the Public
The scientific community in Philadelphia and concerned neighbors are calling on Drexel University to keep the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia’s public-facing museum open beyond their impos...
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
sammatey.substack.com
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Special shout-out to people with the given name "Ai", who now have to use the kanji 愛 to disambiguate
Screenshot of part of an e-mail reading:

"
Hi, I'm Ai 愛
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There’s been a little confusion around some of our emails, so I thought it was time to properly introduce myself...
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I’m Ai, co-owner of Mugen Gaming alongside my husband, Shawn. I was raised in Saitama, Japan and now live in Kansas City, Missouri, where we also run Level One Game Shop.
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Shawn and I started Mugen Gaming because we wanted to find some of the best games coming out of Japan and help bring them to players in the US and beyond."
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Christopher Hart @chrishartlinguist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is rare thing in the UK currently, but Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint a full-time and permanent lecturer specialising in critical discourse studies. hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk
Jobs at Lancaster University
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Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Yay, my first linguistics summer school!
Sign with an arrow pointing left saying "DGfS Summer School 2026", takes place at Bielefeld University
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Eric Stein (he/him) @steinea.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Oh cool, love to see open access games scholarship! I'm excited to poke through this; just looking at the contents there's a ton of interest here
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jacqui shine @dearsplenda.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
i have reached peak “adjuncts don’t get paid in the summer” situation, please keep me in mind for any editorial, research, or fact-checking work you hear about or need! more details on my website or upon request!
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
guy who thinks 'TTRPG' is short for 'tenure track role playing game'
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
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Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Read this in the "500 cigarettes" voice, relatable 😆
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I love this so much
Lit box book vending machine with DC branding and tagline “read local”
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Lauren @gramnegativity.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
when students ask me a question I don’t know the answer to
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Hane @hane.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Michel Foucault with a thought bubble
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Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Damn, 7yo me really needs to step up their Digimon OC game, I just slapped a turtle shell onto some kind of sea serpent and called it a day
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Original Tweet from @Mantia: What’s something that seems obvious within your profession, but the general public seems to misunderstand?

Quote tweet from @hwitteman: That $35 that scientific journals charge you to read a paper goes 100% to the publisher, 0% to the authors. If you just email us to ask for our papers, we are allowed to send them to you for free, and we will be genuinely delighted to do so.
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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Yay: it’s here!
Adam is standing in front of a bookshelf in his office wearing a light green and holding up a red book entitled ‘Sign Language Linguistics: Exploring BSL and ASL’ by Adam Schembri Jordan Fenlon Kearsy Cormier and Trevor Johnston
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Richard Allen @richjallen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Three new lectureship positions available at the School of Psychology, University of Leeds: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE550/l...
jobs.ac.uk
Lecturer (Teaching and Research) in Psychology (Three Posts) at University of Leeds
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer (Teaching and Research) in Psychology (Three Posts) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A hot take on a hot day: navigating the manuscript submission portal should not be more difficult than conducting the actual research study. (Looking at you, Editorial Manager)
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Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Sucks that you can't donate blood in Japan when you have tattoos, I hope they'll change that in the future
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Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Awesome, congratulations!
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Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Just call me "Dr. Language" from now on
Screenshot of an email that reads:

Dear Dr. Language,

I am a submission assistant in the field of digital technology, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer science, and my name is Emily.

I hope this email finds you well.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Out: Better things are possible In (laser eyes etc): Better things are inevitable
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Raoul Schubert @raoulschubert.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
A 45min journey turned into 2.5h, I was glad to have made it to Kyoto at all to be perfectly honest 😆
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