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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🎓 The Computational Linguistics Fall School 2026 starts next week at the University of Technology Nuremberg! From 21–25 September, the first course week brings together computational linguistics, NLP and corpus linguistics.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026

One thing I wish people would realize is just how central JK Rowling is to the entire anti-trans ecosystem. Looking at a network node analysis of the top 200 anti-trans X accounts, she is the most central figure spanning both sides of the Atlantic from Republicans to Labour.

A network graph visualization on a dark background showing connections between various accounts. The central, highly connected node is labeled "J.K. Rowling," with lines radiating out to many other nodes color-coded by region (UK, US, etc.). A detail panel on the right displays stats for her account, including her role as "Author & commentator," an in-degree of 153, an out-degree of 84, and 14 million followers.

A scatter plot graph on a dark background comparing accounts based on "followers (log)" on the x-axis and "in-degree" on the y-axis. The data points are color-coded by region. J.K. Rowling is highlighted as a major outlier in the top right corner, possessing the highest number of followers and the highest in-degree. Other labeled points lower on the graph include various politicians, individuals, and campaign organizations.

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

'That $1 trillion could have been used for anything... Instead, it has been channeled into constructing energy-draining, water-absorbing data centers that power large language models (LLMs) built on the theft of millions of people’s creative work, which consistently produce incorrect responses...'

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Congratulations! At long last and so well-deserved! Hope to see much more excellent work along these lines from you in the future!

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Yep that's different. I won't need multiple precision math, just a good numeric integral. And I haven't found any approximations for finite integrals yet. Good luck with you formula!

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

In the interesting range, the integrand is always monotonic, so numerical integration is (or should be) straightforward. I have to admit that in zipfR I need finite gamma integrals, which I currently compute as diff of incomplete gamma function for end points … exactly, catastrophic cancellation.

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I never took the time to look at numerical approximations to the incomplete gamma/beta function and their accuracy (which I suppose is all quite tricky). Numerical integration always seems a good brute-force choice if speed isn't crucial, because it's easy to control accuracy.

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Want to work on a native numerical integration together? Been wanting to do this for years.

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Has anyone tried asking ChatGPT about Artemis 2? As I keep saying, the singularity of human civilisation is close if we don't stop buying into all the AI hype. (The real problem is not the lack of up-to-date information but that it's virtually impossible to talk GPT out of its false beliefs.)

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sirosenbaum.bsky.social @sirosenbaum.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The TERF message is simultaneously that men are naturally predators, AND that women are naturally victims. That's why the TERF message serves the patriarchy. And that's why the silencing of raped men -- which happens BOTH through emasculation and hyper-masculation - serves the patriarchy.

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Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21) @rc21project.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

FlexiConc is now available on www.clic-fiction.com. Cluster concordance lines, partition by metadata, filter by POS tag or regex, and everything you do builds into an analysis tree you can retrace and share. We walk through all of it with body part nouns in 19C fiction. github.com/reading-conc...

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Ich lese das als Ellipse: Statt eine SMS [zu schicken]

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This corroborates my worries: AI coding agents are glorified as fully autonomous programmers, probably with superhuman skills, but in the real world they just mess up good code.

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Eine SWR-Recherche beklagt, dass in Deutschland viel zu wenige Gerichtsurteile veröffentlicht werden. www.tagesschau.de/investigativ... Dabei wäre eine vollautomatische Anonymisierung unter den richtigen Bedingungen technisch möglich, wie ich bei heise online erläutere: www.heise.de/hintergrund/...

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Nur vier Prozent der Urteile veröffentlicht - wie KI die Transparenz in der Justiz verbessern könnte

Deutsche Gerichte stellen Entscheidungen nur sehr selten in öffentliche Datenbanken ein. Das zeigt eine SWR-Recherche. Dabei könnten Bürger und Anwälte sonst Urteile vergleichen - und im Vorfeld besse...

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Am Dienstag darf ich beim Zukunftsplausch des Deutschen Museums Nürnberg über die wichtige Frage sprechen, ob wir durch KI das eigene Denken verlernen. www.linguistik.phil.fau.de/2026/01/27/z... Es gibt auch einen Livestream: www.youtube.com/live/6DZyEiX...

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Joachim Hornegger @hornegger.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Today, I appointed Mila Oiva (University of Turku, Finland) to a Professorship in Digital Humanities at FAU, focusing on images and objects. She studies audiovisual heritage, especially historical newsreels (e.g., Soviet Novosti Dnya and Estonian newsreels). Welcome to FAU, Mila.

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Wow, was für eine schnelle Reaktion. Vielen Dank für das Lob!

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

War ja nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis Söder auch Grönland kaufen will. Oder halt wenigstens das Saarland … www.br.de/nachrichten/...

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

If you're attending Konvens 2025 at Hildesheim, don't miss our tutorial on Reading Concordances with Algorithms tomorrow, where we talk about our mathematical framework and given some background on the FlexiConc library. konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/program/#fle... @rc21project.bsky.social

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Conference on Natural Language Processing

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Elif Oezmen @elifoezmen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Eine Wut-Rede von Prof. Andreas Wirsching im aktuellen Heft von Forschung & Lehre - sehr lesenswert (aber auch zum verzweifeln) „Die „Befreiung" von universitären Verpflichtungen in Lehre und Verwaltung dient dem Einkauf von Zeit für die „eigentliche" Arbeit der Professorinnen und Professoren“ 1/2

Aufsatz von Wirsching: Hyperkomplexe Paradoxie, leider zu lang für ALT und auch nicht online verfügbar

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

AI are breaking the internet desparately crawling data. Excellent quote on deeper reasons: “People are using these tools to replace knowledge and gaining skills. There's no reason to assume that this attack against our cultural sense of thrift will not continue.“ www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/a...

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Fastly warns AI bots can hit sites 39K times per minute

Updated: One fetcher bot seen smacking a website with 39,000 requests per minute

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Naja, die durchschnittliche Länge eines Treckers in Deutschland liegt ja inzwischen bei gefühlt 50 Metern – da braucht man schon ein schnelles Auto, um vorbeizukommen.

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Alexander Kruska @akruska.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Wahrscheinlich ist KI deshalb ein Problemverstärker, weil es den länger schon schwelenden, dunklen Fortschrittsmythos zu untermauern scheint, dass individuelle Bildungsarbeit (an sich selbst) endlich obsolet werden könnte: "Ich hab das Wissen der ganzen Welt in der Tasche" 📱

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Why does opening openai.com/open-models/ in Firefox use 350% CPU and massive GPU resources? I just wanted to read the page, not run GPT in my browser …

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Open models by OpenAI

Advanced open-weight reasoning models to customize for any use case and run anywhere.

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

On day 3 of our Reading Concordances course at #ESSLLI2025, @michamahlberg.bsky.social is ready to go hands-on with FlexiConc in CLiC. Teaching materials available soon at github.com/reading-conc... CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Probably not a good strategy to post this late at night, but I'm very happy that updated slides and complete R notebooks for my ICAME46 and CL2025 talks on Bootstrapping Keywords and Collocations are finally available on OSF. Share and enjoy! osf.io/x82cz/ @cl2025.co.uk #ICAME46

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Bootstrapping keywords and collocations

Code, data, and slides from conference presentations on bootstrapping keywords and collocations in R Hosted on the Open Science Framework

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

My thoughts on the Corpus Queries of the Future from the #CL2040 workshop @idsmannheim.bsky.social are available on OSF: osf.io/ywkqc/ (as part of the Ziggurat project). Looking forward to your feedback! Also: help us build the CQLF Ontology of corpus query languages at github.com/cqlf-ontology/!

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Future of Corpus Queries

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juliakrasselt.bsky.social @juliakrasselt.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Looking forward to discussing the future of corpus linguistics today! #futurecorp2040

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

It‘s so hard to believe that Trump supporters are willing to sacrifice almost anything – democracy, freedom, health insurance, the US economy – just so they can hurt a handful of transgender people. What sad and rotten souls they have!

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Arrived at Mannheim for the FutureCorp 2040 workshop looking at the next 15 years of corpus linguistics research. Busy night ahead of me, so I can talk about The Future of Corpus Queries and Digital Hermeneutics tomorrow! #cl2040 #rc21project #cwb www.ids-mannheim.de/digspra/pb-s...

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Programme | IDS

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Reading Concordances in the 21st Century (RC21) @rc21project.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Thursday, July 10 💡 “Digital hermeneutics: Reading concordances with algorithms” presented by @schtepf.bsky.social and @nfdykes.bsky.social Friday, July 11: 🔑 Keynote by @michamahlberg.bsky.social „Corpus linguistics and storytelling: Data and connections“

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Ute Römer-Barron @ute-rb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

@cl2025.co.uk Home after an excellent CL2025 conference where I got to share current research, represent the SCL book series, and reconnect with dear colleagues/friends I’ve known for 20+ years! Huge thanks to the whole organizing team, esp @robbielove.org, and hope to see everyone again soon!!

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Tim Grant @timgrant123.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

@andrea.nini.com forensic linguist at the University of Manchester, and alum of Aston University speaks with Nicci and me about his evidence that the British teenager who had alleged rape, did not author a retraction statement even though it was written in her own handwriting.

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juliakrasselt.bsky.social @juliakrasselt.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Thanks to @niallrcurry.bsky.social, @rachellevessey.bsky.social, @schtepf.bsky.social, Philipp Heinrich and Michael Bender for your very interesting and relevant presentations! (2/2)

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

We‘ve kept the best for last at #cl2025: @nfdykes.bsky.social shows how our research in @rc21project.bsky.social enables analysts to read concordances at scale using FlexiConc and neural sentence embeddings.

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

@cl2025.co.uk today we hear Andrew Hardie‘s response to @lanthony.bsky.social‘s keynote last night. I very much align with Andrew‘s view of AI!

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Gavin Brookes @gavinbrookes.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

This morning I was honoured to give the opening plenary at the #CL2025 conference - thanks to everyone who came along and engaged!

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

@robbielove.org kicking off a huge #CL2025 a lot of history and a beautiful room of new faces and old friends

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Stephanie Evert @schtepf.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Much more than decent: very tasty and lots of dishes to choose from! Thanks @cl2025.co.uk for keeping us so well fed!

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