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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 13/08/2026

⚠️ Die geplanten Kürzungen des BMZ gefährden die wertvollen DAAD-Hochschulkooperationsprogramme mit dem Globalen Süden massiv. Über 60 deutsche Hochschulen und hunderte Partner weltweit sind betroffen. Bitte unterschreiben und teilen: 🔗 epetitionen.bundestag.de/content/peti...

Deutscher Bundestag Petitionen
Petition 201686
Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
Stopp der geplanten Einstellung der DAAD-Hochschulkooperationsprogramme vom 30.05.2026

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 13/08/2025

I have sadly not taken any fotos, but this is basically me after two wonderful days of the second edition of Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender (organised by @div-ling.org and @hhu.de). I am extremely grateful to the organisers and the students assistants, who have done an amazing job 💜

Sylvanian families bunny figure dresses in a red polkadot nightgown and lying in a single wooden bed bed on its tummy. One of the arms is hanging down the bed and the figure seems to be staring at the camera. The room has white, soft carpet floor and dusty pink wallpaper.

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 18/06/2025

A big big thank you to all the students who participated in the workshop yesterday! 🤗✨

Collage of pictures from the workshop with the phrase "thank you" in the center.

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 09/04/2025

Really cool stuff at the second poster session at #LingComm25 I really loved to learn about Slängistik on Instagram who does not only share posts on slang in Estonian but also illustrates them!!! Just look at that beautiful cat from flow 🐈‍⬛💖 🔗 www.instagram.com/sl2ngistik/

Illustration of a black cat with yellow eyes on a lime green background.
The text in Estonian reads: (ära) kassima.

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 06/04/2025

Excited for #LingComm25 this week! I will be in booth 21 tomorrow for the poster sessions (right next to the snacks, my fave spot at a conference) to talk about the zine project my students and I carried out last year at the University of Regensburg 😊 🔗 lingcomm.org

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 30/03/2025

I love living on the edge (having multiple deadlines on the same two-week period 😩)

Tired Spongebob meme. The image shows Spongebob in the nude (but wearing shoes!), leaning against a coral wall, and out of breath.

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 23/03/2025

When your YouTube algorithm picks up on your impostor syndrome 🥲

Screenshot of a YouTube video on my recommended list. The title is "Watch this if you’re in 30s, lost and achieved nothing in life" and was posted by the user Reinventing Poppy. The video thumbnail features the video creator, sitting on the floor and looking directly at the audience. Superimposed to the sill of the video, the text "trust me I've been there" on the top left corner and the text "there is still time" centred on the thumbnail.

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 06/02/2025

How I feel when I make jokes in class 😅

A teen girl in a blue shirt helps out her grandmother, who is wearing a pink sweater and is using a walker.
The grandmother says: "My memes used to be popular on a linguistics shitposting facebook group"
The teen girl says: "Sure grandma, let's get you to bed".

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 31/01/2025

2021 war ich im Haus der Geschichte Bonn und diese lila Latzhose war Teil einer Ausstellung über die Frauenbewegung in Deutschland 😻💜 (And I've wanted one pair of lila overalls ever since)

Lila Latzhose der Frauenbewegung im Haus der Geschichte Bonn (2021)

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 12/01/2025

Just came across these two pictures of me teaching an intro to syntax tutorial class at a park in Mar del Plata, Argentina about 10 years ago with just a makeshift whiteboard and my love of syntactic analysis 😂 We just got together, had some mate and cookies, yapped and analysed sentences 🤓

The author of this skeet is holding a whiteboard with a syntactic analysis of a sentence. She is sitting on the floor and the whiteboard is covering her whole body. One can see a thermos and a mate set from the students who were sitting around in a circle. The picture was taken at Plaza España, Mar del Plata, Argentina, which is right by the Atlantic coast, on a cloudy day.

The author of this skeet is holding a whiteboard with a classification of verbs into intransitive, transitive and linking, as well as the sentence patterns corresponding to the verb classifications. She is sitting on the floor, the whiteboard is covering her legs, and she's petting a stray dog.

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 11/01/2025

Grading assignments, rewriting a paper, writing a book review, looking for a job before I become ~arbeitslos~ (but also toying with the idea of quitting everything and opening a cat café bookstore)

A Sylvanian Families figure of an orange and white cat wearing light blue pants lying face down on the floor of an office. The desk is full of paperwork and there are letters also spread out on the floor.

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 22/12/2024

My favourite thus far is "Dubai Wurst"

EDEKA advertising Mortadella mit Pistazien as Dubai Wurst.

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 22/12/2024

I like the local variations as well 😂

Mock advertisement featuring a chocolate bar filled with Käsespätzle (a traditional German dish made of cheese and soft egg noodles). The text above the image, written in what I think is Swabian German dialect, reads:
"DUBAI-SCHOGGLAD WAR GESCHDRN - JEDDZ GIBDS KÄSSPÄTZLE-SCHOGGLAD!"
Rough translation: "Dubai chocolate was yesterday - now there's Kässpätzle chocolate!"

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 12/11/2024

I would love to specialize in sociopionetics, the field where we study how the way birbs chirp in Spanish depends on the flock they're flying with.

Picture of a yellow bird with the Spanish chirping onomatopoeia "pio, pio".

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 07/11/2024

Lebe das Leben, lass das Leben nicht dich ums Leben bringen ✨💃🏻

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 27/10/2024

And this is the outcome of the kirie workshop ✂️✨😁

Bottom: A green cutting board.
Top left: A cutout of a cat. The cutout was done using gold paper.
Top right: A purple precision knife.

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 27/10/2024

I'm doing a kirie (Japanese paper cutting) workshop at the uni later today and I got off the bus a stop earlier to enjoy the view of the campus on a Sunday morning before heading to my office. I love the golden leaves 😍🍂

Photo of the field between the University of Regensburg and the East Bavarian University of Applied Sciences. The leaves of the trees have started turning gold and falling.

Close up of a bird house on a tree (same location as in the previous picture).

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 25/10/2024

Endearing typos (or a Freudian slip?)

An email reading:
Good evening,
I just wanted to let you know that I'm dropping this curse.
All best

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 23/10/2024

Public universities in Argentina are at a breaking point. Students are occupying buildings in support of faculty and staff who are on strike protesting massive budget cuts and salaries below the poverty line. The cherry on top? A presidential veto on a law guaranteeing funding and wage raises.

Banner at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata which reads "La universidad es el pueblo" (literal translation: "the university is the people").

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 18/10/2024

Daily dose of casual sexism (Bavarian Brauhaus Edition): Damenportion vs Männerportion, because no proper woman would ever want to eat an XXL schnitzel.

Photo of a menu at a Bavarian brewery / restaurant. The schnitzel comes in two sizes, the regular one for women, and the XXL one for men.

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 16/10/2024

You can take the atheist latina girl out of catholic school but you can't take catholic school out of the atheist latina girl (slay, Mary, slay) 💅🏻

Marian statue in the Altstadt (Heidelberg)

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 17/09/2024

Me every time I watch Argentinian news ever since October 22, 2023 🥲

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 21/08/2024

Ready for William Leap's keynote talk 🦩💜 #LavLang30

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 04/06/2024

Spanish class - student has to write a definition, I have to guess what he's defining. He writes: "animal que se cultiva para la carne, es muy grasoso" He's not wrong, but my first mental image of "cultivar" is always a plant, so I start laughing. This is what I pictured:

AI generated image of a tree which has piggy-shaped fruits and pink apples.

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 24/05/2024

I'm sorry, I can't go out. I'm busy thinking about the use of -i as productive cutifying (neo?)morpheme in German "Sad Hamsti" memes.

(1) Sad Hamsti mit Wäschekorb sagt "Sonntagi Waschtagi"
(2) Sad Hamsti in der Waschmaschine ruft um Hilfe: "Menschi!!! Hilfi!!!"
(3) Sad Hamsti mit Freund Hamsti zuhause. Freund Hamsti sagt: "ich bestelli mir Pommi, willst du auch was?" Sad Hamsti antwortet: "nein, kein Hungi".
(4) Sad Hamsti isst Freund Hamstis Pommes: *nom nom nom*. Freund Hamsti fragt: "darf ich auch eini?"

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 23/05/2024

May I join? 🥺 (Here's my wug as proof of devotion to the cause 🐦)

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 23/05/2024

Some light reading before bed

Sylvanian bunny reading Judith Butler's "Who's afraid of Gender?"

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Sol Tovar @soltov.ar · 23/05/2024

Me walking to Brighton because I either pay for plane tickets or for the registration fee 🫠

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