St Martin is back on this damp and chilly early November evening: horseback centurion in red cloak, kids with self-made lanterns, a brass band, and a huge bonfire in the old town 🎺🔥
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
St Martin is back on this damp and chilly early November evening: horseback centurion in red cloak, kids with self-made lanterns, a brass band, and a huge bonfire in the old town 🎺🔥
Reposted by Stefan Diemer
Turns out Helsinki was voted as the host of the next International Conference on #Multimodality in 2027!
Thanks to @neous.bsky.social & the team for a fantastic #12ICOM and see you @helsinki.fi!
Look out for a call for papers next summer!
Thanks to @neous.bsky.social & the team for a fantastic #12ICOM and see you @helsinki.fi!
Look out for a call for papers next summer!
October 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Turns out Helsinki was voted as the host of the next International Conference on #Multimodality in 2027!
Thanks to @neous.bsky.social & the team for a fantastic #12ICOM and see you @helsinki.fi!
Look out for a call for papers next summer!
Thanks to @neous.bsky.social & the team for a fantastic #12ICOM and see you @helsinki.fi!
Look out for a call for papers next summer!
After a rainy week and a frosty morning Halloween surprises with some hazy sunshine in time for the All Hallows weekend 🎃 This calls for some extended summer vibes with lemon and Mon Chéri ice cream from La Passione del Gelato - best in town! 😋🍦
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
After a rainy week and a frosty morning Halloween surprises with some hazy sunshine in time for the All Hallows weekend 🎃 This calls for some extended summer vibes with lemon and Mon Chéri ice cream from La Passione del Gelato - best in town! 😋🍦
Is it a good or a bad thing that nothing much has changed here in the more that 30 years since I was a student? Now for my Sociolinguistics lecture I take some time to appreciate the splendid 50s design, including the quaint cubicle where the lecturers can get in the zone 😄🎓
October 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Is it a good or a bad thing that nothing much has changed here in the more that 30 years since I was a student? Now for my Sociolinguistics lecture I take some time to appreciate the splendid 50s design, including the quaint cubicle where the lecturers can get in the zone 😄🎓
Autumn colours 🍁
October 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Autumn colours 🍁
More apple picking (for storage), with an interested equine audience 🐴 All heritage varieties (from top): ‚Grüner Boskoop‘, (green, tasty & durable), ‚Kaiser Wilhelm‘ (sweet, traces of raspberry), ‚Roter Boskoop‘, (red) ‚Goldrenette von Blenheim‘ (complex, spicy taste) 🍎🍏🍎
October 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
More apple picking (for storage), with an interested equine audience 🐴 All heritage varieties (from top): ‚Grüner Boskoop‘, (green, tasty & durable), ‚Kaiser Wilhelm‘ (sweet, traces of raspberry), ‚Roter Boskoop‘, (red) ‚Goldrenette von Blenheim‘ (complex, spicy taste) 🍎🍏🍎
Busy day making apple juice in the local apple press run by the town’s Orchard and Gardening Co-op. Apples are washed and pressed, the juice pasteurised (we keep some raw juice back for cider-making 🍺), then filled into 5 litre bags. 500 litres should last a while! 🍎🍏🍎
October 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Busy day making apple juice in the local apple press run by the town’s Orchard and Gardening Co-op. Apples are washed and pressed, the juice pasteurised (we keep some raw juice back for cider-making 🍺), then filled into 5 litre bags. 500 litres should last a while! 🍎🍏🍎
Apple harvest on Unity Day weekend ⛅️ Record crop this year, with almost 1000 kg for juice alone (our 80-year old trees carry amazingly tasty heritage varieties such as ‚Rheinischer Bohnapfel’ and ‚Kaiser Wilhelm‘), and half the trees still ripe for storage apple picking 🍎🍏🍎
October 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Apple harvest on Unity Day weekend ⛅️ Record crop this year, with almost 1000 kg for juice alone (our 80-year old trees carry amazingly tasty heritage varieties such as ‚Rheinischer Bohnapfel’ and ‚Kaiser Wilhelm‘), and half the trees still ripe for storage apple picking 🍎🍏🍎
At the local Amtsgericht (county court) today, built in 1912 when our town was a county seat in the Imperial Prussian Province of the Rhine. Admiring the grand architecture while waiting. A bit of a daunting atmosphere (intentionally, I think) but nice to see it still in use ⚖️🏛️
September 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
At the local Amtsgericht (county court) today, built in 1912 when our town was a county seat in the Imperial Prussian Province of the Rhine. Admiring the grand architecture while waiting. A bit of a daunting atmosphere (intentionally, I think) but nice to see it still in use ⚖️🏛️
Reposted by Stefan Diemer
After our very succesful Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference hosted by @robbielove.org at Aston, CL is going on tour! Our next conference will be Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 we return to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen!
September 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
After our very succesful Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference hosted by @robbielove.org at Aston, CL is going on tour! Our next conference will be Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 we return to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen!
Harvest is bountiful this year, with zucchini still going strong 🥒, hops ready for collection 🍺, and grapes 🍇 and apples 🍎 picking up that extra sweetness during the last warm days ⛅️
September 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Harvest is bountiful this year, with zucchini still going strong 🥒, hops ready for collection 🍺, and grapes 🍇 and apples 🍎 picking up that extra sweetness during the last warm days ⛅️
September, and the parish fair has come to town - also a timely reminder that summer is drawing to a close 🎡🍦🎠
September 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
September, and the parish fair has come to town - also a timely reminder that summer is drawing to a close 🎡🍦🎠
Reposted by Stefan Diemer
Second call for papers for Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices at FU Berlin. Abstracts due October 1 #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics
Calls: Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices
Calls: Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices
2nd Call for Papers:
The performance of food has become ubiquitous in the digital realm, where we find content saturated with all things culinary, gustatory, and gastronomic. From food porn images to restaurant reviews, from what-I-eat-in-a-day-videos to cooking shows, from mukbang to forum posts with food advice – people negotiate and display their food practices online, to be consumed and regurgitated by others via their digital devices. This is often based on co-occurring linguistic perfor
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September 2, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Second call for papers for Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices at FU Berlin. Abstracts due October 1 #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics
Haying done in the apple orchard, just in time before the weather turns autumnal 🍎🌂
August 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Haying done in the apple orchard, just in time before the weather turns autumnal 🍎🌂
Late summer in the apple orchard - looks to be a good harvest! 🍎🍏🍎 Summer apples Gravensteiner & James Grieve (lower left) are ready for apple pie and cider, autumn Kaiser Wilhelm & Croncels (upper left) still very tart, winter Boskop red & green (right) coming along nicely
August 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Late summer in the apple orchard - looks to be a good harvest! 🍎🍏🍎 Summer apples Gravensteiner & James Grieve (lower left) are ready for apple pie and cider, autumn Kaiser Wilhelm & Croncels (upper left) still very tart, winter Boskop red & green (right) coming along nicely
Summer days 🌦️ Walk through old town and garden: Japanese rose (Ger. Apfelrose, „apple rose“, after the rosehips - in Japanese, similarly, hamanashi, „beach pear“), chicory (Ger. Wegwarte, „way marker“), and the glorious sunflower (unsurprisingly, Sonnenblume)🌻
July 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Summer days 🌦️ Walk through old town and garden: Japanese rose (Ger. Apfelrose, „apple rose“, after the rosehips - in Japanese, similarly, hamanashi, „beach pear“), chicory (Ger. Wegwarte, „way marker“), and the glorious sunflower (unsurprisingly, Sonnenblume)🌻
The rainy weather has been good for the berry garden: redcurrant (Ger. Johannisbeere, ripe around St. John‘s Day), gooseberry (well-named Stachelbeere „sting berry“), raspberry (Himbeere „hind‘s berry“). All perfect for the summer dish Rote Grütze (berry porridge) - try it! 🍓🥣
July 16, 2025 at 6:14 AM
The rainy weather has been good for the berry garden: redcurrant (Ger. Johannisbeere, ripe around St. John‘s Day), gooseberry (well-named Stachelbeere „sting berry“), raspberry (Himbeere „hind‘s berry“). All perfect for the summer dish Rote Grütze (berry porridge) - try it! 🍓🥣
Reposted by Stefan Diemer
July 3, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Reposted by Stefan Diemer
At the final #CL2025 plenary, @perez-paredes.bsky.social encourages us to not think of either or AI & corpus linguistics but making the best of both worlds, highlighting e.g. the integration of LLMs into English-corpora.org www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/
English Corpora: most widely used online corpora. Billions of words of data: free online access
Compare genres, dialects, time periods. Search by PoS, collocates, synonyms, and much more.
www.english-corpora.org
July 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
At the final #CL2025 plenary, @perez-paredes.bsky.social encourages us to not think of either or AI & corpus linguistics but making the best of both worlds, highlighting e.g. the integration of LLMs into English-corpora.org www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/
Sadly, I’ll miss the end of @cl2025.co.uk as I am heading back to Trier for exam season. It’s been a pleasure & a privilege - so many inspiring talks! Happy that there will be recordings of the plenaries. A last impression of Aston campus (CL might help there, too…) 📚🎓 #cl2025
July 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sadly, I’ll miss the end of @cl2025.co.uk as I am heading back to Trier for exam season. It’s been a pleasure & a privilege - so many inspiring talks! Happy that there will be recordings of the plenaries. A last impression of Aston campus (CL might help there, too…) 📚🎓 #cl2025
Reposted by Stefan Diemer
July 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Dinner after a long @cl2025.co.uk day at the Bacchus Bar (under the Burlington Arcade) 📚🎓 & enjoying the stunning atmosphere, decor, and food! #cl2025
July 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Dinner after a long @cl2025.co.uk day at the Bacchus Bar (under the Burlington Arcade) 📚🎓 & enjoying the stunning atmosphere, decor, and food! #cl2025
Customizing my serendipitous Birmingham @cl2025.co.uk souvenir from Peter Forson hat shop in beautiful Great Western Arcade 🎩👒 A flat cap seems just the thing! Not sure what this device is called, though 🤔 #cl2025
July 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Customizing my serendipitous Birmingham @cl2025.co.uk souvenir from Peter Forson hat shop in beautiful Great Western Arcade 🎩👒 A flat cap seems just the thing! Not sure what this device is called, though 🤔 #cl2025