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Kilu von Prince
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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · Oct 23
In my new paper, I take stock of cross-linguistically common functions and expressions of counterfactuality.

You can download it here, or contact me.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Counterfactuality and Mood | Annual Reviews
This review article presents the current state of research on counterfactual expressions and contexts. It focuses on the relationship between formal semantic and typological approaches. This leads to ...
www.annualreviews.org
kilinguistics.bsky.social
Great prank exposing more linguistic racism in the US.
She wants Publix employee deported for speaking Spanish
YouTube video by Ben Palmer
youtu.be
January 20, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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denxtehhu.bsky.social
Wir freuen uns auf Eure Fragen! 🤗
Und falls Ihr noch unsicher seid, ob Ihr Eure Frage einreichen möchtet oder Euch ein paar Beispiele anschauen wollt, schaut gerne bei den „Fragen und Antworten“ vorbei!
👉 denxte.de/podcast/frag...
January 20, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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teambuergeruni.bsky.social
#mitgedacht: Der @denxtehhu.bsky.social -Podcast geht in die 5. Staffel & sucht wieder nach Fragen!
Jede Folge widmet sich einer eingereichten Frage. Nach einem ersten Gespräch schlägt ein studentisches Team Antworten vor, über die mit der Person, die die Frage eingereicht hat, diskutiert wird. 1/3
January 20, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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thinkingautism.com
I have had to remove a few FB comments from people who demanded to know why Aliya Rahman, the autistic woman who was pulled from her car by ICE in Minneapolis, didn’t “just follow instructions.” These comments, unfortunately, reveal lack of understanding about being autistic. Here is why. 1/
January 17, 2026 at 5:46 PM
kilinguistics.bsky.social
This is awesome!
My go-to method is to figure out the first two dates of my class, fill them into an excel sheet, select both cells and drag down to fill the series until I reach the final date, but I might just use this instead.
swilua.bsky.social 🌈Dr. Frizzle @swilua.bsky.social · Aug 18
huge shoutout to whoever at Rice who made this syllabus generator that calculates when all the dates of your classes are going to be

additional shoutout to my supervisor who sent it to us with a list of the holidays and important dates pre-made

saved me an hour

wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...
Generic Syllabus Maker
wcaleb.rice.edu
January 19, 2026 at 7:52 PM
kilinguistics.bsky.social
Linguistic racism on full display.
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d
How much more in your face can it be?

"Why are you asking me for my paperwork?"
"Because of your accent."
"You have an accent too."
"Where were you born sir?"
"Where were you born at?"
"Put your hands behind your back."
January 18, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org
One more in digital corpus building news: all the web apps on corpustools.prendrelangue.fr can now output XML files ready for import into @sketchengine.eu.

#linguistics
Florent Moncomble’s corpus tools
A collection of tools for collecting and analysing corpora of online media discourse
corpustools.prendrelangue.fr
January 17, 2026 at 9:13 AM
kilinguistics.bsky.social
Fantastic thread!
kitwhitfield.bsky.social Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 3d
Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?

Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.

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January 17, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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smittermeier.bsky.social
Ich mag nicht mehr. Frauen „sichtbar“ machen kann ich mit meiner Forschung, welchen Mehrwert hat denn jetzt hier bitte die KI? Die recycelt doch eh nur. Faschistische Technologie im Einsatz gegen systemische Probleme die durch white supremacy geschaffen wurden.

www.bmftr.bund.de/SharedDocs/D...
January 17, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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novicsara.bsky.social
A lot of things are bad and we keep building joy in the cracks between. buttondown.com/signs+wonder...
New Year, New Book
Announcing MOTHER TONGUE, 5 totally free things you can do to support a new book, and mutual aid for MN
buttondown.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:28 PM
kilinguistics.bsky.social
This is awesome! I have been curating a list of #linguistics journals, with information on their publishing model (and also on whether they admit submissions created by LaTeX, a high-quality, professional Open Source way to produce scientific documents).

uni-duesseldorf.sciebo.de/s/BvRY0u3rDY...
January 16, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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denxtehhu.bsky.social
🤔 Du denkst über eine philosophische Frage nach?
🤩 Daraus könnte eine neue Folge von #mitgedacht werden!
👉 Schlag' sie vor, bis Anfang Februar auf denxte.de/podcast
👥 Wir sprechen mit Dir über Deine Frage und mögliche Antworten: #Philosophie für Dich und mit Dir!
January 12, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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profiprof.bsky.social
Danke für die Tipps zur Jobsuche, liebe SZ, aber das „ungewöhnliche Gedankenexperiment, das hierzulande womöglich nur wenige Chefinnen und Chefs so anwenden“, nennt sich unconscious bias und ist, räusper, durchaus verbreitet. Der Tipp könnte auch einfach lauten, „werde ein weißer männlicher
Der verstorbene, langjährige Apple-Chef Steve Jobs hat einmal gesagt, er führe in Bewerbungsgesprächen einen Biertest durch. Jobs frage sich, ob er mit der Bewerberin oder dem Bewerber ein Bier trinken gehen würde. Ein ungewöhnliches Gedankenexperiment, das hierzulande womöglich nur wenige Chefinnen und Chefs so anwenden. Die Forschung zeigt aber, dass Personaler unterbewusst davon beeinflusst werden, wie sympathisch sie das Gegenüber finden – und dass das neben Zeugnissen, Abschlussnoten und Qualifikationsnachweisen eine gewichtige Rolle spielt.
January 15, 2026 at 12:15 PM
kilinguistics.bsky.social
Every now and then I get asked for the graphics I created for my approach to branching time, so here they are:

zenodo.org/records/1825...

I got to sign an email with "have fun with branching time" today. *happy humming*
Tripartite Branching Time
These diagrams show branching time that is not restricted to branching through the actual present as developed in von Prince 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-019-09259-6), yielding a three-way dis...
zenodo.org
January 15, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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comptonscatter.bsky.social
what's sad is old dead languages, elvish and klingon have such a heads-up over languages some people speak.

(this is somewhat out of date by now, but... good read.
modelviewculture.com/pieces/i-can... )
I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name
We can’t ignore the composition of the Unicode Consortium’s members, directors, and officers -- the people who define the everyday writing systems of all languages across the globe.
modelviewculture.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:55 AM
kilinguistics.bsky.social
When they say „freedom of speech“, they mean „we will dictate what scientists can say“. Funny how that works.
January 14, 2026 at 6:13 PM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
ꙮ Wake up girl, new Unicode lore just dropped ꙮ
The cyrillic multiocular O. Left: the letter in the original manuscript Middle: Correct unicode multiocular O Right: The incorrect form originally implemented into Unicode
January 13, 2026 at 10:14 AM
kilinguistics.bsky.social
French is becoming more important as a scientific language, as French scientific infrastructure becomes more important in the European digital research ecosystem (scienceconf is a free, open alternative to easychair).

www.canal-u.tv/chaines/ccsd...
Les grilles de notation | Canal U
Élaborez votre propre grille de notation pour évaluer les soumission de résumés et/ou de texte intégral
www.canal-u.tv
January 14, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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abilutangwa.bsky.social
DID YOU KNOW? The Amazon & Congo Basin forests produce 20% of the world's oxygen & absorb 2.2 billion metric tons of CO2 annually! Let's preserve these lungs of the Earth! NO TO DEFORESTATION & ECOCIDE! REPOST & SHARE if you care! #ClimateAction #EnvironmentalSustainability
January 13, 2026 at 3:26 AM
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mariazielenbach.bsky.social
Look at my baby! ☺️

I reedited Modole folk stories published 110 years ago

Old journals and archives are full of story collections in underdocumented languages, often difficult or impossible to access for both linguists and the speaker community. Using legacy material is valuable and sustainable 🙌🏻
Photo of a book. The cover is green and reads in white script Half silver, half gold Modole folk stories and a first sketch grammar Maria Zielenbach
January 13, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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evanurquhart.bsky.social
Therefore I don't expect to be treated differently than the homeless, the incarcerated, or the undocumented. If I'm part of the protected class it's just a temporary accident. That's what I learned by being on the outside looking in.

Or, shorter: I'm not free 'til everyone is free.
January 11, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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ndr.de
Hamburg: Tausende Menschen fordern Prüfung rechter Parteien
Hamburg: Tausende Menschen fordern Prüfung rechter Parteien
Zu der Veranstaltung in der Hamburger Innenstadt hatte die Initiative "Prüf" aufgerufen.[mehr]
www.ndr.de
January 11, 2026 at 7:44 AM
kilinguistics.bsky.social
My favourite part about this video is probably how it correctly identifies the dangers of using the Mercator projection as a standard map projection in a world where the people holding power are bad at understanding stuff.

Map projections matter.
Also: can we please NOT start ww3 right now?
chrismurphyct.bsky.social Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 9d
I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.

Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
January 11, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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nicosemsrott.de
Wir sind @pruef-demos.de.

Wir REGELN das jetzt gemeinsam.

DANKE AN ALLE PRÜFIS, DIE ÜBERALL MITMACHEN!

Wir erreichen gemeinsam so viel, weil wir hier alle jeweils das einbringen, was wir am besten können.

Bin stolz auf uns - weiter so 😍😍😍 #pruef
January 11, 2026 at 11:03 AM
kilinguistics.bsky.social
So Google is partially copying glottolog data without citing sources or am I missing something?
January 11, 2026 at 8:27 AM