Prof Gerhard
profgerhard.bsky.social
Prof Gerhard
@profgerhard.bsky.social
Professor of Linguistics at Tübingen University
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An alle Süßen da draußen.

🇷🇺 führt einen Krieg und bedroht Europa
🇨🇳 dreht uns den Rohstoffhahn ab
Die 🇺🇸 fahren auf allen Ebenen mit uns Schlitten
Dinge, die ich noch vergessen habe

🇩🇪 Diskurs und Politik: Döner, Stadtbild, Espresso

Weiter so. So schaffen wir das. Bestimmt
October 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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PostDoc position (re-)available in Collaborative Research Center "Common Ground" (3.5y) at @unituebingen.bsky.social
in a project with @toddthelinguist.bsky.social

Philosophy of Language | Cognitive Science | Pragmatics | Logic | ...

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Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)
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October 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Opening for PhD position (3.5 years) on

Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication

Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground".

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PhD Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)
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October 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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In a new exciting collaboration with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social and @profgerhard.bsky.social we think about how studying ambiguity in human and great ape communication can advance our theories of language evolution. Paper out at doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
October 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Redirecting
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October 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL

How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵
October 7, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Hörenswerter Essay:
Aufstieg der Populisten
Die Rechte ist da, aber sie hat keine Gesellschaftstheorie mitgebracht
Von Barbara Sichtermann und Simon Brückner
www.deutschlandfunk.de/die-rechte-i...
Aufstieg der Populisten - Die Rechte ist da, aber sie hat keine Gesellschaftstheorie mitgebracht
Weltweit sind Populisten und staatsfeindliche Libertäre in die Zentren der Macht gelangt oder auf dem besten Wege dorthin. Wie konnte das geschehen – trotz ihrer Faktenverdrehungen, groben Pauschalisi...
www.deutschlandfunk.de
September 14, 2025 at 9:29 AM
July 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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"Die Hitzewelle zu verhindern wäre undemokratisch. Wir müssen die Dürre inhaltlich stellen ☝️😏"
July 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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💬 Do #LLMs really understand human language? #ChatGPT says yes, but Professor @lingulist.de is sceptical while Dr Bentz agrees with the language model. Join their public debate:

📅 3 July, 6 pm
📍 Lecture theatre 13

More information: www.digital.uni-passau.de/en/digitalis...

#KeepCALLM
Public lecture - do large language models understand human language?
YouTube video by Universität Passau
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June 30, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Perhaps generative linguistics is not totally lost after all, if it is capable of such insightful self-criticism.

arxiv.org/pdf/2412.12797
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June 28, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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We're hiring a postdoc! ~3.5 years @ E13 TV-L 100%

probabilistic pragmatics + cognitive psychology + formal epistemology + experimental methods (with human participants)

Does this sound like you, or anyone you know? Send them our way!

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Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)
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June 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
After a lengthy debate with ChatGPT, it said: "You were right from the beginning."

Made my day.
June 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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We have 2 Ph.D. positions available in a #DFG funded project awarded to @profgerhard.bsky.social and me. We are planning to combine acquisition work with computational modeling to investigate how children and adults understand irony. Deadline: July 20, 2025. Info linguistlist.org/issues/36/19...
LINGUIST List 36.1935 Support: General Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Pragmatics: MA / MSc, University of Tübingen
The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.
linguistlist.org
June 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
In case you always wanted to know how to use the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process for phylogenetic control in regression and correlation studies. Also, in case you want to replace BayesTraits with Stan in your phylogenetic comparative method applications: profgerhard.de/OU_logistic_...
phylogenetic_ou_regression – Phylogenetic control with OU
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June 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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Dienstag Brückentag
1100 kg Sprengstoff an einem der Pfeiler der Kerschbrücke explodiert. Schäden gehen wohl bis auf den Meeresboden.

SBU Festtage gerade
June 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Tübingen stabil
May 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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das bringt doch nichts das ist doch quatsch mit diesem deutschen sonderweg und dieser ideologischen energiewende wenn nur wir das machen nutzt das doch nix wir stoßen doch im vergleich kaum CO2 aus was soll das denn das kostet uns doch nur geld während china jeden tag ein neues kohlekraftw... oh.
China’s carbon emissions may have peaked
If so, it is a significant, symbolic moment
www.economist.com
May 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Die @dfg.de hat den linguistischen SFB Common Ground: Kognition – Grammatik – Kommunikation an der @unituebingen.bsky.social bewilligt! 🎉🥂Großer Erfolg der Kolleg:innen!! Herzliche Glückwünsche!! Hier geht es zur PM 👉👉👉 www.dfg.de/de/service/p...
DFG fördert 13 neue Sonderforschungsbereiche
www.dfg.de
May 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM