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Prof Gerhard
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Professor of Linguistics at Tübingen University
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carlomasala1.bsky.social
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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meanwhileina.bsky.social
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 | ...

Apply, share, or reach out for details!

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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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meanwhileina.bsky.social
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
profgerhard.bsky.social
www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/die-...
Die Union scheint dazugelernt zu haben : Der Tag, an dem der AfD-Shitstorm einfach verwehte
Monatelang trieb die rechte Empörungsindustrie die demokratischen Parteien vor sich her. Nun hat sich erstmals gezeigt, dass ihr Einfluss begrenzt ist. Das macht Hoffnung.
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October 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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aachimova.bsky.social
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
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Redirecting
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October 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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cleanpowerdave.bsky.social
NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL

How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵
October 7, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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ulky.bsky.social
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...
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September 14, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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metr.org/blog/2025-07...
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity
We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find th...
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September 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Diese Kampagne braucht dich jetzt
Brandbrief an die Bundesregierung unter Kanzler Friedrich Merz zur Ukraine
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July 27, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
The world is winning the war on cancer
Progress has been remarkable. Death rates are down substantially, and are likely to fall further
www.economist.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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July 16, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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hal.science/hal-05120378
Beyond cognacy
<div><p>Computational phylogenetics has become an established tool in historical linguistics, with many language families now analyzed using likelihood-based inference. However, standard approaches re...
hal.science
July 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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janskudlarek.bsky.social
"Die Hitzewelle zu verhindern wäre undemokratisch. Wir müssen die Dürre inhaltlich stellen ☝️😏"
July 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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unipassauresearch.bsky.social
💬 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
profgerhard.bsky.social
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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toddthelinguist.bsky.social
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
profgerhard.bsky.social
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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aachimova.bsky.social
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
profgerhard.bsky.social
Interesting: open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...
Why are young liberals so depressed?
There's a neglected dimension beyond gender in America's troubled youth
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June 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
profgerhard.bsky.social
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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constelz.bsky.social
Dienstag Brückentag
carlomasala1.bsky.social Carlo "Realism, Gedankenfetzen und Rants" Masala @carlomasala1.bsky.social · Jun 3
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
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Tübingen stabil
Pro-Ukraine-Demo auf dem Tübinger Holzmarkt
May 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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drfranksauer.bsky.social
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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dietmartill.bsky.social
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
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May 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM