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Irene
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Ph.D. using corpus linguistics. Looking for a postdoc opportunity!
Also stout and porter loving motorcycle rider.
My latest Open Access article, on the reflections […]

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New @opensciencenl.bsky.social call!

Do you want to contribute to transparency and reliability in research? Open Science NL offers funding for replication studies across all disciplines. Apply by 6 March 2025, with budgets of up to €200,000.
#openscience

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New call: replication research becomes more visible and normalised | Open Science NL
Researchers who wish to contribute to the transparency and reliability of academic research can now apply for funding in a new call for replication studies from Open Science NL. The programme is open ...
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January 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Would anyone be interested in contributing to this interactive guide + WYSIWIG editor that lets you make simple web pages and shows you how to host them for free?

https://simplepagebuilder.app

More about the project: https://stefanbohacek.com/project/a-simple-page-builder-app/

Repo + open […]
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stefanbohacek.online
January 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Seven proven ways to help the planet in 2025, from @BBCNews.

https://flip.it/sAiYF1

For more climate change news, follow @climate-change-science.

#climatechange #climate #green #environment
Seven proven ways to help the planet in 2025
Slowing down climate change is an immense task, but small individual actions can add up to help reduce emissions.
www.bbc.com
January 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Germany-based #sovereingtechfund contributes 384.000 EUR to #openstreetmap over two years. And the best part: it's not for fancy features big sponsors think they need, but for technical debt removal, documentation, testing infrastructure, vandalism prevention, and two additional paid roles […]
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mastodon.social
December 21, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Happy (or scary, for the HPL fans) solstice, everyone!
🌐🌞
December 21, 2024 at 9:06 AM
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So, what kinds of #interrail pass(es) did *you* buy? Or are you still procrastinating? Eight hours left of the -25% sale.
December 17, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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Meanwhile news from the other end of Europe 😍

Timetables for Vilnius 🇱🇹 - Rīga 🇱🇻 - Tallinn 🇪🇪 from 6 January!

https://elron.ee/elronist/uudised/soiduplaan-tallinn-tartu-riia-vilnius
December 17, 2024 at 8:40 AM
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📢 Good news alert 📢

Next year, Fakespeak will become NxtGenFake!

PI Silje Alvestad has just received NOK 12 mln from The Research Council of Norway for her project:

"Towards detecting AI-generated disinformation: Fakespeak in the age of large language models"

Another humanities-driven […]
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mastodon.social
December 16, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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stumbled upon an early use of directed graph as a model of narrative. it's early 1970s, and it's not based on dialogue! have you heard about it? @danja.bsky.social @lucagiovannini.bsky.social @umblaetterer.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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dnip, the top Schweizer (Swiss) magazine for tech journalism, published my article about the EU’s proposed chat control regulation in Deutsch (German).

@marcel not only translated, but contributed back to the original English version.

Deutsch is the second most-known language in the EU and […]
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alpaca.gold
September 10, 2024 at 11:11 AM
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So, until x-mas I will each day post one verse of the birth story in Luke 2 in reconstructed 8th century Early Old Nordic (500 years before #OldNorse) for your joy & scrutiny. The ”X-mas calendar” will run from Dec 11th (verse 2:1) to verses 2:15-16 on X-mas day, with linguistic commentary.
#langsky
a stained glass painting of a nativity scene with jesus and mary
ALT: a stained glass painting of a nativity scene with jesus and mary
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December 10, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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Die Bahn verkauft Sparpreistickets künftig wieder, ohne eine Mailadresse zu verlangen. Und die Ankunftstafeln am Bahnhof bleiben hängen. Hat da jemand gemerkt, dass man schlechten Service und Datensammelei nicht als digitalen Fortschritt verkaufen kann? […]

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December 9, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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My mum's insect fabric pictures were recently featured in an arts magazine in the Netherlands, but her #mushroom art is also absolutely worth checking out! https://www.etsy.com/de/listing/1690913082/mushroom-art-mushroom-gift-mushroom-wall
December 7, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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Excellent beginning of the week: Scholarship granted for a pilot project with @ljo and @klasronnback to create a new, annotated corpus of (a certain kind of) old American English! In a future proper project, we'll be collaborating also with Morgan State University in this. Very happy to have […]
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mastodon.nu
December 2, 2024 at 12:06 PM
Excellent beginning of the week: Scholarship granted for a pilot project with @ljo and @klasronnback to create a new, annotated corpus of (a certain kind of) old American English! In a future proper project, we'll be collaborating also with Morgan State University in this. Very happy to have […]
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mastodon.nu
December 2, 2024 at 12:06 PM
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Descriptive linguists, is there a term for constructions of the form:

"I'm going to the store if you want something"

where it's not a conditional?

(unless conceived of as something like "I'm going to the store [and I'm letting you know so you can tell me] if you want something")

#linguistics
December 1, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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the #elsevier bug in their repository software PURE to not automatically open up embargoed articles remains unfixed. The bug has kept a green #openaccess article closed for two weeks now. I wonder how many copies of the article they have been selling in this time. This is a grave bug, and I can […]
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mastodon.social
November 30, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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En etymology chart zooming in on some Germanic cognates and their origins of the adjective: ”loose”
This is also a model to visualise the North Germanic family tree, with some less spoken vernaculars, informative of its branching.
Repost if you want more of this kind.
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November 27, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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Att företag inte omfattas av förtal är bra för folk att veta - så att de kan be företag, som hotar att anmäla för det, att dra åt helvete.

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My skrev en negativ recension – hotades med fängelse
My Eriksson från Sundsvall köpte en onlinekurs i digital marknadsföring för 40 000. Men när hon skrev en negativ recension om kursen fick hon hotfulla mejl från företaget. – Jag blev rädd och gjorde s...
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November 24, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Glad to have seem my former colleague defend her thesis Migration erleben und erzählen: Eine linguistische Ethnographie zur Identitätsarbeit deutschsprachiger Migrant:innen in Stockholm, with prof. J. Spitzmüller as opponent. The thesis can be downloaded from […]
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mastodon.nu
November 25, 2024 at 1:14 PM
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I'm making an online interactive queer sci-fi show for folks who have limited access to in-person venues (e.g. because theatres aren't doing anything about COVID) and we have a performance tomorrow evening. I've been pretty lax about promoting it because I got sick, so we have very few […]
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merveilles.town
November 20, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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@corpuslinguistics This webinar focuses on the pedagogical implications of my work on Textbook English. It is aimed at (future) teachers of foreign languages and researchers interested in language teaching and learning. Both students and researchers are welcome! #appliedlinguistics #elt #efl
November 20, 2024 at 9:29 AM