Todd Snider
@toddthelinguist.bsky.social
A collection of non-detached linguist parts.
Currently an Assistant Professor at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
(he/him)
Currently an Assistant Professor at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
(he/him)
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Banksy social commentary brought to you by conditional (counterfactual!) strengthening
November 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Banksy social commentary brought to you by conditional (counterfactual!) strengthening
Pssh, everyone knows it was two *of each kind*, so it was way more than two animals total that Moses brought on the ark! 🤪
Come study how illusions like this bear on psychological/linguistic/social concepts like Common Ground with us in Tübingen!
Come study how illusions like this bear on psychological/linguistic/social concepts like Common Ground with us in Tübingen!
When people respond "two" to the question "How many animals did Moses take on the ark?" do they actually accommodate a false presupposition that Moses took animals on the ark? Apply for a Ph.D. position to work on presuppositions, deadline 20.12.2025. More info at linguistlist.org/issues/36-3553
November 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Pssh, everyone knows it was two *of each kind*, so it was way more than two animals total that Moses brought on the ark! 🤪
Come study how illusions like this bear on psychological/linguistic/social concepts like Common Ground with us in Tübingen!
Come study how illusions like this bear on psychological/linguistic/social concepts like Common Ground with us in Tübingen!
English speaker? Ten minutes to spare?
Help a BA student collect some data!
Specifically, data on reactions to mental health messaging in social media posts
www.soscisurvey.de/presupp-study/
thank you bonus: otter cuddle pile!
Help a BA student collect some data!
Specifically, data on reactions to mental health messaging in social media posts
www.soscisurvey.de/presupp-study/
thank you bonus: otter cuddle pile!
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
English speaker? Ten minutes to spare?
Help a BA student collect some data!
Specifically, data on reactions to mental health messaging in social media posts
www.soscisurvey.de/presupp-study/
thank you bonus: otter cuddle pile!
Help a BA student collect some data!
Specifically, data on reactions to mental health messaging in social media posts
www.soscisurvey.de/presupp-study/
thank you bonus: otter cuddle pile!
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Make your 2025 words-of-the-year nominations for the only vote that matters! bit.ly/2025WOTYNOMS
November 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Make your 2025 words-of-the-year nominations for the only vote that matters! bit.ly/2025WOTYNOMS
Still a week to get those applications in!
Know anyone who might be interested? Send them our way!
Know anyone who might be interested? Send them our way!
Cool project as part of an even cooler Collaborative Research Center, focused on "Common Ground"
What even is it? (Many takes abound)
Can there be a cohesive version which does what it has variously used for?
Can we square it with modern psycholing/cog psych theory?
Come help us figure out!
What even is it? (Many takes abound)
Can there be a cohesive version which does what it has variously used for?
Can we square it with modern psycholing/cog psych theory?
Come help us figure out!
Jobs: Cognitive Science, General Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics: Postdoctoral Researcher (3.5 years) Philosophy of Language / Pragmatics / Logic / Cognitive Science, University of Tübingen
November 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Still a week to get those applications in!
Know anyone who might be interested? Send them our way!
Know anyone who might be interested? Send them our way!
don't it always seem to go
that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
smash the East Wing
to build the Epstein Ballroom
that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
smash the East Wing
to build the Epstein Ballroom
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
don't it always seem to go
that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
smash the East Wing
to build the Epstein Ballroom
that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
smash the East Wing
to build the Epstein Ballroom
Cool project as part of an even cooler Collaborative Research Center, focused on "Common Ground"
What even is it? (Many takes abound)
Can there be a cohesive version which does what it has variously used for?
Can we square it with modern psycholing/cog psych theory?
Come help us figure out!
What even is it? (Many takes abound)
Can there be a cohesive version which does what it has variously used for?
Can we square it with modern psycholing/cog psych theory?
Come help us figure out!
Jobs: Cognitive Science, General Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics: Postdoctoral Researcher (3.5 years) Philosophy of Language / Pragmatics / Logic / Cognitive Science, University of Tübingen
Jobs: Cognitive Science, General Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, Pragmatics, Semantics: Postdoctoral Researcher (3.5 years) Philosophy of Language / Pragmatics / Logic / Cognitive Science, University of Tübingen
Description:
We are looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral researcher to support a large-scale interdisciplinary research initiative on the topic of "Common Ground" at the University of Tübingen. The project seeks to investigate the notion of common ground in linguistic communication by taking an interdisciplinary perspective, incorporating insights from, e.g., the philosophy of language, the cognitive language sciences, linguistic pragmatics, and/or formal logic or epistemology. The ide
dlvr.it
October 20, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Cool project as part of an even cooler Collaborative Research Center, focused on "Common Ground"
What even is it? (Many takes abound)
Can there be a cohesive version which does what it has variously used for?
Can we square it with modern psycholing/cog psych theory?
Come help us figure out!
What even is it? (Many takes abound)
Can there be a cohesive version which does what it has variously used for?
Can we square it with modern psycholing/cog psych theory?
Come help us figure out!
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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 | ...
Apply, share, or reach out for details!
tinyurl.com/y33vjwj2
in a project with @toddthelinguist.bsky.social
Philosophy of Language | Cognitive Science | Pragmatics | Logic | ...
Apply, share, or reach out for details!
tinyurl.com/y33vjwj2
Post-Doctoral Researcher (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 100%)
tinyurl.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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!
tinyurl.com/y33vjwj2
in a project with @toddthelinguist.bsky.social
Philosophy of Language | Cognitive Science | Pragmatics | Logic | ...
Apply, share, or reach out for details!
tinyurl.com/y33vjwj2
Reposted by Todd Snider
What would you call a house that a Wug lives in?
🎶"Well the wuuuug shack is a little old place where we can get together! Wug shack babyyyy"🎶
🎶"Well the wuuuug shack is a little old place where we can get together! Wug shack babyyyy"🎶
October 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
What would you call a house that a Wug lives in?
🎶"Well the wuuuug shack is a little old place where we can get together! Wug shack babyyyy"🎶
🎶"Well the wuuuug shack is a little old place where we can get together! Wug shack babyyyy"🎶
Reposted by Todd Snider
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
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...
Truth and reconciliation, across the entire society, top to bottom
Unfortunately a lot of schools are going to have to get all new boards and presidents when this administration is out of power
Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.
October 2, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Truth and reconciliation, across the entire society, top to bottom
Someone is being sensible on this whole affair, but surprise surprise it isn't the administration
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
GUEST ROOM | AAUP Letter to Kotlikoff on "Fighting Antisemitism"
The executive committee of the American Association of University Professors Cornell Chapter writes to President Kotlikoff in response to his office's recent statement, "Fighting Antisemitism and Prot...
www.cornellsun.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Someone is being sensible on this whole affair, but surprise surprise it isn't the administration
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
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Not a single one of our institutions has any intention of protecting its faculty or defending the integrity of intellectual inquiry at this moment. This is of the most disturbing versions of that story I’ve read: it keeps getting worse and worse as you go
At Cornell University, an eminent prof, whose work I was reading in graduate school got suspended b/c an IDF veteran grad student enrolled in his class for the express purpose of disrupting it. We are all cooked.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint
Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.
www.thenation.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Not a single one of our institutions has any intention of protecting its faculty or defending the integrity of intellectual inquiry at this moment. This is of the most disturbing versions of that story I’ve read: it keeps getting worse and worse as you go
Meanwhile the Bechdel–Łoś–Vaught–Voight–Kampff test determines, for 𝜅-many women for some infinite cardinal 𝜅 ≥ |𝜎|, how many of them are human
There needs to be something called the Bechdel–Łoś–Vaught test which involves, among other things, there being 𝜅-many women for some infinite cardinal 𝜅 ≥ |𝜎|.
September 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Meanwhile the Bechdel–Łoś–Vaught–Voight–Kampff test determines, for 𝜅-many women for some infinite cardinal 𝜅 ≥ |𝜎|, how many of them are human
In honor of The Adventure Zone using Neal.fun's Infinite Craft to create their Evokemon, some of my own first discoveries from back in the day
September 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
In honor of The Adventure Zone using Neal.fun's Infinite Craft to create their Evokemon, some of my own first discoveries from back in the day
Can't believe that neither Google's lawyer nor the DOJ's knew about C octothorpe
Cringe moment from yesterday for me in US v Google was when Google’s attorney referenced a programming language (C#) as “C number sign” and then DOJ said “C hashtag” and the expert witness rightly jumped in respectfully and said “C sharp.”
September 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Can't believe that neither Google's lawyer nor the DOJ's knew about C octothorpe
The royal "everyone"
Really pushing the limits of contextually restricted quantification.
Trump to the UN: "Everyone says I should get the Nobel Peace Prize."
September 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The royal "everyone"
lots of thoughts about last night's charlie kirk tribute
September 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
lots of thoughts about last night's charlie kirk tribute
They call this 'catnip for todds'
(instant purchase)
(instant purchase)
September 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
They call this 'catnip for todds'
(instant purchase)
(instant purchase)
🐦🐦
GOP: We are putting forward a proposal to ban the use of all pronouns.
Dems: Um…we all use pronouns.
GOP: Oh. Withdrawn.
Dems: Um…we all use pronouns.
GOP: Oh. Withdrawn.
LOL Awesome.
September 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🐦🐦
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Call for European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information 2026 Lectures and Workshop
More information here:
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Submit here:
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More information here:
2026.esslli.eu
Submit here:
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Welcome to ESSLLI 2026
Welcome to ESSLLI 2026
2026.esslli.eu
September 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Call for European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information 2026 Lectures and Workshop
More information here:
2026.esslli.eu
Submit here:
easychair.org/my/conferenc...
More information here:
2026.esslli.eu
Submit here:
easychair.org/my/conferenc...
Is this right?
Contemporary analyses of slurs tell us that slurs:
1️⃣ ascribe membership (their truth-conditional content)
2️⃣ derogate (their expressive content)
3️⃣ are offensive (their social effect)
4️⃣ achieve 2️⃣&3️⃣ by means of relating to (ongoing/historical) practices of bigotry and discrimination
Contemporary analyses of slurs tell us that slurs:
1️⃣ ascribe membership (their truth-conditional content)
2️⃣ derogate (their expressive content)
3️⃣ are offensive (their social effect)
4️⃣ achieve 2️⃣&3️⃣ by means of relating to (ongoing/historical) practices of bigotry and discrimination
hot take i know but you can't slur a software program
that's not a thing
"clanker" — which is directed at the "bots" — is not a slur
that's not a thing
"clanker" — which is directed at the "bots" — is not a slur
September 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Is this right?
Contemporary analyses of slurs tell us that slurs:
1️⃣ ascribe membership (their truth-conditional content)
2️⃣ derogate (their expressive content)
3️⃣ are offensive (their social effect)
4️⃣ achieve 2️⃣&3️⃣ by means of relating to (ongoing/historical) practices of bigotry and discrimination
Contemporary analyses of slurs tell us that slurs:
1️⃣ ascribe membership (their truth-conditional content)
2️⃣ derogate (their expressive content)
3️⃣ are offensive (their social effect)
4️⃣ achieve 2️⃣&3️⃣ by means of relating to (ongoing/historical) practices of bigotry and discrimination
i really do think "glorch" is a good contender for a word for "a computer fucking up because some dipshit replaced something that was working fine with some machine learning bullshit"
September 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I think we shouldn't put flags at half-mast for neo-Nazis, actually
September 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I think we shouldn't put flags at half-mast for neo-Nazis, actually
this is my supreme court
September 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
this is my supreme court