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Vroni Zieglmeier
@vzie.bsky.social
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(socio-)linguist and bubble tea aficionado
swimming, singing, and researching in berlin, heidelberg, and all over the place
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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queerlinguistik.bsky.social
Conference alert: Falco Pfalzgraf
@qmul.bsky.social is organizing an online conference on the resistance to gender-inclusive language. The program looks amazing, including a talk by our member Samira Ochs with Aline Siegenthaler. Register until March 23!

www.qmul.ac.uk/sllf/linguis...
Backlash Conference - Gender inclusive language
www.qmul.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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emilienschultz.bsky.social
Je survole un papier sur les effets des genAI sur l'écriture scientifique et sa production, je ne résiste donc pas à mettre (même si c'est maintenant bien connu) la liste des mots identifiés comme ayant explosé dans les abstracts avec l'introduction de chatGPT arxiv.org/abs/2510.02408
November 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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dclberlin.bsky.social
#OTD 86 years ago, Jane H. Hill (1939–2018) was born 🎉 A linguistic anthropologist who studied Uto-Aztecan languages in the US and in her sociolinguistic work analysed strategies behind racist language, including Mock Spanish.

#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays
October 27, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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uniheidelberg.bsky.social
Öffentliche Vortragsreihe: Heidelberg Gender Lectures – Ringvorlesung befasst sich mit aktuellen Fragestellungen aus der Geschlechterforschung www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...
#universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #gender #forschung #ringvorlesung
October 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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olivia.science
Pretty sure real science is actually reading the papers, thinking very deeply, and more, before writing, not generating literature review-like objects with no authorial intent or legwork
iaincheeseman.bsky.social Iain Cheeseman @iaincheeseman.bsky.social · Oct 20
Today @anthropic.com released PubMed integration for Claude. No hallucinations. Just real science, real data. As a beta tester, this has been game changing— a supercharged research tool. Here are 6 prompts that will transform how you search the literature. A 🧵

www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
Claude for Life Sciences
Discover how Claude accelerates life sciences research with new scientific connectors, skills, and improved performance for drug discovery and clinical work.
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October 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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queerlinguistik.bsky.social
Today is #InternationalPronounsDay —and we have set ourselves the almost impossible task to select two literature tips from the many fantastic queer linguistic publications on pronouns. Although we would argue that queer linguistics can be done on any level of linguistic analysis, #pronouns...
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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alexhanna.bsky.social
We need to stop using Scholar yesterday.
October 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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queerlinguistik.bsky.social
Today is #ComingOutDay—and we have two queer linguistic literature tips to go with it! First off, Tyler Kibbey’s (2021) essay “Linguistics Out of the Closet” (#OpenAccess in @cadlin.bsky.social) calls for a “queering” of the discipline of linguistics altogether.
doi.org/10.25189/267... ...
Linguistics Out of the Closet | Cadernos de Linguística
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October 11, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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theresaheyd.bsky.social
29.10., 18 Uhr, Alte Aula der @uniheidelberg.bsky.social: Sabine_ Hark (TU Berlin) hält die Rainbow City Lecture 2025 mit dem Titel

Gefährliche Erbschaften. Sex/Gender: Biologische Fundierung und das Begehren nach Kategorien.

Interessierte sind herzlich willkommen!
Poster mit Titel und Datum; stilisierte Heidelberg-Kulisse in regenbogentönen
October 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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queerlinguistik.bsky.social
Forschung aus dem Netzwerk Queerlinguistik: in dieser Reihe stellen wir bereits veröffentlichte und neue Publikationen unserer Mitglieder vor.

Heute: Lind, Miriam. 2023. How to do gender with names: The name changes of trans individuals as performative speech acts. IJLS 12(1): 1-22
Cover der Zeitschrift International Journal of Lanugage and Sexuality, buntes abstraktes Muster auf grau
October 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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queerlinguistik.bsky.social
Unsere Mitglieder Theresa Heyd und Vroni Zieglmeier organisieren im WiSe die Heidelberg Gender Lectures. Mit den Beiträgen von Sabine_ Hark (29.10.), Miriam Neuhausen & Corinna Assmann (05.11.) und Carolin Müller-Spitzer (04.02.) sind auch Beiträge mit queerlinguistischem Bezug dabei! Infos: ↓
theresaheyd.bsky.social Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · Sep 25
Vorankündigung:

Im Wintersemester 2025/2026 finden erstmalig die Heidelberg Gender Lectures statt. Mit Gastvorträgen von Sabine_ Hark (TU Berlin) und Carolin Müller-Spitzer (IDS Mannheim), sowie Beiträgen der Heidelberger Gender & Queer Studies.

Mark your calendars, das wird wundervoll!
Plakat Heidelber Gender Lectures, weiß und blau, mit Details Heidelberg Gender Lectures 29. Oktober, Alte Aula: Sabine_ Hark: Gefährliche Erbschaften. Sex/Gender: Biologische Fundierung und das Begehren nach Kategorien Eröffnung & Auftakt Gender Studies CAS (anschließend Empfang) 05. November Miriam Neuhausen & Corinna Assmann: Out-rageous bodies: Unfolding the closet 19. November Ute Hüsken: Nuns and women in contemporary transcultural Buddhism 03. Dezember Renata Motta & Yaatsil Guevara Gonzalez: Geschmack der Grenze: Essen, Gender und Zugehörigkeit auf der Flucht 17. Dezember Brigitte Sölch: Kunstgeschichte und Feminismus 07. Januar Philipp-Thomas Wehage: Games & Gender – Implizites und explizites Spiel mit Geschlecht 21. Januar Karen Nolte: „WahnsinnsFrauen“ – Aneignungen von Hysterie in der Neuen Frauenbewegung 04. Februar Carolin Müller-Spitzer: Gender & Sprache im Deutschen unter empirisch-linguistischer Perspektive
September 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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queerlinguistik.bsky.social
Am 12. und 13. September fand unser erstes Treffen in Hamburg statt. Bei fantastischer Aussicht aus dem "Philosophenturm" wurde über Struktur und Ausrichtung des Netzwerks, Konferenz- und Publikationspläne, Ideen für Kooperationen innerhalb des Netzwerks und die grundlegende Frage... (1/x)
Aussicht aus dem Hamburger Philosophenturm, im Vordergrund Campus der Uni Hamburg, Fernsehturm, Planten un Blomen, im Hintergrund Hafenkräne.
September 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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queerlinguistik.bsky.social
Hallo Welt!

Wir sind das DFG-geförderte Netzwerk Queerlinguistik.

Folgt uns für Forschung zu Sprache, Geschlecht und Sexualität, für Nachrichten und Infos zum Netzwerk, und für all things queer linguistics!
Logo Netzwerk Queerlinguistik, Buchstaben schwarz, das queer in Regenmogenfarben
September 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM
vzie.bsky.social
4: Being queer/trans is neither reactionary nor revolutionary

Holly Lewis (2022) Ten axioms for a queer Marxist future. In Politics for Everybody. Feminism, Queer Theory and Marxism at the Intersection. London: Zed Books. (p. 275)
The argument that capitalism thrives off normativity ignores the fact that it also thrives off diversity, pluralism, fashion, and market segments. While the heteronormative family is productive for capital, queer urban individualists and drop-out counter-culturalists are also productive for capital – the former as ‘creatives’ in the labor market, the latter as a surplus population (or, in the US, low-cost service industry labor). Queers without children are also not entirely outside the family matrix in that unmarried and childless family members are often taxed with eldercare. It is romantic to think that you can change the world through diverse sexuality, creative self-expression, and communal bonding. But you can’t. Also, trans and intersexed people should not be used as a flag of radical possibility for a new, postgendered future. First of all, trans and intersexed people are, more often than not, gendered. Second, trans bodies have enough pressures without being required to have to intentionally position their bodies as political objects.11 However, if queerness is not progressive, it is also not reactionary or a product of bourgeois deviation, as it was sometimes caricatured by mid-century Marxist and Third Worldist movements. Nor is it a Eurocentric import external to precolonial peoples. It is also not
September 9, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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theresaheyd.bsky.social
Diese Woche geht es los: am Donnerstag beginnt der konstituierende Workshop des DFG-Netzwerks Queerlinguistik an der Universität Hamburg. Freue mich auf die Zusammenarbeit mit vielen tollen Kolleg*innen!
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September 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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schrisomalis.bsky.social
Following up on yesterday's semi-rant, here's another piece of cop shit I've abandoned. No notes needed. No notes from doctors, no notes from employers, definitely no funeral notices or death certificates. You actually don't need to give me any rationale at all for absences or extensions.
September 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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linguistlist.bsky.social
Calls: Queer Linguistics at the Interface Between Grammatical and Social Structure
Calls: Queer Linguistics at the Interface Between Grammatical and Social Structure
2nd Call for Papers: Queer Linguistics applies insights from Queer Theory to linguistics. More specifically, it seeks to explore the intersections of language and social identity informed by a non-binary, social constructionist and interactional perspective on gender and sexuality. Queer linguistic research investigates how speakers use language to subvert and reconfigure linguistic and socio-cultural hegemonies. As a growing area of inquiry, it critically explores variation, creativity, and
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August 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
🧵Excellent piece "They appear to have inverted the promise of the internet as an endless archive of information one can navigate for themselves. Do your own research has, in short order, become Get one canonical answer."

This helps explain why Trump/Vance have gone all in on AI...
cwarzel.bsky.social Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Aug 18
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
vzie.bsky.social
Catharine R. Stimpson 1990, as cited in Jenness, V. (1992) Coming out: Lesbian identities and the categorization problem. In K. Plummer (Ed) Modern Homosexualities.
A 'lesbian identity' once entailed invisibility because no one wanted to see her. Now a 'lesbian' identity might entail invisibility because the lesbian, like some supernatural creature of myth and tale, shows that no identity is stable enough to claim the reassurances of permanent visibility. (Stimpson 1990:381)
August 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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englishinhd.bsky.social
Call for Papers: Workshop on Queer Linguistics, Klagenfurt/Austria, December 2025, co-organized by Vroni Zieglmeier (Heidelberg)
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July 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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bildoperationen.bsky.social
As @danmcquillan.bsky.social & others have argued, the massive impact of AI on our institutions is a consequence of those institutions already having been hollowed out by nearly half a century of neoliberal «reforms.» They've been optimized to deliver predictable output which can now be automated
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July 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
vzie.bsky.social
"Yet, some of us have to live in the metaphors that others decorate their theories and artworks with."
deLire, L. Beyond representational justice. Texte zur Kunst, 129. www.textezurkunst.de/en/129/luce-...
(2) Exhaustion and normalization The idea of performative subversion can lead one to (implicitly) conceive of transness as a momentary transgression or as the horizon of an emancipation process of society at large - cis gender is then tacitly normalized as the unexamined opposite of transgression. Yet, some of us have to live in the metaphors that others decorate their theories and artworks with. Representational justice, the politics of visibility, and subversion as a political strategy are fashionable instruments for academic analysis. They are neat concepts if we want to stage ourselves as revolutionary subjects in left-wing political peer groups. Yet they are tough to live in. What are the effects when socially sanctioned aggression, constant distance in everyday interactions, repeated refusal of solidarity and privileging toward cis gender drag on for years? Is it not exhaustion and mistrust? The revolution has been overdue for a long time, and our allies do not - or barely - have to carry its burden. The existence of viable trans identities is being left out of the equation. Why? *Who* is afraid of irreversible transitions and surgical intervention - if not those who (implicitly) normalize cis bodies and cis identities as intrinsically worthy of protection? Is this not ultimately the reinscription of biological gender at the level of political reality?
July 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM