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Katja Politt

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Linguist @Uni Rostock, also CRC 1646 Uni Bielefeld. Ex-LUH Hannover, Ex-FWO Vlaanderen fellow @UGent. I like paradigms, grammatical categories, CxG, teaching, and coffee. (she/her; sie/ihr). #linguistics #gamification #Syntagma #Tristaben - ['poːlɪt]

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · Aug 8

Didaktisch wertvoller Quatsch™

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 15h

Wortbildung in freier Wildbahn wieder wild

Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 15h

Entschuldigen Sie, haben Sie Ketchunnaise? Nein, nur

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 21h

Wasn't there a calculator for academic grant writing where you put in amount of funds, chance of getting funded, and estimated hours of preparing the proposal to calculate whether it's worth applying at all?

Or a formula? Please, I need it.

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Tatjana Scheffler @tschfflr.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22h

🔍 Im November veranstalten wir ein eintägiges Kolloquium zur Autorschaftsanalyse: https://staff.germanistik.rub.de/kolloquium-autorschaftsanalyse/
Die Anmeldung ist noch bis 30.10. möglich!
Boost erwünscht 🙏
#linguistik #variation #autorschaft #nlproc

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 23h

Höllische #Tristaben: hellleuchtend

Prospektangebot für Böller, Höllenlichter genannt

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Theresa Heyd @theresaheyd.bsky.social · 1d

Sich sorgen und für andere sorgen ist halt leider anstrengende Handarbeit, egal ob in der Schule oder an der Uni oder in der Carearbeit, aber statt dass der Aufwand und der Nutzen von solcher Arbeit anerkannt wird, bekommen wir Ratgeber für das gute Prompten, diese Bagatellisierung regt mich auf.

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Sascha Wolfer @sascha-wolfer.bsky.social · 1d

Out now in PNAS: Statistical errors undermine claims about the evolution of #polysynthetic #languages by Alex Koplenig and me: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

This is a comment on Bromham et al.'s doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

#linguistics 🧶 coming up...

Statistical errors undermine claims about the evolution of polysynthetic languages | PNAS

Statistical errors undermine claims about the evolution of polysynthetic languages

doi.org

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 1d

Semestervorbereitungen: #Syntagma von ILIAS 7 auf ILIAS 5 importieren, anpassen und gucken, ob alles soweit funktioniert 🐲

Screenshot einer E-Mail von ILIAS, dass ich das Badge für das Mensa-Gasthaus erhalten habe

Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 2d

ibäh!

Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 2d

Well they did take other opportunities for cultural resonance

Duolingo screenshot for "my aunt from Morocco is coming next week", referencing the children's song "ik heb een tante uit/in Marokko"

Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 2d

Wann endlich EU-Entscheidung über die vielen tragischen Verwechslungsfälle mit Scheuermilch

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FB Linguistik Universität Konstanz @konstanzling.bsky.social · 2d

The Konstanz Linguistics Conference 2025 (KLC25) is an early-career research conference taking place at the University of Konstanz, starting tomorrow (Thur 9th Oct). The event provides a platform for early-career researchers to share their research and engage in discussions across subfields. (1/3)

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 2d

has anyone told you lately how truly amazing you are??

Alt: has anyone told you lately how truly amazing you are??

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 2d

Did the same when I went to Belgium for the first time and have still not used "Ik ben een banaan"

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 2d

We're hiring! UT Linguistics invites applications for a position in computational linguistics to begin next academic year 2026-27 (rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with tenure). apply.interfolio.com/175156

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Philipp Krämer @phkraemer.bsky.social · 2d

Seit vielen Jahren liegt Sprachpolitik auf EU-Ebene brach, sichtbare Gestaltung von Mehrsprachigkeit findet nicht mehr statt, real vorhandene Sprachproblematiken kümmern niemanden - und nun ist die einzige Initiative mit sprachlicher Wirksamkeit inmitten völliger Leere ausgerechnet das hier.

Tagesspiegel @tagesspiegel.de · 2d

Fleischersatzprodukte sollen künftig nicht mehr mit der Bezeichnung Wurst, Schnitzel oder Burger mehr versehen werden. Das fordert das EU-Parlament. buff.ly/WtDfLE5

Ein Regal im Supermarkt mit Fleischersatzprodukten. Darüber Text: "EU-Parlament hat abgestimmt: Veggie-Wurst  darf nicht mehr  Wurst heißen"

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Barbara Schlücker @bschluecker.bsky.social · 3d

🚨Call for Papers | Morphology in Context!
We are organising a workshop at IMM 2026 (Budapest).
⏰Deadline for submissions: 1 december 2025. Details/call below. We are looking forward to your submissions!
#CfP #Morphology

Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 3d

Confs: Workshop at the 22nd International Morphology Meeting: Morphology in Context

Convenors: Sabine Arndt-Lappe (Trier) Barbara Schlücker (FU Berlin) Complex words are produced, understood, and also coined in context, and a by now large, but diverse body of literature has explored different facets of the role of context. By ‘context’ we mean the linguistic context, both immediate (e.g. preceding and following words) and with a larger scope (e.g. text types), and the extralinguistic context such as the speaker and the listener or the situation of speaking and the discours

dlvr.it

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 3d

Ich kann aus meinem Büro die Möwen kreischen hören 🌊

a seagull is sitting on top of a gutter holding a sign that says fish & chips

Alt: eine Möwe mit stilisierten Armen macht Bizeps-Curls, eine andere blättert eine Fish & Chips-Broschüre durch

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 3d

Ist schon cool zu sehen 🤩

Mein Türschild, es steht 'Professur für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft. Vertretung: Dr. Katja Politt' drauf

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 4d

Sonst wenigstens Pflicht für geistreiche Kommentare

Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 4d

Ist das das Vorprogramm zur Halloween-Konferenz

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Simon Kasper @attribot.bsky.social · 4d

Anlässlich des 60. Geburtstags der @hhu.de spreche ich am 27.10. um 18 Uhr im Haus der Universität (Schadowplatz) über Sprachwandel in den vergangenen 60 Jahren.

Interessierte sind herzlich eingeladen. Fachwissen ist keins erforderlich. Aber Eure sprachlichen Intuitionen werden gefragt sein...

Ankündigungsposter mit den im Post genannten Informationen. Es werden Einblicke in aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse zu jüngeren Entwicklungen im Deutschen versprochen.

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 5d

Oh!

Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · 5d

So, pendeln geht heute los

Screenshot aus der DB App, Verbindung nicht mehr fahrbar

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