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Kilu von Prince

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · Oct 23

In my new paper, I take stock of cross-linguistically common functions and expressions of counterfactuality.

You can download it here, or contact me.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Counterfactuality and Mood | Annual Reviews

This review article presents the current state of research on counterfactual expressions and contexts. It focuses on the relationship between formal semantic and typological approaches. This leads to ...

www.annualreviews.org

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 11h

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

sudansolidarity.com

Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective

Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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dialectmatt.bsky.social @dialectmatt.bsky.social · 5d

Linguistic Atlas Day

It's that time of year again! Tomorrow, I will be looking at maps from various linguistic atlases around the world with my students, and we will explore how we can visualise dialect data on maps!

Have you spotted any atlases you have worked with before?

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 1d

Because I think better in pictures, here is a visualisation of languages according to documentation and endangerment status (I'm calling it glottocloud).

glottolog.org/langdoc/status

Graphic distribution of languages represented as dots in a two-dimensional space.
X: AES (endangerment level, ranging from "extinct" to "not endangered"
Y: MED (documentation level, ranging from "wordlist or less" to "long grammar"

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 1d

You know it's been quite a week when your last thought before falling asleep is the non-verbal equivalent of "if I send the soup per email, will they still be able to stir it?"

(I saw a three-dimensional soup pot in my email editor and tried to stir it with a virtual spoon, but it was hard)

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 1d

That's great, thanks!

Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 1d

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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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 2d

In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard

Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day.
Museum Text:
Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 2d

Es werden so viele Menschen durch die Lücken im System fallen. Alleinerziehende ohne stabile Betreuung für die Kids. Menschen mit psychischen Erkrankungen. Suchtkranke Menschen. Pflegende. Diese Leute zu bestrafen wird niemandem helfen. Das ist ein Armutszeugnis für ein eigentlich reiches Land.

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Abschiebungsreporting NRW @abschiebungnrw.bsky.social · 2d

Letzte Woche war von 26 "Straftätern" aus #NRW die Rede. Jetzt wird klar, dass auch wieder Kinder in den #Irak abgeschoben wurden.

In #Bestwig wurden 4 Schüler:innen im Alter von 9, 11 + 12 Jahren aus 2 Familien nachts aus Betten geholt und mit dem Charter abgeschoben. 1/
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Abschiebung in der Nacht: Irakische Familien aus Bestwig ausgewiesen

Zwei Familien mit insgesamt vier Kindern aus Bestwig werden nachts in den Irak abgeschoben. Aus diesen Gründen wurden die Asylanträge abgelehnt.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 3d

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 3d

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 3d

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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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 3d

Channels posting yummy vegan recipes, on the other hand, have quite dramatically altered my diet (even though it's been vegetarian and mostly plant-based for decades).

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 3d

Dass Leute inklusiv sein wollten, und freiwillig gegendert haben, wurde als „Sprachpolizei“ gebrandmarkt.

Aber Gendern und vegane Wurst „Wurst“ nennen wurde staatlich verboten.

Die jahrelange Propaganda, autoritäre Rechte als „Freiheitskämpfer“ zu inszenieren, hat viel zu viele gehirngewaschen.

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Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland - ISD Bund e.V. @isdbund.bsky.social · 3d

Anti-immigration politics contribute to racism in Germany

www.dw.com/en/anti-immi...

Anti-immigration politics contribute to racism in Germany – DW – 10/08/2025

Far-right gains, economic stagnation and increased political focus on migration can be major drivers of racial discrimination in European countries such as Germany.

www.dw.com

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T!NK (Landsitz Ära) @tinkoceraptor.bsky.social · 4d

Nochmal der Hinweis auf die Lange Nacht des Impfens, wo man sich deutschlandweit in diversen Apotheken gegen COVID und Grippe impfen lassen kann.

Startseite | Die lange Nacht des Impfens

Am 8. Oktober 2025 findet bundesweit die dritte Lange Nacht des Impfens statt. Teilnehmende Apotheken, Arztpraxen und Betriebsärzte in ganz Deutschland biet ...

lange-nacht-des-impfens.de

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 4d

Gourmethinterschinken ist auch problematisch.

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DAVE! (like "Them!" but Dave) @daveexmachina.bsky.social · 5d

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends
tech weirdo: and shitheads
np: no just my friends
tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender?
np: we just want to hang out and goof around
tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then
np: no shitheads
tw: not following

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Aveta👾🇭🇹 @aliafonzy.blacksky.app · 5d

Can we get the word around for more donations to go to BlackSky so there’s funding for the infrastructure that can bring Link back?

From my understanding:

Relays are costly and expensive. Anyone feel free to chime in. Bluesky relays is what has him banned.

opencollective.com/blacksky

Blacksky - Open Collective

Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.

opencollective.com

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 6d

„… Wissenschaft [muss] für den Erhalt ihrer eigenen Schaffensbedingungen Sorge tragen.“

Hanna Pfeifer @hannapfeifer.bsky.social · 6d

Was ist Verantwortung der Wissenschaft in Zeiten des Genozids? Meine Antwort bei @jmwiarda.bsky.social, u.a. in kritischer Auseinandersetzung mit dem Beitrag zur Politisierung "von innen", die die Kollegen Bogner/Hirschi vor Kurzem in der FAZ vorgenommen haben
www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/10... 1/2

Die Verantwortung der Wissenschaft

www.jmwiarda.de

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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 6d

„In der beleuchteten Zeit des Umbruchs stellten Hochschulen eher eine Kontinuität des Althergebrachten dar und waren selbst weniger Treiberinnen, sondern im Gegenteil Gegnerinnen gesellschaftlicher Demokratisierung.“

Geschichte der Gegenwart @g-d-gegenwart.bsky.social · 6d

Hochschulen verstehen sich selbst als weltoffen, vielfältig und fortschrittsorientiert. Doch wie verteidigen sie die Freiheit von Wissenschaft und Bildung vor autokratischen Eingriffen? Christoph Haker und Lukas Otterspeer mit einer kritischen Analyse. geschichtedergegenwart.ch/die-rolle-vo...

Die Rolle von Hochschulen in autoritären Zeiten

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Khaleesi (Elina Eickstädt) @khaleesicodes.bsky.social · 8d

If you are a German citizen, please consider contracting your MPs and Ministers. We’ve created a guide on what MPs to contact as well as example arguments:

chat-kontrolle.eu/index.php/20...

Der Kampf gegen die Chatkontrolle braucht dich jetzt! – Chatkontrolle STOPPEN!

chat-kontrolle.eu

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Signal @signal.org · 8d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Prof. EAGZ @emmmilygz.bsky.social · 7d

#linguistics

Katie Franich @kfran.bsky.social · 7d

Tenure-track phonology position at UChicago!

Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 9d

Jobs: English; Phonetics, Phonology, Semantics: Assistant Professor in Phonology, The University of Chicago

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 8d

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025.
mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

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