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Sofia Rüdiger
@sofiaruediger.bsky.social
Linguist by day, foodie by night (or the other way around?).
Guest Professor in English Linguistics @FU Berlin, PI of DFG Project on Carnivalesque Consumption Online

http://www.sofia-ruediger.org

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4370-8052
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Hi 👋 My name is Sofia and I research the language of excessive food videos online! #LanguageAndFood #CarnivalesqueConsumption
Happening in ~three hours today 📽️👩‍🍳

#FoodTok goes #BaeFoLa!

#LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

DM me for Zoom link if you want to join spontaneously!
It's the grand season finale of #BaeFoLa Season 9 and your last chance to attend a session this season:
Friday, Jan 30, 12:30-13:30 (CET)
Stefan Hauser (University of Teacher Education Zug): Dynamisation Processes in Cooking Videos on TikTok - A Media Linguistic Approach 📹👩‍🍳
#LanguageAndFood 🍩🍩🍩
January 30, 2026 at 8:21 AM
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Berlin ist wenn im Winter die Fahrbahn der einzige Weg für Fußgänger ist, sich nicht das Bein zu brechen.
January 29, 2026 at 2:38 PM
When people at work have better food fashion game than you do 🍣
January 28, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Course prep 😇
January 28, 2026 at 12:51 PM
The book of abstracts for "Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices" is ready & available online 🎉 Couldn't be more delighted to meet so many smart language and food scholars presenting on such delightful topics in ~ 2 months! 🍔🍜🥗

tinyurl.com/DigitalPalat...

#LanguageAndFood
January 27, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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Our final speaker this semester is Muriel Norde (@nordemuriel.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social) presenting a new approach to the intersection of productivity and creativity within the CxG framework 🤩

🔗 www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...

#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics
January 27, 2026 at 8:56 AM
The only legit Rüdiger
January 27, 2026 at 7:41 AM
Ok, the first time I think it's an accident. The second time I start to get annoyed.
January 27, 2026 at 7:39 AM
It's the grand season finale of #BaeFoLa Season 9 and your last chance to attend a session this season:
Friday, Jan 30, 12:30-13:30 (CET)
Stefan Hauser (University of Teacher Education Zug): Dynamisation Processes in Cooking Videos on TikTok - A Media Linguistic Approach 📹👩‍🍳
#LanguageAndFood 🍩🍩🍩
January 26, 2026 at 10:38 AM
❄️🌨
Happy commuter day to those who celebrate!
January 26, 2026 at 6:29 AM
January 25, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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The LingComm Grants are back!

These grants started in 2020, as "hey let's help get lingcomm projects going during lockdown"

They've since run in 2022 and 2024, and thanks to generous folks we've always given out more than expected

But they only work if people apply!!! Please share this!!
Working on a project bringing linguistics to broader audiences?

The 2026 LingComm Grants are $300 USD grants to help you with your project!

Please apply and/or share with any up and coming lingcommers you know!

Details:
lingcomm.org/grants
#linguistics #langsky #lingcomm
January 23, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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Review 🥹👉👈
✍️ Write a book review for Babel!

Review opportunities:
📗 Barbara Dancygier & Lieven Vandelanotte - The Language of Memes
📕 Valerie Friedland - Why We Talk Funny

📧 Get in touch at [email protected]
January 24, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Leaving on a late train (if/when it gets here)
January 22, 2026 at 3:34 PM
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Hate comes in many forms and especially the role that (audio)visuals play in our social media communication has not been addressed systematically.

This is what we will do in a new collab between NL & D. First impressions:

12 February 2026
11.00-15.30, including lunch!
Norman Building
January 21, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Symbolbild: the party is over
January 20, 2026 at 8:52 AM
Something exciting is a-brewing 🤩 Stay tuned!
(if you know, you know 🐙🥰)
ping @coocho.bsky.social & @domini.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 10:12 PM
And the #NoCaSynE (Non-Canonical Syntax of English) network strikes again/a final (?) time:
Our article "Defining Non-Canonicity: An Integrated Approach to Modelling Syntactic Variation" now available #OpenAccess in Anglistik at doi.org/10.33675/ANG...
#NonCanonicalSyntax
January 19, 2026 at 3:26 PM
#SundayFunday (ist-morgen-wirklich-schon-wieder-Montag-Edition)
January 18, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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Are you a PhD student or ECR in language, gender & sexuality? Join me (an ed. of Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics book series) and Lexi Webster (an ed. of Gender & Language journal) for a FREE @lgas-baal.bsky.social online seminar on publishing (2pm 18 Feb) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Publishing in Language, Gender and Sexuality
We’re pleased to announce our next online seminar will take place on Wednesday 18th February at 2-3pm. This event will focus on publishing journal articles and books in language, gender and sexuality ...
docs.google.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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In the past decade or two, predatory publishers have built a parallel universe of publication opportunities preying on the least privileged & most vulnerable of our colleagues

I got my hands on what passes for peer review at one such journal
ideophone.org/on-plagiaris...
On plagiarism, predatory publishers and creating the future we want – The Ideophone
ideophone.org
January 16, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Uhm, I'd rather not (regardless of urgency)
January 15, 2026 at 11:09 AM
Utterly grey vibes today but I'm in my peak Berlin phase and don't care: early morning hipster cycling class, now drinking soy milk matcha latte waiting for the guest speaker for one of my classes tomorrow to arrive 🚴‍♂️🍵
January 13, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Shout-out to the instructor who actually managed to sell a party-on-the-bike cycling class at 8am 😎
Thank you, past-Sofia for signing me up for a (high intensity) 8m gym class. Didn't you know I'm not a morning person? 😅
January 13, 2026 at 8:09 AM