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Wetter Berlin Dahlem @wind-berlin.de · 20h

Heute bleibt es bedeckt zeitweise fällt leichter #Regen oder Sprühregen. Der schwache Westwind weht im Mittel mit Stärke 2 und erreicht in Spitzen Stärke 3 bis 4. Die #Höchsttemperatur beträgt 15°C.
#wetter #herbst #berlin

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 22h

As apparently hosting websites for more than a couple of days is too much to ask, here's a new link to the #BæFoLa program:
sites.google.com/view/sofia-r...
#LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 22h

#OTD 327 years ago, Johanna Corleva (1698–1752) was born 🥳 Translator, grammarian, and likely the first female lexicographer from the Netherlands. She translated grammatical treatises into Dutch, including the Port-Royal Grammar.

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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Freie Universität Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social · 6d

„Man gehört ins Team, nicht in den Vordergrund“, so kennen die Mitarbeitenden Thomas-Arne Jarocki 👨‍🍳 43 Jahre sorgte er in der #Mensa II des @studierendenwerk.bsky.social dafür, dass alles läuft – mit Essen für bis zu 4000 Personen täglich 🍩🌮🍳🍝 Ende Oktober geht' in Rente 👋
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Das Fotos zeigt Thomas-Arne Jarocki in der weißen Berufskleidung eines Kochs in der Hauptmensa II der Freien Universität.
Bildquelle: Christopher Ferner

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Freie Universität Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social · 2d

💬 „Wer schreibt, der bleibt“ – an der #FUBerlin hilft jetzt KI.
Mit #ASR4Memory, dem Transkriptions-Tool der Universitätsbibliothek, werden audiovisuelle Dateien automatisch verschriftlicht – sicher, lokal und open source. ✏️

Mehr dazu im Interview mit Tobias Kilgus (l.) ➡️ tinyurl.com/ASR4-memory

Das Bild zeigt Tobias Kilgus (links) und Peter Kompiel (rechts) aus dem Team der Universitätsbibliothek. Gemeinsam mit Marc Altmann und Christian Horvat (beide nicht im Bild) haben sie das Transkriptions-Tool ASR4-Memory entwickelt.
Quelle: Universitätsbibliothek

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Freie Universität Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social · 6d

Neu: Berliner Landespreis für exzellente Hochschullehre 2026!

📩 Alle Universitätsangehörigen können bis zum 30.11.2025 Lehrveranstaltungen vorschlagen
✍️ Lehrende können bis 4.01.2026 ihre Bewerbung online beim DCAT der #FUBerlin einreichen

Alle Infos: www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dcat/L...

Foto: Forschende und Studierende schauen auf eine Tafel: Jetzt Vorschläge und Bewerbungen einreichen / Berliner Landespreis für exzellente Hochschullehre 2026

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 6d

#BæFoLa is back!
We're ready for Season 9 featuring delicious talks on:
🍆 food porn (Jonatan Leer)
🥕 veggie words (Isabel Espinosa-Zaragoza)
🧁 baking videos (Carolin Schneider-Ward)
🍳 cooking videos (Stefan Hauser)

More info at tinyurl.com/baefola

#LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

BaeFoLa Poster with a donut for each talk

October 31, 12:30-13:30 CET: Jonatan Leer (Örebro University)

Food Porn: Food Aesthetics in a Digital Age

November 28, 12:30-13:30 CET: Isabel Espinosa-Zaragoza (University of Alicante)

VeggieWords: Lexical Innovation in Vegan and Vegetarian Product Naming

December 19, 12:30-13:30 CET: Carolin Schneider Ward (University of Duisburg-Essen)

Bake, Tic, Repeat: Multimodal Self-Reactions in the Digital Kitchen

January 30, 12:30-13:30 CET: Stefan Hauser (University of Teacher Education Zug)

Dynamisation Processes in Cooking Videos on TikTok: A Media Linguistic Approach

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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 7d

#OTD 99 years ago, Els Oksaar (1926–2015) was born 🎉 She was an expert on early language acquisition, language contact, and multilingualism in children. She also contributed to the development of the theory of culturemes.

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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Bernhard Huss @bernhardhuss.bsky.social · 10d

Jetzt online: Winterprogramm des Italienzentrums der Freien Universität Berlin

www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/italienzentr...

Italienzentrum

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Christa Dürscheid @christaduerscheid.bsky.social · 10d

www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Sprachwissenschaftler Peter Eisenberg gestorben

Zeichen, Wörter und Sätze kommen nicht aus dem Reformhaus. Man sollte sich gut überlegen, ob man an ihnen herumbessert: Das hat der Sprachwissenschaftler Peter Eisenberg gelehrt. Nun ist er im Alter v...

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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 10d

Philosopher John Searle has died.

John Searle (1932-2025) - Daily Nous

Philosopher John Searle, well-known for his work on philosophy of mind and philosophy of language, has died. John Searle wrote extensively consciousness and the mind, intentionality, and speech act th...

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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 9d

#OTD 342 years ago, Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756) was born 🥳 A translator and a pioneer of Old English studies, she authored "The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue", the first Old English grammar written in English.

#LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx

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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 9d

#OTD 143 years ago, Lilias E. Armstrong (1882–1937) was born 🎂 A phonetician, she specialised in English intonation, French phonetics, and the tone systems of Somali and Kikuyu, and also studied intonation in the context of TEFL.

#WomenInLinguistics #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays

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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 13d

Und wir sind auch dieses Jahr wieder dabei mit einer Podiumsdiskussion "Wozu noch Grammatik in der Schule" am 6. November 2025 🤩

🔗 berlinscienceweek.com/programme/wo...

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 13d

Very rewarding to see the community engage with our edited volume "World Englishes in the 21st Century: New Perspectives and Challenges to the Dynamic Model". Review just published in Folia Linguistica: doi.org/10.1515/flin...
#WorldEnglishes #Linguistics

Sofia Rüdiger, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert, & Sarah Buschfeld, eds. 2025. World Englishes in the 21st century: new perspectives and challenges to the dynamic model. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University...

Article Sofia Rüdiger, Theresa Neumaier, Sven Leuckert, & Sarah Buschfeld, eds. 2025. World Englishes in the 21st century: new perspectives and challenges to the dynamic model. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Un...

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 21d

Books: World Englishes and Social Media: Rüdiger, Leuckert, and Leimgruber (eds.) (2025)

As social media keeps changing, so does the representation of World Englishes across the wide range of platforms available. This edited volume explores the different varieties of English on various social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, and YouTube. Social media platforms showcase an ever-increasing diversity in languages and varieties of languages used on them. Divided into three parts, the book focuses in turn on language variation in digital contexts, iden

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 20d

Calls: 78th Student Conference on Linguistics / 78. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft

About the conference: The StuTS (Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft) is a three-day student conference on linguistics held biannually. Organized by volunteer linguistics students, it is hosted usually but not exclusively, by German-speaking universities. Since its inauguration in Hamburg in 1987, StuTS has brought together thousands of enthusiastic linguistics students to present their work, learn about exciting new topics in inspiring keynote addresses, talks, and workshops, and me

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · 19d

Confs: Artificial Languages in the Linguist’s Toolbox

Workshop: Artificial Languages in the Linguist’s Toolbox We are delighted to invite you to attend the second workshop of the EXREAN project* at the Freie Universität Berlin which will explore the application of artificial languages as a tool in linguistic research. Artificial language learning experiments test how far language users can extract rule-like generalizations from structured input (Culbertson, 2023). Since Reber’s (1967) seminal artificial grammar (AG) study, which aimed at inve

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Tanguy Solliec @kiminell.bsky.social · 18d

Some of her works are publicly available online on @gallicabnf.bsky.social

L'aspect verbal et les formations à affixe nasal en celtique

gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...

Description d'un parler irlandais de Kerry

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L'aspect verbal et les formations à affixe nasal en celtique / par Marie-Louise Sjoestedt

L'aspect verbal et les formations à affixe nasal en celtique / par Marie-Louise Sjoestedt -- 1926 -- livre

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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 18d

#OTD 125 years ago, Marie-Louise Sjoestedt-Jonval (1900–1940) was born 🤩 Expert on Celtic studies, particularly on Irish language and mythology. One of the few female scholars, she attended the First International Congress of Linguists in 1928.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #WomenInLinguistics

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · 21d

new pre-print available on SocArXiv: "Digital Foodscapes: Past-Present-Future" - an interdisciplinary position paper by 24 (!) collaborators, outlining the scope of #DigitalFoodscapes & how it can be used as an analytical & methodological lens to grasp digital food practices doi.org/10.31235/osf...

OSF

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Freie Universität Berlin @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social · 23d

🌦️❄️☀️ 2026 vergeben der Verein Berliner Wetterkarte e.V. & die #FUBerlin Wetterpatenschaften. Hochs tragen männliche, Tiefs weibliche Vornamen. Preise: 390 € (Hoch), 290 € (Tief). Anträge ab 17.9.

👉 www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor...

Illustration: Yves Haltner

Illustration: Eine Figur auf einer Leiter schreibt den Namen „PEDRO“ in eine Wolke. Daneben eine Sonne mit dem Namen „SONJA“. Unten steht ein gelber Farbeimer.

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Schweizerisches Idiotikon @ch-idiotikon.bsky.social · 24d

«Vater Stalder» (wie Idiotikongründer Friedrich Staub ihn nannte) – der Urahn der deutschschweizerischen Dialektologie – ist heute vor 268 Jahren zur Welt gekommen: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_J...

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HiPhiLangSci @hiphilangsci.bsky.social · 24d

Episode 2 of our podcast is a great place to learn more about the work of Franz Bopp and the emergence of comparative-historical grammar!

🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2020/01/31/p...

#Histlx

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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 24d

#OTD 268 years ago, Franz Joseph Stalder (1757–1833) was born 🥳 A Catholic priest, a pioneering scholar of Swiss dialectology and the author of a Swiss German lexicon and grammar. The current Schweizerisches Idiotikon (@ch-idiotikon.bsky.social) continues his work.

#LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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