Lindsay Preseau
@ldpres.bsky.social
Asst Prof, German/Linguistics @ Iowa State University. Opinions my own.
Had a great time at the Queer Linguistics Workshop at the 49th Austrian Linguistics Conference @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social!
Huge thanks to organizers Oliver Bunk, Nicholas Catasso, J. Mx Gaul & @vzie.bsky.social for making it possible! (Photo from Martin Stegu's talk)
Huge thanks to organizers Oliver Bunk, Nicholas Catasso, J. Mx Gaul & @vzie.bsky.social for making it possible! (Photo from Martin Stegu's talk)
December 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Had a great time at the Queer Linguistics Workshop at the 49th Austrian Linguistics Conference @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social!
Huge thanks to organizers Oliver Bunk, Nicholas Catasso, J. Mx Gaul & @vzie.bsky.social for making it possible! (Photo from Martin Stegu's talk)
Huge thanks to organizers Oliver Bunk, Nicholas Catasso, J. Mx Gaul & @vzie.bsky.social for making it possible! (Photo from Martin Stegu's talk)
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Bernie Sanders keeps saying the most wrong headed about AI and paling around with Geoffery Hinton. We write more about it here --
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
Bernie Sanders Falls for Mathy-Maths and Doomer Gloom
Bernie Sanders published an op-ed in The Guardian this week, warning of the existential dangers posed to civilization by AI.
buttondown.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Bernie Sanders keeps saying the most wrong headed about AI and paling around with Geoffery Hinton. We write more about it here --
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
Next week at @unibonn.bsky.social, I’ll be talking about how the battle over gender-just language in Germany is often less about grammar and more about feeling, and why it matters for language scholars engaging in these debates.
Details in the flyer and in the link in thread if you are nearby! ⬇️
Details in the flyer and in the link in thread if you are nearby! ⬇️
December 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Next week at @unibonn.bsky.social, I’ll be talking about how the battle over gender-just language in Germany is often less about grammar and more about feeling, and why it matters for language scholars engaging in these debates.
Details in the flyer and in the link in thread if you are nearby! ⬇️
Details in the flyer and in the link in thread if you are nearby! ⬇️
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The Linguistic Justice Foundation is looking for 60 people to make a $5 monthly donation to help support our work pursuing linguistic justice for everyone. Please donate if you can, shar eif you can't.
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Donate to make a difference for people's right to use, maintain and transmit their languages
Your contribution is helping us drive systemic change for linguistic justice. It helps us to advance public awareness and mass education on language rights and linguistic justice, conduct research, an...
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November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The Linguistic Justice Foundation is looking for 60 people to make a $5 monthly donation to help support our work pursuing linguistic justice for everyone. Please donate if you can, shar eif you can't.
www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...
Spotted at Ames No Kings 🫶
October 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Spotted at Ames No Kings 🫶
First they came for Krampus… 🤔 www.thegazette.com/staff-column...
Opinion: Steen won't let Krampus take kids to Hell
Pilgrims and Native Americans are depicted gathering to share a meal in the artwork "The First Thanksgiving 1621," by J.L.G. …
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October 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
First they came for Krampus… 🤔 www.thegazette.com/staff-column...
In our nation’s capitol promoting gender ideology ✅
September 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
In our nation’s capitol promoting gender ideology ✅
Anyone else in the US having serious delays receiving int’l mail? Several simple letters from Germany have taken 2+ months to arrive recently…other direction is fine, maybe even faster than usual 🤔
September 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Anyone else in the US having serious delays receiving int’l mail? Several simple letters from Germany have taken 2+ months to arrive recently…other direction is fine, maybe even faster than usual 🤔
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I feel this needs to be said again but LLMs are not implementing usage-based theories of language unless one interprets the latter in the shallowest, devoid of their most interesting assumptions, way. “Usage” is not just frequency ffs.
September 17, 2025 at 1:34 AM
I feel this needs to be said again but LLMs are not implementing usage-based theories of language unless one interprets the latter in the shallowest, devoid of their most interesting assumptions, way. “Usage” is not just frequency ffs.
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here's Eric Trump saying "they" at least 10 times in under 30 seconds
September 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
here's Eric Trump saying "they" at least 10 times in under 30 seconds
Week 4 of American Kindergarten going just about as expected ✅ 🏈
September 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Week 4 of American Kindergarten going just about as expected ✅ 🏈
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Trans people are worth protecting. Not because we are amazing people (although we are) or because we offer a great deal to society (although we do) or because we are fine as hell (we are). We are worth protecting because we are HUMAN BEINGS, and it’s amazing how often that simple fact is forgotten.
August 20, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Trans people are worth protecting. Not because we are amazing people (although we are) or because we offer a great deal to society (although we do) or because we are fine as hell (we are). We are worth protecting because we are HUMAN BEINGS, and it’s amazing how often that simple fact is forgotten.
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If you're going to send me something written by an LLM then save us all time and resources and just send me your prompt instead. I'll value a text that says "Heartfelt condolence message with reference to a list of events" more, because this way I at least actually know what you were thinking
August 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
If you're going to send me something written by an LLM then save us all time and resources and just send me your prompt instead. I'll value a text that says "Heartfelt condolence message with reference to a list of events" more, because this way I at least actually know what you were thinking
Just out: new article on gender-just language across 8 first-year German textbooks. I was (mostly) pleasantly surprised!
🙏 to editors Katherine Kerschen, Claire Scott, and @spracheistleben.bsky.social for this special issue on trans and non-binary identity! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🙏 to editors Katherine Kerschen, Claire Scott, and @spracheistleben.bsky.social for this special issue on trans and non-binary identity! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A Comparative Analysis of Gender‐Just Language in First‐Year German Textbooks
This study analyzes the inclusion of binary and non-binary gender-just language in US first-year college German textbooks. The analysis covers eight textbooks, evaluating their use of gender-just for...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Just out: new article on gender-just language across 8 first-year German textbooks. I was (mostly) pleasantly surprised!
🙏 to editors Katherine Kerschen, Claire Scott, and @spracheistleben.bsky.social for this special issue on trans and non-binary identity! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
🙏 to editors Katherine Kerschen, Claire Scott, and @spracheistleben.bsky.social for this special issue on trans and non-binary identity! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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"It's unclear if this research matters because real users speak English and Chinese" has got to be up there for worst dismissive takes about how multilingual doesn't matter.
July 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"It's unclear if this research matters because real users speak English and Chinese" has got to be up there for worst dismissive takes about how multilingual doesn't matter.
Worth sharing again as Universities start to share congratulatory posts about Fulbright awardees…
Jesus Christ... the *entire Fulbright Board* at the State Department just resigned rather than cooperate for a second longer with this monster and his patently illegal schemes.
Fulbright board resigns over alleged Trump administration interference
The 12-person board that oversees the Fulbright Program accused the White House of denying a “substantial” number of scholarship recipients.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Worth sharing again as Universities start to share congratulatory posts about Fulbright awardees…
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Amazing things are happening on X: The Everything App
July 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Amazing things are happening on X: The Everything App
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Very excited that the Special Issue of Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German on trans and non-binary issues in the L2 German classroom is coming together! The full special issue will be released in the fall 25 issue but articles are coming out. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17561221...
#linguistics
#linguistics
Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German: Vol 0, No 0
<em>Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German</em> is a German education journal devoted to the improvement & innovation of teaching and learning German language & culture.
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June 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Very excited that the Special Issue of Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German on trans and non-binary issues in the L2 German classroom is coming together! The full special issue will be released in the fall 25 issue but articles are coming out. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17561221...
#linguistics
#linguistics
It’s a cow, you’re welcome
July 9, 2025 at 2:14 PM
It’s a cow, you’re welcome
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BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.
July 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.