Nathan Dykes
@nfdykes.bsky.social
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Corpus linguist at @dhssfau.bsky.social @fau.de 🏳️‍⚧️ he/him nfdykes.github.io
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After a few … extremely German delays over the last few days, I can now finally say for real that my dissertation has been submitted! 😊
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Probably my favourite stack of paper this year! 😊
A stack of four printed dissertation copies
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annaleen.bsky.social
If you're a cis person who wants to be kind to your trans and nonbinary friends right now, please do not forward us links to stories about trans people being abused, having their rights taken away, or living in fear. We already know. A friendly "hey I hope you're OK" is much more helpful. 💖
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michamahlberg.bsky.social
“The true value of #corpuslinguistics is the combination of quantitative scale & qualitative depth”
@gavinbrookes.bsky.social gave us so much to think about this morning
#DHSS2025
nfdykes.bsky.social
The excursion to Germanisches Nationalmuseum (who very generously gave our group free admission) is in full swing, with @sabinelang.bsky.social leading the tour. First stop: 14th century sculptures from Nuremberg. #DHSS2025
Sabine Lang leading a discussion where participants interpret 14th century sculptures.
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michamahlberg.bsky.social
Now @nfdykes.bsky.social is setting out to make connections between close & distant reading
#DHSS2025
@rc21project.bsky.social
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In today's extended network analysis session with @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social, we're covering topics from fanfiction to war discussions #DHSS2025
Photo from the back of a seminar room. The slide shows a network of word overlap in a topic model.
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Anna Foka giving a brilliant keynote on "AI and Heritage: Critical perspectives on AI for the Archives, Libraries and Museum sector" – and of course, I was especially happy about the opportunity to quickly revive my Swedish reading skills on some of the slides showing ongoing projects ☺️
#DHSS2025
Anna Foka giving a keynote. The slide concerns "inclusive simulation imaginaries", which are described as socially, ethically, and future focused. An image on the slide depicts an iceberg, saying we're just at the tip
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sabinelang.bsky.social
Sneak peak into next week‘s tour at the #GermanischeNationalmuseum in #Nürnberg: the sculptures show Mary and the Archangel Gabriel in the Annunciation (stone, circa 1360) @dhssfau.bsky.social #digitalhumanities

The summer school starts tomorrow 🥳
nfdykes.bsky.social
Eigentlich hatte ich ja nicht vor, heute bedroht zu werden /j
Ausschnitt aus einer Speisekarte: Sehr verehrter Gast, wir bedanken uns für Ihren Besuch und wünschen Ihnen einen guten „Nachhauseweg“. 
Das letzte Wort ist aus unklaren Gründen in Anführungszeichen gesetzt.
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dhssfau.bsky.social
Explore the workshops and sessions offered by DHSS for next week’s Summer School!

*Sessions are shown in the order of the official schedule which you can find it on our website.
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dhssfau.bsky.social
Registration is closed, planes are booked, and preparations are in their final stage.
Check out the full program and stay tuned!
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If you're a registered participant, we're expecting to email you more details tomorrow.
If you missed this year's event, stay tuned for future events!
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diegolieugenia.bsky.social
📚 New paper with Alan Partington "Lexical Priming: Evolution, evaluation, extension" out in the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics @ijcl.bsky.social! You can find it here 👇
tinyurl.com/mjwmdvyd

I'm very grateful to the editors, reviewers and colleagues for their valuable feedback 🙏
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rc21project.bsky.social
If you're currently at #CMC2025 (listening to Stephanie's keynote), do check out the talk later this afternoon by Andreas Blombach, Stephanie Evert, Linda Havenstein & Philipp Heinrich:
"Dimensions of Drivel in German Telegram Posts: Manual Annotation and Predictive Power"
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corporadiscourse.bsky.social
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026
Call for Papers – Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026
wp.lancs.ac.uk
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lingucat.bsky.social
If the full team can't come with you, you can still take them to your poster presentation 😄 #SLE2025

Poster is also here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
INF Guidelines for research collaboration, CC BY 4.0: crc1646.pages.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/inf/website/...
Me standing next to our poster. On the other side of the poster is a laptop showing a team photo
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Are you interested in becoming several data analysts? Apparently, you're in luck! /j
Poorly localised LinkedIn job ad, where the German description searching for several people is phrased as:
"Deutsche Bundesbank is hiring a Mehrere Data Analysts".
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clairewillett.bsky.social
it appears that @bsky.app have suspended the account of @jessiegender because a trans person saying "I wish ill on JK Rowling" is against the rules, so let me say with my loud cis voice that I too wish ill on all perpetrators of hate speech against trans people

reinstate Jessie, this is ridiculous
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gendercensus.bsky.social
The 12th annual international Gender Census 2025 is now open until at least 30th August 2025!

survey.gendercensus.com

It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy.
Title: Gender Census 2025.

Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part.

Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.