2026-03-02 16:46:40
ICONICITY is *too* a word! #linguistics erasure 😡
ICONICITY is *too* a word! #linguistics erasure 😡
🎉 🤗 I'm welcoming a visiting student working on ✨emojis✨ this week in Bochum! 🤓 Can you tell we're excited?? #linguistics #emojis #academicChatter
Fantastic 2.5 year postdoc working on 🤩emojis🤩 ! Are you a #linguist with experience in running experiments in formal semantics & pragmatics? Please come join our lab and the @… visual communication research cluster!
Apply by April 28 - or contact me with questions. #emojis #linguistics #job @… #academicChatter
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f5001c40d914e7ce325557bfe526aa88415f75bb0
I wonder if consciously avoiding the style and patterns frequently applied by generative AI might be triggering some kind of forced language evolution. Previously considered best practices that are now shunned to not sound like a machine.
#language #linguistics
Last keynote of #DGfS2026 🤓😄
Annette Gerstenberg on longitudinal patterns #linguistics
Last day of #DGfS2026 is being kicked off by @… 🤩 #linguistics
#linguistics erasure in the NYT Spelling Bee again 😭
"ANIMACY" is a word, darnit
It’s going to get 🔥INTENSE🔥#linguistics #DGfS2026 #intensification
Fellow linguists & ✨emoji✨ enthusiasts! Watch this space - I have a job opening in the next few days!! #linguistics #emojis #job
🚀 One week left to apply for my postdoc position in emoji semantics! Join us for:
🔬 linguistic experiments
🔍 semantic theory
🤝 interdisciplinary collaboration
🧑💼 developing your own research agenda
💻 digital communication
🤩 a wonderful team
💪 a supportive supervisor
#bochum #emoji #linguistics @… @…
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f5001c40d914e7ce325557bfe526aa88415f75bb0
🤩 I'm at the ViCom Annual meeting - in about one hour we'll present our planned work for the second phase in our ✨emojis✨ project! #vicom #visualCommunication #linguistics https://vicom.info/
🚨 Job alert in my group:
Want to do a PhD in Computational Linguistics working on figurative language (metaphor), on social media data, and in an interdisciplinary digital humanities environment, at one of the largest universities in Germany? Apply by March 30, 2026!
Contact me with any questions and please forward this to any suitable candidates 🤗 #linguistics #nlproc #joboffer #digitalhumanities #phdPosition #rub
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f67b2069885e8908b2b3078b550e37a9d0bcc9e60