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22. März, #schauspielstuttgart: #DSG Präsidentin Prof. Sibylle Baumbach im Gespräch mit Chefdramaturgin und Vizeintendantin Gwendolyne Melchinger für eine "Einführung Spezial" zur #Hamlet Inszenierung von Burkhard C. Kosminski #Shakespeare #shakespeareingermany #shakespearegesellschaft

Interested in science management?

Come work with us in Tübingen as a Project Manager for the Germany-wide interdisciplinary research cluster (www.lasting-spp.org)!

3 years, PostDoc-level salary.

Please share, or reach out with questions.

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Do humans assume that AI systems have the expertise to deliver medical or legal advice? Agnieszka Faleńska (www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute...) and I are looking for a postdoc to work on these questions with us. Please reach out for further information www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/de/aktuelles...

Als der Krieg endete, war Simone Veil keine 18 und Vollwaise.
Sie sei sich oft vorgekommen wie eine Außerirdische, kaum jemand wollte die Geschichten der Überlebenden hören. Noch Jahre später, da war sie  längst aufgestiegen zu einer bekannten Juristin

This is awesome! I have been curating a list of #linguistics journals, with information on their publishing model (and also on whether they admit submissions created by LaTeX, a high-quality, professional Open Source way to produce scientific documents).

uni-duesseldorf.sciebo.de/s/BvRY0u3rDY...

Postdoc position in Stuttgart, Germany (TV-L 13, 100%) for 18 months, on authority presuppositions in AI systems with Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and me. For more information and application info, see here: safety.www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/team/falensaa/...

In our new tutorial, @meanwhileina.bsky.social and I walk you through meaningful hypothesis testing using a less known form of calculating Bayes Factor.

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People transitioning to Bayes often wonder how to decide if an effect is meaningful or not. Here you go... 1/🧵

Happy to share the first version of my textbook "Quantitative Data Analysis for Linguists in R".

stefanocoretta.github.io/qdal/

Comments and suggestions welcome! (on the GitHub repo: github.com/stefanocoret...)

The textbook takes you from 0 to basic stat modelling with Bayesian regression.

If there's a problem with the link, here's another one: drive.google.com/file/d/1UCs-...
Thanks for sharing!

Postdoc position in Stuttgart, Germany (TV-L 13, 100%) for 18 months, on authority presuppositions in AI systems with Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and me. For more information and application info, see here: safety.www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/team/falensaa/...

When people respond "two" to the question "How many animals did Moses take on the ark?" do they actually accommodate a false presupposition that Moses took animals on the ark? Apply for a Ph.D. position to work on presuppositions, deadline 20.12.2025. More info at linguistlist.org/issues/36-3553

Projection inferences: On the relation between prior beliefs, at-issueness, and lexical meaning Author(s): Degen, Judith; Tonhauser, Judith | Abstract: Interpreters frequently draw projection inferences, that is, inferences that the speaker believes utterance content contributed in the scope of ...

Hot off the presses! A new paper by @thegricean.bsky.social (Judith Degen) and me on "Projection inferences: On the relation between prior beliefs, at-issueness, and lexical meaning", in Glossa Psycholinguistics escholarship.org/uc/item/7hb2...

I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits (1-year extension possible). Research topic open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching until Summer 2027, light teaching after that (English). Official ad soon. Please share 🙏

More Ph.D. positions available in several projects related to the #SFB Common ground! Please see the list here uni-tuebingen.de/de/283575

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

#OTD 86 years ago, Anita Steube (1939-2021) was born 🎉 She was an expert on German grammar, specialising in the study of syntax and information structure. Another important aspect of her work was the comparison and typology of languages.

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

My article about anaphoric accessibility in hypothetical and counterfactual discourse has been officially published in #Semantics & #Pragmatics ✨ doi.org/10.3765/sp.1... ✨

Confs: Formal Diachronic Semantics 10 Formal Diachronic Semantics 10 (FoDS 10) will be hosted by the Linguistics Department at the University of Texas, Austin from October 16 to October 18 2025. In keeping with its tradition, FoDS brings together scholars interested in the exploration of the semantic and pragmatic aspects of diachronic processes in natural languages from a formal perspective. FoDS has been meeting yearly since 2016. It being the 10th Anniversary of FoDS, we will be marking it with presentations from some key resea

Confs: Formal Diachronic Semantics 10

Umfrage des Verbandes dt Historiker unter Promovierenden. Ergebnis: "Fehlverhalten im Arbeitskontext von Historiker:innen ist leider kein Randphänomen. Über die Hälfte etwa erfahre „implizite Drohung bzw. Einschüchterung“, von Wutanfällen berichteten 29% etc
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#jobs @uniheidelberg.bsky.social #BLinguistik

Akademische Ratsstelle am Germanistischen Seminar

Jobs: Mayan; Yucateco; Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Typology: Researcher (Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Other Specialties: Corpus Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Field Research Description: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Language and Literature, Department German Language and Linguistics seeks to fill the position of a researcher (=Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in) – E 13 TV-L HU (Third-party funding until 12/31/2027). Field of duty (a) collaboration in the DFG-funded research project A06 "Modeling Register Variation across Languages” of SFB1412 “Register”; (b) r

Jobs: Mayan; Yucateco; Linguistic Theories, Morphology, Semantics, Syntax, Typology: Researcher (Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Hey graduate student esp in #linguistics but also everywhere: The third edition of Monica Macaulay’s guide to surviving graduate school is out! www.cascadilla.com/surviving.html

Oh huch. Noch mehr Fakten!

"Deutschlandticket trägt sich finanziell selbst

CDU und SPD streiten um Geld für das 58-Euro-Ticket. Dabei übersteigt sein volkswirtschaftlicher Nutzen seine Kosten, zeigt eine Studie."

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Vor 54 Jahren brachte der "Stern" eine von Alice Schwarzer initiierte spektakuläre Selbstbezichtigungskampagne.
374 Frauen, z.T. Prominente wie Romy Schneider und Senta Berger, bekannten "Wir haben abgetrieben". Die Reformbestrebungen des §218 wurden neu angefacht.

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Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

Amazing account of ChatGPT's sycophancy and confabulation on steroids.

amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

💣 praatpicture version 1.4.0 on CRAN! 💣 (1/3)

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!