Donald Trump has lost touch with reality At 10:35 this morning, Donald J. Trump took a break from praising authoritarians on social media and sat down behind the long mahogany table inside the White House Cabinet Room for his first meeting w...

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Program Workshop Deciphering Multimodal Hate

Hate comes in many forms and especially the role that (audio)visuals play in our social media communication has not been addressed systematically.

This is what we will do in a new collab between NL & D. First impressions:

12 February 2026
11.00-15.30, including lunch!
Norman Building

A green background with white and bright green text that reads "Help shape the future of the CogSci Society and apply to be a member of the STUDENT COMMITTEE". To the right of the text, there are two simple, light green icons of people. An arrow connects the top icon to a graduation cap icon, which then connects to the bottom icon, symbolizing a path of learning and development.

The Cognitive Science Society is looking for new members for its Student Committee!

Open to current members enrolled in MA or PhD programs (any country 🌍)

Apply by November 14!
cognitivesciencesociety.org/get-involved/

How Trump is Following Hitler's Playbook | Robert Reich Robert Reich

Using threats of violence to gain power.

Targeting political enemies.

Undermining the free press.

Pumping huge sums of money into the police state.

Just a few months into his second term, Donald Trump is already following the dictator's playbook to a tee.

RTG - Universität Bielefeld Der SFB setzt sich für eine qualitativ hochwertige Ausbildung von Doktoranden und Postdoktoranden ein und bietet Nachwuchswissenschaftlern ein Umfeld, das es ihnen ermöglicht, ihr Potenzial voll zu en...

📆 Reminder! Application deadline for incoming researchers (PhD students & postdocs) is August 31st!

If you want to come work with us in Bielefeld, apply for one of our scholarships. We would love to have you! More infos here 👉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/sfb/sfb1646/...

#BLinguistik #linguistics

The Trumping of America Robert Reich

What do Trump’s terrible job numbers mean for the economy?
Are Democrats finally standing up to AIPAC?
What fallout can we expect from Trump’s latest tariffs?
We answer the biggest questions of the week on the Coffee Klatch.

https://youtu.be/KKKlprOrUoY

Aerial photograph of Radboud University campus with the Erasmus tower in the foreground: tallest building in Nijmegen & home to the Futures of Language project. Source: RU

We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL

Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...

#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci

Thank you for five years of regular sessions with a wide variety of talks and stimulating discussions.
Will the archives stay available for a while (for registered users)?

Visual AI politics/politics of visual AI: Digital Politics Summer School 2025 24-27 June, online Our Digital Politics Summer School is celebrating its fifth anniversary! This year, the school is focusing on visual generative AI. Details of speakers, call for workshop participat...

The program and (free) registration for online 𝗗𝗶𝗴𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 "𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 / 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗜", 𝟮𝟰-𝟮𝟳 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲, are available! digitalpoliticsmanmet.bloggi.co/visual-ai-po...

There is still chance to get the best rate and attend our cutting edge conference on recent advances on multimodal language and gesture studies👍👍👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼@isgs2025

Landbouw, geen roofbouw! Het huidige landbouwsysteem: 1. stoot te veel broeikas- en andere schadelijke gassen uit (CO₂ én stikstof én methaan),  2. vervuilt het water, 3. doodt steeds meer natuur en verstoort ecosystemen...

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/la...

Niet de hoogste bieder, maar de meest duurzame boer!

Gisteren overhandigden we een open brief en handreiking pacht aan gemeente Leiderdorp. De oproep? Kies voor duurzame landbouw bij verpachting van grond, in plaats van voor de hoogste bieder. En dat willen we natuurlijk in alle gemeenten!

A map showing over 1,000 events planned for Saturday across the US (plus Canada, England, France, and Portugal).

This is the Hands Off! map for Saturday. Nearly 400,000 people have signed up to attend over 1,000 events in all 50 states. We hope to see you in the streets in two days to let Trump and Musk know they can’t intimidate us into submission: handsoff2025.com?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Thanks to @nataliialaba.com, our journal is now on BlueSky! 🥳

Please follow and stay informed about visual communication scholarship!

12ICOM Groningen 12th International Conference on Multimodality in Groningen

#12ICOM Update

🔴 You can now register for the conference and save your spot for the conference dinner.

🔴 A preliminary schedule is also available to plan your travel to and stay in Groningen: bit.ly/12ICOM

💥 I am so looking forward to this conference and everyone coming to Groningen! 💥

Starting slide for the presentation of the MA 'Communication Studies' during the Master Open Online Week at University of Groningen

Before doing all things TikTok, I will also present our brand new Master program 'Communication Studies' @unigroningen.bsky.social.

It's the Master Open Online Week!

Find more details at
bit.ly/m/RUG-MA-CIS
- and share this with your students!

Discover PATHWAYS TO MULTIMODALITY, our new series edited by John A. Bateman, Jana Pflaeging (@janapflaeging.bsky.social‬), Hartmut Stöckl & Janina Wildfeuer (@neous.bsky.social), exploring multimodality research across disciplines—now open for proposals. Celebrate our editors’ visionary leadership!

Today, UG staff members strike in protest against the cuts to higher education. Staff members will put their work on hold to draw attention to the disastrous consequences.

The Board supports the message; they will wear red squares as a sign of protest. Will you join? 🟥
www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

The Bremen-Groningen Online Workshops on Multimodality THE BREMEN-GRONINGEN ONLINE WORKSHOPS ON MULTIMODALITY #BreGroMM fridays, 1.00PM- 4.00PM (Berlin time)online via Zoom Our series is now an established event in the context of multimodalit...

New rounds of #BreGroMM coming up:
The next session is on #identity:
Friday, 21 March 2025, 1.00pm Dutch time (GMT+1)
online via Zoom
bit.ly/BreGroMM - registration open!

Please also the program for the coming months, we have an exciting line-up!

In many cities, universities and colleges are closing their doors for a day, in protest against the proposed cuts in higher education. The strike is an initiative of, among others, @woinactie.bsky.social, the @aob.nl and @fnv.bsky.social, the student unions and various action groups.

This is a cordial invitation to our two-day event *Speaking for Change, Speaking about Change* 24-25 February 2025, Groningen, NL. responsus.org/clades/congr... #languageawareness #IDG #criticalthinking #transformativeeducation

⏰📢The “TaalX2: #Discourses of #Discrimination” series returns on Jan 31, 2025, (15:00-17:00) w/ a lecture by
@samtbennett.bsky.social (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) on "Myths and Silences of Empire in British Immigration Discourse." sites.google.com/rug.nl/taalx... join us online/in person!

Warum Comics ein spannendes Forschungsfeld sind, kann man gerade supergut bei @realscide.bsky.social nachlesen, wo @chrismey2203.bsky.social diese Woche das Sagen hat. ⤵️

De eerste donaties zijn binnen! Dankjewel! 🌱

Ook lokaal impact maken? Als bedrijf kan je Land van Ons ondersteunen. Elke donatie draagt bij aan ons doel: het en herstellen van biodiversiteit in NL en natuurinclusieve biologische landbouw stimuleren.

Ook mee doen? 👉 landvanons.nl/bedrijven

We are delighted to announce that the applications for the free Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics 2025 are now open! Join us this summer at @lancasteruni.bsky.social to learn more about corpora and their applications.

16-20 June 2025

More information: wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummer...

🔔🚨 Two weeks left to submit an abstract to our Divisional ICA pre-conference on visual communication in times of social change (deadline Feb 1) -

Still thinking of submitting an abstract for #CL2025? Good news - you have an extra week!

Extended (and final) deadline for paper, poster, panel and workshop submissions: Friday 24th January 2025 (23:59 GMT)

www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...

Black and white photographs of Victor Ferreira (left) and Fernanda Ferreira (right) who will be jointly giving the Nijmegen Lectures in January 2025.

Don't miss the Nijmegen Lectures, a unique 3-day series of talks & discussion by renowned psychologists @fernandaedi.bsky.social & Victor Ferreira, Jan 7-9, 2025! Topics will span the psycholinguistic continuum from intention to articulation. More info & registration here: www.mpi.nl/events/nijme...

Ok!! After reviewing many applications for ECR large scale projects and seeing recommendation letters I notice that letters for women focus more on personality traits that intellectual merit and achievements than for men 😩😩 letter writers and reviewers take note!!!