Katja Politt

Wozu noch Grammatik in der Schule?

Am 6. November 2025 um 18:15 sprechen genau darüber Anke Haupt (BLiQ), Barbara Schlücker (@bschluecker.bsky.social) und Regina Ultze (@senbjf.bsky.social) 🤩

🔗 www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/pr...

@berlinscienceweek.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

Happy to announce there will be a second workshop on evaluative morphology 🥳 Welcome to Alicante!

👀 #konstanz #UniKonstanz #linguistics #linguistik

Ausschreibung

Befristet 3 Jahre: Mittelniederdeutsche Grammatik Postdoc Stelle in Hamburg www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

🇧🇪 Academics in Belgium: what is your perception of the current level of academic freedom in the country? The Federal Human Rights Institute needs your input - seize the opportunity and voice any concerns you may have. (I do have concerns, and I tried to make them very clear.)
Survey in NL, FR, EN.

Darf man klauen? 🥺

Gru's plan meme. Panel 1: Hide a thing in the syllabus to test whether students read it. Panel 2: "Please send me a cute picture of a red panda". Panel 3: Everybody sends me an e-mail. Panel 4: Everybody sends me an e-mail.

It's all fun and games until you suddenly have like 300 people in your classes 😆😅 On the plus side: I've got a lot of cute panda pictures now!

Ihr wollt #Syntagma selbst in euren Kursen einsetzen und in euer #ILIAS importieren? Auf @twillo.bsky.social gibt es jetzt sowohl das Gesamtpaket als auch alle einzelnen Komponenten zum Download & Import: www.twillo.de/edu-sharing/... Hier findet ihr auch eine Anleitung und Checkliste! ✅🐲

Speculative Grammarian, a long-running publication of satirical linguistics, is winding down specgram.com #linguistics

Eine Postkarte von Pre Raphaelite Girls Explaining: Nein, Herr, die deutsche Sprache stirbt nicht, nur Ihr.

Bürotür ist auch dekoriert, das Semester kann kommen

YouTube video by Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities Evening of Languages 2025 at Leiden University

Avond van de talen - de aftermovie!
Volgend jaar kan je weer allerlei talen tegenkomen op deze leuke avond 🤩
m.youtube.com/watch?v=TAc4...

Jetzt noch bis Mittwoch, 15.10.25, Abstracts zur Methodenmesse auf unserer #IDSJT26 einreichen! ✍️

Habe erst Konfekt gelesen, aber so auch okay

Schlüsselanhänger mit Zitat aus Doctor Who: We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one.

In diesem Sinne: Schönen Vorlesungsbeginn!

Decision on your manuscript

Biggest revelation so far has been how much fun I'm actually having with this

When I re-took the Intro to Bayes in at #MILS2025 this year, @shravanvasishth.bsky.social said, that probably, our maths foundations are shaky. And of I'm honest to myself, yes, they are. So I've since challenged myself to review them. This train ride has e.g. been full of mathematical induction 😅

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Wortbildung in freier Wildbahn wieder wild

Mayochup (Bild aus einem Aldi-Prospekt)

Entschuldigen Sie, haben Sie Ketchunnaise? Nein, nur

Wasn't there a calculator for academic grant writing where you put in amount of funds, chance of getting funded, and estimated hours of preparing the proposal to calculate whether it's worth applying at all?

Or a formula? Please, I need it.

🔍 Im November veranstalten wir ein eintägiges Kolloquium zur Autorschaftsanalyse: https://staff.germanistik.rub.de/kolloquium-autorschaftsanalyse/
Die Anmeldung ist noch bis 30.10. möglich!
Boost erwünscht 🙏
#linguistik #variation #autorschaft #nlproc

Prospektangebot für Böller, Höllenlichter genannt

Höllische #Tristaben: hellleuchtend

Sich sorgen und für andere sorgen ist halt leider anstrengende Handarbeit, egal ob in der Schule oder an der Uni oder in der Carearbeit, aber statt dass der Aufwand und der Nutzen von solcher Arbeit anerkannt wird, bekommen wir Ratgeber für das gute Prompten, diese Bagatellisierung regt mich auf.

Statistical errors undermine claims about the evolution of polysynthetic languages | PNAS Statistical errors undermine claims about the evolution of polysynthetic languages

Out now in PNAS: Statistical errors undermine claims about the evolution of #polysynthetic #languages by Alex Koplenig and me: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

This is a comment on Bromham et al.'s doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

#linguistics 🧶 coming up...

Screenshot einer E-Mail von ILIAS, dass ich das Badge für das Mensa-Gasthaus erhalten habe

Semestervorbereitungen: #Syntagma von ILIAS 7 auf ILIAS 5 importieren, anpassen und gucken, ob alles soweit funktioniert 🐲

ibäh!

Duolingo screenshot for "my aunt from Morocco is coming next week", referencing the children's song "ik heb een tante uit/in Marokko"

Well they did take other opportunities for cultural resonance

Wann endlich EU-Entscheidung über die vielen tragischen Verwechslungsfälle mit Scheuermilch

The Konstanz Linguistics Conference 2025 (KLC25) is an early-career research conference taking place at the University of Konstanz, starting tomorrow (Thur 9th Oct). The event provides a platform for early-career researchers to share their research and engage in discussions across subfields. (1/3)