@nfdykes.bsky.social
Corpus linguist at @dhssfau.bsky.social @fau.de 🏳️⚧️ he/him nfdykes.github.io
A lecture by @mariannagracheva.bsky.social at the Interdisciplinary Linguistic Colloquium Augsburg (ILKA).
ILKA addresses current issues in language, communication, and language culture, bringing together Romance, English, German, and computational linguistics at the University of Augsburg.
📰DHSS Newsletter!
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September 17 | 10-11 CEST Frazer Heritage (Manchester Metropolitan University) Caveman Theories, Modern Misogyny: Evolutionary Psychology in Incel Fora October 29 | 12-13 CET Veronika Laippala (University of Turku) Mining Digital Discourse(s) from the Multilingual Web November 5 | 15-16 CET Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (UNC Charlotte) Forgiveness? in Post-Digital Societies: A Technosocial and Metapragmatic Perspective December 17 | 10-11 CET Ylva Biri (University of Helsinki) Expertise and Engagement in YouTube informational videos: Case studies on the finance advice genre Join the Zoom room: https://tinyurl.com/talkddi
Last talk of the 2025 season on December 17 (maybe add it to your calendar?)
This time, we are giving the floor to the DD&I co-chair
@ylvabiri.bsky.social: "Expertise and Engagement in YouTube informational videos: the finance advice genre"
Everyone is welcome! Feel free to share 🐦🐦🐦
Call for Papers 💥DEADLINE EXTENSION!💥 Our Call for Papers will now close on 19th December 2025! We look forward to receiving your proposals and seeing you all next June! Submit your abstract here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal...
14.11.2025 09:42 — 👍 10 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Join us for the next DH Colloquium: Prof. Dr. Uhrig (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) on Digital Linguistics & Big Data. His research spans cognitive linguistics, Construction Grammar, collocation, corpus & computational linguistics, lexicography, and large multimodal datasets with data science & ML methods.
10.11.2025 13:07 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Part of the Digital Humanities series of lectures, Digital Humanities in Focus: Methods, Applications, and Perspectives, held at the University of Rostock.
A lecture today by Prof. Anastasia Glawion.
The lecture will be held online via Zoom. More info: www.germanistik.uni-rostock.de/forschung/di...
Hard to believe this was almost a month ago – it was great to meet so many talented and thoughtful people! #DHSS2025
18.10.2025 15:55 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If 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. 💖
23.09.2025 00:24 — 👍 1605 🔁 354 💬 15 📌 17
“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
Sabine Lang leading a discussion where participants interpret 14th century sculptures.
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
24.09.2025 14:42 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Now @nfdykes.bsky.social is setting out to make connections between close & distant reading
#DHSS2025
@rc21project.bsky.social
Photo from the back of a seminar room. The slide shows a network of word overlap in a topic model.
In today's extended network analysis session with @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social, we're covering topics from fanfiction to war discussions #DHSS2025
23.09.2025 09:48 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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
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
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 🥳
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.
Eigentlich hatte ich ja nicht vor, heute bedroht zu werden /j
20.09.2025 16:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Explore 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.
Registration is closed, planes are booked, and preparations are in their final stage.
Check out the full program and stay tuned!
How can concordances help us study gender in 19th-century fiction?
In just a couple of weeks, @nfdykes.bsky.social represents #RC21 at #DHSS2025 to explore with participants how FlexiConc contributes to #DataGenderSociety!
go.fau.de/1cadb
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!
Great to the schedule for the #DHSS2025 summer school out! An amazing programme is waiting for our participants ☺️
#DataGenderSociety #DH #DigitalHumanities
go.fau.de/1cadb
Sign posted in the library reading “this room is now alarmed 24/7”
Me too, room, me too.
09.09.2025 08:30 — 👍 37 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
I'm delighted to welcome Ismail Barakat to the Text & Language Lab @dhssfau.bsky.social
Ismail joins us as Media & Research Communications Producer and we are looking forward to some exciting comms projects!
#digitalhumanities
#watchthisspace
www.dhss.phil.fau.de/person/dr-is...
📚 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 🙏
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"
🚨 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
02.09.2025 11:19 — 👍 30 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 3
Me standing next to our poster. On the other side of the poster is a laptop showing a team photo
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/...
Poorly localised LinkedIn job ad, where the German description searching for several people is phrased as: "Deutsche Bundesbank is hiring a Mehrere Data Analysts".
Are you interested in becoming several data analysts? Apparently, you're in luck! /j
23.08.2025 09:42 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0it 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
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.
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.
