Sofia Rüdiger

Ready and energized for the final week of the semester thanks to a fantastic foodie weekend: plov @ Uzbek Eats, Dinner with Friends menu @ Midnight Kitchen, various tidbits @ Good Friends. Rest of the week = commuter dinners (whatever is fast and needs using up in the fridge 🫠)

Jellyfish in blue light

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💙 Helsinki! I stayed there for a few months in 2022 as a visiting researcher and it was amazing!

looks like Finland is the place to be for conferencing this year, #OctoConf 19-20 November in Tampere and #CMCcorpora 27-28 August in Oulu: cmc2026.org/call/
What a delight to be co-organizing the former and giving a keynote at the latter 😊

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI Women in rural communities describe trauma of moderating violent and pornographic content for global tech companies

I’m furious at AI because it steals our work, consumes vast resources and produces mediocrity, but along the way it also traumatises the people - mainly in the developing world - who are paid a pittance to train it. Theft, abuse, environmental destruction, all to make rich men richer. Burn it all.

Stuck on the way to work and on a bus now...because it's too snowy for the subway to run? 🤔

Confs: Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language How do we persuade someone to act against their initial intentions? How do we reshape what they think about an issue? Language is our most powerful tool for influence. We use it to convince, persuade, cajole, and coax, often without even realizing it. Words mold opinions, shift attitudes, and guide behavior. This symposium places the persuasive power of language at its very core. Linguists have traditionally examined the workings of persuasive language in institutionalized discourses, draw

Confs: Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language

Green badges with digital palates conference label and my name and affiliation

We're at the badge printing stage 😱 #DigitalPalates

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hoping it's not desk rejected faster than the time it took me to complete the submission prompts...😅

Screenshot "Submitted to Journal"

now that took about two hours longer than expected, but manuscript submitted 🎉

Extra time! Deadline extended to 5 Feb 😊

Sign to Wannsee

Involuntary sightseeing due to most of public transport being on strike. Seemed nicer in my imagination 🙈

Registration for the 2026 Corpora and Discourse Conference is now... open! Please follow the link below to register, and do so by 5th April to get the early bird price! wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/reg... @lancslinguistics.bsky.social @sosslancaster.bsky.social

The octopus conference is back! 🐙
"Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language", Nov 19-20, 2026, Tampere University, Finland
#LanguageAndPersuasion #Linguistics #OctoConf

View of a snowy valley

#SundayFunday with a view

Wang mandu in a steamer right before steaming

My precious 🥟

CfP: Digital Foodscapes: Ernährung, Technik und Gesellschaft im Wandel
Panel 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie
vom 28.09.-02.10.2026 an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
👉Deadline 31.03.2026
Alle Infos gibt's hier:
kongress2026.soziologie.de/fileadmin/us...

"Recipe" on schokokuss package

How to upset people from Berlin:
1) call the depicted pastry a "Berliner"
2) suggest cutting it open
3) and adding a schokokuss

(Tested in my Language and Food class taught in Berlin 😇)

Happening in ~three hours today 📽️👩‍🍳

#FoodTok goes #BaeFoLa!

#LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

DM me for Zoom link if you want to join spontaneously!

komplett vereister gehweg

freie fahrbahn für autos

Berlin ist wenn im Winter die Fahrbahn der einzige Weg für Fußgänger ist, sich nicht das Bein zu brechen.

Sushi shoes

When people at work have better food fashion game than you do 🍣

Two boxes of "Super Dickmann's"

Course prep 😇

part of conference poster "Digital P(a)lates" showing pixelated fruit on a cutting board

The book of abstracts for "Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices" is ready & available online 🎉 Couldn't be more delighted to meet so many smart language and food scholars presenting on such delightful topics in ~ 2 months! 🍔🍜🥗

tinyurl.com/DigitalPalat...

#LanguageAndFood

Poster of Muriel Norde’s talk with the title: Morphological creativity and productivity: an integrated approach. The event takes place on 3 February 2026 at Freie Universität Berlin

Our final speaker this semester is Muriel Norde (@nordemuriel.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social) presenting a new approach to the intersection of productivity and creativity within the CxG framework 🤩

🔗 www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/dcl/veran...

#DahlemLecturesInLinguistics

omg, kannte ich noch nicht! Danke 🤩

😍 Lieblingslektüre als Kind (wir hatten natürlich auch einen besonderen bias dafür)

The only legit Rüdiger

Email starting with "Dear Rüdiger"

Ok, the first time I think it's an accident. The second time I start to get annoyed.

Oh nein!! Heute? Weil ausgerechnet heute habe ich einen Übernachtungsgast da, ansonsten hättest du sehr gerne bei mir unterkommen können (für drei Leute ist es bei mir leider wirklich zu klein 😓)