Simon David Stein

Curious what gender linguistics means to us? Our editorial statement outlines our understanding of the field and the place of our journal within it - check it out!

on the left, the cover of the journal gender linguistics, its logo consists of a conjoined uppercase G and L. on the right, the following text: a community-owned journal for gender linguistic research, peer-reviewed, open access, no publication costs, multilingual publishing; below the text, there is the link to the journal website and a qr code.

One highlight of LILG 2025: the official launch of the new open-access journal Gender Linguistics!

Published by our association, the journal will be a space for research at all linguistic intersections of language and gender.

Learn more: gender-linguistics.org

#linguistics #journal #launch

AI policy and guidelines - Joe McVeigh.docx You are strictly prohibited from using Generative AI (GenAI) or Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and Grok, for research or writing assignments. Any submitted wor...

Unfortunately, my policy on AI has grown by quite a few sources over the last year. Here it is for anyone who wants to adopt or adapt it for their courses. And if you have ideas, I'm all ears.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

Linguistic intersections of language and gender Linguists have been interested in the relation of language and gender for a long time, yet only recently has the field diversified extensively in both its research questions and its methods. However, ...

@terrorstein.bsky.social, Viktoria Schneider & I have just published our edited volume "Linguistic intersections of language and gender"!

Check it out: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Thanks to all contributors - we're proud of what we've created together!

#linguistics #gender #openaccess

🚨 URGENT!

Conversion practices aim to change or suppress who LGBTQ+ people are. They’re harmful, degrading, and condemned as torture by the UN.
The EU must act!

Sign the ECI to ban them across Europe and share the link!

✍🏻 eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#...

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

Preamble All research at our institution, from ideation and execution to analysis and reporting, is bound by the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity. This code specifies five core values that organise and inform research conduct: Honesty, Scrupulousness, Transparency, Independence and Responsibility. One way to summarise the guidelines in this document is to say they are about taking these core values seriously. When it comes to using Generative AI in or for research, the question is if and how this can be done honestly, scrupulously, transparently, independently, and responsibly. A key ethical challenge is that most current Generative AI undermines these values by design [3–5; details below]. Input data is legally questionable; output reproduces biases and erases authorship; fine-tuning involves exploitation; access is gated; versioning is opaque; and use taxes the environment. While most of these issues apply across societal spheres, there is something especially pernicious about text generators in academia, where writing is not merely an output format but a means of thinking, crediting, arguing, and structuring thoughts. Hollowing out these skills carries foundational risks. A common argument for Generative AI is a promise of higher productivity [5]. Yet productivity does not equal insight, and when kept unchecked it may hinder innovation and creativity [6, 7]. We do not need more papers, faster; we rather need more thoughtful, deep work, also known as slow science [8–10]. For these reasons, the first principle when it comes to Generative AI is to not use it unless you can do so honestly, scrupulously, transparently, independently and responsibly. The ubiquity of tools like ChatGPT is no reason to skimp on standards of research integrity; if anything, it requires more vigilance.

A year ago our faculty commissioned & adopted guidance on GenAI and research integrity. Preamble below, pdf at osf.io/preprints/os..., text also at ideophone.org/generative-a...

Key to these guidelines is a values-first rather than a technology-first approach, based on NL code of research conduct

🗣️ Calling all linguists! The Call for Papers for LILG 2 – Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender – is open until 31 March!

📅 Event date: 12-13 August 2025
📌 Hybrid: Düsseldorf @ @hhu.bsky.social + online

Details and submission 👉 lilg.div-ling.org

#linguistics #gender

FYI: Heinrich Heine in your Mother Tongue!: To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the University Heinrich Heine (Düsseldorf, Germany) and International Moher Language Day you can listen to the Poem "Die Loreley" by Heinrich Heine in more than 35 languages including some (very) endangered languages…

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity.

TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

How do you even make a violin sound like that. Amazing stuff

New business idea: a poop machine.
Plan:
1. We steal everything and turn it into poop.
2. We convince everyone they need poop.
3. Somebody has to invent a new power source to keep up the poop production.
4. We need billions of investment to make it profitable.

Flawless.

SOON

"But why won't you, academic, help improve the World Eating Plagiarism Death Sphere, that we built to destroy your field and our world and fund it through the theft of your work? Why are you so negative about it?"

They are extremely holdable.

Conference poster titled "Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender," inviting papers on gender-related topics, hosted at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, August 12-13, 2025.

📣 Exciting news!

Join us for LILG 2 – Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender, 12-13 Aug 2025 at @hhu.bsky.social.

Hybrid format 🌐, in-person encouraged.

Details and Call for Papers 👉 lilg.div-ling.org

#linguistics #gender

Here are two of mine; one that's focused more on creating conlangs www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lnc5j... and one that's focused on using conlangs for empirical studies www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ytb05...

A common mistake many new writers make is crafting a character and then, without story justification or world building to support it, making them heterosexual. This leaves readers confused & takes them out of the story.