Raoul Schubert

Chart showing m to f dialogue proportion

The proportion of female to male dialogue in Final Fantasy. #advx25

World Linguistics Day World Linguistics Day is November 26th: what are you doing to celebrate?

World Linguistics Day is coming up on November 26th!

Have you made any plans yet to celebrate?
lingcomm.org/2025/10/26/w...

Hold up

When I woke up today, the first thing I did was explain to one of my students what an accusativus cum infinitivo construction is

Wish I could send a screenshot of that email to my high school Latin teacher 😆

Sweet potato fries and anything with cheese are my go-tos usually!

Natalie Portman in Black Swan being menaced by a doppelganger in the mirror

When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs

Making the case for an AI metaphor observatory Between 2023 and 2025 I have written various posts on GenAI, Large Language Models and metaphors: one where I went out hunting for metaphors; one where I had a chat with ChatGTP about metaphors for…

In this week's post I make the case for an #AI #metaphor observatory tracking how we think and talk about and act on GenAI and LLMs makingsciencepublic.com/2025/11/14/m...

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

This new LOTM Starter Pack is slowly starting to grow. It takes some time and searching, but today, the latest additions are people who have been interviewed for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast.
Key takeaways: there are quite a few episodes and only some are on Bluesky, but they include:

Very happy, despite not being able to attend in person!

I'm catching a very descriptivist vibé here

Survey – Schreibung, Definition, Bedeutung, Beispiele | DWDS DWDS – Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Link to dictionary entry: www.dwds.de/wb/Survey

Wrap your head around this:
The loanword "Survey" in German is masculine (der Survey)

The four German synonyms given here are all feminine (die Untersuchung, die Studie, die Erhebung, die Vermessung)

Friend's child didn't know the word "linguist", so he called me a "languager"

I hereby gratefully accept that title 😆

Original Japanese version for reference (specifically the 騒がない part)

Love that they used "horseplay" on this poster at our local gym, no tomfoolery allowed!

Very excited about having our article published in the journal Studies in Linguistics and Language Education (SLLE) 😄

Is anyone aware of research on how character limit influences word choice on social media?

#linguistics #langsky

I am incredibly happy to share that our paper "CompoST: A Benchmark for Analyzing the Ability of LLMs To Compositionally Interpret Questions in a QALD Setting" has been accepted as a research track paper at ISWC @iswc-conf.bsky.social! Stay tuned for the paper and see you all in Japan!

On a brick wall, a street sign: RAMPANT HORSE ST.

One of the great street names.

The first article of our first issue is available now!

Check out Johannes Kreiselmeier's article on structural coherence and the Great Vowel Shift: srel.ub.uni-muenchen.de/index.php/srel

Talk to your students about publishing with us! 📣

Come on guys just use the robot, pay money to use the robot. You can trust the robot, just believe what the robot says. Nothing could go wrong, just give money to the people who make the robot work so they can fire you it'll be fine nothing could go wrong.

Text of the call for papers which can be found here: https://jov.arvojournals.org/ss/visionlanguageinterface.aspx

Hello vision scientists & linguists! The Journal of Vision is publishing a special issue on “The Vision-Language Interface.” Send in your research about reading, perceptual learning, sign language, dyslexia, etc! jov.arvojournals.org/ss/visionlan... #neuroskyence #VisionScience #PsychSciSky

atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

German media bias falsely inflates crime by foreigners – DW – 10/18/2025 Violent crimes committed by foreigners are covered in the media far more frequently than is justified by their share in police crime statistics, a new study has found.

Here's the link btw: www.dw.com/en/german-me...

Can't even pretend to be shocked, once you noticed you couldn't unsee all the weirdly specific references to (foreign) nationalities

The pomodoro method never let's me down when it comes to working through monotonous spreadsheet maintenance

Picture of a laptop showing an Overleaf document featuring interlinear glosses of Japanese utterances. There's a much needed can of energy drink positioned to the left of the screen.

Sunday afternoon is glossing time