Robin Edds 🏳️‍🌈

Thank you Kit Marie for the invite and thank you for the chat! I really enjoyed the topics we discussed and the questions people asked!

This is disgusting, and dehumanizing, and unfortunately coming to damn near every platform you can think of. Multilingualism isn’t an inconvenience to be “solved” by technology. We have to push back.

A ELF CHARLOTTE GEATER elf diaries I. long ago in the kingdoms of elfin sitting down to dinner with one piece of bread crumbling & an old green leaf i still had my baby name then i soothed burnt herbs under my tongue i can't remember their faces just that everything receded i can go for years without drawing in like a bowstring / one breath

2. out and other in before i speak of nights in baldur's gate cruising beneath birds who curse me back and bring me scraps of peaceable lies for white hairs and mice meat intact but cold for lack of blood. it is hard to remember a time when i fell anything other than this winter asleep caught in my eyelashes like a snowflake unmolten. 3. if once long ago spoken aloud a different. this one spell stitched into my locket. breaking into cellars and cupboards. the taste of scorched wine passes through me as an astral cloud as i pass through old streets reading on parchment what i do not remember learning. what was it for

when i was a different matter of being. the same shape but in a different place. 4. the words are long gone and will not return but a melody from two centuries ago under the moon plucked from our night dark lakes & pinned up in the sky. sings to me when i fall not asleep, but the sleep of the dead. i crook myself in the darling arm i have claimed, bitten tenderly and in a hundred years i will still be. not much remains. i have faith that the same feet will walk silver and dainty but bitten all over by fleas. to find nothing there but lead and vapour. dried in coastal mud.

and after centuries more you will walk with me in daylight and the sky's new lamp beneath oaken groves of old and lost and our new names

my copy of Ragged Band of Travellers: writing from the threshold of dungeons & dragons is here!

I have a poem in this one about that mysterious figure, a fantasy of long, long life twice over — an elfin vampire.

My own ideas around this topic are shaped by my personal experiences with colonial history, settle in for a bit of story time if you want to follow along this tale of three parts.

1. How to say “tired” in Bislama
Bislama is the national language of Vanuatu. 1/x

The LingComm Grants are back!

These grants started in 2020, as "hey let's help get lingcomm projects going during lockdown"

They've since run in 2022 and 2024, and thanks to generous folks we've always given out more than expected

But they only work if people apply!!! Please share this!!

(linguistics) pals, a student of mine is conducting a short (<10 minutes) perception study on Child Directed Speech -- open to all L1 speakers of English who have grown up in & live in the UK! 🐦🐦

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hey i wrote an article about folk names for birds and you should check it out!!!

open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...

Come work with us! 🌟 3 Postdoc & 5 PhD positions – deadline for applications: 20 February.

www.curlew.info/jobs

"Begs the question" to mean "prompts/suggests the question" rather than "is circular" makes me a little sad - I think the less literal meaning is pretty useful. Always cool to see how meanings drift, though

it's twelfth night, time to celebrate by finding a loyal sea captain to save you from drowning and fall hopelessly in love with you, then abandon him to rot in jail so you can marry your sister's star-crossed girlfriend

Caedmon’s Cross, erected in honour of the earliest English poet whose name is known, in the graveyard of St Mary’s Church in Whitby in 1898. Cædmon (657–684) cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonæshalch (now known as Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy of St. Hilda (657–680).

The thing is: “remigration” is already happening. Far from the comments sections underneath pieces of writing like these, where people exchange anguished or angry words about the future of Germany and the country’s soul, people are already leaving. Foreigners out, cry the protesters, and in some sense they are getting their wish. Every few weeks, I go to check in on a friend or acquaintance and find that they are either in the process of packing their bags or they are gone, gone, gone. In general the white ones are staying in Europe and the non-white ones are putting an entire ocean between themselves and here. Germany’s problem isn’t the loud migrants like me. It’s the ones who right now are leaving silently, never to return.

Last week I checked in on a friend, someone who I thought would be one of the very last immigrants (who have any other options) to leave Germany, only to find that they and their family are already in the process of leaving. Their explicit reason: the rise of fascism. Very, very disturbing times.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Cfp: Henry Sweet Society Colloquium 2026 The 2026 annual colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas will be held on 2–4 September 2026 at the University of Nottingham, UK. Confirmed plenary speaker: Cécile V…

The next Henry Sweet Society (@henrysweetsoc.bsky.social) Colloquium will be held on 2-4 September 2026 at the University of Nottingham (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social).

Thematic focus: (Non-)Native Speakers in the History of Linguistic Ideas

CfP: hiphilangsci.net/2025/11/08/c...

#Histlx

Opening for PhD position (3.5 years) on

Language Evolution | Computational Modeling | Primate Communication

Joint project with @marlenfroehlich.bsky.social & @elmanubohn.bsky.social at @unituebingen.bsky.social in CRC "Common Ground".

Share, apply, or reach out for details!

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has anyone written about the process of conversational repair in analog games? specifically thinking about stuff like:
- "i move my meeple 5 spaces" "i think it's 6 spaces"
- "oh, last turn i should've given you an extra 3 tokens. do you want them now?"
- "it's too late now, but for next time..."

PhD student in Linguistics, sign language The Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University conducts research and offers education in a number of areas such as child language development, computational linguistics, general linguistics, ph

🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨

The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism)

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Deadline: 15 October 2025

We all wrote to the BBC (a few times 😅), and were told it was to provide value-for-money for UK licence fee payers, then were directed to the poorly made BBC app

It sounds stupid, but my family and I are all big BBC radio listeners, and it's been surprisingly hard to get used to it just not being there! Nothing's on demand, surprisingly few podcasts, no Proms etc... Even a VPN doesn't really work because they quickly work out which IP addresses to block

Why I withdrew my book from an LGBTQ+ literary prize | Jason Okundaye The Polari first book prize claims to promote trans rights and trans voices. But when I saw the longlist, I had to act, says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye

I wrote about the decision myself and other authors took to withdraw from the longlist of the Polari Book Prizes for LGBTQ+ writers www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/

Bye, weird fruit! You were fun!

corporations on july 1st:

Our large-scale interdisciplinary research initiative @unituebingen.bsky.social on "Common Ground" now has a website: uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/...

We are also hiring! Check out recent postings here and the continually added job ads here:
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#linguistics + friends

Ah, amazing, thank you! Just what I was looking for

Couldn't find a post from any of the organisers to reskeet, but more than happy to if someone can point me in the direction of one

There's a new Collaborative Research Center focusing on the common ground at the University of Tübingen (where I did my MA), with a variety of really cool looking PhD and postdoc opportunities in linguistics starting in October: uni-tuebingen.de/en/283575

Two bottles of black coffee in a fridge

'BRITISH PLATFORM'
'PUBLIC HOUSE COFFEE'
'Travelcard' and more here on this cold coffee brand which links Britain, subways, travel, and coffee in ways I find a bit surprising. All part of the coffee #LinguisticLandscape of Korea!

Wolfram: “the best studies are those that combine quantitative study and case studies, because we don’t want to lose the people who tell us what’s going on in their lives” ❤️ #NWAV52 #linguistics

Make your theoretical syntax classroom more LGBTQ-friendly with these 5 quick tips! Theoretical linguistics is not necessarily a space that excludes queer linguists outright — hell, we named our LGBTQ Linguistics award after Arnold Zwicky, a prolific syntactician (among othe…

In a move surprising Probably No One, I have written about syntax pedagogy! This time for COZIL's blog: here's my five quick tips on how to make your syntax #linguistics classroom more LGBTQ+ friendly!

lgbtqlinguistics.wordpress.com/2024/10/18/m...