Christoph Purschke

Christoph Purschke

@questoph.bsky.social

Computational sociolinguist @uni.lu | Head of @cucolab.bsky.social & Luxembourg Studies | Maker of lingscape.app | Life linguistics, digital culture, NLP, philosophy | Bread maker, music nerd, Brömsenknöll-born

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Christoph Purschke
@questoph.bsky.social

Now that this platform seems to be slowly becoming a thing, maybe it's time to introduce some of my projects to the interested scrollerby. They are all based at the University of Luxembourg, where I'm currently working.

Christoph Purschke
@questoph.bsky.social

This cake has strong views on the relation between birthdays and happiness. Still gonna eat, you, cake. This is officially the last piece of #Lingscape birthday cake from our 10th anniversary in September. The baker did a really nice job there with decorating it thematically.

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Christoph Purschke
@questoph.bsky.social

Luxemburg ist, wenn das Parlament den Forschungsförderer dazu anweist, die Doktorandenausbildung der eigenen Uni zu sabotieren, und sich das Hochschulministerium nicht mal für seine Verachtung akademischer Bildung schämt. Macht doch einfach einen PhD bei RTL oder KPMG… 100komma7.lu/news/Neit-Ge...

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MilaNLP Lab
@milanlp.bsky.social

#TBT #NLProc 'Capturing Regional Variation with Distributed Place Representations and Geographic Retrofitting' by @dirkhovy.bsky.social and Christoph Purschke (2018) highlights how social class and background impact technology performance. #TechInclusion aclanthology.org/D18-1469

aclanthology.orgCapturing Regional Variation with Distributed Place Representations and Geographic RetrofittingDirk Hovy, Christoph Purschke. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2018.

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Barbara Plank
@barbaraplank.bsky.social

The new ACL Sustainable Reviewing Policy is out, following an early draft presentation at the ACL 2026 business meeting and input from many members of our community. The policy is now approved by the exec The central idea is: reviewing capacity must grow with submission volume. Key points: (1/n)

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Melusina Press
@melusina-press.bsky.social

Our new #OpenAccess book "#Luxembourg Population #Atlas" is out now, featuring 150 maps that map out how Luxembourg's population is distributed, growing & changing based on the 2021 census. Free to read online at: doi.org/10.26298/1981-5951

doi.orgLe Luxembourg en 150 cartes | Melusina PressÀ travers 150 cartes issues du recensement de 2021, cet atlas offre un regard clair et accessible sur les réalités démographiques du pays : croissance et densité, urbanisation, logements, familles, âg...

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IDS Mannheim
@idsmannheim.bsky.social

📣 Jetzt noch bis morgen, 1.8., zur zweiten Tagung zur Sprachpolitik und Sprachenpolitik anmelden! Die Tagung findet vom 2.9.-4.9.2026 am IDS statt und ist thematisch dem Schwerpunkt Minderheitensprach(en)politik gewidmet. ℹ️ Zum Programm und Anmeldeformular: www.sprachenpolitik.de/tagung/

Christoph Purschke
@questoph.bsky.social

Seit meiner Zeit am Deutschen Sprachatlas befasse ich mich mit dem Lautdenkmal reichsdeutscher Mundarten, einer historischen Sammlung von Tonaufnahmen, gedacht als Geschenk für Hitler. Das Projekt war zwischenzeitlich eingeschlafen, hat aber jetzt eine komplett neue Website. lautdenkmal.de

Christoph Purschke
@questoph.bsky.social

Die alte Seite war auf Wordpress angewiesen, die neue hat ein eigens geschriebenes Template (HTML & JavaScript mit Python Builder) für erzählende Webseiten. Noch bastele ich an den technischen Details. Sobald fertig allerdings, mache ich das Template via GitHub verfügbar.

Christoph Purschke
@questoph.bsky.social

Eleven years ago, I dreamed of a card game in which players would build and play universes against each other in the multiverse. The next day, we built a prototype using the backs of another game's card deck. The game was playable and astonishingly stable from the beginning.

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Christoph Purschke
@questoph.bsky.social

Due to the recent heat wave, I picked up the game again and, well, let's just say things escalated again. I moved on to an online multiplayer browser game written in Python, JavaScript, and HTML. I'm not sure the world needs this, but I certainly did. Now back to destroying universes 🪐💥

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Barbara Plank
@barbaraplank.bsky.social

We have bigger models. Bigger conferences. Have our questions become bigger, too? That was the question I posed in my Presidential Address at #ACL2026 in San Diego. (1/6)

Christoph Purschke
@questoph.bsky.social

Eleven years ago, I dreamed of a card game in which players would build and play universes against each other in the multiverse. The next day, we built a prototype using the backs of another game's card deck. The game was playable and astonishingly stable from the beginning.

Christoph Purschke
@questoph.bsky.social

Next we built a proper prototype with proper card design and have been playing it on and off ever since, without larger changes to the setup or rules. The game is designed for two to six players and focuses on interaction and ways to annoy opponents.

Christoph Purschke
@questoph.bsky.social

When the pandemic hit, I started writing the game as a CLI Python version, mostly to stay sane and learn object-oriented programming. This quickly escalated into implementing and training different kinds of bots to play against, ranging from random choices to advanced ML models.

Christoph Purschke
@questoph.bsky.social

Es ist so heiß, da zerfließen sogar Skeets

Titus Blome@derlampenputzer.bsky.social

meine theorie ist dass die britischen PMs es immer nicht länger als ein jahr im Amt aushalten weil sie t̷̛̤͕̲̲̮͗̓̋̌́̓̿̕h̶̢̨̟̩̀̎͌ę̶̛̣̲̙̦̤̱̥̙͋͂͒͛̅͆̂́̈ͅ ̵͈̳͑̆a̵͈̬̙̣͎̼̍͆͊̂̅̉̿͝ņ̶͖͈̪͎̪͙̃c̷̡̜̳̻̱̀͗ị̵̧̢̦̻͖̟̫͊è̷̛̦̭͛̈͘͝n̷͇̋͛̄t̶̡̮̀̄ ̶̔͊͗̃͋̏̇̚͜͠͝h̸͈̗͙̟̣͇̀ȏ̴̖͍͗͆̈̆̃̋r̶̩̲̹͖̫̓̑̾͌̈́̏̆̾̚͜͝r̴̙͇̱̤͈̼͓̆̔̀̆͝ͅö̴̘̦̮́͊̆͌͆̚͘͘͜r̶̩̲͈̺͇̣̹͉͘ͅs̴̻̬͓̹͖̻̻̦̤͌͐͌ͅ die unter der downing street eingekerkert sind nicht länger ertragen

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Culture & Computation Lab
@cucolab.bsky.social

Our very own Cat Tebaldi (@cat-tebaldi.bsky.social) appeared on the show Titel, Thesen, Temperamente yesterday, where she shared her expertise on Looksmaxxing. Great segment on a not so great trend.

ardmediathek.dettt – titel thesen temperamente: 'Looksmaxxing' – gnadenlose Selbstoptimierung - hier anschauenLooksmaxxer – das sind Influencer, die auf TikTok, Instagram und YouTube ihren männlichen Followern die totale Selbstoptimierung predigen. Die Logik von Looksmaxxing: Schönheit als der einzige Schlüss...

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Culture & Computation Lab
@cucolab.bsky.social

Great feature with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social in @wort.lu about Looksmaxxing and other toxic trends in the manosphere. @uni.lu www.wort.lu/panorama/wen...

wort.luWenn Selbstoptimierung junge Männer radikalisiertDie Besessenheit, perfekt auszusehen, treibt Männer in den rechten Extremismus. Dr. Catherine Tebaldi von der Universität Luxemburg warnt vor dem gefährlichen Trend „Looksmaxxing“, der auch hierzulande angekommen ist.