Stephanie Evert

Wishing myself a happy #TransDayOfVisibility, despite everything!

We are continuing our FlexiConc tutorials. If you have any questions or feedback drop me a line and we'll try to incorporate them in future videos!

"It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest." ~ Abraham Lincoln @anntelnaes.bsky.social

Short thread asking @nytimes.com and other MSM to stop interviewing the same small handful of people every time something math-related comes up. Mathematicians are dismayed when AI scoops them on the results? How about look for advice from someone familiar with getting scooped and outpowered.

🎓 The Computational Linguistics Fall School 2026 starts next week at the University of Technology Nuremberg! From 21–25 September, the first course week brings together computational linguistics, NLP and corpus linguistics.

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

'That $1 trillion could have been used for anything... Instead, it has been channeled into constructing energy-draining, water-absorbing data centers that power large language models (LLMs) built on the theft of millions of people’s creative work, which consistently produce incorrect responses...'

Congratulations! At long last and so well-deserved! Hope to see much more excellent work along these lines from you in the future!

Has anyone tried asking ChatGPT about Artemis 2? As I keep saying, the singularity of human civilisation is close if we don't stop buying into all the AI hype. (The real problem is not the lack of up-to-date information but that it's virtually impossible to talk GPT out of its false beliefs.)

FlexiConc is now available on www.clic-fiction.com. Cluster concordance lines, partition by metadata, filter by POS tag or regex, and everything you do builds into an analysis tree you can retrace and share. We walk through all of it with body part nouns in 19C fiction. github.com/reading-conc...

This corroborates my worries: AI coding agents are glorified as fully autonomous programmers, probably with superhuman skills, but in the real world they just mess up good code.

Eine SWR-Recherche beklagt, dass in Deutschland viel zu wenige Gerichtsurteile veröffentlicht werden. www.tagesschau.de/investigativ... Dabei wäre eine vollautomatische Anonymisierung unter den richtigen Bedingungen technisch möglich, wie ich bei heise online erläutere: www.heise.de/hintergrund/...

Am Dienstag darf ich beim Zukunftsplausch des Deutschen Museums Nürnberg über die wichtige Frage sprechen, ob wir durch KI das eigene Denken verlernen. www.linguistik.phil.fau.de/2026/01/27/z... Es gibt auch einen Livestream: www.youtube.com/live/6DZyEiX...

Today, I appointed Mila Oiva (University of Turku, Finland) to a Professorship in Digital Humanities at FAU, focusing on images and objects. She studies audiovisual heritage, especially historical newsreels (e.g., Soviet Novosti Dnya and Estonian newsreels). Welcome to FAU, Mila.

Wow, was für eine schnelle Reaktion. Vielen Dank für das Lob!

War ja nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis Söder auch Grönland kaufen will. Oder halt wenigstens das Saarland … www.br.de/nachrichten/...

Hier unterzeichnen gegen die Diffamierung friedlicher Demonstrationen: weact.campact.de/petitions/po...

Great job opportunity at @dhssfau.bsky.social with a long-term perspective. www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/geschae...

Ein recht guter Beitrag der Tagesschau zum Selbstbestimmungsgesetz. www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

Eine Wut-Rede von Prof. Andreas Wirsching im aktuellen Heft von Forschung & Lehre - sehr lesenswert (aber auch zum verzweifeln) „Die „Befreiung" von universitären Verpflichtungen in Lehre und Verwaltung dient dem Einkauf von Zeit für die „eigentliche" Arbeit der Professorinnen und Professoren“ 1/2

AI are breaking the internet desparately crawling data. Excellent quote on deeper reasons: “People are using these tools to replace knowledge and gaining skills. There's no reason to assume that this attack against our cultural sense of thrift will not continue.“ www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/a...

Wahrscheinlich ist KI deshalb ein Problemverstärker, weil es den länger schon schwelenden, dunklen Fortschrittsmythos zu untermauern scheint, dass individuelle Bildungsarbeit (an sich selbst) endlich obsolet werden könnte: "Ich hab das Wissen der ganzen Welt in der Tasche" 📱

Wusstest Du, dass das Innenministerium ein Sonderregister für trans, inter und nicht-binäre Menschen plant? Wir sagen: Nie wieder! Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ und teilen! weact.campact.de/petitions/ke...

Why does opening openai.com/open-models/ in Firefox use 350% CPU and massive GPU resources? I just wanted to read the page, not run GPT in my browser …

On day 3 of our Reading Concordances course at #ESSLLI2025, @michamahlberg.bsky.social is ready to go hands-on with FlexiConc in CLiC. Teaching materials available soon at github.com/reading-conc... CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Day#2 at #esslli2025 @ruhr-uni-bochum.de More of our #ReadingConcordances training course: here @schtepf.bsky.social introducing #CQPweb

I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.

Probably not a good strategy to post this late at night, but I'm very happy that updated slides and complete R notebooks for my ICAME46 and CL2025 talks on Bootstrapping Keywords and Collocations are finally available on OSF. Share and enjoy! osf.io/x82cz/ @cl2025.co.uk #ICAME46

My thoughts on the Corpus Queries of the Future from the #CL2040 workshop @idsmannheim.bsky.social are available on OSF: osf.io/ywkqc/ (as part of the Ziggurat project). Looking forward to your feedback! Also: help us build the CQLF Ontology of corpus query languages at github.com/cqlf-ontology/!

Looking forward to discussing the future of corpus linguistics today! #futurecorp2040

The hateful felon strikes again! #WeSupportAllPpl #NeverMyPresident #CaliforniaStrong www.latimes.com/california/s...

Arrived at Mannheim for the FutureCorp 2040 workshop looking at the next 15 years of corpus linguistics research. Busy night ahead of me, so I can talk about The Future of Corpus Queries and Digital Hermeneutics tomorrow! #cl2040 #rc21project #cwb www.ids-mannheim.de/digspra/pb-s...

Thursday, July 10 💡 “Digital hermeneutics: Reading concordances with algorithms” presented by @schtepf.bsky.social and @nfdykes.bsky.social Friday, July 11: 🔑 Keynote by @michamahlberg.bsky.social „Corpus linguistics and storytelling: Data and connections“

@andrea.nini.com forensic linguist at the University of Manchester, and alum of Aston University speaks with Nicci and me about his evidence that the British teenager who had alleged rape, did not author a retraction statement even though it was written in her own handwriting.

Thanks to @niallrcurry.bsky.social, @rachellevessey.bsky.social, @schtepf.bsky.social, Philipp Heinrich and Michael Bender for your very interesting and relevant presentations! (2/2)

We‘ve kept the best for last at #cl2025: @nfdykes.bsky.social shows how our research in @rc21project.bsky.social enables analysts to read concordances at scale using FlexiConc and neural sentence embeddings.

In case you missed the QR code during my talk on Geometric Multivariate Analysis @cl2025.co.uk: You can find slides, code, and data at osf.io/9p25y

@cl2025.co.uk today we hear Andrew Hardie‘s response to @lanthony.bsky.social‘s keynote last night. I very much align with Andrew‘s view of AI!

This morning I was honoured to give the opening plenary at the #CL2025 conference - thanks to everyone who came along and engaged!

@robbielove.org kicking off a huge #CL2025 a lot of history and a beautiful room of new faces and old friends

The poster session is in full swing! #CL2025

In her bootstrapping talk, @schtepf.bsky.social starts off a very packed room by explaining how to calculate keywords in R. #cl2025

In the first part of the "Reading concordances with algorithms" workshop, @schtepf.bsky.social introduces us to her favourite concordance ☕ #cl2025 #rc21

Now that I finally caught a flight to BHX I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s #RC21 workshop at #cl2025. In addition to these two contributions, I will also be talking about bootstrapping, multivariate analysis, legal tech, and comparative discourse studies!

🎓🔍 Join our workshop "Reading Concordances with Algorithms" at #cl2025 📅 Register now - just a few more spots available! 🔗Info: go.fau.de/1bibg 🔗 Register: www.cl2025.co.uk/registration #rc21 #corpuslinguitsics #UniFAU #dh #linguistics

Exciting opportunity at our growing department Digital Humanities and Social Studies: Full professorships (W3) on Place & Space and on Human-Computer Interaction. Apply by 2 June 2025! Please share! www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2025/04/18/j... www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2025/04/18/j...