Marc Schulder

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Does anyone know of projects which have encoded a linguistic grammar in TEI format? I have been able to find documentation about and various examples of dictionaries and corpora, but so far no grammars. #TEI

I've got a bad cold and haven't slept much as a result and now I'm so tired that I just misread "empirical" as "satirical" and the paper I was reading took a really unexpected turn...

#AcademicChatter

The latest FOSS Academic post is an early review of Zotero 8, the latest from @zotero . TL;DR version: I might just use this version to do a lot more 'synthetic' note taking, a practice I had been doing in Zettlr with Markdown files.

https://fossacademic.tech/2026/02/26/zotero-8-review.html […]

Ich bin bei der #dhd2026 Konferenz (Digital Humanities im deutschsprachige m Raum) und werde morgen mein Poster präsentieren „Making Archives Explorable: Visualising Digital Materials for a Wider Public“, co-Autoren Sebastian Schirrmeister, Janis-Marie Paul […]

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@nirak Yes. They are led by Colonel Panic

We're happy to share some of the accepted work for #DeafTech2026. Thanks to everyone who submitted their work and to our reviewers for their evaluations! Poster and demo submissions remain open until 20 February www.deaftech26.eu/program

Panel 1: A tech bro strides across a stage. The word “PeoplBOTS” is in huge letters behind him. He says: “Our journey began with a simple question:” Panel 2 “Can we create a robot that is enormously powerful, but also completely safe?” Panel 3 “The answer to that question was 'No'.” A huge red armoured metal robot trundles across the stage belching smoke. It has a flamethrower for one arm and large shears for the other. Its eyes glow meanly red. Tech bro announces “So I give you: Dangerbot900!!”

A recent cartoon for @newscientist.com.

p.s. my new book of science cartoons, ‘Physics for Cats’ is out now. Links at www.tomgauld.com

RE: https://techhub.social/@TeXUsersGroup/115985112166989604

A LaTeX package of pretty RPG icons for people to use in sheets for their tabletop roleplaying game sessions. I don’t really have a use for this, but by Io, I want to have one! #TeXLaTeΧ

[crowdsource advice-seeking on latex/markdown]

I started writing this book project using zettlr in markdown, because that seemed like the best way to incorporate many citations from a wild variety of journals/books/articles. But I am now having serious problems trying to integrate files.

Latex […]

A tortise or turtle icon on a park sign. The sign is blue. The turtle has 4 lines coming from its head as if to say "Attention!"

The same turtle sign. Now it has three spiked speech bubbles. The 1st reads "Smite you with thunderbolts!", the 2nd "I am your god!!" and the 3rd "Hawks to peck your liver!"

I saw this sign at the park and knew just what to do with it.
#TerryPratchett

Grüne Nordlichtstreifen über Schrebergärten

Grüne und rote Nordlichter über Siedlung

Grüne und rote Nordlichter hinter einem Telefonmasten

#northernlights #nordlicht #hamburg

#Language #Mathematics #English #Grammar .

Eben in einer Unterhaltung mit Produktionsmitarbeiter:innen das Wort „Motek“ für Hammer gehört. Gemutmaßt, dass es polnisch ist. Recherchiert und zwei Dinge herausgefunden:
1. gebräuchlich im Ruhrgebiet und tatsächlich polnischer Herkunft.
2. im hebräischen bedeutet Motek „Schatz, Liebste:r“ und […]

A multilingual #caturday!

#cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour

Title: New year's resolution A man sits at a table with a coffee writing in a notebook: “This year i will devote myself completely to reading serious, improving literature, forsaking easy pleasures and tirelessly seeking out truth and profundity in the work of the greatest writers.” He looks at it Says: Hmm... then “Scratch Scratch Scratch scratch” scribbles out words until the text reads: “This year I will read for Fun”

Happy New Year, everyone!

This is a @theguardian.com books cartoon from a few years ago.

Sticker on a southeastern train ticket machine: This ticket machine can't currently accept banknotes featuring King Charles III. Banknotes showing Queen Elizabeth II are still accepted.

A uniquely British problem.

A pair of golden lego binoculars connecting to the wheels of equally golden lego roller skates

One of my favorite random #lego connections: roller skates and binoculars do in fact connect!

Somebody just found out that the source code of @langscipress books is available on the page of the books and thanked me enthusiastically.

So, in case you do not know this yet. The source code of ALL our 308 books is available on github and linked from within the books and from the langsci book […]

Because we all need a bit of optimism, today's new entry for the Historical #Dictionary of #ScienceFiction is "solarpunk". Apparently coined in a 2008 blog post; most recent example from @clive. A few more of this sort are in the queue.

https://sfdictionary.com/view/2916/solarpunk

We are looking for a new team member for an exciting project investigating how remote sign language interpreting services may be improved using augmented reality! Application deadline: 31 January 2026 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Interested in #emotions and natural language processing #NLProc? Then our new workshop is for you: We invite submissions for the 1st Computational Affective Science Workshop (at #LREC 2026). casworkshop.github.io/2026/fcfp/

A picture of a bunch of people surrounding a goat with their faces scribbled out. The goat is wearing a Santa hat and has fabulous long wavy white fur

Goat!

Title: Heartwarming christmas television advert plot generator for bookshops. (choose one from each column to come up with a sentence) Choices in column 1: A lonely A grumpy A workaholic An elderly A poor Column 2: Book Shop Owner Learns The True Meaning Of Column 3: Literature Christmas Community Wealth Friendship Column 4: With help from a Column 5: Wise Celebrity Magical Kindly Clumsy Column 6: Child Mouse Parsnip Snowman Ghost Additional text below: Just add: twinkly music, wooly jumpers, computer-generated snow, poetry, bells.

Generate a heartwarming advert for your bookshop:

A dark-mode screenshot of a Google search results page. At the top, inside the rounded search bar, the query reads: “My dear Jules, last week the feeling of malediction was upon me, round me, within me.” Below it appears a section labeled “AI Overview,” marked with a star icon. Instead of identifying a literary source, the AI Overview produces a therapeutic interpretation, explaining that the query “appears to be a deeply personal and emotional statement, evocative of 19th-century epistolary style,” and suggests that if the user is experiencing such feelings, help is available. The text continues by reframing “malediction” as a psychological symptom (“a sense of being cursed, doomed, or perpetually unlucky”), links it to anxiety or depression, and urges the reader to seek professional support. A partially visible “Show more” button appears at the bottom, implying further mental-health resources. The overall effect is ironic: a literary quotation treated as a cry for help rather than a book search result, visually underscoring the joke that searching for books by random quotes has become unexpectedly complicated.

Searching for a book using a random quote from the book has gotten complicated.

Handwerkstag: Warum die Zahl der Azubis abnimmt und was für die Ausbildung im Handwerk spricht In Frankfurt beginnt heute der Deutsche Handwerkstag. Die Branche hat Nachwuchssorgen - woran das liegt.

@tschfflr eine andere schöne Ambiguität hat mich grad zum Stolpern gebracht: „Handwerkstage: Immer weniger Azubis - was für die Ausbildung spricht“

https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/deutscher-handwerkstag-nachwuchsprobleme-100.html

One of our moderators in the second data collection campaign of @dgskorpusprojekt just won a gold medal at the 2025 Deaflympics in Tokyo! And so did a former student assistant of ours! Congratulations to Sheila Schlechter and her team for winning the women’s 4x100m relay and to the duo of Franz […]

Panel One: A sportscaster speaks to a television camera "You join us just in time for the annual booksellers versus librarians tug of war." Panel Two: We see the participants warming up as he continues... "Two very strong teams this year, they’ve both been in training since February. As always, the real skill in this match is not to start chatting about boo-" Panel Three: "Too late!! A pair of librarians are discussing the new Margaret Atwood! A crowd is forming! The booksellers are joining in! It's all over!!" We see all the participants chatting. Panel Four: The sportscaster finishes up to the camera: "The rope lies untouched! The discussions continue! We have a draw for 325th year in a row! Join us again next year!" End. Bonus alt-text Content: Fun fact! The first tug of war was between the staff of Cranston Library and those of Daniel Midwinter Booksellers www.cranstonlibraryreigate.com/ www.blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscripts/2017/11/10/booksellers/

Now for some sports news...
(this week's cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages)

Super proud that our research cluster "Limits of Variability in Language" can go into the third and final round! 🥳 Excited to keep working on this with fantastic colleagues from Potsdam! @unipotsdam @ruhr-uni-bochum.de #crc1287 #linguistics […]