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‘If we could stop thinking of the brain like it’s a Rubik’s cube, then perhaps we would have more capacity to talk about what’s truly iconic about Gage: that he survived, both as a body and a person’ buff.ly/1gMuFXd

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Look what's arrived!

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Die FAZ über unsere aktuelle Ausstellung: „Warum wir nicht alle plattdeutsch sprechen Die Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg widmet sich in einer Ausstellung der Geschichte des Niederdeutschen.“ Noch bis 21.7. in der Stabi: blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de?p=40359

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‘Enchantment and wonder can still coexist with the most serious science.’ How French ‘merveilleux-scientifique’ fiction reframed reality buff.ly/QnbZuh8

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Check out the latest publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences for June 2025 🤩 📚 hiphilangsci.net/2025/06/23/p... #Histlx

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"Alles Verstehen ist […] zugleich ein Nicht-Verstehen" #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx #LinguisticQuotes

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#OTD 258 years ago, Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835) was born 🎉 A diplomat, politician, and highly influential philosopher of language, he was an early language typologist who contributed to the description of numerous languages, including Basque and Kawi. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

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Should be interesting: “The Bloomsbury handbook of Saussure” ed. by John E. Joseph (July ’25) www.bloomsbury.com/ca/bloomsbur...

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Happy birthday, dear Anna! 🥳 #Histlx #LinguisticBirthdays #LinguisticQuotes

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If you've ever fed Vegemite to someone from overseas, I salute you. It's our national duty to do so.

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Along the Elbe in Dresden in 1909 (photo by Karl Struss)

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Very excited about the Call for Papers for the upcoming 2025 conference for the Australasian Association for History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science. Come join us in sunny Brisbane QLD this December!! It is always a wonderful event. #hps #histSTM #philsci #STS #metasci 🧪

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Thanks for posting. My chapter in Limits of Structuralism covers similar material in greater depth and with refs and footnotes. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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author beat me to posting this! tl;dr awesome book – highly recommmended

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Ich habe gestern und heute die handschriftliche Frühfassung der Golemsage in J. Grimms Nachlass gefunden: ein Exzerpt aus Tentzel 1689. (Hatte Moering 2014 schon per Textvergleich vermutet, nun ist aber das histor. Bindeglied nachgewiesen.) Das ist der Ausgangspunkt für den Golemstoff im 19. Jh.

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I wrote about the social history of analytic philosophy @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

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Im Wesentlichen FERTIG! Puh, was für ein Ritt.

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„Mein schönstes Gedicht? Ich schrieb es nicht. Aus tiefsten Tiefen stieg es, Ich schwieg es." Guten Morgen mit dem Mascha Kaléko. - 7. Juni 1907 - 21. Januar 1975 -

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Obligatory photo of physical book. Nice to finally hold it in my hands. With many improvements on the English version (and only a few Verschlimmbesserungen).

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Enfants ne jouez pas à la guerre. Parents... si vous voulez que vos enfants vivent Préparez le désarmement moral Supprimez les jouets militaires https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53205530m

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How to create a hand shadow of Otto von Bismarck – it's all in the middle-finger moustache and thumb and pinkie Pickelhaube (from 1905) 🗃️

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Our monthly newsletter with the latest publications in the history and philosophy of the language sciences for May 2025 is out now 😇 📚 hiphilangsci.net/2025/05/28/p... #Histlx

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We are hiring a dream team of doctoral and post-doctoral research fellows in applied sociolinguistics, education and related fields to work on "Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation across the Lifespan" @uni-hamburg.de www.languageonthemove.com/hiring-a-dre...

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she was first author on our intro to lx textbook

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#histlx

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Diese Woche erschienen: Entstehung und Entwicklung der modernen Linguistik www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Excellent episode on The Philosopher's Zone featuring our own @samaragreenwood.bsky.social is now available on Spotify, Apple & all the usual pod places Highly recommend for those interested in relations between science and society #hps #scicomm #sts 🧪 #biology #primatology #evolution #feminism

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From NLP to LLMS - really interesting!

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Episode 46 of the podcast is out! 🤩 In this instalment, James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) talks with Philip Kraut (@herbilis.bsky.social) about the scholarly work and political engagement of the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. In German! 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/05/01/p... #Histlx

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Mein Gespräch mit @jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social ist nun erschienen! Podcast episode 46: Philip Kraut on Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm auf dem Blog: "History and Philosophy of the Language Sciences" (@hiphilangsci.bsky.social ) open.spotify.com/episode/5UzW... oder hiphilangsci.net/2025/05/01/p...

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Episode 45 of our podcast is out! 🤩 This time, James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) meets Beijia Chen (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) to discuss her research on the citation networks that connected the Neogrammarians as a school of thought. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2025/04/01/p... #Histlx

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makes me wanna read the book

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Visible Speech is a system of phonetic transcription devised by Alexander Melville Bell (1819-1905) to help deaf children learn to speak. Bell’s notation is based on the physiology of the speech organs and can, therefore, be used as a universal alphabet to represent any language. 1/3 #Histlx

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