Katharina Pabst (she/her) 🟥

Programma Stakingsactie 9 december / Programme Strike Action 9 December WOinActie is een beweging van studenten en medewerkers en maakt zich sterk voor de universiteit en haar toekomst.

Morgen de grote HO staking! Tot op de Dam!
Tomorrow the big HE strike! See you at Dam square!

woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/12/prog...

I had luck before on the badsite; let's try bsky:

this term I'm teaching intro linguistics with a typology/diversity lens

I love to harness expertise of friends/colleagues to show students languages I know little about

SO if you know/use/study a language that's not normative AmEng, I need YOU! 🧵

Call for Papers: Sociolinguistics Circle 2026 VUB - Brussels Centre for Language Studies We invite abstracts for oral and poster presentations at the 12th edition of the Sociolinguistics Circle, to be held in Brussels on April 24th, 2026. Contributions should deal with topics in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, dialectology, variationist linguistics, social dimensions of multilingualism and language contact, language policy and planning, or related disciplines. We welcome submissions from scholars with a connection to the Low Countries and/or on topics relevant to language varieties used in the Low Countries. Abstracts should be submitted before December 1st, 2025 via e-mail to sociolinguisticscircle2026@vub.be. They should be between 300 and 500 words, not including references. Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts, at most one of which may be sole- or first-authored. Abstracts should situate the study within the field and clearly identify the research aim, theoretical and methodological framework, main results and implications. Contributions can be submitted in Dutch, French, or English. Given the Sociolinguistics Circle’s orientation to the Low Countries, we would like to emphasise that contributions in Dutch and French or multilingual formats are warmly welcomed (e.g., presentation in Dutch/French, slides in English). All submissions will be reviewed by the organising committee. We aim to decide on acceptance before February 1st, 2026. Organising committee Rik Vosters Wim Vandenbussche Laura Rosseel Philipp Krämer

Sociolinguists in and around Benelux or working on Beneluxian languages and varieties: come present your work at next year's Sociolinguistics Circle in Brussels!
Nous avons hâte om jullie bij ons te verwelkomen - venez nombreux.ses !

Deadline for abstracts: December 1st, 2025.

Super excited to have been a part of the first cohort of #TRILL contributors who piloted the peer review guidelines, which are such an important step towards increasing quality control in #OpenEducation.

My contribution is part of #TRILL, the first peer-reviewed database of scholarly teaching materials in #Linguistics, which was just launched: resourcehub.lsadc.org/Channel/TRIL...

In my materials, I demonstrate how to set up an engaging, research-based course project that can easily be tailored to different teaching contexts.

Pabst (2025) Pop Music as a Window into Language Variation This submission describes a four-part portfolio assignment from a master’s-level introduction to Variationist Sociolinguistics that was designed to help students understand the goals and methods of th...

Attention #sociolinguists: Have you ever wanted to do a collaborative class project, but you just weren't sure how? Maybe you didn't have much time or access to the right participants...? If so, check out my new openly accessible, peer-reviewed essay plus #OER: resourcehub.lsadc.org/Play?pId=593...

Variationslinguistik bei @realscientists.de 🤩

Schaut vorbei, wenn ihr Lust habt!

I will be curating the Bluesky account for Real Scientists DE this week. Check it out if you want to learn more about my work and speak German (or have access to a translator)!

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Congratulations, Rikker! They're lucky to have you!

En ook de derde dag van de estafettestaking in het Hoger Onderwijs, vandaag in Nijmegen, is een groot succes. Het rode vierkant van #WOinActie wappert aan de toren, en duizenden studenten, docenten, wetenschappers en sympathisanten protesteren tegen de aangekondigde bezuinigingen. #DoeHetNiet

Rood vierkant met de tekst “HO kabinet sloopt hoger onderwijs”.

Nijmegen kleurt rood! Vandaag staken we aan de Radboud Universiteit tegen de ongekende bezuinigingen van dit kabinet op het hoger onderwijs en de wetenschap. Samen met studenten en collega’s van de Hogeschool Arnhem en Artez 🟥💪 #WOinActie

Ruim 160 hoogleraren uit Nijmegen: staak met ons mee! WOinActie is een beweging van studenten en medewerkers en maakt zich sterk voor de universiteit en haar toekomst.

For information about the reasons for the strike, see this open letter: woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/03/ruim...

Below an excerpt:

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Today it's our turn. Hope to see many of you there #WOinActie #StopTheCuts

Falls ihr es noch nicht mitbekommen habt: Ab heute streiken Kolleg*innen, Student*innen&viele andere gegen die drakonischen Sparmaßnahmen an niederländischen Universitäten. Leiden hat den Anfang gemacht, morgen gehts in Utrecht weiter& Do sind wir in Nimwegen dran. Mehr dazu im Post von Marc 👇🏼

Proud to see so many colleagues, students, and community members in #Leiden go on strike today to protest the Draconian cuts to Dutch higher education. Tomorrow, Utrecht will follow and on Thursday, we will do the same at Radboud. #WOinActie #stopthecuts

Staak! Staak! Staak! Vandaag begint een estafettestaking van de Nederlandse universiteiten. Op een enkele kleine lokale staking na is dit sinds mensenheugenis niet gebeurd

Vandaag begint een estafettestaking van de Nederlandse universiteiten. Op een enkele kleine lokale staking na is dit sinds mensenheugenis niet gebeurd. Staak mee!

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Thanks so much, Catherine! I just sent you an email so you'll have my email address 😊

Second paper: Wolfram, W. (1994). The phonology of a sociocultural variety: The case of African American Vernacular English. In J. Bernthal & N. Bankson (Eds.), Child phonology: Characteristics, assessment, and intervention with special populations (pp. 227–244). Thieme.

First paper: Wolfram, W. (1989). Structural variability in phonological development: Final nasals in vernacular Black English. In R..Fasold & D. Schiffrin (Eds.), Current Issues in linguistic theory: Language change and variation (pp. 301-332). John Benjamins.

One of my BA students wants to look at word-final nasal deletion in AAE for his BA thesis. He's struggling to get access to a couple of relevant papers (see below). Can anyone help 🙏🏼?

In einer Woche ist 🇩🇪 Bundestagswahl. In Washington, der Hauptstadt des einstmals wichtigsten Verbündeten, sind bis heute keine Wahlunterlagen eingetroffen. Bei einer Postlaufzeit von 7 - 10 Tagen drohen zigtausende Auslandsdeutsche ihres Wahlrechts beraubt zu werden. 🤐

FYI: Join the COGEL-sponsored Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on March 7th (9a-9p EST)!: Join the COGEL-sponsored Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on March 7th (9a-9p EST)!

Did you know that less than 20% of biographies on Wikipedia are currently dedicated to notable women, and far lower for other minoritized…

Vorgestern gekommen und gleich gestern morgen abgeschickt - aus den Niederlanden sollte das zum Glück reichen...

Fingers crossed! Ich warte immer noch auf meine Unterlagen...

It looks like the position paper is not actually available yet...

Ich wurde gerade informiert, dass die Wahlscheine in meiner alten Gemeinde wahrscheinlich erst am 10.2. verschickt werden, weil vorher wahrscheinlich keine Stimmzettel vorliegen...