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Please support the petition against the planned #closure of #Archaeology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Archaeology has been a part of Humboldt-Universität academic tradition for almost 200 years, so closing it would break a long-standing research tradition
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Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published.
C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.
Wir sind überglücklich – sowohl unser bestehender Exzellenzcluster @microverse.bsky.social als auch der neue Cluster "Imaginamics" werden im Rahmen der Exzellenzstrategie des Bundes und der Länder gefördert! 🎊
#ExStra @dfg.de
Die Reaktionen unseres Präsidenten und der Cluster-Sprecher*innen ⬇️
Das macht mich speziell an Deutschland fertig. Wie viele hier völlig verwundert sind, wie es sein kann, dass genau die Dinge geschehen, von denen wir unsere ganze Schulzeit über gelernt haben, dass sie schonmal geschehen sind.
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Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine
Tocharian cannot have taken it from Pali, but rather from Gandhari, where śr became retroflex ṣ.
Our papers, out today in @nature.com, show how ancient DNA from the Eneolithic and Bronze Age steppe points to a North Pontic origin of the Indo-European language family and a Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV) origin of Indo-Anatolian (inclusive of the now extinct Anatolian languages). 1/
Friedrich Merz denunziert „die Mitte“, lässt die AfD triumphieren – und schwadroniert von einem „Mehrheitswillen“. Es ist beschämend. Ein Schock. Und eine Zäsur. Eine Kolumne.
Save the Cardiff Ancient History petition has now over 3400 signatures. Sign, share and join @flintdibble.bsky.social at 6pm for a discussion with @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social on YouTube to hear more. www.change.org/p/save-cardi...
"Grünzeug" can be used in colloquial (German) Standard German, too, but it's rather pejorative
Guter Kommentar von Giovanni die Lorenzo und Bernd Ulrich zur Migration und Merz und Deutschland ehttps://www.zeit.de/2025/05/debatte-migration-politische-mitte-demokratie-konsens
Verantwortungsumkehr:
Anträge, von denen Teile rechtlich kaum eine Chance haben, sollen "egal mit welcher Partei" durchgebracht werden. Dann sollen alle demokratischen Parteien zustimmen, da sonst die Rechtsextremen den Ausschlag geben.
Wir brauchen Bündnisse, nicht Erpressung.
Was dieser Kriminalkommissar beim BKA sagt!
So sachlich möchte ich Unions-Politiker analysieren und reden hören.
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Uppsala University's Dept. of Linguistics and Philology is offering 5 PhD positions in linguistic diversity (incl. Turkic Linguistics) starting Sept. As a former Erasmus student there, I'm just as happy and as much intrigued. (DL: Mar. 3, REF: UFV-PA 2024/4412) #lingsky uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Timothy Garton Ash
How to trump Trump. How liberal democracies should respond to a Trumpian transactional world. (Read before Monday.)
My latest History of the Present newsletter. (Subscribe – it's free!)
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Available Ph.D. positions in linguistics (all subdisciplines) and philology (including historical linguistics) in our department at the University of Oslo. Application deadline February 28, 2025.
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Denasalization could of course have been earlier in unaccented syllables, and if there is no evidence for a contrast ...
Why -d- in hirdar?
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A huge thank you to our brilliant speakers, to all attendees of #BuildingBridges2024, and to Wrocław Tech & the AE Wrocław team for being such wonderful hosts! 🙏
We hope you enjoyed the conference. See you in Barcelona for #BuildingBridges2025!
Viking was a lifestyle not an ethnicity! Fascinating talk on population genomics of Europe from Eske Willerslev @acad-euro.bsky.social
Marja Makarow, President of Academia Europaea, and Arkadiusz Wójs, Director of our Wroclaw Hub, warmly welcome Members of Academia Europaea to our Annual Conference, #BuildingBridges2024, this year kindly hosted by Wroclaw Tech.
Find out more:
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We WrocławiU. Sorry for the mistake
We Wrocławie / In Breslau
Symposium in honor of Jochem Schindler (1944–1994)
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