Muhammad Shakir محمد شاکر

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🚨 Job alert in my group:
Want to do a PhD in Computational Linguistics working on figurative language (metaphor), on social media data, and in an interdisciplinary digital humanities environment, at one of the largest universities in Germany? Apply by March 30, 2026!
Contact me with any questions and please forward this to any suitable candidates 🤗 #linguistics #nlproc #joboffer #digitalhumanities #phdPosition #rub
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f67b2069885e8908b2b3078b550e37a9d0bcc9e60
Researcher (75%, m/f/x) - Computational Linguistics

AI Agents Created Their Own Religion, Crustafarianism, On An Agent-Only Social Network

AI agents are now creating their own religion, talking about the self and investigating the nature of being. Everything is getting exceedingly weird.

Forbes
🤔 Wie können Daten aus sozialen Medien gesammelt, archiviert und für die Forschung genutzt werden? Hilft der DSA? Darf ich meine Korpora weitergeben und wie mache ich das am besten? -- Themen der "Social Media Access Days" im März an der @DNB_Aktuelles
Registrierung ist offen! Und ich bin auch dabei 🤗
#socialmedia #archivierung #korpora #tagung #linguistik #nfdi #forschungsdaten
https://www.dnb.de/EN/Professionell/Sammeln/Sammlung_Websites/SMAD2026/SocialMediaAccessDaysProgramm.html
SocialMediaAccessDaysProgramm

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My latest monograph, "A Theory of Linguistic Individuality for Authorship Analysis", is now open access! Download it for free:
http://andreanini.com/2025/01/10/a-theory-of-linguistic-individuality-now-fully-open-access/
“A Theory of Linguistic Individuality” now fully open access

My latest monograph, “A Theory of Linguistic Individuality for Authorship Analysis”, is now open access! You can download it for free here.

Dr Andrea Nini
I have been working on a Christmas present sent by my journal editor and two reviewers. How are your holidays going? #AcademicWriting #linguistics #corpuslinguistics

We are looking to fill a 🚨 #PhD #position 🚨 (4 years, 65% FTE) within the CRC "Prominence in #Language" at the University of Cologne. We will investigate the role of gender in prominence hierarchies using quantitative #CorpusLinguistics methods.

Deadline is January 17, details here https://uni.koeln/6MSC9 (and on the entire CRC: https://uni.koeln/66YRZ). #linguistics #sociolinguistics

Hey fediverse, my family and I have just moved to #Wuppertal. This is a new place for me and I still don’t know much about it yet. Please hit me up with your favorite bookstores and cafes. Bonus points if you can point me towards people working at the uni here, in media studies or the media design parts! 🙏
1.5 years of effort went into data analysis, writing, and re-writing of this article:
An exploratory investigation of functional variation in South Asian online Englishes
Open access available on https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674324000017
#CorpusLinguistics #Sociolinguistics #CMC #WorldEnglishes
An exploratory investigation of functional variation in South Asian online Englishes | English Language & Linguistics | Cambridge Core

An exploratory investigation of functional variation in South Asian online Englishes

Cambridge Core