Stefan Diemer

Well there’s no question that @edinburghup.bsky.social have done us some great covers. ‘Immersion’ is out today

the conference website for the 9th conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English is live now: isle9conference.com
KU Leuven, 24-27 May 2027
#ISLE9

Still winter outside ❄️ But the return of our local gelatiere brings a taste of spring to the old town 🍦 Three special edition flavours today: Pistacchio Valentino 🌹Yogurette 🥛 and the whimsical, but amazing “Ich flipp aus” - Caramel, chocolate, salted peanut puffs (“Flips”) 🥜

Promising haul from the Mardi Gras parade in the old town 🍬🍭🎉 Perhaps the hat helped?

This will be great! 🍕🍩🍬

Word cloud based on conference abstracts. Key words: discourse, food, analysis, social and digital

5 more weeks to go to...
- 2 workshops (👋 @neous.bsky.social)
- 4 keynotes (👋 @diemerstefan.bsky.social)
- 1 practitioner talk
- 14 full talks (👋 @fabiociambella.bsky.social, @theresaheyd.bsky.social, @annaborghi.bsky.social,
@lulind.bsky.social)
- 21 lightning talks

#DigitalPalates

Tested the new bakery in town 🍞🥖 Delicious bread & interesting concept: Artisanal bread, baked until noon & sold in the afternoon - hence ‘Backstube Abendbrot’. Bread is common supper fare here, usually sourdough rye with butter, cheese, cold cuts, cucumbers etc. Curious? backstube-abendbrot.de

One not to miss! See you there.
#Linguistics #Persuasion #Manipulation

Well, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow today - more winter! 🦫 Under an overcast sky, his stand-in foresees an early spring here in Saarland, though properly we would need to ask a badger 🦡 - “Sonnt sich der Dachs in der Lichtmeß-Woch, kriecht er noch sechs Wochen ins Loch” 🕳️

A Saarland favourite at Mensa today: ‚Hoorische‘. Rugged potato dumplings (‚hoorisch‘ - „hairy“) 🥔 served in white sauce with leek, bacon, or egg. Sadly, I belatedly noticed it was veggie day (no bacon 🥓 ) and it was the „climate dish“ (no egg, either 🥚). so just leek… Still, pretty good 😄

Viel Erfolg! 🍀 Bei mir sind Gummibärchen de rigueur

Now I’m curious…

Skiing to the cabin on Epiphany ❄️🎿

Advent season can be wonderful if you disregard the shopping frenzy and the end-of-year social circuit. I like the sense of contemplation and the contrast of the growing light and the dark outside. Advent calendars and wreaths have a long tradition here. On that note, a peaceful second advent!🌲⭐️

Here, it’s mostly churches - our (Protestant) town church had a beautiful harvest display: sheaves of wheat, apples, grapes, and (less glamorous, but regionally accurate) potatoes, leek, several types of cabbages, pumpkins & maize. Also, a large loaf of bread with “Danke” written upon it in flour

Thanksgiving is not a holiday in Saarland, but with ‘Erntedank’ we have a similar, if less secular, tradition celebrated in early October, in time for the Apple harvest in our region. Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🌾🍎

This week brought the first snow of the season ❄️

The shape of things to come 🌲

Winter may be coming, but everything is better with ice cream from the best gelateria in town. Today, Lemon 🍋 and amazing Mozartkugel 🎼 from Passione del Gelato 🍨 🍁🍂

Finally made it to Kartoffelheld, the newest addition to our town‘s culinary landscape 😋🥔 Great food/superhero-themed menu - my „Bratblitz Würstenwind” loaded potato went perfectly with the late autumn vibes outside 🍂🍁

Science Night at the Environmental Campus! 🌛 Looking forward to seeing what our research fellows were up to! Agroforests for the climate 🌳 product liability ⚖️ 3D printing ⚙️ & why working with NGOs can make good economic sense 💶 - a tour de force through our disciplines 🎓

St Martin is back on this damp and chilly early November evening: horseback centurion in red cloak, kids with self-made lanterns, a brass band, and a huge bonfire in the old town 🎺🔥

Turns out Helsinki was voted as the host of the next International Conference on #Multimodality in 2027!

Thanks to @neous.bsky.social & the team for a fantastic #12ICOM and see you @helsinki.fi!

Look out for a call for papers next summer!

After a rainy week and a frosty morning Halloween surprises with some hazy sunshine in time for the All Hallows weekend 🎃 This calls for some extended summer vibes with lemon and Mon Chéri ice cream from La Passione del Gelato - best in town! 😋🍦

Is it a good or a bad thing that nothing much has changed here in the more that 30 years since I was a student? Now for my Sociolinguistics lecture I take some time to appreciate the splendid 50s design, including the quaint cubicle where the lecturers can get in the zone 😄🎓

Autumn colours 🍁

More apple picking (for storage), with an interested equine audience 🐴 All heritage varieties (from top): ‚Grüner Boskoop‘, (green, tasty & durable), ‚Kaiser Wilhelm‘ (sweet, traces of raspberry), ‚Roter Boskoop‘, (red) ‚Goldrenette von Blenheim‘ (complex, spicy taste) 🍎🍏🍎

Busy day making apple juice in the local apple press run by the town’s Orchard and Gardening Co-op. Apples are washed and pressed, the juice pasteurised (we keep some raw juice back for cider-making 🍺), then filled into 5 litre bags. 500 litres should last a while! 🍎🍏🍎

Apple harvest on Unity Day weekend ⛅️ Record crop this year, with almost 1000 kg for juice alone (our 80-year old trees carry amazingly tasty heritage varieties such as ‚Rheinischer Bohnapfel’ and ‚Kaiser Wilhelm‘), and half the trees still ripe for storage apple picking 🍎🍏🍎

At the local Amtsgericht (county court) today, built in 1912 when our town was a county seat in the Imperial Prussian Province of the Rhine. Admiring the grand architecture while waiting. A bit of a daunting atmosphere (intentionally, I think) but nice to see it still in use ⚖️🏛️