Pleased to announce that I passed my PhD viva today!

Are there studies on research methods for investigating historically marginalised communities that emphasise the need to adapt every aspect (and I mean every aspect, if needed, including ethics, consent, etc) of the research to the community’s context and priorities?

Very excited to announce that yesterday I submitted my PhD thesis: The Linguistic Life of the Kufr Qassem Deaf Community: Language Emergence, Variation, Change, and Persistence. I dedicate this thesis to my people: the resilient Palestinian people

Finally! Super excited to share that our paper on morphological 'complexity' is out!!

Are there any studies that discuss the naming of languages? particularly in the sign language field. I noticed that there are some sign languages for which researchers have chosen names, but the community refers to their language differently.

Pleased that my new chapter that will be published in the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics has now been published online: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Currently wrapping up work on a Statistical Consultancy project for @marahjaraisy.bsky.social's investigation into the Kufr Qassem deaf community, focusing on semiotic strategies used for tracking referents in signed narratives, part of @adamcschembri.bsky.social's ERC-funded SignMorph grant. (1/4)

New preprint paper (to appear in Journal of Linguistics) with @fbisnath.bsky.social, Hannah Lutzenberger, @marahjaraisy.bsky.social, and Rehana Omardeen 'Deconstructing notions of morphological ‘complexity’: Lessons from creoles and sign languages' Proud to be part of this team! osf.io/tmkrw

This Friday 4pm is my professorial inaugural "From Birds to Words: Onomatopoeia, Metaphor, and the Language of Birdsong" (w/ BSL interpretation). There'll be a lot of iconicity in it! If you're interested, you can register for the webinar under this link: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

TISLR15 sketchbook #TISLR15

SignGPT - Project awarded £8.45m to build a BSL Large Language Model to achieve end-to-end translation English/BSL and build "the largest sign language dataset in the world". Good to see there is emphasis on deaf capacity building www.surrey.ac.uk/news/signgpt...

I love @fbisnath.bsky.social last slide of her #TISLR15 presentation! Congratulations, Felicia, on winning a student award for one of the best presentations at the conference!

Here is a summary of my #TISLR15 presentation, "Exploring the heterogeneity of DHH users of ASL in the US outside of nativeness" #linguistics 1/n

Top photo 2019: my first conference, UKLVC in London I was an MA student, supervised by Dr. Rose Stamp. We took a photo with her former PhD supervisor, Prof @adamcschembri.bsky.social Bottom photo 2025: at TISLR15 in Ethiopia, the first TISLR in Africa, Adam is now my PhD supervisor!

Very much enjoyed presenting my poster at #TISLR15 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia today! One important message in our poster is that factors like methodology, researcher's background, and language documentation may affect one's result. Happy to share/discuss more via DM or Email!

I absloutely LOVE this thread by @cborstell.bsky.social who had a very similar experience to mine.

🎉 Big news! I'm submitting my PhD thesis this September! 📝✨ It's been a wild ride of research, resilience, and way too many snacks to fuel me, and now I’m officially on the hunt for my next adventure. 🚀

Need help making sense of your data? 📊 Starting in 2025, I’ll be offering statistical consultancy services, specialising in Bayesian and frequentist mixed models, descriptive statistics, and data visualization tailored to your needs. ⬇️

Congratulations to our very own @bodowinter.bsky.social @mperlman.bsky.social and their co-authors! Great to see their work on spoken language iconicity in the news. www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

Hi BlueSky! Check out our new paper on mouthing patterns in the bimodal multilingual deaf community of Kufr Qassem www.cambridge.org/core/journal...