Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky: A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details! psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...

🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨 The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline: 15 October 2025

In the Spotlight: Dr. Joseph Hill Dr. Hill will be joining us at the 2026 LSA Annual Meeting for the Plenary Address! Dr. Hill is Professor of Deaf Studies and Linguistics and Director of the Center for Black Deaf Studies at Gallaudet University. Don’t miss this session! cvent.me/9Mdr3G

Day 2 of #snl2025 featured wonderful talk from Dave Poeppel, interesting keynote, posters from my team, and a thought provoking panel. My brain and heart are full!

"Trump administration to cut funding for Oregon program serving deaf-blind students" www.kgw.com/article/news...

Spectacular talk by SNL Early Career Award winner Esti Blanco Elorrieta! Much NeLLab pride, congratulations Esti! 🎉🎉 #SNL2025 @snlmtg.bsky.social

Todd Wolfson, AAUP President, echoing the position of his organization, said guns should not be permitted on college campuses. It impedes efforts to have productive discussions on important & controversial issues when “somebody’s got a weapon on their hip,” he said.

Really interesting presentation by Fumiko Hoeft about neural noise, dyslexia, anxiety, stress, and revising the view of dyslexia to variation rather than dysfunction #snl2025

Reminder that generative AI, particularly in the arts, isn't a long-term inevitability just because billionaires want it to be.

Speak on it 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 “Now it is the job of the courts…to ensure that important research is not improperly subjected to arbitrary and procedurally infirm grant terminations, even if doing so risks the wrath of a government committed to its agenda no matter the cost” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Linguists! After what I hope was a restful summer, we’re starting the LSA Write Time Fridays again! Write in a zoom room with other linguists. Now featuring some Pacific-Time Friendly scheduling! I’m hosting this Friday at 1-3 ET, 10-12 PT. Hope to see you there! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... 🐦🐦

No, it's not any of that. It's the guns.

In 1854, Deaf Americans built the Gallaudet Monument, funded entirely by Deaf contributors. It honored Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founder of the first US Deaf school, and—through attendee records—left rare evidence of marriages, migrations & the growth of ASL. doi.org/10.25189/267... #linguistics

Join our team! Remote, part-time open positions currently available: 👉 Grant Writer – Secure funding to grow our mission: tinyurl.com/AHGrantWriter 👉 Digital Marketing & Community Engagement Specialist – Create engaging, accessible content: tinyurl.com/AHDigitalMark

Want to know more about the Family ASL project? Check out our new paper “Language and Cognitive Development in Bimodal Bilingual Deaf Children in Hearing Families: Three Case Studies.” It’s part of a special issue on Lang & Cog Dev in Deaf Children www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...

If you'd like to attend the Sign Language Contact Variation and Change conference on Thursday 21 and Friday 22 August (this week!) make sure you have registered here! The Zoom link (including interpretation into English) will be sent to those who have registered. sites.google.com/view/slcvc-w...

The SNL 2025 Access Award will waive registration fees for up to 20 students, trainees, and faculty who face barriers to attending the Society for Neurobiology of Language conference. Apply by Aug 27; winners named Aug 28. Pls share! 🔗 tinyurl.com/SNLAcessAward #SNL2025 #NeurobiologyofLanguage

STAR's first issue is out! (STAR is an open-access journal publishing syntactic research from the same editorial team that brought us Syntax) #Linguistics star-linguistics.org

UMich Ling is hiring for a cluster hire position in AI and Linguistics! Come work in a fabulous department with great grad students, supportive colleagues, and one overly school-spirited nut who will tell you where all the fun stuff is on campus. apply.interfolio.com/171006

My quote of the day We must reject the cynicism that says allowing every eligible vote to be cast and counted is a 'power grab.' Americans understand that these are the values our brave men and women in uniform and our veterans risk their lives to defend. Stacey Abrams

The constitution. They sliced out the parts of the constitution that they don’t like from the government website. Yet another reminder that in an aspiring authoritarian government, you should never rely on online document as definitive sources.

This is so misguided. Multilingualism should be promoted and encouraged

Great thread from @naomicaselli.bsky.social about why research on language acquisition in deaf kids is so vital for support 💵 - especially for early career deaf researchers. Naomi, thanks for going to bat for all this !!

Severe blows to the ‘deaf-scientist pipeline’ must not mean abandoning its best practices. Here is how to support current and future students, says Wyatte C. Hall https://go.nature.com/4eDVjqp

An important piece by @wyattehall.bsky.social in @nature.com today: “This is a generational setback for the deaf academic community,” but there are steps that “institutions can take to support deaf students.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🎉 The Bencie Woll Prize is open for applications! Celebrating excellence in linguistic research on British Sign Language. 🔗 Apply by 8 Dec: www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

My keynote presentation at #ICED2025 yesterday was about the critical importance of deaf academic spaces, presenting #DrDeaf as an example, and the values they entail for broader deaf educational environments. Preprint of the paper: lnkd.in/ecx4bM-D Full keynote presentation: lnkd.in/eE7qrkhY

I’ve been managing to keep myself busy and stave off despair over the utter horridness of it all … but that is getting so much harder

Have questions about your #LSA2026 abstract? Join Office Hours with the LSA 2026 Program Co-Chairs on July 2 at 2pm EST to get your questions answered & make sure your submission is on track for the Annual Meeting in New Orleans! www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... Deadline: July 7

Linguists! Abstracts for the LSA annual meeting in NOLA in January 2026 are due on July 7! Please submit! It’s going to be a great conference, and a chance to confer and strategize. Would love love love to see you there! #linguistics @lingsocam.bsky.social www.lsadc.org/abstracts

Have a book/thesis to announce? A workshop/conference you'd like to advertise or write about? Something else interesting for #childlanguage researchers? Publish it in the IASCL Child Language Bulletin! Send your contribution to editor Angel Chan by Aug 4th ([email protected] ).

LSA Presidential Research Forum Join us as scholars rethink terms like “native speaker” and “bilingual”— and work toward empirically driven, contextually grounded characterizations of language use. Register to attend - www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_... #LSA #Linguistics #Sociolinguistics

NSF funding allocations to divisions get adjusted based on numbers of proposals; if we opt out of submitting proposals because of threats of cuts, it can cause future years budgets to divert money out of our divisions.

What does 18,000+ brave signatories look like standing together in massive solidarity with the #NIH heroes of the historic Bethesda Declaration??... Find out by adding YOUR NAME to our #NIHLove letter here! - actionnetwork.org/forms/add-na... #StandUpForScience #BethesdaDeclaration #StopTrump

Deadline July 3: Linguistics + CogSci, up to 3 year teaching (grad/undergrad), University of Delaware careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...

"When you have federal funding cuts coming down...that combined with insufficient state funding is a real disaster for public higher ed in the state" -- Chris Vials @uconnaaup.bsky.social in @ctinsider.bsky.social on the CT state budget cuts to UConn and CSCU.

This is a reminder that #bucld50 abstracts are due June 1st, which is this upcoming Sunday. See this link for more details: www.bu.edu/bucld/abstra...

Thank you Wink for being our most recent #ASLSignbank actor. You’ve kicked off our next round of filming after a couple years 🤩 it was an absolute joy filming with you And 🙌 on recently finishing your dissertation! Y’all should check it out. It’s in ASL 😍 - www.proquest.com/pqdtglobal1/...

Very sorry to learn of the passing of LouAnn Gerken, who had such an impact on our understanding of the acquisition of speech sounds and sound patterns obits.mlive.com/us/obituarie...

International students who have already paid large amounts of tuition and dedicated a great deal of time pursuing degrees at Harvard are now being told they cannot finish because the government is mad at Harvard. This is both immoral and anti-democratic. apple.news/AzzDwAHW6SxK...

I still think it’s backwards that mass shooters owning assault weapons is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

Check out our video of preliminary work (with Laura Horton, @linasigns.bsky.social and @savithry.bsky.social ) that 1. shows that signers classified as native and non-native show similar language experience and 2. discusses using ethnography to improve quantitative research #linguistics

RIP linguist Haj Ross (1938-2025) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R....

Daz @drdazzy.bsky.social and I are current board members of SLLS (slls.eu/board/) and are seeking feedback about TISLR conferences Anyone who's interested in signed languages can respond even if you haven't been to TISLR. Please share widely! Thank you for your time! gu.live/RWCkP

Very pleased that our project using acceptability judgments to better understand linguistic constraints on code-blending is now published online in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. Shoutout to the terrific team who made it possible (listed in the next skeet) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Everyone!!!!!! ASL Signbank is live on its own domain 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Working on a few things but yay! aslsignbank.com

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

We are sounding the alarm for science. America has led the world in groundbreaking discoveries because we funded public science for the public good. If we do not act now to alter our current trajectory it will undermine our prosperity, democracy, & children’s futures for decades. SaveScienceNow.org