Join us for our next Language Science Lunch Talk on 4/2, “Cascading Effects of Caregiver Stress on Language Development: Findings from Infant Siblings and Future Directions for Early Childhood" with Jennifer Markfeld (HDQM - new postdoc!) 📣 Read abstract: languagescience.umd.edu/events/langu...

Students can now register for MLSC220! Learn more: go.umd.edu/lsccourses June 1-18, 2026 | Mon-Thu, 10 AM–1:30 PM UMD Campus + Planet Word 3 credits | No prerequisite required | Gen Ed - Distributive Studies: Scholarship in Practice

Highlights from the latest Linguistics Colloquium with alum Brian Dillon, "Insights at the Memory-Syntax Interface in Humans and Language Models" 📸 Photos by Andrea Zukowski

Join us for a hybrid panel on language + conflict, featuring Philip Renik, Julia Mendelsohn, and Erik Nesse, moderated by Hoda Mahmoudi. 📅 April 16 | 12:30-2 PM 📍 2130 H.J. Patterson Hall | Hybrid More info coming soon to our website | To attend virtually, register using link in bio. 🔗

We’re so grateful for everyone who supported our Giving Day campaign. Thank you for supporting our interdisciplinary community and helping us advance language science.

Greetings from the LSC team! Today is Giving Day and we are fundraising for our Student and Postdoc Mini-Grants! Donate here: givingday.umd.edu/.../maryland....

Our next alumni newsletter is coming soon! If you’re an LSC alum, sign up now: forms.gle/pYUvFFqkHGwz...

Save the date 📅 Giving Day is on Wednesday, March 4th! Check out our fund and learn more about our cause: go.umd.edu/mlscgivingday

We still have our UMD Language Scientist Starter Pack! Who should we add next? go.bsky.app/75ZZntU

🚨 This week's talk has been canceled, but lunch will still be provided 🚨

Language Science Lunch Talks are back! 🗣️ Head to the LSC this Thursday, February 5th, for "Challenging Language Norms in Education." 📚 languagescience.umd.edu/events/langu...

Mark your calendars 🗓️ On February 12th at Tawes Hall, the Studio for Literary Technology is hosting a lecture and conversation on what LLMs mean for writing with Dr. Hannes Bajohr (Berkeley) and conversant Dr. Matthew Kirschenbaum (UVA). languagescience.umd.edu/events/surfi...

Spring 2026 Course: TLPL788P: Black Language and Culture Examine the history and evolution of Black Language from a linguistics perspective, discussing topics such as BL and culture, geography, gender, sexuality, identity, ideologies, racism, and discrimination. go.umd.edu/tlpl788p

The @lingsocam.bsky.social awarded the Linguistics, Language, & the Public Award to our founder and director, @charlottevaughn.bsky.social! We're feeling very grateful today that our work is being recognized by our community.

This Thursday is our last Language Science Reading Group of the semester 📚 Meet us on December 11th at 12:15 PM at the Language Science Center!

Weizhen (Zane) Xie wrapped up the LSLT season with "Visual Working Memory and Its Deep Circuits: A Story Beyond Patient H.M." See everyone next semester!

Head to the LSC this Thursday, December 4th, for our Language Science Lunch Talk, "Visual Working Memory and Its Deep Circuits: A Story Beyond Patient H.M." with Weizhen (Zane) Xie. Lunch served at 12:15 PM, talk begins at 12:30 PM! Learn more: languagescience.umd.edu/events/langu...

El Laboratorio de Diversidad Lingüística busca familias bilingües (español/inglés) para un estudio sobre el uso del idioma en la infancia. Niños de 4 a 9 años (Padres mayores de 18 años) | 30 min | $20 | En línea o presencial | ¿Te interesa? Haz clic en el enlace de la biografía

UMD’s Language Diversity Lab is seeking bilingual (Spanish/English) families for a study on how children use their languages. 👧 Ages 4-9 (Parents ages 18+) | 🕐 30 min | 💰 $20 | Online or in person Learn more: www.mile.umd.edu/news/study-o... | Contact: [email protected] (301) 531-4864

Thank you to @alexusgramirez.bsky.social for an insightful Language Science Lunch Talk on how language practices, beliefs, and context shape children’s pathways to school readiness 📚🗣️

Join us this Thursday, November 6th at 12:30 PM (lunch served at 12:15!) at 2130 HJ Patterson Hall for a continued discussion led by Samer Nour Eddine (LSC) on “Evaluating the neurophysiological evidence for predictive processing as a model of perception.” 🧠

Join us on October 30th for our latest LSLT: Language Practices, Beliefs, and Contexts: Pathways to School Readiness with Alexus Ramirez.

It's been a while since we updated our UMD Language Scientist starter pack. Who do you think is missing? 🤔 go.bsky.app/75ZZntU

We had such a fantastic time at Rebel with a Clause! 📚✨ From Ellen Jovin’s Grammar Table in Stamp to the screening and Q&A at Hoff Theater, it was a day full of language fun, curiosity, and great conversations. Thank you to everyone who joined us and helped make the event so special!

We captured so many great moments from Language Science Day, thanks to Andrea Zukowski! We wish we could share them all here, but you can see the full gallery on our Flickr page. Click here to check them out: flickr.com/photos/umd-l...

(THREAD 1/3) Volunteers Needed for Language Study! The Action and Brain Laboratory (ABL) at Gallaudet is researching ASL. They will collect brainwaves (EEG) while participants watch videos of ASL signs and name a series of pictures. Participants are paid for their participation (20/hr)

Photos from the National Book Festival are finally here! Big thanks again to our volunteers and everyone who visited us at the STEM District 📚📖

Register now!🚨📣 Join us on October 6th at UMD’s Hoff Theater for a screening of Rebel with a Clause and a live Q&A with author Ellen Jovin. Follow her 50-state grammar road trip, proof that even comma debates can bring us together. 🔗 Click here to register on Eventbrite: go.umd.edu/rwac

We didn’t have an LSLT today, but here are some great shots from Sanshiroh Ogawa’s talk last week to make up for it!

Two of our fantastic @umdleadlab.bsky.social undergrads will be presenting posters at Language Science Day next Friday, 9/19. We hope to see you there!

Language Science Day is right around the corner! Register by THIS MONDAY, September 15th, for our signature annual event: go.umd.edu/lsd25

Tomorrow! Be there and be square 😎

Yesterday, linguist Kate Mooney kicked off this semester’s Language Science Lunch Talk series with her presentation, Limits of Gestural Displacement. Click the link in our bio to read her abstract on the events calendar.

THREAD 1/2 Join us on September 6th at the @librarycongress.bsky.social #NationalBookFestival, our 2nd year as a Featured STEM District Organization! 🎉 Details in the thread below 👇🚨

New funding is available for the Society for Neurobiology of Language 2025 meeting in DC! Gallaudet's Dr. Quant invites colleagues + students to attend! Up to 20 randomly selected registration waivers are offered for disabled attendees. All disabilities welcome. Apply: tinyurl.com/SNLaccessaward

Language scientists filled the seats in our summer stats workshop quickly 🏃 This week's topic: Data Simulation & Hierarchical Models: Foundations with Dr. Scott Jackson 📈 Read about the workshop and next week's topic, Bayesian Modelling & Advanced Simulation: go.umd.edu/lsc-summer-ws

🧠 Paid Research Study on Language & the Brain! 🧠 The Action and Brain Lab at Gallaudet University is looking for hearing, non-signing adults to participate in a study on how we process American Sign Language. DETAILS IN THREAD BELOW 👇

So unbelievably proud of @alexusgramirez.bsky.social and my mentee Paola for her first ever poster presentation at UMD's SRI/REACH poster session today! Yay Paola!! 🥳🎉

Grant due today

Recordings from the Conference on Human Sentence Processing are officially on our YouTube channel. Watch them all here: www.youtube.com/@umd_lsc

LSC Coffee Hours are back! Stop by on Tuesdays from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM for ✨free✨ coffee and pastries 🥐☕️ Come get some work done!

We're kicking off May with our next LSLT, "Understand child sentence processing in reading: computational and experimental approaches" with Kuan-Jung Huang 🗣️📚

Join Dr. Jordan Boyd-Graber for a talk on why AI tools still struggle with questions, from movie plots to art descriptions. Stick around to test your knowledge against a trivia-playing robot! 🤖 📅 Sat, May 10 | Language Science Fair 📍 Planet Word | Free + all ages 🔗 Link in bio to register

Thanks to all the @umdleadlab.bsky.social friends who wrote the nomination letter! @gavkhar-a.bsky.social @ellroche.bsky.social @elliektaylor.bsky.social @alexamcd.bsky.social @alexusgramirez.bsky.social Victoria Terry (HDQM) Mariah Egerton (HDQM) Alicia Mortimer (HDQM) Deena Shariq (PSYC)

LSC member @rachelromeo.bsky.social received the Graduate Mentor of the Year Award, awarded by the UMD Graduate School! Congratulations Rachel 🥳

We're back! Join us this week for our latest LSLT with Susannah Paletz 🎉 Click the link to read her full abstract on our events calendar 📅 🔗 Learn more: languagescience.umd.edu/events/langu...

🚨Reminder🚨 This week's LSLT has been canceled, but here's a Minecraft movie meme to make you feel better. See everyone next week!

Who doesn't love stickers? Here's a sneak peek at some of the ✨exclusive✨ freebies the LCC team has created for the 11th Language Creation Conference (LCC11), happening April 11–13 at UMD! Visit conlang.org to learn more about LCC11.