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.

It was a privilege to host Julie Sedivy, author of Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love, at our most recent Language Science Lunch Talk. Until next time! 📸 Beautiful photo by Andrea Zukowski

Now that we’ve found our UMD language friends, who should we add next? go.bsky.app/75ZZntU

We’re seeing tons of awesome #HSP2025 posts! Don’t forget to check out all the awesome photos from the event on our Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/umd-l...

You heard her!

I am also very bad at this but if you missed out at #HSP2025, don’t worry—register for #LingComm25 TODAY! Registration ends 3/31 👀

We love to see it 👏

Lau, E. (2025). How single-neuron computation matters for cognitive neuroscience. JoCN Forum. jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/vhhe4nh9

Were you at #HSP2025? Tag us in your social media posts on Bluesky, Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn!

#HSP2025, where language science meets photo booths. It was fun!

“Science has a sociology” -Philip Resnik #hsp2025

Leaving #HSP2025 thankful for the community we have in language science. Coming away with new ideas, connections, and inspiration for community engagement. Thanks to UMD for hosting! Missed my poster on cognitive control adaptation in code-switching? See it here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

I am very bad at live-skeeting BUT Charlotte Vaughn gave a FANTASTIC, thought-provoking invited talk on outreach/research engagement yesterday at #HSP2025