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

Call for participants 📣 Are you deaf and enjoy going to museums? 🏛️ PhD student, Meredith Peruzzi, is looking for participants for research into how museums can create a sense of welcome and belonging. For more information, visit - https://f.mtr.cool/yclnqtcxdg

What We Can Learn from Interpreter Fails. Dear Colleagues: If you have worked as a conference interpreter for any length of time, you have probably had at least one moment where things did not quite go as planned. Maybe your brain lagged a second too long, maybe your mic betrayed you mid-sentence,…

How do hearing children of Deaf migrant parents experience their multilingual repertoires? @empacheco.bsky.social explains in the latest Language-on-the-Move post www.languageonthemove.com/children-of-...

New cool paper with cool people! Overall, we found that sign languages with more users avoid signs that are particularly low in iconicity (a result parallel with spoken languages) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great presenting at IDGS Hamburg today about the SmartSafeSigning project (www.wlv.ac.uk/research/smart-safe-signing-/) on some of our pilot data (published open access here - wlv.openrepository.com/items/180859...)

#drDeaf had its 7th writing retreat (and 14th event overall) with participants from around Europe, US, Singapore, and Australia. Evaluation comments: energized, motivated, enthusiastic, sharing, refreshed. Join us at our other 2025 events!

WFD-WASLI IS Accreditation now accepting applications. wasli.org/sign-languag... English: forms.gle/qjN49fiyGeGr... español: forms.gle/rg6VimFsXsyX... francés: forms.gle/jGG4A7XxSa5k...

The National Association of the Deaf says the White House's failure to provide ASL interpreters during press briefings leaves some deaf and hard of hearing people without information.

Marvel could pay for my healthcare for the rest of my life for a fraction of 1% of profit from Spider-Man Noir, a character whose original comics I edited. For Peter David to die in medical debt, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and writer of countless seminal Hulk and X-Factor comics—that's a disgrace

🚨New publication alert! "Corpus-based approaches to evolutionary dynamics in language" (w/ @stefanhartmann.bsky.social) out now in the in the Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution. Kudos to @limorraviv.bsky.social & @cedricboeckx.bsky.social for putting this great volume together!

Join us at the British Academy on Tue 24 – Wed 25 June, for a conference exploring ethical and political issues that can arise in the context of communicating about health and health care, bringing together experts in philosophical ethics and health practice. Book your ticket: buff.ly/NsoFDd6

The #DrDeaf team is thrilled to announce the first Professor Deaf workshop! This workshop is aimed at deaf academics post-PhD, working in a university/research setting. It will be held October 2-4, 2025 in Oslo, Norway. More information will follow. For now, if you’re interested: save the date!

"🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp... "

Deaf skilled readers may monitor for phrase structure but not morphosyntax - new evidence from ERPs. Paper just out! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

I went to Kings College Hospital London and found another example of a fail to supply an interpreter to communicate with a #Deaf patient. Should have gone to @signalisecoop.bsky.social ! #deafaccess #interpreter #NHS #NHSAIS

ESRC-funded research project looking for research assistants to explore Deaf mediators, interpreters, and translators with me and Dr Patrick Rosenberg in the UK (@crathmann.bsky.social @brittadurczok.bsky.social in DE and @jeremiesegouat.bsky.social + colleagues FR) jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Thinking of a trip to Barcelona this summer? Beware – here’s what you'll find | Stephen Burgen

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It looks like the avatar and the BSL toggle have been removed since I posted. This is what it looked like. The avatar looks human and is based on real footage but what you’re seeing is a synthetic signer - with sign language generated by AI using a database of recorded signs.

In my recent paper "DeafinAI", I discussed the slippery slope of language and access rights in the age of AI. What starts as using AI in low-stakes situations can quickly expand into high-stakes areas such as healthcare. That slope seems even slipperier than I thought. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

Gif game along with 🔥 ideas no surprise there. Love "deaf liminality" coined by Anna and "white native deaf signerism" co-coined with @linasigns.bsky.social can't wait to cite the heck outta these Yay @annalim.bsky.social who keynoted for The 2nd ROLE Symposium today

Happy US book release day to me, my amazing co-author @alexhanna.bsky.social and everyone else who can now open up their own copy!! All the details on ordering, events, and news coverage at thecon.ai

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

Access to Work event for deaf women ✨ The National Council of Women are hosting an event discussing opportunities, challenges and barriers faced by deaf women in the world of work. When - 19th May at 12:30pm. https://f.mtr.cool/ymokjovlvi #DeafCommunity #AccessToWork

Co-directed by actor and deaf activist Nyle DiMarco with Davis Guggenheim, this is the story of an eight-day student protest at Gallaudet in 1988. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

Enjoying being in Goiânia at congressodeinterpretacao.com.br

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...

Linguists & linguistically minded friends! If you are interested in how signs are organized in the mind, consider joining new seminar series "The Signing Mind" hosted by researchers at @bcbl.bsky.social + IDGS Hamburg University. The first seminar is 5/19 5pm CEST sites.google.com/view/signing...

Instead of ripping away health care from millions of people, Republicans should crack down on waste in Medicare Advantage. Tactics like "upcoding"—when for-profit insurance companies exaggerate medical problems to pad their profits—cost taxpayers billions. That’s real waste.

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Check out all the wonderful events planned for #CreativeBrainWeek2025 at @tcddublin.bsky.social creativebrainweek.com

Another punch in the gut for grant funding. #HigherEd #ResearchFunding

From my blog: Diplomatic Interpreting: Misunderstood and little known. | The Professional Interpreter ow.ly/Jk1730r3s53

Student visa crackdown will make UK crisis ‘considerably worse’, says university chief

Today’s #DeafTech frustration: I called my internet provider via VRS. As often happens now, a bot took over the line to check my internet connection. This usually means restarting the router… which drops the internet and thus the call. And I have to rejoin the queue. 😠

First kick-off meeting of the DA-DMIT (Deaf access by Deaf people - Deaf mediators, interpreters, and translators) project, with C. Stone (UK, Univ. of Wolverhampton), C. Rathman and B. C. Durczok (GER, Univ. of Berlin), J. Segouat, J. Giclat and J. Imberdis-Lucca (FR, CNRS / Univ. of Toulouse JJ).

‘The only thing we can’t do is hear’: the deaf pupil who beat Fife council in court

Niamdh Braid won a legal battle with her local council to have a British Sign Language interpreter in lessons www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

For @jmhenner.bsky.social. We — @savithry.bsky.social and I — wrote “How to crip your sign language linguistic theory”. Open access. academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...

This interesting new paper by @naomicaselli.bsky.social and @kemmorey.bsky.social argues for iconicity as a fundamental design feature of language's lexicon: "Iconicity as an organizing principle of the lexicon" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are currently seeking applications for the role of Race Equality Officer to work with us at @tcddublin.bsky.social in our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Office. Deadline for applications is 9 May 2025. universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...

It’s not too late to stop Trump and the tech broligarchy from controlling our lives, but we must act now www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

New NSF "Broad Impact" guidelines, "Research projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities" #Linguistics #DeafCommunities #IndigenousCommunities #RacializedCommunities #MinoritizedCommunities

The supreme court didn’t rule on the definition of ‘a woman’ – this is what its judgment does mean www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Our new study challenges the long-held belief that language is arbitrary; there is no link between how words sound and what they mean. In ASL, many signs visually resemble their meaning. We find that this iconicity plays a key role in how signs are organized in the mind. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Congratulation to the British Deaf Association for this discussion paper on AI and BSL. As far as I know this is the first deaf NGO to have such a discussion paper. Very much needed!