On World Mental Health Day remember that it's ok not to be ok. It’s also ok to talk about it and ask for help. And remember that spending some time in nature can benefit your mental health 👇 yorkshiredales.org.uk/healing-with... 📸 Wendy McDonnell #WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD25 #MentalHealth

(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!

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...

Fancy a word of academic German today? “Schreibschulden” - the texts you promised to send to someone but missed the deadlines, and apparently your growing overload of to do reviews, chapters and articles become part and argument of every academic conversation you have.

🚨 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

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

American Psychological Association speaks up after NSF terminates 1,000+ grants! “By halting research of this type we risk denying individuals high-quality care based solely on their heritage or background..our ability to understand & deliver effective services to ALL Americans..will be diminished”

Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c... Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.

Super proud of my PhD student @elenampadanes.bsky.social, who was awarded the Dr. Russell and Melissa Bessette Award for Doctoral Student Excellence! Congratulations!! 😀🎉 www.rit.edu/graduatescho...

At which point will we agree that we must consider going back to a hybrid option for academic conference attendance?

We just made the DGS-SRT (German Sign Language-Sentence Reproduction Test) publicly available! You can access it here: github.com/christianrat...

Had a fantastic time at #CNS2025 in Boston. Congratulations on a great poster session to my PhD student @elenampadanes.bsky.social!

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️ ⠀ Did you know?⠀ ⠀ The ASL sign for ‘transgender’ is similar to the ASL sign for ‘beautiful’ but is signed on the middle of the chest. Illustration by Deaf trans artist Carlisle Robinson. #TDOV #DeafTrans #DeafTransgender #DeafTransPride #ASL #QueerASLSigns ⠀⠀