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Joseph Palagano

@joepalagano.bsky.social
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Ph.D. candidate in Ed Neuroscience: Deaf(Blind)ness, Language, Learning, HCI | Hearie, Gallaudet: ABL | 🏳️‍🌈☕️🧠🤟🏽🦬

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13/04/2026
Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!" But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?"
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Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The title of this new article by >30 deaf and hearing authors says it all "Avoiding unintended consequences: Science of reading policies have potential to harm deaf children" doi.org/10.1093/jdsa...
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Avoiding unintended consequences: science of reading policies may harm deaf children
Abstract. Many U.S. policies inspired by the Science of Reading rest on two assumptions: (1) skilled reading always involves automatic mapping between writ
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Brittany Arnold @brittanyarnold.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Save the date ! 26 September, Lindsay Ferrara will be giving this year’s Einar Haugen hybrid lecture entitled “Linguistic diversity as a reflection of human diversity: cases from nordic sign language comunities” tinyurl.com/3r5acu5c #signedlanguages #language #linguistics
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Linguistic diversity as a reflection of human diversity: cases from nordic sign language comunities - Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies
With Norwegian Sign Language celebrating its 200th anniversary in 2025, this year's Einar Haugen lecture will focus on signed languages and explore the relationship between human diversity and linguis...
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Wyatte Hall @wyattehall.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Several weeks ago, four of five STEM programs that make up the NIH-funded Deaf Scientists Pipeline in Rochester, NY were cut (the fifth is expected to be cut too). A PhD student made the below infographic to visualize what these cuts mean as a catastrophic generational loss for #Deaf science
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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Our paper won a Best Paper Award at #chi2025 ! It challenges the idea that Deaf tech should only be assistive. It presents alternative narratives that center deaf lives and show why we need Deaf-centred design in tech. @robinxtech.bsky.social @katta.bsky.social programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
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Conference Programs
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Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL) @dcal-ucl.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
🚨 One month to go Are you deaf and interested in linguistics, psychology or cognitive neuroscience? Apply for a paid internship at DCAL, UCL – gain valuable experience at a world-leading research centre. Deadline: 30 April 2025 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/news/20...
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National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes @nationaldeafcenter.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
More deaf people live in rural areas than hearing people, yet resources often fall short—fewer school and job opportunities, interpreter shortages, and unreliable internet. The data is clear—these challenges are real, & change starts with awareness. Read here: nationaldeafcenter.org/news-items/e...
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Employment and Education in the Rural Deaf Landscape
Rural areas boast beautiful open spaces and close-knit communities, but they also come with big challenges, especially for deaf people. A new report from NDC—“Rural Deaf Experiences: Employment and Ed...
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Joseph Palagano @joepalagano.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Nice read by Chella Man; happy trans day of visibility! t.co/Y95MOWm4zy
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https://time.com/7273059/chella-man-choosing-trans-joy-essay/
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Joseph Palagano @joepalagano.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
It was such an honor to Stand up for Science in DC, alongside these women in STEM (my personal heroes), and everyone else who came out! 💪🔬🥼 #StandUpForSceince2025
Bill Nye the Science Guy speaking at the stand up for science 2025 rally. An interpreter can be seen on his left. Behind is protesters and the Lincoln memorial.A group of 5 woman can be seen holding protest signs at the DC Stand Up for Science 2025 rally. Their signs read: “Vaccines Cause ADULTS,” “without
RESEARCH Id just be GUESSING,” “PROTECT SCIENCE FUNDING!,” “SCIENCE
saves LIVES!,” and “Ill just put this [federally funded research] over here with the rest of the fire… [closing of agencies]”.Dr. Atul Gawande speaking at the Stand up for Sceince rally, an interpreter can be seen to his left. Behind them are more protestors and the Lincoln memorial.
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Joseph Palagano @joepalagano.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Seeking volunteer ASL interpreters (DC) for an upcoming (relativley large, grassroots) Science rally. For details or if interested please comment/DM here or email me at Joseph.palagano@gallaudet.edu Info. about the cause/org.: Standupforscience2025.org www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...
ID: The flyer is light blue and has a blue Statue of Liberty figure along the left. Text is situated along the top and right side of the flyer. The text reads, stand up for science 2025. March 7th, 2025 Washington DC and nationwide. Science is for everyone. Find your local rally site and other ways to get involved: standupforscience2025.org
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Joseph Palagano @joepalagano.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Seeking volunteer ASL interpreters (DC) for an upcoming (relativley large, grassroots) Science rally. For details or if interested please comment/DM here or email me at Joseph.palagano@gallaudet.edu Info. about the cause/org.: Standupforscience2025.org www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...
ID: The flyer is light blue and has a blue Statue of Liberty figure along the left. Text is situated along the top and right side of the flyer. The text reads, stand up for science 2025. March 7th, 2025 Washington DC and nationwide. Science is for everyone. Find your local rally site and other ways to get involved: standupforscience2025.org
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The Xbox Accessibility Guidelines are a set of best practices compiled by industry experts, gamers, and disabled people. The guidelines have been written to help developers, designers, and testers make games more accessible to people with disabilities. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming...
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Xbox Accessibility Guidelines - Microsoft Game Dev
Game development documentation for creating accessible games.
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Lorna Quandt @lornaquandt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
They want to remove support for disabled students—learning disabilities, behavior problems, developmental delays, speech therapy, accommodations for ADHD, deaf/HoH people, blind and low vision people. Outrageous, disgusting, barbarian. What are you doing this week to resist?
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
17 states are suing to overturn section 504. www.bazelon.org/wp-content/u...
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Nature @nature.com · 11/02/2025
Biologist Tatsuya Amano works to make science a fairer place for non-fluent speakers go.nature.com/4ho0M5r
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Breaking language barriers: ‘Not being fluent in English is often viewed as being an inferior scientist’
Biologist Tatsuya Amano works to make science a fairer place for non-fluent speakers.
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Joseph Palagano @joepalagano.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Matt (@deafinitelydope) and Otis (@slntwrlddd) delivered. This was easily one of the best ASL halftime performances in recent SB history. Go watch! Go support! youtu.be/bcRUHM8iiFY?...
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ASL Performance of Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show Ft. Kendrick Lamar | Matt Maxey
YouTube video by Learn How to Sign - Resources
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Michael E. Skyer, PhD @michaelskyer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Fear and anxiety are not bad emotions even when they feel bad. In scary, anxiety-inducing times, it is more important than ever to think clearly and act in accordance. In these times, I offer for your consideration: Deaf Left's "Revolting. Revolting. Revolting." deafleft.com/revolting-re...
A stylized purple text reads "DEAF" using Anarchist iconography.  Below, is the text that follows:

> REVOLTING. REVOLTING. REVOLTING.
Introduction: From causes, to affects, to response, there are three connotations (expansions and interpretations) for the verb <REVOLT> which apply to waxing authoritarianism and waning freedom. They are:

Revolting (1) to roll backwards, (e.g., reactionary politics, “status quo, ante”)

Revolting (2) to cause disgust, (e.g., to feel strong disapproval, “a bad taste”)

Revolting (3) to rise up against (e.g., to rebel against oppression, “revolution”)

Let us examine each aspect in turn and situate these ideas in deaf and disabled communities.

Why? Because deaf and disabled people are at extreme risk presently. The risks include from four kinds of unjust systems, all of which exploit hierarchies.  

Authoritarianism—social systems that concentrate power in the hands of a few people who are increasingly insulated against counteractions by the people.
Fascism—political systems that scapegoat vulnerable minorities; political systems that profit from ostracism, violence, oppression, and intersectionality.
Oligarchy—economic systems that concentrate wealth (a form of power) into the hands of a few people who act primarily under the value of greed (hoarding wealth/power)
Kakistokracy—government systems run by the least qualified people, a government run by those who are unscrupulous and act without conscience or in consideration of consequence.
Social, political, economic, and governmental systems are all causing all kinds of deaf and disabled people to be at extreme risks. However, at even higher risk from these unjust systems are the minorities within our communities. Deaf, disabled AND black, brown, indigenous, gender minorities, sexual minorities, those who are poor, un-homed, aged, language deprived. These are who we all must encircle to defend and protect. But that itself is not enough. Deaf people with privileges—those with intact l…
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Mike Wiser @drmikewiser.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Since I have way more non-academic followers than I ever would have imagined: a short explainer. TL;DR: Substantially cutting indirect costs will either mean raising tuition and fees, or laying off a bunch of mid- and low-salary staff and students.
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Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics @pcfn.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
As the new Artwork Editors for Cortex, we (Anjan and Bella) hope to honor former EIC Sergio Della Sala’s tradition of choosing cover art that is not simply illustrative but leaves the viewer with MORE questions www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...
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How Art Can Enhance Science
Art and science can be aligned in different ways. We describe one use of art as a tool: using ambiguity to evoke curiosity.
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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Gonna read more on this, but calling all #deafsky. This bill definitely needs to be defeated. Anyone know if folks at ISD are aware?
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Science Magazine @science.org · 16/01/2025
New research reveals that like humans and other social mammals, cats tend to mirror the faces of their companions—a key component to getting along. scim.ag/3PBDsom
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Copy cats: Kitties mirror each other’s faces to get along
The behavior—also seen in humans and other social animals—is a key to bonding
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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
My New Year's resolution is to provide short threads for all the papers that come out of the Language Development Dept here at MPI for Psycholinguistics in 2025. Highlighting the brilliant work of our postdocs, students and associates. First up, Donnelly et al (JML) 1/
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Four (4!) postdocs, neurosci of language, Georgetown University NeurosciLang Training Program docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Hilde Haualand @hildehaualand.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
New article is out! What's the right to learn sign language and a right to education in sign language worth, if you don't have the right to access or interact with other people who speak the same language? (with Johan Hjulstad, Ingjerd L. Ødemark and Patrick Kermit) doi.org/10.18061/dsq...
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Where Can I Sign My Language?: A Systematic Literature Review (2000–2019) of Young People's Access to Sign Language Socialisation Spaces in the Nordic Countries | Disability Studies Quarterl...
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Stef G-W @stefgwalsh.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The state of Illinois for #Deaf services: Columbia cut ASL. We now have no ASL interpreter prep BA, 1/4 Associates degrees is fully online, and the Deaf Ed program for the state only has 4 hours of ASL course work plus 3 hours of SEE.
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Raja Kushalnagar @rajakushalnagar.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
📢Announcing 1-day CHI 2025 workshop: Speech AI for All! We’ll discuss challenges & impacts of inclusive speech tech for people with speech diversities, connecting researchers, practitioners, policymakers, & community members. 🎉Apply to join us: speechai4all.org
Speech AI for All: Promoting Accessibility, Fairness, Inclusivity, and Equity
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Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc · 05/12/2024
Deafsky - does anyone have a name sign for Michel Foucault? I know I've seen one but I can't remember it offhand.
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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I talked to reporters from Deaf Journalism Europe about the economic and societal costs and benefits of sign language avatars vs. human sign language interpreters, and the slippery slope of access rights. www.deafjournalism.eu/sign-languag...
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Sign Language Avatars: The German Gold Rush to Undercut Flesh And Blood Interpreters – Deaf Journalism Europe
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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Chapter on sign languages by the deaf linguist Carol Padden in the new Open Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Science, edited by @asifamajid.bsky.social and Michael C Frank. oecs.mit.edu/pub/l60gyowl...
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Sign Language
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Deaf Killjoy🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @deafkilljoy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Blog post following up on critiques of our ASL Roundtable talk about "Teacher Must Sign Good?"
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Teacher Must Sign Good?
This is a follow up on a presentation Jon Henner and I gave at the ASL Roundtable a couple of years ago. Immediately after that roundtable…
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Big news: It's recently announced a propose rule to halt the issuing of certificates that allow businesses to pay below minimum wage to people with disabilities. It plans to establish a three-year phase-out period for employers once the rule goes into effect. www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...
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US Department of Labor announces proposed rule to phase out certificates allowing payment of less than minimum wage to workers with disabilities
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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I’m excited to announce that I’ve received an ERC Consolidator Grant to study the cognitive neuroscience of the grammar of pictures and comics! Here’s a mini thread about my upcoming "PICTREE Project" www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/news...
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Neil Cohn receives ERC Consolidator Grant for studying the neuroscience of the grammar of pictures | Tilburg University
Pictures are often thought to be fairly simple compared to language. Where language is known to use patterns in a vocabulary and grammar, pictures are often thought to just reflect what people see, an...
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Joseph Palagano @joepalagano.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
My names Joe :). I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Neuroscience at Gallaudet in the Action and Brain Lab (PI: @lornaquandt.bsky.social) I am interested in: - How we can build/improve ASL recognition/generation models? - How do we produce/perceive fingerspelling? - Protactile
Photo of me walking my dog, I am wearing a navy hoodie that says graduate and some AirPods. The sky is blue and I am facing the sun.
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
People who want to make the web accessible need to understand the many different ways that people with disabilities use the web. This W3C resource offers a good introduction to how disabled people navigate the web, and barriers they commonly encounter. www.w3.org/WAI/people-u...
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How People with Disabilities Use the Web
Introduces how people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments, use the Web.
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the_gryphon @thegryphon.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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a man wearing a teddy bear sweater says " happy thanksgiving "
Alt: Nyle DeMarco wearing a teddy bear sweater signs " happy thanksgiving "
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Wyatte Hall @wyattehall.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
My work with a colleague on seeing if we can create in-home technology to support parent signing with deaf infants is featured in this article and an embedded video. Check it out!
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a man with long hair and glasses is reaching out his hand towards the camera .
ALT: a man with long hair and glasses is reaching out his hand towards the camera .
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Dr. Zed Sehyr @zedsehyr.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
If you are in NYC for #psynom24 and are able to go see some art, i highly recommend the @guggenheim.bsky.social the current exhibition culminates in beautiful ASL poetry created by famous deaf artists as their reflections on selected paintings. it blew my mind! 🤟🏼@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social
A deaf signer wearing a black top and blond hair pointing to their eyes projected on a screen which hangs on a white wall.A deaf signer wearing black clothing dark curly short hair with his arm stretched forward. projected on a screenA deaf signer wearing a black top, a mustache, buzzed hair, projected on a screen which hangs on a white wall. A caption in the bottom left corner of the says: Douglas Ridloff “Cosmos”
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Christian Vogler @krischi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Can’t recommend the Dashboard enough. It’s such an awesome product of NDC.
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Christian Vogler @krischi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
In #accessibility, personal agency, as well as lived experience and situational factors are critical. I have some thoughts about framing access within these concepts, as a researcher, teacher, and as a deaf person with lived experience growing up in a place & time where access was nonexistent. 1/
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Jaipreet Virdi @jaivirdi.com · 14/11/2024
Ooooh my second book, ECHOES OF CARE (MQUP) is now available for pre-order! This book explores the complex legacy of medicalization of deafness and its profound implications for deaf history, culture, and lived experience. #histSTM #DisabilityHistory #DeafHistory www.amazon.com/Echoes-Care-...
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Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain (McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society): Virdi, Jaipreet: 9780228023654: Amazon.com: Books
Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain (McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society) [Virdi, Jaipreet] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain (McGill-Queen's Associated Medical Services Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society)
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Naomi Caselli @naomicaselli.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Sometimes, more research is *not* needed. There is no evidence that deaf people are at increased risk of crashes, and they have better vision than hearing people, so maybe just stop looking for reasons to prevent deaf people from getting commercial vehicle licenses. rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/78523
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Investigating the Safety and Training of Commercial Motor Vehicle Operation by Deaf and Hard of Hearing DriversSearchSearchSearchhomehome
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Leala Holcomb @lealaholcomb.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The outcomes were promising! Read the results here: Holcomb, L. (2024). Exploring Signed Literacy in Elementary Deaf Students Through Evidence-Based Instructional Methods. Sign Language Studies, 24(4), 843-882. doi.org/10.1353/sls.... 3/
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Project MUSE - Exploring Signed Literacy in Elementary Deaf Students Through Evidence-Based Instructional Methods
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Calle Börstell @cborstell.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Repost of my old "Types of Sign Language Paper". #Linguistics #SignLanguages
A 3x4 grid of seemingly academic papers where only the titles are legible. Top header reads "Types of sign language paper" and the (joke) paper titles read:
•That one paper non-SL linguists ever cite (if any)
•Commentary: revisiting reanalyses of so-called verb agreement - the very final word
•Generic handbook chapter published 3 times already
•I-co-ni-ci-ty!!!
•SLs do this thing (actually we tested hearing gesturers)
•Something something something variation
•We wasted time making yet another sign translation glove
•We developed a new transcription system! You'll all use it from now on, right? Guys? 
•Frogs, dogs and dangerous things: a corpus study
•Let me take these terms and redefine them completely lmao
•Indicating an anaphoric real space  tobek blend R-locus location index in signing space
•Yes, but is it "linguistic"?
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Jason Gervase | ASL Pinnacle @aslpinnacle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
ONLINE #ASL COURSES OPEN FOR REGISTRATION! 🌟 Live Zoom Classes – Interactive, engaging, & taught by an experienced #Deaf instructor! 🌟 Courses run Mid-Jan to Early March 🌟 Deadline: 1/3/2025 For more info & to sign up, visit: www.aslpinnacle.com. #aslpinnacle #aslclasses #learnasl
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Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
PSA for newbies: Please include ALT text on your images. This is an inclusive space for blind and visually impaired people. Don't arrive late to the party and ignore a bunch of people. Also, please share this skeet, rather than liking it, to ensure the message gets delivered. Thanks!
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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
I’ve created this Starter Pack for deaf scholars new on this platform and looking for other deaf scholars to follow and interact with. Join us! go.bsky.app/6USEvp8
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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I have created this with a few of us listed but I know there are more of us on Bluesky: contact me if you wish to be added! 😊 go.bsky.app/CLzeYDN
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Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
With so many new followers, I thought I would send you all to my PSA "10 things you should know about sign languages" - open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Ten Things You Should Know About Sign Languages - Karen Emmorey, 2023
The 10 things you should know about sign languages are the following: (1) Sign languages have phonology and poetry. (2) Sign languages vary in their linguistic ...
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Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
New paper with Meghan McGarry! We investigated TYPE of iconicity (perceptual vs. motoric) in an ERP picture naming study. There were larger effects for perceptually-iconic signs, attributed to the greater structural alignment b/n picture and sign doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...
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Redirecting
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
Since twitter may implode at any moment I thought I would share a thread here critiquing Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) for safekeeping. Spoiler alert: it has racist origins most people who use the dichotomy today aren’t aware of.
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