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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 29/04/2025

This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

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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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Dr. Zed Sehyr @zedsehyr.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Although cochlear implants can give deaf children access to sound, it doesn’t always mean they have unrestricted or consistent access to language. This Science paper and podcast episode discuss how sign language can provide this access: pca.st/episode/5e7f... www.science.org/content/arti...

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Implants can help deaf kids hear—but many still struggle with spoken language

Some researchers worry about risks of devaluing sign language, overreliance on imperfect devices

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National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes @nationaldeafcenter.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Did you know there are over 20 Black deaf scholars with PhDs in the U.S.? Want to know who they are? Check them out at blackdeafphd.com!

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Home | Black Deaf Ph.D. Project

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Wyatte Hall @wyattehall.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This dynamic exists in deaf communities too. Sign language interpreters can feel free to give or withhold their services based on how much they like a deaf person. You always have to be super likable to avoid that dynamic emerging.

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a man in a red hoodie is making a funny face while standing next to another man .

ALT: a man in a red hoodie is making a funny face while standing next to another man .

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Leala Holcomb @lealaholcomb.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I have been intentional abt reading from different sources. I find myself respecting conservatives who challenge Republicans’ narratives & liberals who challenge Democrats’ narratives. I am increasingly not a fan of the religious-like, all-or-nothing outlook on complicated topics. 1/3

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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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arrowsummit.bsky.social @arrowsummit.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Part 1: Indiana Republicans want to take back in time when our language and culture were suppressed. Summary of Indiana Senate Bill 0473’s Impact on DHH Education (can be found in sections 26-28, pages 19-21):

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Maia George @maiageorge.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Thread im thread fuer den alt-text aller Screenshots im zitierten thread: A screenshot of a document listing words flagged in a search of current NSF (National Science Foundation) awards. The heading states that the list is possibly incomplete and based on a cull from 1/10th of the awards flagged.

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Science has always been political. To assume otherwise is either willful or blissful ignorance. There are no systems without analyses of power, and politics is about power.

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TerynceRecherche @terynce.com · 02/02/2025

Question for #blind or #deafblind people: are tactile posters a thing that would be welcomed? Poster sessions at conferences tend to be visual - could/should they be tactile as well? And maybe a tactile layout of the conference? Not instead of a protactile interpreter, but in addition to.

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Leala Holcomb @lealaholcomb.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Loved reconnecting w/ old faces & meeting new ones to discuss deaf education research @ #ACEDHH2025 conference. I wasn’t expecting it, but I woke up this morning as the President-Elect for the ACEDHH organization! Honored and excited to work with the Board to keep pushing deaf education forward.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Hey #deaf scholars--has anyone snagged the Edhi data off the CDC yet?

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Jessica Scott @jascott.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting this weekend as I became the person in charge of planning & executing (along with an essential/committed team) a conference I first attended in 2011. I started as a shy grad student scared of making a fool of myself in front of the biggest names in my field (1/~3)

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TerynceRecherche @terynce.com · 01/02/2025

Great poster session at #ACEDHH2025! Cool research happening and it's exciting for people to discuss their work 1-on-few. Also, and maybe it's just me, but I like when people that give full presentations also do posters about their work. Posters don't only have to be for grad students.

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Leala Holcomb @lealaholcomb.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The #ACEDHH conference on deaf education is just getting started, and my heart is already full from the people I’ve run into so far. 🥰

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Kristof Savski @kristofsavski.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

A few highlights from my book: Language policy doesn't involve managing language(s) but exercising authority to impose new norms in how we interact. We don't manage language itself but who, how, where and when can participate in discourse. #linguistics #appliedlinguistics #sociolinguistics 1/x

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Leala Holcomb @lealaholcomb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I have been working on a million-dollar USAID project, funded by your taxes, supporting deaf education in Rwanda, Malawi, & Philippines, collaborating w/ local Deaf researchers to create meaningful systemic changes. The work is only halfway done. We were informed the project is being suspended. 1/

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Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I have supported many deaf graduate students and currently support a deaf post doc using this mechanism. What’s happening at NIH is terrible for science and closes doors for deaf students who face so many more challenges than their hearing peers

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Leala Holcomb @lealaholcomb.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Media fuels hysteria & an us vs. them mindset. I saw it w/ Biden 4 years ago (Republican reactions) & now w/ Trump (Democratic reactions). Reminding myself not to jump to fear-based conclusions based on info I get from social media’s algorithm. Gotta read legit sources from varied perspectives. 🧐

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Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

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Oscar Lecuona @oscarlecuona.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Our new paper just got published at Nature Human Behavior! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We study trust in science in 68 countries and how it relates to other variables. It was wild to be part of this project 👌✨

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Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries - Nature Human Behaviour

What is the state of trust in scientists around the world? To answer this question, the authors surveyed 71,922 respondents in 68 countries and found that trust in scientists is moderately high.

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Tim Brown, PhD @keyofnight.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This is just the beginning. The subsequent restructuring of NIH will have a long-lasting impact on the global landscape of medical science research. Expect a "brain drain effect" as scholars in the US leave to other countries. Expect the US to become much weaker in medical science and technology.

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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring

Researchers facing

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

High school "There is no way people will take you seriously without a college degree." College "If you want to be taken seriously go to grad school." Grad school "Get a job at a university. Then you will be taken seriously." University job “You are so out of touch nobody takes you seriously.”

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Trump wants to convince us that US citizen children of undocumented immigrants and trans people are criminals while pardoning actual criminals

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Leala Holcomb @lealaholcomb.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I remember attending Obama’s first inauguration in person. It was a cold but special day. There was so much hope and joy… opposite to what I feel today.

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Leala Holcomb @lealaholcomb.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Feeling disheartened by the low amount of signing at #TISLR15 conference. It makes me even more grateful for the changes I have seen at #ACEDHH conferences, where hearing folks have increasingly switched from speaking to signing in the past few years.

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Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) @adamcschembri.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Maybe the field isn’t ready yet for a #NoTalkTISLR but at the next conference we *could* perhaps have two parallel streams of on-stage presentations, one without interpreting, as a way to ease us towards a sign-only future? #TISLR15

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Lina Who Lina How Lina… (侯詠絮) @linasigns.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

For #NoTalkTISLR to happen at future TISLR meetings, I think we may have to change the fundamental space of the presentations. More workshops, more posters for direct signing?

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Leala Holcomb @lealaholcomb.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

It still surprises me to see spoken language being used to present research on sign language at a sign language conference. I can’t help but feel like there is a major disconnect there 🥴🫠 #TISLR15

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Joseph Murray @drjosephmurray.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

In honor of #TISLR15 here’s a new #audistjerks post! Sign language linguist? Do pass over that deaf applicant to your PhD stipend in favor of a hearing new signer There’s always a reason a deaf person isn’t qualified 🤡and a hearing PhD can always learn to sign! Anyway, they don’t HAVE to sign well!

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Nicole R. Misra she/her @nicolermisra.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

My #currentread. This is so so necessary for all teachers!

This is the cover for the book The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning.

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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I forget that not everyone knows this.

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John S. Pirone @jspirone.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

A question - The ACTFL provides guidelines on the time required for students to achieve proficiency in a language based on hours of instruction. ASL is classified as a Category IV language (I think), which requires over 2,000 hours to achieve proficiency. Now I wonder...(1/2)

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Top 0.01% of all Todds @toddadam.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Sad. This is brilliant.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon criticizing billions currying favor with Trump was spiked — and now she has quit the paper

anntelnaes.substack.com

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post

Democracy can't function without a free press

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TerynceRecherche @terynce.com · 03/01/2025

I wish I could work with all my conference and life besties. No, not work. Exist with and occasionally do "professional" stuff with. I have great people... at different universities, in different countries. I want to be with my besties, all the time, doing whatever.

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TerynceRecherche @terynce.com · 02/01/2025

Also, to be clear, most mainstream schools don't care about the education deaf students receive. Deaf school: I was certified ELA, they gave me a reading class, and said I had to be certified in Reading too. Mainstream: I had 3 math classes, 3 social studies classes, 1 ELA, and computers.

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Leala Holcomb @lealaholcomb.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Can’t wait for the Association of College Educators - Deaf and Hard of Hearing (ACE-DHH) conference next month! I have missed my deaf education academic friends and look forward to reconnecting. Excited to learn about current research in the field!

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Will Fertman @willfertman.com · 31/12/2024

Just for reference: between the devices themselves and the cost of surgery, my son's CIs cost our insurance six figures just to get them implanted. This doesn't count ongoing maintenance, consumables, audiology visits, etc...

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Were these my best work of 2024? Not no....

ID 1-4:Kombucha girl meme with grossed out face then nice face, and header "Hearing people"
1. Listening to deaf people.
Saying "falls on deaf ears when someone doesn't listen.

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Wyatte Hall @wyattehall.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Deaf people and our communities are economically exploited with little in return from birth until death. Most of this happens until the age of 18-21. After 18, you're also derided as a taxpayer burden if you dont magically overcome societal failures and barriers to get a job. Some examples below

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a woman wearing glasses says " follow me " while holding a pink object

ALT: a woman wearing glasses says " follow me " while holding a pink object

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

As an educational linguist I would add that efforts to linguistically prepare students for ‘the real world’ erase the linguistic heterogeneity of the world by framing language as a static set of rules rather than a creative tool for making sense of the world and our role in it

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Leala Holcomb @lealaholcomb.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

It is Monday after the winter break… slowly easing back into work mode.

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Leala Holcomb @lealaholcomb.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I have this caricature, or stereotype, in my head of a classic deaf education expert who claims to “know it all.” Here’s what I picture: 🧵 1/

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