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Naomi Caselli

@naomicaselli.bsky.social
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#signlanguage #asl #deafed #AI #education language acquisition, #cogsci

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Dr. Zed Sehyr @zedsehyr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧠🤟 How is meaning organized in ASL? "It's a small world of signs: Semantic network structure in American Sign Language based on free associations" We asked deaf ASL signers to give three meaning-related signs for each sign in ASL-LEX that immediately came to mind.
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Naomi Caselli @naomicaselli.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Pulled down my last thread so I can repost it when it will be most impactful. Stay tuned!
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 05/01/2026
We @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social are hiring a director for our Policy-Aligned Research Agenda Buildling Lab (PARABL), to help education system leaders build research roadmaps to effect change in a particular area. More info here: wheelockpolicycenter.org/wp-content/u...
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Naomi Caselli @naomicaselli.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
I am looking for a psychometrician to consult on a short term project. Any recommendations for someone who has done a lot with IRT and test development?
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Dr. Zed Sehyr @zedsehyr.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Much of the way we articulate words isn’t random. It reflects how the brain balances effort & clarity. Common words are shorter & more “shrunk”, confusable words are pronounced more clearly. We asked if ASL signs show similar patterns of reduction using pose-tracking on thousands of ASL signs.
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Will Fertman @willfertman.com · 11/11/2025
It's RRRREEAAADDDYYYY! The Deaf Baby Instruction Manual is now available for pre-order. It's a modern parenting guide for hearing families with deaf or hard of hearing children. Makes a great gift for parents, family members and educators, and a useful weapon for throwing at an LEA or admin,
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The Deaf Baby Instruction Manual
A direct and approachable guide for parents of deaf or hard of hearing children.About 90% of all deaf or hard of hearing (DHH) children are born to parents with…
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Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Another new paper by Aaron Shield! He found that no bimodal bilingual autistic child demonstrated a consistent sign-language advantage, challenging the assumption that sign is inherently more accessible to autistic children. www.frontiersin.org/journals/lan...
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Frontiers | Language development in bimodal bilingual autistic children: a case series of hearing children with deaf signing parents
IntroductionIt is often assumed that sign language may be a more accessible alternative to speech for autistic children who have minimally expressive spoken ...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Just here to remind everyone that while the federal government is shutdown, all study sections at the NIH are currently on hold. Another blow to science and to early career scientists like myself with young labs and research groups. Very hard to remain positive about this career path.
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Will Fertman @willfertman.com · 07/10/2025
How my wife described yesterday's parent-teacher conference for our #deafkid: "Our 2nd grader is reading at a 5th grade level, and he's in the 89th percentile for math. Dang, all that ASL exposure is really messing him up." #ASL #deafed ♿
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Some are embracing the fantasy that the cuts to #NIH funding will only have an impact here in the USA. As Nature reports, the NIH is the largest global funder by far and dwarfs the rest of the world’s funders of biomedical research. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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How the NIH dominates the world’s health research — in charts
Abrupt cuts by the Trump administration to the US National Institutes of Health threaten progress in medical research globally.
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Naomi Caselli @naomicaselli.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Well, that was short lived.
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Supreme Court allows NIH to stop making nearly $800M in research grants for now
But the court, in its emergency docket order, also left in place by a 5-4 order a lower court ruling that threw out NIH memos that enforced the administration's policies.
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Naomi Caselli @naomicaselli.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
This is how it’s going… bsky.app/profile/safa...
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Boston University Wheelock College @buwheelock.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
In this “Conversations with the Dean”, Dean Penny Bishop speaks with Leslie Dietiker, Naomi Caselli, and Elizabeth Bettini about how federal research funding drives equity, innovation, and long-term impact. Read More: spr.ly/633254shWZ #BUWheelock #BostonUniversity #EducationResearch
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Naomi Caselli @naomicaselli.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Okay y’all, gather round for a chat. It’s been a roller coaster, and I thought I’d share what we’ve learned. 🧵 (1/16) bsky.app/profile/luck...
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
At the Science Fair for canceled grants, I had the privilege of speaking with @naomicaselli.bsky.social. Her team (which includes deaf researchers) were making breakthroughs to better identify & address language deprivation — when the Trump administration terminated their grant.
Jenna Norton and Naomi Caselli in front of Naomi’s poster at the science fair for canceled grants.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Very grateful to have had the chance to attend the Science Fair of Cancelled Grants today. As a program officer overseeing health equity research, I’ve heard far too many stories of lost science, lost careers, and lost jobs.
Dr. Naomi Casselli stands in front of her poster describing her cancelled grant on family language planning.  Dr. Reichert standing behind his poster on his cancelled On-Ramp training program.Drs. Casselli and Norton in front of Dr. Caselli’s poster.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/07/2025
Black American Sign Language is distinct from American Sign Language—and it developed because Black Deaf students were segregated in their own Black schools for the Deaf.
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"Sinners" is bringing Black American sign language to the mainstream
The film will be available on HBO Max later this month.
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
APHA is gathering grants by TOMORROW NOON for Phase 2 of their lawsuit vs. NIH which regards NIH **applications** that were unfairly pulled from review, mishandled, or delayed from being awarded due to DEI issues. To add your grant to this lawsuit, become an APHA member & submit this survey:
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Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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/...
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The Relationship Between Community Size and Iconicity in Sign Languages
Communication is harder in larger communities. Past research shows that this leads larger communities to create languages that are easier to learn and use. In particular, previous research suggests t....
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Erin Campbell @erinecampbell.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Blind toddlers often experience language delays. Blind adults do not. In our new paper at @langdevres.bsky.social, we ask whether differences in language input could help them catch up: Do parents speak differently to blind children than sighted children? (Barely... read on for details) 🧪1/N
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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · 10/05/2025
This could be used as an introduction to statistical analysis. It’s so hard to introduce entire fields like this while trying to make another point. Extremely well done. pudding.cool/2025/04/birt...
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Are you more likely to die on your birthday?
Yes. We’ll run a study to show you how, and why.
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buhaririinstitute.bsky.social @buhaririinstitute.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🎓 Our AI and Education Initiative had the pleasure of meeting with a delegation from Lebanon, organized by the U.S. Department of State and WorldBoston, to explore how AI is transforming education around the world. @buwheelock.bsky.social @naomicaselli.bsky.social
AI and Education Meets with WorldBoston
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Erin Campbell @erinecampbell.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Listen to @naomicaselli.bsky.social explain the results of this paper! We're so excited to have it out in the world 😊
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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · 25/04/2025
We are exploring this approach to modeling semantic distance in running discourse using a rolling ngram window. Our new R Package SemanticDistance allows you to change the ngram window size. Big semantic distance jumps might mark topic shifts - improving on conventional approaches like LDA
List of words where groups (ngrams) of different sizes shift down the line one word at a time
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Moving a photo in Microsoft Word
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Naomi Caselli @naomicaselli.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Check out this new paper out of the Deaf Center!
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Erin Campbell @erinecampbell.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Out now in @pnas.org! 🌹Is a rose by any other name still as roselike?🌹 We study the prevalence of iconicity (does a word look/sound like what it means?) and systematicity (are pronunciation/meaning relationships shared across multiple words?) in large datasets of ASL, English, and Spanish. 🧵1/N
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Erin Campbell @erinecampbell.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
New paper out at @openmindjournal.bsky.social!! We studied early vocab in deaf, hearing, blind, and sighted children in order to learn how sensory access (vision 👀, hearing 👂) and linguistic experiences shape how children learn words... Read on for a quick summary! 1/N
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Naomi Caselli @naomicaselli.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
This is such in depth journalism on this topic. I am grateful for the opportunity to weigh in.
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Wyatte Hall @wyattehall.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Honored to be mentioned alongside scholars I admire: @naomicaselli.bsky.social, Padden, Mayberry, Chen Pichler, and more! www.science.org/content/arti... "Imperfect sounds: Cochlear implants give deaf kids unprecedented access to sound. But insisting they avoid using sign language may be risky."
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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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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
If you are working in Deaf Studies and want a fully funded paid year as a researcher at Gallaudet University, this Deaf Studies incubator fellowship is open for applications deafincubator.com/apply/?fbcli...
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Apply – Deaf Studies Incubator
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Naomi Caselli @naomicaselli.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Interested in education and human development? Follow the Wheelock College @bostonu.bsky.social starter pack.
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Naomi Caselli @naomicaselli.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Anybody know what we are supposed to do for the remote poster presentations at #tislr15 ?
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Heidi Givens, EdD @heidigasl.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I don't often find articles of interest in the Boston University college of education magazine, but thrilled to see these! BU continues to be a leader in #DeafEd, sign language research, & deaf literacy. Proud of my alma mater & Franklin Jones @naomicaselli.bsky.social @amymlieberman.bsky.social
BU WHEELOCK Magazine cover. Black background. Cover photo includes half portray view of a Black man in dreads. His arm is extended and his index finger is pointing to the top of his head. The title says The Race to Save Black American Sign Language followed by a subtitle. On the bottom are other feature article titlesScreenshot of a brief article inside a magazine. Background is green. Article title is New Center Promotes Universal Sign Language Access. Photo of a white woman with long dark hair is directly below the title on the left.
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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Hearing ppl: How do deaf people read without sound? Deaf ppl: We can explain HP: Just no info out there! DP: Here's some studies and curriculum we use to bypass phonics HP: I guess we just have to keep yelling loudly! DP:...? HP: Actually it doesn't matter since most people aren't deaf, bye!
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Megan Figueroa @meganfigueroa.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Being a linguist is inherently political. We know that all language is equal and that being treated differently because of your languaging has to do with the body you inhabit and not the language itself. #linguistics #language
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Felicity Enders, PhD, MPH @felicityenders.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
As a grant reviewer, what do you really wish people would do/not do? Not big things, like find a significant question/innovative method/be consistent with aims Little things, like bold each acronym the first time it’s used. Add your pet peeves ⬇️ #HiddenCurriculum #Research
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David ‘DT’ Bruno @dtbruno.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
There are more! Deafies Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/9cCKqS8 Deaf Education: go.bsky.app/R8D27oT Deaf scholars: go.bsky.app/6USEvp8 Sign language researchers: go.bsky.app/CLzeYDN Disabled, Deaf, Blind, Neurodivergent Authors: go.bsky.app/J2RSmFi Deaf UK 🇬🇧: go.bsky.app/7ZyymtN
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Dr. Zed Sehyr @zedsehyr.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Wonder if ASL signs undergo phonetic reduction (a bit like vowel centralization in spoken language)? Amelia Becker’s poster 5100 @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social #psynom24 on Sat at noon presents findings from our #NSF project with @zedsehyr.bsky.social @naomicaselli.bsky.social @m2b2.bsky.social
The image is a section of a presentation slide titled "Pose Estimation: Measuring" with multiple graphical elements and text. In the upper part of the image, there are two photographs of a person with lines and points overlaid on their face and upper body, indicating a pose estimation analysis. The lines are in different colors, mapping the head, arms, and torso. Below the photographs is a scatterplot graph with several yellow lines radiating from central points, labeled "sun" and "farm". The x-axis and y-axis are marked with numerical intervals, and arrows are drawn from the images above to specific areas on the graph.
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Dr. Rebecca Hirst @hirstrj.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hey psych methods people! Here is a thread of psych research methods stuff shared at today's #psynom24 society for computation in psychology. #scip🧵👇 My first time attending this affiliate meeting - it was really neat!
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Melissa Baese-Berk @m2b2.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I'm on a plane on my way to #psynom24! I can't wait to catch up with all my people and share some of the work from @spplab.bsky.social with the folks there!
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Janina Wildfeuer @neous.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
OK, here it is: the starter pack to get to know the #multimodalists on Bluesky. Who is missing? go.bsky.app/QPLSxuX
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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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Naomi Caselli @naomicaselli.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
How to get into local politics without getting into local politics. 1) Do some data analysis and write an article about it 2) Submit it to the local paper, crediting your spouse for their input 3) Be a woman married to a man 4) Watch the conversation about your husband's article unfold. 🫣
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Heidi Givens, EdD @heidigasl.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I began a starter pack for those of us in #DeafEd to stay connected now that we are here. If you want to be added, let me know! go.bsky.app/R8D27oT
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Stef G-W @stefgwalsh.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Most recent co-authored manuscript focuses on issues related to comparison groups by hearing status in deaf-focused research. Written with @lealaholcomb.bsky.social @jascott.bsky.social and Wyatte Hall. academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...
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Challenging the “norm”: a critical look at deaf-hearing comparison studies in research
Abstract. This study critically examines the biases and methodological shortcomings in studies comparing deaf and hearing populations, demonstrating their
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Jon Froehlich @jonfroehlich.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Love the influx of academics to Bluesky. Will this be our new 🏠? To help grow the community, I just created an HCI+Accessibility "starter pack". Help me grow the list! Many are missing! go.bsky.app/PZxHNqP
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Pia Caronongan @piacar.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Created a starter pack focused on early care and education research and policy. Hoping to grow this list so please let me know if you'd like to be added or have other suggestions for who to add! go.bsky.app/SpVmXZP
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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Community for Education Scholars in all areas and concentrations looking to find each other! Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #EducationScholars go.bsky.app/BaXvoap
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Stef G-W @stefgwalsh.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Deaf Education is not regular education with sign language. Deaf Education is not special education with sign language. Deaf Education is not just talking louder or using a microphone.
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