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Robert Adam

@rejadam.bsky.social
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Deaf 🏳️‍🌈 born in Naarm, live in Scotland, Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University, Chair of the British Deaf Assocation. Views my own.

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Karen Emmorey @kemmorey.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Deaf bilinguals show switch costs when switching between two sign languages - this is the first demonstration of unimodal switch costs in deaf bilingual signers by @rejadam.bsky.social & Jill Morford www.frontiersin.org/journals/lan...
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Frontiers | Switching cost and cognate facilitation between two signed languages
This study investigated language switching and cognate facilitation in deaf bilinguals fluent in two signed languages—Irish Sign Language (ISL) and British S...
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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Deaf in AI: AI language technologies and the erosion of linguistic rights (forthcoming in Language & Law) arxiv.org/pdf/2505.02519
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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
And besides—what about the pool of human translators, especially deaf translators, who see mediocre AI taking over work they can still do much better?
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Maartje De Meulder @mdemeulder.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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...
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Why vaccination is important and the safest way to protect yourself
Find out how vaccines work, what they contain and the most common side effects.
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Robert Adam @rejadam.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
How 'deaf rage' inspired groundbreaking sign language thriller www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Reunion: How 'deaf rage' and 70s thrillers inspired William Mager's drama
The four-part series tells the story of Daniel Brennan, a deaf man on a journey of revenge.
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Robert Adam @rejadam.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Some news about the BSL GCSE: news-sky-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/news.sky...
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Delay in start of sign language GCSE is a 'disgrace'
The National Deaf Children's Society (NDCS), which has been campaigning for the GCSE for over a decade, says "there's no reason" why the qualification should not be available now.
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Robert Adam @rejadam.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... how very reassuring *goes back to TikTok*
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All in the mind? The surprising truth about brain rot
Is screen use really sapping our ability to focus and lowering our IQs? The scientists who have actually analysed the data give their verdict
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Robert Adam @rejadam.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=67399
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Language Log » Bill Labov
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Colin Allen AM 🌈 🇦🇺 @colinallenam.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
RIT/NTID’s Certificate in International Sign Interpreting launches Feb 2025! 🌍 Open to Deaf & hearing interpreters. REMINDER: Applications close 30 Nov 2024! Learn more: www.rit.edu/ntid/aslie/c...
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