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One video call and a few emails with a deaf PhD researcher who grew up without sign language spaces and deaf peers - and they will soon leave for a long stay at Gallaudet University. Deaf networks for the win! ❤️ #DrDeaf

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@hildehaualand.bsky.social and I are working on a follow-up to our 2021 "Band Aid" paper on sign language interpreting as a quick fix for inclusion. Since publication it's been the most read and 3rd most cited in the journal. We're excited to work on a continuation of our thinking! shorturl.at/Fcvlq

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Are you working on an academic writing project - your PhD, MA thesis, article/book chapter, grant application, ... ? Do you want to write with other deaf academics? Join us at the #DrDeaf Spring Writing Retreat 25-30 May. Registration deadline 7 April. www.al.fhs.no/en/dr-deaf/?...

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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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Interview with a #DrDeaf participant today in preparation of the ICED keynote. "My alma mater is not the university where I study, it's Dr Deaf. No Dr Deaf, no PhD."

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Mass redundancies in Dutch universities are not only the direct consequence of short-sighted austerity policy but also a strategy to reduce the influence of potentially critical voices backed by sound knowledge: academics will keep quiet while they're struggling to keep their job or find new a one.

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We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the upcoming Sign CAFÉ 3 conference which will take place on Sept. 18–19, 2025 at the University of Warsaw. The deadline for the call for papers is March 31, 2025. For more information (in English and IS) please visit: sign.uw.edu.pl/en/sign-cafe...

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Call for Papers - Summer School of Sign Language Studies in Berlin (21-25. July 2025) Submission deadline: 30. March 2025 More info: www.tlu.ee/en/summer-sc...

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Kickoff meeting for the upcoming first international #DeafTech conference! Stay tuned 🚀🤖

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We still have places available for the #DrDeaf Spring Writing Retreat in Ål, Norway, 25-30 May. Join us for a week of writing, workshops, and wellness activities. New in 2025: visual dissemination of research, use of generative AI for writing, and co-authoring. Register today! www.al.fhs.no/dr-deaf/

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We are at 200 respondents! Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Austria are leading the top 5. Deaf/deafblind, using ChatGPT and living in Europe? You can still participate in our survey 🙏🏻

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📢Call for Papers: 'Disruption or Continuity? Machine Learning Technology (AI) in Linguistics Research' - Workshop in @dublincityuni.bsky.social on 9-10 June - Special Issue in Linguistics Vanguard journal Submission deadline: 28 Feb drive.google.com/file/d/11VqT... Generously funded by DCU FHSS

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Deaf Academic Conference Houston, Texas June 4-8, 2025 Gentle Reminder about Early Bird Registration 120 days left to the conference! Come one, Come all! www.dac2025hou.com

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119 responses so far and counting! Are you a deaf/deafblind ChatGPT user living in Europe? We need you! Please take a moment to answer our survey (ENG/IS) about your experiences interacting with ChatGPT. Thanks for sharing!

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Call for papers for an exciting special issue! #cyborg

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@robinxtech.bsky.social @katta.bsky.social @ninakt.bsky.social and I are investigating the experiences of deaf users in Europe interacting with ChatGPT. If you’re deaf, live in Europe, and are using ChatGPT, please fill in our survey, and share! 🙏🏻 tuwien193.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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This is going to be so amazing: labsforliberation.org/2025/01/22/a...

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Language Activism by Cecelia Cutler, Unn Røyneland, Zvjezdana Vrzić Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of renowned scholars, this book explores the role of language researchers in language activism. 📚 cup.org/4hJgiZB

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After 5+ years of witnessing disabled people be ignored when sounding the alarm, I am extremely unprepared to reconcile with seeing so many other people noticing threats to accessibility

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I can't stop thinking about the group of ASL interpreters from across the country who were flown in to DC last weekend to interpret Inauguration events, only to have their contracts canceled at the last minute.

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I will be presenting at this conference in Tokyo 10-11 February: “Deaf lives, access, and agency: rethinking communication in the age of AI” research.nii.ac.jp/EmSemi/conf/...

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SignGPT - Project awarded £8.45m to build a BSL Large Language Model to achieve end-to-end translation English/BSL and build "the largest sign language dataset in the world". Good to see there is emphasis on deaf capacity building www.surrey.ac.uk/news/signgpt...

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#DrDeaf Spring Writing Retreat from 25-30 May 2025! Join me @mdemeulder.bsky.social + @annelieskusters.bsky.social for a week in Ål, Norway with writing, workshops, + wellness activities! New in 2025: visual research presentations, AI, and co-authoring. Info 👉 www.al.fhs.no/dr-deaf/

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There is no such thing as a right to not being bothered by the presence of linguistic difference in the public sphere - no matter if it is a sign language translation, multilingual announcements and signage, or simply people in the bus speaking a language you dislike or don't understand.

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If you'd like to be more thoughtful about your academic work hours in 2025, @markdalgleish.com has a great blog post for responding to review requests from Elsevier. A reminder that while academia has made itself beholden to corporate journals you don't have to. ideophone.org/how-i-reject...

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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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Working on a film on #audism and this has inspired me to inaugurate an #audistjerks series, case studies in how to be a fantastic audist. Case study 1: My flight has been cancelled and I'm stuck in a 3 hour circle of AI chat hell. Can't call because of an #audistjerks principle:

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Humans, Machines, Language - 2025 conference at University of Granada, Spain. sites.google.com/view/humans-...

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This is premised on so many flawed assumptions including that: 1.) sign languages are wild human gesticulations as opposed to fully developed languages 2.) sign languages and close captions are mutually intelligible 3.) there couldn’t possibly be Deaf individuals at the actual press conference

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Good luck to all colleagues at TISLR2025 starting soon! I’ve been reviewing abstracts for TISLR but haven’t had the chance yet to attend one. Hope to make it in the future! tislrethiopia.org

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Finally received the physical copy (paperback) of my and @asmirry.bsky.social book “Sketching in Human-Computer Interaction”, published by Springer! 🙌 #AuthorLife #HCI #Sketching #Milestone

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