People. Respectfully, please stop with, 'I'll use my teacher voice.' No. Use the mic. Use your accessibility voice. The mic helps everyone. #AERA24

so happy! the edited vol 'Cringe Humor on Screen & on Digital Media: Pragmatic Perspectives' has been recommended for publication, & my ch. 'Resisting Cringe Media Stereotypes in Everyday Talk' will be the postface, 'Beyond the Screen: Cringe Media References in Conversation'!

Neural evidence for referential understanding of object words in dogs cell.com/current-biolog…
1: EEG semantic violation paradigm with 18 dogs (27 tested) 2: Mismatch evoked an N400(-like) ERP response 3: Conclusion: Evidence for object word-elicited mental representations in dogs

Ok, so I’m curious about why hearing people want to become teachers in a DHH program BUT don’t know sign language. Like, what is their goal and purpose?? And if they want to teach DHH children, why not learn their language? My mind is literally blown.

➡️ #JSLX #Dialogue on ' #Sociolinguistics and #authenticity ' (2003).

✨ 2nd article by M. Bucholtz: 'Sociolinguistic #nostalgia and the authentication of #identity '

🌐 Free access: buff.ly/3v4k2C5

Our paper on formal and functional competence in language models is now out in Trends in Cognitive Science! With co-lead Anna Ivanova along with
I.A.B, Nancy Kanwisher @[email protected], Josh Tenenbaum and Ev (like in 'evidence', not Eve) Fedorenko 🇺🇦.

Paper: mahowak.github.io/assets/pdf/mah…

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Hey 👋 SweeTARTS ummm, the ratio of green sweetarts to all other colors has been unacceptable in my last two rolls of candy. 75% of my sweetarts were green in the 1st roll 😲 and 50% green in the other. What's up 😆 Can a girl get some more blue and red please 🙏 🩵🩷💚💜💛

Excellent presentation today about Black deaf studies, Joseph Hill, PhD.. My favorite two pics of today. Thank you for sharing your vision for Black deaf studies.

Sign language AI is dominated by hearing, non-signing researchers. What kinds of systemic biases does this introduce in the field's collective direction?

To find out, read our preprint, with Aashaka Desai Dr. Maartje De Meulder Julie A. Hochgesang, PhD and Annemarie Kocab!

arxiv.org/abs/2403.02563

One hill I will die on? Walk signs should always automatically come on, pedestrians should not have to push a button to make this happen.

My 2019 paper “Linguistic and ethnic media stereotypes in everyday talk” is now my most cited work, surpassing my 2016 paper on video game references in conversation! Thanks 𝙳𝚛 𝚅𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚊 𝚂𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚞𝚝𝚎💭📑📚 for getting me to write this paper (+ for all the feedback!) 😅

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Colleagues at Duke have also expressed dismay at the cutting of thriving programs like Russian language: 'I will be blunt: this move will damage the reputation of
UNC-G at all levels.'