#TISLR14 photo op for staff and students of the iSLanDS Institute, past and present. We'd like to congratulate Dr. Sagakei and Kang-Suk Byun on their best presentation awards for Early Career Researcher and Student Researcher, respectively. Very well done!!! @UCLan UCLan Language & Global Studies

Finally we have Angela Lansbury. It was pretty much an open secret in the acting community that if you were a faded star on hard times whose pension, healthcare (via union, agency or studio) depended on continued credited appearances you reached out to Lansbury.

We're excited to promote the new Gallaudet University Press volume Signed Language Corpora! Editors Jordan Fenlon and @jahochcam discuss the book and why it is important. Make sure to watch until the end :-) Congratulations on this new publication! Deaf linguists FTW acadeafic.org/2022/10/27/sig…

Argentine Sign Language (Lengua de Señas Argentina, LSA) has been legally (and unanimously) recognized as a natural and native language of Argentina. Many congratulations! ¡Muchas felicidades! 🇦🇷

Such wonderful news, and so well-deserved!

Men are less likely to speak openly about their #MentalHealth because they feel pressure from society that they should be strong and not be open with to their emotions. It’s important to talk openly. Our team is here to support via Live Chat: royaldeaf.org.uk

Delighted to have our first #CrossMoGram meeting today! islandscentre.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/isl…

Had an email from someone in my university asking me to confirm that my areas of special interest are 'oral health priorities of older people' and 'interdisciplinary approaches to improving cancer awareness'. I sense a mix-up. But would love to have dinner with this person!

It's been a week of launches - this one was for our new AHRC-funded project to set up #DeafCAN, a research network in the Caribbean with Ben Braithwaite and three brilliant deaf academics. Can't wait to get started! islandscentre.wordpress.com/2023/02/04/isl…

Calling all budding quantitative linguists! PhD (via MPhil) studentship on language change at the International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies (iSLanDS), University of Central Lancashire! Please RT #signlanguageresearch #linguistics islandscentre.wordpress.com/2023/03/03/cal…

Learn swear signs for Sign Language week!

Reminder: our "Deaf Lives and Sign Languages in the Caribbean" event takes place online tomorrow (Saturday 13 May) 10am-1pm. It's completely free to attend! To receive a Zoom link, register at: tinyurl.com/deafcaribbean

One (alphanumeric) word: SIGN10 sites.google.com/view/sign10/ho… Trinidad & Tobago, 9-12 December 2024 More info on the website, including Call for Abstracts...

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