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Karen Emmorey

@kemmorey.bsky.social

Professor at San Diego State University; sign languages, neuroscience, reading, gesture, all things linguistic

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Karen Emmorey@kemmorey.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Deaf signers read more efficiently (faster with equivalent comprehension) and have wider reading spans than hearing readers. Our new paper shows that reading comprehension skills are positively linked with reading span size only for deaf readers. Open Access: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

Identifying the visual and linguistic sources of reading efficiency: A comparison of individual differences among deaf and hearing readers | JOV | ARVO Journals

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Karen Emmorey@kemmorey.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New paper on fingerspelling (deaf) and print (hearing) spelling errors with @zedsehyr.bsky.social! One cool result: deaf fingerspellers are more accurate in preserving double letters (phonologically marked in FS), highlighting how FS can support writing. Open access paper here: tinyurl.com/5n728jpd

Orthographic representations in American Sign Language fingerspelling | Applied Psycholinguistics | Cambridge Core

Orthographic representations in American Sign Language fingerspelling - Volume 47

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Bruce Y Lee@bruceylee.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Under Trump, NIH Funding Opportunity Notices Dropped From 787 To 84 Here's my coverage of this in @forbes.com 🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky #MedSky #episky🩺 #HiSciSky Public Health #science www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

Under Trump, NIH Funding Opportunity Notices Dropped From 787 To 84

Even though the U.S. Congress gave the National Institutes of Health budget a modest increase, the Trump administration may be using other ways to cut the NIH budget.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A response to the opinion that private $ can replace the NIH. Businesses are not charities. They work on profit margins. Decades of $ is essential for research to progress from an initial discovery to treatment. Most of the dirty work goes on in academic labs. 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Private money cannot replace public funding of science

Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

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Emily Myers@emilymyers.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨Postdoc alert! T32 training grant on Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication, position begins in Summer/Fall of 2026. Applications due March 1st. Get in touch with a program mentor for more info! cncct.research.uconn.edu/postdoc-trai... (US citizens/ green card holders only, sorry)

Postdoctoral Trainees | Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication--Connecticut: CNC-CT

Postdoctoral trainees will work under the supervision of one or more mentors to conduct research that bridges basic and clinical sciences. The candidate wil ...

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Jenna Norton@jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Trump Administration is continuing to politicize government advisory committees, this time on Alzheimer’s Disease. More than 7 million Americans from all walks of life are living with Alzheimer’s Disease. We need advisory committees that are representative of all Americans.

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The course, now in its 6th iteration, covers key questions in speech & language research, with interdisciplinary perspectives spanning development, cognitive modeling, neural bases, gene identification, functional genomics, model systems & comparative/evolutionary studies. Applications due April 10.

Flyer with information about the Genetics & Neurobiology of Language summer course at Cold Spring Harbor, held on July 27th to August 3rd 2026, applications due by April 10th 2026. Instructors are Simon Fisher from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands, David Poeppel from New York University and Kate Watkins from the University of Oxford, UK. The course description is as follows: Why are children able to acquire highly sophisticated language abilities without needing to be taught? What are the neurobiological and neurophysiological processes that underpin human speech and language, and how do they go awry in developmental and acquired disorders? Which genetic factors contribute to this remarkable suite of human skills, and are there evolutionary precursors that we can study in other species? This unique CSHL course, in its sixth iteration, addresses these core questions about the bases and origins of speech and language, through talks, interactive sessions, keynotes and debates, involving leading experts from a range of disciplines. It integrates the state-of-the-art from complementary perspectives, including development, cognitive models, neural basis, gene identification, functional genomics, model systems and comparative/evolutionary studies. The invited speakers are: Jennifer Below, Vanderbilt University Elika Bergelson, Harvard University Esti Blanco-Elorrieta, New York University Jonathan Brennan, University of Michigan Karen Emmorey, San Diego State University Evelina Fedorenko, MIT Julia Fischer, Cognitive Ethology Laboratory, Germany Tecumseh Fitch, University of Vienna, Austria Adeen Flinker, NYU Langone Timothy Gentner, University of California, San Diego Liberty Hamilton, UC Berkeley Catherine Hobaiter, Wild Minds Lab, University of St. Andrews, UK Sonja Vernes, The University of St. Andrews, UK Sandra Waxman, Northwestern University For funding opportunities and additional course information, please go to: meetings.cshl.edu/courses
Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · 6mo ago

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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Karen Emmorey@kemmorey.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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...

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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ACLU@aclu.org · 7mo ago

BREAKING: The National Institutes of Health has agreed to evaluate grant applications that were wrongfully frozen due to the Trump administration’s ideological purge of biomedical research.

Karen Emmorey@kemmorey.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Sign language research provides some key data supporting this framework for language evolution

Simon Fisher@profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Origins of language, one of humanity’s most distinctive traits, may be best explained as a unique convergence of multiple capacities each with its own evolutionary history, involving intertwined roles of biology & culture. This framing can expand research horizons. A 🧵 on our @science.org paper.🧪1/n