I was heading to Capitol Hill to a science fair on cancelled grants when we learned our grant was reinstated. Yay! But that’s not the end of the story. (9/16)

One rule may seem technical. Five rules, moving in the same direction, begin to resemble a pattern documented in democratic backsliding: expanding executive control over the bureaucracy while narrowing institutional checks on personnel decisions. Pay attention.

Good morning. Today is the LAST DAY to comment on the proposed OMB rule that will, honestly, destroy science in the US. And it will do FAR MORE THAN THAT. www.theverge.com/science/9576...

The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it

‘Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.’

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Submit a comment to oppose the new OMB plans to politicise and destroy science. Disorders and diseases don’t stop based on who is in power!! If there’s one thing you do to help keep the world a better place, do this

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 2mo ago

Cancer doesn't care who's in office and our search for a cure shouldn't either. But now it does. Join the fight by taking action against the latest OMB grant funding proposal at the link in our bio, or go here 👉 zurl.co/IOHcl #StandUpForScience #Science #OMB #Vought #SaveScience

If you want to contribute to any of our three projects (ManyTones, CLAPS, Many Uses), you can reach out to the project leads. You will find their contact information here: many-languages.com/projects.html

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

Sponsored by or applying for federal grants? You want to know this.

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 2mo ago

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

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

📢 New research on ASL fingerspelling is out! We asked how orthographic knowledge (letter identity, order & quantity) is represented when Deaf signers fingerspell, and how this compares to how hearing speakers spell written English. Open access paper here: tinyurl.com/5n728jpd

Deaffest online cinema - watch now, unlock 2 movies for free! 🤟🏼 deaffestonlinecinema.eventive.org/films

A town hall focused on dealing with efforts to dismantle social and behavioral sciences at the federal level. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Who’s coming to sunny San Diego in November?

Psychonomic Society@psychonomicsociety.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The 2026 Call for Abstracts is open! Submit your abstract proposal for presentation at the Psychonomic Society’s 66th Annual Meeting, taking place November 19-22, 2026, in San Diego, California, USA. 🗓Deadline: June 1 📄Guidelines: buff.ly/eA61fWC #psynom26

More cuts to science funding, NSF Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate to dissolve www.scientificamerican.com/article/trum...

Trump administration proposes massive budget cuts to science

The White House budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing

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We’re trialling a new social activity: #ManyLanguagesChallengeOfTheMonth Running large-scale projects means encountering puzzles, hiccups, and the occasional “why is this happening” moment.

How a Denver school engaged Latino dads to tutor students in the community on reading #NPR www.npr.org/2025/11/...

ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees: Nursing Public health Social work Physician assistant Occupational therapy Physical therapy Audiology Speech-language pathology Social work Counseling & therapy Health Admin A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker

Much of the way we articulate words isn’t random. It reflects how the brain balances effort & clarity. Common words are shorter & more “shrunk”, confusable words are pronounced more clearly. We asked if ASL signs show similar patterns of reduction using pose-tracking on thousands of ASL signs.

In good news today, ASL live interpreting is to be reinstated for White House press briefings! slator.com/us-judge-rul...

US Judge Rules Against White House on ASL; Administration Appeals

A US judge rules against the Trump administration on live ASL at press briefings; The White House appeals.

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New case study of a Deaf autistic signer finds autism affects both linguistic and affective facial expressions, supporting accounts grounded in motor and maybe prosodic difficulties. Also supports effective languaging strategies beyond the neurotypical norm. www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...

The CLaP Lab had an amazing time connecting with the Deaf community at DeaFestival Riverside! 🧠✨ Thanks to everyone who stopped by to learn about language, the brain, and our research! www.claplab.org #deafawarenessmonth

Using standardized ERPCore tasks, our new study shows subtle but consistent neural adaptations in visual recognition, attention, motor preparation or memory updating in deaf ASL signers, possibly due to lifelong experience with visual communication. Poster A48 🙂 with @erinecampbell.bsky.social

Coming at you from Gallaudet University to share that on-the-ground prep for the Society for Neurobiology of Language #SNL2025 is well underway! We cannot wait to welcome more than 500 of you, neuroscientists and linguists, to our campus tomorrow! Say hi if you see me running around!

🧠 #sign #language #linguists this conference in #Poland looks interesting!

Linguist List@linguistlist.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Confs: 3rd Workshop on Cognitive and Functional Explorations in Sign Language Linguistics

The ManyTones project is looking for several lead positions. See poster for details. 📢📣✨ Get involved! 🎉🤝🌟

Want to know more about the Family ASL project? Check out our new paper “Language and Cognitive Development in Bimodal Bilingual Deaf Children in Hearing Families: Three Case Studies.” It’s part of a special issue on Lang & Cog Dev in Deaf Children www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...

Wow what a fantastic new opportunity for students in #CSD to learn #ASL and #deaf culture at Penn State! great news!! 🙌🏻@pennstateuniv.bsky.social hhd.psu.edu/csd/minor/asl

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Congratulations to Dr. Brennan @neurivulets.bsky.social for successfully delivering a PhD baby yesterday! What a delightful presentation and impactful research on neural networks for ASL. In words of @kemmorey.bsky.social “Brennan sets the bar for quality of research high!”

On stage now: Josh Tenenbaum asks how AI can mirror human cognition and what cognitive science can offer AI in return. #CogSci2025 #AI Watch live: underline.io/events/489/m...

If you are also worried about ScienceDirect’s AI slop feature, you can directly contact them here: service.elsevier.com/app/answers/...