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Annelies Kusters
@annelieskusters.bsky.social
Professor of Sociolinguistics at Heriot-Watt University. Deaf. She/her. Ethnographic filmmaker. Mother of two. Plant aficionado. Loves books and board games. Drinks lots and lots of tea! Currently writing book "The Paradox of International Sign”.
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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/
January 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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At #TISLR15, my experience of interacting with different posters was highly variable. 1. If the person knew IS, I could communicate with them directly. We could calibrate our signing based on how well we understood each other. 1/n
January 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking abt

1) My book “The paradox of International Sign”

2) A new project about sign language use in popular media (films, series, game shows etc)
November 19, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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Made this and will add to it!
November 12, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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Second edition of International Perspectives on Sign Language Translator and Interpreter Education is out! Great work by Jemina Napier, Stacey Webb and @rejadam.bsky.social
gupress.gallaudet.edu/Books/I/Inte...
International Perspectives on Sign Language Translator and Interpreter Education
The field of sign language translator and interpreter (SLTI) education gets a global treatment in this new volume helmed by editors Jemina Napier, Stacey Webb, and Robert Adam. This second edition upd...
gupress.gallaudet.edu
November 13, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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🙌Starter pack on Disability, Neurodivergence & Chronic illness
go.bsky.app/3FA2EjT
November 8, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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As we’re all starting out, here’s a Starter Pack of LGBTQIA+ writers to enrich your life and feed. Will update as more folk arrive. 🌈 📖 ❤️

go.bsky.app/UD2Hf7Wa
November 13, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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In our chapter for this new volume, Robin Angelini, Katta Spiel and I explore perspectives on the development of signing avatars through interviews with deaf and hearing professionals involved in sign language machine translation. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Sign Language Machine Translation
Collects important current topics in the area of sign language translation to improve the ways and means deaf users can engage with machine translation
link.springer.com
November 14, 2024 at 10:54 AM
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I’ve created this Starter Pack for deaf scholars new on this platform and looking for other deaf scholars to follow and interact with. Join us! go.bsky.app/6USEvp8
November 14, 2024 at 11:22 AM
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Working on a Deafies Starter Pack! 🧏 Early days but we'll find each other undoubtedly and then play deaf geography (what school/camp did you go to? ohh THAT one, so you must know so-and-so?) 🤟

go.bsky.app/9cCKqS8
Deafies Starter Pack
Join the conversation
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November 1, 2024 at 10:23 PM