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Carly Leannah
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Educational Neuroscientist. Signed languages, learning & cognition, EEG, & educational technology. Postdoc with NTID PLAY Lab. She/her.
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Just out! New paper w/ Emily Saunders showing that morphological awareness has a stronger relationship with reading comprehension for deaf than hearing readers, underscoring the potential for morphological instruction to support reading development in deaf students.
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Morphological awareness and reading skill for deaf and hearing adults
Abstract. Both deaf and hearing readers use morphological awareness skills to decode and comprehend printed English. Deaf readers, for whom phonological aw
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June 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Also, if a woman EVER showed up in the Oval Office with a baseball hat, tshirt and a child in tow, she would be mercilessly crucified.

I hate everything.
Musk totally humiliated Trump during their joint Oval Office press conference. Musk brought along his 4-year-old son — making Trump look like the kid’s babysitter — disrespectfully wore a T-shirt and baseball cap, and even interrupted Trump.

It’s clear who’s really in control, and it ain’t Trump.
February 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
ASL / DHH researchers and educators: Has anyone administered the PPVT in ASL before? What approaches did you take for signing certain words to ensure consistency across examinees? Did you ever use fingerspelling for non-lexicalized words? Anything else I should know? #deafsky #deafeducation
February 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Gonna read more on this, but calling all #deafsky. This bill definitely needs to be defeated. Anyone know if folks at ISD are aware?
Part 1: Indiana Republicans want to take back in time when our language and culture were suppressed.

Summary of Indiana Senate Bill 0473’s Impact on DHH Education (can be found in sections 26-28, pages 19-21):
February 5, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving.

osf.io

Contact support@osf.io if you need assistance
January 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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An anonymous citizen messaged me with a question:

What is the opposite of Diversity-Equity-Inclusion?

His response:

Monopoly-Inequity-Exclusion (MIE)
(or MIE-inaccessibility (MIEI) if you include accessibility, DEIA)
a cartoon character with glasses and the word exactly behind him
ALT: a cartoon character with glasses and the word exactly behind him
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January 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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As we watch all mention of diversity actively get scrubbed from the NIH website in real time it's important to know that, we were not taking over anything, we were just trying to exist.
- Only 2% of NIH R01 grants are awarded to Black investigators.
The goal is total erasure/elimination.
January 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Here are three (so far) identified programs specializing in deaf services that are directly impacted by temporary funding freezes:

1) Training Interpreters for Individuals Who Are Deaf and Deaf-Blind
2) Research Related to Deafness & Communication Disorders
3) National Deaf Services Line
January 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not).

Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.

THANK YOU!
January 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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I would not be a professor if not for NSF funding I received from undergrad through dissertation. They're trying to starve us out of existence. Vance called professors "the enemy".

It's also wasteful and cruel. They're playing not just with the future of science, but also with thousands of jobs.
I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔
January 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Working w/ a reporter on the consequences of the NIH/NSF freezes (e.g., training pipelines, how grants support clinical time for trials)

If you've had a grant impacted, some organizational perspective (e.g., in APPIC leadership/DCT role) + are willing to share your experience please shoot me a DM
January 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Per an NIH source:

“Discussions with colleagues have suggested that if the universities all come together and raise hell about the delays to funding caused by not holding meetings, that might move the needle. From every state. There are well-funded universities in red states that will be impacted.”
January 28, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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For those outside of academia, the Dept. Education thing is extraordinary interference.

I am not allowed to accept grant funding if the sponsor gets a say over what I publish. That's important. It protects me from outside pressure to tank results that are politically or financially inconvenient.
January 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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If only we a had a 900 page document in our hands a year ago that said they were going to do this!
January 28, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled.

Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.

This is absolutely an act of sabotage.
January 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Please repost! We’re trying hard to sort out rumors from truth + would like to hear from anyone affected by the new federal orders + NIH pause. Patients, scientists, health equity researchers: please contact us below. We won’t share anything without your permission. www.statnews.com/2025/01/25/t...
Are you affected by the Trump administration’s pause on health communications, science meetings, and reviews?
Have you been affected by the Trump administration’s pause on communications, science meetings, and reviews? @statnews would like to hear from you.
www.statnews.com
January 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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They're also trying to humiliate and demoralize scientists and researchers. These grant proposals can take years to develop. Peoples' jobs depend on it. The review process also takes many hours and is performed primarily as a service to the community. And now everybody involved feels like an idiot.
I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.

Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."

They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.
NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs.

Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."
January 28, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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I have supported many deaf graduate students and currently support a deaf post doc using this mechanism. What’s happening at NIH is terrible for science and closes doors for deaf students who face so many more challenges than their hearing peers
The NIH diversity supplement pages have all been pulled down. What is a diversity supplement and why should the public care? A diversity supplement is funding to help diversify the research workforce. You may be wondering, “so what?”. Let me explain. www.nigms.nih.gov/Pages/PageNo...
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
NIGMS supports basic research to understand biological processes and lay the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
www.nigms.nih.gov
January 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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The NIH diversity supplement pages have all been pulled down. What is a diversity supplement and why should the public care? A diversity supplement is funding to help diversify the research workforce. You may be wondering, “so what?”. Let me explain. www.nigms.nih.gov/Pages/PageNo...
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
NIGMS supports basic research to understand biological processes and lay the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
www.nigms.nih.gov
January 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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In #accessibility, personal agency, as well as lived experience and situational factors are critical. I have some thoughts about framing access within these concepts, as a researcher, teacher, and as a deaf person with lived experience growing up in a place & time where access was nonexistent. 1/
November 20, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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This is how you deprive a deaf child of a language.

Source: twitter.com/Lifeway52783...
November 10, 2023 at 9:02 PM
Recruiting DHH participants at Gallaudet! Learn science using technology, $65 for ~2 hours of participation. Sign-up link: tinyurl.com/tech2learnst...
November 10, 2023 at 3:51 PM