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Paul Dudis
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Mainly lurking here. Investigating depiction in signed languages. Teaching at Gallaudet University—Washington, DC, US.
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fusaroli.bsky.social
Why does Western Paleolithic cave art strongly prefer animal side views and often use abbreviations? Our new paper in Topics in Cognitive Science challenges long-held assumptions about these artistic choices using cognitive science experiments. A thread 1/n
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September 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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neilcohn.bsky.social
Here's an interesting paper from the California Law Review using ideas from @scottmccloud.bsky.social to apply comics theory to trademark law: "Trademarks as Comics: What Can Sequential Art Teach Trademark Law?" and the paper is a comic! www.californialawreview.org/online/trade...
Trademarks as Comics: What Can Sequential Art Teach Trademark Law? — California Law Review
What can trademark law learn from comic art? This Comic Book explores the question using Scott McCloud’s book Understanding Comics as a point of departure. McCloud provides a framework for understandi...
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July 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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neilcohn.bsky.social
My book has a cover and the final copyedited pages are submitted… my graphic novel "Speaking in Pictures: A Vision of Language” about language, cognition, and graphic communication will be out in February 2026! www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip
Book cover for Speaking with Pictures by Neil Cohn
July 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
Ha - I love this photo! From the opening to my keynote at confia in villa do Conde Portugal today - I’m talking about showing how the division between smart and talented is harmful and false (in regards to me studying mathematics & being an art maker). A great gathering all around! confia.ipca.pt
Photo of me on stage in collared shirt open to show protect trans kids tshirt. I’ve got my arms spread like I’m holding two things apart and behind me on screen is a page from a comic I made talking about studying math and art and being referred to as smart and talented respectively…
June 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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dingemansemark.bsky.social
Straight to the top of my reading pile: Some of my favourite linguists @superlinguo.bsky.social, Hildebrandt & @suzyjstyles.bsky.social with a new paper on spontaneous multimodal iconicity in earthquake narratives doi.org/10.1080/0726... #iconicity #ideophones
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June 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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neilcohn.bsky.social
In our new paper, my student Lenneke Lichtenberg investigated the non-literal and literal meanings of "upfixes" – things like hearts and gears that float above characters heads: "Understanding lightbulb moments: Meaning-making in visual morphology from comics and emoji" rdcu.be/epSkf
Upfixes and faces with matching and mismatching facial expressions across both conventional and unconventional upfixes
June 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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novicsara.bsky.social
Bluesky won't let me post this because too many graph-somethings, but it's important if you have a min. The residential program at the NJ School for the Deaf has been cut from the state budget www.instagram.com/share/reel/B...
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May 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
One of the cartoons from Physics for Cats
Title: Soren Kierkegaard, 1843 Image: A three panel comic strip that shows Mr Kierkegaard saying "Life can only be understood backwards" as he walks from right to left through the three frames (i.e. against the usual order in which these panels would be read) A dog walks from left to right, saying: "But it must be lived forward"
May 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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tomgauld.bsky.social
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
Panel one: Two scientists stand beside a complex apparatus. One says: “We can't be sure of the outcome until we start the machine, but I know it will give us a new and unusual perspective on our world.” The second scientist flicks a switch. Panel two: “Well, this is rather more new and unusual than I had expected.” The scientists are now within the speech bubble and the speech is outside it.
May 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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profeaustin.bsky.social
#LanguageEd #TeacherEd #WorldLanguages #EdLinguistics #TeacherPreparation #BlackWorldLanguaging #Raciolinguistics #Genealogies

Grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to communing with the good folks at UW Madison!
University of Wisconsin Madison: 18th Annual Second Language Acquisition Student Symposium Keynote Speaker: Dr. Tasha Austin Labor, Leisure and Language: Towards world languages for Black linguistic reparations The present climate of U.S. public education has placed the access to a general course of study in the public discourse at levels unseen in recent decades. This discourse centers on the privatization of K-12 schooling, the policing of federal funds with regard to education research, and the place of nationalism in compliance measures tied to federal resources. World language (WL) education access, however, has not been prevalent in these discourses at the same levels unless attention is directed to the years preceding the 2025 presidential election. The replacement of liberal arts with vocational-oriented programming, WLs with computer science or artificial intelligence-driven instruction, and the elimination of full departments of WLs have steadily taken place prior to the larger sweeping changes of the past months. How has the steady divestment from WL study and the diminishing expectation of a liberal arts education set the stage for the present attempt at overhauling U.S. public education? This talk will explore the genealogical implications of those discursively framed as worthy of language study since the colonial era (e.g. propertied white men) of the formation of the U.S. It will trace the framing of those suited for leisure as opposed to those suited for labor (e.g. enslaved/liberated African[s] Americans) and the ways in which both public and private funding has been distributed along racialized lines. Further, it will trace these discourses to the current era of executive orders and normalized elitist conceptions of WL study. Finally, it will conclude with recommendations for WLs as a site for Black Linguistic Reparations (Austin & Anya, 2024) through ...
April 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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lisabortolotti.com
Two great exhibitions at Wellcome Collection on disability injustice! One on the Milan conference where the use of sign language for deaf people in education was discouraged and one on zines themed around difference and disability. Check them out wellcomecollection.org #philsky #epistemicinjustice
Zine on the value of each life and the dangers of capitalism Two yellow bodies with jelly like texture (one male and one famale). Representing the difficulty of seeing the world from another person’s perspective Red arm inflated as a balloon symbolising attention
May 9, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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librarycolleen.bsky.social
Sign language histories in UCL’s Special Collections (London) 📜
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May 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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themarshallproject.org
"Friendly Signs" explores the impact of a sign language class at San Quentin. Watch the documentary and learn about the challenges of prison filmmaking from director Rahsaan "New York" Thomas.
‘Friendly Signs’ Documentary Follows One Man’s Quest to Create Community for Deaf Prisoners
Director Rahsaan “New York” Thomas explores the impact of Tommy Wickerd’s sign language class at San Quentin and the challenges of prison filmmaking.
www.themarshallproject.org
May 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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ariellaelm.com
@senbooker spoke to the @littlelobbyists.com, a great reminder that being anti-lobbyist is unhelpful. And he posted the video with the sign language interpreter just as big on the screen as him. This is so incredibly important for accessibility and I want to see it from everyone all the time!
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booker.senate.gov Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · May 10
I spoke to an incredible gathering of Little Lobbyists in DC who gathered to push and lobby against Medicade cuts.

They have long led the charge to protect healthcare and Medicaid—and I’m proud to stand with them against any attempt by this administration or its allies to undermine it.
May 11, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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standupforscience.bsky.social
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In the 1960s, NSF helped give ASL the recognition it deserved.
At the time, ASL wasn’t seen as a “real” language. But thanks to NSF funding, William Stokoe published the 1st ASL dictionary in 1965—revolutionizing how Deaf language and culture were viewed.

www.nsf.gov/impacts/asl
A graphic titled ‘1960s – ASL’ features a black-and-white photo of William Stokoe, a linguist at Gallaudet University, and a hand signing ‘ASL’ in American Sign Language. Text explains that in the 1960s, ASL was not recognized as a formal language until Stokoe, with NSF funding, published the first ASL dictionary in 1965. A Gallaudet University sign is also shown.
May 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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ancestralenq.bsky.social
The story of the first two people known to be educated by sign language, John & Framingham Gaudy from West Harling near Thetford, Norfolk have their story told in a new book by Pete Jackson. 👇
BBC News - Story of sign-language educated West Harling pair 'remarkable'
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Story of sign-language educated West Harling pair 'remarkable'
The story of the achievements of the 17th-Century brothers and their teacher is little known.
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May 17, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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historyiswhat.bsky.social
"Centuries before we had American Sign Language, Native sign languages, broadly known as 'Hand Talk,' were thriving across North America. Hand Talk would be influential in the formation of American Sign Language. But it has largely been written out of history."
The hidden history of “Hand Talk”
YouTube video by Vox
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May 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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fbisnath.bsky.social
We will be available to discuss this study along with other researchers examining language experience at the 2nd ROLE Collective Symposium on Monday 19th. Find more information here www.rolecollective.org/events/2nd-r.... Keynote by Dr. Anna Lim @annalim.bsky.social! #linguistics
The ROLE Collective - 2nd ROLE Symposium
The second Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Symposium will be held on May 19, 2025.
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May 15, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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dingemansemark.bsky.social
New paper! @bonniemclean.bsky.social & Dingemanse 2025, A multi-methods toolkit for documentary research on ideophones — reviewing a diversity of methods and analytical approaches to the documentation of #ideophones.
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#iconicity
Two panels (of a larger 8 panel illustration) showing two methods for ideophone research. Left, Multimodal corpus building, used for identifying ideophones, exploring usage domains, orienting ideophones in the wider linguistic system. Right: stimulus-based elicitation, useful for mapping the edges of the ideophone lexicon, uncovering limits, and exploring depictive conventions. Picture used for left is a camera with microphone on a tripod. For right, hands exploring materials (a sponge, a transparent foil) and a tablet showing the image of a waterfall.
April 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
Please reply words like “oomph” that are onomatopoetic words based on noises humans make.
May 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM