Rachel Miles
@rachelmiles.bsky.social
Hearing PhD candidate at UCSD. Interested in sign language acquisition in deaf communities and linguistic agency for deaf people
Very glad to say I contributed to two articles in these special issues. Will post links and summaries tomorrow
Very excited to announce that our three Special Issues on Vanuatu languages are out in Te Reo. Thank you to all the authors, reviewers, my co-editors, our brilliant typesetter, and NZLingSoc. 43 authors, 5 introductions, 25 articles and a book review... nzlingsoc.org/journal/curr...
Current issue - Linguistic Society of New Zealand
Te Reo is the Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand (ISSN 2703-4135). The words Te Reo are the Māori term for ‘the language’ or ‘language’. The Journal is published annually and has been ru...
nzlingsoc.org
December 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Very glad to say I contributed to two articles in these special issues. Will post links and summaries tomorrow
Late post: On October 23, I successfully defended my dissertation!
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Late post: On October 23, I successfully defended my dissertation!
There’s still a few days left to submit abstracts!
10 more days to submit abstracts for The Symposium on the History and Genetics of Sign Language Communities happening Nov 13-14, 2025 in Paris. Details and submission guidelines here: slg.ucsd.edu
SLG
Symposium on the History and Genetics of Sign Language Communities
slg.ucsd.edu
July 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
There’s still a few days left to submit abstracts!
10 more days to submit abstracts for The Symposium on the History and Genetics of Sign Language Communities happening Nov 13-14, 2025 in Paris. Details and submission guidelines here: slg.ucsd.edu
SLG
Symposium on the History and Genetics of Sign Language Communities
slg.ucsd.edu
July 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
10 more days to submit abstracts for The Symposium on the History and Genetics of Sign Language Communities happening Nov 13-14, 2025 in Paris. Details and submission guidelines here: slg.ucsd.edu
Seeing this on top of the news from NIH is so disheartening. This will have long term ripple effects not only for scientists but for our whole society.
The National Science Foundation cancelled over 60 grant review panels today, effectively grinding funding of new projects to a halt.
The so-far indefinite pause comes as NSF grapples with the impact Trump's executive orders will have on their grantmaking process.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
The so-far indefinite pause comes as NSF grapples with the impact Trump's executive orders will have on their grantmaking process.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...
National Science Foundation freezes grant review in response to Trump executive orders
The National Science Foundation has cancelled all grant review panels this week. It's unclear how long the pause could last.
www.npr.org
January 27, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Seeing this on top of the news from NIH is so disheartening. This will have long term ripple effects not only for scientists but for our whole society.