Professor at San Diego State University; sign languages, neuroscience, reading, gesture, all things linguistic
Karen Emmorey
Deaf signers read more efficiently (faster with equivalent comprehension) and have wider reading spans than hearing readers. Our new paper shows that reading comprehension skills are positively linked with reading span size only for deaf readers. Open Access: jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...
📢 BREAKING! TiCS just published a paper by @lamalab.bsky.social and me that synthesizes co-registration (and related) studies of reading that resolve the apparent paradox that the eyes move faster through the text than the brain can understand it!
@dereklowe.bsky.social asking a simple question and bringing the heat!
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We are looking to fill an open-rank position in Sociolinguistics in Oxford, in conjunction with Worcester College. Come be a part of the exciting developments in language and linguistics in Oxford! www.ling-phil.ox.ac.uk/news/2026/05...
Many of you asked how we create those pretty whole-brain plots with the cortical outline.
We just made it available as a Python package:
pni-lab.github.io/quickbrain/
This is sad - my degree is in linguistics
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
Confirmed speakers for Genetics & Neurobiology of Language 2026 include Bsky folk @piperbelow.bsky.social @bergelsonlab.bsky.social @jonrbrennan.bsky.social @kemmorey.bsky.social @evfedorenko.bsky.social @julxf.bsky.social @tecumsehfitch.bsky.social @libertysays.bsky.social @nakedprimate.bsky.social
Under Trump, NIH Funding Opportunity Notices Dropped From 787 To 84
Here's my coverage of this in @forbes.com
🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky #MedSky #episky🩺 #HiSciSky Public Health #science
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A very well produced story from NBC in San Diego about disruptions to can cancer research.
www.nbcsandiego.com/news/investi...
