Dr. Zed Sehyr

We’re trialling a new social activity: #ManyLanguagesChallengeOfTheMonth
Running large-scale projects means encountering puzzles, hiccups, and the occasional “why is this happening” moment.

Congrats!! 🙌🏻

How a Denver school engaged Latino dads to tutor students in the community on reading #NPR www.npr.org/2025/11/...

Instead, veterinary medicine, chiropractic and theology are now considered professional degrees.

ICYMI Dept of Education will no longer considers these professional degrees:

Nursing
Public health
Social work
Physician assistant
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Audiology
Speech-language pathology
Social work
Counseling & therapy
Health Admin

A smaller health workforce makes us all sicker

and @reedblaylock.bsky.social

This work is possible thanks to funding from #NSF and through collaboration with Amelia Becker @naomicaselli.bsky.social @naomicaselli.bsky.social @zedsehyr.bsky.social

Spoiler: frequent signs shrink too & are produced lower in signing space than infrequent signs. Inclusion of sign languages offers a bigger, BETTER picture of language production. Come to the one and only sign language presentation at #Psychonomics2025 #psynom2025: Sat 9:20am, Governor Square 14.

Much of the way we articulate words isn’t random. It reflects how the brain balances effort & clarity. Common words are shorter & more “shrunk”, confusable words are pronounced more clearly. We asked if ASL signs show similar patterns of reduction using pose-tracking on thousands of ASL signs.

US Judge Rules Against White House on ASL; Administration Appeals A US judge rules against the Trump administration on live ASL at press briefings; The White House appeals.

In good news today, ASL live interpreting is to be reinstated for White House press briefings!

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New case study of a Deaf autistic signer finds autism affects both linguistic and affective facial expressions, supporting accounts grounded in motor and maybe prosodic difficulties. Also supports effective languaging strategies beyond the neurotypical norm. www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...

Holy moly. That’s terrifying! the firefighter demonstrated admirable amount of composure given his situation. Wow

Oh that’s good to know! I just updated Word and was considering updating EndNote (the latest version has a fancy AI assistant and all that..) but maybe I’ll wait until they figure out support. Endnote has historically had issues keeping up with MS Office upgrades.. sigh! Zotero is ok ish.

Four women stand together and smile under a canopy at an outdoor outreach event, with a display table behind them labeled "Cognition, Language & Plasticity Lab" featuring educational materials and a model brain held by one of the group members.

A young woman wearing a “Learn Language, It’s Very Handy” shirt communicates in sign language with an older man holding a walking stick at an outdoor booth for the Cognition, Language & Plasticity Lab, which is set up with flyers, brain models, candy, and outreach materials under a canopy.

Two smiling women wearing Chapman University shirts sit side by side at a Cognition, Language & Plasticity Lab booth, which is covered with flyers, branded pens, candy, and brain-themed materials for outreach at an outdoor event.

The CLaP Lab had an amazing time connecting with the Deaf community at DeaFestival Riverside! 🧠✨ Thanks to everyone who stopped by to learn about language, the brain, and our research! www.claplab.org #deafawarenessmonth

#neurobiologyoflanguage #language #ERP #cognition #perception #neuroplasticity #signlanguage #SNL2025

Using standardized ERPCore tasks, our new study shows subtle but consistent neural adaptations in visual recognition, attention, motor preparation or memory updating in deaf ASL signers, possibly due to lifelong experience with visual communication. Poster A48 🙂 with @erinecampbell.bsky.social

Coming at you from Gallaudet University to share that on-the-ground prep for the Society for Neurobiology of Language #SNL2025 is well underway! We cannot wait to welcome more than 500 of you, neuroscientists and linguists, to our campus tomorrow! Say hi if you see me running around!

I hope to see you!

🧠 #sign #language #linguists this conference in #Poland looks interesting!

The ManyTones project is looking for several lead positions. See poster for details. 📢📣✨ Get involved! 🎉🤝🌟

Want to know more about the Family ASL project? Check out our new paper “Language and Cognitive Development in Bimodal Bilingual Deaf Children in Hearing Families: Three Case Studies.” It’s part of a special issue on Lang & Cog Dev in Deaf Children www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...

Wow what a fantastic new opportunity for students in #CSD to learn #ASL and #deaf culture at Penn State! great news!! 🙌🏻@pennstateuniv.bsky.social

hhd.psu.edu/csd/minor/asl

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A white male presenting person with short blond hair, wearing black pants and dark check shirt signing ASL and standing in front of a projection screen showing a drawing of a brain with black text on a white screen.

A group of people standing in a circle im a conference room with the window blinds drawn, one female is signing ASL to the rest of the group

Congratulations to Dr. Brennan @neurivulets.bsky.social for successfully delivering a PhD baby yesterday! What a delightful presentation and impactful research on neural networks for ASL. In words of @kemmorey.bsky.social “Brennan sets the bar for quality of research high!”

On stage now: Josh Tenenbaum asks how AI can mirror human cognition and what cognitive science can offer AI in return. #CogSci2025 #AI

Watch live: underline.io/events/489/m...

If you are also worried about ScienceDirect’s AI slop feature, you can directly contact them here: service.elsevier.com/app/answers/...

I have sent ScienceDirect the following questions and asked them to take down their harmful AI feature. Let’s see what they answer.

Statement from Katherine Maher, NPR President & CEO, on Closure of Corporation for Public Broadcasting Today, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced that it will begin a "wind-down of its operations" and ultimate full operational closure following the passage of a federal rescissions p...

Here’s our CEO’s statement. Factually, I just want people to understand that you can still help a lot if this is something you care about. And because at this very hard moment I am not in a position to answer for the network, I’m going to keep this closed. (3/3) www.npr.org/2025/08/01/g...