Felicia Bisnath

why and how is the Gorilla Experiment Builder interface so unintuitive

Serious side eye at academic journals not being open to articles about diversity in their fields

The First Summer School in Sign Language Studies in Berlin were inspiring, network-building and collaborative for us all! See you in Tallinn 2026!

@deaf_studies @idgs_uhh @tlu_evkur @crathmann.bsky.social @LionaPaulus @DurczokBritta

Don't forget - you can still register for online participation until August 10th!

Register at: lilg.div-ling.org/registration/

Find the programme at: lilg.div-ling.org/programme/

#linguistics #gender #language

I think these events and/or activities might be super useful for teaching! #linguistics

The scenes in which actors can't make any sounds are super reminiscent (of course) of silent gesture-type experiments, and scenes where actors are restricted to using only one word, or a couple phrases illustrate how important prosody and context are to interpretation

I went to a friend's improv show over the weekend. It was my first time seeing one -- I actually didn't really understand that improv could be a category of theatre on its own. Anyway, the actors make up the scene with restrictions given by their directors

Ty @crathmann.bsky.social and Peter Romanek for spearheading the organisation!

It was all in International Sign (and written English) and brought together young researchers from Europe, Africa, E. Asia and the Americas. All but one of the teachers were deaf academics. It was a really rare opportunity for me to be in an all-signing space for so long.

I spent last week in Berlin at the Summer School in Sign Language Studies organised by Humboldt University and Tallinn University -- it was such a great experience! #linguistics

I’m really living the semiotic resources the life in European contexts trying to get meaning from spoken language I don’t know + sign language I don’t know

Linguists (especially me) should probably be reading more social science research

Idk if my relatively new obsession with links in argumentation being *super* clear is just me not understanding stuff

If you’re looking for a summer read, I just finished Andre Alexis’ short story collection, Other Worlds. There’s a Trinidadian diaspora in Canada thread throughout and the first story (the best one imo) is maybe the only piece of fiction with Garifuna in it

reading my own papers is part "oh this isn't so bad" and part "this is so boring 🙄"

my summer project will be attempting to figure out this situation

there are so many errors and inconsistencies in the small number of eafs I'm currently working with that I shudder to think of what debugging will look like when I'm working with a large number

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Presenting collaborative work with @savithry.bsky.social @linasigns.bsky.social and Laura Horton!

#linguistics

the consequence of me having a work laptop is I now walk around with my work laptop and my personal laptop and their respective chargers

"writing" aka opening 50000 pdfs

impossible for me to speak Trinidadian Creole to my non-Trinidadian partner bcs they're not Trinidadian

Lol, it does, but I specifically want nice espresso

it's so expensive to be a cafe work-girlie in Norway

praying for a time when I will be able to work without an expensive coffee drink

I feel like 3 months or something after my defense I suddenly became waaaay more conservative about what I think is possible and what I can actually do and also felt ok with that

I hide them! I think maybe 5 is okkkk for me.. I get annoyed by having to look at my own comments tier so 😬

my poor brain is so overwhelmed by many tiers 😭😭

humans were not made to look at .eaf files

as a language learner I'm 1000% the usage-based type and NOT the rule type -- learning a rule is so inferior to having a vibe #linguistics

So people have been asking me about my concept, deaf liminality, and where they can find out more about it. Given that I don't have enough time & energy at the moment to write an actual paper/article on it, I added a page on my website dedicated to it and will add bits and pieces to it over time.