Christopher Stone

It's almost time for our Deaf Café this month. Come along on Friday 14th November at 6:30pm to Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre.

All BSL users and learners are welcome 🤗

Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night.

He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.

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...

The Grey Market: A Greater Threat to Conference Interpreting Than AI. Dear Colleagues: For the past several months, the conversation around the future of conference interpreting has been dominated by Artificial Intelligence. Articles, webinars, and social media debat…

New from my blog: The Grey Market: A Greater Threat to Conference Interpreting Than AI. | The Professional Interpreter ow.ly/GxnH50X5OPi

We're hiring! UT Linguistics invites applications for a position in computational linguistics to begin next academic year 2026-27 (rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with tenure). apply.interfolio.com/175156

Save the date! 📣 First International DeafTech conference, May 26-27, 2026, Vienna. www.deaftech26.eu

Poster with information on how to apply for the next series of Great British Bake Off. Photo of the hosts holding macarons.

📣Calling all deaf bakers! 🧁

Have YOU got what it takes to bake in the famous white tent?

If you or someone you know is a talented home baker then apply now at https://f.mtr.cool/ibkxcizyfc or email them on applyforbakeoff@loveproductions.co.uk 

Closing date is 1pm on Monday 15th December 2025.

With this questionnaire @karogebruers.bsky.social, Deborah Giustini and I are exploring the impact of AI language technologies on VGT/NGT-Dutch interpreters & notetakers in Belgium (Flanders) and the Netherlands. If you are among the target group, do participate! forms.cloud.microsoft/e/MVGHn45Pa7

This week will be the first Professor Deaf workshop! This is a #DrDeaf event aimed at mid career academics. We will be a group of 22 deaf academics from 8 different countries. Excited about this new addition to the #DrDeaf offer!

It should not have to be said, but actually thanks @johnbasil.bsky.social for including signed languages in this article!

Happy International Translation Day!
We sat down with an experienced BSL and IS translator, Adam McCormick, to discuss all about what it's like being a translator and why it's important.
Full article link in bio 🔗
#InternationalTranslationDay #BSLtranslation

Meet the interpreters improving access for Deaf Indigenous people The Indigenous Interpreters Organization works to support Indigenous ASL interpreters as a means of improving interpreting for Deaf Indigenous people.

www.mprnews.org/story/2025/0...

User Acceptance of Augmented Remote Sign Language Interpreting | Adjunct Proceedings of the 25th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents

New paper! We tested AR glasses for Video Relay Interpreting (VRI). Interpreters preferred AR VRI over VRI; deaf users saw future potential but said current tech isn't good enough. Real-world unscripted testing gave different results than lab experiments.
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

THE LINGUISTIC LIFE OF THE KUFR QASSEM DEAF COMMUNITY LANGUAGE EMERGENCE, VARIATION, CHANGE, AND PERSISTENCE by MARAH JARAISI A thesis submitted to the University of Birmingham for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Supervised by Professor Adam Schembri and Dr. Marcus Perlman Department of Linguistics and Communication School of English, Drama, and Creative Studies College of Arts and Law University of Birmingham September 2025

Dedication This thesis is dedicated to the resilient Palestinian people. (poem) Because I am not like match sticks, I light up once… and die. but I am like the fires of the Magi: I burn… from my cradle to my grave and from my predecessors to my descendants. Long as the horizon is my breath, and I have mastered the craft of ants, gently for history is written the way we dictate By - Tawfiq Ziad -

Very excited to announce that yesterday I submitted my PhD thesis: The Linguistic Life of the Kufr Qassem Deaf Community: Language Emergence, Variation, Change, and Persistence.

I dedicate this thesis to my people: the resilient Palestinian people

poster with details of research meet on 26th July at Wellcome Collection, London. Photo of Meredith in the corner and an illustration of a museum.

Call for participants 📣
Are you deaf and enjoy going to museums? 🏛️
PhD student, Meredith Peruzzi, is looking for participants for research into how museums can create a sense of welcome and belonging.
For more information, visit - https://f.mtr.cool/yclnqtcxdg

What We Can Learn from Interpreter Fails. Dear Colleagues: If you have worked as a conference interpreter for any length of time, you have probably had at least one moment where things did not quite go as planned. Maybe your brain lagged a second too long, maybe your mic betrayed you mid-sentence, or maybe, just maybe, you confidently said something… completely wrong. I have had my share of “oops” moments (and heard a few great ones from colleagues).

What We Can Learn from Interpreter Fails.

Dear Colleagues: If you have worked as a conference interpreter for any length of time, you have probably had at least one moment where things did not quite go as planned. Maybe your brain lagged a second too long, maybe your mic betrayed you mid-sentence,…

Children of migrant Deaf adults During my Master of Research (MRes) studies, whenever I met someone new, they would often enquire about what I was doing for my thesis. When I told them, I was doing research with hearing children …

How do hearing children of Deaf migrant parents experience their multilingual repertoires?
@empacheco.bsky.social explains in the latest Language-on-the-Move post
www.languageonthemove.com/children-of-...

The Relationship Between Community Size and Iconicity in Sign Languages Communication is harder in larger communities. Past research shows that this leads larger communities to create languages that are easier to learn and use. In particular, previous research suggests t....

New cool paper with cool people! Overall, we found that sign languages with more users avoid signs that are particularly low in iconicity (a result parallel with spoken languages) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Great presenting at IDGS Hamburg today about the SmartSafeSigning project (www.wlv.ac.uk/research/smart-safe-signing-/) on some of our pilot data (published open access here - wlv.openrepository.com/items/180859...)

#drDeaf had its 7th writing retreat (and 14th event overall) with participants from around Europe, US, Singapore, and Australia. Evaluation comments: energized, motivated, enthusiastic, sharing, refreshed. Join us at our other 2025 events!

WFD-WASLI IS Accreditation now accepting applications.
wasli.org/sign-languag...
English: forms.gle/qjN49fiyGeGr...
español: forms.gle/rg6VimFsXsyX...
francés: forms.gle/jGG4A7XxSa5k...

The White House is sued over lack of sign language interpreters at press briefings The National Association of the Deaf says the White House's failure to provide ASL interpreters during press briefings leaves some deaf and hard of hearing people without information.

The National Association of the Deaf says the White House's failure to provide ASL interpreters during press briefings leaves some deaf and hard of hearing people without information.

Marvel could pay for my healthcare for the rest of my life for a fraction of 1% of profit from Spider-Man Noir, a character whose original comics I edited. For Peter David to die in medical debt, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and writer of countless seminal Hulk and X-Factor comics—that's a disgrace

Corpus-based approaches to evolutionary dynamics in language AbstractPragmatic-interactional aspects of present-day language use as well as historical language change have come to be regarded as an important source o

🚨New publication alert!
"Corpus-based approaches to evolutionary dynamics in language" (w/ @stefanhartmann.bsky.social) out now in the in the Oxford Handbook of Approaches to Language Evolution. Kudos to @limorraviv.bsky.social & @cedricboeckx.bsky.social for putting this great volume together!

Join us at the British Academy on Tue 24 – Wed 25 June, for a conference exploring ethical and political issues that can arise in the context of communicating about health and health care, bringing together experts in philosophical ethics and health practice.

Book your ticket: buff.ly/NsoFDd6

The #DrDeaf team is thrilled to announce the first Professor Deaf workshop! This workshop is aimed at deaf academics post-PhD, working in a university/research setting. It will be held October 2-4, 2025 in Oslo, Norway. More information will follow. For now, if you’re interested: save the date!

Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.

"🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp... "

BSL version: short-link.me/ZPjk

Deaf skilled readers may monitor for phrase structure but not morphosyntax - new evidence from ERPs. Paper just out! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...