Dr. Agnes Villwock
@agnesvillwock.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science & Neuroscience at RIT. Interested in neuroplasticity, deafness, sign languages, bilingualism, multisensory processing, & critical periods (she/her)
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On World Mental Health Day remember that it's ok not to be ok. It’s also ok to talk about it and ask for help. And remember that spending some time in nature can benefit your mental health 👇

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📸 Wendy McDonnell #WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD25 #MentalHealth
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(please repost) If you're looking for a #neuroscience PhD program - and interested in human brain plasticity and reorganization (neuroimaging in people born with blindness, deafness or without hands), my lab is accepting students this cycle. Email me!
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Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:

A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!

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dbellingradt.bsky.social
Fancy a word of academic German today? “Schreibschulden” - the texts you promised to send to someone but missed the deadlines, and apparently your growing overload of to do reviews, chapters and articles become part and argument of every academic conversation you have.
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🚨 Open PhD position in sign language #linguistics 🚨

The focus should be on the structure of signed languages, or connect to other research profiles at the department (e.g. computational linguistics, acquisition, typology, multilingualism)

su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Deadline: 15 October 2025
PhD student in Linguistics, sign language
The Department of Linguistics at Stockholm University conducts research and offers education in a number of areas such as child language development, computational linguistics, general linguistics, ph
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The SNL 2025 Access Award will waive registration fees for up to 20 students, trainees, and faculty who face barriers to attending the Society for Neurobiology of Language conference.

Apply by Aug 27; winners named Aug 28.

Pls share!

🔗 tinyurl.com/SNLAcessAward

#SNL2025 #NeurobiologyofLanguage
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agnesvillwock.bsky.social
Fantastic news, congratulations on this important grant! 🎉 See you at #SNL2025!
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zedsehyr.bsky.social
American Psychological Association speaks up after NSF terminates 1,000+ grants!

“By halting research of this type we risk denying individuals high-quality care based solely on their heritage or background..our ability to understand & deliver effective services to ALL Americans..will be diminished”
a welcome development for the American Psychological Association (APA) starting to speak up, now after 1,000+ terminated NSF grants
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jfallows.bsky.social
Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning.

www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.
agnesvillwock.bsky.social
At which point will we agree that we must consider going back to a hybrid option for academic conference attendance?
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Had a fantastic time at #CNS2025 in Boston. Congratulations on a great poster session to my PhD student @elenampadanes.bsky.social!
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deafqueer.bsky.social
Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️

Did you know?⠀

The ASL sign for ‘transgender’ is similar to the ASL sign for ‘beautiful’ but is signed on the middle of the chest.

Illustration by Deaf trans artist Carlisle Robinson.

#TDOV #DeafTrans #DeafTransgender #DeafTransPride #ASL #QueerASLSigns
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Image description via Carlisle: an illustration of ASL for transgender in trans pride flag color. The sign starts with hands almost like high five but slightly bent with thumb a bit inside, as if you’re holding an egg. The hand is placed on chest with side of thumb and index finger touching your chest. Then the hand is moved away from chest with fingers in more closed, the hand is rotated that your palm is facing inward toward your chest. Then last sign is all fingers touching each other at fingertips, with side of your pinkie finger touching the chest.
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#deaftransgender #deaftrans #transgenderdeaf #deafandtrans #transgender #trans #transdayofvisibility #tdov #deafqueer #deaflgbt #deaflgbtq #lgbt #deafqueerart #deaftransart #queerasl #queersigns #americansignlanguage #transisbeautiful⠀
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Looking forward to seeing you there! :)