Register now!🚨📣 Join us on October 6th at UMD’s Hoff Theater for a screening of Rebel with a Clause and a live Q&A with author Ellen Jovin. Follow her 50-state grammar road trip, proof that even comma debates can bring us together. 🔗 Click here to register on Eventbrite: go.umd.edu/rwac

We didn’t have an LSLT today, but here are some great shots from Sanshiroh Ogawa’s talk last week to make up for it!

Two of our fantastic @umdleadlab.bsky.social undergrads will be presenting posters at Language Science Day next Friday, 9/19. We hope to see you there!

Language Science Day is right around the corner! Register by THIS MONDAY, September 15th, for our signature annual event: go.umd.edu/lsd25

Tomorrow! Be there and be square 😎

Yesterday, linguist Kate Mooney kicked off this semester’s Language Science Lunch Talk series with her presentation, Limits of Gestural Displacement. Click the link in our bio to read her abstract on the events calendar.

(THREAD 2/2) Explore family-friendly language science activities, try a study on climate change perception with @langscistation.bsky.social, and grab some free stickers!

👉When: September 6th • 8:30 to 6:00
👉Where: Walter E. Washington Convention Center
👉What: go.umd.edu/lsc-nbf-2025

THREAD 1/2 Join us on September 6th at the @librarycongress.bsky.social #NationalBookFestival, our 2nd year as a Featured STEM District Organization! 🎉

Details in the thread below 👇🚨

New funding is available for the Society for Neurobiology of Language 2025 meeting in DC! Gallaudet's Dr. Quant invites colleagues + students to attend!

Up to 20 randomly selected registration waivers are offered for disabled attendees. All disabilities welcome. Apply: tinyurl.com/SNLaccessaward

Language scientists filled the seats in our summer stats workshop quickly 🏃 This week's topic: Data Simulation & Hierarchical Models: Foundations with Dr. Scott Jackson 📈

Read about the workshop and next week's topic, Bayesian Modelling & Advanced Simulation: go.umd.edu/lsc-summer-ws

Study takes place at Gallaudet University
Email [email protected] with subject: Iconicity Study to sign up or learn more!

IRB approved.

✅ You may qualify if you:
• Are a native English speaker
• Don’t know ASL or any other language before age 6
• Are right-handed
• Have normal or corrected-to-normal vision
• Have no history of neurological disorders or head injury

What you’ll do:
• Watch videos of ASL signs + name pictures while we record your brainwaves (EEG)!
• Get paid $20/hour (session lasts about 1 hour)

🧠 Paid Research Study on Language & the Brain! 🧠

The Action and Brain Lab at Gallaudet University is looking for hearing, non-signing adults to participate in a study on how we process American Sign Language.

DETAILS IN THREAD BELOW 👇

So unbelievably proud of @alexusgramirez.bsky.social and my mentee Paola for her first ever poster presentation at UMD's SRI/REACH poster session today! Yay Paola!! 🥳🎉

Grant due today

Recordings from the Conference on Human Sentence Processing are officially on our YouTube channel. Watch them all here: www.youtube.com/@umd_lsc

LSC Coffee Hours are back! Stop by on Tuesdays from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM for ✨free✨ coffee and pastries 🥐☕️ Come get some work done!

We're kicking off May with our next LSLT, "Understand child sentence processing in reading: computational and experimental approaches" with Kuan-Jung Huang 🗣️📚

Join Dr. Jordan Boyd-Graber for a talk on why AI tools still struggle with questions, from movie plots to art descriptions. Stick around to test your knowledge against a trivia-playing robot! 🤖

📅 Sat, May 10 | Language Science Fair
📍 Planet Word | Free + all ages
🔗 Link in bio to register

Thanks to all the @umdleadlab.bsky.social friends who wrote the nomination letter!
@gavkhar-a.bsky.social
@ellroche.bsky.social
@elliektaylor.bsky.social
@alexamcd.bsky.social
@alexusgramirez.bsky.social
Victoria Terry (HDQM)
Mariah Egerton (HDQM)
Alicia Mortimer (HDQM)
Deena Shariq (PSYC)

LSC member @rachelromeo.bsky.social received the Graduate Mentor of the Year Award, awarded by the UMD Graduate School! Congratulations Rachel 🥳

We're back! Join us this week for our latest LSLT with Susannah Paletz 🎉 Click the link to read her full abstract on our events calendar 📅
🔗 Learn more: languagescience.umd.edu/events/langu...