We do now know the NSF is proceeding with dissolving the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Congress might reverse it, but it is now already underway. YOU CAN NO LONGER SUBMIT FUNDING PROPOSALS TO SBE. Program officers are being moved to different parts of the agency. Call your Congress member
The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
Applications are officially open for our upcoming 2026 NSF REU ASL-English Bilingual CENTRE Summer Internship Program! At Gallaudet's Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) Research Center, undergraduates will join us on campus, May 18th - July 10th, 2026: gu.live/REUCENTRE
UPDATE: Our application deadline has been extended to FEBRUARY 18th!
Program activities and training are in American Sign Language (ASL). In addition to providing housing and meals, students will be paid for their research work during the summer.
This program is supported by the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates program. Rising first years through rising seniors are encouraged to apply. Graduated students are ineligible.
In this program, students learn about neuroimaging and get hands-on experience with research in our labs. New to research? This program is for you! Please pass this opportunity along to any interested undergraduate students!
Applications are officially open for our upcoming 2026 NSF REU ASL-English Bilingual CENTRE Summer Internship Program! At Gallaudet's Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) Research Center, undergraduates will join us on campus, May 18th - July 10th, 2026: gu.live/REUCENTRE
NSF reorganization is, frankly, a bit odd, and we haven't run a story on it partly because it's hard to know what to make of it. The impetus for reorg, as I understood it, was to limit the siloing that occurs because NSF has so many (35ish) divisions. Now there will be 50+ sections.
Looking for graduate students for next year! We have fully-funded positions open to study signed languages, cognitive/educational neuroscience, development, and educational technology! Email me for more info or see here: tinyurl.com/EdNeuro2026
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The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs
New publication out with the late great @jmhenner.bsky.social and @anthrodad.bsky.social
The #Deaf Childhood Experiences Scale aims to provide data on deaf life factors with the goal of better understanding... quality of life outcomes among deaf populations.
academic.oup.com/jdsde/articl... 1/6
A flyer for a Text-to-Speech study at Gallaudet University with a white background and texts in orange,blue, and black color. At the top, it states the research is IRB-approved (FY25-29), alongside the Gallaudet University logo on the top right. The title reads "text-to-speech study", followed by a sentence "looking for participants" A heading lists eligibility criteria: 18+ years old, Deaf, Hard of Hearing, or have hearing loss, able to communicate well in ASL and/or English (interpreter and CART will be provided as needed), be aware of text-to-speech technology, able to participate in-person at Gallaudet University. On the center right, a sentence states: "We want to know what you think!" followed by a brief explanation that the co-design session will involve sharing ideas for adjusting and evaluating voice settings in TTS, like tone and pitch. It also defines TTS as a technology that allows you to convert text to speech automatically. On the bottom left, it says, "This involves a one-time in-person session in ASL and English, on Tuesday June 17 (6:30pm–9:00 PM), 2.5-hour duration, $85 compensation. The bottom right has a heading that says, "Interested?", inviting participants to scan a QR code, visit https://gu.live/tts, or email tap.sg@gallaudet.edu. The QR code is on the bottom right side of the flyer.
The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing is conducting an in-person deaf-friendly study on text-to-speech technologies at Gallaudet University. Looking for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have hearing loss to join our co-design session
Spencer Foundation joins Kapor Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch a rapid response bridge funding program (up to $25,000) for education scholars impacted by the abrupt grant cancellations by the National Science Foundation (NSF)!
#AcademicSky
Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language September 12-14 2025 Gallaudet University Abstract submission through April 29 neurolang.org
The Society for the Neurobiology of Language meeting will be at Gallaudet University, September 12-14th. We have 4 outstanding keynotes (Fumiko Hoeft, Duane Watson, Carol Padden, Fatemeh Geranmayeh).
Abstract submissions are open! Hope to see you there! #SNL2025
2025.neurolang.org/abstract-sub...
“Right when we are seeing the pipeline really taking off with multiple graduates contributing back to it, it is being destroyed,” says Wyatte Hall... Hall was the first graduate of the RPP, and he currently serves as co-director of the Future Deaf Scientists program..
www.science.org/content/arti...
Canceling targeted grants to train deaf scientists...there are no words. Well, here are some words: this is crazy, stupid, shameful, and shortsighted.
DOGE, Trump, and everyone who voted for them should be disgusted with themselves.
www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...
Several weeks ago, four of five STEM programs that make up the NIH-funded Deaf Scientists Pipeline in Rochester, NY were cut (the fifth is expected to be cut too). A PhD student made the below infographic to visualize what these cuts mean as a catastrophic generational loss for #Deaf science
🚨🚨🚨Please repost to help me spread the word! I hoped my experience launching my lab would never be relevant for others, but I am available to share, listen, and support our colleagues who are about to start or have recently launched faculty careers during yet another unprecedented time.
This could mean a lot of things, but none of them make me feel very good.
This role could serve as a lunchpad for a PhD within my lab!
Experience w/ infant data collection preferred. Experience w/ EEG or fMRI data acquisition/analysis is helpful.
Interested? Submit a cover letter, CV, & contact information for 2 recommenders to northeastern.pinelab@gmail.com
This is a great article capturing many of the most recent findings in language development for deaf kids. Worth a read. How do we provide deaf kids with all the opportunities available to them? | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.
What admin is doing to universities is laid out here: www.aei.org/op-eds/a-com...
"The most interesting actions, though, wouldn’t require Congress. To scare universities straight, McMahon should start by taking a prize scalp. She should simply destroy Columbia University."
In project 2025 and so many other freely available publications, this administration has told us exactly what they want to do, often in great detail. All we have to do is believe them.
Wow. "NIH" canceled my co-mentored (with Dave Sulzer) PhD student's F31 funding. His work is on understanding the genetics and neuroscience of language learning disorders. F31 provides no indirect $ to Columbia, just pays his salary. Not that it should matter, but he's an American citizen. W.T.F.
“It’s extremely alarming that grants that have been vetted by the scientific community and deemed important and impactful to understand the world are now being cancelled because of political ideology,” says @lkfazio.bsky.social.
“This is direct censorship of scientific research.”
The Trump administration's efforts to slash research funding have US graduate students, postdocs and other early-career scientists fearing for their careers. Some might leave the country -- or abandon research altogether.
https://go.nature.com/43ao2zq
