Happy Sign Language Week!🌟

New British Sign Language signs for marine species are here, making conversations about nature and climate more accessible to everyone! 👋

The @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Scottish Sensory Centre tested them out while cleaning oysters with #RestorationForth 🦪

#SignLanguageWeek #SLW2026

Screenshot of someone signing "evaporation"

I learned about a brilliant project yesterday to support British Sign Language (BSL) users, creating new signs for scientific terms in chemistry, oceanography, data science & more.
And they're fabulously descriptive. Do have a look and share!

www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/index.ht...

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Yes 😊👍

#ochemistree #chemistree by this year’s @morayhouse.bsky.social #PGDEchem students! @drjohnodonoghue.bsky.social Merry Christmas 🎄!!

www.ssc.education.ed.ac.uk/BSL/ here is the link to the STEM in BSL glossaries. There are many STEM in ASL glossaries. Excellent work!

Wow! It will be nearly 20 years in 2027! Thanks Natalya for sharing our work :-). Dr Gary Quinn is the sign linguist expert of the project.

Wow beautiful!🤩

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So glad this is out! Still wish we had the data processed in time for @jmhenner.bsky.social to use but pleased to have his contribution in more ways than 1. See below for a brief commentary re Jon, deaf linguists & participating in SiL research and doing it in a way that disrupts or crips it all

Groups of presenters and discussants posing for photo

What an amazing week! Thank you everyone who made it so special. This was a career highlight that will be tough to beat. #GRCCERP #MoonAgents

Hi! I’m Zahra Nawab, a deaf PhD student at UCL. I’m looking for participants for my research on language, thinking & emotions in deaf adults.

Interested or know someone who might be? Get in touch: zahra.nawab.23@ucl.ac.uk

For more information, please watch this video: youtu.be/Iw-TiANQpY0

Dr Audrey Cameron: Teaching Deaf Children Chemistry YouTube video by RSC Chemical Education Research Group

Recording of @aud2526.bsky.social presentation "Signing to Know: Unlocking chemistry concepts" from symposium in her honour last week is now on @cerg.bsky.social YouTube channel. Thanks to Dr Helen Pain for her warm introduction to Audrey and the symposium youtu.be/9cWN4oD39kw

Teaching Chemistry to Deaf Students: A Symposium in Honour of Dr Audrey Cameron Dr Audrey Cameron HonFRSC OBE is Chancellor’s Fellow at Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh. She has worked extensively in d/Deaf education, including lar…

A really inspiring symposium today. Lots to take away from it. I loved the chemical considerations involved in making new signs and the student generated videos were amazing! Thanks to presenters, interpreters, & Dr Helen Pain for officially opening proceedings! rsccerg.wordpress.com/2025/02/10/t...

Many thanks for the honour and opportunity to share our work. It was an enjoyable session. 🙌

Congratulation to the British Deaf Association for this discussion paper on AI and BSL. As far as I know this is the first deaf NGO to have such a discussion paper. Very much needed!

Fantastic! Well done Fiona! 🙌🙌🙌

Merry Christmas 🎄 xxx

Illustrated poster titled "The Smells of Gingerbread" featuring colourful sections with text and drawings. Each section discusses different aromas associated with gingerbread, such as cinnamon, orange, pine, mulled wine, and cloves, accompanied by related illustrations like a Christmas tree and gingerbread figures.

Gingerbread, mulled wine, and the warmth of cinnamon. Join us in the Christmas countdown with the @thamesvalleyrsc.bsky.social #adventcalendar #ChemSky 🎄🔬 @compoundchem.com

Merry Christmas 🎄! Thank you for your amazing work x

Thank you! 😊🙏

Love your Chemistree! Beautiful and creative!

Thank you so much, and the PGDE chemistry students will be delighted! :-) #OChemistree #Chemistree

Congratulations #UoEPGDEchemistry, for winning Category Three of the @ochemistree.bsky.social ! @morayhouse.bsky.social @edinburghuni.bsky.social 🎄🧪

Wow!

Beautiful!

Thank you 🙏

Many thanks Craig! 🙏

For those of you who did’nt follow me on the other place, I run an annual competition for the most creative #Chemistree. For 2024 I have officially moved it to #BlueSky this year and you can find all the details below 🧪🎄 #ChemSky