I’m not far from Utrecht! How long will you be in the Netherlands? Shoot me a DM if you’d like to try to meet up!

Oooh! Had no idea there were bits on sign language and deaf language acquisition in the book—now I'm doubly excited. ❤️

Hey @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social - you should fly me to Tilburg University so I can interview Neil.

Congrats, Neil! Looks incredible.

That sounds exciting! Most of the book is about the structure of pictures but I do talk about sign language and deaf language learning in various places too. Thanks for your interest!

I'm starting a comics club at my son's school, so I'm excited to learn more about comics' formal visual language and to see how #deafkids in particular engage with it.

OK, I need to get my hands on this. <3

Research takes time and will never simultaneously test the commercial models as they come out. I suspect they’ll do just as poorly. I’ve been tracking these studies for a decade and they’ve hardly improved

Our university is in the process of allowing AI use in assessment, a supposedly pragmatic response to its ubiquity. This means I can't ban it on my comics course. This might bolster students' desire to avoid it.

I messed around with this in a far less scientific fashion and: yeah.

Thanks a lot!

I forgot the most important: good luck to @cogirmak.bsky.social !

This is really interesting and I will definitively have a look! A long time ago, when I was a student, I did my project on this topic for a Semiotics module, at a much smaller scale. Funnily enough, it was about compiling and writing about all the different types of movements in the Tintin books.