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Hello everyone, I’m Maartje De Meulder. After spending years on X, I’ve decided to give Mastodon a try. I’m a senior researcher at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and I split my time mainly between Belgium, the Netherlands, and Norway. I’ll be mostly posting about all things language, disability, and technologies, and how they intersect, along with navigating academia. 145 comments
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  @mdemeulder let me give you a random welcome from a random person on Mastodon - it's what I love about being here. And don't forget the #hashtags 😸  @mdemeulder I like Utrecht, not only because it's where one of my favorite restaurants are.  Hello Maartje and welcome! What an interesting field you're in, looking forward to your posts, especially on the disability-technology intersection. A tip - your experience here will be very much shaped by who you follow, and the hashtags and groups you follow too. There are no algorithms, no advertising. Love it here, hope you do too! 😊🤗 Hello @mdemeulder@mastodon.social,  @mdemeulder Language and disability is interesting. I've heard @bogiperson about a specific topic and it was interesting. Unfortunately Bogi seems not very active here, a little more so on Bluesky. But perhaps you two might still want to connect. @mdemeulder  #Welcome. I was on #Twitter from 2017 till shortly after Elon, or his handlers, bought it. There's been problems; I landed on a server where it pays to speak #Finnish or #German. And yes, I KNOW I can migrate servers, but I'm not ready for that (also, it's nice to have a place I can safely speak #heretical thoughts, like "hockey sucks"). Just in case I'm unclear, I LIKE it here. I hope you do, too.  @mdemeulder Christine Sun Kim's fondness for the inquiry: "Would you rather be born deaf or schizophrenic?" makes me - a person with schizoæffective tendencies - wondering about Deafies' vision for transnational Advanced Directives aka boring AI which work for all folks, schizos included! #ThisAbility 🫶🏼🎭🇺🇳 my work bit.ly/americareplan @mdemeulder First, welcome. Second, given your focus - out of curiosity, are you aware of an upcoming deaf performance of American Idiot? https://playbill.com/article/daniel-durant-tyler-hardwick-mason-alexander-park-more-will-star-in-asl-american-idiot @mdemeulder @mdemeulder Welcome to the Fediverse! You seem to have the sort of interests that would appreciate seeing my friend's website https://gesture.world/ that is trying to use AI to recognize hand gestures. (Warning: the site takes a while to start up.) @mdemeulder Late to the warm welcome party! Welcome, there are a lot of thoughtful, interesting, friendly people here. Hope you feel at home.  |
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@mdemeulder Aloha!🤙🏻