The ASHA fomo is real 😭

Hot off the press! Examining the factor structure of the Voice Disability Coping Questionnaire in individuals with laryngeal dystonia and essential vocal tremor pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

I'm very excited to announce that our poster won 2nd place at the Fall Voice Conference this past week! Thank you to Jeffrey Girard, Joel Sprunger, and everyone else on the team for this exciting project! #research #voice #ptsd

Interested in a PhD in Communication Sciences & Disorders? Register for our upcoming Virtual Information Session! Learn more about the University of Houston's PhD program at uh.edu/class/comd/p...

I’m so grateful for my time here at KU’s Department of Psychology! I’ve been so lucky to meet some amazing colleagues and friends. I’m looking forward to the next chapter and for the inevitable future collaborations ^_^

I started using @zen-browser.app and I kinda really love it!

Using Quarto for presentations has been a game changer

The trait theory of voice disorders (TTVD) provided a unified framework to understand these relationships. This study re-examines the TTVD by adopting current theories and methods from personality science. @sigperspectives.bsky.social

NEW: Trump lawyers have repeatedly said that the administration is complying with a federal court order stopping it from cutting transgender research funding. New whistleblower records contradict those claims. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social

Interested in how personality traits relate to some of the most common voice disorders? Fresh off the press! pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

CHIN UP, DORKS! Last time I checked, the fat lady hasn’t sung her song. It’s not over. Science isn’t dead. UNITE AND FIGHT ✊🏼🖤 #Standupforscience #scienceforall

This administration has fired crisis counselors for our veterans and now for kids. This bullshit doesn’t make us great. Any one of these calls could be life or death for a child. This senseless act of cruelty will kill people and they know it.

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So, either universities put their big girl pants on and stand up to Trump OR The entire enterprise of biomedical research in the US collapses. www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...

I'm very excited to officially announce that I'll be joining the University of Houston's Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders' faculty this fall! What's a piece of advice or wisdom that you were told or wish you had been told going into your first Assistant Professor position? 😅

DSM: Ok let’s try one more time. This time will be better. Promise 😉 Latent variable models: Ok you have to admit this is mathier. Network models: Even mathier. Also here’s a cool analogy about lake ecology. What if humans? TikTok: Humming songs is ADHD which means your brain is wrong

If you’re ever feeling embarrassed about a blunder at work, read this and remember it’s probably not that bad.

This is one of the biggest threats to Americans' personal data in decades. If you're a 23andMe customer, I strongly urge you to delete your data to protect it from whoever the new buyer might be. Here’s how:

In Rihanna's 2016 song Work, she famously sang "Nuh body touch me you nuh righteous Nuh badda, text me in a crisis" Today we ask, was Rihanna also in the group chat? Would war plans constitute a crisis?

the white house home shopping network of it all...

Linguistic and cultural diversity in #aphasia research: #SLPeeps #neuropsychology 1/6 Guidelines and recommendations for cross-linguistic aphasia assessment: a review of 10 years of comprehensive aphasia test adaptations: Aphasiology: Vol 0, No 0 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Trying to celebrate the little things amidst all the chaos - just submitted another manuscript for peer review!

It would be such a shame if people were to use this form to submit nonsense complaints enddei.ed.gov

Finally made the Bayesian leap for MLM and not gonna go back!

Hey everyone! If you haven't watched this video ever or haven't seen it in a while, it's a good use of 3 minutes!! It's satire but the behaviors it describes remain rampant especially when those responsible aren't held accountable. youtu.be/MoxVdw6T0LA?...

*looks into the camera Office-style*

Submitted a peer review 11 days before the deadline - please clap

Just received an "accept" manuscript decision on an initial submission to a journal... I honestly never knew that could ever *actually* happen... I'm shaking in disbelief

Kinda wild how I have to take a required financial conflict of interest training to do research while the world's richest man who owns six companies is actively dismantling governmental institutions in his favor... I'm all for required CoI trainings. But the juxtaposition just feels... 🥴

Disappointed but not surprised that all the NIH's Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) FOs designed to "promote diversity in biomedical research" were removed without any official notices

Hello EMA researchers - what's your favorite platform that allows you to collect brief audio samples from participants?

Pro tip from a voice therapist Remember to use sufficient breath support and a nice, easy resonant voice while you scream into the void

🚨Preprint alert!🚨 Integrating Advances in Personality Science to Re-Examine the Trait Theory of Voice Disorders (TTVD) We re-investigated the TTVD using a five-factor model of personality in pts dx w/ muscle tension dysphonia (MTD) and phonotraumatic vocal hyperfunction (PVH) osf.io/preprints/os...

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Writing is fun bc I end up googling words I know well to double check their definition and end up searching things like “more synonym” 🙃

Just finished watching Sugarcane Intense. Beautiful. Heartbreaking. Devastating. 10/10

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

Hey #speechscience / #linguistics friends! I’ve been doing a few speech science 101 talks lately for non-speech students With quick googling, I’ve found things that are either too surface level (w/ errors) or too in-depth What are your fav resources that balance brevity, accuracy, & accessibility?

My contribution to thanksgiving this year is not cooking food (my niece wanted to make the mac n cheese this year), but rather serving as entertainment and keeping the 7yo busy and out of the kitchen

Yaaaay!! @bgariva.bsky.social is finally here!! 🤩

As an aspiring professor, my favorite part of Wicked was when the professor from a minoritized community was hauled away in handcuffs due to political agendas

Right?!? So true!!

Really happy to see that the UT system is offering free tuition 🤘🏼

Questions about getting your PhD in SLHS at BU? Join me for a virtual open hour on November 27th at 9:30 am EST. Register at bu.edu/sargent/admi...

New favorite word just dropped

antideyassificationarianism

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

I have a joke about conference Q&A sessions, well it’s more of a comment