Twenty-four years ago today, our paper “A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech and language disorder” was published: www.nature.com/articles/350.... A personal thread about the ups & downs of the journey we took to get to that point....1/n 🗣️🧬🧪

Professor Maggie Snowling will be presenting on Monday Oct 6th at 4pm at the SLCN specialist teacher network. All about DLD and literacy. Online. One not to be missed. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dldslcn-sp... Free to members, which starts from £20 per year. www.naplic.org.uk/membership/ #DevLangDis

Unique opportunity to direct your own innovative long-term research programme on the psychology of language at @mpi-nl.bsky.social, a leading interdisciplinary Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Nominate yourself or a colleague by 19 December 2025. Please help us spread the word. 👇🧪

We're seeking the next Director of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics! Lead cutting-edge research in language & cognition. Nominations (incl. self) due 19 Dec 2025. mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/nominations-and-self-nominations-sought-position-director-max

Postdoc opening!! We’re looking for a postdoc to support our DoD funded study, using noninvasive vagus nerve stimulation and EEG to study speech in noise perception in veterans with TBI. Please share and reach out to start the conversation if interested! bit.ly/478e3ME

Data Cleaning for Data Sharing Using R cghlewis.github.io/ncme-data-cl...

Yay! So glad to have been a part of this team. Go @drsrishtin.bsky.social et al!!

RDM Weekly Issue 14 is out! 📬 After attending posit::conf last week, I decided to highlight some recent and past data management related talks from the conference. #rstats - AI Coding Assistants - Spreadsheet formatting - Creating R Data Packages and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Prof. Hogan reports that "only 20% to 30% (of students with DLD) get the support they need, often after experiencing academic failure. The rest remain invisible". Let's learn more about support for DLD as Oct 17 DLD day approaches! #DLDday @radld.bsky.social leader.pubs.asha.org/do/10.1044/l...

Today, scientists and advocates are participating in the Rally for Medical Research on Capitol Hill to discuss the importance of funding biomedical research with their congressional representatives. FASEB is a proud sponsor of the rally. Follow the conversation using #RallyMedRes and #FundNIH.

AI is nw building products for babies. This could be a disaster as it might derail the human to human connection vital for brain development. See NyPost. Please sign our position statement with link embedded. @rachelromeo.bsky.social @drdanasuskind.bsky.social nypost.com/2025/09/17/o...

Always a good read with excellent figures 🙂

Because awareness of DLD is only now starting to grow, we are missing whole generations of adults with DLD (Developmental Language Disorder) whose needs were not identified as children. Like Nichole below #DLDday is Friday October 17th 2025. 'You can't see DLD' is the theme. radld.org #DevLangDis

YES! People with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) can succeed! With their needs identified, support in place and adjustments, people with DLD can shine. Join us in raising awareness of DLD. #DLDday is Friday October 17th. The theme is 'you can't see DLD.' #DevLangDis radld.org

Please check out the Top 10 Research Priority Questions for #DevLangDis. Newly launched after extensive consultations involving people with DLD, families and professionals. www.rcslt.org/news/top-que...

"Part of maturing as a field is to recognize its history: to decide what to keep, & what we must outgrow, both in how we train the next generation of researchers & in how we help the public make sense of our past." @dr-appie.bsky.social's nuanced take on social science genetics, well worth a read.👇🧪

Happy Thursday E-DLD followers! Here is today's summarised study. Summary: www.engage-dld.com/post/does-a-... Original article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #devlangdis #languagedisorders #engagedld

You mustn’t forget … #DLDday is coming soon! October 17th and the theme is ‘You can’t see DLD’ so here are 5 things teachers can’t see. Tag a teacher and help raise awareness of developmental language disorder. Visit RADLD.org for more information #dld #devlangdis #nasuwt #tdl #adi #senco

New article from my PhD findings. Children aged 5-8 with CLP had lower visual and auditory attention skills compared with norms and these skills were correlated with language outcomes. Available open access @drhelenslt.bsky.social @cristina-mckean.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

CDC employees are walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USANotRFK

It's been a while since I've reminded people that DMLSER has an entire chapter to help guide you in creating standardized rules for your team/projects in regards to file structures, file naming, variable naming and more! 📝 datamgmtinedresearch.com/style

ICYMI This is so smart and clear. If you want to see how Kennedy will "prove" vaccines cause autism, please read. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

@cghlewis.bsky.social knows her stuff! Let the good news of data management reach all ears!

Delighted to see work led by Hayley Mountford @hayleymountford.bsky.social published today. rdcu.be/eA8G0 We used MTAG to increase gene discovery for dyslexia: 36 new regions; ~30 new genes from gene-based tests; several sig biological pathways @profsimonfisher.bsky.social @schoolofppls.bsky.social

Issue 8 of RDM Weekly is out! 📫 This week's issue includes: - Navigating Open Research @ucclibrary.bsky.social - Retrospective Clinical Data Harmonisation Reporting @jauntyjjs.bsky.social - Recs on Data Versioning @researchdataall.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Read the summary here - www.engage-dld.com/post/differe... Whole article - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Issue 7 of RDM Weekly is out! 📫 This week's issue includes: - Making Messy Data @nrennie.bsky.social - Data Analysis with AI @gaborbekes.bsky.social - Column Names as Contracts @emilyriederer.bsky.social - Resources for RCTs @j-pal.bsky.social and more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

It's not just about improving skills. It's about building respectful, inclusive environments that meet emotional needs. Full article – link.springer.com/article/10.1... Read the summary - www.engage-dld.com/post/social-...

By entirely funding more awards up front, the NIH is on track to fund just 1 in 25 applications Such a payline “would chase a lot of people out of science” former NCI director Ned Sharpless told us 🧪🔬 www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/n...

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨 Catch up on new #TosteTeam pubs! Jason Chow (@jchow.bsky.social) and I wrote this article for a special issue of Educational Psychologist. We highlight special education as a field that has prioritized the generation of scientific evidence to guide decision-making. 1/3

Why call? Why sign letters? Why protest? What does it do?? It. Adds. Up. And PRESSURE WORKS! Keep it up, Dorks! #StandUpForScience www.politico.com/news/2025/07... 14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funds - POLITICO

‘No evidence’ BSL harms speech or literacy – instead, early sign boosts language, memory and more! Hats off to @liamodell.com for the scoop. Read the full report: liamodell.com/2025/07/19/e...

Submissions for 2026 @aeraedresearch.bsky.social are due July 25! Join your colleagues and friends in Los Angeles in April 2026. To learn more and submit, visit: www.aera.net/Events-Meeti...

Wow. This is an amazing project with a huge amount of work behind it. Even if you aren't into drosophila, it's worth a look

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Issue 3 of RDM Weekly is out now! - Upcoming Data Stewardship Webinar @casdarnetwork.bsky.social - Sharing Qualitative Data @cnsyoung.com - The {excluder} package @jeffreyrstevens.com - Basic Data Entry in Excel @statsepi.bsky.social - And more! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Science is under attack and so much damage has been done. Building community and engaging with the public is a critical step. Sharing a video by Meghan Puglia, Asst. Professor of Neurology at the U of Virginia. Please share widely. meghanpuglia.com/savingscience

Issue #2 of RDM (Research Data Management) Weekly is out now! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

It seems that only the science community is noticing that NIH and NSF budgets are cut 40% and 55% in the budget bill, respectively. If you live in Maine, West Va, Pennsylvania, Alabama, or Louisiana, CALL YOUR SENATOR as they could make a difference. See below. prospect.org/politics/202...

Children are incredible language learning machines. But how do they do it? Our latest paper, just published in TICS, synthesizes decades of evidence to propose four components that must be built into any theory of how children learn language. 1/ www.cell.com/trends/cogni... @mpi-nl.bsky.social

Must-read piece from @carlbergstrom.com & @jbakcoleman.bsky.social. A highly lucid & articulate call to keep humans at the heart of scientific activity. Particularly love this quote from historian David McCullough: “Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That’s why it’s so hard.” 👇🧪

It's happening! Welcome to Issue 1 of RDM Weekly, a weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources! To kick off this newsletter, I will be doing a drawing for 1 free @rfortherestofus.com course for anyone who subscribes by Friday! rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Our new work featured in several news outlets today 🧪: #Reading skills — and struggles — manifest earlier than previously thought New finding underscores need to intervene before kids start school, say researchers: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... #EduSky #brain #neuroimaging

I sincerely hope that biobanks start considering language and communication as important phenotypes for GWAS. I outline the way forward in the TiGs Forum piece below. Special thanks to Kári Stefánsson, who introduced me to genetics 10 years ago 🫶

The findings at the recent trial and today's Columbia chaos is pushing me to the edge. I just sent the following email...

On Monday, I put out a call to colleagues to serve as guests for a research seminar I'm offering for ERASE Racism's youth interns. Within a few hours, all guest slots were spoken for! I'm now looking for supplemental materials to support student learning. I'd appreciate your recs - plz repost!

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? There are two children in your child's classroom with a Developmental Language Disorder ... but probably no one, not even the teacher, knows who they are. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Thank you to Quantfish for sharing my Data Sharing chapter as a resource in their newsletter this week! datamgmtinedresearch.com/share

Very excited to publicly share news about a new tool, Papercheck, that @debruine.bsky.social and me started to develop more than a year ago! In an introductory blog post, we explain our philosophy to automatically check scientific papers for best practices. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/intr...