I read the headline below and jumped in the car! Flu shot ✅, COVID shot ✅!!! 😷🦠💉 Kennedy’s Vaccine Panel Votes to Limit Access to Covid Shots www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/h...

Weeks after Harvard University won a lawsuit to free up federal research dollars the Trump administration had canceled, the Education Department is making it harder for Harvard to get federal student aid money.

Brain Development Signals Reading Challenges Long Before Kindergarten www.the74million.org/zero2eight/b...

Just attended Kid 1’s Highschool back to school night. If I hear “learning styles “ or “growth mindset “ one more time, I need to seriously consider homeschooling!! Why do these myths don’t die???

Why Teachers Say Yes (or No) to Research Participation—and What Researchers Can Learn From It From SRI International studentbehaviorblog.org/why-teachers...

www.boston25news.com/news/local/h... While we are unable to identify individual kids with brain imaging, this suggests that the trajectories of kids with #reading disabilities may diverge as early as 18 months, indicating that, in the future, we may be able to identify (& intervene!) much earlier.

Yes!!! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/b...

A photo you took that brings you innner peace

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Shefali Rai, Signe Bray, et al: How much is “enough”? Considerations for functional connectivity reliability in pediatric naturalistic fMRI doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

music lessons don't make kids smarter, but many people have assumed that music lessons would have near-transfer effects, e.g. improving aspects of auditory perception big new study led by Andrew Oxenham says "nope". music lessons make kids better at music & that's good enough reason to do 'em !

Very interesting commentary in response to our recent PNAS paper by Ethan Roy (Stanford). Thank you! www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Basel, Switzerland 🇨🇭

Massachusetts’ sinking reading scores should be a five-alarm fire on Beacon Hill www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/o...

How do math, #reading skills overlap? Researchers were closing in on answers. Grant terminated at critical point of ambitious study following students for five years. Please read about our work affected by the grant terminations. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Have you been using ABCD data? Are you measuring psychopathology with the CBCL? You will want to check out our latest preprint, led by @kanepav.bsky.social, which shows that the constructs measured by the tool fail to meet many basic validity tests. Peep the thread!

Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? We are now calling for formal applications from both Australian and non-Australian citizens based in the US whose work is internationally recognised as exceptional. 📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025 🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...

Beautiful Cape Cod, MA!

Graduate students who have an offer to study in the US but are reconsidering or have been denied entry or current grad students who want to leave, then consider coming to Western University in Canada. Our University just launched a US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Program : grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

"Our results suggest that word reading and spelling are one and the same, almost, but that spoken vocabulary knowledge is more closely related to reading than to spelling." Open article from the great Rebecca Treiman and colleagues. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Boston launches new business training, certification for disability inclusion www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/04/b...

Forty years after Svante Pääbo kicked off this extraordinary field of science, today sees report of the first whole-genome sequence of an ancient Egyptian (from 2855–2570BCE). Exciting work from @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social, @flinklinus.bsky.social, & co at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, @crick.ac.uk.🧬🧪

The GaabLab is celebrating its 18(!) birthday! Over the years, we've experienced our share of ups & downs, but we’ve always kept our focus on people & the science (in that order!). Here’s to the next chapter! 🚀

This is absurd. @nytimes.com needs to find a better way to convey to readers what it knows to be true: These "findings" are not actual "findings" in any sense that most people would understand the word. The casual reader comes away with zero sense of the deep rot of bad faith at play here.

Alert! ... for the child development world! @fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪ The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive. Check here: docs.hbcdstudy.org and here: nbdc-datahub.org Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

Breaking news: The NIH yesterday moved to reinstate about 900 grants that a judge last week ruled had been canceled illegally because their topics, ranging from vaccine hesitancy or promoting diversity in the scientific workforce, had been blacklisted by the Trump administration. scim.ag/4lq9UrQ

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

Ahhh, I’m very sad to miss this event in Newton, MA on 7/9! I’m using this book in one of my classes and it has been very informative and helpful as an introduction to disability studies and advocacy!

Ohh, I found my terminated #NIH grant in the New York Times! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Today’s highlight for the two boys in my life. 😎

I found a whale in the forest.

No words.

A week from tomorrow, on Sat June 28. Would love to see you there. planetwordmuseum.org/events/eyes-...

Very excited to attend the @harvard.edu Accessibility Summit today at @harvardeducation.bsky.social! Look who gave the opening remarks even though he probably has a million other things to do, like saving Higher Education! Thank you, President Garber!

An NIH staffer reacts to today's ruling: "I'm looking forward to the day that we are so slammed with work trying to reinstate everything that we had to terminate illegally — I'll work 24/7 to make that happen if I can."

MORE YOUNG: "It is palpably clear that these directives and the set of terminated grants here also are designed to frustrate, to stop, research that may bear on the health – we’re talking about health here, the health of Americans, of our LGBTQ community. That’s appalling."

YOUNG: "I am hesitant to draw this conclusion, but I have an unflinching obligation to draw it – that this represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America’s LGBTQ community. That’s what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out."

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

Coming up at 10:30am in Harvard v. DHS, the latest skirmish in Harvard's conflict with the federal government: a preliminary injunction hearing over refusing to issue student visas to international Harvard students (this is the 2nd TRO in this case; the TRO was granted on June 5.)

Your genome is not a blueprint. A thread about misleading metaphors in science communication. 🧬🧪 1/n

Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

Unanimous Supreme Court makes it easier to sue schools in disability cases www.npr.org/2025/06/12/n...

I love this “mental health poll” at @harvardeducation.bsky.social !

Extensive Propublica story about grant terminations Sharing specifics and putting faces on the research… Definitely worth a read projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

New paper examining longitudinal #brain data over 7y & relation to #reading; implications for early intervention/policy @fitngin.bsky.social Longitudinal trajectories of brain development from infancy to school age and their relationship with literacy development | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

So, after 11 months (!!!), this paper is coming out today in @PNAS! What a ride…More later today…