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Alexus Ramirez, Ph.D.

@alexusgramirez.bsky.social
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UMD Postdoctoral Fellow studying children's early language environments | BA from UC Merced and PhD from University of Delaware | Chicana 🇲🇽 | she/her

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Rachel Romeo @rachelromeo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I am hiring a new lab manager for the @umdleadlab.bsky.social to start this summer! Job ad and link to apply here. Please re-post and share with your seniors, and/or anyone else who would be a good fit! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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​​UMD LEAD Lab Manager Ad
The Language, Experience, and Development (LEAD) lab at the University of Maryland, College Park, directed by Dr. Rachel Romeo (she/her/hers), is seeking a lab manager. Expected start date is early su...
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UMD Language Science Center @umd-lsc.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Thank you to @alexusgramirez.bsky.social for an insightful Language Science Lunch Talk on how language practices, beliefs, and context shape children’s pathways to school readiness 📚🗣️
Alexus Ramirez presents while standing at a computer, in front of a whiteboard with a projectionAlexus Ramirez presents while standing at a computer, in front of a whiteboard with a projection
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UMD Language Science Center @umd-lsc.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Join us on October 30th for our latest LSLT: Language Practices, Beliefs, and Contexts: Pathways to School Readiness with Alexus Ramirez.
The Language Science Center presents… Language Science Lunch Talks: Alexus Ramirez. Language practices, beliefs, and contexts: pathways to school readiness. October 30, 2025. Lunch served at 12:15 PM. Language Science Center. 2130 HJ Patterson Hall. Graphic features a headshot of Alexus Ramirez.
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Rachel Romeo @rachelromeo.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The @umdleadlab.bsky.social and the world lost a bright star this week. Victoria was such a kind, dedicated, and passionate person. She was one of my first students, helping me set up my lab from scratch, and I am honored to have worked with her. There aren't words for how much we will miss her. ❤️
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Dr. Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo 🇧🇴🏳️‍🌈 @joscelinrocha.com · 15/09/2025
A few of my mentees are getting ready to apply for the #GRFP in Clinical Psychology. Does anyone have sample applications they’d be willing to share? #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky
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Monica Ellwood-Lowe @mellwoodlowe.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share: phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo
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Research Coordinator, Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States
The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....
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Rachel Romeo @rachelromeo.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
We are looking to hire a new post-bac MRI tech! Great opportunity pre grad school! umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...
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MRI Tech/Faculty Specialist
Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC) is the home for neuroimaging research at the University of Maryland, www.mnc.umd.edu. The center brings...
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Ellie Taylor-Robinette @elliektaylor.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
So unbelievably proud of @alexusgramirez.bsky.social and my mentee Paola for her first ever poster presentation at UMD's SRI/REACH poster session today! Yay Paola!! 🥳🎉
Photo of Paola (right) in front of her poster "Immigrant Roots, Cognitive Fruits: Does the bilingual advantage in theory of mind relate to immigration generation?" Photo of Paola presenting her poster "Immigrant Roots, Cognitive Fruits: Does the bilingual advantage in theory of mind relate to immigration generation?" to a session attendee
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Alexus Ramirez, Ph.D. @alexusgramirez.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I love seeing the same people from HaBilNet ❤️
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Ellen Roche @ellroche.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Thanks @joscelinrocha.com for inspiring/guiding us on #fnirshyper methods! 🧠 🔦 @umdleadlab.bsky.social
Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo presents her work on dyadic social dynamicsJoscelin Rocha-Hidalgo presents her work on dyadic social dynamics
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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
No-cost extensions of NIH grants are no longer automatically approved drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/n...
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No-cost extensions of NIH grants are no longer automatically approved
The no-cost extension (NCE) allows the recipient of a NIH grant to continue to spend on the project after the original award interval has expired. This NIH website explains the way NCE used to work…
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Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Alexus Ramirez, Ph.D. @alexusgramirez.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
So excited to present at SRCD! Please let me if you will be there -- I'd love to connect!
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LEAD Lab @umdleadlab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
We'd like to give a huge congratulations to Alex Haralanova, our Senior Undergraduate Research Assistant! Alex has been at the LEAD Lab since its beginning, so it was amazing to all watch her defend her honors thesis today. We are all so proud of you Alex and we can't wait to see what you do next!🥳🧠
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UMD Language Science Center @umd-lsc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
LSC member @rachelromeo.bsky.social received the Graduate Mentor of the Year Award, awarded by the UMD Graduate School! Congratulations Rachel 🥳
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
Google search results says: National Institute of Justice (•gov)
https://nij.ojp.gov › topics › articles › undocumented-im..
immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens.
No information is available for this page.
Learn why
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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
As I would usually say on Twitter when GRFP results are announced: You're not a failure if you didn't get it! *MANY* (if not most) incredible researchers did not get the GRFP!! If you received one, you totally deserve it and CONGRATS!!!! If you didn't, welcome to the club of many rejections 😎
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LEAD Lab @umdleadlab.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Senator Cory Booker on the economic value of the NIH and what we stand to lose with the Trump administration destroying scientific research
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Ellen Roche @ellroche.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
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Rachel Romeo @rachelromeo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
And before it is wiped from existence, here is our grant that received a *perfect score* last year. I really do hope we get to continue this awesome work. www.imls.gov/grants/award...
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LG-256658-OLS-24
The University of Maryland, College Park; the Maryland State Library Agency; and multiple community partners dedicated to supporting children and families will adapt and evaluate the original Hatchlin...
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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/02/2025
🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...
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Cancellation megathread
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Dr. Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo 🇧🇴🏳️‍🌈 @joscelinrocha.com · 14/02/2025
Being a Latina, immigrant, & 🏳️‍🌈 in science/academia is exhausting. And w/ shifting politics, the weight of it all feels heavier. I’m tired of proving my worth & fighting for a seat @ the table. To every immigrant, Latiné, & 🏳️‍🌈 scholar feeling this exhaustion—you're not alone. We BELONG. Always have.
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Rachel Romeo @rachelromeo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Now do the same for the postdoc ones: K01, K99, and F99. My postdocs grant is still “unassigned”.
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Rachel Romeo @rachelromeo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Very excited to share a new preprint from the LEAD lab on Inclusive Practices for fNIRS Research with Participants with Afro-Textured Hair, an amazing mixed methods study by Abria Simmons, @gavkhar-a.bsky.social & @elliektaylor.bsky.social! Check it out and share! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
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Child Learning & Development Lab at USC @childlab.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Please share with undergrads! The CHILD Lab is one lab in USC's JumpStart program! JumpStart provides a pathway to PhD programs for undergrads & works with USC to invite students from outside colleges to apply for summer research opportunities in various subjects. Apps due Feb 28 (lnkd.in/gW4fZtwG)
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Ellie Taylor-Robinette @elliektaylor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Curious about what the LEAD Lab got up to in 2024? Check out our year in review: education.umd.edu/leadlab/news... Congrats to @rachelromeo.bsky.social @alexusgramirez.bsky.social @alexamcd.bsky.social @gavkhar-a.bsky.social @ellroche.bsky.social & the rest of our team for a fab year!
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News & Updates | UMD College of Education
The LEAD Lab's 2024 Wrapped2024 was another incredibly exciting year full of more research, community work, and achievement for the LEAD Lab!
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Ellen Roche @ellroche.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
👀 new paper alert! Over the last few years I have read & thought - a lot - too much!? - about whether/how neural synchrony (measured by #fNIRS) ⚙️mechanistically⚙️ supports child development. So E. Redcay and @rachelromeo.bsky.social and I wrote about what we know - and what we don’t. 🧠🔦 ⚡️ 🧠🔦 🧵 1/7
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Alexus Ramirez, Ph.D. @alexusgramirez.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
This manuscript is dedicated to my co-author, colleague, and friend, Raymond Patt. You are deeply missed. ❤️
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Alexus Ramirez, Ph.D. @alexusgramirez.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
New Publication 🎉 We examine the predictive validity of the QUILS:TOD--a quick, tablet-based language screener designed to assess children’s language as early as 24-months. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A new screener predicts Toddlers’ language development from age 2–3: The QUILS:TOD
Language interventions may yield greater benefits for younger children than their older counterparts, making it critical to evaluate children’s langua…
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UMD Language Science Center @umd-lsc.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
go.bsky.app/75ZZntU Who else should we add? 😎
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Rachel Romeo @rachelromeo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I'm baaaack! And just in time to promote the first empirical first-author paper from @alexamcd.bsky.social! Can parent-child relationships buffer SES & chaos risk factors to promote children's cognition and socioemotional skills? Find out! Article is free rn: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Parenting relationships as a moderator of how socioeconomic status and household chaos relate to children’s cognitive and socioemotional skills
Low socioeconomic status (SES) and high household chaos are adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) that increase the risk of worse executive functioning…
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Dr. Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo 🇧🇴🏳️‍🌈 @joscelinrocha.com · 15/11/2024
Are you a #devpsych scientist/trainee looking for a space to connect, collaborate, & share resources? 🧠✨ Join our Slack community focused on building connections & sharing resources to support each other in this dynamic field! ➡️ join.slack.com/t/traineesin... #psych #psychSciSky #academicSky
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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Developmental Psychology Starter Pack go.bsky.app/9kHQS7i
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