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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD

@ecedemirlira.bsky.social
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Developmental Scientist • Assoc. Prof of Psychological and Brain Sciences / Pediatrics at UIowa • Studying environmental experiences and neurocognitive development • Lab website: demir-lira.lab.uiowa.edu

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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Always a pleasure to see one of your academic heroes sharing your work :)
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Always a pleasure to see one of your academic heroes sharing your work :)
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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New review paper from our PhD students Begüm Yılmaz and İbrahim Akkan in collaboration with Ece Demir-Lira and our lab director Tilbe Göksun! @begumyilmaz.bsky.social @ibrahimakkan.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Preterm children’s early language development: Language-specific and domain-general child-related precursors
In the dynamic and complex process of language development, some populations, like preterm-born children, are at risk of developing language delays. T…
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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This week, we were delighted to host Assoc. Prof. Ece Demir-Lira @ecedemirlira.bsky.social from the University of Iowa. She presented her research titled "New Perspectives on Home Math Environment and Neurocognitive Pathways of Numerical Development." Thank you for this inspiring talk! 🌿
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
@psychiowa.bsky.social has two tenure-track positions open: one in Clinical Science, one open-area in Neuroscience. Iowa City is a great place to do science (and to live)! Come join us! psychology.uiowa.edu/about/job-op...
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Job Openings
Learn more about the job opportunities available at University of Iowa in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.
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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
official ad to follow soon but heads up: 1-2 postdocs slots in my lab, hopefully w/fall start! reposts welcome, details to follow. babies! word learning! cognitive & linguistic skills! #CogSciSky #DevPsychSky 🐦🐦 (lab info: bergelsonlab.fas.harvard.edu/prospectives) also recruiting grads this fall!
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
It was and frustrating 😞
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I hope so, and we might need to change conference guidelines going forward...
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Yes! This was an academic conference and it was a grad student :/
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Am I too old? I just attended a conference session where a speaker zoomed into the session, turned off their camera and turned on an AI bot to give the talk, and the slides were clearly AI-generated with minimal data. 😬 Is this our new normal?
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Meriah DeJoseph @meriahdejoseph.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I’ll be recruiting my first PhD student to start in Fall 2027 and would love for folks to send interested students my way!
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
And a second paper by @begumyilmaz.bsky.social! We examined the effect of manipulating parental gesture use on parents’ math talk and child math performance.
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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
New study led by our PhD student Begüm Yılmaz! @begumyilmaz.bsky.social @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social Müge Caferoğlu @tilbegoksun.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social "Parental gestural math input and children's math skills: An intervention study" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Parental gestural math input and children's math skills: An intervention study
The present intervention study examines how parents' use of gestures changes the way they provide math talk to their children, and whether increased u…
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I can't make it to #CDS2025 unfortunately, but my very talented first-year PhD student Noah Scott is presenting Saturday at Poster Session 3 (1:15–2:30pm), P3-98 "Real-time language processing and the brain: Structural contributions of the dorsal language pathway". Please go say hi!
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
New paper led by the very talented @begumyilmaz.bsky.social from our Koc+Iowa collaboration. We find specific links between spatial and math tasks that are robust across children born term and born preterm.
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
🧠 The DEN Lab (@UIowa) is hiring a Lab Coordinator! A wonderful opportunity for recent grads preparing for grad school. Come do meaningful developmental cog neuro research with us in Iowa City, a vibrant college town with rich intellectual and cultural life! jobs.uiowa.edu/research/vie...
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Research Requisition Details - Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I am going to shamelessly plug my husband's work on students' mathematical reasoning in advanced science. To my peers interested in child math development, consider this as a window into the tail end of children's academic journey 😊 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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It’s Not “Just” an Equation: How Students Dynamically Coordinate Mechanistic and Mathematical Schemas with Complex Equations
Complex scientific equations often appear opaque to students—not just because of symbolic formatting, but also due to how learners activate and coordinate different varieties of mechanistic and mat...
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
I feel very privileged to have trained with Prof. Kağıtçıbaşı during my undergraduate years. She was not only an exceptional scholar but also a remarkable teacher. Learn more about Prof. Kağıtçıbaşı, a pioneer in cross-cultural psychology and SPSP’s Heritage Initiative: spsp.org/membership/a...
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Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı | SPSP
Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı, a pioneer of Turkish social psychology, reshaped cross-cultural theory with her work on family, autonomy, and relatedness across diverse societies.
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Summer, please stay... But also—this RRR dance clip is queued up for my interpersonal synchrony lecture and I’m so ready! 🧩🧠✨ #RRR www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAzl...
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Naacho Naacho (Full Video) RRR - NTR, Ram Charan | M M Kreem | SS Rajamouli | Vishal Mishra & Rahul
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Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Recent paper from our lab led by Işıl: Early parental multimodal input is differentially associated with later vocabulary knowledge for preterm & full-term infants @ecedemirlira.bsky.social @aslierciyes.bsky.social @mkobas.bsky.social @kudilvebilis.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Today, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Ece Demir-Lira @ecedemirlira.bsky.social, director of DEN Lab at the University of Iowa, for a talk titled “An Introduction to Two-Person Neuroscience: Theory and Practice”!🧠
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Wonderful event! Do you think you will be able to record it as well? Thank you!
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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
📣📣 A recent paper by Dilay Karadöller, Ece Demir-Lira, & Tilbe Göksun: Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social
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Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children
One of the earliest sources of mathematical input arises in dyadic parent–child interactions. However, the emphasis has been on parental input only in speech and how input varies across different e...
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I am so excited to be a part of this wonderful paper led by the very talented @mkobas.bsky.social and my fav collaborator @tilbegoksun.bsky.social. I am generally a big fan of beautiful descriptive statistics and Mert did an amazing job in this paper! Enjoy!
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Tilbe Göksun @tilbegoksun.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Our commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek paper: "Promoting a multimodal first language acquisition framework" @ecedemirlira.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/eprint/9PHBG... @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @asliozyurek.bsky.social
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Promoting a multimodal first language acquisition framework: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer, and Özyürek - Tilbe Göksun, Ö. Ece Demir-Lira, 2025
Karadöller et al. propose a multimodal language acquisition framework, integrating evidence from first language acquisition in spoken and sign languages. In thi...
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Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 03/04/2025
Researchers at Annenberg and @umdscience.bsky.social show that proposed NIH funding cuts lead to an estimated $16 billion in economic loss and 68,000 jobs lost nationwide. Learn about their project and view the interactive map here:
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Data-Driven, Interactive Map Shows Local Economic Impact of Cuts to Federal Funding for Health Research
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James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
“The ecosystem of research and the creation of new knowledge in universities has been so powerful for American prosperity, American freedom, American ingenuity. To have that disrupted by government overreach is a disaster for this country.” —Wesleyan University President Michael Roth on @msnbc.com
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Another wonderful collaboration with the best team! Congrats Ibrahim for leading this effort.
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Tallie Z Baram @talliezee.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
JUST dropped! Neuron review with Matt Birnie on the evolving neurobiology of early-life stress. Where is our field? what are our challenges? where and how do we move forward? www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... would love your thoughts🧠🧪 @cp-trendsneuro.bsky.social @cate-cholamine.bsky.social
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Koc University Language & Cognition Lab @kudilvebilis.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
New publication alert from our former post-doc Dilay Karadöller, Ece Demir-Lira & Tilbe Göksun! @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social Read the article 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children
One of the earliest sources of mathematical input arises in dyadic parent–child interactions. However, the emphasis has been on parental input only in speech and how input varies across different e...
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Association for Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
U.S. scientists: Have you contacted Congress this week? #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Science Here’s a guide to help: www.psychologicalscience.org/act-now
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Act Now: Share your Concerns with Your Representative and Senators
It does not matter whether your Representative or Senators agree with you. They must hear from you to understand how federal policy changes are influencing the people they were elected to represent.
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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Multifaceted nature of early vocabulary development: Connecting child characteristics with parental input types. Final version by Tilbe Göksun & al. @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12524 Paper: tinyurl.com/4kut2n9s
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group is looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here: delauro.house.gov/constituent-... delauro.house.gov/constituent-...
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2025 Federal Financial Assistance Freeze
On Monday, January 27th, 2025, President Trump issued an order to freeze virtually all of approved and legally required federal funding.
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Very handy visual aids for contacting representatives or media - Cards for each state on funding for NSF and NIH
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Anna Vlasits @annaintegrated.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Hey #Chicago! It's time to take a stand for #science. We are rallying on March 7 at noon at the Federal Plaza. Start making your signs! Info standupforscience2025.org/chicago-il/ RSVP (optional) www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f... #standupforscience #scienceforall @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Location: Federal Plaza 211 S Clark St, Chicago, IL, United States Address: 211 S Clark St, Chicago, IL 60604 Time: 12-3 PM
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
A wonderful example of science communication 💜https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2025/02/13/indirect-costs-collaboration-nih-cancer-research-thrive-medicine-doge/78474634007/
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I'm a cancer researcher. We need collaboration and 'indirect costs' to thrive. | Opinion
"Without careful consideration of the impact of these changes, we risk long-term damage" to medical research, writes Dr. George Weiner.
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Yes!!! Did you happen to learn if there is we can do to help?
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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com
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Science Homecoming
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Another great approach for scientist opeds, writing for your hometown paper about the importance of science funding. (Ungated copy in the original thread)
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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
I wrote a column in my hometown newspaper about the importance of keeping SCIENCE FUNDING in our community 🧪 More soon about the power of writing back HOME 🏠 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/15/g...
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Guest column: Why science funding matters to Indiana
Last week the government cut “indirect costs” to universities and medical centers, which cover shared resources like buildings, utility bills, computer networks, and support staff. Indiana will los…
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Thank you for sharing your story and I firmly believe this IS the way to cross across party lines amid the division and hostility fueled by the leadership. Thanks again!
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
What can we do to help? So so sorry :(
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David Purpura @davidjpurpura.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
What is your university doing to protect, support, or at least community with faculty right now?
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steven t. piantadosi @spiantado.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Wonderful explainer on indirect costs by Dick Aslin open.substack.com/pub/dickasli...
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Are we paying too much for biomedical research?
Trump's attack on NIH
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Definitely - especially for our students! ❤️
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This indeed effects science globally. Cost-cutting logic does not work. NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 invested.
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
A friend pointed out that this is announced by NIH itself though?
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The NIH capping the indirect cost rate (IDC) for grants at 15% can best be described as a direct assault on Universities. It’s such a bureaucratic, innocuous sounding thing that actually means that research universities will be kneecapped. Thousands of employees across the US will lose their jobs.
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Ece Demir-Lira, PhD @ecedemirlira.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Congrats and thank you for this one piece of good news!
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