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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

New Study for autistic and non-autistic mothers — Please share! We’re recruiting autistic and non-autistic mothers of children ages 6 months to 2 years for a new study on infant directed speech. If you are interested in participating, please check it out: duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New RISE Study currently recruiting baby siblings. Please help us spread the word! - For babies aged 11 - 13 months - ***Must have an older biological sibling with ASD*** - Living in the United States - Primary language spoken in the home is English childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/f785...

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How do babies learn about their world? Baby Siblings - Children Helping Science

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Users of the Low-Verbal Investigatory Survey (LVIS) (brief caregiver report of communicative capacity in autism). Please check out new scoring guidelines and cut point for minimally verbal status. autismlanguagelab-psychology.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/u...

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The Low Verbal Investigatory Survey (LVIS) Version 5.0 is now available! This caregiver report measure is free and provides information about communicative capacity in autism. LVIS 5.0 has simplified scoring and a cut point for MLV status. autismlanguagelab.psychology.uconn.edu/low-verbal-i...

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Low Verbal Investigatory Survey (LVIS) | Connecticut Autism and Language Lab (CALL) | Department of Psychological Sciences | University of Connecticut

UPDATED SCORING! See the link below! Approximately 30% of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are considered minimally verbal, but measuring their ...

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Emoji interpretation question. . . Does the❗️emoji mean: A. I agree B. What!?!? C. Something else Please include your generation/geographic region in your answer.

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MoLA @molautism.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

MoLA 2026 is less than 2 months away! Have you registered?! molautism.org Keynote: Dr. Cathy Lord Early Career Keynote: Dr. Pumpki Su Bridge Day Invited Speakers: endever* corbin and Dr. Alyssa Zisk

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

This is a fundraising post! An anonymous donor is matching contributions to Children Helping Science up to 100K through the end of the year - if it's in your giving budget, please consider supporting open science infrastructure! giving.mit.edu/search/node/... Details below...

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Fund Search Results | Giving to MIT

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Not sure whether to feel accomplished or creeped out.

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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Excited to head to @isdp.org this week! And thrilled that I'll be recruiting graduate students and postdocs this cycle to join PINE Lab! Please come say hi if interested (current lab studies here: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/current-stud...)

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Leslie Brick @lesliebrickphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

🚨 Position Alert! 🚨 I am looking for a full-time Research Scientist 1 to join my lab in Albuquerque, NM at the Center on Alcohol, Substance Use, and Addiction (CASAA). We will be studying how stress and trauma influence cannabis and substance use. 🧠🌿 (1/5)

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Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Interested in understanding how young humans think about social relationships? I am reading PhD applications this year! **Please note**, that Harvard now requires the GRE. More information here: www.ashleyjthomas.com/workwithme

ashleyjthomas.com

WANT TO WORK WITH ME? | Mysite

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Please share! Calling all 11-13-month-olds (U.S.-based)! Help advance research! Join our study. Kids watch fun, short videos about shapes and objects, and caregivers complete surveys. Caregivers will receive compensation. Learn more and enroll now: childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/900e...

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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Stop, drop everything and pick up this new review paper from LABlab member @hannahmech.bsky.social. In it, Hannah argues for considering speech adaptation through the lens of reinforcement learning. Good stuff. link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

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Insights into effortful adaptation during speech perception: The role of dopamine, norepinephrine, and prediction error

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Seriously, Outlook? Yes, I would like to reserve time for focused work. Do you offer babysitting now?!

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

anyone have a copy of the NIH Survey of Pathways to Diagnosis and Services? No longer available on CDC website 🙁 archive.cdc.gov#/details?q=S...

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Archive App | CDC

Archived web material for CDC.gov is preserved on the CDC Archive Site

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Can someone explain the Gen Z use of “I’m not trying to. . .”? I AM trying to understand.

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

2025-2026 Duke Autism Center Speaker Series starts today with "Stratifying the Heterogeneity of Autism: Impact of Co-Occurring Anxiety and ADHD" by Kim Carpenter, PhD. Registration and future speakers: autismcenter.duke.edu/events/autis...

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

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Erin Conwell @erconwell.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

We are HIRING! The Department of Psychology at NDSU is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology (broadly defined) to begin August, 2026. Full details here: tinyurl.com/3sjknmxn Questions can be directed to me. Please share widely!

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MoLA @molautism.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Thank you to our sponsors for MoLA 2026! @simonsfoundation.org, @autismsciencefd.bsky.social, @dukebrain.bsky.social, Marcus Autism Center, and Children's Hospital of Atlanta.

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MoLA @molautism.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

MoLA 2026! Call for abstracts. More information at molautism.org. If you did not receive this in email, please reach out to us (molautism.org/about/contac...).

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Matilde Ellen Simonetti @matildellen.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

📢 Researchers in bilingualism & word learning! I'm doing a meta-analysis on the bilingual advantage & seeking unpublished data comparing bilinguals vs monolinguals. Summary stats or raw data welcome (confidential). Pre-reg 👉 osf.io/6a7yg/ DM me or share if you know someone! 🙏

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The “Bilingual Advantage” in Word Learning: A Meta-Analysis

Hosted on the Open Science Framework

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Very sorry to learn of the passing of LouAnn Gerken, who had such an impact on our understanding of the acquisition of speech sounds and sound patterns obits.mlive.com/us/obituarie...

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LouAnn Gerken Obituary (1959 - 2025) - Tucson, AZ - Arizona Daily Star

View LouAnn A. Gerken's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

RISE study represented at INSAR 2025.

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Belated kudos to another RISE undergrad student, Miranda Harris, for defending her Honors Thesis last week. We will miss her next year!

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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Following public false claims on autism causation and attacks on science, INSAR has released a statement that people are “born with autism” www.autism-insar.org/page/insarst.... Autism as innate and lifelong is the focus my new free paper (long thread incoming): www.frontiersin.org/journals/int...

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Frontiers | Sensory–movement underpinnings of lifelong neurodivergence: getting a grip on autism

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Well done, Ashleigh! And thank you, @simonsfoundation.org for your support of the RISE Study!

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Thank you @gregoryrsl.bsky.social for something in my feed that didn't make me want to cry 😀 (or at least not because I was sad about it 😜🤓

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Beautiful day in NC to be thinking about words in a fantastic keynote by Bob McMurray at the NC Cognition Conference.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Our analysis shows continuous changes in the speed, accuracy, and variability of kids' word recognition. Consistent with "language as a skill" proposals, accuracy and log reaction time increase linearly in the log of age. Trial-wise variability decreases linearly in the log of age as well.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word recognition support language learning across early childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Time course of word recognition for kids at different ages.

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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

New Peekbank preprint! A snapshot of what we've learned so far about developmental change in word recognition using the large-scale repository of infant eyetracking data we've been building (~ 2000 infants; ~3500 individual test sessions)

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Psych-DS is (1) spellcheck for your datasets and (2) a pathway to standardizing data in our academic fields that *everyone* can learn. And it's live RIGHT NOW! psych-ds.github.io (This is the announcement post I've been leading up to)

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Psych-DS

A specification for psychological datasets. JSON metadata, predictable directory structure, and machine-readable specifications for tabular datasets.

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Elena Tenenbaum @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Fabulous time at ASF Day of Learning. Fun perk of giving a talk in NY is having my Dad attend. 🧬🧪🥼🧬

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 29/03/2025

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

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