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Amanda Van Horne

@telllab.bsky.social
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Helping little kids say big sentences. I study kids with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), trained as an SLP, using Implementation Science frameworks, reading deeply about Climate Change and Disaster Research. All posts my own.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
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Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 25/09/2026
President Trump has inadvertently reduced global fossil fuel consumption because of the ongoing war with Iran. People worldwide are using significantly less oil and gas, which means less climate pollution.
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Trump dismantled U.S. climate policy. But his war is cutting emissions.
While the president remains a climate-change denier, the war with Iran has triggered an unforeseen benefit in the fight against global warming.
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
American Academy of Pediatrics, reviewing evidence including 2.4M children, reports COVID vaccination lowers pediatric hospitalization and long COVID risk. Infants under 2 still carry the greatest severe disease burden. publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...
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Recommendations for COVID-19 Vaccines in Infants, Children, and Adolescents, 2026–2027: Technical Report
This technical report accompanies the American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement recommendations for COVID-19 vaccination during the 2026–2027 respiratory virus season. The rationale is presented for recommending vaccination in all infants and children 6 through 23 months of age, children 6 months through 18 years of age who are moderately or severely immunocompromised, and children 2 through 18 years of age in certain additional risk groups, including those at high risk of severe COVID-19, residents of long-term care facilities or other congregate settings, children who have never been vaccinated against COVID-19, and children whose household contacts are at high risk for severe COVID-19. The report synthesizes currently available evidence on SARS-CoV-2 epidemiology, disease burden, COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness, vaccine safety, and vaccine cost-effectiveness in pediatric populations. Additionally, the report provides an overview of available COVID-19 vaccine products, formulations, storage and handling considerations, and coadministration with other immunizations.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026
There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”
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Thinking Reading @thinkreadhq.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We know how to teach all children & adolescents to read & these solutions are far cheaper than the ongoing costs of illiteracy. With thanks to @Kathy_Rastle for sharing her expertise on how to fix this problem:  "Inside the Reading Gap" podcast. Available on Apple & Spotify.
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A 30% cut to international enrollment is lights out at many public R1’s. And: once again, this is not bungling on the part of the administration, or unintended consequences. It is *precisely* the intention.
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Amanda Van Horne @telllab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job... My lab is hiring a postdoc to help wrap up a clinical trial (data wrangling/data sharing/stats and and analytics /publications related to child psycholinguistics). Position begins immediately. #rstats #slpeeps #childlanguage #DLD please reach out if interested!
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University of Delaware - Details - Post Doctoral Researcher, College of Health Sciences
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APHA @apha.org · 18/08/2026
Disability justice in public health means responding to people with disabilities as experts in their own needs instead of relying on health interventions that attempt to make them more "normal."
A dark blue graphic has white text. The title is, "Disability Justice in Action, Public Health for Collective Liberation." Beneath the title is a white line and below that is a quote that says, “It is time to include disabled people in our conversations and practices as agents of their own health and leaders in public health.” Beneath the quote is a photo of its author and their name, Rivers Laraque-Ho, They/Them/Theirs. At the bottom of the graphic are logos for APHA and the Center for Public Health Policy.
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Thanks for the laugh @hadley.nz 😂 tidydesign.substack.com/p/ai-outside...
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
3) they almost always require NOFOs which are basically extinct or at least drastically reduced in the current environment as @elizabethginexi.bsky.social has shown us with her analyses. substack.com/@formernih/n...
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The NIH Forecast Graveyard, Revisited
An Update on NIH's Stalled Funding Pipeline, as the Fiscal Year Runs Out
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Getting rid of clinical trial K awards will reduce the number of clinician scientists, a critical part of our research workforce. This will especially impact the group of folks doing implementation science (where we figure out how to get evidence into practice). www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers
Agency will no longer allow K career awards to fund clinical trials
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Ben Myring @benmyring.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is wonderful - if you need cheering up then this is a real tonic. ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 07/08/2026
$4 BILLION. That’s how much the Trump Administration has now spent paying companies to cancel offshore wind projects that would have lowered your electric bill. Yes, you heard that right: they are PAYING to keep more energy off the grid and your bills higher.
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Trump Administration to Pay RWE to Cancel Wind Leases
It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.
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Julia Strand @juliafstrand.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My department is hiring 2 (TWO!) Tenure Track faculty in Developmental Psych and Biological Psych, to start Fall 2027. Deadlines 9/1 (Developmental) and 10/1 (Biological). More info here: www.carleton.edu/psychology/i.... Reach out with questions! carleton.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Carlet...
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Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology
The Carleton Psychology Department is seeking candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Developmental Psychology (preferably with a focus on social, personality, and/or identity de...
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Connor Ewing @cmewing.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🪧 The University of Toronto (St. George) is hiring in American Politics, with a focus on democracy in the United States. Please spread the word! I'm on the committee and am more than happy to answer questions. Full ad & details here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
“A $4 billion market of clinical decision support tools operates largely beyond public accountability, leaving patients and providers often unable to know whether tools influencing care have been validated, by whom, or for which populations they work as intended.” www.csail.mit.edu/news/ai-tool...
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The AI tools shaping patient care may be operating outside regulatory oversight. MIT researchers say it's time to change that. | MIT CSAIL
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Perry Barber @umpireplb.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/
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Drowning Doesn't Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing, call for help that most people expect. In this article, Mario explains what drowning really looks like and how to recognize it when its happening.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...
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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
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NPR @npr.org · 21/05/2026
Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear. n.pr/4dwU7Fi
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Researchers say the Trump administration is finding new ways to punish science
Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
State supreme court justices play a critical role in defending your rights and freedoms, which is why the election happening in Georgia right now is so important. Make sure you have a plan to vote for Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
“At age 19, after two failed attempts to reach the US via Honduras and Mexico, he succeeded. He received a work permit under the Temporary Protected Status program for refugees, worked as a janitor and at a UPS warehouse. He became a US citizen in 2006..." www.wvgazettemail.com/life/religio...
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Former Salvadoran refugee named new bishop of Wheeling-Charleston Diocese
Pope Leo XIV has accepted the retirement of the Most Rev. Mark E. Brennan, 79, as bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, which serves Catholics across all of West Virginia. Pope Leo has appoint...
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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Koreen Brennan @koreen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
NEW: The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament has travelled to negotiations in Islamabad with the backpacks and pictures of the murdered schoolchildren of Minab. A powerful visual. (📸 MB Ghalibaf)
The speaker looking at four photos of murdered children whose photos are on top of their backpacks on the airplane seats
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/04/2026
Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.
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UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers
A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.
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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 03/04/2026
The political calculations that result in cutting NASA funding the day after the Artemis II launch must be fascinating
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Lisa Kadonaga @tapirtrouble.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
U of Minnesota has named a new School of Nursing scholarship after Alex Pretti.
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 23/03/2026
I hate the framing of “Ms Rachel has found a new cause—“ because no she hasn’t. Advocating for children kidnapped and locked up by ICE is not incompatible with her advocacy of children in Palestine. You just want to make her advocacy sound frivolous and fleeting. She’s being consistent.
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
On top of the slowdown in grantmaking I wrote about last week - this is another deeply worrisome trend for scientists, physicians, patients, families, and basically anyone who wants new treatments and new tools to promote health. 🆘🧪🥼 open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
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I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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bergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Every scientific manuscript is secretly 3 docs in a trenchcoat 1) back&forth w/editors & rev's that max ~6 ppl ever see 2) paper w/all the stuff u think every1 wants to know 3) supplementals w/all the stuff u had to do JIC but know will bore every1 but the real ones tbh most ppl just see abstract 😅
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion. That's $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. Thousands of lives lost. People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
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Amanda Van Horne @telllab.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
A mentee of mine has $$ to spend on training and/or writing retreats before May 2026. They would benefit from clinical trials, stats for early efficacy trials, qualitative analyses, CBPR and/or writing retreats for people from/studying minoritized groups. Thoughts? #WomenInSTEM #AcademicSky
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Carol-Anne Murphy @carol-annemurphy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
@cristina-mckean.bsky.social @pfrizelleslt.bsky.social @suze-freogirl.bsky.social @telllab.bsky.social @karlamcgregor.bsky.social @tricmc.bsky.social @renalyons.bsky.social @drhelenslt.bsky.social @drjoannecleland.bsky.social @yvonnewren.bsky.social please share if you can! Thank you
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
WE LOST A MID SIZED CITY OF SCIENTISTS?!?
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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 04/03/2026
Literally, we are so obnoxious you guys
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The US/Israeli illegal attack on Iran should be understood to be a clear violation of the Olympic Truce (much as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was which led to its suspension by the IOC) and result in bans for 2028 and the stripping of those Games from LA. apnews.com/article/olym...
An ancient pause, a modern plea
In ancient Greece, a truce was respected by warring city-states, allowing athletes and spectators to travel safely to Ancient Olympia for competitions and ceremonies of supreme athletic and spiritual significance.

The Olympics were revived in their modern form in 1896. The truce’s resurgence followed nearly a century later, in 1994, as war raged through the former Yugoslavia.

The proposed timeout starts one week before the Winter Games open on Feb. 6 and runs until one week after the March 15 Paralympics’ close. It is backed by a U.N. General Assembly resolution.
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
See how easy it is?
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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
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Amanda Van Horne @telllab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
This was an amazing project to be a part of - learning happens SO VERY FAST that it really surprised me... and learning is related to prior knowledge in unexpected ways. Check out how prediction error drives learning! How do you think this would play out for DLD kiddos? #DevLangDis #Verbs #Education
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/02/2026
This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
just announced: d+15 midterm (seriously they get that old people vote, right? do they think the AARP just exists for fun?)
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I don’t think people understand what’s this means: MEDICARE AND MEDICAID ARE BLOCKING ALL WHEELCHAIRS, WALKERS, CANES, INSULIN PUMPS, GLUCOSE MONITORS, CPAP MACHINES, NEBULIZERS, BEDS, CRUTCHES, COMODE CHAIRS, BED SORE PRESSURE PADS, CHAIR LIFTS, OXYGEN TANKS, BREATHING EQUIPMENT, to name a few.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
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National Pediatric Disaster Coalition @npdc-prepthekids.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Keep children and family appropriately dressed for severe cold weather.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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