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Viridiana L. Benitez @viribeni.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

New paper alert! Now published at PIBBS @sagepub.com Christine Potter and I discuss how parents, educators, and policy can harness bilingual shared reading to build children’s emergent biliteracy skills. doi.org/10.1177/2372...

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Viridiana L. Benitez @viribeni.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This week I was promoted to Associate professor with tenure! I have many feelings and many things to say but I’ll only say two here: I am grateful for my mentors, colleagues, students, friends, and family who have supported me along the way. Only 2.4% of Associate professors are Latina women.

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Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Want to make peer review more inclusive & equitable? @mattgoldrick.bsky.social and @mariamaly.bsky.social are hosting a free webinar on how to write better, fairer reviews! 📅 June 15th | 12–1:30pm EST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/59ez5azt #PeerReview #AcademicTwitter

A promotional flyer from Reviewer Zero for a webinar titled "So You Want to Participate in Peer Review: How to Write Inclusive and Equitable Reviews." The event is scheduled for June 15th, 12–1:30pm EST. The flyer features a yellow speech bubble with the event title in bold blue text, an illustration of two hands typing on a keyboard, and a QR code and link to register at https://tinyurl.com/59ez5azt. The background is cream-colored with a blue spiral notebook graphic at the top.

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Jenny Saffran @jennysaffran.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Fun new collab coming out in TICS (w/ Haley Weaver & Sudha Arunachalam) digging into the assumptions underlying the use of eye-gaze methods to study vocabulary development. Working on this paper really got us thinking - we hope it does the same for our readers! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Looking forward: eye-gaze methods in vocabulary development research

Human multimodal processing abilities have provided researchers with an invaluable set of methods for interrogating language understanding. Even young…

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Viridiana L. Benitez @viribeni.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This conversation was SO much fun! Thank you for the opportunity to talk about my journey and work! @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social

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Viridiana L. Benitez @viribeni.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Our newest paper, led by Marissa Castellana, describes how the monolingual bias has limited our ability to accurately understand the multilingual experience and presents a developmental systems framework that centers children's lived experiences with their languages. www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/16...

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Viridiana L. Benitez @viribeni.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Headed to Montreal tomorrow for #CDS2026. Our ECC group at ASU will be presenting on multilingualism, curiosity, children's evaluations of teachers, the toys in infants' homes, parent-child play, and word learning. Stop by to learn about our work! @cogdevsoc.bsky.social

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