Rachel R. Romeo
@RachelRRomeo
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Asst Prof @UMDCollegeofEd & @umdnacs | Experience-dependent brain development & implications for learning | Language nerd | she/her 🏳️🌈 #FGLI
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Perhaps I’m biased, but I think I brought the cutest HBCD participant 🥰🧠
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I just had such an affirming experience. On my 8hr intl flight back from a conference, I sat next to a father/son. In broken English, the father began to apologize/warn me that his ~10 yr-old son had severe nonverbal autism, and that this would like be a difficult journey. 1/
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As I face the upcoming job cycle and the nearly endless imposter syndrome of academia, this was precisely the reminder I needed about why I love studying language/communication development. It was a good day to be an
#SLP
! 8/8
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This was the human desire for communication, pure and simple. To connect with another person and share a thought. Communication is a basic human right, and I was overjoyed to help someone find it. What a privilege and a gift. 7/
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By the end of the flight, he had made several requests, initiated several times, & his behaviors had reduced quite a bit. The father was astounded – clearly no one had ever tried an AAC approach with him. I gave him the paper & showed him how to use it, and he nearly cried. 6/
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And by god, it clicked. I made symbols for the things he was grabbing, for his favorite stuffed penguin, and for his dad. He took to it very quickly. I introduced way more symbols that I normally would, but hey, how often do we get an 8-hour session?! 5/
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I told him not to worry, I was a speech-language pathologist with lots of experience with minimally verbal kiddos. Challenging behaviors began even before take off: screaming, hitting me, and grabbing for my things. The father repeatedly apologized, but did little else. 2/
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I tried to see if he was stimulable for a communication board. I started by pulling up some standard images for basic nouns on my computer but I could tell that screens really bothered him. So I summoned my god-awful drawing skills and tried to create a (very!) low-tech board. 4/
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I asked him how his son preferred to communicate. He didn’t seem to understand. Perhaps this was a language barrier, but I think instead the child had very little experience with communication therapy. I put away the talk I was working on & asked if I could try. He nodded. 3/
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Apparently I'm the 1st faculty member in my dept in 10+ yrs to request Federal Work Study to pay UG researchers. Application took 30 mins, approved in 2 weeks. All prior UGs worked for course credit or volunteer. If you want equity in the pipeline, PAY THE UNDERGRADS WHO NEED IT!
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Today's my *official* first day as an Assistant Professor at
@UofMaryland
!! I am equal parts excited and terrified. Here we go!
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My grad student just spontaneously came by my office and gave me a plate full of treats saying “I was at this event with free food, and I know you like free food, so I got you this.”
My work here is done, folks.
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THREAD. Ok, this must be said. To everyone who is down on Joe Biden for sounding, slow, old, confused last night -- let's put things in perspective. Biden has been managing his fluency disorder (also called stuttering) his whole life.
#WeSpeechies
#SLPeeps
#StutteringAwareness
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Student's 1st paper rejected because Reviewer 2 didn't like that results weren't consistent with pre-registered hypotheses b/c it demonstrates "weakness of the theory & hypothesis." They prefer us to HARK! R1 said to accept *as is*. I think this might be my first try at appeal...
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Ah yes, this is the time of year when I remind junior scholars that I also didn't get a NSF GRFP, and in fact got very negative feedback on my promise as a future scientist. Hang in there -- take the feedback that is helpful, and leave the rest. You are so much more than this.❤️
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I am so honored and excited to be named a
@PsychScience
Rising Star!! 🌟🌟 Massive congratulations to all the others who received this honor as well. And humongous thanks to my mentors Katie McLaughlin and
@CharlesaNelson1
for nominating me!
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I had a minor surgery this morning (all good!), & my husband told me that as I was coming off anesthesia, I tried to write the following grant: “Please give me money. I will do good science. It will help people. Well, some people. Science costs many $$. I spend wisely. Good day.”
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Stuttering is exacerbated by stress, and Trump knows this. He was trying to fluster Biden, to make him stutter so that he sounds "dumb." Despite the circumstances, Biden did a REMARKABLE job managing the stress and using the exact strategies we as SLPs often teach.
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Today I cleaned out *all three* of my email inboxes. This is perhaps my greatest accomplishment in many months.
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It's official! I'm thrilled to receive a
@NICHD_NIH
K99/R00 award to study early language experience & neurocognitive development! I'll complete the K99 w/ the BEST mentors Kate McLaughlin
@PsychHarvard
& Meredith Rowe
@hgse
and then transition to my own lab
@UMDCollegeofEd
1/
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Also, this is not a dig on my colleagues. It's a dig on the system that makes equitable access opaque and a nightmare.
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I'm not crying, you're crying.
Ok yeah I'm crying.
***Technically still visiting faculty until the spring, but they didn't want to change the door twice😂
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🚨ASST PROF CLUSTER HIRE!🚨
Our dept at
@UofMaryland
is hiring TWO tenure track assistant professors this year! One open topic in anything human development and one focused on early childhood education. Due Sept 15. Please come be my colleague & please RT!
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Did you know you can purchase 5 minutes of a real goat's time to zoom bomb your next lab meeting? 10/10 would recommend.
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Oh, and for those who may not know: FWS is a form of financial aid that students with need can be awarded, but they have to then find a paid job on/off campus to earn that $$. Because the govt pays it, it means it's no cost to faculty unless they work more than they are awarded
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I made myself a rule that I can't do the day's Wordle until I do my 30-60 minutes of morning writing, and let me tell you, this has been the most consistent writing I've ever done, and so far remarkable 2-week writing streak. I guess
@NCFDD
was right!! 😁
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🚨New paper alert! 🚨
A study a DECADE in the making, we find that the neural and cognitive markers of reading disorders systematically differ across the SES spectrum. w/
@Joanna22c
@gabrieli_john
@NeuroTyler
@HalieOlson
&
@KellyHalverson_
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omg omg I'm SO EXCITED to reveal my new lab's logo and core concept image (visual depiction of our research themes), beautifully designed by
@BeyondBCreative
! 1/n
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I am so honored to receive a 2023 SRCD
@SRCDtweets
Early Career Research Contributions Award! I learned from the truly outstanding mentors, and now I stand on the shoulders of the most incredible team of trainees and colleagues. Congrats to the other awardees, & see you in SLC!
SRCD is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 SRCD Biennial Awards! Join us in congratulating the following distinguished awardees at the SRCD Member Meeting and Awards Ceremony at
#SRCD23
! Read about the awardees:
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After 9 years, we said goodbye to Boston today. We came here for school—a PhD & 2 postdocs for me, & a bachelors & 2 masters for Jess 🤓—but we got so much more. We got married here, added 2 furballs to our family, as well as so many incredible friends. Now to the next adventure!
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Happy
#NationalComingOutDay
!! I was a late bloomer & came out at 21. Good timing too, because I almost missed meeting my favorite human of the last 11 years. I hope to be a role model and safe haven for young queer folx like me ☺️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤
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NOA received & I now have my first grant as PI of my own lab! I know it's mostly guaranteed, but holy moly this was a *saga*. I am so excited for this research!
Also for anyone navigating the R00 conversion process & wishing there was more guidance, I'm happy to share materials.
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A few months ago I ran two marathons. This week I finally had a conversation without gasping for breath. This virus is no joke y'all -- the "young and healthy" are not immune. Take care of yourselves!
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@JSchleiderPhD
Please enjoy the y-axis on my very first publication in grad school. I didn't know how the change the font on my axes, so I just re-created them by hand, clearly not remembering how negative numbers work. It is still published.
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Wait nvmd I'm not done. This would not have been possible without my lab manager QUEEN
@EllieTaylor9_
who did all the leg work, got the word out like wildfire, got us 78 UG applications, & designed a ridic screening/interview process to ensure max equity. I the the jackpot y'all!
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Personally, I was only able to work in a research lab as an UG b/c my mentor did this. There is no way I could have volunteered my time while also working side jobs to make ends meet. So thanks to
@d_swingley
for making my entry into research possible.
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I had so much fun celebrating this award with my lab members past, present, and adopted! Thanks for being the best team a PI could ask for ❤️ And thank you
@SRCDtweets
for the honor!
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I'm so proud of the work Abria Simmons is doing in our lab to make fNIRS more inclusive! Best practices guidebook coming soon!
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Grades are submitted, and this girl just finished her first semester as an asst prof! 🤯😵💫🥳
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Working with a student on a paper where literally *every* single hypothesis went in the opposite direction, and I'm reminded of this gem.
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Disproving initial hypotheses is literally how some of the greatest discoveries in science happen. It is honest, transparent, and moves the field forward. "Results need to be replicated" -- well yeah, duh. The same would be true if results supported our hypothesis!
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Thank you so much
@FluxSociety
! I’m so honored! And thank you to all the notes of congrats— sorry I’ve been a bit distracted this last week welcoming my daughter into the world. 🥰 Please say hi to Cameron, the
@LEADlabUMD
’s newest mascot!
Congratulations to Rachel Romeo, PhD, CCC-SLP on being the 2024 recipient of the Flux Young Investigator Award
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Y'all, ECRs really need you to accept review requests. I submitted a paper in April and still no reviewers have accepted. Meanwhile, I have completed 3 reviews. I understand that the system is broken, but please don't punish ECRs with your protest.
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@DrMattDavis
It was such a heart warming experience! One of the better seat-mates I've had on planes 😂
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If you think Biden sounds old, weak, slow, confused -- believe me, he knows EXACTLY what he's doing, and he's doing it beautifully given the ridiculously difficult and bullying circumstances. I for one am incredibly proud to see speech disorder recovery on a national stage!
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🚨 MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS to my PhD student
@AlexaMcdorman
for receiving a
@NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship!!! This reflects so much determination on Alexa's part, and I could not be more proud of them! They transferred into my lab this year and y'all, I won the JACKPOT! 🥳🙌🎉
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So in other words, it's essentially free or low cost to faculty/labs -- it only requires your time to apply (and maybe wade through some bureaucratic nonsense).
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When I accepted my dream job at UMD, my partner got me a “JOB!” cake. Today they accepted their dream job—mental health with LGBT youth—which called for “JOB!” cannoli! So excited for our next chapter 😁
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I'm so honored to win this award!! Mentoring junior scholars is hands down my **favorite** part of this job. I'm so lucky to have such an amazing team in the
@LEADlabUMD
which makes this such a joy and so much fun! ❤️💛❤️💛
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A friend and colleague asked me to help her feel better about receiving her first desk reject. I told her I’ve already gotten 4 in 2022 and my most cited paper got 3 before it went out for review.
#NormalizeRejection
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OMG we must do this.
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🚨New paper out today in Developmental Science, the 1st of my K99! w/
@flourn0
, Kate McLaughlin, & Lili Lengua. Part of a special issue on the dev of EF,we look at how SES relates to the co-development of language & EF from ages 3-5 yrs in n=305 kids. 🧵
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6 months later, I have convinced my IRB I am not shooting lasers into kids' heads (well, not harmful ones 🙃), and my lab's first IRB is approved! And our 3-year longitudinal study commences! 🎉
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And while telling your bullying interlocutor to shut up is not a canonical strategy, I'm considering adding it to my bag of tricks 😁
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I just submitted a paper I have been working on for 3 years, for a project I started working on a literal decade ago (2012!!). Lots of blood, sweat, and tears in this one. Had to convince a lot of people it was a project worth doing. But man it feels good to press submit!
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I’m so excited to participate in this workshop on science translation! So important, even for basic researchers
#beyondthelab
#FluxNYC2019
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I just had a paper accepted with minor revisions (typos, whoops) on the first submission and I literally didn’t know that this was a thing that could happen. Thank you anonymous reviewers- you just made a crazy difficult week so much better.
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All 3 faculty webpages complete (lab page in progress), and I'm excited to announce that I'm accepting grad student(s) for Fall 2022! I can take students in Human Development, Hearing & Speech Sci, or Neurosci and Cog Sci programs. Prospectives email romeo
@umd
.edu, and please RT!
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Today I found out I lost a friend to suicide. 4 years ago she gave me this and I’ve kept it on my dresser and see it every morning. She was so deeply loved. Take care of each other, friends.
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Delightful news today! I'm thrilled to receive
@ASHAWeb
's Early Career Contributions in Research Award! I'm so proud to contribute to & advocate for research on communication development. Congrats to all my fellow awardees, and see you in Boston this fall!
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Ms. Frizzle has a grant deadline but fortunately she has plenty of candy to keep her going.
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This was never meant to be a thread, but there you go. Pay your workers please!
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This week marks the end of my first official year as a tenure track assistant professor. It's been a complete and total whirlwind! It's really easy to focus on all the things I didn't get done, so I'm writing this thread to remind me of all I *did* accomplish.
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STOP telling trainees that the only way to be a successful academic is a TT position at an R1!! It’s so hopelessly myopic and is one of the roots of the many issues with our profession! (Diversity, mental health, etc) AARRRGGHHH!
Ok, rant over. But frustration still present.
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Giving a colloquium in a few mins and was asked to tell students about my path in science, including struggles. We tend to only talk about the wins, but it is so important to normalize the struggles too. This career requires resilience and self-compassion on an enormous scale.
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I’m the spirit of celebrating the process over the outcome, today I submitted my R00 application, aka the first grant of my new lab! This calls for winter ice cream!!
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please, please, please -- If you have previous reviewed a manuscript, please review the revision!
I'm just an ECR, on month 2 of waiting for an original reviewer to accept an invitation to review a minor revision...
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Today my research development office politely told me that I have had the word "dyslexia" misspelled on my CV for the last 3 years.
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Tip for PhD applicants--please don't skimp on the future looking part of your statement & emails to faculty! It's great to hear about your skills and experiences, but I want to know about what you (broadly) want to investigate in the future & how that fits with our lab. 1/
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Best lesson learned: Life never gets LESS busy. Do anything to help your future self. Currently thanking last year me for not only taking meticulous notes on what did/didn't go well in my spr. course, but actually editing slides/projects/exams for this year. Thanks last year me!!
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I'm the luckiest mama-to-be! My lab threw me the absolutely cutest surprise baby showerThank you to
@EllieTaylor9_
@GAbdurokhmonova
@ellroche
@AlexaMcdorman
@alexusgramirez
and the whole
@LEADlabUMD
team! This little one is certainly surrounded by love ❤️
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I have discovered that if I sing a little song of encouragement to my computer while it's running a model, the model is more likely to converge.
This is science, friends.
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There is a special place in hell for grad programs that both ask me to upload a letter and separately to write short answer texts to candidate strengths, potential, etc etc. IT'S IN THE LETTER.
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Thank you
@ASHAWeb
for the Early Career Award! Such a beautiful ceremony, too! I’m so honored to be a part of this meaningful and impactful organization.
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When visiting my house for the first time, my 4-yr-old niece sees the pride flag we have mounted by the door, and says "Auntie Rachel, how did you know my favorite color is RAINBOW?!?!?!"
Me too, little one. Me too.😊🏳️🌈
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Proud to be included in this great group of early career
#WomenInSTEM
and awardees for the
#FluxNYC2019
Science of Learning symposium!
@sdecross
#girlsrule
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I’m SO SICK of senior academics exploiting the time, energy, and expertise of junior scholars. And people wonder why trainees are leaving in droves. Sometimes I so ashamed of this profession.
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One of my trainees just told me that the most valuable things I have done as a mentor are 1) saying "I appreciate you" and 2) talking openly about my failures.
... I'm not crying (ok yes I'm crying). I also have MANY more failures to tell her about.
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Hey
@SRCDtweets
, thanks for the ECR travel award & congrats to FOUR of my trainees for receiving student travel awards! However requiring them to book a SRCD hotel (which are more expensive than others) as a condition of the award, which was NEVER stated as eligibility, is cruel.
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No, book editor, I do not want to replace "they" with "he/she". I wrote they for a reason.
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My first book chapter came out today! On the neuroscience of poverty as it relates to reading development (published first in Spanish, and next year in English) -- DM me if you want a copy of the English manuscript!
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It is SO hard to start over. Fresh off my 4th marathon, Covid benched me for a year & it’s a tough climb back. Today was my first double digit race! Lungs still on🔥 but kept moving forward. Perfect parallel to all the ways I’m starting over- job, city. Gotta keep moving forward!
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Don’t sleep in at
#FluxNYC2019
today — I’m excited to share about pediatric neuroplasticity following family language intervention at the
@Foundation_JF
Science of Learning symposium!
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Look what just came! NGL I’m pretty proud of this chapter. I wanted something short and sweet that I could assign to my Ed Neuro course (with my spin on individual differences of course) and I think it came out pretty good!
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And so it begins.
New person I meet at school: "Welcome! What degree program are you starting?"
Me: "um, I'm faculty."
I guess I have fewer wrinkles/gray hairs than I thought...
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Do you ever get article reviews back and have hardly any recollection of what you wrote?
"We thank the reviewers for their helpful comments... and for reminding me whatever I seem to have been doing several months ago."
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My life is a series of sticky notes with half-formed thoughts that I no longer remember what they refer to, but I keep them anyway, because whatever they mean, I'm sure I have not done it yet.
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UMD Ranked Nation’s No. 1 College for LGBTQ Students
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤
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This was such a fun paper, & started as an assignment for my dev cog neuro class! There' are now dozens of studies of parent-child neural synchrony, but what do these mean for developmental science more broadly? Led by
@AngelicaAlonsoF
&
@AlexaMcdorman
!
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In the words of my dept chair "Rachel needs a friend." 🙃 While not an official part of the job description, it is preferred if you will be my friend.
🚨ASST PROF CLUSTER HIRE!🚨
Our dept at
@UofMaryland
is hiring TWO tenure track assistant professors this year! One open topic in anything human development and one focused on early childhood education. Due Sept 15. Please come be my colleague & please RT!
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There are few things I love more than science outreach, esp w/ kids! I was thrilled to contribute to this cool, kid-hosted podcast! I wish podcasts had been a thing when I was growing up and wanted to be a scientist!
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It constantly amazes me that even at
@ASHA_Events
#asha22
people still say “oh I don’t need the mic, I’m loud”. NO. People who use assistive technologies need you to use the mic. And they shouldn’t have to ask you to do so. It takes you 2 extra seconds. COME ON.
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When your work blows up as a grad student, it's hard to correct missteps. There was so much press that I didn't know what to do. But, I'm responsible for the narratives that arise from my work & I'm responsible for correcting them. As always, I'm open to feedback on how to better
@Heino1Olli
@gabrieli_john
Hi! Thanks for the interest in our work! However, I feel the need to correct an inaccurate and potentially harmful narrative in your phrasing, and how our study relates to it, if you’ll allow me. This will take a few tweets.
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Non-scientist spouse: Whatcha doing?
Me, staring at RStudio: Plotting stuff.
Spouse: Like, plotting to take over the world?
Me: 🤦♀️
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Had the most amazing happy hour of badass pre-tenure women at
@FluxSociety
#Flux2023
! need to make this a tradition!
@mayalrosen
@laurel_joy_gd
@arodman123
@gard_arianna
@TiffanyCheingHo
@JMSchneiderPhD
@JnotJuliette
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Today is the day that a new Trader Joe's opens 3 blocks from my house, and I should probably just go ahead and donate all my pants to Goodwill.
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Attention CogNeuro PIs! Looking for a *stellar* grad student? My amazing RA
@hannahgrotz
just killed it at
#FluxNYC2019
with her analysis of cerebral vs cerebellar language lateralization in development and multilingualism. Any lab will be so lucky to nab her! (plz stay Hannah!)
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GROUNDBREAKING new findings! Unrestricted cash support for low-income families changes infants' functional brain development. Congrats
@STRscience
and
@KimberlyGNoble
!!
NEW FINDING: Cash support for low-income families changes their infants' brain activity. The first study from our
#BabysFirstYears
randomized control trial of poverty reduction is out, in
@PNASnews
.
( 🧵)
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Many of these strategies, to the naive person, may make him sound slow or confused. For example: 1) Speak slowly, and especially ease into the first word -- to the naive person this can make you sound slow, but in fact it's strategic.
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