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Wow.

2026 @lalyp.bsky.social meetings are starting up again this week! Join us on Wednesday 18th Feb (4-5pm) to hear from the amazing @andreasalins.bsky.social who will be discussing relationships between reading skill, reading engagement, and reading anxiety. See you there!

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

🎉400 Yr 6 children reached in our MRFF-funded study exploring high-school transition 🎉. Know an Aussie child in Yr 6, help us with our the last recruitment push! Express interest at tinyurl.com/2xwjsebc. Parents get a report on their child's language/reading skills, kids get a gift-card. #DevLangDis

Huge congrats to postdocs extraordinaries @sylvanna-m.bsky.social and Adie Wilmot on winning the Curtin School of Population Health "Outstanding Professional Research Staff Award". And to Hannah Pizzey for winning the "Outstanding Research Assistant Award". Go team #LALYP!

I think this is confirmation Trump does not know what memorial actually means 🤣.

WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE!?

Where is Congress? Where are they?

I want to film this for my kids & my grandkids. I want them to see the day democracy died in Washington, D.C.

Even George is upset 🦮
& we should all be shocked!
No one is here to say this is wrong!

I was born here.
I'm Andrew Howard.
1/5🧵

The sculpture is fine. The eyes are fine. The eyes on the sculpture are fine. The peeling off of someone's eyes is not fine. I am on everyone's side here. Yes, Australian (thanks Dorothy), yes, anthropomorphiser).

Thrilled to present alongsideProf @annecastles.bsky.social to a packed room, sharing emerging findings from my PhD on spelling & morphology in Australian Year 7 students. This work connects to future Laureate Centre projects on adolescent literacy—big things ahead! @researchedaus.bsky.social

We are excited to share with you our new web page dedicated to the Laureate Research Program, the people involved, and the projects we are working on.

We will be adding to this as the research of the program progresses.

You can see it here: tinyurl.com/53ce3zvd

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Enterprise PhD Scholarship: National Industry PhD scholarship for a PhD student to work in Psychology, AI and Education Technology - Flinders University

If you are interested in doing a unique PhD that combines Psychology, AI and Education Technology, please follow the links below:

Flinders information:
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Nathan LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

“Why Would Someone like Me with DLD Want to Sit in a Room and Talk? How Would that Make Me Feel Better?!” Developmental Language Disorder and the Language Demands of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy - Inte... This article addresses two crucial questions: what are the language demands of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and how can CBT be more accessible to people with language difficulties? These quest...

🗣️ Hot off the press, OA paper out now!
Why might someone with #DLD struggle to engage in talk #therapy?💬
We explore the language demands of #CBT and why they matter to ALL practitioners! 🔗Access here: doi.org/10.1007/s418...
#MentalHealth #SLP #devlangdis #psychology

As per usual, you find the sweet spot that gets people thinking. That's the point.

Discussion meeting vs conference: in praise of slower science Pompeii mosaic Plato conversing with his students As time goes by, I am increasingly unable to enjoy big conferences. I'm not sure ho...

Thanks to all participants in FAIRS meeting. There will be outputs in due course 😀
In planning we incorporated ideas from these two old blogposts:
deevybee.blogspot.com/2013/06/disc...
deevybee.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-...
These predated online issues - hybrid is great if you have the facilities

A Longitudinal Study of Reading and Mental Health Development in Children With Reported Ear and Hearing Difficulties Purpose: Reported ear and hearing difficulties (rEHD) are known to be associated with reading difficulties as well as mental health problems. In ...

🆓 🔓 In @ashajournals.bsky.social Salins, A., @genxmac.bsky.social, Jones, A., & Robidoux, S. (2025). A Longitudinal Study of Reading and Mental Health Development in Children With Reported Ear and Hearing Difficulties. JSLHR, 68(4), 2060–2079. doi.org/10.1044/2024...
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

Good to see you are back safe in Canada and keeping Canada safe, Daniel :-)

I think the fifth response option is missing:

Melania Trump

Open letter to the President of the Royal Society – time to stand up for your values If you wish to show your support for the letter below regarding apparent inaction by the Royal Society in the face of breaches of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS, please sign below. I invite anyo...

There are now over 3000 signatories to my letter asking the Royal Society to explain why it has taken no action and said nothing about evident contraventions of its code of conduct by Elon Musk FRS.
forms.gle/dBGaHk7SYUNA...

Why I have resigned from the Royal Society The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...

For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

They finally nailed easter.

@markhamill.bsky.social Ah, I knew you would be on here somewhere ;-)

İşçiler Çin'de bir dağ yolu inşa ediyor

I’m not sure, Ruben. We are late to the party, which means we can happily binge, but I have no idea what classifies as new or old :-)

Amen to that. Though we have found a nice little series on Netflix that is great to watch just before bed (25-min eps) because rather gentle - Midnight Diner. It is Japanese.

After a break with more TV-watching than usual, have a new idea. Need versions of films with option for those of a weak disposition of fast-forwarding over the gory bits.
Thinking particularly of Boat Story, which I enjoyed except for all the places where I had to hide my eyes.

I do hope the letterbox positioned under a victorian street lamp, shrouded by a pea-souper.