Come work with me!! USU is hiring 3 faculty members focused on Technology Enhanced Health and Wellness. It's a college-wide initiative, so applicants can apply to any department within the College of Education and Human Services. More info can be found here: careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/9700/as...

A bit late in posting this, because...the world right now.
But this seems like as good a time as ever to share our new article highlighting why DEI efforts in the area of social communication and autism are a really good thing. Like- you know- maybe something worth keeping around 🤷‍♀️ 🤯 🤦‍♀️ rdcu.be/edAY9

We #standupforscience2025.

I can't think of a more supportive group to postdoc with. Happy to answer any questions about my experience being mentored by Stephanie and Tyson(@healthandstats.bsky.social) and working with @kaitylansford.bsky.social and @sarahyl.bsky.social.

Our new paper led by @sarah-foster.bsky.social compares rapport between autistic groups, non-autistic groups, and mixed groups of autistic and non-autistic adults during a building activity. We found that the all-autistic groups… journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I'm excited to share my first registered report on social interactions in @journalautism.bsky.social! Our study explores how social motor synchrony – the natural mirroring of movements – impacts rapport between autistic, neurotypical, and mixed dyads. Thread 👇

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Passing on from colleagues at USU for anyone interested in a postdoc that transitions into a faculty position: careers-usu.icims.com/jobs/8708/jo...

We are recruiting! If you know any autistic teenagers in the Houston area who may be interested or if you have connections to groups or people who would be willing to spread the word, please let us know!

Are you an associate or full professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) in the U.S.? We invite you to participate in a 1-hour virtual focus group to discuss #OpenScience practices in CSD. If interested, please fill out the screening form here: tinyurl.com/OS-screening

Our new paper out today led by my graduate student Sarah Foster shows that facial expressivity differences in autism are related to less favorable first impressions formed by non-autistic people, particularly in a job interview context.
www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

ICYMI, here's my Starter Park re: autism research - please share, and let me know if there's anyone else I need to add!
go.bsky.app/B9XV8UA #AutRes

I've started working on a (very incomplete!) starter pack for social interaction researchers! If you're working in this space, please asked to be added (or suggest others)! Meant to be inclusive of many disciplines, methods, interaction types, and types of interacting agents: go.bsky.app/44VAEhU

New pre-print (tx @chrismmcox.bsky.social ): The social context of turn-taking osf.io/preprints/ps... Comments welcome!
TL;DR: Response latency in conversation depends on a multidimensional interplay of individual differences, turn-by turn information flow & contextual affordances. Thread to come!

New preprint! ▶️ osf.io/pt942

How successfully do observers guess the diagnostic status of people having conversations? Well… it depends on observer neurotype, if conversations are same- or cross-neurotype, and if you’re judging from photos vs videos. 🧵

1/ Excited to share our new study in the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR) on predictors of speech intelligibility and articulatory precision in #Parkinsons Disease (PD). Here's what we found. 🧵

Journal DOI: doi.org/10.1044/2024...
Free Version (Post-Print) DOI: osf.io/9wpsr

I've finally got the chance to use #Autoscore in #rstats (by @healthandstats.bsky.social) to calculate speech intelligibility and it's so easy I could cry. 😍

As always, great work by this team! 🤩 I really loved the consideration of the interplay between local and global contextual factors.

"Repeat after me? Both autistic & neurotypical children commonly align their language with that of their caregivers" in which we critically assess alignment and echolalia, out now in Cognitive Science:  dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs... w @ethanweed.bsky.social, @rockberta.bsky.social &al. A thread: 1/n

@slpaustin.bsky.social tells me that Bluesky is the place to be these days. Hoping you all can prove him right.