Joanne Arciuli
@jarciuli.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary research: psycholinguistics, health, education, and disability. Working on speech, oral/written language, statistical learning, literacy instruction for children with developmental disabilities, wellbeing. Arts and health.
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Thirsty AI datacentres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight. CBC News investigation.
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Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News
Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.
www.cbc.ca
October 19, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Thirsty AI datacentres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight. CBC News investigation.
www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...
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This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
October 18, 2025 at 9:04 AM
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.
The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
Went to a special screening last night at Flinders University. This film has won a stack of awards and will be distributed widely via ABC and iView from Dec 1st. Shot inside Adelaide Women’s Prison. Extraordinary in so many ways.
Songs Inside - Trailer
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October 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Went to a special screening last night at Flinders University. This film has won a stack of awards and will be distributed widely via ABC and iView from Dec 1st. Shot inside Adelaide Women’s Prison. Extraordinary in so many ways.
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A groundbreaking children's television show is set to introduce a new character who is largely non-speaking and communicates with the help of a special speech tablet. #disabilities #autism #PBSKids #AAC
PBS Kids Show To Feature Character Who Uses Communication Device
A groundbreaking children's television show is set to introduce a new character who is largely non-speaking and communicates with the help of a special speech tablet.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
A groundbreaking children's television show is set to introduce a new character who is largely non-speaking and communicates with the help of a special speech tablet. #disabilities #autism #PBSKids #AAC
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#Parents! #Caregivers! Was your #child born just after #lockdowns in 2021 (July to Oct?)
We need your help with a #study looking at post-pandemic #talking and #thinking skills 😊
Free tablet for taking part.
Also check out our new website: bornincovidyear.co.uk
We need your help with a #study looking at post-pandemic #talking and #thinking skills 😊
Free tablet for taking part.
Also check out our new website: bornincovidyear.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
#Parents! #Caregivers! Was your #child born just after #lockdowns in 2021 (July to Oct?)
We need your help with a #study looking at post-pandemic #talking and #thinking skills 😊
Free tablet for taking part.
Also check out our new website: bornincovidyear.co.uk
We need your help with a #study looking at post-pandemic #talking and #thinking skills 😊
Free tablet for taking part.
Also check out our new website: bornincovidyear.co.uk
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"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
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In this study of 13,592 participants-childhood loneliness was associated with cognitive decline & risk of #dementia in adulthood, even in the absence of adult loneliness.
There is a need for interventions for childhood loneliness to promote cognitive health across the lifespan. #slpeeps #prevention
There is a need for interventions for childhood loneliness to promote cognitive health across the lifespan. #slpeeps #prevention
Childhood Loneliness and Cognitive Decline and Dementia Risk in Adulthood jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
#Alzheimers #dementia #loneliness #mentalhealth #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
#Alzheimers #dementia #loneliness #mentalhealth #neuroscience #NeuroSkyence
Childhood Loneliness and Cognitive Decline and Dementia Risk in Adulthood
This cohort study examines whether childhood loneliness is associated with cognitive decline and dementia risk in midlife and older age and whether adult loneliness mediates or modifies these associat...
jamanetwork.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
In this study of 13,592 participants-childhood loneliness was associated with cognitive decline & risk of #dementia in adulthood, even in the absence of adult loneliness.
There is a need for interventions for childhood loneliness to promote cognitive health across the lifespan. #slpeeps #prevention
There is a need for interventions for childhood loneliness to promote cognitive health across the lifespan. #slpeeps #prevention
Among the challenges that autistic people might face in the workplace is the fact that many contemporary orgs do not seem to value an ethical advantage.
Frontiers | An ethical advantage of autistic employees in the workplace
Previous research indicates that autistic employees are less susceptible to the bystander effect than nonautistic employees. This paper considers whether the...
www.frontiersin.org
September 25, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Among the challenges that autistic people might face in the workplace is the fact that many contemporary orgs do not seem to value an ethical advantage.
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
Did you conduct research during peak COVID pandemic and want to share learnings? We did! Our paper on literacy support for autistic children is now published. And it’s open access. This is research funded by the Australian Research Council and partner org The Luke Priddis Foundation.
ABRACADABRA literacy instruction delivered by speech-language pathologists to children with autism during the COVID-19 pandemic
This feasibility study explored literacy instruction for children with autism in an area of socioeconomic disadvantage during the COVID-19 pandemic.Fifty-nine autistic children (5–12 years) partici...
www.tandfonline.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Did you conduct research during peak COVID pandemic and want to share learnings? We did! Our paper on literacy support for autistic children is now published. And it’s open access. This is research funded by the Australian Research Council and partner org The Luke Priddis Foundation.
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If you’re attending #AMLaP2025 in Prague, please go see Gustavo’s talk on form typically of French nouns and verbs! New work with @jarciuli.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 12:06 AM
If you’re attending #AMLaP2025 in Prague, please go see Gustavo’s talk on form typically of French nouns and verbs! New work with @jarciuli.bsky.social
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Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️
August 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️
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This is just a lovely positive story for your weekend.
Meet the three-year-olds helping anxious teens spend more time in school www.bbc.com/news/article...
Meet the three-year-olds helping anxious teens spend more time in school www.bbc.com/news/article...
Meet the three-year-olds helping anxious teens spend more time in school
As school returns, we look at a scheme that pairs teenagers with toddlers from a local nursery in a bid to help increase school attendance.
www.bbc.com
August 30, 2025 at 7:23 AM
This is just a lovely positive story for your weekend.
Meet the three-year-olds helping anxious teens spend more time in school www.bbc.com/news/article...
Meet the three-year-olds helping anxious teens spend more time in school www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Friend’s 8 yo is in hospital in Malaysia. This is how lunch comes. Different smiley face every time. Why aren’t we doing this?
August 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Friend’s 8 yo is in hospital in Malaysia. This is how lunch comes. Different smiley face every time. Why aren’t we doing this?
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“The study authors asked GPT 4o-mini to evaluate the quality of 217 papers. The tool didn’t mention in any of the reports that the papers being analyzed had been retracted or had validity issues.
In 190 cases, GPT described the papers as world leading, internationally excellent, or close to that”
In 190 cases, GPT described the papers as world leading, internationally excellent, or close to that”
ChatGPT tends to ignore retractions on scientific papers
Study finds the chatbot doesn’t acknowledge concerns with problematic studies
cen.acs.org
August 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
“The study authors asked GPT 4o-mini to evaluate the quality of 217 papers. The tool didn’t mention in any of the reports that the papers being analyzed had been retracted or had validity issues.
In 190 cases, GPT described the papers as world leading, internationally excellent, or close to that”
In 190 cases, GPT described the papers as world leading, internationally excellent, or close to that”
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Preschoolers Selectively Attend to Speech That They Can Learn More From by @ruthefoushee.bsky.social and colleagues
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Preschoolers Selectively Attend to Speech That They Can Learn More From
We introduce a novel method to test a classic idea in developmental science that children's attention to a stimulus is driven by how much they can learn from it. Preschoolers (4–6 years, M=4.6${\it M...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Preschoolers Selectively Attend to Speech That They Can Learn More From by @ruthefoushee.bsky.social and colleagues
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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City St George's is conducting a survey of SLTs working with autistic people to find out whether and how they are adapting to be more neurodiversity affirming. This should take around 10 mins.
Click here to take part: cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#mysltday #slpeeps
Click here to take part: cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#mysltday #slpeeps
August 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
City St George's is conducting a survey of SLTs working with autistic people to find out whether and how they are adapting to be more neurodiversity affirming. This should take around 10 mins.
Click here to take part: cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#mysltday #slpeeps
Click here to take part: cityunilondon.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#mysltday #slpeeps
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Here's a quick blogpost about alternative publishing models. You can bring a horse to water, and indeed wave the bucket temptingly under its nose, but it is likely to gallop off elsewhere. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...
@ec.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social
@ec.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social
New publishing models will only work if authors embrace them
Complaints about the broken academic publishing system have been around for years and are getting louder. A common theme is that with the r...
deevybee.blogspot.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Here's a quick blogpost about alternative publishing models. You can bring a horse to water, and indeed wave the bucket temptingly under its nose, but it is likely to gallop off elsewhere. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...
@ec.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social
@ec.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social
Great to chat about literacy, higher education, research, and *everything* with John Kirby in Kingston, Canada, and surrounds. A beautiful part of the world and a great pleasure for me to visit. You can learn more about Australia from John’s t-shirt 😂
July 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Great to chat about literacy, higher education, research, and *everything* with John Kirby in Kingston, Canada, and surrounds. A beautiful part of the world and a great pleasure for me to visit. You can learn more about Australia from John’s t-shirt 😂
Queen’s University, Kingston. Such a beautiful campus.
July 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Queen’s University, Kingston. Such a beautiful campus.
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Exciting to see details of our new project, 'EXAMINE: Exam inequality for neurodivergent students', live on the @nuffieldfoundation.org website!
Led by @annaremington.bsky.social, @craeioe.bsky.social
www.nuffieldfoundation.org/project/exam...
Led by @annaremington.bsky.social, @craeioe.bsky.social
www.nuffieldfoundation.org/project/exam...
EXAMINE: Exam inequality for neurodivergent students - Nuffield Foundation
This project will investigate whether certain features of GCSE examination papers might explain the lower average attainment of neurodivergent students in England.
www.nuffieldfoundation.org
July 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Exciting to see details of our new project, 'EXAMINE: Exam inequality for neurodivergent students', live on the @nuffieldfoundation.org website!
Led by @annaremington.bsky.social, @craeioe.bsky.social
www.nuffieldfoundation.org/project/exam...
Led by @annaremington.bsky.social, @craeioe.bsky.social
www.nuffieldfoundation.org/project/exam...
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Happy Friday everyone! I just posted what I think is an important blog post on my website. It is a critique of meta-meta-analyses: meta-analyses of meta-analyses.
Link: matthewbjane.github.io/blog-posts/b...
#stats #metascience
Link: matthewbjane.github.io/blog-posts/b...
#stats #metascience
May 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Happy Friday everyone! I just posted what I think is an important blog post on my website. It is a critique of meta-meta-analyses: meta-analyses of meta-analyses.
Link: matthewbjane.github.io/blog-posts/b...
#stats #metascience
Link: matthewbjane.github.io/blog-posts/b...
#stats #metascience
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Calgary breaks ground on dementia-inclusive park for seniors | Calgary Herald
#dementia #citiesforall #inclusion #accessibility
#dementia #citiesforall #inclusion #accessibility
Calgary breaks ground on first-ever park for seniors with dementia in Canada
Calgary Parks Foundation broke ground Thursday in southeast Calgary on plans to build Canada's first-ever dementia inclusive park.
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July 21, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Calgary breaks ground on dementia-inclusive park for seniors | Calgary Herald
#dementia #citiesforall #inclusion #accessibility
#dementia #citiesforall #inclusion #accessibility
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Gah, I just had an AAC device denial for an autistic kid because the physician wrote in their notes that he “can talk but seems like he does not want to.” I thought we were past this! #BskySpeechies #AugComm #ATChat
May 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Gah, I just had an AAC device denial for an autistic kid because the physician wrote in their notes that he “can talk but seems like he does not want to.” I thought we were past this! #BskySpeechies #AugComm #ATChat
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The UCI Phonotactic Calculator: An online tool for computing phonotactic metrics. New work by my colleague Connor Mayer. link.springer.com/article/10.3...
The UCI Phonotactic Calculator: An online tool for computing phonotactic metrics - Behavior Research Methods
This paper presents the UCI Phonotactic Calculator (UCIPC), a new online tool for quantifying the occurrence of segments and segment sequences in a corpus. This tool has several advantages compared to...
link.springer.com
July 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The UCI Phonotactic Calculator: An online tool for computing phonotactic metrics. New work by my colleague Connor Mayer. link.springer.com/article/10.3...