Jennie Pyers
@jenniepyers.bsky.social
Developmental scientist and psycholinguist studying language and cognitive development and language emergence; sign language, bilingualism, iconicity, gesture; Queer parent of neurodiverse kids; Proud Coda
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Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
September 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
For the first time in nearly 20 years of teaching, I showed up to teach a class with the WRONG lecture prepared. The topic of said lecture, "Stress and Sleep", was probably NOT a coincidence #TeachingNightmare #AtLeastIWasntNaked
April 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
For the first time in nearly 20 years of teaching, I showed up to teach a class with the WRONG lecture prepared. The topic of said lecture, "Stress and Sleep", was probably NOT a coincidence #TeachingNightmare #AtLeastIWasntNaked
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developmental psychologist Richard Aslin wrote an excellent piece about the proposed cut to NIH F&A Costs (indirects)
Are we paying too much for biomedical research?
Trump's attack on NIH
dickaslin.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
developmental psychologist Richard Aslin wrote an excellent piece about the proposed cut to NIH F&A Costs (indirects)
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Please share Dick Aslin's excellent blog on indirect costs:
dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...
dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...
Are we paying too much for biomedical research?
Trump's attack on NIH
dickaslin.substack.com
February 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Please share Dick Aslin's excellent blog on indirect costs:
dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...
dickaslin.substack.com/p/are-we-pay...
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I have supported many deaf graduate students and currently support a deaf post doc using this mechanism. What’s happening at NIH is terrible for science and closes doors for deaf students who face so many more challenges than their hearing peers
The NIH diversity supplement pages have all been pulled down. What is a diversity supplement and why should the public care? A diversity supplement is funding to help diversify the research workforce. You may be wondering, “so what?”. Let me explain. www.nigms.nih.gov/Pages/PageNo...
National Institute of General Medical Sciences
NIGMS supports basic research to understand biological processes and lay the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
www.nigms.nih.gov
January 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I have supported many deaf graduate students and currently support a deaf post doc using this mechanism. What’s happening at NIH is terrible for science and closes doors for deaf students who face so many more challenges than their hearing peers
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Kansas has a record breaking Tuberculosis outbreak. You haven’t heard? Maybe bc CDC , NIH and other Health Departments are being muzzled by Executive Order
@ABC @NBC @CNN @cbsnewsconfirmed.bsky.social Where are you?
@ABC @NBC @CNN @cbsnewsconfirmed.bsky.social Where are you?
January 27, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Kansas has a record breaking Tuberculosis outbreak. You haven’t heard? Maybe bc CDC , NIH and other Health Departments are being muzzled by Executive Order
@ABC @NBC @CNN @cbsnewsconfirmed.bsky.social Where are you?
@ABC @NBC @CNN @cbsnewsconfirmed.bsky.social Where are you?
Five days away from teaching my first class of the semester. Cue the nightmares about the first day of class 😱 #HigherEd
homer simpson is laying in bed under a blue blanket .
ALT: homer simpson is laying in bed under a blue blanket .
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January 19, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Five days away from teaching my first class of the semester. Cue the nightmares about the first day of class 😱 #HigherEd
My instinct is to ignore summer research inquiries written with AI; I assume AI-use reflects an unwillingness to do hard work. Trying to check this bias, as some of these emails are likely written by students from under-resourced backgrounds who are insecure about their writing skills.
December 31, 2024 at 3:28 PM
My instinct is to ignore summer research inquiries written with AI; I assume AI-use reflects an unwillingness to do hard work. Trying to check this bias, as some of these emails are likely written by students from under-resourced backgrounds who are insecure about their writing skills.
Woke up to a notification that one of my papers was cited by a recently published paper. While I'm always grateful for citation of my work--the paper the researchers cited really had very little do to with their point. It was nothing egregious, so do I let the authors know 🤔 #PsychSciSky #devpsych
December 6, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Woke up to a notification that one of my papers was cited by a recently published paper. While I'm always grateful for citation of my work--the paper the researchers cited really had very little do to with their point. It was nothing egregious, so do I let the authors know 🤔 #PsychSciSky #devpsych
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Sara posted on IG stories today that DE ACLU only wants to hear from DE residents.
if you are from DE PLEASE sign and indicate that! Please help our community prevent more language deprivation of deaf children.
If you are from our deaf or disabled community please help us get the word out.
if you are from DE PLEASE sign and indicate that! Please help our community prevent more language deprivation of deaf children.
If you are from our deaf or disabled community please help us get the word out.
December 30, 2023 at 3:06 PM
Sara posted on IG stories today that DE ACLU only wants to hear from DE residents.
if you are from DE PLEASE sign and indicate that! Please help our community prevent more language deprivation of deaf children.
If you are from our deaf or disabled community please help us get the word out.
if you are from DE PLEASE sign and indicate that! Please help our community prevent more language deprivation of deaf children.
If you are from our deaf or disabled community please help us get the word out.
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I thought I'd share the Boston University Wheelock Deaf Center position statement on the ACLU of Delaware complaint that too many deaf kids are getting the opportunity to go to bilingual schools where they can learn ASL and English 🧵
December 28, 2023 at 3:38 PM
I thought I'd share the Boston University Wheelock Deaf Center position statement on the ACLU of Delaware complaint that too many deaf kids are getting the opportunity to go to bilingual schools where they can learn ASL and English 🧵
it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know
this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
December 14, 2023 at 11:02 AM
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Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees
December 13, 2023 at 1:06 PM
Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees
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I don’t think enough people on here know that if you see a post on herein another language and want it translated you can just click the little […] button above the post and then click “translate” and voilà, you can even try it on the post above this
December 8, 2023 at 12:06 AM
I don’t think enough people on here know that if you see a post on herein another language and want it translated you can just click the little […] button above the post and then click “translate” and voilà, you can even try it on the post above this
A student in my language acquisition just Rickrolled the class during her final presentation....I may just have to give her an "A" for this level of brilliance 😂
December 7, 2023 at 10:46 PM
A student in my language acquisition just Rickrolled the class during her final presentation....I may just have to give her an "A" for this level of brilliance 😂
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Such a great essay by @novicsara.bsky.social: "What if an “inclusive classroom” *did* include a mix of deaf and hearing kids, but all the kids learned to sign? What if nondisabled society viewed disabled people as having something to teach them, too?"
November 21, 2023 at 11:58 PM
Such a great essay by @novicsara.bsky.social: "What if an “inclusive classroom” *did* include a mix of deaf and hearing kids, but all the kids learned to sign? What if nondisabled society viewed disabled people as having something to teach them, too?"
My ND kid was rejected yet again from a study because "additional diagnoses" is an exclusion criteria, although there is no evidence that her ND would affect results in this area of development. A friendly reminder: unnecessary inclusion criteria misrepresents “normal”. #DevPsych
November 20, 2023 at 4:56 PM
My ND kid was rejected yet again from a study because "additional diagnoses" is an exclusion criteria, although there is no evidence that her ND would affect results in this area of development. A friendly reminder: unnecessary inclusion criteria misrepresents “normal”. #DevPsych
My 10yo tearfully shared a traumatic memory of participating in a social cognition study as a preschooler. I remember her tears at the time, but was unsure of the cause. She told me the cause...something that I saw then as innocuous, had a lasting effect for her. Thinking of my own studies #DevPsych
November 17, 2023 at 1:43 AM
My 10yo tearfully shared a traumatic memory of participating in a social cognition study as a preschooler. I remember her tears at the time, but was unsure of the cause. She told me the cause...something that I saw then as innocuous, had a lasting effect for her. Thinking of my own studies #DevPsych
I'm loving hard on the fact that the undergraduates in my language acquisition seminar posted this meme about this week's readings 🤩
November 16, 2023 at 10:28 PM
I'm loving hard on the fact that the undergraduates in my language acquisition seminar posted this meme about this week's readings 🤩
Deadline Tomorrow! Apply for Wellesley College's joint position in Cognitive and Linguistic Science and in Psychology. #CogSci
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October 15, 2023 at 11:48 PM
Deadline Tomorrow! Apply for Wellesley College's joint position in Cognitive and Linguistic Science and in Psychology. #CogSci
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Ran into this Wellesley College alum while visiting Gallaudet University 😍 #WomenInSTEM #DeafInSTEM
October 5, 2023 at 11:50 PM
Ran into this Wellesley College alum while visiting Gallaudet University 😍 #WomenInSTEM #DeafInSTEM
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American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Fellowship
Dissertation Fellowship: $25,000
Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship: $50,000
Short-Term Research Publication Grant: $8,000
Deadline: Nov 15
#neurogrants
#neuroscience 🧪
www.aauw.org/resources/pr...
Dissertation Fellowship: $25,000
Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship: $50,000
Short-Term Research Publication Grant: $8,000
Deadline: Nov 15
#neurogrants
#neuroscience 🧪
www.aauw.org/resources/pr...
American Fellowships
AAUW American Fellowships support women scholars who are completing dissertations, planning research leave from accredited institutions, or preparing research for publication.
www.aauw.org
September 26, 2023 at 1:07 AM
American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Fellowship
Dissertation Fellowship: $25,000
Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship: $50,000
Short-Term Research Publication Grant: $8,000
Deadline: Nov 15
#neurogrants
#neuroscience 🧪
www.aauw.org/resources/pr...
Dissertation Fellowship: $25,000
Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship: $50,000
Short-Term Research Publication Grant: $8,000
Deadline: Nov 15
#neurogrants
#neuroscience 🧪
www.aauw.org/resources/pr...