Alexus Ramirez, Ph.D.
@alexusgramirez.bsky.social
UMD Postdoctoral Fellow studying children's early language environments in the LEAD Lab | BA from UC Merced and PhD from University of Delaware | Chicana 🇲🇽 | she/her
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Thank you to @alexusgramirez.bsky.social for an insightful Language Science Lunch Talk on how language practices, beliefs, and context shape children’s pathways to school readiness 📚🗣️
November 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Thank you to @alexusgramirez.bsky.social for an insightful Language Science Lunch Talk on how language practices, beliefs, and context shape children’s pathways to school readiness 📚🗣️
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Join us on October 30th for our latest LSLT: Language Practices, Beliefs, and Contexts: Pathways to School Readiness with Alexus Ramirez.
October 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Join us on October 30th for our latest LSLT: Language Practices, Beliefs, and Contexts: Pathways to School Readiness with Alexus Ramirez.
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The @umdleadlab.bsky.social and the world lost a bright star this week. Victoria was such a kind, dedicated, and passionate person. She was one of my first students, helping me set up my lab from scratch, and I am honored to have worked with her. There aren't words for how much we will miss her. ❤️
October 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The @umdleadlab.bsky.social and the world lost a bright star this week. Victoria was such a kind, dedicated, and passionate person. She was one of my first students, helping me set up my lab from scratch, and I am honored to have worked with her. There aren't words for how much we will miss her. ❤️
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A few of my mentees are getting ready to apply for the #GRFP in Clinical Psychology. Does anyone have sample applications they’d be willing to share?
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky
September 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
A few of my mentees are getting ready to apply for the #GRFP in Clinical Psychology. Does anyone have sample applications they’d be willing to share?
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky
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I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share:
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Research Coordinator, Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States
The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....
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September 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share:
phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo
phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo
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We are looking to hire a new post-bac MRI tech! Great opportunity pre grad school! umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...
MRI Tech/Faculty Specialist
Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC) is the home for neuroimaging research at the University of Maryland, www.mnc.umd.edu. The center brings...
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July 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
We are looking to hire a new post-bac MRI tech! Great opportunity pre grad school! umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...
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So unbelievably proud of @alexusgramirez.bsky.social and my mentee Paola for her first ever poster presentation at UMD's SRI/REACH poster session today! Yay Paola!! 🥳🎉
July 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
So unbelievably proud of @alexusgramirez.bsky.social and my mentee Paola for her first ever poster presentation at UMD's SRI/REACH poster session today! Yay Paola!! 🥳🎉
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Thanks @joscelinrocha.com for inspiring/guiding us on #fnirshyper methods! 🧠 🔦 @umdleadlab.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Thanks @joscelinrocha.com for inspiring/guiding us on #fnirshyper methods! 🧠 🔦 @umdleadlab.bsky.social
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No-cost extensions of NIH grants are no longer automatically approved drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/n...
No-cost extensions of NIH grants are no longer automatically approved
The no-cost extension (NCE) allows the recipient of a NIH grant to continue to spend on the project after the original award interval has expired. This NIH website explains the way NCE used to work…
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May 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
No-cost extensions of NIH grants are no longer automatically approved drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/n...
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The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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May 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
So excited to present at SRCD! Please let me if you will be there -- I'd love to connect!
📣LEAD Lab presentations the @srcdorg 2025 Biennial Meeting this week!
@alexusgramirez.bsky.social: Symposium on 5/2 at 11:30 - 1:00
@elliektaylor.bsky.social: Poster on 5/2 at 12:50 - 1:50
@alexamcd.bsky.social: Poster on 5/2 at 11:30 - 12:30
@gavkhar-a.bsky.social: Poster on 5/3 at 11:10 - 12:10
@alexusgramirez.bsky.social: Symposium on 5/2 at 11:30 - 1:00
@elliektaylor.bsky.social: Poster on 5/2 at 12:50 - 1:50
@alexamcd.bsky.social: Poster on 5/2 at 11:30 - 12:30
@gavkhar-a.bsky.social: Poster on 5/3 at 11:10 - 12:10
April 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
So excited to present at SRCD! Please let me if you will be there -- I'd love to connect!
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We'd like to give a huge congratulations to Alex Haralanova, our Senior Undergraduate Research Assistant! Alex has been at the LEAD Lab since its beginning, so it was amazing to all watch her defend her honors thesis today. We are all so proud of you Alex and we can't wait to see what you do next!🥳🧠
April 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
We'd like to give a huge congratulations to Alex Haralanova, our Senior Undergraduate Research Assistant! Alex has been at the LEAD Lab since its beginning, so it was amazing to all watch her defend her honors thesis today. We are all so proud of you Alex and we can't wait to see what you do next!🥳🧠
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LSC member @rachelromeo.bsky.social received the Graduate Mentor of the Year Award, awarded by the UMD Graduate School! Congratulations Rachel 🥳
April 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
LSC member @rachelromeo.bsky.social received the Graduate Mentor of the Year Award, awarded by the UMD Graduate School! Congratulations Rachel 🥳
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THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens.
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
April 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens.
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
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As I would usually say on Twitter when GRFP results are announced: You're not a failure if you didn't get it! *MANY* (if not most) incredible researchers did not get the GRFP!! If you received one, you totally deserve it and CONGRATS!!!! If you didn't, welcome to the club of many rejections 😎
🚨 Not a drill: NSF GRFP results are NOW OUT!!!!!
But...good news and bad news.
👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.
👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%
(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)
See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
But...good news and bad news.
👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.
👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%
(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)
See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...
Research.gov :: GRFP
www.research.gov
April 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
As I would usually say on Twitter when GRFP results are announced: You're not a failure if you didn't get it! *MANY* (if not most) incredible researchers did not get the GRFP!! If you received one, you totally deserve it and CONGRATS!!!! If you didn't, welcome to the club of many rejections 😎
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Senator Cory Booker on the economic value of the NIH and what we stand to lose with the Trump administration destroying scientific research
April 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Senator Cory Booker on the economic value of the NIH and what we stand to lose with the Trump administration destroying scientific research
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Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
March 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
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And before it is wiped from existence, here is our grant that received a *perfect score* last year. I really do hope we get to continue this awesome work. www.imls.gov/grants/award...
March 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
And before it is wiped from existence, here is our grant that received a *perfect score* last year. I really do hope we get to continue this awesome work. www.imls.gov/grants/award...
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AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
March 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
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🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025.
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Cancellation megathread
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February 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025.
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Being a Latina, immigrant, & 🏳️🌈 in science/academia is exhausting. And w/ shifting politics, the weight of it all feels heavier.
I’m tired of proving my worth & fighting for a seat @ the table. To every immigrant, Latiné, & 🏳️🌈 scholar feeling this exhaustion—you're not alone. We BELONG. Always have.
I’m tired of proving my worth & fighting for a seat @ the table. To every immigrant, Latiné, & 🏳️🌈 scholar feeling this exhaustion—you're not alone. We BELONG. Always have.
February 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Being a Latina, immigrant, & 🏳️🌈 in science/academia is exhausting. And w/ shifting politics, the weight of it all feels heavier.
I’m tired of proving my worth & fighting for a seat @ the table. To every immigrant, Latiné, & 🏳️🌈 scholar feeling this exhaustion—you're not alone. We BELONG. Always have.
I’m tired of proving my worth & fighting for a seat @ the table. To every immigrant, Latiné, & 🏳️🌈 scholar feeling this exhaustion—you're not alone. We BELONG. Always have.
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Now do the same for the postdoc ones: K01, K99, and F99. My postdocs grant is still “unassigned”.
We @chronicle.com reported on Friday that applications for F31 diversity fellowships had been withdrawn.
Now, multiple scholars tell me their applications have been re-assigned to their original study sections, in a reversal of instructions NIH officials gave reviewers last week. #AcademicSky
Now, multiple scholars tell me their applications have been re-assigned to their original study sections, in a reversal of instructions NIH officials gave reviewers last week. #AcademicSky
‘We’re Being Punished’: NIH Tosses Some Grant Applications From Minority Researchers
The sudden withdrawal affects early-career scholars who applied for a prestigious federal grant with a diversity notation — flagging that they came from underrepresented backgrounds.
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February 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Now do the same for the postdoc ones: K01, K99, and F99. My postdocs grant is still “unassigned”.
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Very excited to share a new preprint from the LEAD lab on Inclusive Practices for fNIRS Research with Participants with Afro-Textured Hair, an amazing mixed methods study by Abria Simmons, @gavkhar-a.bsky.social & @elliektaylor.bsky.social! Check it out and share! osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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January 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Very excited to share a new preprint from the LEAD lab on Inclusive Practices for fNIRS Research with Participants with Afro-Textured Hair, an amazing mixed methods study by Abria Simmons, @gavkhar-a.bsky.social & @elliektaylor.bsky.social! Check it out and share! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
January 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository.
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)
(The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)