Elena Tenenbaum
@elenatenenbaum.bsky.social
Duke Med Asst Prof, Psychologist, Language & Autism Researcher, R, perinatal mental health. Ask me about: Meeting on Language in Autism (MoLA), Remote Infant Studies of Early Learning (RISE) & the Low-Verbal Investigatory Survey (LVIS). Views are my own.
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Calling all 11-13-month-olds (U.S.-based)!
Help advance research! Join our study. Kids watch fun, short videos about shapes and objects, and caregivers complete surveys. Caregivers will receive compensation.
Learn more and enroll now: childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/900e...
Calling all 11-13-month-olds (U.S.-based)!
Help advance research! Join our study. Kids watch fun, short videos about shapes and objects, and caregivers complete surveys. Caregivers will receive compensation.
Learn more and enroll now: childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/900e...
October 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Please share!
Calling all 11-13-month-olds (U.S.-based)!
Help advance research! Join our study. Kids watch fun, short videos about shapes and objects, and caregivers complete surveys. Caregivers will receive compensation.
Learn more and enroll now: childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/900e...
Calling all 11-13-month-olds (U.S.-based)!
Help advance research! Join our study. Kids watch fun, short videos about shapes and objects, and caregivers complete surveys. Caregivers will receive compensation.
Learn more and enroll now: childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/900e...
Seriously, Outlook? Yes, I would like to reserve time for focused work. Do you offer babysitting now?!
September 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Seriously, Outlook? Yes, I would like to reserve time for focused work. Do you offer babysitting now?!
2025-2026 Duke Autism Center Speaker Series starts today with "Stratifying the Heterogeneity of Autism: Impact of Co-Occurring Anxiety and ADHD" by Kim Carpenter, PhD.
Registration and future speakers: autismcenter.duke.edu/events/autis...
Registration and future speakers: autismcenter.duke.edu/events/autis...
September 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
2025-2026 Duke Autism Center Speaker Series starts today with "Stratifying the Heterogeneity of Autism: Impact of Co-Occurring Anxiety and ADHD" by Kim Carpenter, PhD.
Registration and future speakers: autismcenter.duke.edu/events/autis...
Registration and future speakers: autismcenter.duke.edu/events/autis...
RISE study represented at INSAR 2025.
May 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
RISE study represented at INSAR 2025.
Belated kudos to another RISE undergrad student, Miranda Harris, for defending her Honors Thesis last week. We will miss her next year!
April 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Belated kudos to another RISE undergrad student, Miranda Harris, for defending her Honors Thesis last week. We will miss her next year!
Beautiful day in NC to be thinking about words in a fantastic keynote by Bob McMurray at the NC Cognition Conference.
April 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Beautiful day in NC to be thinking about words in a fantastic keynote by Bob McMurray at the NC Cognition Conference.
Fabulous time at ASF Day of Learning. Fun perk of giving a talk in NY is having my Dad attend. 🧬🧪🥼🧬
April 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Fabulous time at ASF Day of Learning. Fun perk of giving a talk in NY is having my Dad attend. 🧬🧪🥼🧬
Please help save Children Helping Science! This tool has been incredible for enrolling infants and children from across the country and around the world in research. Our RISE Study (sites.duke.edu/risebattery/) would not be possible without this platform (childrenhelpingscience.com)
March 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Please help save Children Helping Science! This tool has been incredible for enrolling infants and children from across the country and around the world in research. Our RISE Study (sites.duke.edu/risebattery/) would not be possible without this platform (childrenhelpingscience.com)
We knew she could talk science, but did ya’ll know she could sing too?! @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social
March 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
We knew she could talk science, but did ya’ll know she could sing too?! @jmgrohneuro.bsky.social
Holding on to small victories. After eight weeks of trying (thwarted by lack of hammer and nails, then hanging wire, then flu, then snow), I finally hung a picture up in my shared clinic office.
February 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Holding on to small victories. After eight weeks of trying (thwarted by lack of hammer and nails, then hanging wire, then flu, then snow), I finally hung a picture up in my shared clinic office.
Thank you ASF for continuing to fund science! autismsciencefoundation.org/apply-for-an...
February 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Thank you ASF for continuing to fund science! autismsciencefoundation.org/apply-for-an...
For students facing interviews. . .wish I could give credit to the person who put it together, but I'm not 100% certain who it was (if it was you, please LMK). In case helpful for others going through this now. . .please remember these views are never universal, just tips to consider!
January 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
For students facing interviews. . .wish I could give credit to the person who put it together, but I'm not 100% certain who it was (if it was you, please LMK). In case helpful for others going through this now. . .please remember these views are never universal, just tips to consider!
Baby’s first MRI study. Thanks, cohenlab.web.unc.edu/research/!
January 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Baby’s first MRI study. Thanks, cohenlab.web.unc.edu/research/!
Can the Brits here please weigh in?
January 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Can the Brits here please weigh in?
11yo made me a to-do list to help me get over my grant procrastination. Emojis and all. Can’t say it’s led to much progress yet, but I am looking forward to tackling more tomorrow (and boy is our playroom clean right now)!
January 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
11yo made me a to-do list to help me get over my grant procrastination. Emojis and all. Can’t say it’s led to much progress yet, but I am looking forward to tackling more tomorrow (and boy is our playroom clean right now)!
Once again, I find myself struck by the fact that people without grant deadlines find the motivation to clean out their closets.
January 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Once again, I find myself struck by the fact that people without grant deadlines find the motivation to clean out their closets.
data vis + southern weather from the local meteorologist ☃️❄️🫠
December 18, 2024 at 6:28 PM
data vis + southern weather from the local meteorologist ☃️❄️🫠
Our attempt to join in on the neighborhood triangle “tree” tradition has confused some people. This is not UNC Blue OR Duke Blue. It’s Jewish Blue.
December 15, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Our attempt to join in on the neighborhood triangle “tree” tradition has confused some people. This is not UNC Blue OR Duke Blue. It’s Jewish Blue.
Took my 11yo kid to work this week and had to teach her how to use one of these.
December 14, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Took my 11yo kid to work this week and had to teach her how to use one of these.
When mom is a psychologist, teacher workdays mean you become the assessment practice kid.
December 11, 2024 at 6:57 PM
When mom is a psychologist, teacher workdays mean you become the assessment practice kid.
Who are you and why are we not friends?!?
December 8, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Who are you and why are we not friends?!?
11. That’s the age when you can stay late for a work event and come home to a delicious dinner prepped BY YOUR KID!
December 5, 2024 at 12:32 AM
11. That’s the age when you can stay late for a work event and come home to a delicious dinner prepped BY YOUR KID!