Micah Hirsch, Ph.D.
@micahehirsch.bsky.social
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them | Postdoc at BU | Motor Speech Disorders | Speech Science | Metascience | #Rstats | views = my own
And you gotta love the chants!
March 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
And you gotta love the chants!
Science needs DEI!
March 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Science needs DEI!
Sharing a few clips and some of my favorite signs at the Boston #standupforscience2025 rally. A 🧵
March 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Sharing a few clips and some of my favorite signs at the Boston #standupforscience2025 rally. A 🧵
My sign is ready #StandUpForScience2025
March 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
My sign is ready #StandUpForScience2025
We found that listeners rated their perceived listening effort as more effortful when listening to the speaker with dysarthria compared to the neurotypical speaker, even when they accurately perceived the phrase.
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February 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
We found that listeners rated their perceived listening effort as more effortful when listening to the speaker with dysarthria compared to the neurotypical speaker, even when they accurately perceived the phrase.
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6/9
Pupil dilation was greater when the listener did not accurately perceive the phrase for the speaker with dysarthria. When listening to the control speaker, the difference in pupil dilation between accurately and inaccurately perceived phrases was not significant until after the phrase offset
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February 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Pupil dilation was greater when the listener did not accurately perceive the phrase for the speaker with dysarthria. When listening to the control speaker, the difference in pupil dilation between accurately and inaccurately perceived phrases was not significant until after the phrase offset
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5/9
We used generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) to analyze the pupil dilation data. The overall best-fitting model is shown below. One key take-away is that listeners pupil dilation was greater when listening to dysarthric speech, even when they were still able to accurately perceive it.
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February 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
We used generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) to analyze the pupil dilation data. The overall best-fitting model is shown below. One key take-away is that listeners pupil dilation was greater when listening to dysarthric speech, even when they were still able to accurately perceive it.
4/9
4/9
A photo dump of my time at #ASHA2024! This was such a fun conference! I enjoyed getting to catch up with everyone. Can’t wait until the next one!
December 8, 2024 at 6:30 AM
A photo dump of my time at #ASHA2024! This was such a fun conference! I enjoyed getting to catch up with everyone. Can’t wait until the next one!
I’m so excited for my PhD mentor, Dr. Kaity Lansford! Tonight, she was awarded Fellow of the Association from ASHA. I’m incredibly grateful to have a mentor like Kaity. I truly do not think I would have been able to accomplish what I have done without her.
Congrats Kaity! I’m so proud!!
Congrats Kaity! I’m so proud!!
December 7, 2024 at 4:04 AM
I’m so excited for my PhD mentor, Dr. Kaity Lansford! Tonight, she was awarded Fellow of the Association from ASHA. I’m incredibly grateful to have a mentor like Kaity. I truly do not think I would have been able to accomplish what I have done without her.
Congrats Kaity! I’m so proud!!
Congrats Kaity! I’m so proud!!
Yay! Today, I successfully defended my dissertation! Thank you to everyone who came out to support 😊 I really appreciated it!
This has been such an amazing journey, and I am excited for what’s next. But for now, some rest!
This has been such an amazing journey, and I am excited for what’s next. But for now, some rest!
June 25, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Yay! Today, I successfully defended my dissertation! Thank you to everyone who came out to support 😊 I really appreciated it!
This has been such an amazing journey, and I am excited for what’s next. But for now, some rest!
This has been such an amazing journey, and I am excited for what’s next. But for now, some rest!
I’m so excited to announce that I’ll be defending my dissertation in two weeks!
Date: June 25, 2024
Time: 3 pm EST
If you are interesting in attending, please DM or email me for the zoom link.
Date: June 25, 2024
Time: 3 pm EST
If you are interesting in attending, please DM or email me for the zoom link.
June 11, 2024 at 5:54 PM
I’m so excited to announce that I’ll be defending my dissertation in two weeks!
Date: June 25, 2024
Time: 3 pm EST
If you are interesting in attending, please DM or email me for the zoom link.
Date: June 25, 2024
Time: 3 pm EST
If you are interesting in attending, please DM or email me for the zoom link.
I saw a rainbow today on my way home! I wasn’t able to get a great picture of it, but I had to try at least 🙂 What a nice start to Pride month!
Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
June 2, 2024 at 1:05 AM
I saw a rainbow today on my way home! I wasn’t able to get a great picture of it, but I had to try at least 🙂 What a nice start to Pride month!
Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Happy Pride! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
When you and your office your office mate are stressed out about research. @ashleysellersslp.bsky.social
January 24, 2024 at 9:15 PM
When you and your office your office mate are stressed out about research. @ashleysellersslp.bsky.social
I guess GIFs don’t work on bluesky, so here is the static version of the figure
January 16, 2024 at 12:49 PM
I guess GIFs don’t work on bluesky, so here is the static version of the figure
Week 3 of #TidyTuesday is already here!
This week, I experimented with gganimate to create this GIF showing change in number of polling locations in each state between 2012 and 2020.
#DataViz #RStats
This week, I experimented with gganimate to create this GIF showing change in number of polling locations in each state between 2012 and 2020.
#DataViz #RStats
January 16, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Week 3 of #TidyTuesday is already here!
This week, I experimented with gganimate to create this GIF showing change in number of polling locations in each state between 2012 and 2020.
#DataViz #RStats
This week, I experimented with gganimate to create this GIF showing change in number of polling locations in each state between 2012 and 2020.
#DataViz #RStats
This year, I really want to improve my #dataviz skills, so I am planning to participant in the weekly #TidyTuesday projects. This week, I just created my own version of the sample figure. But I hope to get better in the future! #RStats
I am a NJ Devils fan, which explains my chosen colors :)
I am a NJ Devils fan, which explains my chosen colors :)
January 9, 2024 at 10:47 PM
This year, I really want to improve my #dataviz skills, so I am planning to participant in the weekly #TidyTuesday projects. This week, I just created my own version of the sample figure. But I hope to get better in the future! #RStats
I am a NJ Devils fan, which explains my chosen colors :)
I am a NJ Devils fan, which explains my chosen colors :)
Finally, this last poster will present prelim findings from a focus group study about the use of open science practices in CSD. This study, led by Danika Pfeiffer, is another project with fellow collaborators from CSDisseminate and OpenCSD. Austin Thompson will be presenting. 5/6
November 2, 2023 at 3:08 PM
Finally, this last poster will present prelim findings from a focus group study about the use of open science practices in CSD. This study, led by Danika Pfeiffer, is another project with fellow collaborators from CSDisseminate and OpenCSD. Austin Thompson will be presenting. 5/6
In addition to these sessions, there are two other poster presentations that I would like to highlight. The first one is a poster presentation about SLP ratings of intelligibility. My friend and colleague, Austin Thompson, will be presenting our work on this at ASHA! 4/6
November 2, 2023 at 3:07 PM
In addition to these sessions, there are two other poster presentations that I would like to highlight. The first one is a poster presentation about SLP ratings of intelligibility. My friend and colleague, Austin Thompson, will be presenting our work on this at ASHA! 4/6
The other presentation is a virtual technical session about using GitHub to collaborate on coding for CSD research! Elaine Kearney and I provide a short demo on how to use GitHub. 3/6
November 2, 2023 at 3:06 PM
The other presentation is a virtual technical session about using GitHub to collaborate on coding for CSD research! Elaine Kearney and I provide a short demo on how to use GitHub. 3/6
I am also presenting two other talks about open science practices with some of my fellow collaborators with CSDisseminate and OpenCSD! One is an introductory seminar about open science practices (presented with Mariam El Amin and James Borders) 2/6
November 2, 2023 at 3:05 PM
I am also presenting two other talks about open science practices with some of my fellow collaborators with CSDisseminate and OpenCSD! One is an introductory seminar about open science practices (presented with Mariam El Amin and James Borders) 2/6
