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Prof Ros Herman
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City St George’s, University of London. Speech & Language Therapist, yoga, dogs #languagedevelopment #signlanguage #literacy #deaf
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Free hybrid one-day conference: Communication Interventions with Deaf People. Thursday 20 Nov 2025 18.00-20.00 GMT | 13.00-15.00 ET. BSL, ASL & IS interpreters provided
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@charjenns.bsky.social @dcal-ucl.bsky.social
Book launch: Communication Interventions with Deaf People
Book launch: Communication Interventions with Deaf People
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October 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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ncb.org.uk
Explore how we can involve disabled children and young people in research at the next #MakingParticipationWork Practitioners’ Community of Practice on 19 November, 10:00–13:00 online. Register now at buff.ly/0xHS4c6
October 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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russellengland.bsky.social
"It's just the weather"

"Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time.

Iceland was one of the only places in the world that did not have a mosquito population.

The other is Antarctica."

#GlobalBoiling
Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the only places in the world without the insects
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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sjblakemore.bsky.social
Brilliant episode of All in the Mind with @claudiahammond.bsky.social, who discusses autism with @utafrith.bsky.social, brain development with @catherineloveday.bsky.social, as well as memory, music and other interesting topics

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All in the Mind - Are there multiple subtypes of autism, and how vivid are your memories? - BBC Sounds
A new study suggests that autism’s genetic profile differs with age at diagnosis.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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caldid.bsky.social
My last vlog for my NIHR PCAF! I've so enjoyed stepping into research over the last two years and am excited for what's to come next!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b18R... (English)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGaY... (BSL)

@drfionakyle.bsky.social @rosherman.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
rosherman.bsky.social
www.reading.ac.uk/news/2025/Re... Anyone else going? Starts at 1.30 in Palmer, David Crystal is speaking at 4.30
Reading marks 50 years of speech and language therapy - University of Reading
www.reading.ac.uk
September 9, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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helensc.bsky.social
Thank you @foundationyearnet.bsky.social for the chance to speak at the annual conference about our fantastic health foundation courses at @citystgeorges.bsky.social
It was a fantastic conference and so great to share good foundation year practice and reflect on future ideas
July 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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radld.bsky.social
Developmental language disorder (DLD) refers to persistent difficulties in learning & using language. DLD is not well known in many parts of the world, including Singapore. Let's join hands to raise awareness and advocate for people with DLD on Oct 17, 2025 international DLD day #devlangdis #DLDday
July 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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wordaware.bsky.social
If you are going to any 4 year olds birthday parties then take this flyer along. As well as contributing to an understanding of the impact of covid on child development, participants get to keep the tablet. UK only. #EarlyYears
@bicycle-study.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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booktrust.org.uk
Thanks so much to @helenhayes.bsky.social for highlighting our #ReadingRights campaign with Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social in the House of Commons yesterday.
July 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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carolinebowen.bsky.social
🆓🔓 @lucyrodgerssalt.bsky.social @profnikkibotting.bsky.social @drhelenslt.bsky.social... @rosherman.bsky.social 2025 Co-design to consensus: Identifying the core elements of a novel intervention for pre-school chn with #childspeechdis + #devlangdis doi.org/10.1371/jour...
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #slpeeps
Co-design to consensus: Identifying the core elements of a novel intervention for pre-school children with co-occurring phonological speech sound disorder (SSD) and developmental language disorder (DL...
Introduction Although frequently seen in clinical services, there are few interventions which have been developed specifically to meet the needs of pre-school children with co-occurring features of a ...
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July 8, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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carolinebowen.bsky.social
🆓🔓 @lucyrodgerssalt.bsky.social @profnikkibotting.bsky.social @samharding.bsky.social ... @rosherman.bsky.social 2024 Shared characteristics of interventions for oral vocab & speech comprehensibility in p/schoolers w co-occurring #devlangdis & #childspeechdis doi.org/10.1136/bmjo...
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Shared characteristics of intervention techniques for oral vocabulary and speech comprehensibility in preschool children with co-occurring features of developmental language disorder and speech sound ...
Objectives To descriptively compare and contrast intervention techniques for preschool children with features of developmental language disorder (outcome: oral vocabulary) and speech sound disorder (o...
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July 8, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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rosherman.bsky.social
@charjenns.bsky.social Announcing our new book #Communication #interventions with #Deaf People with
@kristinsnoddon.bsky.social @katerowley.bsky.social Leila Holcomb, Claudia Becker, Christine Yoshinaga Itano, Susan Easterbrooks, Evelien Dirks, Martina Curtin, Karin Schamroth… #bskyspeechies
June 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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30% book discount code below, also available online @speechandlanguk.bsky.social
@dcal-ucl.bsky.social @sallymorganslt.bsky.social @citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social @carolinebowen.bsky.social @louiseok.bsky.social @senandunne.bsky.social @speechbite.bsky.social @ashajournals.bsky.social
rosherman.bsky.social Prof Ros Herman @rosherman.bsky.social · Jun 18
@charjenns.bsky.social Announcing our new book #Communication #interventions with #Deaf People with
@kristinsnoddon.bsky.social @katerowley.bsky.social Leila Holcomb, Claudia Becker, Christine Yoshinaga Itano, Susan Easterbrooks, Evelien Dirks, Martina Curtin, Karin Schamroth… #bskyspeechies
June 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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@charjenns.bsky.social Announcing our new book #Communication #interventions with #Deaf People with
@kristinsnoddon.bsky.social @katerowley.bsky.social Leila Holcomb, Claudia Becker, Christine Yoshinaga Itano, Susan Easterbrooks, Evelien Dirks, Martina Curtin, Karin Schamroth… #bskyspeechies
June 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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ncb.org.uk
#RefugeeWeek2025 reminds us of the importance of compassion, understanding, and action.

👉 This insightful blog from @researchip.bsky.social explores trauma-informed and rights-based approaches for those working with people from war-affected areas.

📖 Read it here: lnkd.in/eJNfgWTd
June 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Tackling social challenges needs evidence-led research. In our 2024 annual report discover how the Foundation supported our expert centres @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social @nuffieldfjo.bsky.social @nuffieldbioethics.bsky.social & UK grant-holders with a charitable spend of £28.4m.

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June 17, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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novicsara.bsky.social
Excited to be starting what I hope is the first of more boosting of good books in a barren land of book coverage by msm. First up, 5 questions with British-Jamaican deaf poet Raymond Antrobus. His memoir is out next month. Pre-order or library queue it up! buttondown.com/signs+wonder...
5 Questions With Deaf Author Raymond Antrobus
Hi everyone. Times are bad, but books remain good. Summer books, in particular, are looking stellar, and in time of basically nonexistent reviews and media...
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June 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
Paper is finally up and open access (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...), it's a sequel to an earlier paper where we'd argued that there's not good evidence that pre-publication peer review is a net benefit (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1093/...). So in this one we suggest an alternative.
Jury Theorems for Peer Review Marcus Arvan, Liam Kofi Bright, and Remco Heesen Abstract: Peer review is often taken to be the main form of quality control on academic research. Usually journals carry this out. However, parts of maths and physics appear to have a parallel, crowd-sourced model of peer review, where articles are posted on the arXiv to be publicly discussed. In this article we argue that crowd-sourced peer review is likely to do better than journal-solicited peer review at sorting articles by quality. Our argument rests on two key claims. First, crowd-sourced peer review will lead on average to more reviewers per article than journal-solicited peer review. Second, due to the wisdom of the crowds, more reviewers will tend to make better judgements than fewer reviewers will. We make the second claim precise by looking at the Condorcet jury theorem as well as two related jury theorems developed specifically to apply to peer review.
June 14, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Journal editors: this is great! scienceverse.github.io/papercheck/

You can automate simple tasks like "osf-check: List all OSF links and whether they are open, closed, or do not exist" as SO many papers claim to be preregistered but do not provide the preregistration
June 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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discoverkelpies.bsky.social
Fidan Meikle, author of My Name is Samim shares the importance of reading about other children’s lives. Thank you @booktrust.org.uk! Such an important book to share with children this #RefugeeWeek.

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Stepping into someone else's shoes: How diverse stories nurture…
Author Fidan Meikle shares the importance of reading about other children’s lives.
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June 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
rosherman.bsky.social
Interesting to see Enid Blyton is still so popular!
June 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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schoolreadinglist.bsky.social
Last summer, educators in 50 school settings around the UK asked children aged 4-10 to name their favourite book. Here are the results of this informal survey. schoolreadinglist.co.uk/category/chi... #teachertwitter #kidlit
Children's favourites
100+ favourite children's books, as chosen by children aged 4-13, including titles by JK Rowling, David Walliams, Roald Dahl, Julia Donaldson & more.
schoolreadinglist.co.uk
June 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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mixedlinguist.bsky.social
A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).
Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of mind. It can’t have been, because the training data never included sharing thoughts with a listener, nor does the machine have the ability to do that. This can seem counter-intuitive given the increasingly fluent qualities of automatically generated text, but we have to account for the fact that our perception of natural language text, regardless of how it was generated, is mediated by our own linguistic competence and our predisposition to interpret communicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent, whether or not they do [89, 140].”
June 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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edldproject.bsky.social
Join the E-DLD community by sharing your work in easy-to-understand summaries! Let’s make research more accessible to everyone. Templates and guidelines are available to get you started.

🔗 Visit our website: www.edldcommunity.org
📄 Access the summary guidelines: www.edldcommunity.org/guidelines
June 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM