Sara Benham
@sarabenham.bsky.social
PhD | CCC-SLP | Assistant Professor @ The University of Vermont
Word and sound learning, network science
#devlangdis
duckielab.com
Fiber enthusiast: Weaver. Knitter.
Word and sound learning, network science
#devlangdis
duckielab.com
Fiber enthusiast: Weaver. Knitter.
Science is under attack and so much damage has been done. Building community and engaging with the public is a critical step.
Sharing a video by Meghan Puglia, Asst. Professor of Neurology at the U of Virginia. Please share widely.
meghanpuglia.com/savingscience
Sharing a video by Meghan Puglia, Asst. Professor of Neurology at the U of Virginia. Please share widely.
meghanpuglia.com/savingscience
July 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Science is under attack and so much damage has been done. Building community and engaging with the public is a critical step.
Sharing a video by Meghan Puglia, Asst. Professor of Neurology at the U of Virginia. Please share widely.
meghanpuglia.com/savingscience
Sharing a video by Meghan Puglia, Asst. Professor of Neurology at the U of Virginia. Please share widely.
meghanpuglia.com/savingscience
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If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
May 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
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I’ve created a website to look up phonological features (frequency, age of acquisition, neighbors) of real and nonwords. rpomper.github.io/phono/
It’s still in progress (manuscript coming) please let me know if you have any recommendations or feature requests!
(It takes 1-2 minutes to load)
It’s still in progress (manuscript coming) please let me know if you have any recommendations or feature requests!
(It takes 1-2 minutes to load)
April 12, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I’ve created a website to look up phonological features (frequency, age of acquisition, neighbors) of real and nonwords. rpomper.github.io/phono/
It’s still in progress (manuscript coming) please let me know if you have any recommendations or feature requests!
(It takes 1-2 minutes to load)
It’s still in progress (manuscript coming) please let me know if you have any recommendations or feature requests!
(It takes 1-2 minutes to load)
Here I am with a #SuperbOwl, participating in Project Owlnet. I have been fortunate to have many mentors in my life, many of them ornithologists, funded by public dollars to promote conservation and education. I only wish that these projects continue to inspire young souls for generations to come.
February 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Here I am with a #SuperbOwl, participating in Project Owlnet. I have been fortunate to have many mentors in my life, many of them ornithologists, funded by public dollars to promote conservation and education. I only wish that these projects continue to inspire young souls for generations to come.
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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@lizneeley.bsky.social is publishing a weekly newsletter to track the ongoing attacks in science and higher ed. If you want to keep abreast without drowning in the news, I recommend it: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
February 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
@lizneeley.bsky.social is publishing a weekly newsletter to track the ongoing attacks in science and higher ed. If you want to keep abreast without drowning in the news, I recommend it: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
I write random words on slips of paper and put them in a bucket. Then my very talented husband picks one and draws them for daily art practice. As someone who cannot draw well, it never ceases to amaze me how effortlessly and creatively he does this! Follow his page for more ‘prompts of the day’
Today’s prompt: prehistoric
Been a while since I played with the iPad. I love how Bill Waterson rendered dinosaurs so I kinda tried for that.
#art #digitalart #drawing #dinosaur #procreate
Been a while since I played with the iPad. I love how Bill Waterson rendered dinosaurs so I kinda tried for that.
#art #digitalart #drawing #dinosaur #procreate
January 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I write random words on slips of paper and put them in a bucket. Then my very talented husband picks one and draws them for daily art practice. As someone who cannot draw well, it never ceases to amaze me how effortlessly and creatively he does this! Follow his page for more ‘prompts of the day’
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💡 Latest research shows that babies are already learning how sounds are physically produced BEFORE tuning in to their native language.
This discovery challenges previous beliefs and opens up new possibilities for early intervention.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/msx2vw7a
@eylemaltuntas.bsky.social
This discovery challenges previous beliefs and opens up new possibilities for early intervention.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/msx2vw7a
@eylemaltuntas.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
💡 Latest research shows that babies are already learning how sounds are physically produced BEFORE tuning in to their native language.
This discovery challenges previous beliefs and opens up new possibilities for early intervention.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/msx2vw7a
@eylemaltuntas.bsky.social
This discovery challenges previous beliefs and opens up new possibilities for early intervention.
🔗https://tinyurl.com/msx2vw7a
@eylemaltuntas.bsky.social
Even in a small, rural state like VT, the impact felt by NIH support is huge. So deeply alarmed by this move to halt NIH activity.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
January 23, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Even in a small, rural state like VT, the impact felt by NIH support is huge. So deeply alarmed by this move to halt NIH activity.
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better…
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
January 23, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better…
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
-For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return.
-Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
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What happened at NIH today www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
www.science.org
January 23, 2025 at 1:04 AM
What happened at NIH today www.science.org/content/arti...
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Need illustrations for your research? A reminder that you can hire artists to create *original* pieces and interpret instructions like: “child friendly but not too cartooney…but realistic…but still cute.” My husband @cephalopunk created images like these for a study and you can hire him too!
December 8, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Need illustrations for your research? A reminder that you can hire artists to create *original* pieces and interpret instructions like: “child friendly but not too cartooney…but realistic…but still cute.” My husband @cephalopunk created images like these for a study and you can hire him too!
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I just discovered LMU's sounds of the world's languages website, which has some different sound files from A Course in Phonetics, as well as an online visualization tool (emu-WebApp) that's nice for classroom use. I'm going to use it today!
www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/studium/skri...
www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/studium/skri...
Index
www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de
November 14, 2024 at 3:00 PM
I just discovered LMU's sounds of the world's languages website, which has some different sound files from A Course in Phonetics, as well as an online visualization tool (emu-WebApp) that's nice for classroom use. I'm going to use it today!
www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/studium/skri...
www.phonetik.uni-muenchen.de/studium/skri...
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Sharing the Vermont Complex Systems Institute starter pack!
A list of core members, alumni, and external faculty 🤝
go.bsky.app/D46bnkS
A list of core members, alumni, and external faculty 🤝
go.bsky.app/D46bnkS
October 31, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Sharing the Vermont Complex Systems Institute starter pack!
A list of core members, alumni, and external faculty 🤝
go.bsky.app/D46bnkS
A list of core members, alumni, and external faculty 🤝
go.bsky.app/D46bnkS
Looks like a great way to kick off 2025!
Coming out in the new year. A fun exploration of network science applied to language evolution, conspiracy theories, aging cognition, creativity, conflict, with networks and models and R code and a little bit of Van Gogh. thomasthills.github.io/BehavioralNe... #networkscience
November 14, 2024 at 12:50 AM
Looks like a great way to kick off 2025!
I participated in this workshop this summer and highly recommend! The program was wonderfully planned and the content is very useful.
The Data Management for Data Sharing Workshop will be happening again, summer 2025! If you are a developmental science researcher and currently have, or are planning to apply for, an NIH grant, and want to learn how to manage study data WELL, please apply!
t.co/5DVU4T5dFV
t.co/5DVU4T5dFV
October 30, 2024 at 7:37 PM
I participated in this workshop this summer and highly recommend! The program was wonderfully planned and the content is very useful.
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Hot off the press!
📚10 new #RStats books added to the Big Book of R collection📚
oscarbaruffa.com/bbor_20241029/
📚10 new #RStats books added to the Big Book of R collection📚
oscarbaruffa.com/bbor_20241029/
10 New Books added to Big Book of R + R community on BlueSky - Oscar Baruffa
There’s been a sudden jump in RStats peeps joining BlueSky, and some very familiar faces from the twitter days. You can find me here, and there’s a very handy “starter pack” which is a list of account...
oscarbaruffa.com
October 29, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Hot off the press!
📚10 new #RStats books added to the Big Book of R collection📚
oscarbaruffa.com/bbor_20241029/
📚10 new #RStats books added to the Big Book of R collection📚
oscarbaruffa.com/bbor_20241029/
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Developmental Psychology starter pack! I've included people doing child/adolescent research and as well as a few lifespan folks.
Please share widely, and let me know if there is anyone who should be added!
go.bsky.app/ECJtpXi
#DevPsych #DevSci #PsychSciSky
Please share widely, and let me know if there is anyone who should be added!
go.bsky.app/ECJtpXi
#DevPsych #DevSci #PsychSciSky
October 19, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Developmental Psychology starter pack! I've included people doing child/adolescent research and as well as a few lifespan folks.
Please share widely, and let me know if there is anyone who should be added!
go.bsky.app/ECJtpXi
#DevPsych #DevSci #PsychSciSky
Please share widely, and let me know if there is anyone who should be added!
go.bsky.app/ECJtpXi
#DevPsych #DevSci #PsychSciSky
The #NSSLHA chapter at the University of Vermont is here for #dldday! They set up at the student center and talked to students about #DLD. They painted rocks purple with facts about the disorder and left them around campus with instructions for a social media challenge for campus! #radld
October 18, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Never thought I would be a podcast host, but...
I'm co-hosting this season's Complexity Podcast from @sfiscience.bsky.social
Our topic is "The Nature of Intelligence" 🧠 🤖
We have an amazing lineup of guests over six episodes.
Season trailer here:
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/tra...
I'm co-hosting this season's Complexity Podcast from @sfiscience.bsky.social
Our topic is "The Nature of Intelligence" 🧠 🤖
We have an amazing lineup of guests over six episodes.
Season trailer here:
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/tra...
complexity.simplecast.com
September 20, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Never thought I would be a podcast host, but...
I'm co-hosting this season's Complexity Podcast from @sfiscience.bsky.social
Our topic is "The Nature of Intelligence" 🧠 🤖
We have an amazing lineup of guests over six episodes.
Season trailer here:
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/tra...
I'm co-hosting this season's Complexity Podcast from @sfiscience.bsky.social
Our topic is "The Nature of Intelligence" 🧠 🤖
We have an amazing lineup of guests over six episodes.
Season trailer here:
complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/tra...
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Hello, #bskySPEECHIES! Here's a transdisciplinary STARTER PACK for anyone with a professional and/or personal interest in Communication Development and Disorders across the lifespan. #voice #speech #language #literacy #fluency go.bsky.app/5HvjrTJ PLEASE SHARE 🙃😎 #WeSpeechies #SLPeeps August 24, 2024
August 24, 2024 at 1:01 AM
Hello, #bskySPEECHIES! Here's a transdisciplinary STARTER PACK for anyone with a professional and/or personal interest in Communication Development and Disorders across the lifespan. #voice #speech #language #literacy #fluency go.bsky.app/5HvjrTJ PLEASE SHARE 🙃😎 #WeSpeechies #SLPeeps August 24, 2024