Vandy CaLL is hiring a Project Manager for early 2026! We're looking for someone that can help manage work on an NSF-funded project investigating how individual differences in cognitive ability and language experience shapes L2 sentence processing.

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I wrote a paper with some of my favorite people synthesizing the last 25 years of research on my favorite topic: the development of visual attention during infancy 👶👀

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#infantcognition #development #visualperception #visualattention

Words and gestures help tune infant attention before they can speak. New UC Davis study finds babies focus longer when object labels ("bear") are paired with spatial words ("here"), and even longer when paired with gestures like pointing. ucdav.is/4lYtXgL

When your poster is too big for the board…enjoying my time at #CogSci2025 🧠

NIH slashed 80% of funding for programs that support deaf scientists. The Trump admin's message is clear - exclusion & further marginalization.

We reject that. Science is for everyone.

Read on for ways to support deaf students in STEM ➡️ zurl.co/H9O12

University of Pennsylvania goes all in on anti-trans BS under pressure from the White House. This will go way beyond just sports.

What’s a bigger win of the week, passing my qualifying exam or throwing my first successful bowl? 🤩

Bad photo but amazing quote 👏🏻👏🏻 #SRCD2025

First symposium of #SRCD2025 off to a great start! Enjoyed @nemeth.bsky.social ‘s discussion about the “cooperative and competitive” relationship between statistical learning and executive functions! Will be taking these thoughts with me 🤔💭

Looking forward to presenting some of my current analyses next week at the Bay Area Language Processing Interest Group Meeting! I will be discussing how characteristics of deafness in particular can play a role in working memory and inhibitory control 🧏🏻‍♀️🧠🗣️

📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted?

Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky

scienceimpacts.org

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 $.

So excited to head to Sacramento soon!

My very first first-authored paper is out! We studied how caregivers may adjust the way they communicate with infants based on the specific communicative context they are in, and discuss why these adjustments occur and how they may support language development 🗣️👶🏻

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Here's a thread detailing my first major and most-cited publication in @anthrodad.bsky.social's Maternal and Child Health Journal "What you dont know can hurt you: The risk of language deprivation by impairing sign language development in deaf children" (2017) link.springer.com/article/10.1... 1/