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Daniela O’Neill
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Expert on how children’s social pragmatic communication grows & developer of the Language Use Inventory (LUI) to assess this in 2- & 3-year-olds #DevLangDis | Outreach on #PlayfulLearning #language & #literacy in urban spaces @UofWaterloo 🇨🇦 #bskySPEECHIES
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Daniela O’Neill @danielaoneill.bsky.social · Nov 20
If you’re an #SLP #SLT, researcher/professional in early language assessment <4yrs, you can always trial the standardized Language Use Inventory free (online since 2016 for #telepractice) More info: bit.ly/LUI_KID #earlyintervention #DevLangDis #pragmatics #languagedevelopment
Language Use Inventory (LUI) | Assessing Young Children's Pragmatic Language
The Language Use Inventory is a standardized parent-report questionnaire for assessing pragmatic language development in children 18 to 47 months of age.
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Check out this article featuring our work via BBC Science Focus. Thank you, Nate Scharping, for a thoughtful piece on #dyslexia and its causes:
"Why we keep getting the cause of dyslexia wrong."
www.sciencefocus.com/wellbeing/wh...
Why we keep getting the cause of dyslexia wrong | BBC Science Focus Magazine
Genetics, audio processing and environment can all impact how our brains connect sounds to the symbols we use to read
www.sciencefocus.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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New blogpost from @pamelasnow.bsky.social

Why the Big Six should actually be the Big Five

Hint: “language is literacy is language”

#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #OntEd #CdnEd #languagedevelopment

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Why the Big Six should actually be the Big Five.
pamelasnow.blogspot.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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When Older Students Can’t Read: How This Middle School Is Tackling Literacy

www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Pair with webinar by Joan Sedita based on her new book Essentials of Adolescent Literacy home.edweb.net/webinar/teac...
When Older Students Can't Read: How This Middle School Is Tackling Literacy
Structured literacy classes at a New Hampshire middle school have helped some students crack the code.
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January 1, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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1/3 “People often think only smart people learn math.
But it goes the other way. If you learn math, it helps make you smarter.” -Barb Oakley in my latest episode. I had both Barb and John Mighton on (two of my favourite people). John was my first guest! Ep link below👇
December 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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🎉My podcast Chalk & Talk hit 200,000 downloads!
If you haven't listened, check it out! I'm a mathematician & an advocate for better math instruction for students of all ages. I've published 49 episodes, with more great episodes to come!
June 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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jumpmath.bsky.social
We’re excited to announce a new collaboration with RBC to expand access to financial literacy education for more than 12,000 children in underserved communities across Canada by 2027.
December 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Here are almost 40 of my favourite #MiddleGrade reads for 2025.

A fantastic range from wild fantasy, to gritty realism, historical adventures and more than a few scares. What a brilliant year its been for children’s books
December 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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noranewcombe.bsky.social
Very penetrating analyses and very sad graphs! Many take-home messages, among them that math is a very cumulative subject. Displaced learning curves are hard to boost.
www.brookings.edu/articles/lea...
Learning curves: Post-COVID learning trajectories differ by the grade a student was in when the pandemic hit | Brookings
Lauren Bauer and Eileen Powell assess whether the effect of COVID-related disruptions differed depending on the grade a student was in during the 2019–20 school year.
www.brookings.edu
December 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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richardruddick.bsky.social
It should be: why has it taken so long for comics to be so popular? It’s taken a while but finally they’re getting their dues.
December 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing

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(& so many don’t realize that none of these profits come to the authors, who even have to pay $$$ themselves to make the work open access)

#highered #academicsky
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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#openaccess

Transforming evidence into practice for reading and spelling instruction: a descriptive study of six Victorian primary schools

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#scienceofreading #structuredliteracy #righttoread #OntEd #CdnEd #literacyisequity #untilallcanread
Transforming evidence into practice for reading and spelling instruction: a descriptive study of six Victorian primary schools
In this qualitative study, we describe the reported processes, enablers and barriers associated with transformations towards adopting structured literacy instruction at the whole-school level. Theo...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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A few weeks ago, it was my honour to give the The Leverhulme Trust Centenary Lecture, and you can hear it here if you're interested

Inventing ourselves: 100 years of research of adolescence

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Inventing ourselves: 100 years of research on adolescence
On the occasion of the Leverhulme Trust’s centenary year, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore FBA FMedSci FRS, Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge spoke on one hundred ...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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"We found that #language similarity affected the amount of exposure needed to reach a certain level of proficiency."

www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
The role of linguistic context and language similarity in the relationship between language exposure and language proficiency in bilingual children | John Benjamins
Abstract Amount of exposure has consistently been shown to influence language development in bilingual children. To date, it has been treated as a variable that affects language development in the sam...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
danielaoneill.bsky.social
A very informative piece!

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#literacy #righttoread #structuredliteracy #scienceofreading #cdned #bskyedu
Build Canada's Literacy Foundation
A fifth of Canadians are functionally illiterate. This has massive social impacts and costs Canada $67 billion in productivity.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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Happy World #Linguistics Day! www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/ho...
How the study of language impacts us everyday - University of Birmingham
Dr Adam Schembri, Professor of Linguistics, explains the importance of studying the science of language to mark World Linguistics Day.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Intergenerational @utoronto.ca classroom for caregivers generates greater empathy, better outcomes for seniors

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#seniors #gerontology #highered #intergenerational #inclusive #socialconnection
Intergenerational classroom for caregivers generates greater empathy, better outcomes for seniors
A unique partnership between Christie Gardens and the University of Toronto pairs undergraduate students in health studies with older adults for a semester-long exploration of gerontology and geriatri...
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November 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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wordaware.bsky.social
This paper is a real benchmark and will be of great interest to anyone who works with those with DLD. (Developmental Language Disorder)
#DevLangDis
November 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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#Kitchener 🇨🇦 teen’s first feature-length documentary “Chronically” captures the medical & lived experiences of 5 teen girls with #chronicillness & rarer diagnoses. Help spread awareness by viewing it via the online LA Awareness Film Festival until Dec 31 ($13 CDN $10 USD) awarenessfestival.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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jumpmath.bsky.social
Financial Literacy Month is a great time to begin guiding children to become financially responsible and successful adults by teaching them how to understand and manage money.

Here are a few tips to get you started:
November 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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historycomics.bsky.social
Combining visual literacy, analysis, and writing. Individual interpretations matter when backed up with visual and textual evidence. Comics = literacy.
November 15, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇
November 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
A staggering statistic: "North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year." What are we doing?
hansonmark.bsky.social Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Nov 11
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Does 'Baby Talk' mess with language learning? Find out what the science says in the debut episode of "HELLO Lab Presents"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2riD...
HELLO Lab Presents | EP. 1 - Is 'Baby Talk' Bad?
YouTube video by HELLO Lab Presents
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November 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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🚨New episode in video & audio!🚨
What happens when a mathematician becomes Education Minister? Nuno Crato led an education turnaround in Portugal. The result? Portugal went from near the bottom to outperforming Finland on PISA/TIMSS. How? Episode link below 👇
November 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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jumpmath.bsky.social
We're pleased to share this feature story on JUMP Math Founder, Dr. John Mighton just published in Victoria University's, Vic Report, which highlights his formative years at UofT, why he was drawn to pursue math, and his accomplishments in philosophy, playwriting and, later, in mathematics.
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM