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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · 12d

Big news! 🎉 Our team at Texas A&M was awarded a $1.45 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education for Project ELEVATE. Over the next 5 years, we’ll support future special ed teachers with funding, mentoring, and community. Grateful to do this work. #ElevateTheProfession

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Aug 13

Dr. Steve Graham on dysgraphia-what it is, how it affects handwriting, memory & writing fluency, and why individualized support, strong teacher prep & equitable instruction matter.
📖: lnkd.in/eB7rkYUG

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Aug 13

Happy to share the work by Aisha Lee-Cobbins & Megan Bishop! They interviewed 2 leading voices in literacy:

Dr. Nicole Patton Terry on how reading disability ID can impact Black children & low-income students, and how equity-focused policies & partnerships can help.
📖: lnkd.in/exPHcEuR

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Aug 4

Advertise your account with a GIF #scienceofreading

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Aug 4

Yay! Congrats, Ying, on the Taylor&Francie Award! This is so well deserved!!

Thank you to the Society for the Scientific Studies of Reading for supporting our early career scholars. #sssr2025

ying-xu.bsky.social @ying-xu.bsky.social · Jul 20

What a moment to celebrate!! 🎉🥹
#SSSR2025 #ReadingResearch #AcademicLife

Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Jul 2

Ying and I will both be in Chicago at SREE. Hope to see you there.

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Jun 30

@jxjwang.bsky.social Jessie, received your message. Thanks so very much!!

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · May 9

I'm honored to be named a 2025 EDGES Fellow by my university @tamu.bsky.social, a program designed to honor and retain midcareer faculty. shorturl.at/dlOZj

I’ll have a postdoc opening in reading research starting Fall 2026; call for applicants coming Fall/Winter 2025.

Texas A&M University Announces the 2025 Chancellor EDGES Fellows | Texas A&M University

facultyaffairs.tamu.edu

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · May 7

Thank you so much for sharing our research findings with the education community.

Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · May 6

Thank you for your kind words.

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · May 4

👍Grateful that our study on optimal phonemic awareness dosage is recognized among the notable education studies of 2024 by @edutopia.org

🔗 to the Edutopia article (see #10): www.edutopia.org/article/the-...

🔗 to our study: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

www.edutopia.org

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · May 4

Thanks for posting, François. Here is a link to the free full text of our study (a non-paywalled link): drive.google.com/file/d/11wI8...

François Guité @francoisguite.bsky.social · Dec 7

I always look forward to this yearly compilation:

The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2024 | Edutopia www.edutopia.org/article/the-...

Some noteworthy findings: 👇

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ying-xu.bsky.social @ying-xu.bsky.social · May 3

Honored to receive the 2025 Taylor & Francis Award from #SSSR ! I’m thrilled—and honestly a little overwhelmed—to be recognized by a community I admire so much. Can’t wait for #SSSR2025 and all the conversations, learning, and connections ahead! 💙📚

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · May 4

Had to pop back in just to celebrate you here as well. This is so well deserved. Huge congrats again!

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Feb 26

Love reading all of your work, Julia!

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Feb 8

Good morning, Coronado and San Diego!
A perfect day for inline skating!💜🛼

Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Feb 7

@ying-xu.bsky.social Congratulations on your poster presentation. Excellent work!

Thank you, everyone, for stopping by at @ying-xu.bsky.social 's poster and asking thought provoking questions which Ying will incorporate in her paper on this topic. #pcrc2025

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Feb 5

Megan Bishop and I wrote an article in the form of an interview with Dr. Steve Graham. Dr. G shares insights on defining and identifying dysgraphia, effective teaching strategies for handwriting difficulties, and future directions in writing research #dysgraphia

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Dysgraphia unwritten: An interview with Dr. Steve Graham

PDF | When researchers and educators talk and teach about the area of writing, it is without doubt that Dr. Steve Graham will be included in these... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

www.researchgate.net

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Feb 1

Heading to #PCRC2025 next week? Come chat with me and @ying-xu.bsky.social about all things #reading #research!

We’ll be presenting two posters—stop by and say hi.

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Feb 1

Heading to #PCRC2025 next week? Come chat with me and @ying-xu.bsky.social about all things #reading #research!

We’ll be presenting two posters—stop by and say hi.

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Jan 31

#DYSLEXIA AND #GENETICS
🧬~70% genetic influence confirmed by twin studies
🧬no single "dyslexia gene"; many small genetic effects contribute
🧬shared genetic risks with ADHD, dyscalculia, and DLD
🧬GWAS studies identify multiple associated genetic variants, improving riskprediction

🔗 shorturl.at/dZ1nJ

Insights into Dyslexia Genetics Research from the Last Two Decades

Dyslexia, a specific reading disability, is a common (up to 10% of children) and highly heritable (~70%) neurodevelopmental disorder. Behavioral and molecular genetic approaches are aimed towards diss...

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Jan 29

An NIH grant I was on as a postdoc helped us understand why some children develop reading difficulties while others don't.

Our current NIH grant examines whether Spanish-speaking bilingual learners in 🇺🇸 struggle with reading due to a reading disability or language differences btwn English&Spanish.

Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · Jan 27

To help people understand the importance of NIH, share what you’ve used their funding for (in easily understandable terms).

I’ll start: my NIH postdoc funding helped me develop and test AI tools that could identify skin cancer across diverse skin tones.

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Jan 28

I’ve never been more thankful to myself for annotating the code appropriately and thoroughly. Three years later, I can remember everything we did. I am thankful to @cghlewis.bsky.social for the annotations tip.

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Jan 27

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Florina Erbeli⛷️🏔️ @florinaerbeli.bsky.social · Jan 27

What's been most helpful to me in terms of generating ideas is reading beyond my discipline (i.e., reading research). Medical research is so thought provoking to me.

What hasn't been working for me from the list of rules stated below is using reference software like Zotero or Endnote.

Science News @scinews.bsky.social · Jan 26

Ten simple rules for developing good reading habits during graduate school and beyond

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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