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Prof Ros Herman @rosherman.bsky.social · 29d

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

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Helen Spicer-Cain @helensc.bsky.social · Jul 11

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

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RADLD-Raising Awareness for Developmental Language Disorder @radld.bsky.social · Jul 11

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

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Word Aware @wordaware.bsky.social · Jul 11

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

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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · Jul 11

Thanks so much to @helenhayes.bsky.social for highlighting our #ReadingRights campaign with Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social in the House of Commons yesterday.

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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · Jul 8

🆓🔓 @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...
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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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Caroline Bowen, Speech-Language Pathologist 🇦🇺🇳🇿🌻 @carolinebowen.bsky.social · Jul 8

🆓🔓 @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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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

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Prof Ros Herman @rosherman.bsky.social · Jun 18

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

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

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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

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National Children's Bureau @ncb.org.uk · Jun 17

#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

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Nuffield Foundation @nuffieldfoundation.org · Jun 17

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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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · Jun 17

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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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Jun 14

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.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Jun 17

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

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DiscoverKelpies @discoverkelpies.bsky.social · Jun 17

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.

www.booktrust.org.uk/resources/fi...

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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Prof Ros Herman @rosherman.bsky.social · Jun 17

Interesting to see Enid Blyton is still so popular!

School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social · Jun 17

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

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School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social · Jun 17

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

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Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · Jun 17

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].”

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EngagewithDLD @edldproject.bsky.social · Jun 17

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

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Christopher Schroeder @chrislschroed.bsky.social · Jun 17

"Sleep is not a luxury. It is your most powerful tool for appetite control, energy regulation and long-term health."

theconversation.com/sleep-loss-r...

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Sleep loss rewires the brain for cravings and weight gain – a neurologist explains the science behind the cycle

Even one night of inadequate sleep can shift your hunger into overdrive, setting off a chain reaction in the brain. But one or two nights of solid sleep can help reset metabolism.

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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · Jun 17

The biggest change in reproductive rights in Britain in half a century has just passed the Commons.

MPs have voted 379-137 to decriminalise abortion, preventing women from being prosecuted for terminating a pregnancy after 24 weeks.

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ASHA Journals @ashajournals.bsky.social · Jun 17

Agent-Based Conversational Dialogue (ABCD) is a novel method for simulating goal-driven natural spoken dialogues between two conversational artificial intelligence agents—AI clinician and AI patient, which vocally mimics aphasic errors.

#SLPeeps #bskySPEECHIES #aphasia

ABCD: A Simulation Method for Accelerating Conversational Agents With Applications in Aphasia Therapy

Purpose: Development of aphasia therapies is limited by clinician shortages, patient recruitment challenges, and funding constraints. To address ...

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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · Jun 17

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · Jun 3

'Evening in London' (2024) by Marek Krumpár
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