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derekhouston.bsky.social
Professor at UConn's Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. Early spoken language development in children who are deaf/hard-of-hearing and use cochlear implants and/or hearing aids. Views expressed are my own, not UConn's.
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NSF cannot survive these cuts and there will be more to come. This is 1st degree murder of U.S. science.

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Petition against NIH cuts chng.it/TLwvfgYpxZ

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The whole "$1 NIH dollar generates $2.50 in output" sells science wildly short. Scientific discovery and technological development is the foundation on which our entire society is built -- and that includes all the businesses that operate within it. The throughlines are shorter than you think: 1/n

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

submitted 16 days ago • 131 comments

We are stronger than we think, and they are weaker than they want us to believe. Collective action has worked in the past, and it will work again. And the good news is that it only takes about 3.5% of the population to be actively involved for collective action to be effective.

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I share my projects and work #onhere not to self-promote but always to show rather than to tell. My goal is to show that anyone can take action within their capacity and based on their interests. I don't talk about things that I don't actually do myself FIRST. Just FYI [for my haterzzz]

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

List of things that NIH indirects (F&A) pays for either completely or partially in support of research infrastructure (please add) - Start up funds for new faculty - Lab construction costs - PhD student stipend and tuition waivers - IRB/compliance - Grants administration - IT - HR - Purchasing

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Courage can become contagious.

submitted 22 days ago • 59 comments

Dan Savage: "The next four years are gonna suck. But they’ll suck worse if we let the news cycle — and the man who dominates it — drain the joy from our lives. We need to pay attention and we need to stay in the fight. Because of course we do. 1/4

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They will try and exhaust us and throw us into despair so that we lose our will to fight authoritarianism. Let's flip the script and find joy and strength and community in the fight for democracy. There are more of us than there are of them.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

My #MENinSLP/SLT starter pack (not "my men", but rather "my starter pack") is building VERY slowly, but I just added @achoi-tucci.bsky.social 🦋 #bskySPEECHIES go.bsky.app/CGppBcH #MENinSpeech-LanguagePathology/Therapy

submitted 49 days ago • 3 comments

A publication that SLHS associate professors Erika Skoe and Adrián Garcia-Sierra collaborated on w/ Nairán Ramírez-Esparza, associate professor in the psychological sciences department & researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and St. Lawrence University, was published in UConn today!

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Every year the aphasia language support and book groups celebrate the end of the fall semester. Click the link below to watch the video from this year's event! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyRn...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Jimmy Carter, the first President I remember, pushed for action on climate change nearly 50 years ago. If only... RIP, Mr. President.

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Talking about developmental science with family during the holidays reminds me how undervalued dissemination is in the reward structure for academia.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

SLHS students finished up the Fall 2024 semester last Friday. Here’s some pictures from this semester of our impressive audiology and speech-language pathology cohorts! Hope everyone enjoys their well-deserved winter break!

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Some recent publications by members of the SLHS department!

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Area Loser Declared Patient Zero In Loneliness Epidemic — theonion.com/area-loser-d...

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Check out the UConn SLHS affiliated work that will be at the 2024 ASHA Convention!

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Is it Bad to leave Twitter? No. Here are 7+ years of insights from my lab’s research that explain why. Featuring work w/ @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social 🧵

submitted 85 days ago • 75 comments

I listened to NotebookLM turn a chapter of mine into a podcast, and I'm feeling very uncomfortable right now.

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-t...

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Deleted my Twitter account

submitted 110 days ago • 1 comment

Video from the 20th century on methodologies used in the Jusczyk Lab. Some people said they found it useful for language development courses so resharing on YouTube.

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

People doing survey research should be aware that dept chairs get WAY too many requests to forward surveys. Representative sampling has always been a concern but the proliferation of surveys must be making the problem much worse. I recommend alternative methods (e.g. focus groups) when possible.

submitted 237 days ago • 1 comment