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www.gaablab.com Assoc. Prof @Harvard@hgse, #dyslexia #LearningDifferences #LearningDisabilities #reading #literacy #screening #brain #neuroscience #neuroimaging #cogdev #neuroscience #edtech #EduSky. Mom of 3! Posts are my own
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The International #CognitiveDevelopment Seminar Series is now on 11th March! Join Dr Nadine Gaab @gaablab.bsky.social (Harvard University) for "The Typical and Atypical Reading Brain." 📅 11th March, 3 PM BST 🔗 Register: lnkd.in/eVERArbw 📚 More info: lnkd.in/ebQz_fXd

I am looking forward to this event organized by Somerville Public Schools's Special Education Parent Advisory Council! Please join us on Thursday 2/27 at 7pm. Register: tinyurl.com/SSEPACNadine...

Another #NIH study section, Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disorders (BIND), which was scheduled to meet tomorrow (Thursday and Friday), was just canceled. Dr. Jasmeet Hayes serves on that study section. For those of you who thought NIH study sections being canceled was over, it's not.

This Correspondence by Zacharias Roupas argues for a rethink of the supervisor-student relationship, placing limits to the power supervisors/PI’s have on ECR careers and transforming the teacher-student relationship into a guide-explorer one. https://www.nature.c...

Third graders in Steubenville, Ohio, are among the best little readers in the nation. For nearly 20 years, the elementary schools in this economically depressed area have produced better readers than some of the wealthiest places in the country. www.apmreports.org/story/2025/0...

What if I told you that in a small, rust belt city, where abandoned buildings line the streets, kids are doing better in reading than in some of the richest school districts in America? www.youtube.com/shorts/KsBNf...

NIH cannot fund competitive grants for research if review panels and advisory councils do not meet. Panels and councils cannot meet if NIH fails to post meetings to the federal register. The meetings are not being posted to the register. NIH grant funding as we know it is going away.

Kid 3 and I worked hard today!!

#RhodeIsland

Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

US finds Mass. education department fails to protect students with disabilities www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/12/m...

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When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4hOUuvx

Up to 169 IES contracts have been canceled, threatening critical education research. This is a major setback for educators & children with disabilities who rely on evidence-based practices. Urge Congress to protect IES research! #4SpecialEducation exceptionalchildren.org/takeaction?v...

Unpacking the U.S. Department of Education: What Does It Actually Do? www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/edcast...

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I would like to clarify that I was quoted out of context in the article below. The statement attributed to me is incorrect and doesn't even make sense.

Kid 2 advanced from sledding in the backyard to snowboarding in the backyard! #NewEnglandKids

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Big news! Today, I became an American citizen! 🎈🥳😁

he Gaab Lab at HGSE is hiring psychoeducational evaluators!We are looking for multiple new part-time, per-diem testers with experience administering pediatric psychometric assessments. For more information about the position and how to apply, please visit www.gaablab.com/open-positions

A dismal report card in math and reading hechingerreport.org/naep-test-20...

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Let’s stop treating "leaving academia" as negative. Scientists train for academia, industry, or what suits them. Industry isn’t an alternative; it’s a choice. In fields like engineering, most PhDs go to industry, and no one calls it "leaving academia." We should train scientists for diverse paths.

THE CHAOS IN HIGHER ED IS ONLY GETTING STARTED apple.news/AbTj1ztTTQ4i...

Are you located in the New England area or traveling there in April? Consider joining us for this one-day conference organized by the New England Research on #Dyslexia Society! All info below:

If you are ready to advocate to your representatives (or friends and families) about the economic value of NIH funded research, you can check your state at www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

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Very successful mother & son crafts day (please ignore the extra glue..)!!

The International #CognitiveDevelopment Seminar Series continues in February with Dr Nadine Gaab (Harvard University) discussing "The Typical and Atypical Reading Brain." Don’t miss it—join us on 4th February! 🌟 Sign up: lnkd.in/eVERArbw details about the series: lnkd.in/ebQz_fXd

Wow, just wow. V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o... I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested

Citing Pennsylvania students’ low reading scores, advocates form coalition to improve literacy https://www.chalkbeat.org/philadelphia/2025/01/09/coalition-seeks-spending-for-literacy-instruction-like-science-of-reading/

In our study, we asked how much time was needed to teach #phonemicawareness (PA) optimally. Results showed that PA instruction effects improved with increasing dosage up to 10.20 hours of instruction (max effect = 0.74), after which the effects declined (=progress got slower). 🔗 shorturl.at/SGqJn

Genomic advances offer a novel route for investigating biological overlaps between musicality- and language-related traits. Here's a nice blog by my fab co-author Reyna Gordon, not (yet) on Bluesky, in which she breaks down our recently published @naturehumbehav.bsky.social paper on this topic. 🧪

It’s January in Massachusetts and the biggest fear of a middle school student is to be seen in a winter jacket. #LosingAura

Spot on and hilarious

Child 3 started talking to his friends about “DTI” and I proudly listened trying to hear how he would explain neuroimaging methods. Well, it turns out that DTI is a very popular game on Roblox, namely “Dress To Impress “. Excuse me while I go upstairs and feel nerdy (and old) …

You have to read this outstanding opinion piece in The New York Times by JennyAnderson and Rebecca Winthrop. Yes, students need more agency and autonomy to thrive in school and beyond. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...

The NRP Report (2000) found that independent silent reading may not be the most efficient use of instructional time. In our study, we replicated the finding. We found that independent reading didn't contribute meaningfully to improved reading outcomes. 🔗 shorturl.at/ZeBJz 🔗 shorturl.at/BZBpt

"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Not a new paper, but still helps (1/2) PhD survival guide @embopress.org #PhD #PhDlife #academics #scisky #medsky

NIH issues new policy to speed access to agency-funded research results www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...