America is experiencing the charisma juggernaut that is Liz Truss. They are not ready.

Congrats to Dr Jo Saul from UCL Psych & Lang Sci who's received the Neil O’Connor Award from the British Psychological Association for her publication titled: 'Does phonetic repertoire in minimally verbal autistic preschoolers predict the severity of later expressive language impairment?'

so proud of Jo Saul!! UCL Brain Sciences UCL Psych & Lang Sci. looking forward to visiting Glasgow to celebrate her work!

Illusory generalizability of clinical prediction models | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that further shore
Is reachable from here.
Believe in miracle
And cures and healing wells.

Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy. That’s more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding for creative arts at university level is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic…

I'm thrilled to share Episode 29 of the Language Neuroscience Podcast: a great conversation with Dorothy Bishop Dorothy Bishop about developmental language disorders, meta-science, and more!
langneurosci.org/podcast/ep29

Join us at #ReproT on 21 March to learn about synthetic datasets!

Dan Major-Smith (@djsmith90.bsky.social) will discuss how synthetic datasets can promote open science when data (e.g., longitudinal cohort studies) can't be shared.

Sign up: eventbrite.co.uk/e/using-synthe…

Tabea Schoeler Alex Kwong UK Reproducibility Network Swiss Reproducibility Network

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Really pleased to share this new preprint by Anna Gowenlock
Exposure to Language in Video and its Impact on Linguistic Development in Children aged 3-11: A Scoping Review
with Prof Courtenay Norbury UCL Experimental Psychology UCL Psych & Lang Sci UCL Language & Cognition
osf.io/preprints/psya…

Calling all CYPMHS professionals with an interest in supporting mental health of young people with language disorder #devlangdis . Join us on 16th of April to discuss adapting talking therapies: rb.gy/7rmqxt

RCSLTResearch, RCSLTLearn @CLinAcSLT Prof Courtenay Norbury

Shelbi Annison, an adult with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), has started a podcast. In the first episode, she interviews another adult with DLD, Sophie Franks. Listen to them sharing their lived experiences. youtube.com/watch?v=ButOdx…
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We are recruting a postdoc for our large scale longitudinal study SpedAims cohort. Great opportunities for the right person interested in QM,language, reading, math or beh problems. Norwegian skills not a prerequisite Please share😊 jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

'A pupil may be quiet, not misbehaving and not causing any trouble. But they may actually understand almost nothing of what is being said to them'

Prof Charles Hulme on why language development remains a critical issue impacting pupil outcomes

tes.com/magazine/teach…

Very late to this but Once upon a time in Northern Ireland is one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen. Astonishing. On iplayer