Prof Ros Herman

Free hybrid one-day conference: Communication Interventions with Deaf People. Thursday 20 Nov 2025 18.00-20.00 GMT | 13.00-15.00 ET. BSL, ASL & IS interpreters provided
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Explore how we can involve disabled children and young people in research at the next #MakingParticipationWork Practitioners’ Community of Practice on 19 November, 10:00–13:00 online. Register now at buff.ly/0xHS4c6

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the only places in the world without the insects

"It's just the weather"

"Mosquitoes have been found in Iceland for the first time.

Iceland was one of the only places in the world that did not have a mosquito population.

The other is Antarctica."

#GlobalBoiling

All in the Mind - Are there multiple subtypes of autism, and how vivid are your memories? - BBC Sounds A new study suggests that autism’s genetic profile differs with age at diagnosis.

Brilliant episode of All in the Mind with @claudiahammond.bsky.social, who discusses autism with @utafrith.bsky.social, brain development with @catherineloveday.bsky.social, as well as memory, music and other interesting topics

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My last vlog for my NIHR PCAF! I've so enjoyed stepping into research over the last two years and am excited for what's to come next!

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@drfionakyle.bsky.social @rosherman.bsky.social

www.reading.ac.uk/news/2025/Re... Anyone else going? Starts at 1.30 in Palmer, David Crystal is speaking at 4.30

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

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

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

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 ...

🆓🔓 @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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🆓🔓 @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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@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

30% book discount code below, also available online @speechandlanguk.bsky.social
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@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

#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

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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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...

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.

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.

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

Stepping into someone else's shoes: How diverse stories nurture… Author Fidan Meikle shares the importance of reading about other children’s lives.

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.

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Interesting to see Enid Blyton is still so popular!

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.

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

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).

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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 ...

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.

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