Brett, PhD, CCC-SLP

A group photo of Brett with colleagues from KU’s Department of Psychology standing in front of some plants and a fence outside at a brewery

I’m so grateful for my time here at KU’s Department of Psychology!

I’ve been so lucky to meet some amazing colleagues and friends. I’m looking forward to the next chapter and for the inevitable future collaborations ^_^

I started using @zen-browser.app and I kinda really love it!

Using Quarto for presentations has been a game changer

Integrating Advances in Personality Science to Re-Examine the Trait Theory of Voice Disorders Purpose: Voice disorders associated with vocal hyperfunction are some of the most common vocal pathologies. Certain personality traits are though...

The trait theory of voice disorders (TTVD) provided a unified framework to understand these relationships. This study re-examines the TTVD by adopting current theories and methods from personality science.

@sigperspectives.bsky.social

Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show A lawsuit led by the Washington state attorney general offers an unprecedented view of the termination of more than 600 NIH grants, including transgender research grants threatened by Trump’s executiv...

NEW: Trump lawyers have repeatedly said that the administration is complying with a federal court order stopping it from cutting transgender research funding.

New whistleblower records contradict those claims.

By @anniewaldman.bsky.social

Integrating Advances in Personality Science to Re-Examine the Trait Theory of Voice Disorders Purpose: Voice disorders associated with vocal hyperfunction are some of the most common vocal pathologies. Certain personality traits are though...

Interested in how personality traits relate to some of the most common voice disorders? Fresh off the press!
pubs.asha.org/doi/10.1044/...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

CHIN UP, DORKS!

Last time I checked, the fat lady hasn’t sung her song.

It’s not over. Science isn’t dead.

UNITE AND FIGHT ✊🏼🖤

#Standupforscience
#scienceforall

This administration has fired crisis counselors for our veterans and now for kids. This bullshit doesn’t make us great.

Any one of these calls could be life or death for a child. This senseless act of cruelty will kill people and they know it.

...

NIH bans all future grants to universities with DEI programs or Israel boycotts NIH prohibited the awarding of new grants to institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies

So, either universities put their big girl pants on and stand up to Trump

OR

The entire enterprise of biomedical research in the US collapses.

www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...

Thank you so much!! And that’s a wonderful idea! I’ll definitely be trying that

Thank you so much, Olivia!! :)

University of Houston letterhead April 7, 2025 Brett Welch [redacted address] Dear Brett Welch, Upon the recommendation of the search committee and with the approval of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, I am pleased to offer you a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Houston.

I'm very excited to officially announce that I'll be joining the University of Houston's Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders' faculty this fall!

What's a piece of advice or wisdom that you were told or wish you had been told going into your first Assistant Professor position? 😅

DSM: Ok let’s try one more time. This time will be better. Promise 😉

Latent variable models: Ok you have to admit this is mathier.

Network models: Even mathier. Also here’s a cool analogy about lake ecology. What if humans?

TikTok: Humming songs is ADHD which means your brain is wrong

If you’re ever feeling embarrassed about a blunder at work, read this and remember it’s probably not that bad.

This is one of the biggest threats to Americans' personal data in decades. If you're a 23andMe customer, I strongly urge you to delete your data to protect it from whoever the new buyer might be. Here’s how:

In Rihanna's 2016 song Work, she famously sang

"Nuh body touch me you nuh righteous
Nuh badda, text me in a crisis"

Today we ask, was Rihanna also in the group chat? Would war plans constitute a crisis?

the white house home shopping network of it all...

Guidelines and recommendations for cross-linguistic aphasia assessment: a review of 10 years of comprehensive aphasia test adaptations Standardised aphasia assessment tools may not always be available in a variety of languages, posing challenges for speech and language therapists to adequately assess and diagnose aphasia in speake...

Linguistic and cultural diversity in #aphasia research: #SLPeeps #neuropsychology 1/6

Guidelines and recommendations for cross-linguistic aphasia assessment: a review of 10 years of comprehensive aphasia test adaptations: Aphasiology: Vol 0, No 0 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

can confirm

Just trying to take it a day at a time 😪 lots of meditation, focusing on what I can control

Trying to celebrate the little things amidst all the chaos - just submitted another manuscript for peer review!

It would be such a shame if people were to use this form to submit nonsense complaints

enddei.ed.gov

Finally made the Bayesian leap for MLM and not gonna go back!

YouTube video by megan malzkuhn Hearing Knows Best

Hey everyone! If you haven't watched this video ever or haven't seen it in a while, it's a good use of 3 minutes!! It's satire but the behaviors it describes remain rampant especially when those responsible aren't held accountable.

youtu.be/MoxVdw6T0LA?...

*looks into the camera Office-style*

Submitted a peer review 11 days before the deadline - please clap

a close up of a woman 's face with the words " it was perfect " below it Alt: gif from Black Swan - a close up of a woman 's face with the words " it was perfect " below it

Just received an "accept" manuscript decision on an initial submission to a journal... I honestly never knew that could ever *actually* happen... I'm shaking in disbelief

Kinda wild how I have to take a required financial conflict of interest training to do research while the world's richest man who owns six companies is actively dismantling governmental institutions in his favor...

I'm all for required CoI trainings. But the juxtaposition just feels... 🥴