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As funding falters, young brain scientists rethink careers in research Research on brain disorders may slow as young neuroscientists struggle to find jobs and research grants.

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I’ve seen this in WA, harm the most vulnerable first is the agenda. Hopefully Katie Wilson is paying attention and has a team to help her fix this asap. Our kids are in crisis.

Exploring the role of high-value crops to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand - Regional Environmental Change This study explores the potential benefits of transitioning from livestock farming to high-value alternative crops as a strategy for mitigating agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in New Zeala...

Why the fek aren't we doing this?

"Except for mānuka honey and peas, alternative crops were expected to be more profitable per ha than livestock."

"Profitability was predicted to increase by NZ$1.32 billion (Fig. 3), an increase of about NZ$6800/ha compared to average returns for livestock"
#nzpol

@drhodges.bsky.social

Changes in heartbeat-evoked potentials reflect changes in blood pressure | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society The heartbeat-evoked potential (HEP) is a growingly used electrophysiological method to study cardiac interoception; however, cardiovascular influences on these responses are not fully understood. In ...

The heartbeat evoked potential correlates with fluctuations in blood pressure: journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Newly detailed nerve links between brain and other organs shape thoughts, memories, and feelings Studies of interoception challenge distinctions between disorders of the brain and body—and may hold clues to the basis of consciousness

Back in 2021, we hypothesized brain-heart interactions could signal mental processing, potentially detecting consciousness in unresponsive patients. And we succeeded: www.jneurosci.org/content/41/2...
Then Science and SfN gave us a shout-out for it: tinyurl.com/ytr67c5a www.jneurosci.org/spotlight

Polar stereographic map showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in October 2025 for the Arctic Circle with red shading for warmer anomalies and blue shading for colder anomalies. Most areas are warmer than average. The baseline is a 1981-2010 reference period using ERA5 data.

Here's a look at the extent of the "warmth" across the #Arctic in October. This map uses my normal anomaly scaling for each month, but it clearly doesn't work for something this extreme.

Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Federal weather enterprise rises to the occasion again with Melissa - thanks to volunteers and unpaid employees When a federal government "shutdown" is not really a shutdown. And also looking at the continued longer term impacts of ongoing and threatened budget cuts.

Now that #Melissa is behind us as a tropical system, we need to have an honest conversation about how the federal weather enterprise is still running because of volunteers & unpaid employees, and how this "shutdown" is not really a shutdown.
https://tinyurl.com/2wk36686

Prereading Assessment in Two Bilingual Contexts: Examining Predictive Validity of the Urdu Phonological Tele-Assessment Tool in Pakistan and Canada Purpose: Early assessment of prereading abilities is important for ensuring long-term reading, academic, and career-related success. Speech-langu...

🔐💰in @ashajournals.bsky.social Bhalloo, I., & Molnar, M. (2025). Prereading Assessment in Two Bilingual Contexts: Examining Predictive Validity of the #Urdu Phonological Tele-Assessment Tool in 🇵🇰Pakistan and 🇨🇦Canada. LSHSS. doi.org/10.1044/2025...

Five Grammar Terms to Improve Practice and Preservice Pedagogy in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Purpose: The purpose of this article is to encourage the adoption of five grammar terms within the field of speech, language, and hearing science...

🆓🔓in @ashajournals.bsky.social Oetting J. B. (2025). Five Grammar Terms to Improve Practice and Preservice Pedagogy in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. doi.org/10.1044/2025... #devlangdis

🦋 #bskySPEECHIES

Longitudinal relations between phonological and grammatical development of young children with developmental language disorder Most children with a developmental language disorder (DLD) have persistent grammatical difficulties, and a considerable subgroup of these children also experience difficulties in their speech produ...

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🇳🇱Scheffer, A., Hakvoort, B., Keij, B., Ottow-Henning, E., van den Bergh, H., @logopedie.bsky.social, & Wijnen, F. (2025). Longitudinal relations between phonological and grammatical development of young children with #devlangdis. doi.org/10.1080/0269...

🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #childSPEECHdis

The Cleveland Family Speech and Reading Study: A Review of Long-Term Outcomes Linking Phenotypes and Genotypes for Speech Sound Disorders Purpose: This article reviews findings from the Cleveland Family Speech and Reading Study, a 25-year longitudinal study of speech sound disorders...

🆓🔓 In @ashajournals.bsky.social Lewis, B.A., Miller, G.J., Benchek, P., Stein, C., & Iyengar, S.K. (2025). The Cleveland Family Speech & Reading Study: A Review of Long-Term Outcomes Linking Phenotypes & Genotypes for Speech Sound Disorders. doi.org/10.1044/2025... #childSPEECHdis
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@drhodges.bsky.social this intersects with #RaisingMoxie.

Mind Matter: A Podcast Series About the Human Brain The most complex thing in the universe — so it has been called.

It's out! 🥁

In this five-episode series, we dive deep into the mysteries of the human brain. 🧠

So how special is the human brain? How did it evolve? And can we ever really understand it?

Grateful to all the amazing guests, incl. @matthewcobb.bsky.social, for their ideas.

Enjoy! 👏

When we support adults in their skill building within communication skills, we work in a way that empowers people who simultaneously uplift themselves and the others they interact with.

Surf’sUP Method: Evidence-Based Framework for Nurturing Resilience | Raising Moxie Discover the Surf’sUP Method by Dr. Hodges—a universal, evidence-based framework offering practical strategies for fostering emotional courage, stress management, and well-being in children across hom...

www.raisingmoxie.com/surfs-up-met...

@drhodges.bsky.social is the most impactful resource to address these needs. We must uplift adults with whole health skill-building communication, not simply trauma-informed care. #RaisingMoxie

Cutting the entire education department serving deaf-blind students is beyond inhuman. The level of expertise it takes to train & serve these kids is extensive and with the already spread thin nature of this work, there are no replacements for those fired, those who dedicated their lives to helping.

YouTube video by Dyslexia Bytes The History of Dyslexia

October 15th marks Dyslexia Awareness Day, Wear Red! Here is a short video from the great Dr. Martin Bloomfield of Dyslexia Bytes on The History of Dyslexia, feel free to share with your friends, families, colleagues and students:

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LEFT BEHIND

www.leftbehindthefilm.com

The Reading League, WA is hosting a dinner & a movie with this transformational film. Check it out in Vancouver, WA:
October 15
4:30pm – 6:30pm
In person
www.pdenroller.org/esd112/catal...
Virtual:
www.pdenroller.org/esd112/catal...

In this case, we’re not spending money, obviously, effectively, and we’re not living up to our promises.”
—end of thread—

It indicates that what we’re doing is not working, and that just simply throwing more money at the problem is not working,” he said. “That’s my area of interest. Holding people, holding politicians, holding government accountable for how it spends money and the promises that it makes.

Myers argues that significant increases in education spending have not improved student outcomes. “We’ve spent a lot of money. We compensate our teachers well, but during that same period of time, the NAEP [National Assessment of Educational Progress] scores have gone down.

not meeting improvement goals. “They clearly removed this because they wanted to make it more difficult for people to understand how we’re doing at meeting those targets,” he said. “Unfortunately, I see it all too often. When the data are inconvenient to the government, they simply hide the data.”

in OSPI’s latest release of student test score data, proficiency measures appeared to be adjusted, such that year-over-year comparisons were not a good gauge of improvement or decline. Myers contends OSPI took down the data to hide the fact that Washington students in public schools are

This would be well below the previously stated goal of ‘getting each student group to 90% proficiency in English language arts…’ as was stated on the now-removed State Targets web page. The same is true for math, where only 63.3% are achieving at Level 2, 3, or 4.” As reported by The Center Square,

he would get responses to his questions through that process, so she did not respond to other email inquiries. Myers says the data now available lacks context. “So, for 2024-25, the report card notes that 70.9% of students achieve ‘Levels 2,3 and 4’ in English Language Arts.

“I do my best to respond to all requests/inquiries in a reasonable time, and unfortunately, some slip through the cracks. It wasn’t intentional,” she said, adding that given Myers later put in a public records request for more information, she knew

if anything had been done. And in fact, it had. They removed it. They completely scrubbed the webpage of that section that was supposed to show how we’re doing toward meeting those goals.” Payne said OSPI’s slow response to Myers’ request for information was not intentional.

“I said, ‘Any news on this? Any news on this webpage which shows how we’re doing at meeting those targets?’ And about a week later, the superintendent had a press conference. And so, I was like, ‘Oh, this is interesting because he’s talking about these metrics.’ I went back to that page to see