Teaching students how to be active readers and interact with text. Note-taking/textbook reading strategies. Text to text analysis skills - with a focus on the Odyssey and pop culture buy-in. All this and much more in this week’s blog. www.historycomics.net/timsmythblog...

It's been a year since the Coalition of Autism Scientists was established. @htagerf.bsky.social, professor emerita at Boston University and founder of the Center for Autism Research Excellence, shares her insights on the creation, impact, and future of the organization.

Vaccines, Tylenol, and Leucovorin: Autism Scientists Band Together to Refute Misinformation

A year after the Coalition of Autism Scientists was established, Helen Tager-Flusberg talks about the creation, impact, and future of the organization.

psychologicalscience.org

Oooh, we're entering the era of academic journals dropping their "qualitative checklists". Well done, Implementation Science. Maybe I'll send you a paper now. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Embracing complexity by reducing rigidity: guiding principles for the intersection of implementation science and qualitative research - Implementation Science

In this editorial we reflect on recent contributions that have focused on how researchers should involve qualitative research in implementation science. Implementation science as a discipline has firm...

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Chronically has a live screening as part of the Vancouver International Youth Film Festival! For those near Burnaby BC, it will screen June 27 at 3 PM at the Columbia Music Dance School (5363 Lane St in Burnaby). More info & tickets ($10) www.eventbrite.com/e/june-27-sc...

June 27 Screening 8: Documentary - VIYFF 2026

A curated screening showcasing incredible new youth talent in the Documentary category, followed by a Q&A session.

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Daniela O’Neill@danielaoneill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#Kitchener 🇨🇦 teen’s first feature-length documentary “Chronically” captures the medical & lived experiences of 5 teen girls with #chronicillness & rarer diagnoses. It’s been selected for the Toronto Lift-Off Festival & available to view (Features Programme $15) until July 7! #POTS #EDS #CRPS #SMAS

🧠‼️ Socioeconomic variables show the strongest associations with the brain out of 649 measures—surpassing cognition and mental health. Grateful for the chance to write a perspective with @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social about @smarek0502.bsky.social and team's important findings! tinyurl.com/bdhk6bc8

Childhood environments shape the brain

Socioeconomic factors top the list of influences on children’s brain structure and function

science.org

Scott Marek@smarek0502.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The strongest influence on children’s brains may not be what many expect, study suggests - A child’s family income and the neighbourhood they grow up in may have a stronger influence on brain development than factors such as IQ, parenting style or health history, according to new research.

The strongest influence on children’s brains may not be what many expect, study suggests

A child’s family income and the neighbourhood they grow up in may have a stronger influence on brain development than factors such as IQ, parenting style or health history, according to new research.

bit.ly

Yes, it's true. About half of Americans don't read very well. About a fifth really struggle. Most people don't have a college degree. Science magazine articles don't reach "the general public." (Not everything has to, that's fine. But we shouldn't be naive about the reach of magazine articles)

Pop science doesn't reach a "general audience"

Pop sci readers are wealthy, educated, and left-leaning

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Matthew Facciani@matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 2mo ago

To remain relevant and combat false information, scientists and publishers must engage audiences where they increasingly consume information: social-first, video-driven platforms. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#Kitchener 🇨🇦 teen’s first feature-length documentary “Chronically” captures the medical & lived experiences of 5 teen girls with #chronicillness & rarer diagnoses. It’s been selected for the Toronto Lift-Off Festival & available to view (Features Programme $15) until July 7! #POTS #EDS #CRPS #SMAS

Toronto Lift-Off Film Festival 2026

Season #17 Toronto Lift-Off Film Festival 1st June - 8th July 2026 Get TKTs Festival Programmes Local Filmmaker Shorts Showcasing films from local

liftoff.network

Delighted to our article about creating a playground #AAC board in Ground Magazine. A #landscapearchitecture magazine certainly wasn't on our radar when this project began! It’s openaccess & exciting to share this work far & wide with new audiences! issuu.com/oalagroundma... #play #inclusion #SLP

Free to view documentary The Reading Reboot highlights #structuredliteracy and the work of the UFLI team! This US documentary is relevant to Canada as more provinces move to structured literacy (in ON in part due to the recommendations of the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s #RighttoRead Report)

The Reading Reboot

Best-selling author James Patterson explores the current literacy crisis in America, highlighting evidence-based solutions from the Science of Reading.

wlrn.org

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

slate.com

This article, which I co-authored with @angelinehumber.bsky.social, is available on pp. 3-6 of CPF Magazine. The link can be found on Canadian Parents for French’s website: cpf.ca/cpf-magazine/

Exciting to see our AAC board make front page news at the University of Waterloo! uwaterloo.ca/news/arts/ev... #BskySpeechies #citiesforchildren #inclusion #accessibility #developmentalpsychology #AAC #SLP #play #languagedevelopment #pragmatics #playground #landscapearchitecture

Everyone should be able to enjoy the playground | Waterloo News

On your next trip to Waterloo Park, you’ll notice something unique in its newest Eby Farm playground: a large board with symbols and words arranged in a grid. Known as an Augmentative and Alternative ...

uwaterloo.ca

Lovely to get this ResearchGate notification! This was my 1st paper introducing my Language Use Inventory in 2007! I could never have anticipated where the LUI is today - normed & used all over the 🌎 with many translations! More info & access to this paper & others uwaterloo.ca/childrens-co...

On the back of this article- a thread of useful places for schools/teachers who are interested in finding out more… as I say, this has been a serious issue for a long time… it would be powerful to get a serious handle on it (with obvious impact on ed outcomes). www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

What schools are doing to tackle the speech and language ‘crisis’

The number of children with speech and language challenges is soaring. And not all of these pupils have SEND. Experts tell Ellen Peirson-Hagger how in-school intervention is possible - and highly effe...

tes.com

#openaccess Exploring How Social Communication Ability Is Affected by Disability, Context and Experience for Adolescents Transitioning to Adulthood #BskySpeechies #SLP #SLT #pragmatics #socialcommunicstion #languagedevelopment #adolescents #DevLangDis

Exploring How Social Communication Ability Is Affected by Disability, Context and Experience for Adolescents Transitioning to Adulthood

Background Effective social communication is adapted to the context, the setting and the people involved. It is less clear how measures of adolescent social communication ability reflect these aspec...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

There are lots of fantastic resources to support early language development on the Talk with Me website www.gov.wales/talk-with-me #NAPLIC26

Talk with me | GOV.WALES

Information and resources to help children learn to talk.

gov.wales

This is an interesting piece and connects to a convo i was having with friends yesterday, about how one of my challenges recently is persuading students that I want *their* thoughts and analysis about things, and that it coming *from them* is the entire point. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words

theguardian.com

Recently updated on our site: 100 EYFS picture books to read before you are 5 years old. 📚👍🏼 schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-list... #kidlit 100 picture books for EYFS to read before you are 5 years old. A selection of picture books which are ideal for children who are learning to...

Picture books for EYFS children aged 3-4 in Nursery

100 picture books for EYFS selected by qualified teachers - ideal for children learning to read in Nursery & Pre-Prep schools.

schoolreadinglist.co.uk

Does your child only read graphic novels? That’s OK – it’s helping them build literacy skills #reading

Does your child only read graphic novels? That’s OK – it’s helping them build literacy skills

A common question goes something like: how do I get my child to read something other than comics or graphic novels? But the answer might be: you don’t have to.

theconversation.com

Very interesting piece for teachers, parents and researchers #Bskyedu #Parents #K12 #cognitivedevelopment #cognition #learning #childdevelopment

Carl Hendrick@carlhendrick.substack.com · 3mo ago

Are students learning anything from TikTok and YouTube? And do we have the research to know? ⤵️ carlhendrick.substack.com/p/learning-i...

#openaccess Decoding and vocabulary improvements mediate sustained gains in reading comprehension: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial of a multicomponent reading intervention acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #structuredliteracy #scienceofreading #Bskyedu #BskySpeechies

<em>Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry</em> | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library

Background Reading comprehension is critical for academic success, yet many children with persistent decoding difficulties struggle to achieve it. This study examined whether a multicomponent litera...

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Please check out the launch of Piece of Mind by my student Olivia Vento who has successfully taken up the challenge to design a more #accessible puzzle for all who can still enjoy and benefit from the social and cognitive aspects of #puzzles! Pre-orders have just started! pieceofmindpuzzles.ca

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My students & I created an Augmentative and Alternative Communication #AAC Board for a local city #playground! We’ve made a video to highlight its features - some novel & others grounded in the in the best research we found. #openaccess report: doi.org/10.15353/100... youtu.be/w54Q0DWPCMs?...

Lately I've been thinking a lot about science, scicomm, and the crazy world we live in. And yeah. Now I'm completely reworking my newsletter. Because I feel like us science folks — scientists, scicommers, journalists, everyone who believes in science and truth as a force for good — need to talk.

I want to do more than write science entertainment

Let's talk about science and scicomm in a crazy world

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I got a kind note from an English teacher who’d been looking for ways to analyze images in comics & found my resource page on my visual analysis/annotation project. It was lovely to receive because a) it wasn’t ai spam & b) a reminder of why I share all this stuff spinweaveandcut.com/visual-analy...

Recently updated on our site: 100 picture books for EYFS to read before you are 5 years old. 📚👍🏼 schoolreadinglist.co.uk/reading-list... #kidlit 100 picture books for EYFS to read before you are 5 years old. A selection of picture books which are ideal for children who are learning to...

Picture books for EYFS children aged 3-4 in Nursery

100 picture books for EYFS selected by qualified teachers - ideal for children learning to read in Nursery & Pre-Prep schools.

schoolreadinglist.co.uk

Growth ≠ Scale. That distinction, Kevin Starr argues in Stanford Social Innovation Review, is what separates the organizations that dent big problems from the ones that don't. Scale ideas, not organizations. https://ssir.org/articles/entry/scale-really-matters #Philanthropy #ImpactInvesting

Scale Really Matters (SSIR)

The problems are big, the time is short, and the resources are limited.

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They're just bringing together the Avengers of comics academics and letting you watch their discussion for free? Incredible!!

Reimena Yee 🦇@reimenayee.com · 4mo ago

The Study of Comics in Academia May 30, 6 PM EDT I'll be moderating a panel for @cartoonist.coop Nib & Ink Digital Comics Festival, with @neilcohn.bsky.social @scottmccloud.bsky.social @nsousanis.bsky.social - geeking over the developments in comics studies. nif.cartoonist.coop/event/the-st...