New paper alert! Now published at PIBBS @sagepub.com Christine Potter and I discuss how parents, educators, and policy can harness bilingual shared reading to build children’s emergent biliteracy skills. doi.org/10.1177/2372...

This week I was promoted to Associate professor with tenure! I have many feelings and many things to say but I’ll only say two here: I am grateful for my mentors, colleagues, students, friends, and family who have supported me along the way. Only 2.4% of Associate professors are Latina women.

Want to make peer review more inclusive & equitable? @mattgoldrick.bsky.social and @mariamaly.bsky.social are hosting a free webinar on how to write better, fairer reviews! 📅 June 15th | 12–1:30pm EST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/59ez5azt #PeerReview #AcademicTwitter

Fun new collab coming out in TICS (w/ Haley Weaver & Sudha Arunachalam) digging into the assumptions underlying the use of eye-gaze methods to study vocabulary development. Working on this paper really got us thinking - we hope it does the same for our readers! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Looking forward: eye-gaze methods in vocabulary development research

Human multimodal processing abilities have provided researchers with an invaluable set of methods for interrogating language understanding. Even young…

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This conversation was SO much fun! Thank you for the opportunity to talk about my journey and work! @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social

The It's Innate! Podcast@theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New ep! 🚨 We chatted with Dr. Viridiana Benitez (viribeni.bsky.social) about her academic journey and mentorship. We also discuss her Current Biology paper, “Predictable Events Enhance Word Learning in Toddlers,” as well as her work on predictability and bilingualism. itsinnate.fireside.fm/36

Our newest paper, led by Marissa Castellana, describes how the monolingual bias has limited our ability to accurately understand the multilingual experience and presents a developmental systems framework that centers children's lived experiences with their languages. www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/16...

Headed to Montreal tomorrow for #CDS2026. Our ECC group at ASU will be presenting on multilingualism, curiosity, children's evaluations of teachers, the toys in infants' homes, parent-child play, and word learning. Stop by to learn about our work! @cogdevsoc.bsky.social