In this talk, Gregory Hickok will give a brief history of the neurology of syntax and describe a new model built on a motor control architecture but preserving the representational core of modern linguistic theory. 📅 21 Jun 10PM UTC @ abral.in/hickok

We asked Chia-Yu Lin 林家瑜 (she/her) 🇹🇼 💞 🇨🇦, Manager in Development and Research at @ARiEAL_Research to reflect on what she would tell her younger self about navigating this landscape as a person of colour. She had this insight to share in response ⬇️ 🔗Check out the episode: youtube.com/watch?v=hNkAV2…

New story posted! "Assonance Assists Meowmery!" is written and illustrated by talented McMaster University student Danielle Ledden. This story takes the reader through an experiment about learning words in a fun, engaging way, led by a cat named Skipper: wunderkinds.webnode.com/storybooks/

How can you maximize your infant’s vocabulary growth? Lucy Thomas and Krishotha Sarveswaran explain in new blog post how using PITCH and TONE can help: wunderkinds.webnode.com/l/how-to-use-p…

Beyond excited for the opportunity to attend #ComSciCon22 this August! 🥳

Aaaaand Day 3 is over! We are sad that #ComSciCon22 is coming to an end, but so excited about the connections it created! Thank you to all of our #ComSciCon attendees, guests, speakers, and organizers!

Today Gwenyth Lu and I fired up the eye-tracker and collected data from our first in-person participant since March 2020 - 2 years and 7 months ago.

We are thrilled to announce that the ComSciCon 2023 Flagship Workshop will be held July 19-22, 2023 at Emerson College in Boston, MA! Apply by March 19 for an all expenses paid opportunity to meet experts and leaders in #SciComm and hone your skills: tinyurl.com/p8y69w9w

My ❤️ is so full after ending the week at Niagara West Adult Learning Centre introducing our digital storytelling program, Long Story Short (longstoryshort.club) and connecting with community members by sharing stories and knowledge Reading Lab Future of Canada Project

Knowledge translation is a critical skill for the Three Minute Thesis competition. In my recent interviews with five experts, we discussed the art of communicating your research to a general audience and how this skill can have practical benefits for your career:

Meet #ComSciCon23's Organizers! Gwenyth Lu Gwenyth Lu joined the organizing team for #ComSciCon23 after attending in 2022. Gwen is completing her MSc at McMaster University where she studies how concussions affect electrical signals in the brain of retired CFL players

Gwen is currently developing a series of SciComm “bootcamps” at the @ARiEAL_Research Centre for graduate trainees to improve skills in communicating scientific topics to non-expert audiences!

Fellow reading/L2/education researchers. I’m looking for some advice on where to submit an ms. I wrote a paper on which language variables (vocab, reading rate, etc.) predict future GPAs of ESLs who went thru a bridging program. Having trouble finding a journal that’ll take it.

#ComSciCon23 STARTS TOMORROW! 📣🙌While our organizers are busy preparing for tomorrow, get a sneak peak at our program here ⬇️ comscicon.com/sites/projects…

We are so excited to bring together expert #SciComm-ers from across the US and Canada in all fields of science and engineering for 3 DAYS of building lasting networks and publishing original works! 👩‍🔬 Thank you to all of our sponsors for making this event possible! #COMSCICON23

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HUGE thank you to all of our organizers - graduate students from universities across the US and Canada and past ComSciCon attendees - for the many months of planning and putting out of fires that went into executing this conference! #ComSciCon23

We are thrilled to announce that the ComSciCon 2024 Flagship Workshop will be held July 24-27, 2024 at Emerson College in Boston, MA! Apply by March 22 for an all expenses paid opportunity to meet experts and leaders in #SciComm and hone your skills (🧵): bit.ly/3uMJGv2

Exciting news! We are extending the application deadline for our flagship #scicomm workshop in Boston this summer! The new deadline is: March 31st by 11:59pm (EST). Apply here: bit.ly/3uMJGv2 If you've attended before, repost with your experience - let's reconnect!