"Language is messy, and so are we." Ending my last academic semester of grad school with some thoughtful quotes from my professor. I've been in academia my whole life, so this transition feels hard 🥲

This is what it took me until my last year of grad school to realize. I’m still regularly overwhelmed by how much I don’t know, but I no longer suffer from the delusion that everyone else in my position knows 5x more than me.

Posted publicly about my girlfriend for the first time, and was genuinely shocked by the amount of support from my peers in grad school. I get very nervous in this field because of it's homogeneity, so it's nice to know that being a little different is okay

We're looking to recruit a new PhD student for Fall 2022! Current lab research is focused on #aphasia rehabilitation, counseling, adaptive computer-based anomia tx, aphasia games, and stakeholder engagement. Please retweet! Applications due January 15th: shrs.pitt.edu/phdcsd/admissi…

Please retweet. Everyone needs to know this happening and that it’s unacceptable.

Want a quick cheat sheet for spotting the possible signs of dyslexia by age range? Check out this infographic that provides information about typical readers as well as readers at risk for dyslexia in preschool and beyond: improvingliteracy.org/brief/understa…

Can officially call myself a M.S. CF-SLP! 🙌✨

Next time you hit a paywall when searching for a journal article, try using oaDOI. Putting 'oa' in front of the article’s DOI in your search bar (oadoi.org/10…) will take you to a free version of an entire article if it’s available. Give it a try! #SLP #AuD #OpenSci

📢📢Preprint alert!!📢📢 #Voice #SLPeeps interested in using CPP to analyze voice??? See our new preprint for a step-by-step guide about how to use our new Praat plugin for CPP analysis . No scripting needed, after installation you just press a button! osf.io/yvp4s

It’s not possible to jump from feeling “stressed” to “Joy in work” - which is why Basic Needs at Work 💛🧡 are so important & the language we use with staff matters Here’s my ladder of emotions - where are you at? #NHS

Great list of calm down strategies for kids (some will work for adults too!). 🌐 andnextcomesl.com

Need icons? Use Flaticon Need Q+As? Use @Slidoapp Need quizzes? Use Kahoot! Need images? Use Pixabay Need polls? Use Mentimeter Need a transcript? Use Otter.ai (AI Meeting Agent) Need to prerecord? Use Clipchamp Need templates? Use Slides Carnival 10x your next presentation.

Here are two apps that will make reading papers and taking notes easy — super easy:

Just finished and can recommend. Next round starts today. The course is free, self-paced (even if you don’t sign up exactly today you’ll have time to do it in coming weeks) and a great resource for learning about Dyslexia. coursera.org/learn/dyslexia

ChatGPT generates fake citations to papers that don't exist. But there is an AI-powered app that gives you real citations to actually published papers — Scite. Here's how to use it:

How NOT to use ChatGPT (as an academic):

Todays doodle: “Hard to reach” “Disengaged” “Being difficult” “Not responding” Make sure you check it’s not “We are inaccessible” “We are not communicating right” “The service is too complex” “Our resources are not universal” What we find “easy” is not the same for everyone

Small things that can help reduce burnout and increase wellbeing - might not solve everything but we can still do the small things consistently through our behaviours, investment & intentions

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Is the paper you need stuck behind a paywall? Here is a list of useful websites to help you access the research you need. * unpaywall.org * paperpanda.app * 12ft.io * openaccessbutton.org * ilovephd.com/working-sci-hu…