Amanda Van Horne

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Early humans in America endured climate chaos – new research theconversation.com/early-humans...

Tomorrow is DLD Awareness Day, and we're celebrating by featuring new articles you can use in your daily work with people with DLD! Check out the latest on the Context Blog! https://academy.pubs.asha.org/2026/10/dld-awareness-day-new-research-you-can-put-to-work/

As a PhD student designing my first survey, I added what I thought was a throwaway question at the end. To my surprise, thousands of academics answered it! The paper is out today: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

President Trump has inadvertently reduced global fossil fuel consumption because of the ongoing war with Iran. People worldwide are using significantly less oil and gas, which means less climate pollution.

American Academy of Pediatrics, reviewing evidence including 2.4M children, reports COVID vaccination lowers pediatric hospitalization and long COVID risk. Infants under 2 still carry the greatest severe disease burden. publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved”

We know how to teach all children & adolescents to read & these solutions are far cheaper than the ongoing costs of illiteracy. With thanks to @Kathy_Rastle for sharing her expertise on how to fix this problem:  "Inside the Reading Gap" podcast. Available on Apple & Spotify.

careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job... My lab is hiring a postdoc to help wrap up a clinical trial (data wrangling/data sharing/stats and and analytics /publications related to child psycholinguistics). Position begins immediately. #rstats #slpeeps #childlanguage #DLD please reach out if interested!

Disability justice in public health means responding to people with disabilities as experts in their own needs instead of relying on health interventions that attempt to make them more "normal."

Thanks for the laugh @hadley.nz 😂 tidydesign.substack.com/p/ai-outside...

3) they almost always require NOFOs which are basically extinct or at least drastically reduced in the current environment as @elizabethginexi.bsky.social has shown us with her analyses. substack.com/@formernih/n...

Getting rid of clinical trial K awards will reduce the number of clinician scientists, a critical part of our research workforce. This will especially impact the group of folks doing implementation science (where we figure out how to get evidence into practice). www.science.org/content/arti...

This is wonderful - if you need cheering up then this is a real tonic. ordinaryabundance.com

$4 BILLION. That’s how much the Trump Administration has now spent paying companies to cancel offshore wind projects that would have lowered your electric bill. Yes, you heard that right: they are PAYING to keep more energy off the grid and your bills higher.

My department is hiring 2 (TWO!) Tenure Track faculty in Developmental Psych and Biological Psych, to start Fall 2027. Deadlines 9/1 (Developmental) and 10/1 (Biological). More info here: www.carleton.edu/psychology/i.... Reach out with questions! carleton.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Carlet...

🪧 The University of Toronto (St. George) is hiring in American Politics, with a focus on democracy in the United States. Please spread the word! I'm on the committee and am more than happy to answer questions. Full ad & details here: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

“A $4 billion market of clinical decision support tools operates largely beyond public accountability, leaving patients and providers often unable to know whether tools influencing care have been validated, by whom, or for which populations they work as intended.” www.csail.mit.edu/news/ai-tool...

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

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...

Even with federal grants largely restored, scientists say the Trump administration is still preventing those funds from reaching them. The consequences, they say, are already becoming clear. n.pr/4dwU7Fi

State supreme court justices play a critical role in defending your rights and freedoms, which is why the election happening in Georgia right now is so important. Make sure you have a plan to vote for Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin.

“At age 19, after two failed attempts to reach the US via Honduras and Mexico, he succeeded. He received a work permit under the Temporary Protected Status program for refugees, worked as a janitor and at a UPS warehouse. He became a US citizen in 2006..." www.wvgazettemail.com/life/religio...

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

NEW: The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament has travelled to negotiations in Islamabad with the backpacks and pictures of the murdered schoolchildren of Minab. A powerful visual. (📸 MB Ghalibaf)

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

The political calculations that result in cutting NASA funding the day after the Artemis II launch must be fascinating

U of Minnesota has named a new School of Nursing scholarship after Alex Pretti.

I hate the framing of “Ms Rachel has found a new cause—“ because no she hasn’t. Advocating for children kidnapped and locked up by ICE is not incompatible with her advocacy of children in Palestine. You just want to make her advocacy sound frivolous and fleeting. She’s being consistent.

On top of the slowdown in grantmaking I wrote about last week - this is another deeply worrisome trend for scientists, physicians, patients, families, and basically anyone who wants new treatments and new tools to promote health. 🆘🧪🥼 open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion. That's $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. Thousands of lives lost. People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

A mentee of mine has $$ to spend on training and/or writing retreats before May 2026. They would benefit from clinical trials, stats for early efficacy trials, qualitative analyses, CBPR and/or writing retreats for people from/studying minoritized groups. Thoughts? #WomenInSTEM #AcademicSky

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The US/Israeli illegal attack on Iran should be understood to be a clear violation of the Olympic Truce (much as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was which led to its suspension by the IOC) and result in bans for 2028 and the stripping of those Games from LA. apnews.com/article/olym...