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So the worst genre is definitely dystopian nonfiction

Georgia O'Keeffe with her self created pottery, by photographer Laura Gilpin #WomensArt

I would love to have Timothy Bates take on these data.

Hundreds of tired people lined up at Dulles trying to figure out how to get home and there is not a single British Airways staff member at the ticketing desk.

Are the waters parting for the role of genes in socioeconomic status? (or are scientists ceding social policy to the left in exchange for permission to peek under the chromosomal curtain of life :-) Either way, a very good, up-to-the-minute review of what we know about genes,

Excited about this new work in Association for Psychological Science showing that children need to be relatively fluent readers (reading at around 1 word per second) before they pay attention to television subtitles. Details in the thread or jump straight to the blog rastlelab.com/post/where-do-…

Where Do Children Look when Watching Videos with Same-Language Subtitles? Interested? You can read more here: rastlelab.com/post/where-do-…

In a new study, led by Royal Holloway in collaboration with UoN and funded by Nuffield Foundation, the eye movements of 180 primary school children in Years 1-6 were tracked, whilst they watched movies with & without subtitle. Link here: nottingham.ac.uk/news/research-…

I guess nobody really wants to talk about morphology just now, but Maria Korochkina and I just had a really cool paper accepted! Link soon! 📚

A huge honour to win a Royal Television Society Cymru award for our investigation into reading instruction - a real team effort by the Wales bureau 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ITV News 𝙇𝙪𝙠𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙤𝙣 Alex Littlewood RTS Cymru Wales

English is full of “lexical gaps,” words that are implied to exist but don’t, because we borrowed a bunch of words from Latin but not other, related words. Somebody made a chart to show it↓

A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.

Excellent short course on 'Supporting all Readers in Secondary School' developed by Jessie Ricketts, moving to @rickettslara.bsky now freely available on Department for Education 📚gov.uk/government/pub… RH Research

Primary educators 👋🏻 I am interviewing teachers for a research project aimed at understanding how teachers learn from each other in the workplace. But my sample is currently very secondary heavy… Could you (please!) spare me an hour of your time this week or next? Thanks!

The link is here! nature.com/articles/s4153…

** Subtitles - not a magic bullet for literacy ** Find out about our new research published in Association for Psychological Science (tinyurl.com/SLSubtitles) Royal Holloway Psychology Royal Holloway School of Psychology, University of Nottingham Nifty Fox Creative RH Social Science Anastasiya Lopukhina

Sound it out: Victorian children improve reading ‘leaps and bounds’ thanks to phonics | Australian education | The Guardian theguardian.com/australia-news…

Campaign groups in the US, UK and India claim that TV subtitles will help children learn to read. But our new research led by Anastasiya Lopukhina shows that children don't even look at subtitles until they can already read at around 1 word per second.

** New resource ** We analysed the characteristics of words in 1200 books for children and young people. Properties of each word (frequencies, etc) are now available in an interactive website. cyp-lex.rastlelab.com

What can children learn about morphology when they read for pleasure? Maria Korochkina and I analysed the words in 1200 books suitable for children and young people to find out! Read the blog post here: rastlelab.com/post/what-can-…