Mariana Silva

Speech&Lang PhD Stud@ASU / CCC- SLP/Passionate about #naija/#tech #bilingualism /a bad speller (rough writer)🛼 =🤍inst:@msilva1234

[Mariana Silva @SilvaMsilva38]

@RogueChieftan That is really expensive - don’t feel bad. Plus for a first date 😬

[Mariana Silva @SilvaMsilva38]

@prof_pius Breaking bad

[ASHA Journals @ASHAJournals]

Differences in social determinants of health drive the gap in post-stroke communication challenges between Hispanics & non-Hispanic Whites. Addressing these disparities is key. Check out this #AJSLP study by @manueljmarte et al. https://t.co/dgsQHo4LeX

@SIGPerspectives #SLPeeps

[Scholar @the_scholar1]

Tell us one thing about the Hausa People

[Mariana Silva @SilvaMsilva38]

@arojinle1 It’s used for artificial insemination

[Scholar @the_scholar1]

Tell us one thing about kano state and its people

[ASHA Journals @ASHAJournals]

Grammaticality Judgments of Tense & Agreement by Children With & w/o #DLD Across Dialects of English, by Janna Oetting, Janet McDonald, Lori Vaughn https://t.co/CTOXtFG8Tq @DLD_papers @CSDIsseminate @SIGPerspectives #slpeeps @speechwoman #WeSpeechies @DLDandMe #devlandis

[Ralph Pantozzi @mathillustrated]

Homework is one of the most inequitable practices in education. Pass it on.

[Mark Anderson @mandercorn]

So excited to have @DrElsa_CHagan with our @CSD9Bronx teams to bring structured literacy and literacy foundations for our multilingual learners.

[Arizona State University @ASU]

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Congratulations to the @Dbacks on reaching the World Series for the first time since 2001! 😈 🐍 🔱

And forks up to all of our Sun Devil alumni involved with the team:

[Atiku Abubakar @atiku]

It is for these reasons that commendation must be given to David Hundeyin, an independent journalist whose extraordinary work and those of many more young people like him has become a source of inspiration. Special thanks must be given to the millions of Nigerian youths and citizen journalists too who continue to put out the truth online even when no one is listening. Indeed, the price of Liberty is Eternal Vigilance. They have put the country first in their firm commitment to unravel the truth and hold leaders accountable. This gives me the hope that we have worthy partners in the struggle to reclaim the country we call home.

This quest is not for or about Atiku Abubakar. It is a quest for the enthronement of truth, morality, and accountability in our public affairs. In line with this, therefore, I am calling on all well-meaning Nigerians, leaders of thought, our religious leaders, our traditional leaders, our community leaders, our political leaders, and in particular, Governor Peter Obi of the Labour Party and Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of the NNPP and, the leaders of every political party in Nigeria, and, indeed, every single person who loves this country, as I do, and who wishes nothing but the best for the country, as I do, to join me in this campaign to enshrine probity, accountability and the basic principles of justice, morality and uprightness in our country and in our government. This is a task for each and every one of us.

Thank you for listening. May God bless you, and may God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

[NEFERTITI @firstladyship]

@atiku It’s good you listened. Your World Press Conference was well delivered. Now mobilize your people to get to work. This is not a partisan affair, Nigerians will lend you their voices. The Opposition should come together, FOR THE GLORY OF NIGERIA. 🇳🇬

[DGov @omoluabi1sq]

I have never met @atiku and neither have I sought for help from him or anyone close to him. I have my job which is well paying but I simply just want the best for this country.

I knew APC can never give Nigeria the needed change and transformation required to take this country to the next level. The party is full of liars and under no circumstance should they have found their way to power. Sadly, Nigerians believe in their lies cos it was sweet and edible enough for any gullible mind to swallow.

APC told a lot of lies about PDP and even made people to believe PDP destroyed Nigeria economy. APC has now done so much harm to this country that even our youths now believe they can’t make it in Nigeria except they Japa.

So many Nigerians travelled abroad under Jonathan led PDP Govt to further their studies abroad and I can boldly say my brother in-law today is in Canada through Jonathan scholarship. I have not heard of any scholarship under APC Govt. Even the ones that didn’t finish their education before PDP left power had to drop out after Buhari led APC got to power cos APC led Govt stopped paying their fees. Even the ones that got scholarship through NDDC dropped out. It was so sad even when NDDC claimed they had settled the fees of these students under their scheme, it was later discovered to be lies. What did we not see under Buhari APC led Govt?

APC destroyed PDP so much that Nigerians started looking for alternative party to regain power from APC and we landed in LP. LP was the creation of APC as it was a bait to make APC retain power and sad enough, they retain the power and we are where we are today.

Tinubu won’t be different from Buhari but we have to thank @atiku for being the last man standing. Even though he contributed to APC coming to power but he will also be responsible for them leaving same power.

On behalf of my family, friends and associates, I thank you for pursuing the case in the US so Nigerians will know the truth about Tinubu and we are very certain APC time is up.

Happy Independent Day

[Atiku Abubakar @atiku]

It is sad to hear of the passing away of Pa Micheal Taiwo Akinkunmi, who designed our national flag, which has become a part of our heritage.

I wish to join our compatriots not just to mourn but to celebrate one of our national heroes who passed on at the age of 84. I have directed that the Nigerian flag in my residence be flown at half mast in his honour.

This is why I have always advocated for the study of history so that the youth and future generations will be acquainted with our past and emulate the virtues and heroic deeds of our present and past leaders.

My thoughts and prayers are with his family, even as I pray that God comforts them and grants Pa Akinkunmi eternal rest. -AA

[Reno Omokri @renoomokri]

If you wake up on a Monday morning and enter a train in London and its environs, you can hardly find two people talking to each other. Everyone avoids eye contact. There is silence. The only noise you hear is the choo choo-ing of the train. Very little human interaction.

The same thing happens on buses and the streets. It is as if people have been put in a trance-like state, and they become zombies heading off to different workplaces doing work that they don't like to get the money that they like. In fact, you will see the rat race on steroids.

Nobody has time for you. Each person is wrapped up in themselves. This cycle is repeated every working day. And then, at four in the evening, there will be a wave of people, all stoic and cold, moving in the other direction. Very soon, you find that it is hard to make friends. And even if it is possible, you may not be able to maintain friendships, as the work commute takes its toll on you.

As an African immigrant, this is your first culture shock. Then you become part of the system. You get a job, and your life revolves around it. You buy a house, and you take up a second job because the mortgage is something else.

Then your biological mother visits from Nigeria, and you can't even spend five unbroken hours with her, because you have to go to your second job soon after you finished your first job. You are not even aware that you have become more committed to the rat race than to your family.

And you are thirty. You will do this for the next thirty five years. Yes, you have a lot of things that people back in Africa do not have. But is life not more than things?

Don't take for granted the warmth, noise, the hustle and bustle, and the human connection you get in Africa. Even in a bus in Lagos, commuters are not strangers to each other. In the ninety minutes it takes for them to get to their destinations, they will 'gist' and have more interactions than you have had with your English neighbour since you moved next door to him.

Those are the little things that make life worth living, not material possessions that possess you to the extent that to keep them, you must stop living and become another fixture of the rat race.

What did the philosopher say again? Even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat!

If you japa, you may end up trading relational wealth for economic prosperity. And in the evening of your life, you may ask yourself, 'What did it profit me to gain the whole world and lose my soul to the rat race?'

#TableShaker

[Jamila Lyiscott, PhD @jamila_lyiscott]

9 years ago today @TEDTalks invited me to share “3 Ways to Speak English” and millions of ppl across the world have since shared how much it means to release the shame around to their languages, accents, and voices. Happy Juneteenth ❤️💛🖤💚

[Tiffany Hogan @tiffanyphogan]

Highly recommend #Impsci community 🎉 https://t.co/kcnN3zJhYY

[Tiffany Hogan @tiffanyphogan]

"Juneteenth celebrations are a chance for this country, for the United States to rethink not only its origins, but the relationship of everybody who lives in this country to each other," https://t.co/LmRwDqSYzw

[Mariana Silva @SilvaMsilva38]

@ThePhDPlace I really appreciate the PhD place 💫💫💫