Callie Little

neither a brooding young artist nor a stuffy professional. A Developmental Psychologist, instead.

[Science News @ScienceNews]

Hurricane Melissa is a powerful example of how climate change has intensified tropical cyclones: Huge, slow-moving and bursting with deluging rains.

https://t.co/YUMl9sOPeo

[Florida Center for Reading Research @TheFCRR]

FCRR had a spooktacular time at Owl-O-Ween: A Family Fun Day at Goodwood! Drs. Callie Little and Denise Dennis shared reading resources, met families, and spread the joy of literacy—with plenty of sweet treats to go around! 🎃🍭📚

[Science News @ScienceNews]

The FDA plans to add a warning to Tylenol’s label and OK use of a drug for autism. Researchers say there’s little data to support either move.

https://t.co/mbNu2IGRjO

[US Open Tennis @usopen]

A pink flamingo, captured in its natural habitat. 🦩

[Callie Little @cignae]

Hurricane seasons are already terrifying in FL 😬🥺

[maybe: k*rk @a_dose_of_wx]

The proposed FY2026 NOAA budget request to Congress is nothing short of a dismantling of America’s weather and climate science infrastructure. If enacted, this budget would gut the very backbone of our nation’s weather research and development capacity, pushing critical progress back decades—and endangering lives in the process.

Here’s what’s on the chopping block:

1. The National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
The home of tornado research, foundational to every warning issued during severe weather. The birthplace of the VORTEX field campaigns. The engine behind Warn-on-Forecast (WoF), hail modeling, and the development of radar technologies that have literally saved lives.
Under this proposal? Eliminated. Worried about the NAM going away? Imagine the HRRR retiring and we are stuck with the RRFS with a FV3 core because all the MPAS work is gone.

2. Cooperative Institutes
These partnerships between NOAA and top-tier research universities are how theory becomes practice—where academic innovation translates into operational forecasting. By slashing CI funding, NOAA would eliminate the very people—scientists, developers, grad students, postdocs—doing the daily work that drives the field forward.

And it gets worse: Hurricane Reconnaissance Flights

The proposal also slashes funding for aircraft recapitalization. That means NOAA’s hurricane hunter fleet—the very aircraft that fly into the eye of storms to gather real-time data that improves track and intensity forecasts—may no longer be maintained or replaced. The consequence?

Fewer flights. Less data. Worse forecasts. More lives at risk.

NOAA’s recon fleet provides critical observations that no satellite can offer. These missions fill gaps in the models and are often the difference between a “cone of uncertainty” and a clear landfall forecast. Without them, storm predictions would be less accurate, emergency response would be slower, and coastal communities would suffer the consequences.

The U.S. has long led the world in weather forecasting, hurricane science, and severe storm research. This proposal would relinquish that leadership, ceding ground to other nations while crippling our ability to protect our own citizens from tornadoes, floods, and hurricanes.

[State University System of Florida @SUS_Florida]

The Tucker Center is serving as the student and family assistance center for those impacted by the tragedy that took place at @FloridaState today. Counseling and other support services are available at the Tucker Center. For additional information, visit https://t.co/bzWHWakHyT.

[Callie Little @cignae]

@schotz 🥲

[Sonia Cabell @SoniaCabell]

We are continuing to accept PhD applications through January 6. Please consider applying! @TheFCRR

[Tiffany Hogan @tiffanyphogan]

Congrats and well deserved spotlight on the amazing @TheDrPT

[LDbase @LDbaseRepo]

Excellent work hannie!!

[Florida Center for Reading Research @TheFCRR]

Happening tomorrow, 𝟭𝟬/𝟯𝟬/𝟮𝟰

Don't miss this important conversation hosted by @DyslexiaBlack
#DABCConference24

[Callie Little @cignae]

Come work with our amazing team at QMI!

[Florida Center for Reading Research @TheFCRR]

The @QMI_FCRR division of FCRR seeks a highly motivated and talented postdoctoral scholar with AI and machine learning expertise to join their interdisciplinary research group. Learn more at: https://t.co/CsjGe0BiJ4 (Job #58924)

[Rachelle M. Johnson @J_RachelleM]

Check out the results of our pub overviewing U.S. children's educational experiences during COVID. 🦠📚👩🏻‍💻
https://t.co/4NG6Ft5H7N

[Rachelle M. Johnson @J_RachelleM]

Visualizing the cooccurring math and reading difficulties of children receiving special education services #OpenScienceOctober @LDbaseRepo

I made it a spider 🕷️ plot , even though #DataSharingIsntSpooky

[Callie Little @cignae]

@LeighMcLeanPhD Wonderfully cozy!

[NNERPP @RPP_Network]

Tomorrow at #SREE2024: Catch Paula Arce-Trigatti, Director of NNERPP, in a session on democratizing evidence use in education for equity and impact, together with Lenay Dunn, @RippleFarley, Carlas McCauley, Alicia Okpareke, and @Dr_Shewchuk: https://t.co/yDHXSANNlj

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

I’m sure someone is probably fact-checking the debate… maybe… perhaps. But who’s gonna call out the dog whistles and white nonsense?

Lets Blackcheck the debate

A (live) thread:

[ABC 27 @abc27]

City leaders working to add EV chargers to Tallahassee; how they plan to pay for it https://t.co/hTDZcDVgHE