Aliana de la Guardia (s/h/h) 🇨🇺🇺🇸

Executive Director of @mosesianarts ⛪️ Artist 🎶 Nonprofit Arts Leader 🎭 Mentor 💫 Warrior 🥋 Jedi 🌗

[Aliana de la Guardia (s/h/h) 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @DirtyPaloma]

Grateful to @BostonGlobeArts for highlighting the Mosesian Center for the Arts new Artist-in-Residence Program.
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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Every additional minute your toddler spends on a screen, they hear about 7 fewer words from you. By age 3, they also make 5 fewer attempts to talk back and lose one back-and-forth exchange with a parent. That’s from a 2024 JAMA Pediatrics study that put speech-recognition recorders inside actual homes across Australia.

The 49% stat in this tweet is real. It comes from a 2017 study at SickKids Hospital in Toronto that tracked 894 children aged 6 to 24 months. For every 30 minutes of handheld screen time per day, the risk of a child being slow to form words and sentences increased by 49%. But only the speech output was affected. Gestures, body language, and social interaction were all fine.

The mechanism is displacement. A toddler’s brain learns language through something researchers call “serve and return”: baby babbles, parent responds, baby tries again. That loop is how the brain’s language wiring gets built. When a screen is on, that exchange drops off.

And we can now see it on brain scans. A 2020 JAMA Pediatrics study at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital scanned the brains of 47 kids aged 3 to 5. Kids with more screen time had weaker white matter, the insulation around nerve fibers that helps different parts of the brain talk to each other. The weak spots were in the exact areas that control language and early reading.

A 2023 study at Tohoku University in Japan followed 7,097 children from birth. More screen time at age 1 was associated with higher rates of communication delays at ages 2 and 4. Each additional hour widened the gap.

The AAP recommends zero screen time for children under 18 months, except for video calls. The average child under 2 already gets over an hour a day. But a 2023 systematic review found that when kids with speech delays stopped using devices for six months, 36.7% showed measurable improvement. The word in the tweet is “destroys.” The data says it’s closer to “delays,” and in many cases, delays that respond when the screens come off.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

The Oscars revealed the real reason Paramount wants to buy Warner Brothers.

[Aliana de la Guardia (s/h/h) 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @DirtyPaloma]

Putting Watertown on the map for artists and creative community building in 2026! Happy New Year!

[Aliana de la Guardia (s/h/h) 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @DirtyPaloma]

Grateful to @BostonGlobeArts for highlighting the Mosesian Center for the Arts new Artist-in-Residence Program.
https://t.co/VpnUMuDdTC

[Aliana de la Guardia (s/h/h) 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @DirtyPaloma]

Huge thanks to our board, staff, and guest adjudicators for their thoughtful work and excitement. This program was central to my vision for MCA when I interviewed for the position, and I am so proud of this team and this inaugural cohort!

[Aliana de la Guardia (s/h/h) 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @DirtyPaloma]

A gentle nudge to follow the work that lights me up.

[Aliana de la Guardia (s/h/h) 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @DirtyPaloma]

Mosesian Center for the Arts Announces New Executive Director https://t.co/mqFGzaWTnQ via @WatertownMANews

[PARMA Recordings @PARMARecordings]

We found that #autumn has a lot to offer for #musical inspiration. Dive into our "Fresh Fall Classical" #playlist to discover new fall-inspired works from several Navona and Albany Records releases by @DirtyPaloma, @AnnMossSoprano, and more.
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[Aliana de la Guardia (s/h/h) 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @DirtyPaloma]

@curtiscomposer That or I’m just not snarky enough for X

[Aliana de la Guardia (s/h/h) 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @DirtyPaloma]

Why the fuck did it take so long to turn the mics off!! #VPDebate2024

[Aliana de la Guardia (s/h/h) 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @DirtyPaloma]

@curtiscomposer I’m never sure when I should be on X or Threads. Both platforms are baffling to me now.

[Aliana de la Guardia (s/h/h) 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @DirtyPaloma]

This is especially timely, and surreal listening to the debate tonight. Have a listen tomorrow. And shout out to @MASSCreative #VPDebate2024

[Guerilla Opera @guerillaopera]

A political opera from the past AND for our time! Guerilla Opera podcast S5E1 "Say It Ain't So, Joe" - an interview with @curtiscomposer (Available on all platforms) https://t.co/SAh2xNxDY2 #VPDebate2024

[Voto Latino @votolatino]

JD Vance doesn’t like it when his lies are fact-checked:

[Voto Latino @votolatino]

JD Vance's rhetoric creates a vile trope that emboldens white supremacists.

— 68% of all voters — and 3/4 of all Latino voters — prefer a balanced approach to immigration that includes both border security and protections for undocumented immigrants already here. #VPDebate2024

[Aliana de la Guardia (s/h/h) 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @DirtyPaloma]

Finally getting to this read by Samantha Garcia. I just love her metaphor comparing healthy business practices to regenerative agriculture 💫 #fallreads

[Aliana de la Guardia (s/h/h) 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @DirtyPaloma]

@AnnTeixeira @Philanthropy_MA Thank you! 😅😮‍💨

[Aliana de la Guardia (s/h/h) 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @DirtyPaloma]

🥂 after 6 mo. of homework, research, & classes, I presented my Strategic Development Plan and received my Fundraising Certificate from @Philanthropy_MA. Thx to you and Jenn Hayslett (https://t.co/n1ZUMOyRP3). 💪🏼 refreshed, inspired, validated, empowered! #latinasinnonprofits

[Aliana de la Guardia (s/h/h) 🇨🇺🇺🇸 @DirtyPaloma]

LAST DAY to apply to the introductory 4wk Libretto Writing Lab with @guerillaopera! Composers new to writing & any writer or artist interested in exploring are welcome. Deadline TODAY, June 24, 2024. Apply at https://t.co/HTioPzYOdV. #writers #opera #newwork #newopera #artists