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🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!! The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children. Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads. Start: Fall 2025 or later. Details: [email protected] RTs appreciated 💫

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UC San Diego Psychology hosted the first Southern California Meeting for Investigations in Developmental Science (SoCal MInDS) this Saturday. We were joined by wonderful folks from the southernmost UC campuses, SDSU, CSULA, Occidental College, and USC.

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Yesterday @asmithflores.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD and became Dr. Smith-Flores! Then she celebrated with her fantastic committee and lab members :) Congratulations, Alexis!!

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Gave my talk “The role of harm salience on children’s and adults’ perceptions of unfairness” at #SRCD25 yesterday (forgot to post here because it was the last session). Grateful to present among such thoughtful and inspiring researchers: #SRCD2025

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Come check out our symposium at #SRCD2025: "Navigating social groups and relationships"! There'll be talks by Sarah Ramsey, Rongzhi Liu, @rtompkins.bsky.social, and me. Thursday at 10 am.

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The last chapter of my dissertation is out now in Child Development! 🎉 OA: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/KEAHK8...

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Please consider donating to Rumeysa Ozturk's legal defense, living costs and medical care fund #Academicsky chuffed.org/project/just...

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🚨RT! The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/

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Research led by Psychology PhD candidate @radovanovic.bsky.social & Prof. @jessicas.bsky.social is investigating how people-pleasing socialization influences how children solve problems. 💡 www.psych.utoronto.ca/news/people-...

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🚨This week, many Columbia scientists lost grants that funded over half their annual income. Others will no longer be able to do research that helps treat thousands of sick patients across the US. "It hurts," they told me. My story for @nature.com 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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“Dan Fogelman can’t keep getting away with this,” I say, knowing I will continue to watch everything he creates #paradise

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My husband: that was two seconds! Me (an infant researcher who uses infant-controlled looking time methods): no it wasn’t. It’s literally my job to know what two seconds is My husband (a video editor): it is also my job to know what two seconds is Me:…well that’s a weird thing we have in common

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Lehigh University attained R1 status! news.lehigh.edu/lehigh-named...

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I am hiring a lab manager to start ~ July 1st. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

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developmental psychologist Richard Aslin wrote an excellent piece about the proposed cut to NIH F&A Costs (indirects)

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🎉 I'm hiring a lab manager to start August 2025 and help build my lab at Lehigh. Submit a CV, cover letter, transcript, and 2 reference contacts by March 14th. The full job description is linked below. Please share with any students or mentees who might be interested! #devpsy tinyurl.com/33vtvy79

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We’ll be closing interviews for this postdoc position soon. Please share and email me if you’re interested. FWIW our funding comes from a foreign foundation and hence it’s not subject to current freezes and generalized uncertainty wrt to US funding agencies.

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We are so grateful to everyone who has reached out to offer support as we face this horrifying tragedy. We have a long road ahead and are comforted to know we are not alone. If you would like to contribute: gofund.me/95387a92

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Absolutely ecstatic to share that I’ll be joining Lehigh University as an Assistant Professor in Psychology this July! ✨ I am so excited to build my own lab and join such an amazing department with the best colleagues. It really is a dream come true 💫 [1/2]

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Out now! @drbarner.bsky.social & I find that Hindi kids learn yesterday & tomorrow earlier than English kids, despite having only word 'kal' to reference both the past and future. We argue that kids rely on tense info (over associations w/ events) to learn. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab! Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org

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Happy Steve Kornacki Day to all who celebrate (which should be all eligible voters)!!

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Interested in working with me and/or any of my awesome colleagues at @UCSDPsychology for grad-school? Come check out this virtual event that @asmithflores.bsky.social organized for next week! Registration deadline this Friday (Oct 11)! diversifyingpsychology.ucsd.edu

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Applying to Psych PhD programs? Considering applying to @UCSDPsychology? For the third year in a row, we’re hosting a two-day virtual event for prospective students on October 17th & 18th. You can register and view the schedule at diversifyingpsychology.ucsd.edu. 1/4

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Looking forward to #ICIS2024! Especially excited about presenting with @lorijn.bsky.social @shariliu.bsky.social and @mzettersten.bsky.social in our symposium on Drivers of Infant Attention (S.61)! Stop by Thursday at 3! @infantstudies.bsky.social

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🚨New preprint! osf.io/preprints/os... Adults evaluate consider empathizers to be warm, likable, & respected, but not when the target of their empathy is morally reprehensible. We asked whether 4-7 year olds held similar beliefs. [1/4]

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I’m hiring a postdoc to start in Fall 2024 (or later) at UCSB! The ideal candidate should be interested in how babies and children make sense of others’ actions, minds, and/or relationships. Please share! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02765

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It's CDS week!! The SoCal Lab will be there, looking forward to lots of science & fun. Here are some places you'll be able to find us:

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I'm looking for published or in-progress infant object individuation studies that were conducted entirely online - any help would be appreciated! #devpsych #psychscisky @fting.bsky.social @asmithflores.bsky.social

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@asmithflores.bsky.social's paper on children's reasoning about social relationships & empathy is now published in Open Mind! direct.mit.edu/opmi/article... For folks who missed the preprint on Twitter, here's a quick summary (1/4)