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developmental scientist. not-that-kind-of-doctor. coffee lover. cat person. parent. she/her.
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I wrote a piece for @sciam.bsky.social about why White parents should be talking to their kids about race and racism. It was so great to work with @megha.bsky.social on this piece! Please share! www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Developmental psychologists and statisticians team up to investigate the accuracy and reliability of research tools used to assess how children learn. Read more about how CMU researchers statistically evaluate spatial arrangement tasks with nontraditional data in this featured article! #research

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Fellow academics, I know that it can feel like capitulation to think about focusing on your work in the face of so many attacks on us right now. Remember that knowledge is the enemy of ignorance & ignorance is the tool of tyranny. Doing our work is now a form of rebellion. Keep rebelling.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

New lab paper just dropped! Led by Roberto Vargas, we looked at how a person’s geometry of concept relations aligns to their group identity and how this is impacted by information sources. www.nature.com/articles/s44... A 🧵 1/9

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

We tend to think of anti-vaxxers as affluent, White, crunchy granola-type moms. But that stereotype ignores how precarity creates vulnerability to anti-vaxx messaging. Take Tara, whose daughter had a sudden shift in temperament not long after a routine vaccine. 🧵1/ open.substack.com/pub/jesscala...

submitted 70 days ago • 2 comments

so excited to share this paper where we evaluated the psychometrics of the spatial arrangement method to study children’s semantic structure! open access link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

1/ When we partnered with 6th grade teachers to support students' executive functioning and math learning, I was struck by what the teachers wanted to know: What could be done about student procrastination? go.nature.com/3Yug81z #PsychSciSky

submitted 209 days ago • 1 comment

President Venn Diagram xkcd.com/2962

submitted 221 days ago • 59 comments

Thinking about pros and cons of collecting data from kids online? Our meta-analysis is out today. Effects from online testing were slightly but not significantly smaller than matched in-lab effects: d = −.05 [−.17, .07]. By Aaron Chuey, Veronica Boyce, and Anjie Cao. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

submitted 245 days ago • 1 comment

Hey cognitive development folks - anyone tried having 5-8 year olds do online tasks with either mouse/trackpad responses or arrow key responses? Do you have an opinion on the issues with either? Trying to design tasks for kids on different platforms (inc. computer as well as tablet).

submitted 386 days ago • 6 comments

Are you an undergrad interested in post-bac programs in cognitive and brain sciences? @sparksociety.bsky.social will hold a webinar on Jan 30 at 4pm with reps from Columbia, MIT, Delaware and Pitt discussing their programs. See the flyer below for more details. Feel free to DM me with any questions.

submitted 403 days ago • 1 comment

developmental folks: can you share studies looking at psychometric properties of *cognitive tasks* with children participants — any aspect of validity or reliability? extra points for participants in the 3-8y range. thanks!

submitted 420 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote an op-ed for the NYT about what reporting on long COVID has meant to me—how I approached it, the impact it had, and how it taught me to be a better journalist. This piece is sort of a manifesto for a journalism grounded in compassion, rigor, and care. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/11/o...

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Sharing our new paper out in SIPR: Understanding the challenges and opportunities of talking to children about race and racism in child-facing institutions Led by Leigh Wilton with Jessica Sullivan & Analia Albuja Grateful to be a part of it! spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Job alert! I am seeking a 50%-time project manager for a new NSF-funded project on how simple card games can promote learning about biological variability--with a focus on relational language & gesture in caregiver-child interaction during play. More info: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc...

submitted 515 days ago • 1 comment