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we just posted the Expanded Natural History of Song Discography, a corpus of audio & metadata. 1007 songs in many languages, for behavioral experiments, cross-cultural research, etc preprint: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/d2ftg_v1 corpus: zenodo.org/records/14927216 led by @milabertolo.bsky.social 1/

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My new book, MORE THAN WORDS (Avery/PenguinRandomHouse) arrives 6/3! It tells the story of how we produce language & how talking shapes our lives in surprising ways. It's psyling for gen'l audiences! Info & preorders www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724046/more-than-words-by-maryellen-macdonald-phd/

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I am so proud and pleased to coedit this special issue of Daedalus on a social science of caregiving, a remarkable range of essays on care from birth to death (and beyond) from biology, psychology, economics, religion, policy etc. Very timely scientifically and practically www.amacad.org/daedalus

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📣 Absolutely elated to announce that in 2026, I’ll be joining Rutgers-Newark as TT Assistant Professor in the Dept of Psychology! Can’t wait to join this incredible community! 🤩 I’ve got some fun projects ahead as I wrap up my postdoc, but soon I’ll start recruiting at all levels so stay tuned. 1/3

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Suppose you generated a sequence of 100 random numbers. Then one year later, you did it again. Do you think we could predict one sequence from the other? It turns out, we can! Now in press @ JEP:G with @samiyousif.bsky.social @actlab.bsky.social @robbrutledge.bsky.social; osf.io/preprints/ps...

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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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i've never advertised it but i have an rstudio plugin that will run knitr on a selection of text in your current session to preview what the text looks like with inlined results github.com/tjmahr/WrapRmd

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Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

submitted 32 days ago • 31 comments

📣📣📣 Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org

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Please share with undergrads! The CHILD Lab is one lab in USC's JumpStart program! JumpStart provides a pathway to PhD programs for undergrads & works with USC to invite students from outside colleges to apply for summer research opportunities in various subjects. Apps due Feb 28 (lnkd.in/gW4fZtwG)

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I have recently launched the relational cognition lab at UC Irvine: relcoglab.org! We study learning and memory in mind, brains and machines. I am open to collaborations and hiring a lab technician (lab manager/junior specialist). Job ad & application here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09400.

submitted 45 days ago • 6 comments

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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Had a great time joining Deon and Jenny to chat about some recent ManyBabies projects!

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Challenges and promises of big team comparative cognition. Read our comment in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social It is one of the many upcoming #Manymanys projects! Stay tuned for more :) #BigTeamScience, #BTS, #OpenScience. rdcu.be/d30KP

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Non-passionate minds also welcome at this point, mind you. But seriously - reviewing CogSci papers is a great way to quickly learn about a bunch of new work and provide constructive feedback that helps folks refine their work!

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

New article on how dogs are using their soundboards at home is finally out! Using a large dataset (250K) of button presses by dogs and owners, we show that dogs’ presses are (i) non-accidental, (ii) non-random, and (iii) not mere repetitions of their owners’ presses. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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We scaled training data attribution (TDA) methods ~1000x to find influential pretraining examples for thousands of queries in an 8B-parameter LLM over the entire 160B-token C4 corpus! medium.com/people-ai-re...

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

We have extended the deadline for this position to January 31st. Also, the start date is pretty flexible; if you're graduating next spring/summer and interested in the role, apply!

submitted 76 days ago • 2 comments

I’m still recruiting for this position — please get in touch if you’re interested in working together!

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments

I am delighted to share our latest piece of research: ‘A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation’. This was long in the works and is by far the largest project I’ve led to date. A thread: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

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Any cool big team science stuff happening in cog neuro at the moment that I can point someone towards who is interested in getting involved? e.g. fMRI, TMS, tDCS many labs studies

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Three ManyBabies projects - big collaborative replications of infancy phenomena - wrapped up this year. The first paper came out this fall. I thought I'd take this chance to comment on what I make of the non-replication result. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/laur...

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

Want to review for #CogSci2025? Click this thing. @cogscisociety.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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🚨Publication Alert!🚨 The ManyBabies4 paper is out! 37 labs around the world tested over 1,000 babies in the largest investigation of infants' social evaluation to date. doi.org/10.1111/desc...

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Don't miss the Nijmegen Lectures, a unique 3-day series of talks & discussion by renowned psychologists @fernandaedi.bsky.social & Victor Ferreira, Jan 7-9, 2025! Topics will span the psycholinguistic continuum from intention to articulation. More info & registration here: www.mpi.nl/events/nijme...

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Hello!!👋 I'm Sally Xie. Excited to share that in a few weeks, I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor @SFU Psych! 🏞️ @sfufass.bsky.social I'm recruiting a lab manager & my first grad student. If you're interested in social cognition/perception & transformative experiences, check out socosci.com🦉!

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The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"

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UW-Madison Psychology is hiring a new assistant professor in the area of computational approaches to language (broadly construed). Please share with interested parties! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

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📢 I'm excited to announce that my new R package {cocoon} is available on CRAN! This package flexibly formats statistical output in a way that can be inserted into R Markdown or Quarto documents. jeffreyrstevens.github.io/cocoon/ #RStats #Quarto @quarto.org

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Reposting this for all the new followers. Please help us spread the word!

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The Extinction Illusion: The left side and the right side have the same number of black dots journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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It’s out! First step of hopefully lots to come exploring the potential of remote looking time studies to explore typical and atypical trajectories in infant cognitive and language development. Kudos to an incredible team (tagged in comments). pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39531700/

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NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

submitted 107 days ago • 86 comments

Another open position with LEVANTE - this time a postdoc on our psychometrics team, with Nilam Ram: postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/... Come join us in creating a field-leading framework for developmental data collection! levante-framework.org

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Hey #DevPsy: I'm looking for participant database recommendations! 🔍 Must be inexpensive, easy to use and have the option to store data only in Canada. Most previous labs used FileMaker, are there others?

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We're hiring a postdoc! Our lab is interested in understanding how visual perception and mental imagery relate to each other, both in the mind and the brain. We're looking for someone with fMRI experience to work on this topic. Please apply! subjectivity.sites.northeastern.edu/research/arc...

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📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results. I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this! ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

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Want to do a PhD with me at Duke University? I'm considering applications this fall for a new graduate student! ⭐️ For more info, check out this FAQ for prospective students to learn what the lab is focusing on & what I'm looking for in a graduate student. mindandculturelab.com/faq

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🧵 New meta-analysis on sources of infant looking in Nature Hum Behaviour. Led by Linette Kunin, w Sabrina Piccolo & @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (paywall) tinyurl.com/33yfwcaa (access to pdf).

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Developmental Psychology starter pack! I've included people doing child/adolescent research and as well as a few lifespan folks. Please share widely, and let me know if there is anyone who should be added! go.bsky.app/ECJtpXi #DevPsych #DevSci #PsychSciSky

submitted 130 days ago • 53 comments

The Scaffolding of Cognition team is hiring! We're looking for a passionate graduate student and a dedicated lab manager. Learn more about these opportunities by reading below or visit our website: soc.stanford.edu/people/#join.... Please pass on the information to your friends and mentees too! 1/5

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1/ I've long wondered why executive function in childhood predicts life outcomes. Why does juggling information in mind, shifting between tasks, and controlling our impulses matter so much? I'm increasingly convinced that our early answers missed something fundamental. #PsychSciSky #DevPsychSky

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One shouldn't expect to agree with all one's collaborators on what the results mean in a many-authors project. So in this Letter we argued that "Team scientists should normalize disagreement", and provided a few suggestions for how. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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🚨Calling psych PhD students and postdocs! 🚨Want to highlight a paper that had a big impact, doesn't get enough attention, or drew you to the field? Apply to write a Journal Club article with us! www.nature.com/articles/s44... 1/3 #psychology #psychscisky

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