I and my lab are happy to be at #cogsci2025! Here's a shortcut to find work from the fabulous folks in my lab (and me) 😄

⭐ Out now in Developmental Science ⭐ "Sounds of Hidden Agents: The development of causal reasoning about musical sounds" (by Minju Kim and me) causal reasoning, music/auditory cognition, event reconstruction, kids' integration of information... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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.

#SRCD25, I and my lab are here! Come see @rtompkins.bsky.social on social reasoning from sleep arrangements-Th 10-11:20am talk 3, room 200B; R Santiago on how children use objects’ placements to learn about people-Fri 10:50 Poster 90; & K Han on the origins of dance in infancy-Sat 10:30, Poster 52!

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

Many of our faculty panelists are looking to accept students this cycle (@brialong.bsky.social @adenaschachner.bsky.social @nadiabrashier.bsky.social to name a few), so it’s a chance to hear from them before you apply! Come spend two days learning about our program! We can’t wait to meet you! 3/4

For years, I’ve been saying it was interesting that I would probably hear back about whether I would get tenure (or not) just around my 40th birthday. Well — the best version of this just happened.

Correction: our talk on hearing water temperature is now a bit earlier, at 3:20 today!!

Looking forward to CDS 2024! Come hear about: Kids’ perspective-taking over video chat (Chaolan Lin); hearing water temperature (Tanushree Agrawal); expectations about shared sleep arrangements (Rodney Tompkins); and social reasoning about placement of possessions (Rob Santiago)!

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:

New Substack! smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/how-to-giv...

Hi Bluesky! I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs to launch the Visual Learning Lab with me at UC San Diego in Summer/Fall 2024! The lab will focus on how we learn to derive visual meaning, integrating methods from developmental psychology, machine learning, & vision science.

New job alert - UC San Diego Psych is looking to hire an Assistant Prof using computational approaches to understand behavior and/or its neural mechanisms. (I can vouch for our dept. & city as a great place to live, work, & do science!) Apps due Nov 7: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684

NEW job alert, social psychologists - the UC San Diego Psych Dept is looking to hire an Assistant Professor in social psychology! (I can vouch for our dept. & city as a great place to live, work, & do science!) Applications are due November 7: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03683

🚨Job Alert x2! UCSD Psych has two assistant professor openings this year: 1. Computational approaches to understanding behavior and/or its neural mechanisms. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684 2. Social psych, broadly defined. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03683 Apply for either (or both?) by November 7th!

I’ll be joining this virtual event too — and I’m also looking to recruit a grad student this cycle!