This is good news for NIH-funded behavioral scientists and for the public; it resolves an unfortunate Catch-22 situation that inflated administrative burden and occasionally excluded basic behavioral science from funding opportunities: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

This paper was an awesome collaborative effort of a @fitngin.bsky.social working group. It provides a detailed review of how DNNs can be used to support dev neuro research @lauriebayet.bsky.social and I wrote the network modeling section about how DNNs can be used to test developmental theories 🧵

Sharing a new article aimed at students and early career scholars on how to do a good peer review in developmental psychology. We offer a framework for a good peer review and suggestions on how to navigate challenges, including AI. The article is open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Tu et al. (2025) studied 9mo infants in Sweden & Zimbabwe via eye-tracking: attention allocation is diff in these cultures in infancy, but each culture has a unique dynamic attentional style that includes holistic & analytic components #EarlyYears #Attention #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

The development of spatial perception with and without visual experience Review by Monica Gori, Maria Bianca Amadeo & Andrew J. Bremner go.nature.com/49iRXH9

Merry Explaining How the Academic Job Market Is Going to Non-Academic Family Members Eve to all who celebrate!

🚨New Preprint! How can we model natural scene representations in visual cortex? A solution is in active vision: predict the features of the next glimpse! arxiv.org/abs/2511.12715 + @adriendoerig.bsky.social , @alexanderkroner.bsky.social , @carmenamme.bsky.social , @timkietzmann.bsky.social 🧵 1/14

A Quarter Century Review of Research on Infant Behavior and Development www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

I had a fantastic conversation recently with the 10 Seconds to Air podcast. We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...

Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014... A short thread [1/5]👇

🚨 New paper out in Developmental Science!! 🚨 Relating Infant Fixations to Adult Cortical Activation Patterns Using the Natural Scenes Dataset doi.org/10.1111/desc... by Brianna Hunter, John Kiat, Steve Luck, & Lisa Oakes View video abstract here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkIV...

NEW: Starting Nov. 1, New Mexico will become the first state in the nation to offer no-cost child care to every family, regardless of income. This is projected to amount to an average annual family savings of $12,000 per child. Yes, policy meeting people's needs is possible.

Words and gestures help tune infant attention before they can speak. New UC Davis study finds babies focus longer when object labels ("bear") are paired with spatial words ("here"), and even longer when paired with gestures like pointing. ucdav.is/4lYtXgL

I wrote a paper with some of my favorite people synthesizing the last 25 years of research on my favorite topic: the development of visual attention during infancy 👶👀 doi.org/10.1016/j.in... #infantcognition #development #visualperception #visualattention

Need to control visual similarity in your experiments? A new open database by Robbins and colleagues @michaelhout.bsky.social @haywardgodwin.bsky.social, published in #psynomBRM, maps similarity among 1,200 objects in 20 categories using MDS—validated & ready to use.

Delighted to share Resources for Researchers webpage has received a 2025 Commendation from @improvingpsych.org! We look forward to continuing this work to help everyone navigate academia and help academia be more welcoming to everyone! www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...

The Oakes lab had a highly productive last few days!!! Lisa organized and hosted a writing retreat with lots of goal setting, writing time, and check-ins. This pic was day 1 coffee & goal setting time. I intended to take more pics and document the full retreat but got swept away in writing!!

First time watching a mentee give a talk 🤩🥹

Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It’s been SUCH a fulfilling month of research!! Got to talk about my infant scene viewing work at the Bay Area Developmental Symposium and at the Vision Sciences Society meeting. Feeling very grateful to have met so many interesting people and to be a part of these welcoming communities 👁️🧠👶🖼️

NEW PAPER doi.org/10.1080/1350... Q: What low-level visual features guide infants’ attention in naturalistic scenes? Intensity? Color? Orientation? A: Orientation!

@malte.the100.ci took the chance & hired me as a postdoc last year and with @ruben.the100.ci @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ianhussey.bsky.social and Lorenz Oehler we wrote a paper on what researchers could do to improve the measurement problems in psychological science. Ruben's figure is a work of art!

Cece’s 2024 scientific year in review -participated in 12 remote and 5 in-person studies -helped train 4 RAs in the lab -featured in 5 talks/manuscripts -attended 3 departmental seminars -attended 1 international and 1 local conference It’s been the BEST year including my daughter in my work! 🧠👁️👶👩‍🔬

So excited! A donor has made The Portable Mentor totally and completely FREE for anyone!!!!!! No royalties, no sign up, just download any/all of the 30 chapters of professional development advice!!! HOORAY!!!!! Equal access for everyone!!!! Check out the ToC! www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

Great morning at the UC Davis Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference! Big congrats to @shannonmklotz.bsky.social and Erim Kızıldere for a people’s choice poster award!

Exciting news: #UCDavis has ranked in the top 5 of public universities for undergraduate #psychology programs in the nation! We’re proud to be leading the way in shaping the next generation of psychologists! www.usnews.com/best-college...

Lisa, I just joined Blue Sky so I could post about Steve as my first Blue Sky post! But you beat me to it. Ok...your privilege, I agree. So I will simply add a photo of me leading a cheer as we announced Steve's prize in the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain! The crowd went wild....! 💥

No one more deserving of the UC Davis prize than the brilliant Steve Luck!

Inspired by this viral meme about DOGE: Research the US government has supported that can be made to sound silly, but that has contributed to human progress. Valuable work can often be framed as absurd out of context. That doesn’t make funding research any less important.🧵

Mariam Aly would be someone to ask. Check this out: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)! The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration. More details here: cldlab.org/join/ 🧠💻 #psychscisky

#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀 Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to? Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)! Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9

Looks like it might be time to reiterate what psychologists have been screaming from the rooftops for years: learning styles as it is presented to the general public is a myth and it damages students’ sense of efficacy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Developmental Psychology Starter Pack…Part Two! go.bsky.app/ERzYGod

Hi! I’m new around here and wanted to say hello. My name is Dan Wuori and I have dedicated my social media channels to helping explore the wonderment of early childhood development. The NY Times wrote about this project back in March. I’d love to connect! www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/u...

Baby eras tour belongs on Bluesky too 🦋 @taylorswifteras.bsky.social @infantstudies.bsky.social #infancy #infantresearch #taylorswift #erastour

As a grant reviewer, what do you really wish people would do/not do? Not big things, like find a significant question/innovative method/be consistent with aims Little things, like bold each acronym the first time it’s used. Add your pet peeves ⬇️ #HiddenCurriculum #Research

It’s all fun and games until someone loses a [national] eye [institute]

On November 20, UC Davis Vice Provost Jonna Mazet visited our lab and PhD student Erim Kızıldere showed her our head mounted eye tracking setup. We enjoyed the opportunity to share with her the exciting work we do at the ICL. #infantcognition #ICL #science #research #ucdavis #centerformindandbrain

My lab joined Bluesky! Follow @ucdavisicl for posts about infant development, my lab, and other cute and interesting facts about kids

NEW PAPER: doi.org/10.1111/infa... Q: Adults attend to locally meaningful regions in naturalistic scenes. Do infants?  A: Yes! 🧵