The new NIH Biosketch instructions state that in the Contributions to Science: "you can reference up to five products" but that "no citations allowed". Thoughts on whether we should remove all in text citations to be safe, or whether this strictly refers to the lists of citations? #NIH #NIHGrants

Our department is hiring! We're looking for a cognitive/developmental psychologist who uses computational approaches to study human cognition and behavior to address learning, development, and education. Feel free to reach out with questions!

The new #NSF #GRFP application now excludes 1000’s of students, including those who were told they could apply this year, or who planned to apply next year. We have a new specific petition urging #NSFGRFP undo this harmful action. If you are impacted sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

We want to record a set of stimuli featuring children, thoughts on how to do this so they can be shared/reused? Does a parental release like for data sharing on e.g. Databrary suffice? Do you situate it inside a "task" so the consent process is clearer? #devscisky #psychsky

Many updates to our psycholinguistic database page. You terrific people have been busy distributing open source data including lexical databases for BSL, French, German sign. LMK if I've missed anything www.reilly-coglab.com/data

Our department is hiring! We're looking for a cognitive/developmental psychologist who uses computational approaches to study human cognition and behavior to address learning, development, and education. Feel free to reach out with questions!

Just sent this as an email to my department but figured I'd share more broadly in case it is useful. This describes the procedure happening now for science funding in Congress (@davidimiller.bsky.social can correct me if I got this wrong). Importantly, there are still actions that can be taken.

We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international) We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc. Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Check out our lab's research at @srcdorg.bsky.social this week!

NEW DATA ALERT: Future of Families and Child Well-being Study (FFCWS) data are now available! csde.washington.edu/news-events/...

🚨New paper: How do children judge moral "gray areas"? We find that children's ability to distinguish morally ambiguous characters from purely moral/ immoral ones strengthens with age: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kqyH51Y-X... By @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social Sierra Eisen, Angel Lillard & Amrisha Vaish

Are you doing EMA research and wonder how to go about it? In recent work we've adressed some open questions and challenges, here is a brief summary of papers and materials. 🧵 #PsychSciSky 🧪 #StatsSky

Tenure clock extensions are a great deal for the institution. Not so much for the faculty member

AI models are fascinating, impressive, and sometimes problematic. But what can they tell us about the human mind? In a new review paper, @noahdgoodman.bsky.social and I discuss how modern AI can be used for cognitive modeling: osf.io/preprints/ps...

new preprint on Theory of Mind in LLMs, a topic I know a lot of people care about (I care. I'm part of people): "Re-evaluating Theory of Mind evaluation in large language models" (by Hu* @jennhu.bsky.social , Sosa, and me) link: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.21098

People talk a lot about objects, but what about the softness of a cushion, the greenness of an emerald, or the viscosity of oil? In our work just published @pnas.org, we shed light on how we make sense of the hundreds of materials around us. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Honored to be a part of this incredibly group of scientists!

Hello Buffalo friends! It’s rally for science time! March 7, 2-6PM, Niagara Square! Sign up below and please spread the word! www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE) If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread. There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.

We're recruiting a new lab manager to start this summer (ideal start date June 2025). Please share with anybody interested in research on language development. We'll start reviewing applications next week! www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/55230

Anyone with #NIH #LRP payment pending? My payment was disbursed 1/13, but it has not shown up in my Mohela account. We are past the 15 day window, even with a generous 15 business days..

I am starting a thread of links to federal sites on the Wayback Machine, before the current vandalism. Please RT and add to this list! CDC: web.archive.org/web/20250129... NIH: web.archive.org/web/20250129... USAID: web.archive.org/web/20250129...

For anyone needing a CDC dataset: it may be in one of the nearly 3000 csv files archived here: archive.org/details/2025...

Signal Boost: All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive Let people know, download your own copies. Don't let this digital book burn continue. #Feds #Health #WHO #CDC #AMA #USPHS #FDA #NIH #NCHS #PCORI

Searching for examples of Cognitive Development related graphical abstracts or visual summaries of empirical papers. Have you made one of these you don't mind me using as an example of how to communicate science? Please send examples my way! #devscisky #psychsky

🚨New paper alert! We estimate babies’ vocabs w/ CDI all the time. Can it also estimate the specific words kids know? We collected CDIs and gaze data to see if kids looked more at words they reportedly knew on the CDI. Here’s what we found: 🧵https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12641

Looking for examples of three paper dissertation (sandwich thesis) models and guidelines, as we are trying to formalize ours! Preferably for cognitive/developmental psych or psych general, but will take any examples to model from! #devpsych #cognitivepsych #devsci

I won’t be at #psynom24, but Marzie Samimifar will be there presenting our work on how adults process speech from children, and how different types of background noise can improve processing and prediction. Go check out poster 3110 on Friday from 6-730 and tell us what you think!

I am thrilled to share our new paper which investigates the role of continuous measures in linguistic diversity research. We found that children who are exposed to more linguistic diversity (e.g., language, dialect, accent) are perceptually more flexible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I am excited to announce the special issue I led with Rachel Wu for JEP: General is online! Read our intro! As a field we need to consider context, social identities, & individual differences that shape how we experience diversity across the lifespan! #psychology psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

New paper in Cognitive Development with former undergrad Sophie Barry and @bergelsonlab.bsky.social. Does multilingual exposure shapes word recognition in 7-8 month old infants? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thinking about grad school? Come learn about our awesome department! University at Buffalo’s Psychology Graduate Programs Virtual Open House on Monday, November 4th, at 7:00 PM Eastern Time Register to attend here: tinyurl.com/UBPSY24

I'm reviewing applications for PhD students to start Fall 2025 - if you're interested in integrating naturalistic methods and experimental methods to study how infants learn from their environment, please consider applying/reach out with questions! arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/psychology/a...

New paper out in Developmental Science @bergelsonlab.bsky.social! We asked whether the acoustic properties of language input for individual words also predict age of production. TLDR: Yes variability in how words sound predict when kids first say them. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (1/n)

SO SO excited to share that we were awarded an #NICHD R21 titled “The influence of child-produced speech on infant language development”!

Last day of #ICIS2024! Come chat with me at my poster about how infants process speech from kids (P3-D-503), and then come to the Beyond the lab symposium at 11:30 to hear 7 talks examining linguistic input across cultures and contexts! @bergelsonlab.bsky.social

Remote research question: any experiences/insights in mailing hotspots to participants (in this case families) for data collection? Are there single use devices that are reasonably priced? #DevSciSky #psychsky

If you (or someone you know) organize a departmental or center colloquium series, what do you get in return? I’m guessing this ranges from nothing (most of the time) to a course release or discretionary funds (less frequently). Would love to know norms!

Our end of semester tradition (we’ve done it twice so it’s a tradition now, right?) is to write out all the things we accomplished ✔️So thankful to work with incredible lab members who make our research possible! We were most excited about seeing babies 👶 in the lab.

Spent lab meeting today making cards for FeedMore WNY to include in meal deliveries, and for the United Way of Erie county to include in their welcome baby boxes. Thanks to lab manager Marina for pushing us to use our time to benefit the community! They’re an artistically talented group! #psychsky

UB Psychology is hosting a virtual open house on November 7 at 7pm Eastern time. If you have questions about our graduate programs, please sign up to attend: tinyurl.com/UBPSY23 I am recruiting a new grad student! #PsychSky

two-factor identification on era commons really makes the refresh-at-the-end-of-study-section-day ritual harder #AcadmicSky

I'll be reviewing applications for a new graduate student to start Fall 2024 - if you're interested in how children learn from the highly variable input they receive, consider applying! ubwp.buffalo.edu/buffaloearly... Deadline is Dec 1: arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/psychology/g...

The Department of Learning and Instruction in the UB Graduate School of Ed is hiring in Early Childhood Education! This is an incredibly supportive department and school, and I'm excited to have another early childhood colleague! Deadline Oct 1

UB Psychology is hiring! https://ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/43532 The goal is to bring together scholars from diverse research areas and backgrounds who focus on addressing the ways in which psychology can seek to understand and ultimately, ameliorate inequities in well-being.

#DevPsychSky folks - we will have a booth at a Babies and Bumps event to recruit families into our database, any recommendations on what kind of swag/activities might work well? Will have exp demos and ipads to sign up on the spot, but not sure what kind of activities might draw people in!