Starting January 2027 I’ll be joining The College of New Jersey as a tenure track assistant professor in Applied Cognition. The dream of dreams was to accept a position near New York City at an institution with liberal arts sensibilities but ample research resources. TCNJ immediately felt like home.

🧵New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why? To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/11

My research students can get lab hours this week by studying for finals with each other, but they have to send me a picture of their work together. Which means I get fun pictures of chemistry worksheets and papers next to matching coffee cups to break up the monotony of my inbox. 13/10 recommend.

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Over the moon because I’m chairing a pre-conference at CDS with a group of researchers I so admire and bringing back my personal favorite pre-conference with a new twist in the process!

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Whatever powers-that-be decided CDS, MPA, and AERA could all be the same weekend really had a thing against me personally, I fear.

If you need me, I’ll be playing with this all day. hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

Feeling so proud of my 14!!! research assistants this week. Four submitted abstracts to MPA, our regional conference, yesterday and tomorrow 10 of them are joining me for a quarterly book club on @mcxfrank.bsky.social and colleagues’ fantastic Experimentology text (Chapters 1-4). What a good group.

Had a great time a few weeks ago talking about OpEds with MIT graduate students!

Hello! R-Ladies Boston is hosting a #dataviz virtual round robin where we show off some cool figures we made or working on! Come join us for a fun time! www.meetup.com/rladies-bost...

10 MORE DAYS! I would love to see some #DISI #CogDev #SciComm submissions come through!

A friend of mine gave my website a refresh and now it is so pretty. More features to come, but for now you can see my basic overview at laurengirouard.com. So spiffy!

Started my own little rejection collection for this job cycle and it officially has its first entry. Hopefully I’ll get to balance it out in the coming weeks. And if not, more pizza for me! ;)

Really great read from @biblioracle.bsky.social this morning. open.substack.com/pub/bibliora...

It’s job market season & I’m back on the market for the first time since leaving grad school. It’s quite gratifying to give my materials a full refresh & see how much I’ve grown as a scholar. If you’re looking for a cog/dev researcher who maybe also loves a stats class, you know where to find me! 😉

The second half of my dissertation is officially in press at Child Development. I hear I’ve successfully avoided the curse of carrying your dissertation around for years. These studies have some of my favorite findings from my time in graduate school, so I can’t wait to see them out in the world!

Due to a recent influx of problematic submissions, PsyArXiv has switched to pre-moderating its content. If your submitted preprint had not yet been approved, it will be temporarily inaccessible to the public (you can still view your preprint when logged into your OSF account). #PsychSciSky

The Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at NSF are no more? But hopefully I misunderstand? www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

music lessons don't make kids smarter, but many people have assumed that music lessons would have near-transfer effects, e.g. improving aspects of auditory perception big new study led by Andrew Oxenham says "nope". music lessons make kids better at music & that's good enough reason to do 'em !

Notes from @noranewcombe.bsky.social 's beautiful Rumelhart Prize "tasting menu" - congratulations Nora!!! #CogSci2025

I’m back from #DISI25 in Scotland just in time to fly to #cogsci2025 in SF and I would love to connect while there! I’m moderating the Science Communication Luncheon and presenting a poster on virtuous ignorance and digital voice assistants on Friday morning. If you see me, please say hello!

Only a small % of people engage in toxic activity online, but they’re responsible for a disproportionate share of hostile or misleading content on nearly every platform Because super-users are so active, they dominate our collective impression of the internet www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Summer in St Andrew’s, Scotland? Not half bad. I’m here for the rest of the month as part of a summer fellowship on diverse intelligences, and it’s never a bad thing to work on a research project with a good view.

Words cannot express how much I love everything Michigan has to offer. Especially when what it has to offer is cherries. And what a gem Traverse City is! #Michigan #GoBlue

The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) now features over 100 published articles! Editors-in-Chief @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social share their vision for this open, online reference developed to guide the next generation of exploration in cognition & intelligence:

I can’t wait to add this to my weekly routine!

🚨 Now out in Nature Human Behaviour 🚨 We show that following the news on WhatsApp or Instagram (N = 3,395 🇫🇷🇩🇪) increases current affairs knowledge, participants’ ability to discern true from false news stories, awareness of true news stories, as well as trust in the news. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Just a gentle reminder that kids and teens are sometimes more capable of evaluating their own feelings on technology than we give them credit for. What a beautiful encapsulation of issues teens are facing with AI. {GIFT ARTICLE} www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/l...

But they're depressed because of smart phones and social media, right?

HAPPENING NOW: A sea of protesters have gathered in Ann Arbor, Michigan for a “No Kings Day” rally against Donald Trump (Video: WXYZ-TV)

Republicans get news from a fairly concentrated group of sources, and one rises to the top: Fox News. 57% of Republicans say they regularly get news from the cable network, at least double the share who say they turn to any other news source we asked about.

me: in cheers frasier said his dad was dead but then when sam visited him in seattle he had to explain that he was lying because their relationship was strained but to me the weirder thing is he never mentioned niles to anyone at cheers the federal soldier being unlawfully quartered in my home: ok

Enjoyed a little @icpsrsummer.bsky.social #TidyTuesday this afternoon.

Grateful for the chance to share my thoughts on responsible use of LLMs in psychology research @spspnews.bsky.social #spsp2025. Here's a summary of my presentation for those who missed it. Thanks to @ashwinia.bsky.social for organizing this panel! How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵

Next up this summer is a five week fellowship with University of Michigan’s Lecturer’s Union (LEO). It’s nice to be back home in Ann Arbor, talking with other lecturers about how Unions help early career and non-tenured folks in A2 and beyond.

Next up on the summer agenda- a week of Data Management for Data Sharing at pretty Vanderbilt.

An incredibly comprehensive and elegant look at grant terminations and their consequences

I’m in Belgrade, Serbia for the Jean Piaget Society conference and my first glimpse of the Danube was not too shabby (nor was the meal that accompanied it). Excited to chat about my *full* dissertation study suite in such a beautiful locale.

The same thing is true of “the internet” as a whole- as we lose the need for Ethernet cables and other visible forms of connection, children risk losing a sense of what is or isn’t “online”, where their information goes, and who has access.

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

These are grant TO THE STUDENTS, not to the institution, so this is just straight-up punishing students for choosing the institution

Yesterday my entire department at the University of Louisville was instructed to remove the words diversity, equity, and inclusion from any websites, procedures, bylaws, job ads & duties etc Thanks KY legislators. I hope you know that being against differences is never the right side of history

Anyone who would like to register an objection should go to this page and click on the green “public comment” button at the top: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... . PLEASE DO THIS 8/n

Out today!

I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling. (cont 🧵) tinyurl.com/vun92cz7

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So your research area has been politicized and your federal funding cancelled, what now? I try to give some answers in this opinion piece for @nature.com 1/ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Whelp. See you later 1.8 Million in NSF research funds -- all designed to better understand learning mechanisms in early childhood so we can develop effective early childhood educational interventions. Proud of Harvard for standing up to fascism, though. We will persist.

Better Code, Better Science - Introducing a new open-source book project on scientific coding using AI tools russpoldrack.substack.com/p/better-cod...