Biggest experimental study of Africa infant cognition! I’m very proud that we were able to get this project finished, despite COVID restrictions starting a month after our kickoff.

Congratulations to Tutorial Fellow in Experimental Psychology @asifamajid.bsky.social on her Humboldt Research Award presented by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of her entire academic record to date bit.ly/4eYTZR8 #psychology #award

This week's Experimentology chapter is "Estimation". The most important move in planning an analysis isn't picking your test or your model — it's clearly defining what you're trying to estimate. 🧵 experimentology.io/005-estimat...

And of course a HUGE thank you to the hundreds of researchers who have contributed to ManyBabies and to the thousands of babies (and their families) who have made this work possible!

New ManyBabies publication! Over 10+ years and 5,000+ babies tested, we've learned a ton about how to study the developing mind. In this comment, we discuss three such lessons that are shaping the future of ManyBabies. We'd love to hear your thoughts!

Nice write-up of Stanford's CORES and SPORR groups. Very lucky to be part of a great community of folks (including @russpoldrack.org, Steve Goodman, & @mcxfrank.bsky.social, all mentioned here) working to improve how we science

Labs are teaming up to run a host of huge projects that aim to bring rigour to cognitive science. go.nature.com/4ej4Kx4

Collective action is the most gratifying part of the reform movement. Grassroots groups like the many Many Manys are the most wonderful manifestation of it. Driven by curiosity and purpose, researchers come together to solve big problems with creative collaborations. That's why I science.

New article in Nature about Big Team Science with lots of quotes from CONNECT members! @manybabies.org @themanybirds.bsky.social @manydogsproject.bsky.social @cos.io

holy shit he actually conceded folks, they tell you they’re invincible they tell you they’re inevitable they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting and absolutely none of that is true

Journalistic malpractice and democratic betrayal.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

it turns out I CAN still be shocked by what he says

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

Welcome to #LoveReplicationsWeek Day 4 - with 4 events! - Getting your replication report ready by @r2journal.bsky.social - Large scale replications vs. Meta-analyses by @chbergma.bsky.social - CREP by @jorowags.bsky.social - Writing Reproducible Manuscripts by @mklingelhoeferj.bsky.social

Students need to remember that Inigo Montoya method for emails and greetings: "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Polite Greeting Name Relevant Personal Link Manage Expectations Keep it BRIEF.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

If you rank civility over justice at this point you are a collaborator

I said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”

Yeah, this is basically where I stand.

Now up as a reviewed @elife.bsky.social preprint: "Continuous developmental changes in word recognition support language learning across early childhood" elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... Using data from ~2000 kids ages 1-6, we quantify links between word recognition and early vocabulary growth!

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

you can tell so much about people by whom they give the benefit of the doubt to

Happy to share this new entry on numerical cognition for the OECS. Thanks to @hbaum.bsky.social and @mcxfrank.bsky.social for making this happen! Apologies if your work isn’t cited! Had to limit cites!!! oecs.mit.edu/pub/rek9756r...

What do kids choose to do when they think that someone will help them? What about when no one will help? New paper: "Young children strategically adapt to unreliable social partners" - led by Kat Shannon, with @hyogweon.bsky.social and Willem Frankenhuis. osf.io/preprints/ps...

"Condoleeza Rice discusses restoring confidence in American democracy" stanforddaily.com/2025/11/12/r...

There's still time to register for the 2025 Big Team Science Conference (October 6-8, live on Zoom)! All fees are OPTIONAL, so you can pay what you'd like (or nothing at all!) to gain access to a ton of amazing BTS content. bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/

Our full 2025 program and schedule are now up on our website! We've got so many great presentations lined up, you won't want to miss it! bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/

timeline coincidence of the most depressing order cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social @louisathelast.bsky.social

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Capybaras lounging in yuzu-filled hot springs is my happy place

It's been a ton of fun to work with @mcxfrank.bsky.social and @asifamajid.bsky.social on this. I'm so lucky to get to support projects like this (and @manybabies.org and @btscon.bsky.social and ...)!

Just got an “out of office” reply with the most amazing example of “there’s a German word for that.” Abwesenheitsbenachrichtigung!

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

It’s completely insane that US troops are illegally deployed to suppress domestic opposition and it’s not uniformly condemned by the press and political elite.

Huge congratulations to Drs Anjie Cao and Rondeline Williams on their successful defenses this week!! @anjiecao.bsky.social

Please assign these articles for your teaching as well as your own browsing, and let us know 1) how you're using them and 2) what articles you need to help you in your teaching!

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

“We want scientists who hold identities that may be under attack to know that we are proud to be your colleagues, and that our science is stronger as a result of your being in this field.” 👏

my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

Thanks to Evan Kidd, @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social (Eds) for organizing the awesome *Open* Encyc. of Cog. Sci. and entrusting me with/ the honor of penning the entry on "Language" (in < 3500 words, so do see other entries for much, MUCH more!) oecs.mit.edu/pub/ho9e9c80...

“From her cell in Louisiana, she described the plans she had in the coming months. Completing her dissertation. A conference in Minnesota. Students to mentor. A summer class to teach.”

Our client Rümeysa Öztürk has not been charged with any crime. She is being held in ICE detention in retaliation for her political beliefs. Writing an op-ed is not a deportable offense.

It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.

Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word recognition support language learning across early childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...

🚨4-5 new postdoc positions in language & cognition🚨 😇 One postdoc will work specifically with Eon-Suk Ko and I on the ManyBabies-AtHome project, focusing on infant word recognition in global, remote settings using collaborative, open science practices [https://shorturl.at/5l3tW]. @manybabies.org