My new book, MORE THAN WORDS (Avery/PenguinRandomHouse) arrives 6/3! It tells the story of how we produce language & how talking shapes our lives in surprising ways. It's psyling for gen'l audiences! Info & preorders www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724046/more-than-words-by-maryellen-macdonald-phd/

How IES Helps Students and Educators. theconversation.com/helping-teac...

My husband waited 10 years to show me that he eats subway sandwiches the wrong way 😱😱

I just told my partner that Beyoncé is about to perform at a football game, and he said, “Super Bowl?!” A man after my own heart.

"We adjusted for race": now what? A systematic review of utilization and reporting of race in American Journal of Epidemiology and Epidemiology, 2020-2021 Whew 😥 “Race was most often used as a confounder (52%).” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37789703/

Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs. Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this? #PHEthx

After a painstaking process of sifting through 18,000+ studies for potential eligibility, we synthesized: -145,000+ children -33 nations -98 studies -40+ years of research For fellow academics and researchers out there, here's the abstract of our key findings (there's a lot to unpack!).

The more I hear about this claims adjuster dude the more I think the real winner is Ryan Murphy. Give him an Emmy already cause that mini series is gonna pop off.

As we gawk at the $250M Musk spent elect Trump, take a guess how long it took him to “earn” it back in the market? It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today. That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.

What I meant to say in lab meeting: "When a reviewer chews you out" What I actually said in lab meeting: "When a reviewer eats you out."

New registered report out in Developmental Science! We find a positive relation between urban western Kenyan toddlers’ picture experience and their performance on a picture-based word learning task, but no relation in a similar rural sample. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Announcing the launch of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: oecs.mit.edu! OECS is a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics in cogsci to a broad audience of students and scholars.

Looking for developmental cognitive scientists? Look no further. go.bsky.app/MdqXgMy

If you've found yourself making impassioned arguments like "There's no evidence for learning styles and there are better ways to differentiate" or "Learning is more than just a cognitive process" then you may be Learning Scholar! Want to be added to this starter pack? Contact me! go.bsky.app/CBPm1dV

Today election anxiety. Tomorrow first departmental review anxiety. Whoever thought it was a good idea this review messed up

I have not seen enough buzz about this paper, but @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social just published a super cool study looking at genetic essentialism among adopted or donor-conceived children! psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results. I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this! ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

We had a crafting lab meeting to decorate the lab. I made a new door sign 🟩 CRECE Lab is brat

Hey #DevPsy: I'm looking for participant database recommendations! 🔍 Must be inexpensive, easy to use and have the option to store data only in Canada. Most previous labs used FileMaker, are there others?

Thank you for this warm welcome and the opportunity to share my work, BSE! bse.berkeley.edu/new-faculty-...

I don't think anyone has started a Learning Scholars starter pack, so here we go! Let me know if you'd like to be added, removed, etc. Please share! go.bsky.app/CBPm1dV

Developmental Psychology starter pack! I've included people doing child/adolescent research and as well as a few lifespan folks. Please share widely, and let me know if there is anyone who should be added! go.bsky.app/ECJtpXi #DevPsych #DevSci #PsychSciSky

New! Special Issue Call at Developmental Psychology. apa.org/pubs/journal... The special issue will compile current evidence on the impact of specific caregiver practices on children’s social development in culturally diverse populations. 1/3

Sharing my new publication in Developmental Psychology with Dana Basnight-Brown, Bobby Cheon, Reiko Mazuka, Rowena Garcia, and Melanie Killen issuing a call for contextualism in developmental science. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... Publication: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

PsychResearchList website just got a makeover with new resources! 🎉 Take a peek!👇 www.psychresearchlist.com

Super important study to what we know. In case anyone else is wondering: "‘URM’ is coded 1 for candidates who are URMs (Black/African American or Hispanic) and 0 for candidates who are white/Caucasian or Asian/Asian American." This is a personal pet peeve that does not diminish the study at all. 1/2

New version of {grateful} on CRAN! New LaTeX support, plus a few bug fixes. Please update! ICYMI {grateful} makes it very easy to cite #Rstats packages, so that software authors get their deserved credit pakillo.github.io/grateful/

THE BIG ONE! link.springer.com/article/10.3...

Finally getting this paper from my dissertation out there!

I am excited to share that my first first-author article was recently published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology! If you would like to read it yourself, I will link it below, but I'll also share some of the highlights here.

I'm hiring a lab coordinator for my new lab at UCSD CogSci. This is a great position if you're interested in gaining research experience before applying to graduate school. Apply by May 2, flexible start late summer start date (~Sep 1). Details below! employment.ucsd.edu/laboratory-c...

If @tissyana.bsky.social and I offered a virtual bootcamp for new PhD students in behavioral sciences (business, psych, etc.), would you as a faculty advisor sponsor your student for $50? These funds would be used to secure resources and support speakers. Please amplify!

“A death certificate would say he died of sepsis from a bone infection, but my friend and I have a term for the illness that killed him: end-stage poverty.” An important piece on what healthcare really means, from Lindsay Ryan, one of my fav people. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/o...

The social aspects of illness: Children's and parents' explanations of the relation between social categories and illness in a predominantly white U.S. sample: http://osf.io/m2jsx/

COVID-19 and Child Adjustment: The role of Coparenting Conflict and Child Temperament: http://osf.io/9pxgn/

I have an exciting announcement! I have joined the teams at Children Helping Science (formerly Lookit; childrenhelpingscience.com ) and Psych-DS as the new Open-Source Community Manager! 🧵

I'm still figuring out how to use Bluesky, but sharing a paper seemed like a good time to learn! My paper with @marthaalibali.bsky.social and other amazing people is now available! srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... We explored how 4-12yo US children think about inheritance!