Revolution, human cognition, and AI. Three powerful strands that, woven together, perfectly capture the tension of the present moment. Well worth 20 minutes of your time.

Why Adolescents Are Especially Vulnerable — And What That Says About Design Kids aren’t gullible. They’re developing. And this study shows: fake news detection tracks closely with brain development. That has big implications for education—and for the platforms they use.

Elephant in the room. Who's going to SRCD? Normally there's excitement leading up to it but I'm not seeing it this year. Are we all just overwhelmed? Will we still show up? Some of my students are afraid to travel and I imagine our foreign colleagues will sit this one out. #devpsych #devsci

With Adriana Weisleder (lead), Virginia Marchman, and Angeline Sin Mei Tsui. What a great team! #TopCitedArticle #devpsych #devsci

Hi folks! We are recruiting children 16 to 60 months who speak either English or Spanish for our vocabulary (anywhere in the U.S.) and numeracy (California) projects. Join us! #devsci #devpsych login.redcapcloud.com/survey.jsp?c...

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

"I'm giving a talk today where I'm going to cite some of the latest data on mental health," said Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, a developmental psychologist at Stanford University, "But is this larger than just the website being down? Are they stopping the data collection? Are they stopping the reporting?"

A new OMB memo lists programs *potentially* affected by Trump's (illegal) funding freeze. The list does nothing to dispel confusion, since it includes programs (SNAP, Head Start) that OMB now claims are unaffected. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25... First reported by @jennifershutt.bsky.social

The extent of the devastating impacts of the unilateral and indefinite cancellation of NIH Study Sections is an unthinkable blow to science and to jobs, health, education, and America’s standing in the world. Devastating doesn’t even capture it…

When it comes to new AI tools, there’s a tension in education between the efficiency prized in productivity features and the friction necessary for learning that sticks. Excited to have this @edsurge.bsky.social article republished in Fast Company. www.edsurge.com/news/2024-11...

Exciting new preprint on neural synchrony! This is such interesting work!

Come see us at ASHA in Seattle this Saturday! Barbara Conboy will present The MacArthur Inventario del Desarrollo de Habilidades Comunicativas-III: A Measure for Spanish-Speaking Two- to Four-Year-Olds. 12:00 noon Arch Building Level Four Arch Hall #devpsych

How does AI plateauing affect your thinking/plans? "Perhaps we should not dwell too closely on the question of why it is that the sum of human civilization’s data fed into deep learning techniques plateaus at something smart—but not that smart—lest we see ourselves too clearly in the mirror." #aiedu

psychology.sdsu.edu/supporting-e... #devsci #psychscisky #devpsych

We are pleased to announce the publication of The MacArthur Inventario del Desarrollo de Habilidades Comunicativas III: A measure of language development in Spanish-speaking two- to four-year-olds. We are grateful to Dr. Donna Jackson-Maldonado and miss her dearly. doi.org/10.34842/12f... #devsci

New paper out on Indigenous language loss in Argentina with important implications for policy on bilingual education. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... #devsci #devpsych

The NIH is proposing a restructuring that would eliminate the NICHD in favor of handling all developmental funding under the National Institute for Disability. If you are a developmental scientist and find this shortsighted, as I do, you can write to [email protected] to voice your concern.

if you are an NIH-funded investigator, or really just a person doing developmental science #psychscisky #neuroskyence in the states, you should be concerned about this proposal to eliminate the NICHD. take 5 minutes to write to [email protected] to voice your concern. Here's what I just sent

We were pretty busy at #ICIS2024! What a great conference and venue! Hope you learned as much and had as much fun as we did #devsci #devpsych

For your consideration: If you’re coming to the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL 2024) in Prague, come see us on July 18! The program is packed but if you happen to have a window open from 11:30-1:30… #devsci

The SDSU Infant and Child Development Lab has been working hard to bring you updated findings on pandemic and family structure effects on early word learning AND a new method to bring early assessment to scale! Come see us at the poster session on July 9 if you’re in Glasgow! #devsci #devpsych

Anyone at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association 2024 this week? Come by and see us tomorrow! #devpsych

SDSU Infant and Child Development Lab looking forward to all the interesting work at CDS this week. Hope to see you there! #devsci #devpsych

The International Congress of Infant Studies is now on Bluesky! Follow us as we remind you about conference deadlines, share research findings from the Infancy journal and blog posts written by esteemed researchers from all over the world! infantstudies.org/the-baby-blog/ #AcademicSky #infancypapers

Congratulations to two members of my research team who earned awards in the San Diego State University Student Symposium yesterday: 1/4 #DevSci #DevelopmentalPsych

Congratulations to SDSU’s own Emily Kappenman! Note to self: need to get her involved in a developmental collaboration! #DevSci #PsychSciSky

SDSU Year in Review 2023: SDSU achieved record rankings, including No. 16 in Forbes' Top 25 Public Colleges and No. 51 among public universities by U.S. News & World Report.

Meet the winners of the 2023 CogSci #MindChallenge 🥇Ilina Bhaya-Grossman and Deb Levy, from UCSF 🥈 John Hollander, from the University of Memphis 🥉 Alex Carstensen, from Arizona State University, and Anjie Cao & Sarah Wu, from Stanford 🌟 Qi Guo, from UC Berkeley Check out their videos! 🤩👇

Okay. This is just a lot of fun and I am totally onboard with the final two “more female professor” images!

New scoping review on how researchers use parent report to assess bilingual vocabulary. Interesting trends and best practices. #DevSci #Developmental Psychology #PsychSciSky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Excited to explore this paper!

No place for hate.

Hello Community! The Department of Psychology at San Diego State University invites applications for a developmental scientist at the Assistant Professor level whose research focuses on early attitudes/beliefs about marginalized groups within the context of social justice. #DevSci

Excellent new preprint by @ufeest.bsky.social: "What is the Replication Crisis a Crisis of?” #MetaSci #PhilSci #PhilSky philsci-archive.pitt.edu/22620/ Few quotes follow 🧵

Nobel prize winner and “the mother of mRNA vaccines,” Katalin Karikó: “Every night I was working: grant, grant, grant…And it came back always ‘No, no, no.’” “She also talked about being demoted in 1995.” 🧪 🧬 #AcademicSky

Rule-based categories are easier to learn when features are easier to name, for adults and 4-6-year-olds: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... new paper w/ Catherine Bredemann, Megan Kaul, Kaitlynn Ellis, Haley Vlach, Heather Kirkorian, @glupyan.bsky.social #devpsyc #cogpsyc (1/2)

Hello everyone! I am a Developmental Scientist interested in language, cognition, sustainability, climate science, Smart Growth urbanism, and how all of these things intersect with public health. My research focuses on developmental relations between language and cognition. #HiSciSky

Progress. A four paper international collaborative symposium proposal submitted to the International Association for the Study of Child Language. My students still have a couple of poster proposals to submit before the deadline. Tick tock tick tock...

We’re all getting played with —Weird Barbie

What to do with this amazing tomato harvest? Step 1. Invite a grad student to dinner!