My lab is accepting students for the ICIS summer fellowship program. Send your interested undergrads my way!

New work with @skucker.bsky.social! Screen time isn't just associated with a reduction in children's vocabulary size, but it also relates to the specific types of words they're learn first. More screen time is associated with knowing fewer body part words but more people and furniture words.

Join our team! The Department of Psychology at the University of Miami invites applications for a full-time faculty position in the Child Clinical Program at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) or Associate Professor (tenure-eligible). umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMFacult

Dr. @lynnkperry.bsky.social studies linguistic regularities (shape bias) & social regularities (peer interactions), language dev in kids w/ lang delays, hearing loss, & ASD. Recruiting students to study interaction in lang/literacy dev w/ hearing loss. people.miami.edu/profile/lkp3... (thread 7/10)

Repost @lynnkperry.bsky.social: New work out in Developmental Psychology led by Sarah Kucker and her students Syakira and Sneh! Parent personality, child temperament, and digital media: Pathways to language development in early childhood doi.org/10.1037/dev0...

Our collaborators at University of Arizona have a new study opportunity for parents of 2-year-olds learning English in the U.S. as their first and only language.

Check out our new work in JSLHR where we consider ethical issues in collection of daylong audio recordings in children with language delays and disabilities. This work was part of a bioethics supplement from NIDCD. @dmessinger.bsky.social

Using automated, digital data collection -- e.g., daylong audio recordings of children's language environments -- is yielding important insights for research in CSD. But ethical issues have yet to be thoroughly explored. This study does just that. on.asha.org/45hnjh5 @sigperspectives.bsky.social

I'm looking for a new post-doc/SRA. If you have experience with infant/child data collection and/or computational modelling take a look! Norwich is a beautiful place to live, and we have a great team at the UEA School of Psychology! vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/14...

(saw on FB) Childhood vaccines cause adulthood.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

On our way to an Ig Nobel prize now that our work has been picked up by Improbable Research!

Our new work out in Autism Research led by Madison Drye. Children on the autism spectrum show social preference (based on the velocity of approach and instances of social contact) for teachers and vice versa relative to other children.

"Their findings, published in Developmental Science, show that a higher proportion of shape-based nouns in a child’s vocabulary shortly after cochlear implantation was associated with better language development for the next three years." << wow! From: news.miami.edu/as/stories/2... #keeplistening

Check out our new work in Developmental Science! The more shape-based nouns (e.g., chair, cup) children knew shortly after implantation, the better their language outcomes, 1-3 years later.