Non-academics: if you see an interesting academic paper on here and you can’t access it due to a paywall just email the author and (depending on the state of their inbox 😜) they will generally be thrilled you are interested in their work and send you a copy.

New paper! Here (in Nature Communications) we (Ale Geraci, Luca Surian, Lucia Gabriella Tina, & I; work led/run by Ale) show that 5-day-old newborns selectively attend to two distinct forms of prosocial over antisocial action: approaching versus avoiding and helping versus hindering. rdcu.be/evorW

Returning to school or know someone who is? Here are some tips on how to study better by using insights from the science of memory. Feel free to share this with anyone who might find it useful. youtu.be/j44vPaAZldM?... #EduSKy

Jonathan Haidt’s The Anxious Generation has sparked widespread discussion, but are the data as solid as they seem? Top expert Candice Odgers offers a critical analysis of Haidt’s claims. Dive into their debate here: www.techdirt.com/2024/10/11/j...

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

Segal & Moulson (2024): mums who were more attuned to 👶's mental states could better help regulate 👶's emotional states, supporting a link btwn caregivers' socio-cognitive skills & providing real-time regulation support #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

WTF is going on here at Blue Sky? People are civil to each other. People having intelligent discussions. People are spelling things correctly. I haven’t seen any racism or sexism. I’m confused.

A reminder to everyone who is thinking "I really should be collecting data right now." or "I wish I had thought about collecting data when this was all happening." The NSF has a grant mechanism for this: Grants for Rapid Response Research (RAPID www.nsf.gov/pubs/policyd...

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

I'd like to hire a post-doc, to start this summer or fall! It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_postdoc24 Official posting: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13532

Here's a new paper from the lab (with first author Paige Amormino and stats expert Brett Mercier) where we investigate how people judge the praiseworthiness of helping. osf.io/preprints/ps... #socialpsych #PsychSciSky