Our department is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor!! This is a joint-appointed position with Computational Social Sciences (css.ucsd.edu). It's 75+ degrees F and sunny today, just thought I'd mention apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04461

Check out my new paper with @drbarner.bsky.social in JECP! We asked whether mutual exclusivity inferences involve epistemic reasoning about what a speaker knows, and whether children can infer speakers' knowledge of words from linguistic conventionality. (1/7) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

We are currently conducting interviews with jsPsych users to help us shape long-term project goals. We are interested in speaking with folks with all levels of comfort with jsPsych. The interviews are happening over the next four weeks. Each session is 20-30 minutes. We are paying participants $20.

New preprint by the phenomenal @ebruevcen.bsky.social with @drbarner.bsky.social revealing that people interpret conditionals pragmatically, initially treating them as biconditionals! So excited to see where this work goes next, especially for children’s acquisition of conditionals!

notes on citing R and R Packages #rstats www.tjmahr.com/r-package-ci...

Another paper w/ @urvi.bsky.social, showing that Hindi kids learn yesterday/tomorrow earlier than English kids, despite Hindi expressing these with just one word 'kal'. We argue this is evidence for the priority of tense information (over associations with events). osf.io/preprints/os...

Happy to share this paper led by the fabulous @urvi.bsky.social. Turns out that children's struggle to understand temporal language may be partly because the things we refer to in tests of knowledge are not actually in the past or future & rely on hypothetical reasoning about imaginary timelines.

New preprint with Rose Schneider & @drbarner.bsky.social on children's learning of number concepts! osf.io/preprints/ps... TL;DR: Learning to count large sets may be necessary, but not enough for understanding that numbers represent exact quantities 🧠🔢 (1/4)