Do you want to help us represent academic mid-level staff in Switzerland? 💪 We are currently looking for new delegates to the Swiss Accreditation Council, to Eurodoc and in the area of Open Science. Interested? See the details on our website: lnkd.in/dR8Fpdb6

A study led by @rujoanna.bsky.social showed that at just 12mos, infants detect emotional valence from just movement, w/o facial cues! Infants looked longer at toys previously moved w/ positive emotions vs. negative emotions but touched both toys equally #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Open science isn't just for the rich. I wrote about building #REPOPSI – a repository of psychological instruments in Serbian – and what it taught me about doing #OpenScience with limited resources and lots of persistence. #PhDSky doi.org/10.1038/d415...

"We stand in solidarity with our colleagues in British higher education facing an acute crisis. As Newcastle University and others engage in strike action, we support their fight for better conditions. Academic staff across borders share common struggles. #HigherEducation"

🚨 URGENT: Swiss research and education faces unprecedented budget threats. Today, actionuni and 12 mid-level academic staff associations across Switzerland released a joint statement opposing the drastic federal budget cuts threatening our institutions. 1/7

📢 Today is SHK Day! Our representative, Neele Heiser, is on her way to Bern to advocate for better working conditions for mid-level academic staff. 🏛️ 🤝 ⚖️ 📜

New year, new JC Research Day!🗓️ During this event, hosted by @ribeaud.bsky.social and @lillyshanahan.bsky.social, early-career researchers had the opportunity to present their research and skills to everyone at the Jacobs Center. It’s always an exciting opportunity for #interdisciplinary exchange!

Now published — "Prevalence of Transparent Research Practices in Psychology: A Cross-Sectional Study of Empirical Articles Published in 2022" doi.org/10.1177/2515...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS TO SIPS 2025 IS NOW OPEN! Please visit the designated online submission portal: ONLINE SIPS 2025 pretalx.com/sips2025-onl... & IN-PERSON SIPS 2025 pretalx.com/sips2025-bud... SIPS 2025 will be held in-person in Budapest, Hungary (June 25-27, 2025), and online on May 21-22, 2025

If you're looking for a great #linguistics and #neuroscience read before the break, look no further! In our new paper, we show that the prosodic hierarchy (a pillar of theory in #phonology and #phonetics) is actually neurally implemented during the comprehension of speech. 🧵 doi.org/10.1093/cerc...

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Today, Priya Silverstein (@priyasilverstein.com) takes over as elected President of SIPS. Congratulations Priya! We are certain Priya's effective leadership will advance our mission over the coming year. Priya will be ably supported by Yu-Fang Yang (@ufangyang.bsky.social) as Co-Chair. Onward!

Are you a mid-level academic staff member (PhD, postdoc, scientific assistant...) based in Switzerland? Please fill in the actionuni survey on mental health: bit.ly/SWiMS24

Our mega-analysis of infant-directed speech preference is now out at Open Mind, integrating data from a multi-lab replication (@manybabies.org) and a meta-analysis. w/ @chrismmcox.bsky.social, @chbergma.bsky.social, Maya Mathur, @mcxfrank.bsky.social + a fab team direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...  1/

We are hiring! We are looking for two PhD students working with us in the #Multilingualism and #Communication" research group led by Dr. Stephanie Wermelinger. More information: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

Very pleased to share the introduction to our now complete special issue: "Open science and metascience in developmental psychology" at Infant and Child Development. Thanks @chbergma.bsky.social and @syeducation.bsky.social for inviting me to co-edit as an ECR! doi.org/10.1002/icd....

The journals analyzed by Kidd & Garcia (2022) published only 22 papers on 11 indigenous African languages... in 45 years! This special issue will showcase the vibrant research being conducted on the acquisition of African languages. Abstracts due April 15: journals.sagepub.com/page/fla/cal...

So cool to see our paper on the cover of nature reviews psychology! Here's a direct link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s441...

We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials: tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/ Please share widely! 1/4

Summer School on Attachment and Human Development at VU Amsterdam with a great lineup of scholars contributing insights and knowledge for the next generation of scientists and clinicians. Please repost and share within your institutions.

Topic that came up: What are examples of exceptionally well written papers/chapters in the field of cognitive science, cognitive psychology, or cognitive neuroscience? Reading good writing can really help with writing skill development. #psychscisky #neuroskyence #cogsci #visionscience

1/ Do early attachment tendencies modulate children's facial mimicry of positive & negative emotions? @RadboudUniversity, in the Baby & Child Research Center, we investigated this experimentally using facial EMG wth 3-year-olds, parent-reports & naturalistic observations of attachment. Insights⬇️:

🚨New preprint!🚨 PREVIC: An adaptive parent report measure of expressive vocabulary in children between 3 and 8 years of age We used IRT to build an *adaptive* parent report measure for children beyond the CDI (in German) Task, materials, data ... everything open access osf.io/preprints/ps...

Prepreprint! Family language strategies (e.g. one-parent-one-language) don't explain kids' language exposure, but individual parents' approaches (i.e., using a lang. regularly/sometimes/never) do! Mothers' effect on exposure was 2x fathers' --> gendered caregiving roles. psyarxiv.com/x4jbm/

Hi child/infant development folks, anyone willing to share some pictures of your lab decor for inspiration? I need a babylab Pinterest board! #DevSci #DevPsy

Reviewer 2 after I present 7 well-powered experiments to support my claims #AcademicSky

Hi #CogSci #PsychSciSky #SciSky! I study the early development of self, and it's role in developing cognition; mainly infants. I'm a professor at the University of Copenhagen where I direct the Centre for Early Childhood Cognition (psychology.ku.dk/ecc-en/).