Check this out! 🌟 👇 👍 🧪

Weird ggplot thing that got me this week with the update to 4.0 - it supports new ink and paper arguments (www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... ) and they've changed how transparency works! If you a transparent bg, you can control it with theme_*() now #rstats

Ode to the original language model, or: Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs) *(no predictive coding either!) By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n

It would be really nice if academic institutions and governments pushing "AI is the future" stopped buying the hype and admitted they were conned, so we can get back to thinking through useful solutions to world problems.

Don’t miss it! 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞: 𝐀 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 Organised by the Diversity in Developmental Science Network, featuring 𝐃𝐫.𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚 𝐀𝐧𝐞𝐣𝐚 as a panellist. 📝 Registration: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

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Woah! Amazing PhD positions on children as agents of cultural evolution with one of the foremost experts on the topic.

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Wrote this on the train home from Metascience. Can’t quite believe this one needed saying, but I really think that if conversations about research integrity and open science don’t take academic bullying seriously, we’ll keep perpetuating the same system that science reform was trying to change.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

Journalists have consistently shown they are morally bankrupt on AI. Depressing

AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...

If you are also worried about ScienceDirect’s AI slop feature, you can directly contact them here: service.elsevier.com/app/answers/...

💫 Just out! A tour de force by my colleague @olivia.science, new paper 📝: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? 🧮 ⏰ 🧠 Keywords: AI; cognitive science; sociotechnical relationship; cognitive labour; ANN; technology; cognition; human-centred AI Link to the paper on arXiv: lnkd.in/e9nHGkMK 1/n

Setting up LUMO for high-density fNIRS data collection is so simple even Smiskis can do it! #fNIRS #Neuroimaging #HDDOT #LUMO

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!! The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children. Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads. Start: Fall 2025 or later. Details: [email protected] RTs appreciated 💫

As someone who was involved in some of the discussions around this mess, it is as bad as it sounds, maybe even worse. Wiley has gone PCI-hostile based on completely incoherent arguments.

This is a fascinating decision. Wiley manages quite a lot of journals in the developmental psychology space, so this seems to be a massive negative for the field.

if k means clustering, what does c mean

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind. Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

Check out this opportunity to join our team! We are hiring a 1- year full time teaching fellow post in Developmental Psychology! Deadline is 12th June. Any questions please reach out. Please share widely! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/

This is a really cool project! Please repost to anyone interested at the intersection between developmental cognitive neuroscience and education!

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

Chapter 5 lays out how to prepare for fieldwork. We emphasize that developing trusting relationships with the community is critical to ethical research practice and essential for good science. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

Just curious - what is an acceptable success rate before you ship an AI product?

In Chapter 2, we cover the history and traditions of research on cross-cultural childhood learning, noting the narrow framework of the western lens. We highlight how disciplines have come together to deepen our understanding of this topic. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

This paper makes important point that we're not talking about impact of AI on reading enough. Marking work that's full of AI is demoralising but in some ways, the threat AI poses to comprehension is bigger than the threat to what students produce... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AcademicSky

OUT NOW: A Field Guide to Cross-Cultural Research on Childhood Learning reimagines how we study kids—globally. With voices from 21 countries, this inclusive, practical guide bridges disciplines and challenges Western-centric research. buff.ly/0qk1cOs

I'm THRILLED that our book is out. This book, with other 60 contributors from across the globe (!!!) is a love letter to the science we want to do, and a how-to guide for how to do it. Please read it and share it!

Bear all of this in mind when someone starts parroting in your direction all the utopian and progressive-buzzword-laden talk about AI’s potentials. I’m looking at you, fellow academics.

Check out the #fNIRS glossary, a community-sourced consensus-based resource #JustPublished in #Neurophotonics: www.spiedigitallibra...#fNIRS#JustPublished#Neurophotonics:#Neuroscience

New job in the Department of Psychology at Durham University, UK 🔹️ Successful applicants normally within 8 years of completing PhD or close to submitting 🔹️ 36 month contract 🔹️ Closing date: 22nd May 2025 🔹️ More info: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... #Psychology #AcademicSky #PsychJobs

Eye skyers! Send me your raw webcam eye tracking data if you have done an experiment on labvanced, @psychopy.org, or PCIbex! I am working on something for my R package to handle different outputs/columns.

Durham University is offering 100 x £3,000 Postgraduate Student Support Scholarships to UK students from low and middle income households. For more info, visit: www.durham.ac.uk/study/schola...

Very happy to share that I have accepted the role of DE&I Associate Editor at Developmental Science, and look forward to building on the wonderful work of @lehersingh.bsky.social

Wait what you can’t improve literacy by banning books and making children talk to statistical sentence fragment generators instead of humans?

Out this week @cogscisociety.bsky.social! @samhforbes.bsky.social & I ”urge extreme caution in the use of LLMs in classrooms lest we further normalize: pupils losing their privacy, reducing contact between learner and educator, deskilling teachers & polluting the environment” doi.org/10.1111/cogs...

New 💫 Letter to the Editor in Cognitive Science, by @samhforbes.bsky.social & @olivia.science lnkd.in/eea8Cwmd

Are you a Early Career #Researcher, #PhD, or #Psychology student? Are you interested in #Developmental Psychology? Join us on social media for news, updates and developmental psychology content! @bpsdevsection.bsky.social @bpsofficial.bsky.social #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhDChat #DevPsych

Still time to apply to join our team! Please circulate with any bright graduates interested in developmental cognitive neuroscience. You will use a variety of methods (including EEG) to understand communicative development in deaf and hearing infants.

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...

1/ 🧵 🚨New paper!🚨 Cross-cultural research is expanding in the social sciences — but are we measuring what we think we are? Our recent paper argues that construct validity is an overlooked challenge, especially in developmental research. Let’s break it down. 🌍 🧠 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Come check out our new paper on the challenges of ensuring our measures are doing what they’re meant to in cross-cultural work, and some proposed solutions - full breakdown and team below 👇

Fantastic stuff as usual from @jgeller1phd.bsky.social

Our PhD students @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social and @kirtsconnor.bsky.social started Durham University’s @reproducibilitea.org journal club! Based in the Music Department, our journal club hopes to facilitate discussion about #OpenResearch practices across disciplines, from the sciences to the arts

We're living in a world where diversification is quickly being devalued. If you're asking, what can I do as a #musicscience researcher to show my commitment to diversifying research, check out our article, out today in Music & Science, identifying key gaps & promising trends: doi.org/10.1177/2059...

In my paper with @mperlman.bsky.social and Sotaro Kita (published in Gesture last week benjamins.com/catalog/gest...) we show that infants can create their own iconic gestures, producing their first iconic gesture between 12 and 20 months! Gestures varied in level of conceptual difficulty.