Hadley Wickham made a GenZ version of dplyr 😂 hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

Great article about the psychology of guilty pleasures by my colleague @jjtogans.bsky.social at Lafayette College! 🎉 psyche.co/ideas/guilty...

Finished listening to this audiobook on my daily walk today and it was great! I found it informative, empowering & inspirational, and I’m leaving the book with some actionable strategies to treat & prevent burnout. One that I’ve been particularly enjoying is gratitude practice. 💕

Happy #caturday! 😻

#psychsky I have an unprecedented amount of recommendation letters to write this fall, many with a Dec 1 due date. But one of my students received this warning from PsyCAS that materials need to be submitted *2 weeks* ahead of the due date so they can be verified. Have others heard of this change?!

Voted! 🗳️

I wrote for @psychologytoday.com on how food insecurity harms child development. I’m hoping our leaders can restore SNAP funds moving forward to prevent these harms to our nation’s kids. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/orig...

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

Excited for the Play it Forward conference today in Philadelphia! 🎉 I use playful learning landscapes in my upper-level class for undergraduates. I’m eager to learn more about these great projects that integrate playful learning into everyday spaces.

Happy #caturday! 😻

I brought back French macarons from Paris for my wonderful departmental colleagues. Does this count as departmental service? ☺️

J’aime beaucoup Paris!!! 💕 I’m already planning another trip here in a few years to bring my husband. ☺️

I’m in Paris for a week! 🇫🇷 My friend & I are eating crêpes, going to museums, shopping & exploring the city. The highlight today was going to the top of the Eiffel Tower. What a beautiful city! 🤩

For years, I’ve struggled with using ruby scripts to export observational coding data from Datavyu. But I am finally getting the hang of it! 🎉 Also I highly recommend having your scripts tell you that you’re amazing - it’s a nice confidence boost. ☺️

Love these! 🤣 Never mind that my collaborators and I have published papers with figures that look like the confidence interval one…😉

In 2022, Gabrielle Strouse & I gratefully received an NIH R15 grant to study grandparent-grandchild interactions over video chat. We've completed our study with 186 triads participating & today is the last day of our grant funding! We'll be presenting and publishing from this dataset for years. 🎉

This is good general advice for applicants to psychology PhD programs, down to a rubric for evaluating statements of purpose, so sharing this more widely!

looking for reading recs for undergraduates on observational research methods in early childhood classrooms...

Happy #caturday! This is Pumpkin (L) & Lucy (R) and they are our bonded pair. Moments before this photo, they were grooming each other! 💕☺️

A new paper w/ @kabuss.bsky.social & Vanessa LoBue, and led by @joscelinrocha.com & Brendan Ostlund now in Infancy @infantstudies.bsky.social When the World Pivots: Changes in Infant Negative Affect Trajectories Following the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Hey folks: A little while aback, @jschleiderphd.bsky.social and I created a repository of SOPs to help folks prepare for grad applications. If you'd like to add your SOP, feel free to use this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Of note, mask as you desire as I will be posting them as is.

Excited for my first foray into qualitative research starting today with a 3-day intensive training workshop with ResearchTalk and the UNC Odum Center for Research in the Social Sciences. #sabbatical 🎉

Just in time for #Caturday I present our usually shy kitty Lucy! 💕

#statstab #390 modelbased: An R package to make the most out of your statistical models through marginal means, marginal effects, and model predictions Thoughts: Great package for getting predicted probabilities for your models. #rstats #r #easystats doi.org/10.21105/jos...

TL; DR version of season 2 of The Retrievals (which is excellent, BTW)…the novel idea that doctors should ✨ believe women about their pain.✨ 🙄😣😳

Age verification? For a brief time I had dial-up WiFi at home. ☺️

Early Baby Behavior Predicts Adult Cognition and Intelligence neurosciencenews.com/neurodevelop...

If you teach cognitive psychology or related topics & are willing to share your favorite teaching resources (e.g., demos, videos), please reply to/quote this post, tag me in a new post, or send me email. I'll compile them, share the list, & keep updating it this summer. Let's inspire each other!

Today I did the following: ✅modified a ruby script to export from Datavyu ✅imported data into R & pivoted wider ✅ran a Kappa and passed the .80 reliability threshold ✅ran Crosstabs for a matrix of coder decisions ✅output successfully knitted at the end 🎉🎉🎉 PLEASE CLAP. 👏

Paid off the last of $58k of student loans today, which I’ve been paying monthly for the past 17 years! 🎉 🤩 Thankful for my wonderful education & low interest rates of the 2000s, and angry at today’s student loan rates & ballooning college tuition rates. 🤯

Join us for #BlackinPsych 2nd Summer Series talk on Tuesday, May 27th, at 2pm ET! Psychologist & Storyteller, Dr. Lisa Cantrell, will provide us w/ some pointers on how to include components of storytelling into our research presentations. RSVP: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #psychsky #psychology

Final grades posted for my last class! 🥳 So now I'm officially on research sabbatical...but first will finish the rest of our beach vacation this week... 😀

Infancy researchers: This is a longshot but does anyone have access to the imaginary animal stimuli used in the classic studies on infant categorization by Leslie Cohen and Barbara Younger (Kim Plunkett, Gert Westermann, Emily Mather, and others have also used similar stimuli)? If

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Developmental Psychologist: I fussed out

Why is this story not in an American paper Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Last class taught until January 26, 2026! (I'm on sabbatical in the fall.) 🎉

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

How I feel when I successfully run a Ruby script in Datavyu with no error messages...

Today my colleagues and I are benefiting from @jjtogans.bsky.social ‘s baking habit. These cookies are SOOO delicious that I may have had them for breakfast. ☺️

Super interesting & well done talk by @yukomunakata.bsky.social to cap off #SRCD25. Executive function is not a static cognitive ability “in the head” of children, but rather is influenced adaptively by environment, habits, and culture.

Not impressed by the coffee options (and long lines) in the Minneapolis Convention Center for #SRCD25? There’s a Caribou coffee a 7 min walk away at 11th & Nicolette. ☕️

En route to #SRCD25! First up tomorrow, the Teaching Institute pre-conference. I’ve been attending it since 2009 and always get good teaching ideas there. 😊

New preprint from @bartlettje.bsky.social, Gaby Mahrholz & I written as part of #OSR25CF 🗻 We provide a tutorial of concrete ways to assess students knowledge about open sci and/or using open and reproducible practices such as registered reports, open code/data osf.io/preprints/os... #AcademicSky

Why do we not remember being a baby? One idea is that the hippocampus, which is essential for episodic memory in adults, is too immature to form individual memories in infancy. We tested this using awake infant fMRI, new in @science.org #ScienceResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Children Helping Science is one of the best pieces of research infrastructure ever built in psychology-- and it is currently free!! if you've ever used it or are thinking of using it for studies with infants, children, or adolescents-- please look at the actions below to help keep it running!

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more. I'm trying to save them. You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.

I was interviewed by @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com regarding that awful gamete size "sex" executive order. A bit of an explainer here of why the science is so bad, and why that's dangerous:

Trying to compile a list of people with active pedagogic interests in teaching statistics go.bsky.app/Qg6YSq6

Searching for examples of Cognitive Development related graphical abstracts or visual summaries of empirical papers. Have you made one of these you don't mind me using as an example of how to communicate science? Please send examples my way! #devscisky #psychsky