Happy end of the spring semester to all who celebrate! Re-sharing my favorite meme for this time of year...😊

Are you pregnant with your first child? 🤰 We’re looking for expecting parents in their third trimester to join our study! 🎉 lnkd.in/enSQ2jqW You can help us learn more about expectations of child-rearing!🐣 To learn more, click the link in the flyer and sign up today! 🔗 #Pregnancy #Parenting

My lab has been a site for the ManyNumbers project - a collaborative project from labs across the world studying the fundamental concepts of childhood numeracy across cultures. Students in my 300-level lab course have collected data from 129 preschool kids! 🎉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#CDS2026 was a great conference! 🎉The pre-conferences (digital media & dev sci at non-R1 institutions) were the highlight for me. It’s exciting to see where the children & media field is going and it was validating to talk to others doing cog dev sci at SLACs & other non-R1s.

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

A developmental psychology Onion headline! 🤣

Well said! 💯

This project was a fun one, with a dream team of collaborators! 😊

We invite you to participate in an online study, which examines the relationships between personality traits and stress among Black LGBTQIA+ individuals.

True story, in the past month I have taught 2 (TWO!!!) undergrad research assistants HOW TO SAVE A FILE. 🤯 They’re so used to Google Docs auto saving files they don’t know how to do it. 🤔😅

New publication out today! 🥳 It was once again great to work with this amazing team: @ellroche.bsky.social @dougpiper.bsky.social @drzosh.bsky.social @geotro.bsky.social and Rachel Barr!

My Moodle sites and syllabi are now ready for spring semester! 🎉 🤩 I'm teaching my two favorite classes - Lifespan Development I and II (with lab). 💖

So far this week, I've productively procrastinated on course prep, but the bright side is that I have a professional website now! 🎉 I'm a newbie to this but loved the Canva template that was super easy to work with. Check it out and let me know if you have any suggestions... proflaurenmyers.com

I'm looking for resources/slides for teaching undergrads about causality in research design and statistics--anyone have any recommendations? Thanks so much! @stpteachpsych.bsky.social

Congratulations to Lafayette alum Lucy Neely '22 for publishing an empirical manuscript based on the honors thesis @lafayettecollege that she completed with me in 2022. The paper is now published in early view! 🥳 🤩 Full text: 10.1111/infa.70065 or email [email protected] for a PDF

Actual footage of me working frantically on my CDS abstract due in 48 hours…anyone else?

Pleased to share for those using #rstats for analyzing #dyadic data, that we released a major update of dySEM on CRAN (now ver. 1.4.1) *just* before the winter break. New functionality for scripting/outputting dyadic SEMs, along with (much) more test coverage! 🧵 cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

I'm glad to share this new book chapter, written with one of my undergrads. Drawing on interviews during/after Covid lockdowns, we show that moms varied in how they approached remote learning, and that intensive approaches led to more burnout, leading to more interest in a return to in-person school

This is a fundraising post! An anonymous donor is matching contributions to Children Helping Science up to 100K through the end of the year - if it's in your giving budget, please consider supporting open science infrastructure! giving.mit.edu/search/node/... Details below...

That feeling when, in an e-mail, you start a sentence with a numeral. Then change it because even in an e-mail, not following APA style makes you uncomfortable. 😒 #PsychSky

The merits of undergraduate student samples Comment by Jennifer M. Talarico go.nature.com/48U6Pg4

Happy recommendation letter day to all who celebrate! 🎉☺️ I have a Pavlovian association between Thanksgiving & rec letters…

I need a good article or chapter that explains regression in an accessible way for an undergraduate audience. Any suggestions? #PsychSky

🎓 Professor John Shaw of the Lafayette College Psychology Dept will be retiring at the end of the 2025-26 year! 📚 We're creating a book filled with student well wishes & memories! 🎉 📕 (Don't worry, he's not on BlueSky so he won't see this.) 🤫 Share your well wishes&photos ⬇️ forms.gle/oVt8PriJMLdU...

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. ☺️