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. ☺️

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. ☺️