Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Preschool-aged kids whose parents are working class are less likely to be called on when they raise their hand compared to kids with middle/upper class occupations. Early socialization indeed. | From @lewisdoyle.bsky.social & @andreicimpian.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1... #psych #phdsky

My RAs had a blast showing off their research findings at the #URSI2025 Sympsium at @vassar.bsky.social! Results coming soon to a conference near you (if you live in Chicago or Montreal…)

🚨We're hiring!🚨 The Dept of Psychology at Rutgers is hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology. Review of applications begin on Oct 18. Details here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/259... I'm chairing the search committee and am happy to field questions about the position. 🧵

hi, i'm an academic. my primary skills involve condensing a grant proposal to 60% of its current size, and emailing

My lab is hiring a lab manager! Application deadline = 11/1, start date sometime between June & September 2026 (to be arranged with finalist). Please spread the word & apply here: opportunities.columbia.edu/jobs/a3f80f7.... #AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc #psychjobs

Origins of the Social Mind is back at #SPSP2026! This year, our morning timeslot is compatible with a variety of fantastic afternoon preconferences (e.g., Social Cognition, Gender, Economic Inequality). Submit your work by 10/13! (It need not be related to our theme of prosociality). See you there!

The Department of Psychology at Tufts University is conducting a search for an Assistant or Associate Professor of Computational Psychology with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, beginning September 1, 2026. Details can be found here: apply.interfolio.com/172807.

#Psychjobs My former institution Colby College is hiring a tenure track in intergroup relations, broadly defined & open to many psych areas (not just social). This is my replacement line. I truly enjoyed my time at Colby and it's a great dept! Happy to answer Qs if I can. apply.interfolio.com/172552

New paper accepted at JEP:G with @sakierahudson.bsky.social, Brandon Kinsler, & former students Ian Davis and Alissa Vandenbark! Come for the opening Aladdin quote, stay for a developmental perspective on SDO! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Come work with us! @princetonneuro.bsky.social and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Our Psychological and Brain Sciences department at Colgate University is hiring a TT position in Clinical/Developmental! Please share or apply! After 10 years here, I feel confident it’s a really special place with strong support for both teaching and research: apply.interfolio.com/171967

Call for submissions: Boston College and Marginalia Science will be hosting a one-day conference highlighting diverse perspectives in psychology and social science research. Apply for a featured talk (with travel award), data blitz, or poster presentation! More info: forms.gle/TdB2esuePVN3...

important lines of summer research on justice and empathy by my colleagues and students in Psych Science! @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social, www.vassar.edu/news/student...

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

a block quote from Susan Gelman herself in her new review paper??? I'll retire now. & related to these points: keep your eyes peeled 👀 for some emerging work from my lab on early homophobia & kids' (lack of) essentialist beliefs about homosexuality! 🏳️‍🌈

We’re hiring a tenure track assistant professor in our amazing Vassar cognitive science department! If you have any questions, let me know. I’ll be at Cog Sci in San Francisco all week if you’d like to chat in person

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/27/about-1-in-4-us-adults-worry-they-or-someone-close-to-them-could-be-deported/

NO I DON'T have any funding to disclose for this manuscript, okay?? Stop making me say it

Check out our new TICS paper on disagreement and metacognition! We argue that disagreement drives metacognitive development by expanding children's consideration sets. With Antonia Langenhoff, Bill Thompson @wdt.bsky.social and Mahesh Srinivasan www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our paper is finally out! 🎉🎉🎉 Mental Models Matter: Conceptualizations of the Human–Nature Relationship Predict Pro-Environmental Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions (www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/17...)

As #SPSP2026 submission season begins, please consider me for your symposia! My students & I have recent work on: - Parents' estimates of their children's prejudices - Development of homophobia in childhood - Gender essentialism & domestic work disparities - Structural explanations & stereotypes 👋!

Pleased to announce my new open access paper out in Developmental Psychology: The Development of the “First Thing That Comes to Mind” with @xphilosopher.bsky.social and @ebonawitz.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026-25569-001.html #CogSci #PsychSciSki #DevSci (1/10)

Laypeople often learn about science from expert explanations & those explanations often contain JARGON. Does jargon make explanations better or worse? In a paper out today in Nature Human Behaviour, @cruzf.bsky.social and I find that jargon can support illusions of understanding...

What does it mean to be generous? I recently explored this with journalist Emma Wilkins, who writes for the Templeton Foundation. It was a joy to connect and discuss how generosity develops, varies across cultures, and shapes our work. www.templeton.org/news/fair-or...

respectfully, who are all you people? I know about 20 people in real life yet have 2.6k followers on here. am I on a starter pack of salty queers in academia or something?

the proofs for my article include changing "Yale University" to "University of Yale", in case anyone is wondering what Elsevier's cash is paying for

Can we talk about how, of the 40 participants my lab ran on this project last semester, 37 questionnaires were completed by Mom and only 3 by Dad?? The imbalance is so extreme and so normalized!

Let’s gooooo — first week of summer research!

🥳🥳 New paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com: “When development constricts our moral circle." Contrary to popular belief, younger kids may start out with broader moral circles than older ones. Check it out here 👉 rdcu.be/eoaSe w/ @mattiwilks.bsky.social @karrineldner.bsky.social & Lucius Caviola

So excited to share my *first* first-author paper, out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social!! In this review, we argue that even if you don’t remember being a baby, evidence that infants form episodic-like memories is actually all around us: authors.elsevier.com/c/1l82g4sIRv...

🎊 New preprint 🎊 w/ Tania Lombrozo Why do people engage in collective actions, even when they believe their actions won't make a difference? Based on evidence from the 2024 election and a hypothetical election, we find that *moral* responsibility, not causal, drives voting osf.io/preprints/ps...

I’m in the Guardian today, arguing that we should stop them all-class mental health lessons in schools I've thought very carefully about ‘going public’ with this, because it's a sensitive argument to make, especially in the face of so many young people struggling. (cont 🧵) tinyurl.com/vun92cz7

Do you bring your laptop to playgrounds / daycares / etc. for data collection? Do you use a rugged laptop case or other form of protection? Seeking brand recs 👀🙏

Please help: Do you know a baby, less than 12 months old, who can walk? We are trying to complete a project, 7 years in the works. And all we need are 3 infants who are less than a year old and can walk, to do a short online looking-time study. 🆘

They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women. Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.

Causal learning story from my 2yo: She frequently gets carsick so we often tell her, "sorry you can't drink water right now bc we are about to go in the car and you might throw up." Today, it’s rainy, & I told her we can't go to the playground because it's all wet, and she says, "yup, I throw up."

So proud of this hardworking, scrappy, talented team! (Have I mentioned they ran 100+ child participants in two months?) Glad they got to experience the rush of a buzzing poster session! @vassar.bsky.social

In our new paper, we show that adolescents give *less* moral value to farmed animals than adults. (The opposite is true for smaller children.) Probably, it is a way for juveniles to make sense of the animal treatment in society. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #socialpsyc #philsky #moralPhil

FWIW, NIH had already silently barred Harvard and four other schools from receiving funds — and agency staff were forbidden from telling applicants and grantees about it. bsky.app/profile/maxk...

You can have 5 pencils

What conference website creators think we want to see: Sponsors, past & future conference locations, a list of what preconferences are happening, the "at a glance" schedule with no info about which talks or posters are happening when. What we actually want to see: The schedule of talks and posters.

Also this: misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/supp...

#srcd2025 come check out our symposium on how contextual factors can influence children’s questions and their explanations! We are beyond excited to present these talks- 10 AM, Room 207 AB, Minneapolis Convention Center, Level 2! See you there 🎉

📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵

Wrapping up my first time teaching Intro Psych. When I TA’d for Lisa Shin & the late Sam Sommers (z”l), they used a slide like this to help diverse students see themselves among psychological scientists. I was excited to do the same, but had imagined sharing it w Sam directly as this semester ended.

My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.” ⭐️ Please share ⭐️

Check out our symposium on *parents' lay theories of cognitive development* at #SRCD2025! Ft. work by @reutshachnai.bsky.social, @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social, @dominicgibson.bsky.social, and yours truly, discussed by @andrewshtulman.bsky.social !