We tried very hard to study language and communication during strategic games like prisoner's dilemma. Veronica Boyce did many experiments chasing what could have been an interesting result but in the end wasn't very strong. Now she's written a nice postmortem: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

How can we combine the process-level insight that think-aloud studies give us with the large scale that modern online experiments permit? In our new CogSci paper, we show that speech-to-text models and LLMs enable us to scale up the think-aloud method to large experiments!

Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word recognition support language learning across early childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...

Friends, I have written you a book on forensic metascience. It is free. You can have it. Happy St. Valentine's Day. If you wish to give me a gift back, you can use it to cause trouble - the greatest gift of all. open.substack.com/pub/jamescla...

Now hiring for two lab manager positions at Stanford! Hyo Gweon and I are coordinating joint searches since our labs collaborate frequently. Please join us! careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc... and careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-coo...

I will be at NeurIPS starting tomorrow! Would love to chat about interpretability, linguistics, language structure, meaning in LLMs. Reach out! Aaaand if you love Vancouver, apply to do a PhD at UBC! Fun research in a lovely place! linguistics.ubc.ca/graduate/adm...

Three ManyBabies projects - big collaborative replications of infancy phenomena - wrapped up this year. The first paper came out this fall. I thought I'd take this chance to comment on what I make of the non-replication result. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/laur...

Thanks to the wonderful leadership of @vboyce.bsky.social, this is now published at doi.org/10.1525/coll...! Thankful for the great introduction to graduate school and open science from @mcxfrank.bsky.social.

Work with Isabel! She's a lovely person who does really cool cognitively and linguistically informed NLP work.

Do you like building great tools for behavioral measurement? We are seeking a Research Scientist to act as the tasks lead and engineering manager for a large-scale project on developmental data collection with children ages 2-12 called LEVANTE: levante-network.org.

This was my first time leading a "medium" team science project. It's been a great journey from early convos with Mike about "could some of the failed replications be rescued", to supervising the actual projects, to interpreting the results. I'm grateful to all my co-authors for their hard work.

When a replication fails, researchers have to decide whether to make another attempt or move on. How should we think about this decision? Here's a new paper trying to answer this question, led by Veronica Boyce and featuring student authors from my class! osf.io/preprints/ps...