Krista Byers-Heinlein

@kbyers.bsky.social

Developmental Psych | prof @Concordia | Language acquisition | Bilingualism | Infants & toddlers | Open science | R | Women in science

Council of Elrond is like a departmental meeting. They all know the only difficult solution but it's not possible to get there right away so they while away hours and hours of discussing non-starter solutions until there's finally some junior faculty who volunteers "I will take ring to Mordor"

Did you know you can post to these neurofeeds with just emojis: Neuroskyence: 🧠🟦 or 🧠📈 Compneurosky: 🧠🤖 or 🧠💻 Interoception: 🧠🫀 or 🧠🫁 Neuropsychiatry: 🧠🩺 Save those characters and use an emoji!

On further reflection, the selection of @simine.com as Editor-in-Chief of Psychological Science is one of the most important milestones for the reform movement in psychology. There will be impact on the journal, sure. But more, selecting a committed, visible reformer illustrates its normalization.

For #rstats users, {renv} now provides similar functionality to {groundhog}. With your script open in RStudio, simply call renv::embed() & a code snippet will be inserted at the top with the script's version-specific dependencies and the code to install them 🧪#stats rstudio.github.io/renv/referen...

Calling embed() inspects the dependencies of the specified document then generates and inserts a call to use() that looks something like this:

renv::use(
  "digest@0.6.30",
  "rlang@0.3.4"
)
Then, when you next run your R script or render your .Rmd, use() will:

Create a temporary library path.

Install the requested packages and their recursive dependencies into that library.

Activate the library, so it's used for the rest of the script.

Prepreprint! Family language strategies (e.g. one-parent-one-language) don't explain kids' language exposure, but individual parents' approaches (i.e., using a lang. regularly/sometimes/never) do! Mothers' effect on exposure was 2x fathers' --> gendered caregiving roles. psyarxiv.com/x4jbm/

New preprint with an exciting and unexpected result! The ADHD vocabulary size advantage: Monolingual and bilingual young adults with ADHD have larger vocabularies than controls. Co-authored PhD student extrodinaire Melanie Brouillard (seriously, it was all her idea). osf.io/h2fcj/

The ADHD vocabulary size advantage: Monolingual and bilingual young adults with ADHD have larger voc...

Individuals with ADHD and bilinguals have each widely been considered vulnerable to vocabulary deficits compared to their peers. However, the interaction of ADHD and bilingualism in affecting vocabula...

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Congrats to The ManyManys for posting their first preprint on PsyArXiv! Such an important milestone in a young network's life 🥹🥰 “Comparative Cognition Needs #BigTeamScience: How Large-Scale Collaborations Will Unlock the Future of the Field” psyarxiv.com/rynvu #PsychSciSky #devpsy

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