So excited to share that I will be starting my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology! 🥳 My lab will study curiosity and exploration across biological (and artificial) minds. I will recruit a PhD, a postdoc and an RA in the coming months, so please spread the word!

Using one coherent and simple paradigm, this set of studies provides one of the most comprehensive investigations of when various ways of conveying meaning in #graphiccommunication become intuitively accessible to young children

Really a valuable ressource for all interested in #symbolicliteracy & #emergingtliteracy & "reading" prior to #literacyacquisition as well as #pragmatics & #analogicalreasoning academic.oup.com/chidev/advan...

Young children's spontaneous comprehension of symbol–referent relationships in the graphic domain

Abstract. Young children's communicative skills in language and gesture are well documented, yet much less is known about their ­ability to interpret graph

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...as well as analogies in size an number (Study 3)

...as well as position and orientation (Study 2)

New Paper w/ @elmanubohn.bsky.social out in #ChildDevelopment smoothly tracing children's comprehension of various-symbol-referent relationships in the graphic domain across the preschool years with three studies, probing direct representations, part-whole relations and form analogies (Study 1)...

Ist das normal – oder braucht mein Kind eine Therapie? Diese Frage steht im Zentrum meines neuen Buches. Sie begegnet mir seit Jahren in unserer Hochschulambulanz – und sie ist oft schwerer zu beantworten, als es von außen wirkt. www.piper.de/fileadmin/im...

📢📅 Apply by 30 Nov 2026! Join our vibrant research community @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social or @unileipzig.bsky.social! Our Intl. Max Planck Research School The Leipzig School of Human Origins offers fully funded PhD positions. Interested? Find out more: www.leipzig-school.eva.mpg.de/application/...

Looking forward to representing @manyprimates.bsky.social at @btscon.bsky.social this year. We will be sharing some initial insights into the ManyPrimates 2 project on delay of gratification. Schedule and registration info: bigteamscienceconference.github.io

This was a fantastic team effort across 30+ labs 🌍 Paper (open access), data & code all public. > 📄 doi.org/10.1111/desc... > 💻 github.com/manybabies/m... > #ManyBabies #InfantCognition #OpenScience #DevSci, lead team: Andreea Geambaşu, Melanie Soderstrom, and Claartje Levelt

ManyBabies 3: A Multi‐Lab Study of Infant Algebraic Rule Learning

The ability to learn and apply rules lies at the heart of cognition. In a seminal study, Marcus et al. (1999) reported that 7-month-old infants learned abstract rules over syllable sequences and were...

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New paper 🍼📄 ManyBabies 3 is out (open access, registered report in Developmental Science). 30 labs, 33 languages, 839 infants set out to replicate a textbook finding: 7-month-olds learn abstract rules from speech (@garymarcus.bsky.social et al., 1999). We didn’t find it. 🧵

We've just released a new version of childes-db, my lab's interface to the CHILDES database of child language transcripts. It lets you work with CHILDES data from R through a versioned, reproducible API. A few updates 🧵 childes-db.stanford.edu/

📖 New review out today in @natrevneuro.nature.com: Towards an integrative neuroscience of metacognition 🧠🧪 Full-text link to the paper is here: rdcu.be/9YK3mF7dYhFa

We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack

Growing up demands the right cognitive toolkit at the right time 🧠 We show cognitive development over key life transitions from ontogeny to adulthood in wild meerkats. 🚨 Read our new findings👇🏼 doi.org/10.1098/rspb... Great Thanks to @royalsocietypublishing.org @templetonworld.bsky.social @snsf.ch

Cognitive abilities show distinct developmental trajectories in wild meerkats

Abstract. Understanding cognitive development is fundamental for explaining variation in adult cognitive phenotypes, and thus the processes driving cogniti

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The Stanford Psychology Department is having a search for a tenure-track Assistant Professor with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. Application deadline is 10/15. More infos here: facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor, Psychology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Psychology at Stanford University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. In addition ...

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Postdoc opportunity in Developmental Psychology: research on attention and social development, with lots of methodological opportunities (EEG, eye-tracking, VR, hyperscanning) in a friendly, #OpenScience oriented team at @unibremen.bsky.social: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/462019

Job Advertisement: Research Associate (Postdoctoral Fellow) (m/f/d)

Institute of Psychology, Department of Developmental and Educational PsychologyFaculty 11 – Human and Health SciencesUniversity of Bremen

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If this makes you mad, submit your cognitive science research to @openmindjournal.bsky.social No APCs, no subscription fees. It's funded by university libraries, at low cost.

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🚨Update: Our analysis of global APC expenditure has now been expanded to cover more publishers (7 -> 14) and more years (2019-2025). We estimate $15B in APCs paid over seven years, $3.7B in 2025 alone. Elsevier crosses the $1B threshold by itself in 2025. arxiv.org/abs/2608.16322 #ScholComm

Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a #PhD student and a #Postdoc to investigate #innovation in great #apes: PhD ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Application deadline: August 17th. Please share widely!

🚨 Publication alert! Exploring Variation in Infants' Preference for Infant-directed Speech: Evidence From a Multi-Site Study in Africa Congrats to the entire MB1-Africa team! manybabies.org/MB1A/ doi.org/10.1111/desc...

Exploring Variation in Infants' Preference for Infant‐directed Speech: Evidence From a Multi‐Site Study in Africa

Infants show a preference for infant-directed speech (IDS) over adult-directed speech (ADS). This preference has been linked to infants' language processing and word learning in experimental setting...

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Naturalistic everyday experiences are a blind spot in developmental psychology. Our theories assume they matter - but we know very little about them. Nele's paper is a super important contribution to overcoming this paradox - she developed an automated pipeline to classify social experiences.

Nele-Pauline Suffo@nelesuffo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Happy to share our new preprint exploring the everyday social ecology of preschoolers! We applied an automated multimodal pipeline to 267 hours of naturalistic egocentric video from 107 children (ages 3–5) to capture the changing natural statistics of everyday interactions: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Happy to share our new preprint exploring the everyday social ecology of preschoolers! We applied an automated multimodal pipeline to 267 hours of naturalistic egocentric video from 107 children (ages 3–5) to capture the changing natural statistics of everyday interactions: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Lunch LecturesEntwicklungspsychologie 🗓 Datum: 07. Juli 2026 🕛 Zeit: 12:00–13:00 Uhr 💻 Ort: Zoom Wir freuen uns auf den Vortrag von Prof. Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann (Technische Universität Nürnberg): "How young children come to understand others" Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1eHx5...

A new study published in Psychological Science assesses how cognitive skills of great apes vary between individuals www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2026-ju... @elmanubohn.bsky.social

We updated our – free, open source, Rasch-compliant – receptive vocabulary test (oREV) to also include verbs. If you are looking for a task to measure vocabulary/language in German with children 3-8, look no further! Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps... Task: devpsy.web.leuphana.de/orev-vn/

official ad to follow soon but heads up: 1-2 postdocs slots in my lab, hopefully w/fall start! reposts welcome, details to follow. babies! word learning! cognitive & linguistic skills! #CogSciSky #DevPsychSky 🐦🐦 (lab info: bergelsonlab.fas.harvard.edu/prospectives) also recruiting grads this fall!

1st published paper alert ⚠️ in which @mcxfrank.bsky.social and I ask: How robust is the “shape bias”? a phenomenon that has been central to theories of early word learning: If a child hears a new word for an object, they often extend it to other objects with the same shape. tinyurl.com/JCL-shapebias

Paula Rubio-Fernández has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the project COMMON_GROUND. The grant will allow Paula to test and develop a new theory of how people build and manage the shared understanding that makes communication possible. www.mpi.nl/news/paula-r...

The more often you hear something, the more likely you are to believe that it is true. But please, don't believe everything you hear about teens today. Science and how well they are doing, despite the suffering of adults around them, tells a different story.

—— Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal. We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026 Submit your papers to Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi