First day of the semester for my 16th year at Lafayette, and my 19th year teaching college. I’ve now been teaching as long as my first year students have been alive. 🤯
Lauren J. Myers
@proflaurenmyers.bsky.social
Developmental Psychologist. Associate Professor at Lafayette College. Cognitive development & media researcher. Passionate about great pedagogy. #Academicmama of 2. She/hers
Trimesters are made up! Eugenics is bad! Plastics increase genetic anomalies! Buy my book! Pub date 8/25!
"If professors want to prevent students from cheating on assignments, they’re going to have to get creative, Eaton said, and reconsider how they measure learning. Though the take-home essay has been an undergraduate staple since time immemorial, it may have outlived its usefulness... (1/3)
The Academic-Integrity Council Can’t Keep Up With AI
The technology is raising questions about the efficacy of a decades-old academic tradition.
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My family is in Spain this week and on Wednesday we went to Zaragoza to see the #eclipse2026 in totality. It was amazing!! This video doesn’t do justice to the entire experience but I keep rewatching it. The collective joy and excitement of the crowd was a wonderful part of it!
Conferencing the last two days at the Psych One conference that is all about Introduction to Psychology courses, and I’m going home with several concrete ideas to bring into my course this fall semester! 🤩 Also I am a certified nerd who now has an APA style pen and an I ❤️ Stats sticker. 🧐
Becoming a parent lowers women's chances of getting university jobs and tenure, and reduces their publication output. www.nature.com/articles/d41... according to a Danish study. The reason is that women have almost five times the amount of childcare responsibilities than men have.
Motherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and why
Mothers in academia take on considerably more childcare-related responsibilities than do fathers.
nature.com
✨Twenty years ago ✨today, right at this time (4pm) I made the best decision of my life - marrying the wonderful Steven Jax! 💗🤩😘 I’m so thankful for the life we have built together and for our sweet girls we are raising. We look forward to many more happy years! 🤩
For 4 semesters, my 300-level class has contributed data to the ManyNumbers project, a global research effort in which over 100 labs are studying how children learn about number. Excited to hopefully share how to integrate these projects into undergraduate courses at the Big Team Science conference.
A new monkey has been discovered! So cool! 🤩 “This is a big deal for sure,”said Joshua Linder,a co-founder and president of the Forest Collective, a conservation nonprofit who was not involved with the study.“To find a relatively large-bodied primate that we’ve never seen before is really amazing.”
Meet Earth’s Newest Monkey. (And Check Out Its Orange Lips.) (Gift Article)
It is only the fifth new African monkey identified as a new species in the past 75 years.
nytimes.com
America Online (on dial-up internet) was an integral part of my high school social life.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)@thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 2mo ago"Verify your age" At the first Major League Baseball game I attended I saw a promising rookie named Cal Ripken, Jr.
Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint
Final grades for spring semester posted on Moodle and entered in Banner! (with just 22 hours to go until the deadline...) I have a busy summer of research ahead but first, will take the rest of today off!
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Happy end of the spring semester to all who celebrate! Re-sharing my favorite meme for this time of year...😊
Are you pregnant with your first child? 🤰 We’re looking for expecting parents in their third trimester to join our study! 🎉 lnkd.in/enSQ2jqW You can help us learn more about expectations of child-rearing!🐣 To learn more, click the link in the flyer and sign up today! 🔗 #Pregnancy #Parenting
My lab has been a site for the ManyNumbers project - a collaborative project from labs across the world studying the fundamental concepts of childhood numeracy across cultures. Students in my 300-level lab course have collected data from 129 preschool kids! 🎉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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#CDS2026 was a great conference! 🎉The pre-conferences (digital media & dev sci at non-R1 institutions) were the highlight for me. It’s exciting to see where the children & media field is going and it was validating to talk to others doing cog dev sci at SLACs & other non-R1s.
SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.
SCORE | Center for Open Science
SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...
cos.io
This project was a fun one, with a dream team of collaborators! 😊
International Congress of Infant Studies@infantstudies.bsky.social · 7mo ago(1/2) @ellroche.bsky.social & @dougpiper.bsky.social et al. (2026): parent-grandparent mutual sensitivity linked w/ infant affective states but not likelihood that they would engage in joint attn w/ on-screen grandparent #JointAttention #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We invite you to participate in an online study, which examines the relationships between personality traits and stress among Black LGBTQIA+ individuals.
True story, in the past month I have taught 2 (TWO!!!) undergrad research assistants HOW TO SAVE A FILE. 🤯 They’re so used to Google Docs auto saving files they don’t know how to do it. 🤔😅
Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 7mo agoJust put me on a flaming raft and push it out to sea.
New publication out today! 🥳 It was once again great to work with this amazing team: @ellroche.bsky.social @dougpiper.bsky.social @drzosh.bsky.social @geotro.bsky.social and Rachel Barr!
Ellen Roche@ellroche.bsky.social · 8mo ago👀 New paper out in Infancy! Mutual Sensitivity Between Caregivers Predicts Infant Affective State... @dougpiper.bsky.social & I co-led this analysis with Gabrielle Strouse, @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social @drzosh.bsky.social @geotro.bsky.social and Rachel Barr onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
My Moodle sites and syllabi are now ready for spring semester! 🎉 🤩 I'm teaching my two favorite classes - Lifespan Development I and II (with lab). 💖
So far this week, I've productively procrastinated on course prep, but the bright side is that I have a professional website now! 🎉 I'm a newbie to this but loved the Canva template that was super easy to work with. Check it out and let me know if you have any suggestions... proflaurenmyers.com
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 myersl@lafayette.edu for a PDF
Actual footage of me working frantically on my CDS abstract due in 48 hours…anyone else?
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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...
