I’m sorry, come again? The silent closeout of NSF-SBE is a travesty. #nsf #nsfsbe

“what you end up learning by getting really good at predicting the next word is a separate question. And it's an empirical question that is hard to answer with just a priori speculation about what is or isn't possible to learn in that way.” Episode of Many Minds podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

What can AI teach us about the mind?

Podcast Episode · Many Minds · March 26 · 1h 21m

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I'm thrilled to be at the Common Sense Summit on Kids and Families! Can’t wait to engage with leaders shaping children’s digital futures on how we optimize learning, creativity, and exploration in today’s digital world! #CSSummit26 #CommonSenseSummit

Have an idea for spreading Cognitive Science? Apply for the Broadening Participation Grant now!

Cognitive Science Society@cogscisociety.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Cognitive Science is stronger when more voices are included. The Broadening Participation initiative funds projects that engage underrepresented communities, bridge disciplines, and create lasting outreach impact. Deadline: April 15 🗓️ Learn more & apply: cognitivesciencesociety.org/broadening-p...

Some job market stats, because I think it’s important to talk about! My job market cycle felt slim this year. I applied to 47 jobs across psychology, education, information science, and comm departments. I received 11 Zoom invites and 8 in person interviews, which translated into 1 offer. #acjobs

🚨 Out now in Child Development! We asked 4- to 8-year-old children about getting answers from Google and a teacher. By age 6, children endorsed Google’s ability to answer correctly more often and believed that Google would also be better at answering questions about the world around them.

“I’ve seen Google before!”: Young children's intuitions about Google's capabilities

Abstract. Google Search is a popular tool for acquiring information online, but little is known about children's trust in search engines. Across two studie

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Starting January 2027 I’ll be joining The College of New Jersey as a tenure track assistant professor in Applied Cognition. The dream of dreams was to accept a position near New York City at an institution with liberal arts sensibilities but ample research resources. TCNJ immediately felt like home.

🧵New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why? To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/11

My research students can get lab hours this week by studying for finals with each other, but they have to send me a picture of their work together. Which means I get fun pictures of chemistry worksheets and papers next to matching coffee cups to break up the monotony of my inbox. 13/10 recommend.

Have you thought about submitting something to JITP but your idea didn’t quite fit with our themed issues? Submit to our **GENERAL ISSUE** by December 15th and show us how you think about the intersection of teaching, learning, and research with technology. See you in our inbox!

Over the moon because I’m chairing a pre-conference at CDS with a group of researchers I so admire and bringing back my personal favorite pre-conference with a new twist in the process!

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Whatever powers-that-be decided CDS, MPA, and AERA could all be the same weekend really had a thing against me personally, I fear.

If you need me, I’ll be playing with this all day. hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap

`genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.

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Feeling so proud of my 14!!! research assistants this week. Four submitted abstracts to MPA, our regional conference, yesterday and tomorrow 10 of them are joining me for a quarterly book club on @mcxfrank.bsky.social and colleagues’ fantastic Experimentology text (Chapters 1-4). What a good group.

Had a great time a few weeks ago talking about OpEds with MIT graduate students!

ComSciCon@comscicon.bsky.social · 10mo ago

👏 Huge shoutout to Nathan Sanders, @laurengh.bsky.social and @mackenziewhite.bsky.social from #ComSciCon! We’re so proud to see our community empowering researchers to share their voices! 💬 #SciComm #ScienceCommunication #PublicEngagement #OpEdWriting

Hello! R-Ladies Boston is hosting a #dataviz virtual round robin where we show off some cool figures we made or working on! Come join us for a fun time! www.meetup.com/rladies-bost...

10 MORE DAYS! I would love to see some #DISI #CogDev #SciComm submissions come through!

Cognitive Science Society@cogscisociety.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Times is running out! ⏳ Submit your 5-min video for the CogSci Mind Challenge by Oct 17 📅 Question: How do different minds (humans, animals, AI) learn language, if at all? 💰Prizes up to $1000! 👉 Don’t miss it: cognitivesciencesociety.org/cogsci-mind-... #CogSciMindChallenge

A friend of mine gave my website a refresh and now it is so pretty. More features to come, but for now you can see my basic overview at laurengirouard.com. So spiffy!

an elderly woman says you can google it

Alt: an elderly woman says you can google it

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Started my own little rejection collection for this job cycle and it officially has its first entry. Hopefully I’ll get to balance it out in the coming weeks. And if not, more pizza for me! ;)

Really great read from @biblioracle.bsky.social this morning. open.substack.com/pub/bibliora...

Are Platforms Making Us Evil?

Working my way through Nicolas Carr via the lens of teaching.

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It’s job market season & I’m back on the market for the first time since leaving grad school. It’s quite gratifying to give my materials a full refresh & see how much I’ve grown as a scholar. If you’re looking for a cog/dev researcher who maybe also loves a stats class, you know where to find me! 😉

The second half of my dissertation is officially in press at Child Development. I hear I’ve successfully avoided the curse of carrying your dissertation around for years. These studies have some of my favorite findings from my time in graduate school, so I can’t wait to see them out in the world!

Due to a recent influx of problematic submissions, PsyArXiv has switched to pre-moderating its content. If your submitted preprint had not yet been approved, it will be temporarily inaccessible to the public (you can still view your preprint when logged into your OSF account). #PsychSciSky

The Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at NSF are no more? But hopefully I misunderstand? www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

music lessons don't make kids smarter, but many people have assumed that music lessons would have near-transfer effects, e.g. improving aspects of auditory perception big new study led by Andrew Oxenham says "nope". music lessons make kids better at music & that's good enough reason to do 'em !

Large-scale multi-site study shows no association between musical training and early auditory neural sound encoding - Nature Communications

Widely cited studies have claimed that musical training is associated with enhanced neural encoding for sound at early stages of the auditory system. Results from this large-scale multisite study do n...

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Notes from @noranewcombe.bsky.social 's beautiful Rumelhart Prize "tasting menu" - congratulations Nora!!! #CogSci2025

I’m back from #DISI25 in Scotland just in time to fly to #cogsci2025 in SF and I would love to connect while there! I’m moderating the Science Communication Luncheon and presenting a poster on virtuous ignorance and digital voice assistants on Friday morning. If you see me, please say hello!

Only a small % of people engage in toxic activity online, but they’re responsible for a disproportionate share of hostile or misleading content on nearly every platform Because super-users are so active, they dominate our collective impression of the internet www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?

Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out

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Summer in St Andrew’s, Scotland? Not half bad. I’m here for the rest of the month as part of a summer fellowship on diverse intelligences, and it’s never a bad thing to work on a research project with a good view.