Samuel Ronfard

@samuelronfard.bsky.social

Developmental psychologist studying children's thinking and learning Assistant Professor @ University of Toronto Director of the Childhood Learning and Development Lab https://www.utmchildlab.com/

Check out our new TICS paper on disagreement and metacognition! We argue that disagreement drives metacognitive development by expanding children's consideration sets. With Antonia Langenhoff, Bill Thompson @wdt.bsky.social and Mahesh Srinivasan www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Disagreement drives metacognitive development

Metacognition improves significantly over childhood, but the mechanisms underlying this development are poorly understood. We first review recent rese…

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This is a lie. We all saw the video. The Senator clearly identified himself, and he did not "lunge" toward anyone.   If these miserable propagandists will lie to you about roughing up a U.S. Senator in a room full of reporters, what won't they lie to you about?

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U of T has approved my tenure and my appointment to associate professor. I could not have done this without my lab, its past and current members. I'm grateful to my mentors and to the scientists whose work has and continues to inspire me. I'm excited to continue doing the work I love.

Poilievre losing his seat is almost Shakespearean: Pretender to the throne riles countrymen with anger, gets defeated by guy with Joy in his name. It’s basically Macbeth.

srsly if you hate that publishers charge your grant $5-10K for open access, there's a simple solution don't write for those journals don't review for those journals don't edit for those journals Scientific Reports, Nature Comms, Comms Psych, Frontiers <- I auto-delete all their emails. easy 👍🏻

Dr Ben Wolfe@benwolfevision.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm rapidly coming to that view. I need to clear my queue at this venue just out of professional responsibility, but then they can go to hell

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Excellent excellent excellent from Princeton president and constitutional/ political theorist Chris Eisgruber. There's been far too little of this kind of thing; here's hoping others follow his good example. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia

American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.

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