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Mike Frank

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Cognitive scientist at Stanford. Open science advocate. Symbolic Systems Program director. Bluegrass picker, slow runner, dad.

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OA preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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People are really good at creating conventions - new ways of talking - during dialogues. But what happens in larger groups? And what about when people can only respond using šŸ˜?!

New paper by Veronica Boyce, Robert Hawkins, Noah Goodman, and me, now out:

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Still, quite big news I would thinkā€¦

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Itā€™s not my field so hard to judgeā€¦ probably some combo of decline of X/twitter and inattention from me could explain this without any other factors involved.

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I feel like social media has failed me. Somehow I didn't hear about this failure to replicate the induced compliance paradigm for cognitive dissonance: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... - would love to hear what people closer to this research make of the finding.

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Thinking about pros and cons of collecting data from kids online? Our meta-analysis is out today. Effects from online testing were slightly but not significantly smaller than matched in-lab effects: d = āˆ’.05 [āˆ’.17, .07]. By Aaron Chuey, Veronica Boyce, and Anjie Cao.

direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

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If you study infant looking, check this out:

"An Asynchronous, Hands-Off Workflow for Looking Time Experiments With Infants" psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
First Author: Gal Raz. Co-Authors: Sabrina Piccolo, Janine Medrano, Shari Liu, Kirsten Lydic, Catherine Mei, Victoria Nguyen, and Shari Liu

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Awesome! We are piloting right now with 5-12 year olds and going younger next year. Let me know if you see ways we could be helpful to you all!

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Introducing LEVANTE, a project for measuring children's developmental and learning variability around the world! LEVANTE provides a measurement platform with data flowing to an open repository. In August, the Jacobs Foundation will make a call for proposals to use these tools!

levante-network.org

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When a replication fails, researchers have to decide whether to make another attempt or move on. How should we think about this decision? Here's a new paper trying to answer this question, led by Veronica Boyce and featuring student authors from my class!

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Leher Singh 's avatar Leher Singh @lehersingh.bsky.social
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Most grateful for this warm welcome to my next academic home in the Fall! Very thankful for a fantastic 10 years at the Psychology Dept at the National University of Singapore and also incredibly excited about the next chapter at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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Tim Elfenbein's avatar Tim Elfenbein @timelfen.bsky.social
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I live-tooted an excellent symposium on critical perspectives on open science yesterday, basically a bunch of smart humanists & social scientists banging on about the limits & consequences of OS]. I've found more open science folks on Mastodon, so posted there: assemblag.es/@timelfen/11...

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD's avatar Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @pdakean.bsky.social
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@manybabies.org is offering a lot of useful workshops. I hope others can use these that speak directly to those working with difficult-to-recruit populations and complex studies. Good for professional development and lab meeting topics.

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Helen Rosner's avatar Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social
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Making sure everyone has read Kate Wagnerā€™s absolutely terrific ā€” like a genuinely all-time, Grantland, SBN-in-its-heyday, talk about it 10 years later-style joy to read ā€” F1 article that was mysteriously removed from the Road & Track website shortly after publication web.archive.org/web/20240301...

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Eg, make a table called trials - each row is a trial, contains columns called trial_id and subject_id as well as stuff about the trial. Then the subjects table contains a column called subject_id plus also age and stuff.

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that is the index by which it can be joined to other tables that reference the index. I wouldnā€™t try to make those ids contain information that needs to be split out.

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Not sure I totally understand the dataset from what you wrote but if you want users to join, best practice comes from databases where each table has a single unique identifier (which can in some cases be redundant or partially redundant with other columns).

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Bria Long's avatar Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social
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Excited to share that our paper, ā€œParallel developmental changes in childrenā€™s production and recognition of line drawings of visual conceptsā€ has been published in Nature Communications!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Stephanie M. Lee's avatar Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social
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At a time when scientific misconduct is making headlines, the truth is that errors in science are largely brought to light by unpaid volunteers. I wrote about a new program that wants to shake up those incentives and pay sleuths cold, hard cash for finding mistakes. www.chronicle.com/article/want...

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Mike Frank's avatar Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social
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Thanks! Iā€™m just wondering about kidsā€™ relative abilities with these different devicesā€¦

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Thanks thatā€™s helpful!!

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Vasco BrazĆ£o šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ's avatar Vasco BrazĆ£o šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ @vascobrazao.bsky.social
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Loving this article. Learning how to employ this framework might actually improve the way I do science as much as I once naĆÆvely hoped engaging in pre-registration and all that jazz would

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Hey cognitive development folks - anyone tried having 5-8 year olds do online tasks with either mouse/trackpad responses or arrow key responses? Do you have an opinion on the issues with either? Trying to design tasks for kids on different platforms (inc. computer as well as tablet).

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Stanford Symbolic Systems is looking for a lecturer for a 3-year position! We want someone who can teach undergrad courses, be part of our instructional team working on curriculum and student experience, and contribute to Stanford's COLLEGE program.

App: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27131

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APS Fellow @simine.com is introducing new steps to ensure transparency, rigor, and diversity in the pages of Psychological Science.

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An amazing undergraduate honors thesis by Elizabeth!

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Another new year, another fantastic new article - this one from Elizabeth Swanson, @mcxfrank.bsky.social and Judith Degen: Syntactic adaptation and word learning in children and adults. Like every LDR article, it's free to read, free to publish! doi.org/10.34842/0ef...

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Oh and of course GitHub for version/issue tracking on the quarto.

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Thanks! We used quarto for that, which is great if you are only collaborating with tech-y folks. Otherwiseā€¦ Google docs?

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Francesco Poli's avatar Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social
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We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials: tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/
Please share widely! 1/4

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100% my favorite article of 2024 so far: "My pet pig can't fly and I want a refund" by Michael Tarr: doi.org/10.1017/S014...

Bonus: I agree with him completely!

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From my own work: osf.io/preprints/ps... - I also recommend looking at papers on the ABCD neurocognition battery and the NIH toolbox monograph.

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Earl K. Miller's avatar Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social
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I am very saddened to learn of the passing of Peter Schiller. Peter was a great scientist. He took me under his wing when I started at MIT. I'll never forget him. Miss you, Peter.
#neuroscience

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Favorite moment of intro systems neuroscience (first course at BCS): Peter Schiller lying on a table imitating the neural firings from an anesthetized cat in the Hubel and Wiesel experiments.

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@posit.co hi! We have been the beneficiaries of your free shiny server pro licenses for wordbank.stanford.edu for many years. Thank you! but we havenā€™t heard back about a potential renewal for several weeks and now the site is downā€¦ Is there anybody we should reach out to?

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