@dominicgibson
Dad, Senior Researcher at foundry10 investigating children's conceptual development, language/gestures and thought, numerical cognition, playful learning and parenting. Opinions my own. Lab: https://www.foundry10.org/conceptual-development-lab
🗣️📣Let the administration know how you feel about them restricting COVID-19 vaccine access under the false pretense that the vaccine may not be safe. Comment period ends in 3 days.
www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...
absolutely heartbroken for Benny. if you're looking for a developmental psychologist who manages to combine theoretical rigor + astute consideration of social context, look no further for your next postdoc ⬇️
Check out our symposium on *parents' lay theories of cognitive development* at #SRCD2025!
Ft. work by @reutshachnai.bsky.social, @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social, @dominicgibson.bsky.social, and yours truly, discussed by @andrewshtulman.bsky.social !
ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time.
S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.*
short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵
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“It’s a six-month production cycle,” Dr. Offit said. “So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
All practice guides are in the public domain.
Just in case...
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
The clearest outcome in my six-year-old is her telling me to "quit studying her brain" whenever I get overexcited and start asking too many questions.
❤️"She’s asked counting questions so many times that her little one has begun to tease her. Every time he sees a group of things, he pretends to be Mommy and asks, 'How many? Let’s count them!' "
A little parent math talk with kids might really add up hechingerreport.org/a-little-par...
Nice interview @alexsilverlevy.bsky.social
"Washington is in need of more early childhood educators. But 45% of early educator households in the state participate in one or more public assistance programs." www.seattletimes.com/education-la... via @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social
Happy New Year!! So thrilled to share this preprint (Kara Weisman, Lucy King, and I worked on this for 8+ yrs): "Beliefs about the development of mental life"
Read to find an interesting story on how people perceive different domains of capacities changing from birth to age 5 yrs.
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new #DevPsychSky demo of motivated reasoning in preschoolers just dropped: turns out deciding if it was a 'real' spin of the dreidel or not *really* depends on whether the outcome means you get more chocolate gelt or not. currently a large effect size case study, replication in progress.
Cute title, neat finding, and some insight into why my kids so often mix these up - what more could you want in a paper?
Want to nurture your baby’s early language?
It’s really not rocket science. It just takes your time and attention.
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Something clearly isn't right with this survey. This was last year's:
Overparenting is on the rise and hurts children’s motivation starting in early childhood. How can we help parents step back? Our new paper in Child Dev shows that pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting.
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I’d love to be added!
Materials from our Number Knowledge Storytime, including an information card that reads 'Discover what your 2- to 4- year-old knows about numbers!', a green plate in the shape of a lily pad on top of a pond made out of construction paper, markers, and stickers. 3 rubber frogs sit on the lily pad and 3 additional frogs are next to it. In the background, part of a page of a book is visible and reads, 'The three frogs sit on the...'.
New blogpost about a program my colleague Meredith Berlin and I recently ran at the Truro Library to translate some of my research on early number learning and support children and their caregivers in thinking, talking, and playing games involving numbers: www.foundry10.org/stories/play...
I'd love to be added, thanks!
There's still time for interested grad students/postdocs to apply for a paid, part-time position at foundry10 to collaborate with Kara Weisman and me on a new project investigating parents' & caregivers' lay theories and beliefs about Covid-19/vaccines: recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...
It has been great reconnecting with folks here! For new friends, here's a recent interview about my transition from cognitive development/early ed research (in academia) to cognitive development/early ed research (outside of academia): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Could I be added please, thanks!
Just starting to use Bluesky in earnest - would you mind adding me? Thanks!
I’d love to be added!
Build what, Wally? Community? A better information ecosystem? Show us the way…
“I’m a hammer. I eat hammer food.”
“It’s time to build”
- Wally, Age 2, just wants to talk about tools
