The hardest part of my job transition so far has been adjusting to my Windows computer. 😭

✨New paper co-led w/ Monica Ellwood-Lowe out now! Here we bridge the emerging strength-based science of poverty to developmental cognitive neuroscience, and ultimately towards more humanistic, sensitive, & respectful policies that foster children’s thriving.🪡
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Infants & toddlers & preschoolers, oh my!

Come check out my poster today (P3-150) at #CDS2024 to find out more about what 4-48-month-olds are looking at in naturalistic scenes and how it is changing over age.

See below for our published findings on the infant data!

Study from UC Davis reveals new take on visual development in babies. #NEIfunded Watch the video and read more: bit.ly/3vbKIRs

Can't believe I get to share this news: #WhyWeRemember has landed on the New York Times Books #bestsellers list in its first week. Thank you again to everyone who made this dream come true!

It took a few *years* for this to get written and accepted … but it’s a great paper and you should read and recommend it!

Are you a current grad student in the Social Sciences looking for internships outside of academia? Here are some paid internships I encountered that could be of interest:
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#phdlife #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

New podcast episode on #AI and the #brain . Watch at youtu.be/KA3Vpacfx3I. Thanks to Invisible Machines and UX Magazine.

If you like my work and think we could learn from each other and have fun doing research together, Marie Curie postdoctoral applications will soon open and my university has wonderful support for writing one. Write me a mail explaining your idea and why we'd match! 1/

A new version (v1.6) of #tidycensus , your #rstats package for working with U.S. Census Bureau demographic / geographic data, is now up on CRAN!

Highlights include:
📊 Full support for the 2022 ACS data, including the 2018-2022 5-year ACS PUMS (just released today!);
📊 Support

As a reminder, you can export data frames to individual spreadsheet tabs using the {openxlsx} package! #rstats

'Where do feelings come from?' So excited to be a guest on Hidden Brain (I'm a big fan). Host Shankar Vedantam & team are lyrical & scientifically precise; it's a joy to be on the podcast. hiddenbrain.org/podcast/where-… I particularly appreciate how they approach personal questions w/

Academics: How long does it typically take you to review a paper? I usually spend several hours (too embarrassed to say how long...), which isn't sustainable. How can I get faster? Just experience?

🧵My best friend (Black woman) & I were pregnant at the same time 18 yrs ago. We both had preeclampsia, hers undiagnosed as her symptoms were written off. I was put on bed rest & hospitalized. She was told to relax. A week after she gave birth, the day my son was born, she died.

Super interesting read and the methods used are so dang clever!

New preprint! How often do editors/reviewers actually compare preregistrations to the reporting in the article? Almost never. This figure sums up all of the results. Not good.

📣Our 🆕 paper Causal Inference is Not Just a Statistics Problem is out! Malco`lm()` Barrett (Now on Bluesky and Mastodon), King Ranch @[email protected], and I show that you can have 4 data sets with identical summary stats & visuals but very different data generating mechanisms-statistics alone can't tell you what to adjust for!

Excited for tonight’s R-LadiesSTL workshop! 👩‍💻

Grad School Wrapped 2023