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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük

@esranur.bsky.social

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PhD Candidate in Developmental Science, Boston University, exploring how young minds make sense of the world. cognition, concepts & possibilities Fulbright Alumni 🔗 www.esraturankucuk.com

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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Sep 4

🎉Our paper "Three- and Four-Year-Old Children Represent Mutually Exclusive Possible Identities" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology!
You can read the preprint here: osf.io/rx4h9 (1/5)

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · Aug 28

This is going to be an incredible event celebrating Alan Leslie's amazing career. Speakers include Susan Carey, Lisa Feigenson, Randy Gallistel, Ori Friedman, Zsuzsa Káldy, Ágnes Kovács, Sydney Levine, Sandeep Prasada, Brian Scholl, Luca Surian (and me!) Join in person at Rutgers or livestream

Jenny Wang 👶 🧮 @jinjingjenny1.bsky.social · Aug 12

📢 Come join us on Sunday, November 9th for the Rutgers Symposium of Learning with an amazing list of speakers and great company! More details: sites.rutgers.edu/symposium-le...

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · Aug 20

Children’s reasoning about possible outcomes of events in the present and the future

📣 Work by Esra N. Turan-Küçük & Melissa M. Kibbe

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · Jul 21

You can access the paper from our website as well www.bu.edu/cdl/files/20...

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · Jul 21

New from me and @esranur.bsky.social! In two exps with 3-4-year-olds, we find no differences in kids' reasoning about possible outcomes of an event in different temporal contexts; kids perform the same under physical and epistemic uncertainty psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... #devpsy #psychscisky

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · Jun 16

Come check out work from my lab at @socphilpsych.bsky.social SPP 2025!

List of presentation sessions for talk (June 18) and posters (June 19 and June 20) from folks in the BU Developing Minds Lab.

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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 20

I have a 2 mo baby at home. And I have a job talk at Yale this Friday. What can help me?

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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 19

Hey, people who have kids, can you please share some info about staying in academia (job search mode) + being a mom? Thanks!

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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 16

Love this, thank you for sharing!

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 16

I think coming from Turkiye or a different place/lens I never thought that we could say “i am not prepared” or I don’t know”.

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 16

I learned so much from my advisor. Preparing for this presentation. I remembered, one time she presented in our lab meeting and said. It’s not fully prepared and I did not practice. I was like.. look at her confidence. I mean.. can we even say that? Wow.. I said to myself.

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 15

Now I’m 29. And I’m still learning.

I want to share what I’ve learned.

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 15

Then I got married. This time, I was 24. I had a Fulbright scholarship, and once again, I came to the U.S. This time, I wasn’t alone. But still, inside me, there’s a little girl who is growing up.

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 15

Even if I found WiFi, the internship was intense. At the Harvard lab, they had some free snacks and “oatmeal.” I survived on those for about 30 days. Haha! 😆

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 15

I ate that for days at suhoor and iftar. I had no internet. I couldn’t explain my situation to anyone.

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 15

He dropped me off at the house, but since I was new and shy, I couldn’t ask him where the market was. I was 21. You know..

I went out to find a market. I couldn’t find one. Thanks to my mom. She had packed bread and cheese in my luggage.

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 15

When I first arrived in the U.S. for the internship, it was summer 2018. I didn’t have a SIM card, so I couldn’t use Google Maps. I think it was the last five days of Ramadan. A kind person picked me up from the airport, and I still thank him.

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 15

I know—
Some will understand this post.
Some won’t.
But to everyone who supported me, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I hope peace to all our hearts.

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 15

What I want through these words is simply to let go of this pain
in a peaceful, releasing way, like casting it into the calmness of an ocean.
And to be able to say, “I had a voice too.”

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 15

So I wrote this not as a “statement,” but as a form of “goodbye.”

I am someone who fears God.
I would never want to wrong anyone. Even if someone hurt me,
I never want to be unjust to them,
nor do I want to be unjust to myself.

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 15

I studied psychology, and during this journey, I also went through therapy.
I spoke, in many sessions, about the deep hurt that had built up inside me.
My therapist told me that expressing these emotions and making sense of them is part of the healing process.

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 15

There were some things I carried inside me for years.
They hurt. The more I stayed silent, the heavier it got.
And now, I realize that I need to speak what’s inside me in order to heal.

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 15

Let me end by saying this.
When sharing this, I had no intention of targeting anyone, blaming, or shaming anyone.

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 15

And now, I’m reclaiming that story.
Despite being hurt,
I know that the kindness I gave is written in God’s book.
But I want to give voice to this lived experience.

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 15

This isn’t a fairytale or a dramatic story.
It’s the feeling of being unseen.

I was hurt.
Because while I was praying for her—
“May you start a beautiful new life”—

it feels like she erased my story.

Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · Apr 15

I was the one who called her on her birthday back then.
One week later, it was my birthday—but she didn’t call.
Back in Turkey, she would contact me every day asking for advice, support.
Where was she now?