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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! Sometimes it just doesn't let me upload a new file? Then I give up and try again another day.

Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 7d

We use redcap! It’s not perfect, but I think we have a decent working system. Maybe let’s zoom about it so I can explain the process?

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Jason Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 9d

The new #NSF #GRFP application now excludes 1000’s of students, including those who were told they could apply this year, or who planned to apply next year.

We have a new specific petition urging #NSFGRFP undo this harmful action. If you are impacted sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

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Dr. Allison G. Harvey @allisonharvey.bsky.social · 15d

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name!
#clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?

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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · Sep 5

We want to record a set of stimuli featuring children, thoughts on how to do this so they can be shared/reused? Does a parental release like for data sharing on e.g. Databrary suffice? Do you situate it inside a "task" so the consent process is clearer? #devscisky #psychsky

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Jamie Reilly 🦜 @reilly-coglab.com · Aug 24

Many updates to our psycholinguistic database page. You terrific people have been busy distributing open source data including lexical databases for BSL, French, German sign. LMK if I've missed anything www.reilly-coglab.com/data

Psycholinguistic Databases, Stimuli, Utilities — Concepts & Cognition Laboratory

www.reilly-coglab.com

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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · Aug 18

Our department is hiring! We're looking for a cognitive/developmental psychologist who uses computational approaches to study human cognition and behavior to address learning, development, and education. Feel free to reach out with questions!

Micheal Dent @mdent.bsky.social · Aug 17

We are hiring!
Department of Psychology at the University at Buffalo is recruiting for a SUNY Empire Innovation faculty hire at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. The hire is focused on the study of human cognition and behavior to address gaps in learning, development, or education using AI.

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Jul 11

Just sent this as an email to my department but figured I'd share more broadly in case it is useful. This describes the procedure happening now for science funding in Congress (@davidimiller.bsky.social can correct me if I got this wrong). Importantly, there are still actions that can be taken.

Science Funding Process

=====Written July 11 2025====== Hi all, Just wanted to share some information that is likely relevant to a lot of us, but not always easy to understand, about federal science budget procedure (feel f...

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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · Jun 16

I disagree

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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · May 18

This is a fabulous question

Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · May 9

Yup, 8 and 5yos here, who have only heard about it from school

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · May 7

We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international)

We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc.

Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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Dr. Suzanne Le Menestrel @drsl.bsky.social · May 2

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

www.spencer.org

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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · Apr 30

And also, who all the authors are please

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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · Apr 29

Check out our lab's research at @srcdorg.bsky.social this week!

Buffalo Early Learning Lab presentations on Thursday at 10:00 (talk on preschoolers and adults seeking talker variability during word learning), poster on Thursday at 3:20 on infants and preschool aged siblings' locus of attention during play sessions, and poster on Saturday at 9:50 on toddlers processing of child speech in silence and noise.

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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · Apr 18

Ugh I’m so sorry!

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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · Apr 14

At least 100s of us are being trolled together?

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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · Apr 11

Yes, used briefly when kids were newborns

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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · Apr 3

There’s a banner on NIDCD as well, but not NICHD

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CPIPR @popresearchctrs.bsky.social · Apr 2

NEW DATA ALERT: Future of Families and Child Well-being Study (FFCWS) data are now available!
csde.washington.edu/news-events/...

NWFSRDC News and Highlights Corner: Future of Families Data Now Available!

We are excited to announce that Future of Families and Child Well-being Study (FFCWS) data are now available at the NWFSRDC. FFCWS is the longest-running and

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Dr. Jessie Stern @jessastern.bsky.social · Mar 28

🚨New paper: How do children judge moral "gray areas"? We find that children's ability to distinguish morally ambiguous characters from purely moral/ immoral ones strengthens with age: authors.elsevier.com/c/1kqyH51Y-X...
By @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social Sierra Eisen, Angel Lillard & Amrisha Vaish

Screenshot of article title, "Heroes, villains, and everything in between: Children’s assessment of morally ambiguous characters" by Yucel et al (2025)

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · Mar 12

Are you doing EMA research and wonder how to go about it? In recent work we've adressed some open questions and challenges, here is a brief summary of papers and materials.

🧵 #PsychSciSky 🧪 #StatsSky

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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · Mar 14

Done! I think it's a good sign that their DC mailboxes are full and/or giving busy signals?

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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · Mar 12

Tenure clock extensions are a great deal for the institution. Not so much for the faculty member

Amy Orsborn @neuroamyo.bsky.social · Mar 12

I'm already hearing rumblings from academic leaders that tenure clock extensions may be part of how early career researchers weather this new storm.

A reminder that clock extensions are not the easy solution some think them to be: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We must do better by junior faculty.

Extended time, elevated expectations: The unappreciated downsides of pausing the tenure clock | PNAS

Extended time, elevated expectations: The unappreciated downsides of pausing the tenure clock

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · Mar 6

AI models are fascinating, impressive, and sometimes problematic. But what can they tell us about the human mind?

In a new review paper, @noahdgoodman.bsky.social and I discuss how modern AI can be used for cognitive modeling: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Figure 1. A schematic depiction of a model-mechanism mapping between a human learning system (left side) and a cognitive model (right side). Candidate model mechanism mappings are pictured as mapping between representations but also can be in terms of input data, architecture, or learning objective.

Figure 2. Data efficiency in human learning. (left) Order of magnitude of LLM vs. human training data, plotted by human age. Ranges are approximated from Frank (2023a). (right) A schematic depiction of evaluation scaling curves for human learners vs. models plotted by training data
quantity.

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