iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Nomisha's related paper on Developmentally Aligned AI: doi.org/10.1007/s444... I’d love to hear people's takes on what aspects of the 'AI for Children' discussion are still flying below the radar!

Tech companies are registering case after case of worrisome technology use among minors, and governments around the world are looking for guidance and solutions. Nomisha’s work to me really is a remarkable example of what I believe we need more of!

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AI is currently ever-present as a topic, and I sometimes feel like not jumping on the bandwagon might be the better choice. However, child safety in modern digital technology is at the very top of the priority list in virtually every major policy discussion right now.

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Stanford Vision and Perception Neuroscience Lab @stanfordvpnl.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Do we need to ban children’s access to AI, or do we need to design it better? Is that a false binary? I learned so much about the answers to these questions in my recent conversation with Prof. Nomisha Kurian! open.spotify.com/episode/6FxG...

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VPNL is at #CCN2026 !! Check out our lab members' presentations this week :)

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hyowon Gweon @hyogweon.bsky.social delivers her #CogSci2026 keynote, ‘Distinctively Human Intelligence: Thinking, Learning, and Communicating About the Self’, exploring the cognitive foundations of how humans think, learn, and communicate about themselves.

Hyowon Gweon stands behind a clear lectern delivering a keynote presentation during CogSci 2026. Behind her, a large slide titled “What does it mean to be intelligent?” contrasts learning from one’s own experiences with learning from and communicating with others, highlighting concepts such as perception, prediction, generalization, social learning, language, and explanation. The slide also includes sections on what children know and how they think and learn, with references to developmental psychology and cognitive science research.

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Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

At long last -- yay!!!! Congratulations Elizabeth (:

Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

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We'd like to invite researchers to consider two new opportunities to engage with the LEVANTE network, a multi-disciplinary group studying learning variability using coordinated tools! If you don't know about LEVANTE, you can learn more at levante-network.org/

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Homepage - Levante

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Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Ever wondered what you need to do to blow away journal reviewers and academic talk audiences with content that is both maximally fun AND maximally informative? Tune in & you might just learn the secret formula... 👀 Thank you for humoring me and coming on!! @ebonawitz.bsky.social

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Come join us! We have two research coordinator positions open with the Stanford IRISS predoctoral program, a program designed to mentor students for graduate study: LEVANTE: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p... BabyView: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p... (deadline 5/1)

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IRiSS Predoctoral Researcher in School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford, California, United States

The Stanford Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS) is seeking Predoctoral Researchers to participate in our 2026-2027 cohort. The...

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

happy #CDS2026 to those who celebrate!

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Judy Fan @judithfan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

The Cognitive Tools Lab at Stanford (cogtoolslab.github.io) is recruiting two new research staff members to join in AY 26-27. Full-Time Lab Manager: forms.gle/UVwfx5wbY9Km.... IRiSS Predoc Researcher: iriss.stanford.edu/predoc/2026-.... Please share widely in your networks, thank you!!

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about the lab – cognitive tools lab

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Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date): academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868 An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.

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Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I think you may have gotten the wrong Emily! I've been trying to convince her to get on Bluesky though :)

Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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I am flabbergasted I am by how much vibe coding has expanded my capacities as a scientist and teacher. In the last few weeks, I've mocked up class demos of a live turing test, generated cross-references for an encyclopedia, and prototyped new tablet tasks for developmental psych. It's wild.

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Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Same for me, esp. for designing online tasks! I’d love to see a Design Arena-type platform (www.designarena.ai) for research purposes - people voting on which tools help(ed) them set up prototypes, tasks, hosting, data pipelines, interfaces, etc., and identifying the good & dangerous parts

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Design Arena

Design Arena is the largest global crowdsourced benchmark for design. Challenge, Vote, Crown your Winner.

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Stanford Psychology Podcast @stanfordpsypod.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

NEW EPISODE OUT! In this episode, @adani.bsky.social chats with Prof. Tamar Kushnir about how we use our imagination to think about the past, make sense of the present, and plan for the future! open.spotify.com/episode/273a...

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Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

@junyi.bsky.social lots of overlap with some of the questions you're asking! :)

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Very excited to share the first empirical paper from LEVANTE: we describe the LEVANTE core tasks, a set of nine open source tasks for measuring learning and development in kids ages 5-12 years. osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

oh what fun it is to have this paper out :)

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

This is a fundraising post! An anonymous donor is matching contributions to Children Helping Science up to 100K through the end of the year - if it's in your giving budget, please consider supporting open science infrastructure! giving.mit.edu/search/node/... Details below...

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Fund Search Results | Giving to MIT

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Judy Fan @judithfan.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

What a pleasure speaking with Chris Piech, Denise Pope, and Dan Schwartz about AI & Education on "School's In," (youtube.com/watch?v=lL07...) recorded live at Stanford Open Minds in LA (openminds.stanford.edu/los-angeles)!

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AI and the future of human learning | School's In Podcast

YouTube video by Stanford Graduate School of Education

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Cameron Ellis @camerontellis.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team! More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join... Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...

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People – Scaffolding of Cognition Team

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Stanford Psychology Podcast @stanfordpsypod.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

NEW EPISODE OUT! In this episode, Adani @adani.bsky.social chats with Dr. Susan Engel from Williams College about curiosity, invention, her journey into developmental psychology, and her latest book, The Intellectual Lives of Children! 🎧LISTEN NOW: open.spotify.com/episode/06WD...

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A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All — Adam Benforado

Adam’s website: www.adambenforado.com Adam's book: www.adambenforado.com/a-minor-revo... Adam’s new organization, Minor Power: https://www.minorpower.org/

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If you interact with children in any capacity, be it as a parent, relative, educator, researcher, or simply as a citizen (which really is all of us!), I encourage you to listen in! There’s something in there for everyone :)

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A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All — Adam Benforado

I learned so much in talking to Adam about his most recent book, A Minor Revolution, which covers the past, present, and future of children’s rights in the U.S. We also dove into how he first got to work on the issues he now champions, and how those issues shape all of our lives and futures!

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So excited that this latest podcast episode with Adam Benforado is now out: open.spotify.com/episode/6v4J...!

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Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

excited to read -- great work @zihanwang.bsky.social & all! :)

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Yang Xiang @yangxiang.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Now out in Cognition, work with the great @gershbrain.bsky.social @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social on formalizing self-handicapping as rational signaling! 📃 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lo8f2Hx2-...

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

A first blogpost from the LEVANTE team, introducing our global project perspective. A good intro if you're interested in learning more about cross-cultural developmental data collection using LEVANTE. levante-network.org/global-colla...

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Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development - Levante

Ensuring that children around the world can flourish is one of the most important goals of our time. Developmental science has made major strides in understanding how children grow, learn, and thrive ...

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Check out our full paper’s preprint here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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It's been lovely working on this with such an awesome team: Igor Bascandziev, @ebonawitz.bsky.social, @carenwalker.bsky.social! They took me in as a mentee when I first came to the U.S. two years ago, and they continue to shape my thinking and work in many ways :)

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...learn just as much from thought experiments as from 'real' experimental demonstrations—except you don't need any fancy equipment, the child's mind alone is enough!

And it turns out that when, in early physics instruction, you engage children in thought experiments to help them grapple with tricky ideas like tiny things and air having weight, they can...

Thought experiments—imagining and thinking through outcomes—aren't just the morbid-amusing trolley problems you may have seen; they've played a vital historic role in our scientific progress in domains like physics!

Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

So cool to see our project, spearheaded by Igor Bascandziev, featured in Harvard's 'Usable Knowledge'!

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That sounds like a really exciting space to be working in! Congrats on the new role :)

Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

LOL so that's what you were wearing! So good

Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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The Causality in Cognition Lab is pumped for #cogsci2025 💪

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Adani Abutto @adani.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Congrats Yang! Hope to catch you there :)