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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The Think Lab will be at #CDS2026 in Montreal! Join us!

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

We're getting close to the early bird registration deadline for CDS! Please see the below for more information.

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The Journal of Cognition and Development is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief. Please consider applying or spreading the word to someone who you think would be a great fit!

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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

🧵New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why? To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/11

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

The poster submission due date for CDS is almost here!

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

If you've ever visited ChildrenHelpingScience.com, please consider donating below! There's a campaign for matching contributions, and every bit helps.

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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

A reminder: poster submissions for CDS 2026 are due by January 8, 2026. For more information, please view our website: cogdevsoc.org/submissions/

Image of Montreal with text noting that poster submissions for the upcoming SRCD conference are due on January 8, 2026

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Check out a recent article that talks about some of our research related to children's experiences transitioning to skepticism about Santa Claus! We'll have a lot more to say about this in the upcoming couple of years with some new projects. @thaliargoldstein.bsky.social

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

CDS Secretary here! Please follow our CDS account to receive reminders of upcoming deadlines and opportunities as well as to learn about new articles in the Journal of Cognition and Development.

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

New paper! One of the things I love about our findings in this paper is that even children who thought they knew a lot about a topic in absolute terms sometimes recognized that an expert would know a little or a lot more than them. That's a start!

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Think Lab members have made it back from #SRCD2025! It's a lab tradition that after a conference, each person who attended shares a 2-3 minute overview of a poster or presentation they enjoyed. It's a great way to discuss all we learned. Wishing I saw more of you there... but next time!

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

The Think Lab will be at #SRCD2025 - looking forward to seeing many of you there!

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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

NEW: NSF announces it's "terminating awards that are not aligned with agency priorities...including but not limited to those on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and misinformation/disinformation." #HigherEd #AcademicSky

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Updates on NSF Priorities

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Substantial updates to the list of cancelled grants👇 - THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity. - It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly. - There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!

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Rescinded NIH & NSF Grants

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

How do we change our minds about our knowledge or beliefs? And why is it sometimes so difficult for people to realize they might be wrong? We study these sorts of questions with kids, but here's a story of someone trying to convince his dad to disengage w/ conspiracies: www.npr.org/2025/02/26/g...

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How a son spent a year trying to save his father from conspiracy theories

Zach Mack spent a year attempting to rescue his father from the depths of the conspiracy rabbit hole. Their family was forced to reckon with clashing realities, ideological divides and misinformation.

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

How does the capacity to demonstrate intellectual humility - to recognize limits to one's beliefs or knowledge - develop and change? And are there things that can be done to foster greater intellectual humility? Come join our SRCD pre-conference to discuss these questions and more!

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The Cognitive Development Society now has a Bluesky account!

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Here's another one, trying to build from what we know about kids to provide advice on how parents might manage the Santa Claus myth.

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

This is the first Christmas since our initial Santa article was published (doi.org/10.1037/dev0...), so @thaliargoldstein.bsky.social and I have had some opportunities this season to talk with reporters or see the project discussed in newsletters, articles, and blogs. This is a fun one!

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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

APA allows editors to designate one manuscript from each issue for special recognition. Given the stellar work, this is one of the hardest & most challenging parts of the job. So, to finish up the calendar year, here are the 12 Editor's Choice Articles from 2024 in Developmental Psychology. 1/13

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

To celebrate deleting my twitter, I'm reposting some of my classic cognitive development memes from the other site. First, one of my all-time faves

Two choices meme - one button says "Where Sally thinks the marble is" and the other button says "Where the marble actually is". The sweating man who is tasked with making the choice between the two buttons is labeled "3-year-olds"

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hello BlueSky! A quick intro for new folks: I'm a developmental psychologist interested in children's thinking and learning. Some ongoing studies are examining topics like early biological reasoning, parent explanation, intellectual humility, curiosity, and skepticism about Santa Claus.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 06/08/2024

if you are an NIH-funded investigator, or really just a person doing developmental science #psychscisky #neuroskyence in the states, you should be concerned about this proposal to eliminate the NICHD. take 5 minutes to write to NIHReform@mail.house.gov to voice your concern. Here's what I just sent

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Dear Cathy Rodgers:

I am an NIH-funded Associate Professor Adjunct at the Yale Child Study Center. In my lab we do basic science research on auditory perception, supporting a variety of health applications for infants and their families. These have particular importance for underprivileged American families.

As a stakeholder and as a highly research-active faculty member whose work is tied directly to NICHD priorities, my feedback is simple: The proposed elimination of the NICHD, to be subsumed by a new NIH institute on disability, would be disastrous.

The science of child development is of the utmost importance for the future of our nation, and would be left without a home at the NIH, the world's largest science funder. Indeed, many key advances in developmental cognitive science, with a variety of national and international health applications and outcomes, can be traced back to NICHD-funded research and initiative

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Anthony J Monroe @anthonyjmonroe.com · 17/05/2024

I am excited to share that my first first-author article was recently published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology! If you would like to read it yourself, I will link it below, but I'll also share some of the highlights here.

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

The Think Lab will be at the Cognitive Development Society conference this week. Come visit us!

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

Finally got Bluesky running again on my computer and discovered this great news! Thanks to Koraly and the Developmental Psychology team, including several great reviewers, for helping us to improve our manuscript! More Santa research to come!

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 19/12/2023

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a professor hoping to use time between college classes ending and their children’s public school break as an opportunity to dig themselves out of their work sinkhole will have a child who has to stay home from school.

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Bing image creator produced this fascinating image to illustrate “people thinking about the Psychology of Santa”. Doesn’t this make you want to attend our workshop on Friday? Come join us! See my previous posts for more info!

Image shows 5 people sitting in a room wearing Santa hats, with one of those people dressed as Santa. Another person holds a clipboard and has a thought bubble that shows Santa Claus with some cogs and wheels around Santa’s head.

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

If you’ve signed up for the Psychology of Santa Claus workshop, make sure to follow the instructions in emails from @rkapitany.bsky.social and log into Discord before the starting time! Join us!

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Ted Price @tedpricethepainguy.bsky.social · 26/11/2023

We are recruiting a new Dean for Behavioral and Brain Sciences at UT Dallas. We have strong research across neuroscience, psychology and audiology with vibrant educational programs. If you’re interested please reach out. #academicjobs

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

We are so excited to share our NY Times guest essay about talking with children about Santa! The guest essay is here: www.nytimes.com/2023/11/24/o... The paper recently published in Developmental Psychology is here: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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Sabine @sabinedoebel.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

New paper! Convenience samples have a bad rap. What role, if any, should they have in developmental research? @mcxfrank.bsky.social & I argue they can--under some conditions--help achieve key goals of the field: advancing theory & reducing bias. How? Read the paper!: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Come join us for a workshop on the Psychology of Santa!

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Thalia R. Goldstein @thaliargoldstein.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Curious about the Psychology of Santa Claus (i.e. how we understand him, not his mental state)? Come to our free online workshop! Researchers, interested students, and elves of all kinds welcome. Talks, Q&As, open discussion abt future work. Register: durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A flyer with a QR code describing the Psychology of Santa Claus workshop, Friday December 8th. Register here: https://durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6gJPqRuYrkx1qnk

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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Excited to give Blue Sky a try! Lots of #devpsy to discuss soon, including some new findings related to Santa! I'll also be sharing information about the upcoming launch of Project GARDEN (specific date TBD, but we're close). For now, you can find out more here: childrenhelpingscience.com/garden/

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