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Federica Bulgarelli

@fedebulgarelli.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo. Studying learning in highly variable environments. Mom of 2, she/her ubwp.buffalo.edu/buffaloearlylearni…

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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Really excited about this new preprint spearheaded by @vboyce.bsky.social w/ @mcxfrank.bsky.social and the Peekbank team. It's a deep-dive into a large looking-while-listening dataset (>3000 children!), evaluating what analytic and design choices really matter for measurement osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
For those dealing with ADA II compliance, we are told anything we link from our websites should also be compliant, including e.g. code/stimuli/preprints on OSF. I'm not willing to unlink, but also not willings to go back to studies from years ago and reformat by Latex files to be screen readable?
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The new NIH Biosketch instructions state that in the Contributions to Science: "you can reference up to five products" but that "no citations allowed". Thoughts on whether we should remove all in text citations to be safe, or whether this strictly refers to the lists of citations? #NIH #NIHGrants
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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!
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Jason “Obstacle to Progress” Williams @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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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Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
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Dr. Allison G. Harvey @allisonharvey.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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
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Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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 · 24/08/2025
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
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Psycholinguistic Databases, Stimuli, Utilities — Concepts & Cognition Laboratory
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
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!
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
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.
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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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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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 · 02/05/2025
The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
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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...
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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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CPIPR @popresearchctrs.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
NEW DATA ALERT: Future of Families and Child Well-being Study (FFCWS) data are now available! csde.washington.edu/news-events/...
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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 · 28/03/2025
🚨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 · 12/03/2025
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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Jason Rasgon @vectorgen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Tenure clock extensions are a great deal for the institution. Not so much for the faculty member
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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
new preprint on Theory of Mind in LLMs, a topic I know a lot of people care about (I care. I'm part of people): "Re-evaluating Theory of Mind evaluation in large language models" (by Hu* @jennhu.bsky.social , Sosa, and me) link: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.21098
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
People talk a lot about objects, but what about the softness of a cushion, the greenness of an emerald, or the viscosity of oil? In our work just published @pnas.org, we shed light on how we make sense of the hundreds of materials around us. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Honored to be a part of this incredibly group of scientists!
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Hello Buffalo friends! It’s rally for science time! March 7, 2-6PM, Niagara Square! Sign up below and please spread the word! www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
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Stand Up For Science, Buffalo!
On March 7, 2025, we rally to defend science as a public good and pillar of social, political, and economic progress.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
ATTENTION (PLEASE SHARE) If anyone has or knows of any positions that might be appropriate for the NIH staff members who were terminated, please post the information in this thread. There are lots of talented and accomplished people who may be looking for new opportunities.
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a poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on it
ALT: a poster that says if life gives you lemon make lemonade on it
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
We're recruiting a new lab manager to start this summer (ideal start date June 2025). Please share with anybody interested in research on language development. We'll start reviewing applications next week! www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/55230
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Nichol Castro @nicholcastro.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Anyone with #NIH #LRP payment pending? My payment was disbursed 1/13, but it has not shown up in my Mohela account. We are past the 15 day window, even with a generous 15 business days..
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Joni Halabi @jonihalabi.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I am starting a thread of links to federal sites on the Wayback Machine, before the current vandalism. Please RT and add to this list! CDC: web.archive.org/web/20250129... NIH: web.archive.org/web/20250129... USAID: web.archive.org/web/20250129...
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hannah tello, phd @hannah-jean.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
For anyone needing a CDC dataset: it may be in one of the nearly 3000 csv files archived here: archive.org/details/2025...
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CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.
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You can call me Maggie. She/Her/FemiNazgûl @maggieliz.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Signal Boost: All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive Let people know, download your own copies. Don't let this digital book burn continue. #Feds #Health #WHO #CDC #AMA #USPHS #FDA #NIH #NCHS #PCORI
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All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive
Here's all the information you might need. Official website: https://eotarchive.org/ Wikipedia:...
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Searching for examples of Cognitive Development related graphical abstracts or visual summaries of empirical papers. Have you made one of these you don't mind me using as an example of how to communicate science? Please send examples my way! #devscisky #psychsky
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Charlotte Moore @drcharlotte.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
🚨New paper alert! We estimate babies’ vocabs w/ CDI all the time. Can it also estimate the specific words kids know? We collected CDIs and gaze data to see if kids looked more at words they reportedly knew on the CDI. Here’s what we found: 🧵https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12641
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Looking for examples of three paper dissertation (sandwich thesis) models and guidelines, as we are trying to formalize ours! Preferably for cognitive/developmental psych or psych general, but will take any examples to model from! #devpsych #cognitivepsych #devsci
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I won’t be at #psynom24, but Marzie Samimifar will be there presenting our work on how adults process speech from children, and how different types of background noise can improve processing and prediction. Go check out poster 3110 on Friday from 6-730 and tell us what you think!
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Dr. Ethan Kutlu @ethankutlu.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I am thrilled to share our new paper which investigates the role of continuous measures in linguistic diversity research. We found that children who are exposed to more linguistic diversity (e.g., language, dialect, accent) are perceptually more flexible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Linguistic diversity shapes flexible speech perception in school age children - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Linguistic diversity shapes flexible speech perception in school age children
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Dr. Sarah Gaither @sarahegaither.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I am excited to announce the special issue I led with Rachel Wu for JEP: General is online! Read our intro! As a field we need to consider context, social identities, & individual differences that shape how we experience diversity across the lifespan! #psychology psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
New paper in Cognitive Development with former undergrad Sophie Barry and @bergelsonlab.bsky.social. Does multilingual exposure shapes word recognition in 7-8 month old infants? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Attending to talker characteristics: Word learning and recognition in monolingually- and multilingually-raised infants
Before age one, infants often fail to recognize words produced by new talkers or in new accents. We ask whether infant’s varying experiences, namely e…
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 16/10/2024
Thinking about grad school? Come learn about our awesome department! University at Buffalo’s Psychology Graduate Programs Virtual Open House on Monday, November 4th, at 7:00 PM Eastern Time Register to attend here: tinyurl.com/UBPSY24
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
I'm reviewing applications for PhD students to start Fall 2025 - if you're interested in integrating naturalistic methods and experimental methods to study how infants learn from their environment, please consider applying/reach out with questions! arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/psychology/a...
Buffalo Early Learning Lab Logo (blue speech bubble with lab name inside it)
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
New paper out in Developmental Science @bergelsonlab.bsky.social! We asked whether the acoustic properties of language input for individual words also predict age of production. TLDR: Yes variability in how words sound predict when kids first say them. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (1/n)
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Linking acoustic variability in the infants' input to their early word production
Exposure to talker variability shapes how learning unfolds in the lab, and occurs in the everyday speech infants hear in daily life. Here, we asked whether aspects of talker variability in speech in...
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 29/07/2024
SO SO excited to share that we were awarded an #NICHD R21 titled “The influence of child-produced speech on infant language development”!
Notice of Award for NICHD grant
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 11/07/2024
Last day of #ICIS2024! Come chat with me at my poster about how infants process speech from kids (P3-D-503), and then come to the Beyond the lab symposium at 11:30 to hear 7 talks examining linguistic input across cultures and contexts! @bergelsonlab.bsky.social
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 18/06/2024
Remote research question: any experiences/insights in mailing hotspots to participants (in this case families) for data collection? Are there single use devices that are reasonably priced? #DevSciSky #psychsky
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
If you (or someone you know) organize a departmental or center colloquium series, what do you get in return? I’m guessing this ranges from nothing (most of the time) to a course release or discretionary funds (less frequently). Would love to know norms!
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Our end of semester tradition (we’ve done it twice so it’s a tradition now, right?) is to write out all the things we accomplished ✔️So thankful to work with incredible lab members who make our research possible! We were most excited about seeing babies 👶 in the lab.
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Spent lab meeting today making cards for FeedMore WNY to include in meal deliveries, and for the United Way of Erie county to include in their welcome baby boxes. Thanks to lab manager Marina for pushing us to use our time to benefit the community! They’re an artistically talented group! #psychsky
Welcome baby and holiday cardsWelcome baby and holiday cardsLab members working on their cards
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
UB Psychology is hosting a virtual open house on November 7 at 7pm Eastern time. If you have questions about our graduate programs, please sign up to attend: tinyurl.com/UBPSY23 I am recruiting a new grad student! #PsychSky
Flyer for UB Psychology Virtual Open house. Images show researcher with a dog and another with many computer monitors.
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
two-factor identification on era commons really makes the refresh-at-the-end-of-study-section-day ritual harder #AcadmicSky
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
I'll be reviewing applications for a new graduate student to start Fall 2024 - if you're interested in how children learn from the highly variable input they receive, consider applying! ubwp.buffalo.edu/buffaloearly... Deadline is Dec 1: arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/psychology/g...
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Federica Bulgarelli @fedebulgarelli.bsky.social · 11/09/2023
The Department of Learning and Instruction in the UB Graduate School of Ed is hiring in Early Childhood Education! This is an incredibly supportive department and school, and I'm excited to have another early childhood colleague! Deadline Oct 1
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Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education - New York, United States
Posting Details Position Information Position Title Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education Department Learning and...
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