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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I’m sorry, come again? The silent closeout of NSF-SBE is a travesty. #nsf #nsfsbe

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Deirdre Loughridge @deirdrelough.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

“what you end up learning by getting really good at predicting the next word is a separate question. And it's an empirical question that is hard to answer with just a priori speculation about what is or isn't possible to learn in that way.” Episode of Many Minds podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

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What can AI teach us about the mind?

Podcast Episode · Many Minds · March 26 · 1h 21m

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I'm thrilled to be at the Common Sense Summit on Kids and Families! Can’t wait to engage with leaders shaping children’s digital futures on how we optimize learning, creativity, and exploration in today’s digital world! #CSSummit26 #CommonSenseSummit

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Have an idea for spreading Cognitive Science? Apply for the Broadening Participation Grant now!

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Some job market stats, because I think it’s important to talk about! My job market cycle felt slim this year. I applied to 47 jobs across psychology, education, information science, and comm departments. I received 11 Zoom invites and 8 in person interviews, which translated into 1 offer. #acjobs

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

🚨 Out now in Child Development! We asked 4- to 8-year-old children about getting answers from Google and a teacher. By age 6, children endorsed Google’s ability to answer correctly more often and believed that Google would also be better at answering questions about the world around them.

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“I’ve seen Google before!”: Young children's intuitions about Google's capabilities

Abstract. Google Search is a popular tool for acquiring information online, but little is known about children's trust in search engines. Across two studie

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Starting January 2027 I’ll be joining The College of New Jersey as a tenure track assistant professor in Applied Cognition. The dream of dreams was to accept a position near New York City at an institution with liberal arts sensibilities but ample research resources. TCNJ immediately felt like home.

Lauren stands in front of greenery. She is smiling and wearing a navy blue silk blouse and black trousers with blue flowers on them.

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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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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

My research students can get lab hours this week by studying for finals with each other, but they have to send me a picture of their work together. Which means I get fun pictures of chemistry worksheets and papers next to matching coffee cups to break up the monotony of my inbox. 13/10 recommend.

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Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy @jitp.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Have you thought about submitting something to JITP but your idea didn’t quite fit with our themed issues? Submit to our **GENERAL ISSUE** by December 15th and show us how you think about the intersection of teaching, learning, and research with technology. See you in our inbox!

Call for Submissions
Issue 28: General Issue
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) seeks scholarly work at the intersection of teaching, learning, and research with technology
• Textual and multimedia submissions - interdisciplinary approaches in humanities, sciences, and social sciences welcome
• Audio/visual presentations, interviews, dialogues, or conversations; creative/artistic works; manifestos; or other scholarly materials and/or methodologies - work addressing labor and care considerations of teaching and creating projects with digital technology

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Over the moon because I’m chairing a pre-conference at CDS with a group of researchers I so admire and bringing back my personal favorite pre-conference with a new twist in the process!

Dear Lauren,
We are writing to inform you that your abstract submission, titled, Children and technology:
Emerging scholars, emerging methods, emerging directions, has been accepted for inclusion at CDS 2026 as a pre-conference workshop.
Congratulations!

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Transparent and comprehensive statistical reporting is critical for ensuring the credibility, reproducibility, and interpretability of psychological research. This paper offers a structured set of guidelines for reporting statistical analyses in quantitative psychology, emphasizing clarity at both the planning and results stages. Drawing on established recommendations and emerging best practices, we outline key decisions related to hypothesis formulation, sample size justification, preregistration, outlier and missing data handling, statistical model specification, and the interpretation of inferential outcomes. We address considerations across frequentist and Bayesian frameworks and fixed as well as sequential research designs, including guidance on effect size reporting, equivalence testing, and the appropriate treatment of null results. To facilitate implementation of these recommendations, we provide the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology (TSRP) Checklist that researchers can use to systematically evaluate and improve their statistical reporting practices (https://osf.io/t2zpq/). In addition, we provide a curated list of freely available tools, packages, and functions that researchers can use to implement transparent reporting practices in their own analyses to bridge the gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the practical application of these principles, we provide a side-by-side comparison of insufficient versus best-practice reporting using a hypothetical cognitive psychology study. By adopting transparent reporting standards, researchers can improve the robustness of individual studies and facilitate cumulative scientific progress through more reliable meta-analyses and research syntheses.

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Whatever powers-that-be decided CDS, MPA, and AERA could all be the same weekend really had a thing against me personally, I fear.

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Feeling so proud of my 14!!! research assistants this week. Four submitted abstracts to MPA, our regional conference, yesterday and tomorrow 10 of them are joining me for a quarterly book club on @mcxfrank.bsky.social and colleagues’ fantastic Experimentology text (Chapters 1-4). What a good group.

Lauren’s project research team at Pizza House to start off the Fall semester right. 15 individuals are seated at a long table smiling with much pizza and garlic bread.

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Had a great time a few weeks ago talking about OpEds with MIT graduate students!

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R-Ladies Boston @rladiesboston.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Hello! R-Ladies Boston is hosting a #dataviz virtual round robin where we show off some cool figures we made or working on! Come join us for a fun time! www.meetup.com/rladies-bost...

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

10 MORE DAYS! I would love to see some #DISI #CogDev #SciComm submissions come through!

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

A friend of mine gave my website a refresh and now it is so pretty. More features to come, but for now you can see my basic overview at laurengirouard.com. So spiffy!

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an elderly woman says you can google it

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Started my own little rejection collection for this job cycle and it officially has its first entry. Hopefully I’ll get to balance it out in the coming weeks. And if not, more pizza for me! ;)

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

It’s job market season & I’m back on the market for the first time since leaving grad school. It’s quite gratifying to give my materials a full refresh & see how much I’ve grown as a scholar. If you’re looking for a cog/dev researcher who maybe also loves a stats class, you know where to find me! 😉

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The second half of my dissertation is officially in press at Child Development. I hear I’ve successfully avoided the curse of carrying your dissertation around for years. These studies have some of my favorite findings from my time in graduate school, so I can’t wait to see them out in the world!

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Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) @improvingpsych.org · 19/08/2025

Due to a recent influx of problematic submissions, PsyArXiv has switched to pre-moderating its content. If your submitted preprint had not yet been approved, it will be temporarily inaccessible to the public (you can still view your preprint when logged into your OSF account). #PsychSciSky

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at NSF are no more? But hopefully I misunderstand? www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

screenshot of SBE fellowship webpage with words "archive" circled in red.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 09/08/2025

music lessons don't make kids smarter, but many people have assumed that music lessons would have near-transfer effects, e.g. improving aspects of auditory perception big new study led by Andrew Oxenham says "nope". music lessons make kids better at music & that's good enough reason to do 'em !

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Large-scale multi-site study shows no association between musical training and early auditory neural sound encoding - Nature Communications

Widely cited studies have claimed that musical training is associated with enhanced neural encoding for sound at early stages of the auditory system. Results from this large-scale multisite study do n...

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Natalia Vélez @natvelali.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Notes from @noranewcombe.bsky.social 's beautiful Rumelhart Prize "tasting menu" - congratulations Nora!!! #CogSci2025

Sketchnote of Nora Newcombe's Rumelhart Prize Talk, posing three questions and case studies for cognitive science: (1) innateness (with the geometric module as a case study), (2) representations (featuring cognitive maps vs. graphs), and (3) embodiment (featuring mental rotation)

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I’m back from #DISI25 in Scotland just in time to fly to #cogsci2025 in SF and I would love to connect while there! I’m moderating the Science Communication Luncheon and presenting a poster on virtuous ignorance and digital voice assistants on Friday morning. If you see me, please say hello!

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Only a small % of people engage in toxic activity online, but they’re responsible for a disproportionate share of hostile or misleading content on nearly every platform Because super-users are so active, they dominate our collective impression of the internet www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

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Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?

Why does the online world seem so toxic compared with normal life? Our research shows that a small number of divisive accounts could be responsible – and offers a way out

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Summer in St Andrew’s, Scotland? Not half bad. I’m here for the rest of the month as part of a summer fellowship on diverse intelligences, and it’s never a bad thing to work on a research project with a good view.

Coastline with seaweed growth and rock formation

A rare sunny day on a classic collegiate quad with accompanying stone bell tower

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Words cannot express how much I love everything Michigan has to offer. Especially when what it has to offer is cherries. And what a gem Traverse City is! #Michigan #GoBlue

Lauren’s hand clutches ripe Michigan Montamore and Black Cherries in front of a banner for the 99th annual Cherry Festival in Traverse City, Michigan.

The clear blue green waters of Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan on the 4th of July

A traverse bay view with a hint of beach and clear blue water dotted with white sailboats, framed by piney greenery.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (OECS) now features over 100 published articles! Editors-in-Chief @mcxfrank.bsky.social & @asifamajid.bsky.social share their vision for this open, online reference developed to guide the next generation of exploration in cognition & intelligence:

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A conversation with the editors of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science

Editors-in-Chief Michael C. Frank and Asifa Majid share their vision for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science as it surpasses 100 published articles.

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I can’t wait to add this to my weekly routine!

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Sacha Altay @sachaltay.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

🚨 Now out in Nature Human Behaviour 🚨 We show that following the news on WhatsApp or Instagram (N = 3,395 🇫🇷🇩🇪) increases current affairs knowledge, participants’ ability to discern true from false news stories, awareness of true news stories, as well as trust in the news. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Just a gentle reminder that kids and teens are sometimes more capable of evaluating their own feelings on technology than we give them credit for. What a beautiful encapsulation of issues teens are facing with AI. {GIFT ARTICLE} www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/l...

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We Need to Chat(GPT)

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 18/06/2025

But they're depressed because of smart phones and social media, right?

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

HAPPENING NOW: A sea of protesters have gathered in Ann Arbor, Michigan for a “No Kings Day” rally against Donald Trump (Video: WXYZ-TV)

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 12/06/2025

Republicans get news from a fairly concentrated group of sources, and one rises to the top: Fox News. 57% of Republicans say they regularly get news from the cable network, at least double the share who say they turn to any other news source we asked about.

A dot plot showing that a majority of Republicans get news from Fox News; Democrats turn to a wider range of news sources.

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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

me: in cheers frasier said his dad was dead but then when sam visited him in seattle he had to explain that he was lying because their relationship was strained but to me the weirder thing is he never mentioned niles to anyone at cheers the federal soldier being unlawfully quartered in my home: ok

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Grateful for the chance to share my thoughts on responsible use of LLMs in psychology research @spspnews.bsky.social #spsp2025. Here's a summary of my presentation for those who missed it. Thanks to @ashwinia.bsky.social for organizing this panel! How should LLMs be used in psychology research? 🧵

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Next up this summer is a five week fellowship with University of Michigan’s Lecturer’s Union (LEO). It’s nice to be back home in Ann Arbor, talking with other lecturers about how Unions help early career and non-tenured folks in A2 and beyond.

Two books on union organization, “Secrets of a Successful Organizer” and “Axioms for Organizers” sit in a pile with a button depicting the UM Lecturer’s Union mascot, a lion with glam makeup (for the full Union title LEO-GLAM).

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Next up on the summer agenda- a week of Data Management for Data Sharing at pretty Vanderbilt.

Old brick buildings with white columns surround a green quad

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

An incredibly comprehensive and elegant look at grant terminations and their consequences

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I’m in Belgrade, Serbia for the Jean Piaget Society conference and my first glimpse of the Danube was not too shabby (nor was the meal that accompanied it). Excited to chat about my *full* dissertation study suite in such a beautiful locale.

The Danube river at early sunset mirrors the blue, silver, and pink hues of a partly cloudy sky. Small boats are the only things to break the glassy surface of the water and a cluster of small, dark trees line the far bank.

A meal of Istrian (Croatian) pasta with Parmesan and truffle and a glass of Pinot Grigio, and a bright shock of orange sunset over the Danube in the background.

The sunset kept getting so lovely even the locals were snapping pictures of it. In this photo, some brilliant pink and orange light shines through dark purple clouds and reflects on the water of the silvery, darkening Danube. A lone bicycle is parked by the water in the foreground.

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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

The same thing is true of “the internet” as a whole- as we lose the need for Ethernet cables and other visible forms of connection, children risk losing a sense of what is or isn’t “online”, where their information goes, and who has access.

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Cathy Gao-Howard MD MS @catgaohow.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 22/05/2025

These are grant TO THE STUDENTS, not to the institution, so this is just straight-up punishing students for choosing the institution

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Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Yesterday my entire department at the University of Louisville was instructed to remove the words diversity, equity, and inclusion from any websites, procedures, bylaws, job ads & duties etc Thanks KY legislators. I hope you know that being against differences is never the right side of history

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