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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

ah but the true OG is sitting expired in every nana's spice cabinet rn

old-ass tin of McCormick pumpkin pie spice

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Meanwhile, my Spotify knows I went to a state school

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Gee, thanks for this "clarifying" diagram~

A diagram generated by ChatGPT purporting to show the connections between super colliculus and frontal eye field

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

generating examples for my fall undergrad Perception students on why they should not use LLMs as study aides...

A hilariously inaccurate "diagram" of visual areas of the brain created by Chat GPT

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

CPL still has cool cards! The classic CPL logo with he buildings is on the other side.

Image of a Cambridge Public Library card featuring a photo of a stone carving of a person picking up books, taken from the building facade

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

apparently brownie batter is a thing

A pint of Ben & Jerry's Brownie Batter Core ice cream

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Throwback to the time I memed one of my own papers - Kibbe & Leslie (2011) (it's a little niche, but iykyn) #cogdevmemes #devpsych #cogpsych #psychscisky

Meme of a man walking with his girlfriend, checks out another woman while his girlfriend looks on angrily. The man is labeled "6-month-olds", the girlfriend is labeled "object's features" and the woman he is checking out is labeled "object's existence"

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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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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

I have absolutely no regrets about this incredible Lord of the Rings pun that my grad advisor came up with for our paper on whether infants bind topology (rings vs. solids) to object representations

Title: "The ring that does not bind: Topological class in infants' working memory for objects" by Melissa M. Kibbe and Alan M. Leslie

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

Really curious about how Duolingo is coming up with the sentences in the "Talk about Irish Culture" portion of the #Gaeilge course... 😬

Screenshot from Duolingo with a sentence in Irish that translates to "He has red hair but is the leprechaun rich"

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Looked up someone on ratemyprofessor today out of curiosity, and discovered this perplexing mystery math

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Today I found out I am a robot, because there are clearly no "squares with motorcycles" in this image.

One of those "prove you aren't a robot" images that shows a grid of squares, with some containing parts of a motorcycle. Instructions are to select "all squares with motorcycles". No square contains a motorcycle.

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

Thanks to everyone who came out for the 30th Anniversary of Mapping the Mind Workshop at #CDS2024! It was such a thrill and honor to be a part of bringing these folks together for an unforgettable day of talks and debate.

Images of the speakers at the Mapping the Mind Preconference Workshop at the Cognitive Development Society meeting in Pasadena, CA (Leslie, S. Gelman, Harris, Carey, Keil, Spelke, Wellman, Gopnik, Hirschfeld, R. Gelman)

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Come check out the Boston University Developing Minds Lab at the 2024 Cognitive Development Society Meeting!

THURSDAY MARCH 21
30th Anniversary of Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture
9 AM - 4:15 PM, Ballroom C
POSTERS (11 AM - 12 PM)
Do children adopt a moral hierarchy when reasoning about living and non-living entities?
Turan-Küçük & Kelemen
Do children track beliefs about imaginary objects in pretend contexts?
Mbarki & Kibbe
FRIDAY MARCH 22
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Symposium 2.1, Ballroom AB
Pre-number-knowers fast-map verbal labels onto sets of objects
Cheng, Feigenson (JHU), & Kibbe
POSTER SESSION 1
1:15 to 2:30pm (Exhibit Hall A)
Young children’s understanding of others’ actions on mutually exclusive possibilities.
Esra Nur Turan-Küçük & Melissa M. Kibbe
POSTER SESSION 2
5:45 to 7:00 PM (Exhibit Hall A)
Infants remember “objectness” best: examining 18-20-month-olds’ representations of objects’ featural and categorical identities
Stahl (TCNJ) & Kibbe
Children’s quantity perception is biased by high caloric foods
Mbarki, atu-Aminu (Rutgers), Dindial (Rutgers), & Wang

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 04/03/2024

OK, I looked up Bonatti et al. (2005) on Scholar today to cite it for something, and I am SHOCKED to see that this paper has only been cited 24 times! How is that possible?? This is one of those papers that looms large in my mind as a significant contribution to the infant lit...

Screenshot of Google Scholar reference for "What face inversion does to infants' counting abilities" by Bonatti, Frot, and Mehler, published in Psychological Science in 2005. The screenshot shows part of the abstract, and that it's been cited by 24.

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

New paper! @jinjingjenny1.bsky.social and I were curious about just how robust are infants' seemingly "catastrophic" failures to track sets of four or more objects, so we did a systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis, now out in Developmental Science! 1/5

Screenshot of the title and author details from the PDF "Catastrophic" set size limits on infants' capacity to represent objects: A systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis by Jinjing (Jenny) Wang and Melissa M. Kibbe, published in Developmental Science.

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Duolingo slipping in a Mean Girls reference

Duolingo screen with the words Caithimid bándearg ar an gCéadaoin (in Irish), which translates to "We wear pink on Wednesdays" in English

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

Didn't expect my fortune cookie to have such a strong theoretical stance on memory encoding #cogpsych #psychscisky

A fortune from a cookie that reads "Attention is the mother of memory"

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 15/09/2023

They hung this sweater on a hanger?!?! Who does that? Whoever paid over a mil for this better like hanger bumps in sweater shoulders... www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/0...

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

We tested 4-8 yos in a variation of our Cheng & Kibbe (2022) “memory game”. On some trials, all the to-be-remembered objects were visible at encoding; on others, one of the object’s identities was unknown so its identity had to be inferred by eliminating known alternatives. 3/6

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 12/09/2023

New paper! Chen Cheng and I looked at children’s ability to use reasoning by exclusion to retroactively “fill in” the unknown identity of an object in working memory by ruling out known alternatives. We found some interesting results! 1/6 #devpsyc #psychscisky #neuroskyence

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

We are seeking submissions for a symposium at BU for emerging scholars (late-stage PhD candidates and postdocs) from historically excluded racial and ethnic backgrounds whose research focuses on cultural/ethnic influences on child dev and/or impacts of structural racism on child dev. Deadline soon!

Flyer includes info on applying. Submit:
A 200-word abstract describing your symposium presentation
A brief cover letter summarizing your professional interests and goals. For current graduate students, please indicate progress toward dissertation completion.
Curriculum vitae
Please submit application materials to Ms. Erica Moore (emoore99@bu.edu) by Friday, August 11, 2023. Questions may be addressed to Amanda Tarullo, PhD (atarullo@bu.edu) or Nick Wagner, PhD (njwagner@bu.edu).

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