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Lauren J. Myers

@proflaurenmyers.bsky.social
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Developmental Psychologist. Associate Professor at Lafayette College. Cognitive development & media researcher. Passionate about great pedagogy. #Academicmama of 2. She/hers

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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm presenting a flash talk tomorrow at the 6PM UTC (2pm Eastern) session of the Big Team Science conference @btscon.bsky.social My topic is Integrating Big Team Science into an Advanced Undergraduate Course. Check it out - registration fees are optional! bigteamscienceconference.github.io/program/
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Note: The live conference schedule with links to sessions will be provided to conference registrants via email. To access the live schedule, REGISTER NOW *** >>> View the 2026 BTSCON Program *** > Not...
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gave a talk in my dept. on the OSF transition. I wrote up a rough script of the session, which could be of interest to others. I synthesize existing resources and provide my own perspectives. Comments and corrections welcome! zenodo.org/records/2306...
the header for a paper describing "Life after OSF" #metascience
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ll be presenting next week @btscon.bsky.social on integrating undergraduate students into big team science projects in an advanced course. Come check out my presentation on Tuesday 10/6 at 2pm Eastern!
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Want a little distraction that can help me with a class demo in Intro Psych? Take a short (1-2 minute) color perception test at ismy.blue Then report your results in the google form below! I'll post a figure of results by gender and age later this week. 🙂 forms.gle/dPkMztpNLNQK...
ismy.blue
Is my blue your blue?
Test your color perception with this interactive test.
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
First day of the semester for my 16th year at Lafayette, and my 19th year teaching college. I’ve now been teaching as long as my first year students have been alive. 🤯
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Convocating! 🎉
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trimesters are made up! Eugenics is bad! Plastics increase genetic anomalies! Buy my book! Pub date 8/25!
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"If professors want to prevent students from cheating on assignments, they’re going to have to get creative, Eaton said, and reconsider how they measure learning. Though the take-home essay has been an undergraduate staple since time immemorial, it may have outlived its usefulness... (1/3)
chronicle.com
The Academic-Integrity Council Can’t Keep Up With AI
The technology is raising questions about the efficacy of a decades-old academic tradition.
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My family is in Spain this week and on Wednesday we went to Zaragoza to see the #eclipse2026 in totality. It was amazing!! This video doesn’t do justice to the entire experience but I keep rewatching it. The collective joy and excitement of the crowd was a wonderful part of it!
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Conferencing the last two days at the Psych One conference that is all about Introduction to Psychology courses, and I’m going home with several concrete ideas to bring into my course this fall semester! 🤩 Also I am a certified nerd who now has an APA style pen and an I ❤️ Stats sticker. 🧐
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Anne Fausto-Sterling @birdlady.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Becoming a parent lowers women's chances of getting university jobs and tenure, and reduces their publication output. www.nature.com/articles/d41... according to a Danish study. The reason is that women have almost five times the amount of childcare responsibilities than men have.
nature.com
Motherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and why
Mothers in academia take on considerably more childcare-related responsibilities than do fathers.
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
✨Twenty years ago ✨today, right at this time (4pm) I made the best decision of my life - marrying the wonderful Steven Jax! 💗🤩😘 I’m so thankful for the life we have built together and for our sweet girls we are raising. We look forward to many more happy years! 🤩
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
For 4 semesters, my 300-level class has contributed data to the ManyNumbers project, a global research effort in which over 100 labs are studying how children learn about number. Excited to hopefully share how to integrate these projects into undergraduate courses at the Big Team Science conference.
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A new monkey has been discovered! So cool! 🤩 “This is a big deal for sure,”said Joshua Linder,a co-founder and president of the Forest Collective, a conservation nonprofit who was not involved with the study.“To find a relatively large-bodied primate that we’ve never seen before is really amazing.”
nytimes.com
Meet Earth’s Newest Monkey. (And Check Out Its Orange Lips.) (Gift Article)
It is only the fifth new African monkey identified as a new species in the past 75 years.
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
America Online (on dial-up internet) was an integral part of my high school social life.
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AOL Dial-Up Loading Screen Animation
ALT: AOL Dial-Up Loading Screen Animation
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint
The described cocktail in a coupe glass.  It's very algae lookin
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Final grades for spring semester posted on Moodle and entered in Banner! (with just 22 hours to go until the deadline...) I have a busy summer of research ahead but first, will take the rest of today off!
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Seinfeld Cast Cheering Excitedly
ALT: Seinfeld Cast Cheering Excitedly
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Happy end of the spring semester to all who celebrate! Re-sharing my favorite meme for this time of year...😊
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Are you pregnant with your first child? 🤰 We’re looking for expecting parents in their third trimester to join our study! 🎉 lnkd.in/enSQ2jqW You can help us learn more about expectations of child-rearing!🐣 To learn more, click the link in the flyer and sign up today! 🔗 #Pregnancy #Parenting
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
My lab has been a site for the ManyNumbers project - a collaborative project from labs across the world studying the fundamental concepts of childhood numeracy across cultures. Students in my 300-level lab course have collected data from 129 preschool kids! 🎉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
#CDS2026 was a great conference! 🎉The pre-conferences (digital media & dev sci at non-R1 institutions) were the highlight for me. It’s exciting to see where the children & media field is going and it was validating to talk to others doing cog dev sci at SLACs & other non-R1s.
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.
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SCORE | Center for Open Science
SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
A developmental psychology Onion headline! 🤣
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Well said! 💯
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This project was a fun one, with a dream team of collaborators! 😊
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Dr. Stephanie N. Mullins-Sweatt @ssweatt.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
We invite you to participate in an online study, which examines the relationships between personality traits and stress among Black LGBTQIA+ individuals.
We invite you to participate in the Stress and Mental Health online study, which examines the relationships between personality traits and stress among Black LGBTQIA+ individuals. The study consists of a 45 to 60 minute online survey to be completed in one continuous session; you cannot save your progress or return to the survey later. All study results are anonymous. To participate, you must be 18 years or older, and identify as Black/African American/African Descent and LGBTQIA+. Your participation helps advance understanding of stress experiences and personality traits in Black LGBTQIA+ communities and personality traits. Thank you for your consideration.
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
True story, in the past month I have taught 2 (TWO!!!) undergrad research assistants HOW TO SAVE A FILE. 🤯 They’re so used to Google Docs auto saving files they don’t know how to do it. 🤔😅
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
New publication out today! 🥳 It was once again great to work with this amazing team: @ellroche.bsky.social @dougpiper.bsky.social @drzosh.bsky.social @geotro.bsky.social and Rachel Barr!
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
My Moodle sites and syllabi are now ready for spring semester! 🎉 🤩 I'm teaching my two favorite classes - Lifespan Development I and II (with lab). 💖
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
So far this week, I've productively procrastinated on course prep, but the bright side is that I have a professional website now! 🎉 I'm a newbie to this but loved the Canva template that was super easy to work with. Check it out and let me know if you have any suggestions... proflaurenmyers.com
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Dr. Allison Master @allisonmaster.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I'm looking for resources/slides for teaching undergrads about causality in research design and statistics--anyone have any recommendations? Thanks so much! @stpteachpsych.bsky.social
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Congratulations to Lafayette alum Lucy Neely '22 for publishing an empirical manuscript based on the honors thesis @lafayettecollege that she completed with me in 2022. The paper is now published in early view! 🥳 🤩 Full text: 10.1111/infa.70065 or email myersl@lafayette.edu for a PDF
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Actual footage of me working frantically on my CDS abstract due in 48 hours…anyone else?
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kermit the frog is typing on a typewriter .
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John Sakaluk @johnsakaluk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Pleased to share for those using #rstats for analyzing #dyadic data, that we released a major update of dySEM on CRAN (now ver. 1.4.1) *just* before the winter break. New functionality for scripting/outputting dyadic SEMs, along with (much) more test coverage! 🧵 cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
dySEM package logo of two gender/sex-ambiguous figures holding onto a collection of rainbow-coloured balloons in a fashion resembling an SEM path diagram
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 06/01/2026
I'm glad to share this new book chapter, written with one of my undergrads. Drawing on interviews during/after Covid lockdowns, we show that moms varied in how they approached remote learning, and that intensive approaches led to more burnout, leading to more interest in a return to in-person school
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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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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
That feeling when, in an e-mail, you start a sentence with a numeral. Then change it because even in an e-mail, not following APA style makes you uncomfortable. 😒 #PsychSky
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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 05/12/2025
The merits of undergraduate student samples Comment by Jennifer M. Talarico go.nature.com/48U6Pg4
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Happy recommendation letter day to all who celebrate! 🎉☺️ I have a Pavlovian association between Thanksgiving & rec letters…
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I need a good article or chapter that explains regression in an accessible way for an undergraduate audience. Any suggestions? #PsychSky
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🎓 Professor John Shaw of the Lafayette College Psychology Dept will be retiring at the end of the 2025-26 year! 📚 We're creating a book filled with student well wishes & memories! 🎉 📕 (Don't worry, he's not on BlueSky so he won't see this.) 🤫 Share your well wishes&photos ⬇️ forms.gle/oVt8PriJMLdU...
Professor John Shaw wears academic regalia as he teaches his first day of class at Lafayette College
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Hadley Wickham made a GenZ version of dplyr 😂 hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
GenZ version of dplyr in R
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Great article about the psychology of guilty pleasures by my colleague @jjtogans.bsky.social at Lafayette College! 🎉 psyche.co/ideas/guilty...
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Guilty pleasures are more than just giving in to temptation | Psyche Ideas
Psychologists are discovering what’s going on when you do something you enjoy, but also feel weird or embarrassed about
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Finished listening to this audiobook on my daily walk today and it was great! I found it informative, empowering & inspirational, and I’m leaving the book with some actionable strategies to treat & prevent burnout. One that I’ve been particularly enjoying is gratitude practice. 💕
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Happy #caturday! 😻
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
#psychsky I have an unprecedented amount of recommendation letters to write this fall, many with a Dec 1 due date. But one of my students received this warning from PsyCAS that materials need to be submitted *2 weeks* ahead of the due date so they can be verified. Have others heard of this change?!
This is a screenshot of an email to an applicant warning her to submit all materials for graduate school applications at least 2 weeks ahead of the due date.
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Voted! 🗳️
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Jena Doom @truedrdoom.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I wrote for @psychologytoday.com on how food insecurity harms child development. I’m hoping our leaders can restore SNAP funds moving forward to prevent these harms to our nation’s kids. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/orig...
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Food Insecurity Harms Child Development
Sixteen million US children may lose food benefits this week. Research demonstrates that food insecurity has short-term and long-term effects on children's mental and physical health.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Excited for the Play it Forward conference today in Philadelphia! 🎉 I use playful learning landscapes in my upper-level class for undergraduates. I’m eager to learn more about these great projects that integrate playful learning into everyday spaces.
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