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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Re-upping for Monday morning: I have the infrastructure to generate a completely novel child ASR dataset for ages ~2-12, let's say 50 kids/year and 10 minutes/kid. People generally don't believe this claim, so I'm just going to make it. Speech/reading/Ed tech folks: what's on your wish list?

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Ben Prystawski @benpry.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

How do people learn abstract knowledge over generations in a crafting game with rich structure? Come by my talk in the cultural evolution session on Friday morning at #CogSci2026 to find out!

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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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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I always thought preschoolers were too egocentric to do well on communication tasks where they had to talk about novel referents. Old papers reported they'd say stuff like "this one looks like my uncle's hat." @vboyce.bsky.social shows that this is wrong! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Figure 3 - semantic similarity within/across games

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Now up as a reviewed @elife.bsky.social preprint: "Continuous developmental changes in word recognition support language learning across early childhood" elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... Using data from ~2000 kids ages 1-6, we quantify links between word recognition and early vocabulary growth!

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

We tried very hard to study language and communication during strategic games like prisoner's dilemma. Veronica Boyce did many experiments chasing what could have been an interesting result but in the end wasn't very strong. Now she's written a nice postmortem: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

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Ben Prystawski @benpry.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

How can we combine the process-level insight that think-aloud studies give us with the large scale that modern online experiments permit? In our new CogSci paper, we show that speech-to-text models and LLMs enable us to scale up the think-aloud method to large experiments!

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word recognition support language learning across early childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Time course of word recognition for kids at different ages.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Now hiring for two lab manager positions at Stanford! Hyo Gweon and I are coordinating joint searches since our labs collaborate frequently. Please join us! careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc... and careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-coo...

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Isabel Papadimitriou @isabelpapad.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I will be at NeurIPS starting tomorrow! Would love to chat about interpretability, linguistics, language structure, meaning in LLMs. Reach out! Aaaand if you love Vancouver, apply to do a PhD at UBC! Fun research in a lovely place! linguistics.ubc.ca/graduate/adm...

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Three ManyBabies projects - big collaborative replications of infancy phenomena - wrapped up this year. The first paper came out this fall. I thought I'd take this chance to comment on what I make of the non-replication result. 🧵 bsky.app/profile/laur...

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Veronica Boyce @vboyce.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Work with Isabel! She's a lovely person who does really cool cognitively and linguistically informed NLP work.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Do you like building great tools for behavioral measurement? We are seeking a Research Scientist to act as the tasks lead and engineering manager for a large-scale project on developmental data collection with children ages 2-12 called LEVANTE: levante-network.org.

This position is a PhD-level position, with the expectation that the RS will contribute to – and have the opportunity to lead on – research products including papers and presentations. The RS will also be part of the Language and Cognition Lab at Stanford, a broad interdisciplinary group interested in using data to understand human development.

Ideal qualifications/experiences for the position include:
- creating behavioral experiments (ideally for children), with attention to the small details of the participants' experience in the experiment
- psychological measurement and/or psychometrics (including item response theory and/or adaptive testing)
- software development using version control and project management software
- web-development, including javascript/HTML/CSS, cloud-based hosting, and modern frameworks (e.g., react.js)
- experience working with teams and an orientation towards managing a small team of engineers working on the project (e.g. scrum)

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Veronica Boyce @vboyce.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

This was my first time leading a "medium" team science project. It's been a great journey from early convos with Mike about "could some of the failed replications be rescued", to supervising the actual projects, to interpreting the results. I'm grateful to all my co-authors for their hard work.

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Mike Frank @mcxfrank.bsky.social · 06/05/2024

When a replication fails, researchers have to decide whether to make another attempt or move on. How should we think about this decision? Here's a new paper trying to answer this question, led by Veronica Boyce and featuring student authors from my class! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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