- @skucker.bsky.social & Schneider (2026): most prominent source of media exposure early in life is not children's personal use of devices, but indirect exposure thru background media use ➡️ need to consider broader media envt, not just screen in front of child #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Posts by David Tompkins
We're excited to be attending CDS 2026 in Montreal! Visit our posters to learn more about the research happening at the Infant Cognition Lab! 🌸
#cds2026 #cognitivedevelopment #ucdavis #conference #cognitivedevelopmentsociety
The Play and Learning Lab is off to CDS 2026 with 3 posters!
P1-109— How does historical time limit our understanding of development?
P4-62— Assessing toddlers' puzzle-solving with Bayesian item response models
P2-36— A new 3D block test for measuring mental rotation in 3-5 year olds
Come say hi 👋
Are tropical birds prettier because of a need for conceptual camouflage?
Like does being ugly among beauty jump out at some level of visual processing?
Deeply perverse that R uses install.packages() instead of packages.install()
Mediation with cross-sectional data is still a no-no right?
Seems to be appearing more and more often lately
Got 3 acceptances and 2 rejections for the same talk - looking forward to seeing folks in Ottawa with 60% certainty!
Disaster. Soup from scratch. Left out all night.
Chicken Soup for the Sink.
Will we never learn Waluigi’s lesson?
meta analyses and scoping/systematic reviews should include a zotero import file
Historical time is sometimes about history and other times about time
There is no hotdog like a Denver Airport hotdog
Found them!
Submitted my first first author paper, now it’s time to reopen the doc and find the typos
I know it would be hard, but shouldn’t we have better ways to compare manipulation sizes?
Effect sizes without manipulation sizes seem suboptimal
And possibly ideas?
A reminder to talk to your family about AI scams this winter holiday!
Set up a code word, so even if a scammer sounds like you on the phone, they won’t be fooled
Finally a way to cook all these swans
For something that is so clearly slop, stew isn’t.
Yes, Neon Genesis Evangelion is an appropriate aesthetic for an academic talk. Surely
HQ Trivia???
Meme with caption “ when you email your professor at 2 AM and they respond within a minute”
Finally had this moment from the teaching side
They might actually be really good at it, considering their audience
Neat! Are these appropriate for making claims of generalizability? (e.g. if you think the causal graph might be changing?)
Incredible. Should yeet apply a not to the condition?
Quick, someone who’s good at computers - is this good??
That system is also what allows us 8 billion people on the planet. It’s a good deal!
Thanks! I’m looking for replications by different authors, so still hard to find! Appreciate the help!
Has anyone seen any running lists of replication attempts in developmental psychology? Surprisingly hard to find!