🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science.

Here’s what we found 👇

Why hitting children doesn’t help Simple parenting tools can guide children without the need for physical punishment

“Physical punishment does not improve behavior and can cause lasting harm.”

Jorge Cuartas shares simple parenting tools that can guide children without the need for physical punishment. #ChildDevelopment @jorgecuartas.bsky.social
boldscience.org/why-hitting-...

Excessive Heat Harms Young Children’s Development, Study Suggests | New York University www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

Ambient heat and early childhood development: a cross-national analysis | The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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SustainableED Virtual Seminar Series: Jorge Cuartas YouTube video by SustainableED

Missed our first SustainableED Virtual Seminar?

You can now watch Dr. @jorgecuartas.bsky.social's fantastic overview of the connections between childhood development and climate change on YouTube: youtu.be/3pRITHSB0vQ

Issue 61, Volume 12 is out at Developmental Psychology!

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Topics Include

-Intergenerational and Contextual Adversity
-Ethnic-Racial Socialization
-Executive Functions
-Impact of Parenting

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Join our #SustainableED Virtual Seminar Series with @jorgecuartas.bsky.social, Assistant Professor at NYU and director of the CARE Lab, whose work explores how climate change shapes child development and family well-being.

🗓️ 12/1 | 🕐 1:00-1:45 EST
🔗 Register here: brown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🌍How does climate change impact our youngest learners?

In our new #SustainableED Speaker Series, @jorgecuartas.bsky.social will explore emerging evidence connecting climate change and child development.

🗓️: 12/1 | 🕐 1:00-1:45 EST

Register here: buff.ly/BD7cCv5

📢 Announcing the 25-26 SustainableED Virtual Seminar Series!

We're hosting 4 public seminars synthesizing research at the intersection of ed & climate change:

12/1 @jorgecuartas.bsky.social
2/9 Jaimie Davis
3/11 Hunter Gehlbach
4/15 @claudiapersico.bsky.social

Register: linktr.ee/edsustainable

Bringing natural ecosystems into the bioecological model of human development - Nature Human Behaviour The bioecological model of human development is among the most influential frameworks in the social sciences. We argue that it is time to integrate natural ecosystems into this model. This approach will shape research, practice and policy to promote both healthy human development and an environmentally sustainable future.

In this Comment, authors argue that it is time to integrate natural ecosystems into the bioecological model of human development.

Our department is hiring two positions (2026 and 2027 start dates) - come be my colleague!

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Why corporal punishment should be banned globally Violence against children is sometimes seen as tough love but it can cause long-term harm

“Changing the law is not enough on its own.”
Violence against children is sometimes seen as tough love but it can cause long-term harm, says Annie Brookman-Byrne, as the World Health Organization calls for a global ban on corporal punishment.
boldscience.org/why-corporal...

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Our position paper is now out: "Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharing".

srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)

What is LEVANTE? 🧵

Parenting Programs to Promote the Nurturing Care of Children : Essential Considerations This document provides comprehensive guidelines for designing, implementing, and evaluating effective and scalable parenting programs including by examining their costs .

📢 New World Bank document on Parenting Programs to Promote the Nurturing Care of Children

This document provides comprehensive guidelines for designing, implementing, and evaluating effective and scalable parenting programs.

documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...

🎉 Congratulations to the 2025 section award winners on this well-deserved recognition! Thank you for your important contributions to the field of child maltreatment. #AwardWinners #childmaltreatmentawareness

Would you hit a dog? Then why hit a child? Physical punishment of children is a harmful and ineffective practice that should be prohibited in all settings, and parents should be provided with support and education to promote non-violent dis…

Would you hit a dog? Then why hit a child?

thehill.com/opinion/heal...

Mañana estaré participando en este conversatorio con @dianaloperaperez.bsky.social @jorgecuartas.bsky.social No se lo pierdan! Inscripciones aquí: uninorte.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

ChatGPT decreases idea diversity in brainstorming - Nature Human Behaviour Nature Human Behaviour - ChatGPT decreases idea diversity in brainstorming

“reliance on ChatGPT for idea generation comes with a trade-off: while enhancing individual ideas' creativity, it reduces the diversity of ideas in a pool of ideas-a critical element for effective brainstorming”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

AI linked to explosion of low-quality biomedical research papers Analysis flags hundreds of studies that seem to follow a template, reporting correlations between complex health conditions and single variables based on publicly available data sets.

The papers all follow a similar template and make misleading claims

https://go.nature.com/4kucwEH

Congrats, Eos! 🎉

Our children will face unprecedented exposure to weather extremes.

Our paper led by Luke Grant and @wimthiery.bsky.social published in @nature.com shows that the generation of our children and grandchildren will be exposed to a lot more weather extremes than ours.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence Climate change comprises acute shocks and protracted hazards that threaten societies, communities, and families worldwide. Still, little work has investigated the potential impacts of climate chang...

📣📣 A recent paper by Jorge Cuartas et al. in JCD: "Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Physical punishment and lifelong outcomes in low‑ and middle‑income countries: a systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis - Nature Human Behaviour Cuartas et al.’s meta-analysis of 189 studies, including 1,490 effect sizes from 92 low- and middle-income countries, shows that physical punishment of children is linked to a higher risk of detriment...

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“A punição física [de crianças] foi associada a resultados prejudiciais, incluindo problemas de saúde mental, piores relacionamentos entre pais e filhos, uso de substâncias, desenvolvimento socioemocional prejudicado, pior desempenho acadêmico e problemas de comportamento”

Physical punishment and lifelong outcomes in low‑ and middle‑income countries: a systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis - Nature Human Behaviour Cuartas et al.’s meta-analysis of 189 studies, including 1,490 effect sizes from 92 low- and middle-income countries, shows that physical punishment of children is linked to a higher risk of detrimental outcomes across the life course.

"The analysis confirmed that physical punishment is associated with detrimental outcomes" endseclusion.info/4jEvLeu #EndSeclusion

Physical punishment leads to exclusively negative outcomes for children in low- and middle-income countries: Study Physically punishing children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) has exclusively negative outcomes—including poor health, lower academic performance, and impaired social-emotional development—yielding similar results to studies in wealthier nations, finds an analysis published in Nature Human Behaviour.

Physical punishment in low- and middle-income countries is linked to negative outcomes for children’s health, academic performance, and social-emotional development, with no observed benefits. doi.org/g9hdxp

New paper alert by my incredible colleague @jorgecuartas.bsky.social! In a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies from 92 LMIC, they show that physical punishment is consistently linked to detrimental outcomes for children.

Physical punishment and lifelong outcomes in low‑ and middle‑income countries: a systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis - Nature Human Behaviour Cuartas et al.’s meta-analysis of 189 studies, including 1,490 effect sizes from 92 low- and middle-income countries, shows that physical punishment of children is linked to a higher risk of detriment...

Cuartas et al.’s meta-analysis of 189 studies, including 1,490 effect sizes from 92 low- and middle-income countries, shows that physical punishment of children is linked to a higher risk of detrimental outcomes across the life course. @jorgecuartas.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SRCD2025 Awards Ceremony starts at 5:30PM in the Main Auditorium. The ceremony will conclude with the SRCD Awards Reception in the Hall B Foyer. Don’t forget your meeting badge!

Astronomers Detect a Signature of Life on a Distant Planet Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

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Que dicha 😊 un abrazo, Michael!