🫡 I’m on it!

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Today I used "6-7" in my intro class with this exact gif. They laughed, and then there was an awkward pause. Therefore I feel secure in saying that I think I killed the meme (you're welcome).

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

🚨🚨🚨 International Society for Moral Psychology (ISMP) 🚨🚨🚨

ISMP was formed to create an interdisciplinary and international home for moral psychology, aimed at fostering deeper engagement across traditions, methodologies, and cultural contexts.

internationalsocietymoralpsychology.com/join-ismp/

Honored to have been included in this exciting lineup.

@dcameron.bsky.social did a fantastic job putting together such an exciting conference. I'm learning something new with each and every talk!

UURAF was a HUGE success!! Congrats team 💕

Congrats to Avery, Emily, and Kennedy for presenting their project at MSU’s University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF)!

Moral Fragmentations and Boundaries Book Reception, 6-8 pm at Webster's in State College

Folks in State College! If you're around this Saturday, I encourage you to check out the reception that the Consortium on Moral Decision-Making is hosting at Webster's Bookstore, one of our independent bookshops. This is the opening, informal meet-and-greet with several of the invited speakers.

Ismarladim!!

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Offfff

Our new paper is out in Child Development! We’re the first to use the looking-while-listening paradigm to examine emotion word comprehension in early childhood.

Work with my fantastic grad student @chenhanqi.bsky.social 🙌

Read more: academic.oup.com/chidev/advan...

Many thanks to @bostonu.bsky.social for having me today at the Developmental Science Colloquium. I loved getting to meet and chat with you all!

P.S. I finally *met* @levelsof.bsky.social!!

Wohooo! Congratulations 🎈🎉🎊

If you do moral development, then yes!

2,599 applicants offered NSF GRFP awards! Congrats to all the NSF GRFP award winners and recipients of honorable mention. https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwardeeList

Massive and important positive news...

#NSF #GRFP awards are out.

2,599 awards!
+
1,440 Honorable Mentions.

A significant boost from last year.

Congratulations to the winners (and HM-s)!

& many thanks to the reviewers & program officers who made this possible.

www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

State of the world 2024: 25 years of autocratization – democracy trumped? Using the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) dataset version 15, we offer six main findings about contemporary trends of regime transformations. First, the average level of liberal democracy continues ...

First, Two-thirds of all recorded episodes of democracies turned autocracies occurred in the last 30 years, from 1994 to 2023: 64 episodes of backsliding in 54 countries. (Nord & Lindberg, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So sorry to hear that Larisa. Sending you lots of strength!!

ISMP’s inaugural conference will be held at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), September 17–19, 2026, centered on the theme: Connecting, Advancing, and Nurturing Moral Psychology.

internationalsocietymoralpsychology.com/conference/

We’re now building ISMP, focused on two initiatives: an annual conference, and a mentoring program for graduate students, postdocs, and early-career scholars with interests in moral psychology from anywhere in the world.

#PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #devpsyc #cogsci #philsci

🚨🚨🚨 International Society for Moral Psychology (ISMP) 🚨🚨🚨

ISMP was formed to create an interdisciplinary and international home for moral psychology, aimed at fostering deeper engagement across traditions, methodologies, and cultural contexts.

internationalsocietymoralpsychology.com/join-ismp/

Discover How Children Think with the Moral Minds Lab!

what do you MEAN my flight will be late, i just watched something from THE MOON land on time

WOHOO!!!

With a special shoutout to @psychresearchlist.bsky.social, @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social and @drlaurenmims.bsky.social

Next up, Lex Sacchi introduced us to SPRINT (the Summer Psychology Research Initiative), a trainee-led research outreach program for racialized students. #CDS2026

Our panel on “Global Developmental Research” was a success thanks to our wonderful speakers (Flo, Jenny, Allison, and Abby) and audience questions!

We talked about unique practical and ethical challenges of cross-cultural research and some actionable strategies.

#CDS26 #CDS2026

And the @cogdevsoc.bsky.social Pre-Conference on Conducting cognitive developmental research during challenging times begins

Can't wait to catch up with y'all and eat some delicious poutine! 🍁

#CDS2026

Moral Minds Lab is at #CDS2026! Can't wait to see you all
@cogdevsoc.bsky.social! 🍁

I miss the days when I didn't know what a sump pump was.