Come join us! We have two research coordinator positions open with the Stanford IRISS predoctoral program, a program designed to mentor students for graduate study:
LEVANTE: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...
BabyView: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...
(deadline 5/1)
happy #CDS2026 to those who celebrate!
The Cognitive Tools Lab at Stanford (cogtoolslab.github.io) is recruiting two new research staff members to join in AY 26-27.
Full-Time Lab Manager: forms.gle/UVwfx5wbY9Km....
IRiSS Predoc Researcher: iriss.stanford.edu/predoc/2026-....
Please share widely in your networks, thank you!!
If you work at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning, consider applying for this postdoc position (January 2027 start date):
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15868
An opportunity to work with a great group of people across Harvard, MIT, and UC Berkeley.
I think you may have gotten the wrong Emily! I've been trying to convince her to get on Bluesky though :)
whybot prototype for kids
turing test I made for class
I am flabbergasted I am by how much vibe coding has expanded my capacities as a scientist and teacher.
In the last few weeks, I've mocked up class demos of a live turing test, generated cross-references for an encyclopedia, and prototyped new tablet tasks for developmental psych.
It's wild.
Same for me, esp. for designing online tasks! I’d love to see a Design Arena-type platform (www.designarena.ai) for research purposes - people voting on which tools help(ed) them set up prototypes, tasks, hosting, data pipelines, interfaces, etc., and identifying the good & dangerous parts
NEW EPISODE OUT!
In this episode, @adani.bsky.social chats with Prof. Tamar Kushnir about how we use our imagination to think about the past, make sense of the present, and plan for the future!
open.spotify.com/episode/273a...
@junyi.bsky.social lots of overlap with some of the questions you're asking! :)
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screenshots from the nine tasks
Very excited to share the first empirical paper from LEVANTE: we describe the LEVANTE core tasks, a set of nine open source tasks for measuring learning and development in kids ages 5-12 years.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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oh what fun it is to have this paper out :)
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!
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What a pleasure speaking with Chris Piech, Denise Pope, and Dan Schwartz about AI & Education on "School's In," (youtube.com/watch?v=lL07...) recorded live at Stanford Open Minds in LA (openminds.stanford.edu/los-angeles)!
We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team!
More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join...
Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...
NEW EPISODE OUT!
In this episode, Adani @adani.bsky.social chats with Dr. Susan Engel from Williams College about curiosity, invention, her journey into developmental psychology, and her latest book, The Intellectual Lives of Children!
🎧LISTEN NOW:
open.spotify.com/episode/06WD...
Adam’s website: www.adambenforado.com
Adam's book: www.adambenforado.com/a-minor-revo...
Adam’s new organization, Minor Power: ​https://www.minorpower.org/
If you interact with children in any capacity, be it as a parent, relative, educator, researcher, or simply as a citizen (which really is all of us!), I encourage you to listen in! There’s something in there for everyone :)
I learned so much in talking to Adam about his most recent book, A Minor Revolution, which covers the past, present, and future of children’s rights in the U.S. We also dove into how he first got to work on the issues he now champions, and how those issues shape all of our lives and futures!
So excited that this latest podcast episode with Adam Benforado is now out: open.spotify.com/episode/6v4J...!
excited to read -- great work @zihanwang.bsky.social & all! :)
Now out in Cognition, work with the great @gershbrain.bsky.social @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social on formalizing self-handicapping as rational signaling!
📃 authors.elsevier.com/a/1lo8f2Hx2-...
A first blogpost from the LEVANTE team, introducing our global project perspective.
A good intro if you're interested in learning more about cross-cultural developmental data collection using LEVANTE.
levante-network.org/global-colla...
It's been lovely working on this with such an awesome team: Igor Bascandziev, @ebonawitz.bsky.social, @carenwalker.bsky.social! They took me in as a mentee when I first came to the U.S. two years ago, and they continue to shape my thinking and work in many ways :)
...learn just as much from thought experiments as from 'real' experimental demonstrations—except you don't need any fancy equipment, the child's mind alone is enough!
And it turns out that when, in early physics instruction, you engage children in thought experiments to help them grapple with tricky ideas like tiny things and air having weight, they can...
Thought experiments—imagining and thinking through outcomes—aren't just the morbid-amusing trolley problems you may have seen; they've played a vital historic role in our scientific progress in domains like physics!
So cool to see our project, spearheaded by Igor Bascandziev, featured in Harvard's 'Usable Knowledge'!
That sounds like a really exciting space to be working in! Congrats on the new role :)
LOL so that's what you were wearing! So good