Congratulations to all of our awesome lab members who presented this year at #CDS2026! And thank you to everyone who came to our talks and preconference workshops 😊

In the midst of postdoctoral job-hunting and wrapping up my dissertation, these things help calm my anxiety and somewhat (???!) boost my self-confidence haha #CDS2026

Thank you to everyone who came and asked exciting questions during #CDS2026! We're so happy to have met new and familiar friends!

Some notes from the wonderful celebration of John Flavell's life and work at #CDS2026.

"Age early and get it over with." (John on his looks not having changed in many years.)

"Use the simplest word to get the idea across."

"If I could only step into a child's mind even if just for a moment."

Last take from our lab #CDS2026 — parental support for elaboration correlates with children’s memory for autobiographical events, but does it generalize? Modestly for talking to a stranger, not all for many other measures of episodic memory. It’s maybe mostly about the parent-child relationship.

Our paper finding that infants infer helpers’ relationships, and not their dispositions, is now out in PNAS! Sharing in case anyone needs something to read on the way home from #CDS2026 ;)

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Yesterday at #CDS2026 — do measures of spatial navigation skill cohere in adolescents? In adults they do, a bit, but with this sample (and different paradigms) so far not a lot. Work to do!

Two of my undergrads said their takeaway from #CDS2026 was that they were surprised at how diverse our field was and how many people looked like them. Love ya, CDS!

#CDS2026 was a great conference! 🎉The pre-conferences (digital media & dev sci at non-R1 institutions) were the highlight for me. It’s exciting to see where the children & media field is going and it was validating to talk to others doing cog dev sci at SLACs & other non-R1s.

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Two people standing on either side of a poster smiling

Many thanks to everyone who stopped by our posters today with thoughtful comments and questions.

Berkeley Undergrad Abigail Villa presented at her first conference as well and did a phenomenal job! @berkeleyeducation.bsky.social

See you next time! 👋🏾 #CDS2026

If you are at #CDS2026 and sticking around for the last poster session, come see my poster on the relative influence of fixed mindset, science ID, and conceptions of science on children’s learning in a life science curriculum!

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Thanks for checking out our work today, folks! @cabarbieri.bsky.social @elenamsilla.bsky.social

Come see more of our work (on EF!) in the poster session tomorrow at 1:15 #CDS2026

Working on a test to measure spatial thinking in middle school kids #CDS2026

📣 Come check out our work from @zoeliberman.bsky.social ‘s Child Studies Lab at #CDS2026 !
@cayang20.bsky.social

Happening now #CDS2026!

Savings in relearning after one year, age invariant, but big age-related changes in “seen before” judgments.

Sorry to miss #cds2026, but two of my students made the trip from Vienna! Be sure to ask Beyza (P3-6) and Leslie (P3-39) about how babies and dogs 🐕 understand causal events! (I'm also on a project with @ebonawitz.bsky.social and her student Michelle on counterfactuals at P3-47)

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Grateful to @sabinedoebel.bsky.social for organizing a thoughtful pre-conference on executive function measurement and assessment considerations. Looking forward to more sessions today #CDS2026

My lab is presenting at #cds2026. Come check it out if you are attending!

The preconferences were a huge success! Looking forward to Day 1 at #CDS2026. Of course all our talks are in the same Friday PM slot but you can catch most of them if you hop strategically between rooms ;-)

Our lab members will be presenting their talks and posters at #cds2026 (Cognitive Development Society) in Montreal this week! Come check out their amazing work!

Flyer summarizing CDS Symposium: Title: Children’s developing understanding of the rights and responsibilities of collective decision-making Time: Saturday, April 11th, 2:30-4:00PM (Symposium S3.2 in Montreal 4) Talk 1: Children’s emerging understanding of emotional effort and its implications for representation in collective decision-making (Mia Radovanovic & Samuel Ronfard) Talk 2: Who should be the leader? Children’s democratic preferences when selecting a leader (Isabel Alessandra Herrera Guevara, Lana Isabel Abad, & Nadia Chernyak) Talk 3: Deciding together or alone?: Children’s expectations of leaders’ decision-making behaviors (Nicole H. Park & Isobel A. Heck) Talk 4: Holding leaders accountable: Examining 3-8-year-old children’s evaluation of leadership failure (Jessica J. Lee & Andrew Scott Baron)

Come check out our symposium on Saturday at #CDS2026! I'm biased but I think we have a really cool set of talks thinking about power as something that is negotiated dynamically and bidirectionally, and I'll be presenting new work done with @samuelronfard.bsky.social 🙌

Obnoxious Toddler Really Rubbing His Childlike Sense Of Wonder In Everyone’s Faces DEARBORN, MI—As patience wore thin with the little boy’s repeated expressions of amazement and delight, sources confirmed Monday that obnoxious toddler Liam Primack was really rubbing his sense of childlike wonder in everyone’s faces. “Look, we get it, everything around him is new and exciting as he sees the world with fresh eyes, but Jesus Christ, give it a fucking rest,” said the irritating boy’s mother, Lauren Primack, who was seen rolling her eyes as the 18-month-old’s face lit up during a game of peekaboo with a visiting neighbor. “Just because he has a wholesome curiosity and fascination with everything around him doesn’t mean he needs to gloat about it all the time. It would be nice if I could go to a park without this beaming, exuberant child clapping and giggling every time he sees a goddamn bird. It’s like, chill the fuck out, kid. As if you haven’t seen a bird before. Give me a break.” At press time, sources confirmed the annoyingly gleeful toddler had been given a dose of reality after he excitedly approached a dog that bit him.

in another celebration of #CDS2026

Obnoxious Toddler Really Rubbing His Childlike Sense Of Wonder In Everyone’s Faces — theonion.com/obnoxious-to...

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

Getting ready to head to the session children's beliefs about AI & technology, I passed this alarmingly fast-moving egg delivery robot. I have to say I didn't care for it, but the junior colleague seemed highly intrigued by the little cat-face screen on the front. #CDS2026

Excited (and cold) for my first ever #CDS2026!

I'll be presenting work by the 'Dropping Things' dream team in the workshop on "Counterfactual thinking: What is it good for?"

Paper sneak peek: cicl.stanford.edu/papers/rose2...

In exciting news, I'm rolling up to #CDS2026 recruiting a grad student for *this fall* thanks to 2 new grants!
My talks in the Metacognition preconference (AM session), and in the disagreement symposium (Fri first block) will preview the two main lines of work in my lab right now.

happy #CDS2026 to those who celebrate!

title and abstract of https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cdev.14246

I didn't make a fancy graphic of our stuff at #CDS2026 because I am more disorganized than all you people, but our wonderful post-bacc at the Child Study Center, Carter McCaskill, will be presenting this and ✨two more randomized trials using EMA with babies✨ at poster P3-73 (Saturday 13h15-14h30)