Mark your calendars - the Application Statement Feedback Program submission portal will open in 3 days! (10/4 @ 11 AM MT)

Trying to make progress on your psychology PhD apps, but feeling lost, unsure what you should do, or like there must be some hidden secrets? We do our best to demystify them in "How Applying to Grad School Works": sokolhessnerlab.com/howapplyingwor…

Undergrads! Join us for an 8-week paid internship in the 2022 CSLI Summer Program, an U.S. National Science Foundation REU site. Interns do mentored research and learn about language, cognition, AI, and more as part of a warm, fun community. www-csli.stanford.edu/csli-summer-in…

For everyone who messaged asking to support…Christina’s family has just made this memorial fund in her name. Her family wants to make sure to give to the community. gofund.me/066c2f17

As July comes to a close, many are starting to work on their grad school apps. Last year I wrote a series of reflections on my experience applying to non-clinical psych PhD programs in the US. I hope some of you applying this cycle will find it helpful! kpetrova.com/resources

🌟 New paper out in PNASNews 🌟 One of our basic concerns as humans is what others think about us. Hyowon (Hyo) Gweon and I went on a delightful journey to find that even young children can infer and manage what others think about them! paper: pnas.org/doi/full/10.10… 1/🧵

Job talk season! Short 🧵. If you'd like tips on structuring talks & slides, many of my tips (based on no empirical evidence whatsoever, just personal experience + advice & feedback I've gotten) are in this video youtube.com/watch?v=POLZan… 1/10. #AcademicTwitter #phdchat #SciComm

Developmentalists: have you been wondering if online experiments with young children are comparable to in-lab studies? Here's our new meta-analysis suggesting that overall they are! psyarxiv.com/qc6fw - work by Aaron Chuey, Veronica Boyce and anjie cao | 曹安洁

My colleague Steven Roberts was recently invited to comment on a "debate" about diversity at a Association for Psychological Science journal. His experience was troubling and surreal, and lays bare the very biases he studies. He describes it in this important pre-print. 1/ psyarxiv.com/xk4yu

I'm looking for a postdoctoral scholar to work with me at UC Santa Cruz! The postdoc will work on a NIH R00 project investigating the neural correlates behind the development of social bias in infants and young children using EEG. Apply by Feb 1: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01426 1/3

Do you want to do a psychology experiment while following best practices in open science? My collaborators and I have created Experimentology, a new open web textbook (to be published by MIT Press but free online forever). experimentology.io Some highlights! 🧵

📢 I'm hiring a lab manager to help launch and run my lab @ Princeton! Please share with anyone who wants to deepen their experience in cog sci, developmental psychology, or cognitive neuroscience before grad school. Review starts 3/31, start date 8/1! tinyurl.com/princetoncolab…

Are you thinking of applying to PhD programs in psychology but unsure about how to start or whether it's a good fit? Apply by Sep 22nd to Stanford Psychology's 7th annual Paths to PhD info-session/workshop to have all of your questions answered! forms.gle/5wTjBjwecjTsfF…

It was a pleasure to cover philosopher Wendy Salkin! If you study a particular group of people & speak/write/post publicly about them, chances are you may be taken also as speaking *for* that group, a role that comes with ethical challenges gender.stanford.edu/news/fundament…