David Menendez

Image of cover of forthcoming More Than Words: How Talking Sharpens the Mind and Shapes Our World, by Maryellen MacDonald

My new book, MORE THAN WORDS (Avery/PenguinRandomHouse) arrives 6/3! It tells the story of how we produce language & how talking shapes our lives in surprising ways. It's psyling for gen'l audiences! Info & preorders www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724046/more-than-words-by-maryellen-macdonald-phd/

Helping teachers learn what works in the classroom − and what doesn’t − will get a lot harder without the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences The nonpartisan arm of the Education Department supports research and shares data on student progress. It identifies what works and what doesn’t.

How IES Helps Students and Educators. theconversation.com/helping-teac...

My husband waited 10 years to show me that he eats subway sandwiches the wrong way 😱😱

I just told my partner that Beyoncé is about to perform at a football game, and he said, “Super Bowl?!”

A man after my own heart.

"We adjusted for race": now what? A systematic review of utilization and reporting of race in American Journal of Epidemiology and Epidemiology, 2020-2021 - PubMed Race is a social construct, commonly used in epidemiologic research to adjust for confounding. However, adjustment of race may mask racial disparities, thereby perpetuating structural racism. We condu...

"We adjusted for race": now what? A systematic review of utilization and reporting of race in American Journal of Epidemiology and Epidemiology, 2020-2021

Whew 😥 “Race was most often used as a confounder (52%).”

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37789703/

Infant Mortality Increases Across US Following Dobbs Decision The Dobbs decision was associated with a 7% absolute increase in overall infant mortality—equivalent to 247 excess deaths—and a 10% increase among infants with congenital anomalies, corresponding to 2...

Me, a public health person, just sitting over here reflecting on the fact that the US has experienced a 7% increase in infant mortality post-Dobbs.

Like, do you realize what that says about this society from an ethical perspective? That we made policy choices that caused this?

#PHEthx

Does this count? 🍩🍪

After a painstaking process of sifting through 18,000+ studies for potential eligibility, we synthesized:

-145,000+ children
-33 nations
-98 studies
-40+ years of research

For fellow academics and researchers out there, here's the abstract of our key findings (there's a lot to unpack!).

How long until Darren Criss plays Luigi?

The more I hear about this claims adjuster dude the more I think the real winner is Ryan Murphy.
Give him an Emmy already cause that mini series is gonna pop off.

As we gawk at the $250M Musk spent elect Trump, take a guess how long it took him to “earn” it back in the market?

It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today.

That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.

What I meant to say in lab meeting: "When a reviewer chews you out"

What I actually said in lab meeting: "When a reviewer eats you out."

The Development of Picture Comprehension Across Early Environments: Evidence From Urban and Rural Toddlers in Western Kenya Early childhood researchers frequently use learning materials and assessments involving pictures, across different cultures and contexts. However, there is variation in when and how children across c...

New registered report out in Developmental Science! We find a positive relation between urban western Kenyan toddlers’ picture experience and their performance on a picture-based word learning task, but no relation in a similar rural sample.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Open Encylopedia of Cognitive Science

Announcing the launch of the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: oecs.mit.edu! OECS is a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics in cogsci to a broad audience of students and scholars.

Looking for developmental cognitive scientists? Look no further.

go.bsky.app/MdqXgMy

If you've found yourself making impassioned arguments like "There's no evidence for learning styles and there are better ways to differentiate" or "Learning is more than just a cognitive process" then you may be Learning Scholar! Want to be added to this starter pack? Contact me! go.bsky.app/CBPm1dV

Today election anxiety.
Tomorrow first departmental review anxiety.
Whoever thought it was a good idea this review messed up

Really cool study that shows the importance of children's lived experiences and sanse-making abilities on cognitive development. And it highlights why it is critical to diversify samples to have an accurate view of development!

I have not seen enough buzz about this paper, but @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social just published a super cool study looking at genetic essentialism among adopted or donor-conceived children!

psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Okay, my RAs are much more artistic than me 😂

📊When teaching or giving a talk, do you like presenting plots step by step, revealing e.g. one group at a time? This is often useful for walking through complex results.

I made a R package that makes it extremely easy to do this!

ggreveal: Reveal a ggplot incrementally
#rstats #dataviz #ggplot2

We had a crafting lab meeting to decorate the lab.

I made a new door sign 🟩
CRECE Lab is brat

@hghwang.bsky.social and I (but mostly Grace) looked into this a bit. We are using FileMaker for our shared database (everything else was either too expensive or not as useful). But would love to hear if you find something better!

Hey #DevPsy: I'm looking for participant database recommendations! 🔍
Must be inexpensive, easy to use and have the option to store data only in Canada.
Most previous labs used FileMaker, are there others?

Thank you for this warm welcome and the opportunity to share my work, BSE!
bse.berkeley.edu/new-faculty-...

That's a parenting win if you ask me

I don't think anyone has started a Learning Scholars starter pack, so here we go! Let me know if you'd like to be added, removed, etc. Please share!
go.bsky.app/CBPm1dV

Developmental Psychology starter pack! I've included people doing child/adolescent research and as well as a few lifespan folks.

Please share widely, and let me know if there is anyone who should be added!

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#DevPsych #DevSci #PsychSciSky