Virginia Marchman

Reproducibility and open science are great, but they don't necessarily equate to rigor. You can perfectly share a study and still draw weak conclusions. True rigor lives in the questions we ask, the designs we choose, and the inferences we make.

Jennifer Eberhardt Is Analyzing Police Bias With AI Find out why Jennifer Eberhardt is on TIME’s 2026 Closers list

Congratulations to Jennifer Eberhardt for making TIME's 2026 "Closers" list! Recognizing Black leaders who are addressing racial disparities in different fields and in different ways. #Bias #AI #Psychology

It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.

But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"

Thrilled to announce the 1st Workshop on Computational Developmental Linguistics (CDL) at ACL 2026 🎉 A new venue at the intersection of development linguistics × modern NLP, spearheaded by @fredashi.bsky.social @marstin.bsky.social, and and outstanding team of colleagues!

A thread 🧵

Caregiver Holding, Not Vocalizing, Supports Real‐Time Vagal Regulation Caregivers play a critical role in infant physiological regulation. Lab-based studies show that more responsive mothers have infants that are better regulators, indexed by a decrease in infant respir...

Micheletti et al. (2025): new research using home observations & wearable sensors shows that when moms hold their crying babies, both moms & babies show vagal withdrawal. Physical touch, not vocalizing, may be key for regulation in the wild #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

On the ground, covering the ICE Out for Good protest in Alexandria, VA.

We will not be silenced.
We will not be intimidated.
We will not normalize this abuse of power.

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good
at the site of her murder

Oh, and while you're at it, also check out this spiffy refresh to the Peekbank website, courtesy of the unstoppable @adriansteffan.bsky.social : peekbank.stanford.edu

Very excited that this is now published at eLife - the first outcomes from a huge effort from the Peekbank team to see what we can learn about children's lexical development from collecting and standardizing lots and lots of looking-while-listening data. Check it out, and stay tuned!

Time to Talk: Variability in Caregiver‐Child Verbal Engagement During Everyday Activities Sampled From Daylong Recordings Children learn language through interactions with others. To document variation in how caregivers engage verbally with their 2-year-old children, we sampled six 10-min segments of dense child-directe...

This in-depth picture of naturally-occurring child-directed speech highlights both general patterns and variation in how, how much, and when caregivers talk with their 2-year-old children. Available here: doi.org/10.1111/infa...

Talkative activities were sometimes booksharing or playing, but mostly, they were “must-do” things like cooking or laundry! Each activity was linked to a positive feature of speech, like longer sentences or different words. Also, some caregivers talked more than others, no matter what they did!

Just out in Infancy! "Time to talk", by our great team, Janet Bang, Mónica Munévar, Arlyn Mora, and Anne Fernald used day-long recordings of English- and Spanish-speaking families in the US to explore what caregivers are doing when talking the most with their children.

Today’s No Kings protest could be the largest single-day protest in U.S. history.

People have power.

We have almost 500 people registered in our small community outside of Los Angeles. Far more people than we have ever had before. We are excited and energized, yellow safety vests ready.

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

Great work and a great team! 😁

Michigan Avenue right now.

This is higher education in Texas right now. People applying for faculty jobs here should be aware of this.

They’re gonna blame the moms.

They always blame the moms.

They’re blaming moms for using the only safe pain reliever that in no way causes autism but WILL cause undue guilt and anguish.

Tylenol doesn’t cause autism.

Trump attacks Tylenol as officials unveil highly contentious conclusions on autism President says acetaminophen – also known as paracetamol - increases risk when taken by pregnant women, assertion contradicted by research

Many studies including 2024 Swedish study (cohort of 2.4 million) have shown no relationship between Acetaminophen and autism or ADHD. In spite of this, Trump attacks Tylenol as officials unveil highly contentious conclusions on autism.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Service Journalism - News you can use.

The Big Bad Bill ends Federal tax credits for residential rooftop solar but if you install it by December 31, 2025 you can still get the 30% rebate for the project cost!

🧪 Win for NIH researchers:

An appeals court just effectively upheld an earlier order to reinstate terminated NIH grants.

Full opinion here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

SCOTUS may be next (see next post) 1/3

PBS News is not going anywhere.

We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air.

We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

Map of the US PROTESTS AGAINST ICE RAIDS EDFORD SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES SANTA ANA SEATTLE PORTLAND SAN JOSE MINNEAPOLIS INDIANAPOLIS OWENSBORO CHICAGO DETROIT SACRAMENTO AURORA ST. LOUIS ST. LOUIS OKLAHOMA CITY PITTSBURGH BOSTON HARRISBURG WASHINGTON, DC NEW YORK CITY PHILADELPHIA LOUISVILLE BALTIMORE LAS VEGAS MEMPHIS RALEIGH SANTA FE DALLAS CHARLOTTE SAN DIEGO ATLANTA ASHVILLE • AUSTIN JACKSONVILLE SAN ANTONIO NEW ORLEANS BMSNB REPORT

Not just in Los Angeles.

[after thinking about it for three hours] ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL

America hates Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”