Julien Mayor

Doctoral Research Fellowship in Developmental Psycholinguistics (286187) | University of Oslo Job title: Doctoral Research Fellowship in Developmental Psycholinguistics (286187), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, November 14, 2025

My wonderful colleague Natalia Kartushina has a PhD opening to study the role of early accent exposure in children's cognitive and language development!

Don't miss it!

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Is anyone talking about the big design flaws in this study, e.g. 1) small N, btwn subject design, 2) v. heterogeneous sample, 3) writing prompt confounded with condition (really!), 4) vast number of measures with no preregistration?

I can't believe this is getting so much press...

Introducing the Medical Evidence Project And the quest to make less dead people

Friends, I have news.

It is very good news.

You'll just have to read it, I'm afraid.

jamesclaims.substack.com/p/introducin...

Oh boy! Second language learning is not my field, but establishing a time to learn will depend on (among many others), (a) your age, (b) proximity to your first language, (c) what you mean by "learn" or "know" a language, (d) intrinsic motivation to learn, (e) cognitive ability, (f), (g), etc, etc!

Estimating Age‐Related Change in Infants' Linguistic and Cognitive Development Using (Meta‐)Meta‐Analysis Developmental psychology focuses on how psychological constructs change with age. In cognitive development research, however, the specifics of this emergence is often underspecified. Researchers ofte...

Our meta-meta-analysis is officially out! (w/ Molly Lewis, Sho Tsuji, @chbergma.bsky.social, @acristia.bsky.social, and @mcxfrank.bsky.social!)

Estimating age-related change in infants’ linguistic and cognitive development using (meta-)meta-analysis

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My editorial on how journals can earn trust.

We often use journal names as proxies for quality. This is bad bc it’s not valid. But it could be. Editors could make journal name a valid signal. And we could place value on journals that show us how they do that.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

It looks like there are lines with twice the slope - two-tailed versus one-tailed? I wonder if this constrains your regression line in a weird way...

<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library Growing up with multiple siblings might negatively affect language development. This study examined the associations between birth order, sibling characteristics and parent-reported vocabulary size i...

From this view, data-driven age thresholds suggest older girls adopt a caregiving role a couple of years earlier than boys!

This suggests it's about household dynamics and potential resource balance, not just your spot in line!

#ChildDevelopment #LanguageAcquisition #DevSci #langsky #devpsy

Forget just birth order for early language!
(it's kinda U-shaped anyway...)

We introduce a *better* measure (capturing more variance): a household "child-to-caregiver" ratio, where old-enough siblings are considered caregivers, rather than being another child competing for parental resources.

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and to the p>1...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow&nbsp;connected to "ICONIC" (277523) | University of Oslo Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow&nbsp;connected to "ICONIC" (277523), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, May 31, 2025

🚨🚨🚨 I'm hiring a Postdoc for a 3-year position to come work with me at the University of Oslo using iterative learning experiments to understand the evolution of sound symbolism. Please share widely.

🔴 Deadline is May 31st '25
⏲️ Desired starting date is Fall '25

shorturl.at/vSTZx

Two Associate Professor II positions (20%) in Developmental Psychology (275068) | University of Oslo Job title: Two Associate Professor II positions (20%) in Developmental Psychology (275068), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, March 14, 2025

and TWO fixed-term contracts for 20% teaching positions at the Associate Professor level in Developmental Psychology (August 2025-December 2027)!

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associate Professor - Artificial Intelligence in Psychology (273074) | University of Oslo Job title: Associate Professor - Artificial Intelligence in Psychology (273074), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, March 17, 2025

and also note another Associate Professor position in our department - in AI and psychology: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

One more week to apply for the Associate Professor position in Developmental Psychology!

Great opportunity to join us in Oslo - academic freedom and easy access to nature...

#DevSci
#devpsy
#openscience

Cognitive influence on the evaluation of wine: The impact and assessment of price Price is one of the most important product-extrinsic factors influencing the consumers’ response to, and presumably experience of, wine. This is ironi…

Probably influenced by the price of the bottles: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Miners The men who would strip the future for parts.

New article! On a certain plutocrat invading our government to steal our future: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-miners

Associate Professor - Artificial Intelligence in Psychology (273074) | University of Oslo Job title: Associate Professor - Artificial Intelligence in Psychology (273074), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, March 17, 2025

We also just announced a position for artificial intelligence in psychology www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... There were a few years that not much was announced, but things have picked up a little bit more recently

Qualifications Necessary requirements: Applicants must hold a degree equivalent to a Norwegian doctoral degree in psychology or equivalent. Applicants must have a strong research record in Developmental Psychology, demonstrating quality, productivity, impact, dissemination, and innovation. They must have an extensive first-hand experience in observing, interviewing, or testing typical and/or atypical children and/or adolescents. Applicants must have a solid undergraduate and/or graduate teaching record in Developmental Psychology, including course organisation, lectures, seminars, supervision, and examinations. Applicants without a certified University Pedagogy Education are expected to obtain this certification within the first two years of employment. The Department will support this process by covering the costs of the courses at the University of Oslo and recognizing the hours of these courses in the departmental teaching accounting system. Applicants must have fluent oral and written communication skills in English. Applicants who are not fluent in a Scandinavian language (Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish) will have to learn Norwegian within the first three years of employment to effectively participate in the functions required by the position (documented proficiency: CEFR Independent user Level B2 or equivalent). The Department will support learning Norwegian by covering the cost of the courses at the University of Oslo, reducing teaching and administrative duties, and providing a Norwegian coach. Applicants must possess relevant personal qualities for the position, including: (i) High motivation for the position, (ii) High teaching and research ambition, and (iii) The ability to work both independently and collaboratively with students, administrative and academic colleagues / collaborators, and leaders.

Desired additional qualifications (not necessary but would be an advantage), include one or more of the following: Have been the recipient of at least one external grant as Principal Investigator (PI) Experience in conducting basic/fundamental research to understand psychological developmental processes. Experience in Open Science practices. Experience in research focusing on prevention and promotion. Experience / interest in academic administration. UiO has developed a matrix for the assessement of qualifications, which exemplifies results/competence, documentation, and reflection for all areas of the competency profile. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with this matrix and make use of it when applying for the position.

Our department has just announced a new permanent associate professor position in developmental psychology, come join us at @uio.no! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology (273166) | University of Oslo Job title: Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology (273166), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, March 3, 2025

*** JOB ALERT ***

Tenured Associate Professor position in Developmental Psychology at the University of Oslo.

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Deadline: March 3rd, 2025.

Please reach out in DM for details and repost widely!

#openscience experience a plus!
#DevSci
#devpsy

Four year postdoc position at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE) (272144) | University of Oslo Job title: Four year postdoc position at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE) (272144), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, January 31, 2025

We're still seeking candidates interested in causal inference and/or survival analysis for a postdoc position in Oslo. Deadline January 31.

Please apply or forward this to anyone who might be interested!

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Further evidence (this time with consonants) that, from an acoustic point of view, infant-directed speech (IDS) does not offer infants with a cleaner signal!

#DevSci
#langsky
#devpsy

awwww... you are welcome to visit anytime!

Doctoral research fellowships in linguistics and verbal communication (272418) | University of Oslo Job title: Doctoral research fellowships in linguistics and verbal communication (272418), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Friday, February 28, 2025

Interested in doing a PhD on language acquisition in Oslo?

Check application process: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... and feel free to reach out for more information!

PS. We have a nice growing community including Natalia Kartushina, Luca Onnis, @audunrosslund.bsky.social, and many more!

Home Contribute to lochhh/e-Babylab development by creating an account on GitHub.

Try our e-Babylab testing platform: github.com/lochhh/e-Bab...!
It's free, open-source, has nice tutorials, and we use it daily with IPL tasks (with AOIs for easy processing), adaptive version of CDIs, etc.
Also, you store data locally, which helps greatly navigate data protection/ethics concerns.

Three ManyBabies projects - big collaborative replications of infancy phenomena - wrapped up this year. The first paper came out this fall. I thought I'd take this chance to comment on what I make of the non-replication result. 🧵

bsky.app/profile/laur...

Requirements for the PhD thesis at the Department of Psychology - Faculty of Social Sciences The guidelines are governed on several levels: • Regulations § 10 • The programme description pt. 4 See also Guidelines on evaluation of Norwegian PhD degrees (in Norwegian) ,especially pt. 3.2 on ...

This is the model at the university of Oslo. You can see PSI regulations: www.sv.uio.no/english/rese... and also @audunrosslund.bsky.social thesis for an excellent example: www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852....

Heroic effort collecting, processing and analysing this longitudinal dataset of infant-directed speech...

Watch @audunrosslund.bsky.social space for more exciting results on how IDS relates to infant language development!

Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluatio...

🚨Publication Alert!🚨

The ManyBabies4 paper is out! 37 labs around the world tested over 1,000 babies in the largest investigation of infants' social evaluation to date.

doi.org/10.1111/desc...

Awesome, many thanks!

Any chance I can be added, too? Many thanks!