Leher Singh

Sharing a new article aimed at students and early career scholars on how to do a good peer review in developmental psychology. We offer a framework for a good peer review and suggestions on how to navigate challenges, including AI. The article is open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What infant research can—and cannot—tell us about human universals Abstract. The search for human universals—capacities thought to be shared across human species—is often associated with the study of infancy. Infants are v

What can infant research tell us (and not tell us) about human universals? Happy to share a new paper in Child Development Perspectives on this question. academic.oup.com/cdpers/advan...

#BUCLD50 Symposium: “Innateness is not a dirty word: Reframing the origins of language development”, by Shanley Allen, Marisa Casillas, Alejandrina Cristia, Michael C. Frank, Caroline Rowland, Leher Singh, and Paul Bloom!

Learn more at:
www.bu.edu/bucld/

#Innateness #LLM #LanguageDevelopment

Curious / terrified about peer review? We are here to help! Join @mariamaly.bsky.social and I October 30th!

@psychscience.bsky.social Submission site for Barcelona 2026 opens Oct. 30th!!! Join us in Spain for the first APS to be held outside the U.S. Many new ways to interact and to share psychological research being done around the world. www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...

Open Science in the Developing World: A Collection of Practical Guides for Researchers in Developing Countries - Hu Chuan-Peng, Zhiqi Xu, Aleksandra Lazić, Piyali Bhattacharya, Leonardo Seda, Samiul H... Over the past decade, the open-science movement has transformed the research landscape, although its impact has largely been confined to developed countries. Re...

It was a privilege to collaborate on this significant undertaking on open science in the developing world, under the leadership of Hu Chuan-Peng. The paper is now out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Our position paper is now out: "Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharing".

srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
(preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...)

What is LEVANTE? 🧵

Please join @shaunacooper.bsky.social @lehersingh.bsky.social S. Arunachalam, V. Raval & me this Wednesday!

Delighted that Sakshi Ghai's efforts in leading this manifesto are recognised by @improvingpsych.org! @sakshighai.bsky.social @lehersingh.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Join us for a dialogue on advancing diversity, inclusivity, and equity in developmental psychology publications. Photos left to right, top row: Sudha Arunachalam, Editor-in-Chief, Language Acquisition; Shauna Cooper, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Child Development; Vaishali Raval, Associate Editor, Journal of Research in Adolescence; Leher Singh, Co-Editor-in_Chief, Developmental Science. Bottom row: Sponsored by Reviewer Zero, "We're reimagining peer review to grow a diverse new generation of scholars in psychology and neuroscience." Matt Goldrick Moderator. QR code and link for registration.

How can developmental science journals promote equity, transparency, and shared responsibility?

Join us August 13, 2pm ET, for “Editors for an Inclusive Future: A Community Conversation” tinyurl.com/DevEditors @lehersingh.bsky.social ‪@mattgoldrick.bsky.social

Check out this awesome new paper about #OpenScience in developing countries! Paper is forthcoming at AMPPS- very proud that we can promote this work. Congrats to the large and international authorship team, and esp @hcp4715.bsky.social for leading the charge. @psychscience.bsky.social

LouAnn Gerken Obituary (1959 - 2025) - Tucson, AZ - Arizona Daily Star View LouAnn A. Gerken's obituary, send flowers and sign the guestbook.

Very sorry to learn of the passing of LouAnn Gerken, who had such an impact on our understanding of the acquisition of speech sounds and sound patterns obits.mlive.com/us/obituarie...

Developmental Science is looking for new Associate Editors. Details are at lnkd.in/eDggC6WQ
Feel free to reach out with any questions.

Look forward to all of your wonderful contributions!

Socioeconomic Status Predicts Infant Word Recognition: Evidence From a Linguistically, Ethnically, and Socioeconomically Diverse Community Sample in Singapore Prior research has demonstrated that infants have the capacity to recognize some familiar words. However, past studies have not analyzed the sociodemographic generalizability of research findings. In...

Happy to share a new article analyzing effects of family SES on 5- to 12-month old infant word recognition onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I am somehow for the first time ever reviewing for PNAS and their reviewer instructions include this BANGER of a line:

"The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws"

Print it in eleventy point font and hang it from the hillside. Scream it from the rooftops.

Call for Manuscript Proposals for a Special Issue in Current Directions in Psychological Science: #ClimateChange in Psychological Science
Submission Deadline: April 15

Figure 1. A schematic depiction of a model-mechanism mapping between a human learning system (left side) and a cognitive model (right side). Candidate model mechanism mappings are pictured as mapping between representations but also can be in terms of input data, architecture, or learning objective.

Figure 2. Data efficiency in human learning. (left) Order of magnitude of LLM vs. human training data, plotted by human age. Ranges are approximated from Frank (2023a). (right) A schematic depiction of evaluation scaling curves for human learners vs. models plotted by training data quantity.

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AI models are fascinating, impressive, and sometimes problematic. But what can they tell us about the human mind?

In a new review paper, @noahdgoodman.bsky.social and I discuss how modern AI can be used for cognitive modeling: osf.io/preprints/ps...

FYI for anyone laid off. Might be similar resources for people outside of Maryland as well - worth a look

University of Chicago

Amazing *free* online course on conducting child language research in understudied communities: Expanding Research in Language Development (WERLD). By the incredible Marisa Casillas with a line up of fabulous guest lecturers. chatterlab.uchicago.edu/werld2025/

I'm very sorry to read this @jeremykoster.bsky.social. It was wonderful being your colleague and working with you on the Open Science working group. Sending all best wishes.

When I went off to @bostoncollege.bsky.social, my mandate from my mom was pretty simple: do well academically, find a job, and be done in 3 years.

My dad had just jumped the family ship and my sister would be going off to college in my 4th year. I had enough college credits to grad in 3.

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Sorry to hear this. It is surreal indeed.

I hope this is not your situation?

Hoping it’s a glitch.

Staff Directory Unavailable

the NSF staff directory page www.nsf.gov/unavailable went blank this morning

Agree. This is an important point.

A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science - Communications Psychology Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, and evaluation of research to counteract the spectre of Questionable Generalisability Practices and the issue o...

Happy to share the product of a very enjoyable collaboration, led by Sakshi Ghai, on bridging inclusivity and open science principles and practices:

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Me too.