Virginia Marchman

language development researcher at Stanford Psych and Stanford School of Medicine, MacArthur-Bates CDI Advisory Board, baseball fan

[Dr. Holly Storkel @hstorkel]

New funding opportunity from the @NIH Tackling Acquisition of Language in Kids (TALK) initiative. #NIDCDfunding

[James Booth @DrJamesBooth]

Booth leads first longitudinal study to identify biomarkers of language delay in young children https://t.co/rT1vqp1Euz via @@Vanderbilt_KC

[Ben Ambridge @Benambridge]

I'm very grateful to these authors for choosing to publish with @LangDevRes! This is now our 25th *Platinum Open Access* article!

No income, no fees, no problem. 🚫💵=👍

[Language Development Research @LangDevRes]

Happy publication day to Janet Bang, George @kachergis Adriana Weisleder @adriweis and Virginia @V_Marchman for their groundbreaking methods paper:

An automated classifier for periods of sleep and target-child-directed speech from LENA recordings
https://t.co/B4NQKmUbdL

🧵1/x

[Trends in Cognitive Sciences @TrendsCognSci]

Bridging the data gap between children and large language models

By @mcxfrank

Free access until October 20th: https://t.co/PZGSCcaVFq

[Michael C. Frank @mcxfrank]

Head mounted cameras for kids - pioneered by Linda Smith, Karen Adolph, Dick Aslin, and others - are such a useful method. Yet until now we have lacked a comfortable standard camera setup that yields high res video with a wide view angle!

[Bria Long, PhD @brialong]

New paper out today 🎉in Behavioral Research Methods:

“The BabyView camera: Designing a new head‑mounted camera to capture children’s early social and visual environments.”

https://t.co/UZGUqWrznw https://t.co/OTjQ4OOgky

Example video clip below! And a short 🧵(1/11)

[Bobby Sparks @rbzsparks]

Bria is profoundly kind, genuine, and grounded - working with her and having her mentorship/support has been an absolute privilege. Apply to work with this brilliant new PI!!

[Virginia Marchman @V_Marchman]

@m_zettersten @UCSanDiego Congratulations!

[Flux Society @FluxSociety]

Join Flux 2023 to hear Keanan Joyner (@keanan_joyner), Camelia Hostinar (@CamHostinar), Monica Ellwood-Lowe (@mellwoodlowe) & Nicholas Christopher-Hayes discuss their work on vulnerability & resilience in brain development, moderated by Silvia Bunge & Simona Ghetti (@sghetti1).

[Vanessa Noemy Bermudez @vnbermudez]

So excited to share! Learn about our process for engaging Latine families in co-designing public spaces for play and STEM learning in ways aligned with their values and practices!

It has been great collaborating with SAELI and this team! @JulieSalazar143 @leinyyG

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

I wanted to share some of my thoughts on today's Supreme Court decision on affirmative action:

[Michael C. Frank @mcxfrank]

How do we use methods from developmental psychology to assess AI models? My comment, "'Baby steps' in evaluating the capacities of large language models" is now out in Nature Reviews Psychology: https://t.co/UWxIfLo4kj

[Virginia Marchman @V_Marchman]

@LorijnSZ Great ideas and Qs! @adriweis, Maggie Friend and I review alternatives in a chapter in the new 3rd Ed of the User's Guide (Contact Brookes Publishing). Plus here's a scoping review to appear in Language Learning. Preprint here: https://t.co/2SpH5o8Gqh

[LGBTQ Shrink @DrRonHolt]

Happy #Pride2023 from #SanFrancisco!

On Pink Saturday and everyday, have #pride in who you are.

Our identities are worthy of celebration. Be proud. Be bold. Be you. #lgbtq+

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Nick and I told Sophia that after 1 whole month of going poop on the potty, she could pick out a special prize at Target. She, of course, picked a new doll. The obsession is real.

While we were checking out, the cashier asked Sophia if she was going to a birthday party. We both gave her a blank stare. She then pointed to the doll and asked Sophia if she picked her out for a friend.

Sophia continued to stare blankly and I let the cashier know that she was a prize for Sophia being fully potty trained. The woman gave me a puzzled look and turned to Sophia and asked, “Are you sure this is the doll you want, honey?”

Sophia finally found her voice and said, “Yes, please!” The cashier replied, “But she doesn’t look like you. We have lots of other dolls that look more like you.”

I immediately became angry, but before I could say anything, Sophia responded with, “Yes, she does. She’s a doctor like I’m a doctor. And I’m a pretty girl and she’s a pretty girl. See her pretty hair? And see her stethoscope?” Thankfully the cashier decided to drop the issue and just answer, “Oh, that’s nice.”

This experience just confirmed my belief that we aren’t born with the idea that color matters. Skin comes in different colors just like hair and eyes and every shade is beautiful.

Credit: Brandi Leilani

[Language & Linguistics at Newcastle @NCL_LangLing]

Exciting news! The Child Language Symposium returns in 2024, organised by colleagues from @secls and @NCL_LangLing. If you want to keep up date with emails and announcements, join the JISC list here: https://t.co/iTK5oLRm37

@NCL_English

[Dr. Sheri Madigan (she/her) @sherimadigan]

📢 Just published in Psychological Bulletin. In this meta-analysis of over 20,000 Strange Situations, the distribution of infant-parent attachment was:

- 51.6% secure
- 14.7% avoidant
- 10.2% resistant
- 23.5% disorganized

A 🧵 (1/6)
https://t.co/lfy2ubvggW

[Virginia Marchman @V_Marchman]

Only 758 doctors for 19 million kids. The safety net for kids is gone. https://t.co/GfBtC7KpxH

[David Heath @davidhth]

Powerful lecture from Jackie Goldberg of the Los Angeles school board on protests against a children’s book with one sentence about families with two moms or dads. She says this is personal for her and really lets loose at the end.