Dominic Gibson
@dominicgibson.bsky.social
Dad, Senior Researcher at foundry10 investigating children's conceptual development, language/gestures and thought, numerical cognition, playful learning and parenting. Opinions my own.
Lab: https://www.foundry10.org/conceptual-development-lab
Lab: https://www.foundry10.org/conceptual-development-lab
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🗣️📣Let the administration know how you feel about them restricting COVID-19 vaccine access under the false pretense that the vaccine may not be safe. Comment period ends in 3 days.
www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...
www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
🗣️📣Let the administration know how you feel about them restricting COVID-19 vaccine access under the false pretense that the vaccine may not be safe. Comment period ends in 3 days.
www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...
www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...
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absolutely heartbroken for Benny. if you're looking for a developmental psychologist who manages to combine theoretical rigor + astute consideration of social context, look no further for your next postdoc ⬇️
April 28, 2025 at 10:05 PM
absolutely heartbroken for Benny. if you're looking for a developmental psychologist who manages to combine theoretical rigor + astute consideration of social context, look no further for your next postdoc ⬇️
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Check out our symposium on *parents' lay theories of cognitive development* at #SRCD2025!
Ft. work by @reutshachnai.bsky.social, @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social, @dominicgibson.bsky.social, and yours truly, discussed by @andrewshtulman.bsky.social !
Ft. work by @reutshachnai.bsky.social, @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social, @dominicgibson.bsky.social, and yours truly, discussed by @andrewshtulman.bsky.social !
April 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Check out our symposium on *parents' lay theories of cognitive development* at #SRCD2025!
Ft. work by @reutshachnai.bsky.social, @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social, @dominicgibson.bsky.social, and yours truly, discussed by @andrewshtulman.bsky.social !
Ft. work by @reutshachnai.bsky.social, @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social, @dominicgibson.bsky.social, and yours truly, discussed by @andrewshtulman.bsky.social !
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ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time.
S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.*
short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵
legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...
S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.*
short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵
legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...
a cloture vote for the way-harder-to-undo-than-an-executive-order federal anti-trans sports ban is now set for monday. that means there's more time to make calls.
no on cloture means it doesn't get a vote. the GOP needs 7 dems to advance it.
please call. there is *so* much evil downstream of this.
no on cloture means it doesn't get a vote. the GOP needs 7 dems to advance it.
please call. there is *so* much evil downstream of this.
February 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
ok, cis folks—if you said you'd stand with trans folks, it's time.
S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.*
short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵
legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...
S.9 is the senate's sports ban bill—a big step to making trump’s executive order a federal law, which is much harder to undo. it can be stopped *monday.*
short call scripts for dem & GOP senators ⬇️🧵
legiscan.com/US/bill/SB9/...
“It’s a six-month production cycle,” Dr. Offit said. “So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots (Gift Article)
The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
“It’s a six-month production cycle,” Dr. Offit said. “So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...
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February 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
A little parent math talk with kids might really add up hechingerreport.org/a-little-par...
Nice interview @alexsilverlevy.bsky.social
Nice interview @alexsilverlevy.bsky.social
A little parent math talk with kids might really add up - The Hechinger Report
Mentioning numbers during everyday activities could be more beneficial than workbooks and exercises
hechingerreport.org
January 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A little parent math talk with kids might really add up hechingerreport.org/a-little-par...
Nice interview @alexsilverlevy.bsky.social
Nice interview @alexsilverlevy.bsky.social
"Washington is in need of more early childhood educators. But 45% of early educator households in the state participate in one or more public assistance programs." www.seattletimes.com/education-la... via @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social
The growing pains of WA’s preschool teachers
In Washington, 45% of early educator households participate in one or more public assistance programs.
www.seattletimes.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"Washington is in need of more early childhood educators. But 45% of early educator households in the state participate in one or more public assistance programs." www.seattletimes.com/education-la... via @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social
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Happy New Year!! So thrilled to share this preprint (Kara Weisman, Lucy King, and I worked on this for 8+ yrs): "Beliefs about the development of mental life"
Read to find an interesting story on how people perceive different domains of capacities changing from birth to age 5 yrs.
osf.io/kq4j7
Read to find an interesting story on how people perceive different domains of capacities changing from birth to age 5 yrs.
osf.io/kq4j7
OSF
osf.io
December 31, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Happy New Year!! So thrilled to share this preprint (Kara Weisman, Lucy King, and I worked on this for 8+ yrs): "Beliefs about the development of mental life"
Read to find an interesting story on how people perceive different domains of capacities changing from birth to age 5 yrs.
osf.io/kq4j7
Read to find an interesting story on how people perceive different domains of capacities changing from birth to age 5 yrs.
osf.io/kq4j7
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new #DevPsychSky demo of motivated reasoning in preschoolers just dropped: turns out deciding if it was a 'real' spin of the dreidel or not *really* depends on whether the outcome means you get more chocolate gelt or not. currently a large effect size case study, replication in progress.
January 2, 2025 at 2:27 PM
new #DevPsychSky demo of motivated reasoning in preschoolers just dropped: turns out deciding if it was a 'real' spin of the dreidel or not *really* depends on whether the outcome means you get more chocolate gelt or not. currently a large effect size case study, replication in progress.
Cute title, neat finding, and some insight into why my kids so often mix these up - what more could you want in a paper?
Out now! @drbarner.bsky.social & I find that Hindi kids learn yesterday & tomorrow earlier than English kids, despite having only word 'kal' to reference both the past and future. We argue that kids rely on tense info (over associations w/ events) to learn.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Twice Upon a Time: Children Use Syntax to Learn the Meanings of Yesterday and Tomorrow
Time words like “yesterday” and “tomorrow” are abstract, and are interpreted relative to the context in which they are produced: the word “tomorrow” refers to a different point in time now than in 24....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Cute title, neat finding, and some insight into why my kids so often mix these up - what more could you want in a paper?
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Want to nurture your baby’s early language?
It’s really not rocket science. It just takes your time and attention.
(Thread 🧵)
It’s really not rocket science. It just takes your time and attention.
(Thread 🧵)
December 16, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Want to nurture your baby’s early language?
It’s really not rocket science. It just takes your time and attention.
(Thread 🧵)
It’s really not rocket science. It just takes your time and attention.
(Thread 🧵)
Something clearly isn't right with this survey. This was last year's:
November 22, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Something clearly isn't right with this survey. This was last year's:
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Overparenting is on the rise and hurts children’s motivation starting in early childhood. How can we help parents step back? Our new paper in Child Dev shows that pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting.
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library
Overparenting—taking over and completing developmentally appropriate tasks for children—is pervasive and hurts children's motivation. Can overparenting in early childhood be reduced by simply framing...
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Overparenting is on the rise and hurts children’s motivation starting in early childhood. How can we help parents step back? Our new paper in Child Dev shows that pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting.
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New blogpost about a program my colleague Meredith Berlin and I recently ran at the Truro Library to translate some of my research on early number learning and support children and their caregivers in thinking, talking, and playing games involving numbers: www.foundry10.org/stories/play...
November 19, 2024 at 6:02 PM
New blogpost about a program my colleague Meredith Berlin and I recently ran at the Truro Library to translate some of my research on early number learning and support children and their caregivers in thinking, talking, and playing games involving numbers: www.foundry10.org/stories/play...
There's still time for interested grad students/postdocs to apply for a paid, part-time position at foundry10 to collaborate with Kara Weisman and me on a new project investigating parents' & caregivers' lay theories and beliefs about Covid-19/vaccines: recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...
foundry10 - Part-Time Graduate/PhD Researcher
foundry10 is an education research organization with a philanthropic focus on expanding ideas about learning and creating direct value for youth. Candidates must live in Washington State or Massachuse...
recruiting.paylocity.com
November 15, 2024 at 7:39 PM
There's still time for interested grad students/postdocs to apply for a paid, part-time position at foundry10 to collaborate with Kara Weisman and me on a new project investigating parents' & caregivers' lay theories and beliefs about Covid-19/vaccines: recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...
It has been great reconnecting with folks here! For new friends, here's a recent interview about my transition from cognitive development/early ed research (in academia) to cognitive development/early ed research (outside of academia): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
From the lab to a career in education research - Nature Reviews Psychology
Nature Reviews Psychology is interviewing individuals with doctoral degrees in psychology who pursued non-academic careers. We spoke with Dominic Gibson about his journey from a post-doctoral fellow t...
www.nature.com
November 15, 2024 at 7:34 PM
It has been great reconnecting with folks here! For new friends, here's a recent interview about my transition from cognitive development/early ed research (in academia) to cognitive development/early ed research (outside of academia): www.nature.com/articles/s44...
“It’s time to build”
- Wally, Age 2, just wants to talk about tools
- Wally, Age 2, just wants to talk about tools
November 7, 2024 at 1:48 PM
“It’s time to build”
- Wally, Age 2, just wants to talk about tools
- Wally, Age 2, just wants to talk about tools