Monica Ellwood-Lowe
@mellwoodlowe.bsky.social
Developmental psychologist. Nerding out about language & brain development, and the reproduction of inequity. Assistant Professor at Stanford GSE
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Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵
Very excited to share a new paper led by my amazing former honors student, @pach-selina.bsky.social, with Silvia Bunge.
Selina asked: for kids living in poverty who are high-performers in school, are there downstream mental health risks?
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Selina asked: for kids living in poverty who are high-performers in school, are there downstream mental health risks?
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Academic success and mental health: The paradox of Frontoparietal‐Default Mode Network coupling among children facing poverty
Childhood family income is a powerful predictor of academic achievement and mental health. Here, we ask whether children living in poverty who succeed…
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October 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Very excited to share a new paper led by my amazing former honors student, @pach-selina.bsky.social, with Silvia Bunge.
Selina asked: for kids living in poverty who are high-performers in school, are there downstream mental health risks?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Selina asked: for kids living in poverty who are high-performers in school, are there downstream mental health risks?
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Thank you so much for all of your interest in the Journal of Black Language and Culture. Please join us for our introductory webinar on Friday, November 7, 2025 | 6-7:30 p.m. ET. A link to register is here: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
Introduction to JBLAC Webinar
Introduction to JBLAC Webinar
Friday, November 7, 2025 | 6-7:30p ET
This introductory webinar will provide an overview of the Journal of Black Language and Culture (JBLAC)'s mission, s...
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October 10, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Thank you so much for all of your interest in the Journal of Black Language and Culture. Please join us for our introductory webinar on Friday, November 7, 2025 | 6-7:30 p.m. ET. A link to register is here: www.lsadc.org/ev_calendar_...
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🚨 New publication! Our registered report in Journal of Educational Psychology examines whether common executive function (EF) tasks demonstrated measurement invariance across racial/ethnic groups. Spoiler: they don’t. ⚠️
doi.org/10.1037/edu0...
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October 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🚨 New publication! Our registered report in Journal of Educational Psychology examines whether common executive function (EF) tasks demonstrated measurement invariance across racial/ethnic groups. Spoiler: they don’t. ⚠️
doi.org/10.1037/edu0...
doi.org/10.1037/edu0...
I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share:
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Research Coordinator, Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States
The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....
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September 15, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share:
phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo
phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo
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New in @pnas.org.
Preschool teachers were less likely to accept participation attempts by children from working-class backgrounds, regardless of their perceived language level.
With a great team: @andreicimpian.bsky.social @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social & Louise Goupil.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Preschool teachers were less likely to accept participation attempts by children from working-class backgrounds, regardless of their perceived language level.
With a great team: @andreicimpian.bsky.social @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social & Louise Goupil.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
September 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
New in @pnas.org.
Preschool teachers were less likely to accept participation attempts by children from working-class backgrounds, regardless of their perceived language level.
With a great team: @andreicimpian.bsky.social @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social & Louise Goupil.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Preschool teachers were less likely to accept participation attempts by children from working-class backgrounds, regardless of their perceived language level.
With a great team: @andreicimpian.bsky.social @sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social & Louise Goupil.
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Shameless plug that I'm on the job market! As a postdoc at Stanford's Center on Early Childhood, I study how children navigate growing up in poverty, w/ attention to both the challenges they face & the adaptive strengths they develop. To learn more & download my CV, see www.meriahdejoseph.com
Meriah L. DeJoseph, PhD
www.meriahdejoseph.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Shameless plug that I'm on the job market! As a postdoc at Stanford's Center on Early Childhood, I study how children navigate growing up in poverty, w/ attention to both the challenges they face & the adaptive strengths they develop. To learn more & download my CV, see www.meriahdejoseph.com
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Preschoolers Selectively Attend to Speech That They Can Learn More From by @ruthefoushee.bsky.social and colleagues
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Preschoolers Selectively Attend to Speech That They Can Learn More From
We introduce a novel method to test a classic idea in developmental science that children's attention to a stimulus is driven by how much they can learn from it. Preschoolers (4–6 years, M=4.6${\it M...
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August 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Preschoolers Selectively Attend to Speech That They Can Learn More From by @ruthefoushee.bsky.social and colleagues
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Happy to share "The Dynamics of Caregiver Unpredictability Shape Moment-to-Moment Infant Looking During Dyadic Interaction," out now in Child Development thanks to a large team of people I worked on this with! srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library
Cognitive development is associated with how predictable caregivers are, but the mechanisms driving this are unclear. One possibility is caregiver predictability initially shapes how infants gather i...
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August 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Happy to share "The Dynamics of Caregiver Unpredictability Shape Moment-to-Moment Infant Looking During Dyadic Interaction," out now in Child Development thanks to a large team of people I worked on this with! srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...
Over the moon to share that I will be starting my own lab as an Assistant Professor at Stanford GSE this fall, building out the Stanford Center on Early Childhood.
Excited does no justice to what I feel—this is a dream job in the place where most of my community is, and that feels most like home.
Excited does no justice to what I feel—this is a dream job in the place where most of my community is, and that feels most like home.
May 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Over the moon to share that I will be starting my own lab as an Assistant Professor at Stanford GSE this fall, building out the Stanford Center on Early Childhood.
Excited does no justice to what I feel—this is a dream job in the place where most of my community is, and that feels most like home.
Excited does no justice to what I feel—this is a dream job in the place where most of my community is, and that feels most like home.
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(IN 1 HOUR): "Applying a critical lens to strengths-based developmental frameworks" with @mellwoodlowe.bsky.social @meriahdejoseph.bsky.social @damcotto.bsky.social Deena presents: "Community perspectives on strengths-based developmental research: A qualitative inquiry" (2/4)
May 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
(IN 1 HOUR): "Applying a critical lens to strengths-based developmental frameworks" with @mellwoodlowe.bsky.social @meriahdejoseph.bsky.social @damcotto.bsky.social Deena presents: "Community perspectives on strengths-based developmental research: A qualitative inquiry" (2/4)
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Great conversation about caregiving with Ann-Marie Slaughter on this mornings KQED forum.
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You can read the special Daedalus issue too here.
www.amacad.org/daedalus/soc...
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You can read the special Daedalus issue too here.
www.amacad.org/daedalus/soc...
Alison Gopnik and Anne-Marie Slaughter on Why We’re Not Paying Enough Attention to Caregiving
Podcast Episode · KQED's Forum · 04/25/2025 · 58m
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April 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Great conversation about caregiving with Ann-Marie Slaughter on this mornings KQED forum.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
You can read the special Daedalus issue too here.
www.amacad.org/daedalus/soc...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
You can read the special Daedalus issue too here.
www.amacad.org/daedalus/soc...
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Are you or anyone you know struggling to find and maintain an affordable and reliable childcare arrangement? You're not alone!
Read more about it in my newly published paper with Phil Fisher and Sihong Liu! (thread below)
doi.org/10.1111/cch....
Read more about it in my newly published paper with Phil Fisher and Sihong Liu! (thread below)
doi.org/10.1111/cch....
Understanding the Association Between Childcare Precarity and Emotional Distress
Background For families with young children, securing reliable childcare may present a significant challenge. Rising costs, limited resources and the COVID-19 pandemic have heightened the precarity ...
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April 22, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Are you or anyone you know struggling to find and maintain an affordable and reliable childcare arrangement? You're not alone!
Read more about it in my newly published paper with Phil Fisher and Sihong Liu! (thread below)
doi.org/10.1111/cch....
Read more about it in my newly published paper with Phil Fisher and Sihong Liu! (thread below)
doi.org/10.1111/cch....
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Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
March 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
In the midst of … everything, I’m increasingly convinced of the importance of care. It was a pleasure to think through what this means, why it matters — ideas now out in a special issue edited by @alisongopnik.bsky.social, @mlevi.bsky.social, and Zack Ugolnik 🧵
www.amacad.org/daedalus/soc...
www.amacad.org/daedalus/soc...
The Social Science of Caregiving
Caregiving is essential to the health and well-being of society. It shapes how we raise our children and how we tend to the ill, elderly, and disabled in our families and communities. We rely on paid ...
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February 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
In the midst of … everything, I’m increasingly convinced of the importance of care. It was a pleasure to think through what this means, why it matters — ideas now out in a special issue edited by @alisongopnik.bsky.social, @mlevi.bsky.social, and Zack Ugolnik 🧵
www.amacad.org/daedalus/soc...
www.amacad.org/daedalus/soc...
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New Daedalus issue on the science of caregiving. In our paper, we ask, how might infants experience caregiving? Writing this paper with Christina Steele,
@alisongopnik.bsky.social and @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social was incredibly fun. Our paper and the other awesome pieces here:
www.amacad.org/daedalus
@alisongopnik.bsky.social and @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social was incredibly fun. Our paper and the other awesome pieces here:
www.amacad.org/daedalus
Daedalus Home
Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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February 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
New Daedalus issue on the science of caregiving. In our paper, we ask, how might infants experience caregiving? Writing this paper with Christina Steele,
@alisongopnik.bsky.social and @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social was incredibly fun. Our paper and the other awesome pieces here:
www.amacad.org/daedalus
@alisongopnik.bsky.social and @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social was incredibly fun. Our paper and the other awesome pieces here:
www.amacad.org/daedalus
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From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
January 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.
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This is not business as usual.
It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant.
Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.
It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant.
Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.
EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders
Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review
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January 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is not business as usual.
It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant.
Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.
It’s not just a change in funding priorities going forward; it is the reneging on funding agreements and is profoundly disruptive for even those grants that will be found to be compliant.
Meanwhile, trainees who often live paycheck to paycheck are going unpaid.
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It’s extremely worth following up with her brief essay about this very thing. Including her remarks about solutions.
“A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler”
“A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler”
A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler
Octavia Butler was an author of moving and prophetic science fiction novels. She wrote an essay in 2000 for Essence Magazine that teaches us the capacity we have to understand the future, as well a…
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January 9, 2025 at 9:34 PM
It’s extremely worth following up with her brief essay about this very thing. Including her remarks about solutions.
“A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler”
“A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by Octavia E. Butler”
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Okay, buckle up bsky, it's time for the Tale of the Bunny Paper.
Here's the imported thread from twitter where the search all started:
bsky.app/profile/bets... (1/n)
Here's the imported thread from twitter where the search all started:
bsky.app/profile/bets... (1/n)
Bill Labov died this morning. I'm not coherent enough to talk about how important and influential and brilliant he was. I am very sad.
I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.
I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.
December 18, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Okay, buckle up bsky, it's time for the Tale of the Bunny Paper.
Here's the imported thread from twitter where the search all started:
bsky.app/profile/bets... (1/n)
Here's the imported thread from twitter where the search all started:
bsky.app/profile/bets... (1/n)
Finally read this paper and already know I will be back again and again.
So many insights about language and testing and education (in the 60s and now) and also rabbits? And wow what a delight
So many insights about language and testing and education (in the 60s and now) and also rabbits? And wow what a delight
December 28, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Finally read this paper and already know I will be back again and again.
So many insights about language and testing and education (in the 60s and now) and also rabbits? And wow what a delight
So many insights about language and testing and education (in the 60s and now) and also rabbits? And wow what a delight
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☀️ New preprint! ☀️ Cognitive tests from 23,000+ participants in 4 datasets show cyclical fluctuations across the calendar year, including a small but replicable “summer slide” where youth show worst performance after school vacation. t.ly/OMzgl
#PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci
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#PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci
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November 21, 2024 at 3:15 PM
☀️ New preprint! ☀️ Cognitive tests from 23,000+ participants in 4 datasets show cyclical fluctuations across the calendar year, including a small but replicable “summer slide” where youth show worst performance after school vacation. t.ly/OMzgl
#PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci
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#PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci
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November 15, 2024 at 5:50 AM
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In clinical trials of new treatments, when the treatment is clearly and obviously immediately effective it is sometimes considered unethical to continue to withhold it from the control group. Pretty sure we passed that milestone about a decade ago with basic income experiments.
Fresh basic income pilot results, this time from Arlington, Virginia where 200 people got $500 a month for 2 years. The findings:
Employment INCREASED by 16%, and their incomes from paid work INCREASED by 37%. The control group saw no such gains.
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Employment INCREASED by 16%, and their incomes from paid work INCREASED by 37%. The control group saw no such gains.
www.arlnow.com/2024/02/06/r...
February 7, 2024 at 4:09 PM
In clinical trials of new treatments, when the treatment is clearly and obviously immediately effective it is sometimes considered unethical to continue to withhold it from the control group. Pretty sure we passed that milestone about a decade ago with basic income experiments.