Melissa Kibbe
@levelsof.bsky.social
Cognitive Scientist, Associate Professor at Boston University, Director of the Developing Minds Lab https://www.bu.edu/cdl/developing-minds-lab/
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Melissa Kibbe
@levelsof.bsky.social
· May 21
So excited to share my *first* first-author paper, out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social!! In this review, we argue that even if you don’t remember being a baby, evidence that infants form episodic-like memories is actually all around us: authors.elsevier.com/c/1l82g4sIRv...
authors.elsevier.com
Evidence for episodic-like memory in infancy is everywhere, if you know how to look for it! It was such a pleasure to write this paper with @lillianbehm.bsky.social and Nick Turk-Browne, out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. #psychscisky #cogscisky #philsky #cogdev
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compensated online study opportunity for parents of 11-13mo! (for this one babies need to be: full term (>37wks), in the u.s., primarily learning English). i'm part of the broader study team but not driving the bus, just helping spread the word! childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/900e...
How do babies learn about their world?
- Children Helping Science
childrenhelpingscience.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
compensated online study opportunity for parents of 11-13mo! (for this one babies need to be: full term (>37wks), in the u.s., primarily learning English). i'm part of the broader study team but not driving the bus, just helping spread the word! childrenhelpingscience.com/studies/900e...
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"Does our plastic actually get recycled?" The #CamberVille newsletter is always excellent, but this one is truly a must-read: a deep dive into the recycling processing plant where all of Somerville's recycling winds up: mailchi.mp/bostonglobe....
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"Does our plastic actually get recycled?" The #CamberVille newsletter is always excellent, but this one is truly a must-read: a deep dive into the recycling processing plant where all of Somerville's recycling winds up: mailchi.mp/bostonglobe....
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Excited to head north this week for some talks! Come say hi if you're nearby :)
Wednesday (11/12) @ Brown: events.brown.edu/copsy/event/...
Thursday (11/13) @ MIT: bcs.mit.edu/events/collo...
Wednesday (11/12) @ Brown: events.brown.edu/copsy/event/...
Thursday (11/13) @ MIT: bcs.mit.edu/events/collo...
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Excited to head north this week for some talks! Come say hi if you're nearby :)
Wednesday (11/12) @ Brown: events.brown.edu/copsy/event/...
Thursday (11/13) @ MIT: bcs.mit.edu/events/collo...
Wednesday (11/12) @ Brown: events.brown.edu/copsy/event/...
Thursday (11/13) @ MIT: bcs.mit.edu/events/collo...
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if you’ve had Szechuan peppercorns do you experience them more as
a) tingly (like a vibration) or
b) numbing (like super weak lidocaine)
~And~ are you colorblind
(we‘d need to correct for base rates but let’s just try to crank the anecdata knob first; @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social this is for you)
a) tingly (like a vibration) or
b) numbing (like super weak lidocaine)
~And~ are you colorblind
(we‘d need to correct for base rates but let’s just try to crank the anecdata knob first; @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social this is for you)
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
if you’ve had Szechuan peppercorns do you experience them more as
a) tingly (like a vibration) or
b) numbing (like super weak lidocaine)
~And~ are you colorblind
(we‘d need to correct for base rates but let’s just try to crank the anecdata knob first; @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social this is for you)
a) tingly (like a vibration) or
b) numbing (like super weak lidocaine)
~And~ are you colorblind
(we‘d need to correct for base rates but let’s just try to crank the anecdata knob first; @elenatenenbaum.bsky.social this is for you)
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I had a fantastic conversation recently with the 10 Seconds to Air podcast.
We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...
We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...
How to Build a Healthy Relationship With Your Kids with Dr. Koraly Pérez-Edgar
YouTube video by 10 Seconds To Air
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I had a fantastic conversation recently with the 10 Seconds to Air podcast.
We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...
We tried to think about parenting, the philosophy of parenting, and how to know if you are doing a good job at it--or is that even the right question.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1sE...
Gee, thanks for this "clarifying" diagram~
November 6, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Gee, thanks for this "clarifying" diagram~
Now out in an issue! ~~ www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
November 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Now out in an issue! ~~ www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Had the incredible opportunity to discuss impacts of federal research funding cuts on @fluxsociety.bsky.social Sensitive Periods podcast with @tcheng.bsky.social @scott-delaney.bsky.social and Gabriel León. Listen and share! sensitiveperiods.buzzsprout.com/2024695/epis...
#sciencecuts #NIH #NSF
#sciencecuts #NIH #NSF
S4E2 US Funding Cuts - Sensitive Periods: A Flux Society Podcast
In this episode, we take a closer look at the devastating impacts of federal funding cuts across the United States on developmental science and its trainees. We discuss how cuts are destabilizing trai...
sensitiveperiods.buzzsprout.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Had the incredible opportunity to discuss impacts of federal research funding cuts on @fluxsociety.bsky.social Sensitive Periods podcast with @tcheng.bsky.social @scott-delaney.bsky.social and Gabriel León. Listen and share! sensitiveperiods.buzzsprout.com/2024695/epis...
#sciencecuts #NIH #NSF
#sciencecuts #NIH #NSF
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On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
On election day, I wanna announce that I am recruiting social psych PhD students for my lab at UIC. My lab focuses on racial identities (esp Asian, Latino, MENA Americans) and intra-minority conflict/ coalition. So please tell your students to pick me! All details on my website: www.pbandjlab.com
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🗳️It's Election Day in Massachusetts!
Polls are open until 8pm, so grab your loved ones and neighbors, and make a plan to vote.
Find your polling location at WhereDoIVoteMA.com.
Polls are open until 8pm, so grab your loved ones and neighbors, and make a plan to vote.
Find your polling location at WhereDoIVoteMA.com.
November 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🗳️It's Election Day in Massachusetts!
Polls are open until 8pm, so grab your loved ones and neighbors, and make a plan to vote.
Find your polling location at WhereDoIVoteMA.com.
Polls are open until 8pm, so grab your loved ones and neighbors, and make a plan to vote.
Find your polling location at WhereDoIVoteMA.com.
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📣📣 A recent paper by Léa Tân Combette et al. in JCD:
"Cats, Bats, and People: Cultivating Children’s Understanding of Genes and Trait Inheritance"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Cats, Bats, and People: Cultivating Children’s Understanding of Genes and Trait Inheritance"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cats, Bats, and People: Cultivating Children’s Understanding of Genes and Trait Inheritance
In the United States, children typically learn about genetics during adolescence, despite early misconceptions about parental resemblance. This study explores whether U.S. 7- and 8-year-olds can co...
www.tandfonline.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
📣📣 A recent paper by Léa Tân Combette et al. in JCD:
"Cats, Bats, and People: Cultivating Children’s Understanding of Genes and Trait Inheritance"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"Cats, Bats, and People: Cultivating Children’s Understanding of Genes and Trait Inheritance"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Excited to share that my lab will be accepting applications for our very first PhD student to start in Fall 2026!
Interested applicants can learn more about the lab here: wordpress.lehigh.edu/littlelearne...
And Lehigh’s graduate program here: psychology.cas.lehigh.edu/graduate
Interested applicants can learn more about the lab here: wordpress.lehigh.edu/littlelearne...
And Lehigh’s graduate program here: psychology.cas.lehigh.edu/graduate
September 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Excited to share that my lab will be accepting applications for our very first PhD student to start in Fall 2026!
Interested applicants can learn more about the lab here: wordpress.lehigh.edu/littlelearne...
And Lehigh’s graduate program here: psychology.cas.lehigh.edu/graduate
Interested applicants can learn more about the lab here: wordpress.lehigh.edu/littlelearne...
And Lehigh’s graduate program here: psychology.cas.lehigh.edu/graduate
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Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
October 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland
Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014...
A short thread [1/5]👇
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This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis.
Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇
Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇
October 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis.
Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇
Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇
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SEVERE DROUGHT HAS ENTERED UR COMMONWEALTH
October 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
SEVERE DROUGHT HAS ENTERED UR COMMONWEALTH
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Got the feet to fill Dennett's shoes? New junior position in Philosophy of Mind/Cog Sci at Tufts. philjobs.org/job/show/29606
Assistant Professor Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Cognitive Science (tenure-track), Tufts University: School of Arts & Sciences
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September 30, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Got the feet to fill Dennett's shoes? New junior position in Philosophy of Mind/Cog Sci at Tufts. philjobs.org/job/show/29606
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Our entry (with @ericman.bsky.social ) for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, “The Language of Thought Hypothesis”, is now out.
doi.org/10.21428/e27...
doi.org/10.21428/e27...
The Language of Thought Hypothesis
doi.org
September 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Our entry (with @ericman.bsky.social ) for the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, “The Language of Thought Hypothesis”, is now out.
doi.org/10.21428/e27...
doi.org/10.21428/e27...
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Come join the Moral Minds Lab as a grad student at MSU! Brand-new lab equipped for child & adult testing, with motivated undergrads in a happy department. 🤩
Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea...
(P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social
Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea...
(P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Come join the Moral Minds Lab as a grad student at MSU! Brand-new lab equipped for child & adult testing, with motivated undergrads in a happy department. 🤩
Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea...
(P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social
Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea...
(P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social
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🪧Registration closing in a week!
This is going to be an incredible event celebrating Alan Leslie's amazing career. Speakers include Susan Carey, Lisa Feigenson, Randy Gallistel, Ori Friedman, Zsuzsa Káldy, Ágnes Kovács, Sydney Levine, Sandeep Prasada, Brian Scholl, Luca Surian (and me!) Join in person at Rutgers or livestream
📢 Come join us on Sunday, November 9th for the Rutgers Symposium of Learning with an amazing list of speakers and great company! More details: sites.rutgers.edu/symposium-le...
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🪧Registration closing in a week!
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Call for Editorial Fellows at Developmental Psychology!
*Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD)
*Commitment to addressing the needs of underserved populations or increasing access to psychological knowledge & publishing
*1-yr term; $1,000 USD
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
@apajournals.bsky.social
*Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD)
*Commitment to addressing the needs of underserved populations or increasing access to psychological knowledge & publishing
*1-yr term; $1,000 USD
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
@apajournals.bsky.social
www.apa.org
September 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Call for Editorial Fellows at Developmental Psychology!
*Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD)
*Commitment to addressing the needs of underserved populations or increasing access to psychological knowledge & publishing
*1-yr term; $1,000 USD
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
@apajournals.bsky.social
*Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD)
*Commitment to addressing the needs of underserved populations or increasing access to psychological knowledge & publishing
*1-yr term; $1,000 USD
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
@apajournals.bsky.social
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New book— just got my copy! I know people often don’t read book chapters but I think that’s a mistake. They are usually much more reflective and wide ranging than journal articles.
September 16, 2025 at 10:20 PM
New book— just got my copy! I know people often don’t read book chapters but I think that’s a mistake. They are usually much more reflective and wide ranging than journal articles.
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🚨 NEW PREPRINT: Multimodal inference through mental simulation.
We examine how people figure out what happened by combining visual and auditory evidence through mental simulation.
Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Code: github.com/cicl-stanfor...
We examine how people figure out what happened by combining visual and auditory evidence through mental simulation.
Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Code: github.com/cicl-stanfor...
September 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
🚨 NEW PREPRINT: Multimodal inference through mental simulation.
We examine how people figure out what happened by combining visual and auditory evidence through mental simulation.
Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Code: github.com/cicl-stanfor...
We examine how people figure out what happened by combining visual and auditory evidence through mental simulation.
Paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Code: github.com/cicl-stanfor...