A sincere thank you to all the candidates who stood for election and to the CES membership for their active participation in the voting process. We were fortunate to have many excellent candidates, making this election a strong reflection of our membership’s commitment and talent.

11/ We closed out with our discussant, Tanya MacGillivray, who argues for an emphasis on community engaged and slow science in developmental sciences.

10/ We need a shift: from extractive, top-down developmental science to horizontal, community-engaged research. This means co-design, shared ownership, and institutional support for ethical, inclusive practices.

9/ Most "cross-cultural" methods are just Western designs with a cultural tweak. But surface-level changes don’t make a study culturally valid. True relevance requires collaboration and input from the communities being studied.

8/ Yitong Wang discussed how too often, cross-cultural developmental research extracts data from communities without engaging them. This isn't just unethical—it undermines the science. It’s time to move from knowledge extraction to co-construction.

7/ Doing developmental research across cultures is tough—think unstable broadband, COVID impacts, and translating methods. But we need to adapt our studies to fit the context. @sylpi.bsky.social

6/ Canadian kids share more with age & when observed. Across Canada and Brazil, kids who see themselves as lower status give more. Social status perceptions may shape fairness decisions earlier than we think. @sylpi.bsky.social

5/ @sylpi.bsky.social et al. examined sharing behavior in Canada and Brazil, countries with differing socioeconomic profiles, and explored the challenges and opportunities of conducting the study in each region.

4/ By identifying the topics and areas where culture is underrepresented, Sarah offers a roadmap for future research that seeks to address these gaps.

3/ Topics like biology and atypical are less likely to include cultural variables. But social development and language? Much more likely. What gets studied says a lot about what we assume is universal.

2/ Sarah Pope-Caldwell et al. conducted a systematic review of nearly 2.7k empirical articles in developmental journals, to examine whether research topic predicts whether an article contains culture as a variable.