Fransisca Ting

@DeonTBenton 🤣

@kirstenlesage was right, we didn’t see any bears! 😮‍💨

@victorckumar Ah i think it’s also the moral standing of the “victim”. In veganism, it’s the animals and the environment, vs humans in transphobia. There’s the same tendency to not shun others when it comes to other animal and environmental welfare issues

@fransiscating That makes sense. I wonder though if people have been more willing to shun transhpobes even when transphobes are in the majority

People say vegans are obnoxious, but the ones I know IRL seem too tolerant: Given what vegans believe (correctly) about the awfulness of eating meat, why don't they shun omnivores? Just because it would be socially isolating for them, or is there another reason, good or bad?

@victorckumar I think it’s the fact that the wider social norms still very much condone meat eating. I would think it’s the same with say a person living in a homophobic society would probably also be more “tolerant” of others and not shun the homophobic majority.

For example, people with progressive values shun racists, transphobes, and Tr*mp supporters. Why are vegans so much more forgiving?

@PeretzLange 🙋🏻‍♀️

Child Dev folks: Anyone want to give a talk about your research with my Child Dev class in the fall? I can pay a small honorarium ($100, possibly more). Must be v undergrad-friendly. POC to the front, please! My students love hearing from guests (see email from last year)!

@lisachalik @PeretzLange I find emily oster’s the most helpful and data driven compared to others. But yeah definitely take it with a grain of salt.

@PeretzLange Not sure if this is a controversial take - but I like Emily Oster's books as a starting point. Not a dev scientist and I take her suggestions with a huge grain of salt, but her approach is data-driven and she targets a lot of good issues to think about.

parents: any recommended books on toddler behavior/discipline by developmental scientists (not vague “parenting experts”)? thanks! #momademia

New paper with @yuchen_rachel is now out in JEP:General! @APA_Journals In both the US and China, children younger than age 7 provide leaders with more freedown to deviate, yet older children understand "One who wears the crown, bears the crown." psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-87…

@JinXunGoh I think you and @CalvinKLai breathed life back into academic twitter overnight

@JinXunGoh We’re speaking very highly of you in our groupchat. Please continue on 👀

The pride you feel when your child accomplishes more than you 🥳 😄@tecl_ca

@JinjingJenny1 check twitter for people who also have these random in between meeting breaks :D

What do you do if you suddenly have a 15min break between meetings?

We finally finished data collection for one of my favorite grad school projects that was in a purgatorial limbo for 2.5 years due to covid. Words cannot express how thankful i am for the people involved in this project 🥺🥺🥰🥰❤️❤️

@JR_Hochmann Very cool! You might be interested in Stavans & Baillargeon, 2016

New preprint! We show that 8-month-old infants have a basic understanding of tool use. They can represent complex event structures, involving an intentional agent causing a change with a tool. psyarxiv.com/kt2y9

The wonderful @mgreinecke presenting on mind perception and implications for @bioxphi

@DrMeltemYucel @andrewshtulman @CarnegieMNH @KocSchool its honestly very impressive that you killed a bat O_O

@andrewshtulman @CarnegieMNH 😄 Reminds me of the time I accidentally killed a bat in my high school dorm with a slipper and then donated it to the school’s science department. We ended up putting it in formaldehyde for a few months, dried, and displayed it. I think it is still there @KocSchool.

The crown jewel of the @CarnegieMNH collection

@mgreinecke will be presenting at this exciting conference! Go see her amazing work

So excited to share a new @DeepMind paper (co-first-authored with @yiranmao) where we propose a method of evaluating human and AI moral cognition in a 'like-for-like' manner. Just by observing behavior, can we tell when an agent acts 'for the right reasons'? (1/7)

Do infants expect the world to be populated by objects and agents? @fransiscating argues that the architecture of innate knowledge is more complicated, showing that infants distinguish between agency, animacy, and self-propulsion. #spp2023

@VladChituc Shamefully hiding my carcinogenic non stick 🥲

Update: someone just offered me a thousand dollars for these pans lmao