Babies Learning Language

Thoughts on language learning, child development, and fatherhood; experimental methods, reproducibility, and open science; theoretical musings on cognitive science more broadly.

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Datapages for reusable (and pretty!) data sharing

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[This post is joint with Mika Braginsky , a long-time collaborator on data-sharing and data-viz.] Data sharing is both a critical scientific...

Monday, April 20, 2026

Using AI to improve (not automate away) academic research

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Everyone seems to be consumed with AI anxiety. Graduate students are wondering if they will be replaced by assistants, or if they themselves...

Monday, February 16, 2026

An LLM-backed "socratic tutor" to replace reading responses

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My hot take on college-level teaching is that reading responses are mostly a terrible assignment, and they're even worse in the age of A...

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Book review: Elusive Cures

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I'm normally an avid fiction reader, but this summer I've been on a non-fiction kick. I just finished listening to Nicole Rust'...

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Two summer book recommendations

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After a long stint primarily reading fiction, I've been on a non-fiction kick recently and just read two books that I would definitely r...

Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Four papers I'm sad never to have published

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One of the saddest things in academic research is an abandoned project. You pour time, effort, and sometimes money into a piece of research,...

Some thoughts on ManyBabies 4

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[ repost from Bluesky ] Three ManyBabies projects - big collaborative replications of infancy phenomena - wrapped up this year. The first p...

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Michael Frank: Developmental Psychologist at Stanford University. Interested in language acquisition, cognitive development, thoughts, numbers, learning, and teaching. Visit my lab's website.

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