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• Journals adopting recommendations of MB-Demographics!

  Posted on January 18, 2025

  

  

  Two leading developmental journals, Developmental Science and Infancy, have announced that they are modifying their demographic reporting requirements based on the recommendations laid out by the MB-Demographics team in their recent Developmental Psychology and Journal of Cognition and Development publications. [Read More]

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  • MB
  • MB-Demo
  • news

• MB-Demographics "Tools of the Trade" manuscript published!

  Posted on December 3, 2024

  

  

  The MB-Demographics “Tools of the Trade” manuscript been published in the Journal of Cognition and Development! You can read the paper here. [Read More]

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  • MB
  • MB-Demo
  • news

• MB4 manuscript published!

  Posted on November 26, 2024

  

  

  The MB4 manuscript been published in Developmental Science! You can read the paper here. [Read More]

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  • MB
  • MB4
  • news

• MB1T manuscript published!

  Posted on July 22, 2024

  

  

  The MB1T manuscript been published by Developmental Science! You can read the paper here. [Read More]

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  • MB
  • MB1
  • MB1T
  • news

• MB Call for Nominations - 2024

  Posted on May 3, 2024

  Student Advisor nominations [Read More]

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  • MB
  • nominations

• MB1-Meta accepted for publication!

  Posted on April 14, 2024

  

  

  The MB1-Meta manuscript has been accepted for publication at Open Mind! You can read the paper here. [Read More]

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  • MB
  • MB1
  • MB1-Meta
  • news

• MB5 Stage 1 Registered Report accepted!

  Posted on March 19, 2024

  

  

  MB5’s Stage 1 Registered Report has been accepted in principle at Nature Human Behaviour! You can read the preprint here. [Read More]

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  • MB
  • MB5
  • news

• MB in the News

  Posted on September 7, 2023

  Here is a nice write-up from Concordia University about the recently published practical guide to Big Team Science, which was co-authored by ManyBabies members along with colleagues from the Psychological Science Accelerator and the Strengthening Democracy Challenge. [Read More]

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  • MB
  • BTS
  • news

• MB Student Advisors

  Posted on June 22, 2023

  We are pleased to announce that Magda Matetovici from the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and Que Anh (Quinn) Pham from the University of Massachusetts Boston (United States) have been selected as ManyBabies Student Advisors! Magda and Quinn will serve one year terms as SA (with the option of renewal... [Read More]

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  • MB
  • SA

• Practical Guide to BTS

  Posted on June 7, 2023

  

  

  Check out this practical guide to Big Team Science, co-authored by ManyBabies members Heidi Baumgartner, Nicolás Alessandroni, Krista Byers-Heinlein, Michael Frank, Kiley Hamlin, Melanie Soderstrom, and Francis Yuen, along with colleagues from the Psychological Science Accelerator and the Strengthening Democracy Challenge. [Read More]

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  • MB
  • BTS
  • publications

• MB Call for Nominations - 2023

  Posted on May 4, 2023

  Student Advisor nominations [Read More]

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  • MB
  • nominations

• BTS Authorship comment

  Posted on March 16, 2023

  

  

  ManyBabies members Michael Frank and Heidi Baumgartner joined Big Team Science (BTS) colleagues (led by PSA’s Nicholas Coles) to write this comment on how ‘BTS challenges us to reconsider authorship’. [Read More]

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  • MB
  • BTS
  • publications

• Hyperauthorship

  Posted on February 27, 2023

  

  

  Nature has published an interesting article on “hyperauthorship” which describes journal articles with more than 100 authors. [Read More]

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  • MB
  • news

• Open Call for Data Collection!

  Posted on September 26, 2022

  Three MB studies (MB2, MB3, and MB4) are beginning data collection and are looking for interested labs to help! [Read More]

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  • MB
  • call-for-data-collection
  • data

• MB at ICIS 2022

  Posted on July 10, 2022

  Multiple ManyBabies projects participated in a “Poster Symposium” at the 2022 International Congress for Infant Studies in Ottawa, Canada. The posters are all available on OSF. [Read More]

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  • MB
  • ICIS
  • conference
  • poster

• MB Student Advisors

  Posted on June 22, 2022

  We are pleased to announce that Mary Beth Neff from the University of Oslo (Norway) and Francis Yuen from the University of British Columbia (Canada) have been selected as ManyBabies’ first Student Advisors! Mary Beth and Francis will serve one year terms as SA and bring much-needed student perspectives to... [Read More]

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  • MB
  • SA

• 2022 Big Team Science Conference

  Posted on June 8, 2022

  

  

  ManyBabies is co-hosting the 2022 Big Team Science Conference with the Psychological Science Accelerator and ManyPrimates. [Read More]

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  • MB
  • BTSCON
  • conference

• GB Election Results

  Posted on June 2, 2022

  Congrats to Eon-Suk Ko and Brianna McMillan for being elected to the ManyBabies Governing Board! We’re thrilled to have you join the leadership team. [Read More]

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  • MB
  • election
  • GB

• Governing Board election

  Posted on May 16, 2022

  [Read More]

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  • MB
  • election
  • GB

• Big Team Science for Studying Small People

  Posted on April 21, 2022

  CDS 2022 Pre-Conference April 21, 2022 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States [Read More]

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  • MB
  • CDS
  • workshop

• MB Call for Nominations - 2022

  Posted on April 19, 2022

  ManyBabies is expanding our leadership! [Read More]

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  • MB
  • nominations
  • election

• MB2 Stage 1 Registered Report Accepted!

  Posted on February 24, 2022

  

  

  MB2’s Stage 1 Registered Report has been accepted in principle at Child Development! You can read the preprint here. [Read More]

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  • MB
  • MB2
  • news

• Multi-lab replications and meta-analyses (RSOS)

  Posted on February 23, 2022

  Out now in Royal Society Open Science, a new article about “The puzzling relationship between multi-laboratory replications and meta-analyses of the published literature”. [Read More]

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  • MB
  • news
  • publications

• MB Commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences

  Posted on February 10, 2022

  Please read this commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences about how the ManyBabies model can help improve the generalizability of infant psychological research. [Read More]

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  • MB
  • news
  • publications

• MB In Nature

  Posted on January 26, 2022

  

  

  We are thrilled to share this commentary in Nature, highlighting the promise of (and challenges for) organizations like ManyBabies! [Read More]

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  • MB
  • news
  • publications

• MB5 Leaders Win Einstein Foundation Award!

  Posted on November 24, 2021

  ManyBabies5 project leaders Jessica Kosie and Martin Zettersten won the Einstein Foundation Berlin’s 2021 Early Career Award! [Read More]

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  • MB
  • MB5
  • award

• Newsletter

  November 2021

  Posted on November 22, 2021

  

  

  The inaugural issue of the ManyBabies newsletter is out! [Read More]

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  • newsletter
  • MB

• MB1B - ManyBabies 1 Bilingual publication

  Posted on March 15, 2021

  

  

  The MB1B paper, “A Multilab Study of Bilingual Infants: Exploring the Preference for Infant-Directed Speech” is now out on Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science! [Read More]

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  • paper
  • publications
  • MB1B

• MB1G - Gaze Following paper published at Infancy

  Posted on December 14, 2020

  

  

  The MB1G paper, “The development of gaze following in monolingual and bilingual infants: A multi-lab study” is now out in Infancy, as an advance online publication! [Read More]

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  • paper
  • publications
  • MB1G

• ManyBabies 1 paper published at AMPPS

  Posted on March 16, 2020

  

  

  The ManyBabies 1 paper, “Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference” is now out in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS)! [Read More]

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  • paper
  • publications
  • MB1

• ManyBabies is seeking Graduate Students for admission Fall 2020 - December 2019 deadlines for application

  Posted on October 20, 2019

  ManyBabies is currently soliciting applications from prospective graduate students interested in contributing to large-scale collaborative infancy research, for a Fall 2020 start date. [Read More]

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  • graduate-students
  • MB

• ManyBabies 1 paper accepted

  Posted on September 24, 2019

  

  

  The Stage 2 Registered Report of ManyBabies 1 has been accepted for publication at Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS). The preprint is available at https://psyarxiv.com/s98ab/. [Read More]

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  • paper
  • publications
  • MB1

• ManyBabies 1 wins SIPS Mission Award

  Posted on September 6, 2019

  The Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science (SIPS) has recognized the contribution of ManyBabies 1 towards improving research practices and honored the project with a Mission Award at their 2019 annual conference in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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  • award
  • MB1

• Postdoctoral Fellowship on Open Science Practice in Infant Research

  Posted on July 12, 2019

  The Concordia Infant Research Lab, directed by Dr. Krista Byers-Heinlein, is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to join our dynamic and friendly lab. This opportunity is available through the Concordia Horizon Postdoctoral Fellowships program. The lab is housed in the Psychology Department of Concordia University in Montreal, on the beautiful Loyola... [Read More]

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  • postdoc
  • MB

• Special Issue in Infant Behavior and Development

  Posted on April 1, 2018

  We have a special issue in Infant Behavior and Development on the topic of “Replication, Collaboration, and Best Practices in Infancy Research.”

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  • call-for-papers
  • replication

• Postdoctoral Fellowship with the ManyBabies Project

  Posted on January 1, 2018

  The ManyBabies Project is an effort to build large-scale international collaborations in infancy research, with the joint goals of replication, best practices development, and theory-building. We address the big questions in early development through bringing many labs together to design strong studies, collect big datasets, and conduct state-of-the art analyses.... [Read More]

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  • postdoc
  • MB2

• Collaborative Replication in Developmental Psychology

  Workshop at CDS

  Posted on September 1, 2017

  

  

  Workshop Goals: The goals of the workshop are both to situate the ManyBabies project amongst other ongoing collaborative projects and to provide specific guidance (in the form of dos-and-don’ts) for researchers from students to PIs who are interested in getting involved with large-scale collaborations. Attendees will leave with better understanding... [Read More]

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  • CDS
  • workshop
  • replication