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Student Advisor announcement
Congrats and welcome to our 2025-2026 Student Advisors, Teruni Ahamat and Xinghue Han! [Read More] -
Call for Student Advisor Nominations
Join the ManyBabies Governing Board as a Student Advisor! [Read More] -
Journals adopting recommendations of MB-Demographics!
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] -
MB-Demographics "Tools of the Trade" manuscript published!
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] -
MB4 manuscript published!
The MB4 manuscript been published in Developmental Science! You can read the paper here. [Read More] -
MB1T manuscript published!
The MB1T manuscript been published by Developmental Science! You can read the paper here. [Read More] -
MB Call for Nominations - 2024
Student Advisor nominations [Read More] -
MB1-Meta accepted for publication!
The MB1-Meta manuscript has been accepted for publication at Open Mind! You can read the paper here. [Read More] -
MB5 Stage 1 Registered Report accepted!
MB5’s Stage 1 Registered Report has been accepted in principle at Nature Human Behaviour! You can read the preprint here. [Read More] -
MB in the News
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] -
MB Student Advisors
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] -
Practical Guide to BTS
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] -
MB Call for Nominations - 2023
Student Advisor nominations [Read More] -
BTS Authorship comment
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] -
Hyperauthorship
Nature has published an interesting article on “hyperauthorship” which describes journal articles with more than 100 authors. [Read More] -
Open Call for Data Collection!
Three MB studies (MB2, MB3, and MB4) are beginning data collection and are looking for interested labs to help! [Read More] -
MB at ICIS 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] -
MB Student Advisors
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] -
2022 Big Team Science Conference
ManyBabies is co-hosting the 2022 Big Team Science Conference with the Psychological Science Accelerator and ManyPrimates. [Read More] -
GB Election Results
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] -
Governing Board election
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Big Team Science for Studying Small People
CDS 2022 Pre-Conference April 21, 2022 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States [Read More] -
MB Call for Nominations - 2022
ManyBabies is expanding our leadership! [Read More] -
MB2 Stage 1 Registered Report Accepted!
MB2’s Stage 1 Registered Report has been accepted in principle at Child Development! You can read the preprint here. [Read More] -
Multi-lab replications and meta-analyses (RSOS)
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] -
MB Commentary in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
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] -
MB In Nature
We are thrilled to share this commentary in Nature, highlighting the promise of (and challenges for) organizations like ManyBabies! [Read More] -
MB5 Leaders Win Einstein Foundation Award!
ManyBabies5 project leaders Jessica Kosie and Martin Zettersten won the Einstein Foundation Berlin’s 2021 Early Career Award! [Read More] -
Newsletter
November 2021
The inaugural issue of the ManyBabies newsletter is out! [Read More] -
MB1B - ManyBabies 1 Bilingual publication
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] -
MB1G - Gaze Following paper published at Infancy
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] -
ManyBabies 1 paper published at AMPPS
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] -
ManyBabies is seeking Graduate Students for admission Fall 2020 - December 2019 deadlines for application
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] -
ManyBabies 1 paper accepted
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] -
ManyBabies 1 wins SIPS Mission Award
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. -
Postdoctoral Fellowship on Open Science Practice in Infant Research
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] -
Special Issue in Infant Behavior and Development
We have a special issue in Infant Behavior and Development on the topic of “Replication, Collaboration, and Best Practices in Infancy Research.” -
Postdoctoral Fellowship with the ManyBabies Project
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] -
Collaborative Replication in Developmental Psychology
Workshop at CDS
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]