MB Newsletter - Nov 2022
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November 2022

highlights

  • New resources on the ManyBabies YouTube channel

  • Collect data with ManyBabies
  • NSF public access policy webinar

  • Project updates

announcements

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ManyBabies has a YouTube channel! 


You can watch recordings of the MB: Intro to Open Science workshop and talks from the recent Big Team Science Conference given by members of MB2, MB3, MB3-NIRS, MB4, MB5, MB-Demographics, & MB-AtHome on our brand-new YouTube channel! 

We'll be adding more content in the coming weeks, so make sure to subscribe!
Collect Data with ManyBabies! MB2, MB3, MB4. Click here to learn more

events

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NSF Info and Listening Session: Public Access Policy

Wednesday November 30, 2:00pm EST


From the NSF Working Group on Public Access:
“Participants will be briefed on the history and driving principles of NSF’s public access policy. More importantly, this webinar will serve as a forum for NSF to hear and appreciate what’s on the minds of our stakeholders, and to discuss opportunities and challenges surrounding update of NSF’s open access policy.” Register for the webinar here.

MB "Community Drop-In Hours"

Thursday, December 1, 16:00 & 23:00 UTC


Zoom links are in the MB calendar

project updates

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December 15-16 | 9am-12pm PST

If you have R and tidyverse skills and want to learn more about working with eye-tracking data, please contact Mike Frank.

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MB3: Rule Learning

Join us for data collection! We are testing infants 5-12 months of age, using the Headturn Preference Procedure, central fixation, or eye-tracking (your choice!). You can sign-up here or email Ingmar Visser with questions.

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MB3N: Rule Learning fNIRS

The project was represented at two recent conferences. Judit Gervain gave a talk at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for fNIRS held between Oct 9-12, in Boston, USA and Xin Sun gave another talk at ​the Big Team Science Conference, Oct 27-28, which was held virtually.

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MB4: Social Evaluation

We are looking for new contributors to collect data with us (16 babies between 5.5 and 10.5 months)! If you are interested, please check out our website and complete our sign up form.

We are excited to share that the pre-registration for our first spin off project, “Individual differences in infants’ social evaluations across cultures”, has been posted to OSF.

Yiyi Wang gave a MB4 presentation at the Big Team Science Conference, and Hilal Şen will be presenting MB4 at the upcoming BCCCD conference in Budapest Jan 5-7, 2023.

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MB5: Hunter & Ames Model of Infant Looking Preference

A full draft of the Stage 1 Registered Report has been shared with project members. If you are contributing to the project, please read the draft and add comments by December 1. Also make sure you have reported contributions via the MB5 CRediT form to be included as an author!

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MB6: Neonatal Imitation

We are excited to welcome Mark Nielsen and Rechele Brooks to the leadership team! The Project Leads are hard at work on initial plans.

Interested contributors: subscribe to the MB6 listserv and keep an eye out for a project-wide meeting in the new year.

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MB-AtHome

We are currently working on hand-coding pilot data for both the Visual Preference and Looking-While-Listening studies. If anyone has expertise in experimental timing in Lookit, please contact us.

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MB-Demographics 

Working group members met recently to discuss the status of the project. Contributors are asked to provide comments on the manuscript by the end of this week (Nov 25). Contact Leher Singh with questions.

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MB-ManyWebcams 

The team is officially finished with data collection and the pre-registered data analysis (yay!), and is currently working on manuscript writing and additional analyses. 

reminders

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Join the ManyBabies Slack

The #general and #random channels are for network announcements and informal discussions, and there are also many project-specific channels for discussions about study design, analysis, etc.

MB activity tracking 

Please help us keep track of MB-related activities (e.g., workshops, talks, etc.) by reporting them here
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Report project contributions 

Remember to report your contributions by filling out your project's CRediT self-report form. Responses can be updated, so fill out the form early and often!
Contact us with any questions.
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