July 2025
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Announcements & Events

ManyBabies awarded SSHRC Partnership Grant!

We’re thrilled to announce that Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has awarded ManyBabies a Partnership Grant

The grant formalizes a partnership called CONNECT (Coordinated Network of Networks for Enhancing Collaborative Teams) between MB, six other Big Team Science groups (including PSA and ManyPrimates), and like-minded community/university partners. The goal is to study and develop solutions for common challenges of doing behavioral social science research at a large scale. CONNECT will receive nearly $2.5 million CAD in funding over seven years to support our work.

Our partnership was also chosen to be featured at the official ceremony by the Canadian federal government for announcing Canada’s significant increase in funding for research across the humanities, social and natural sciences, and health and medicine. Congrats to the CONNECT team!
Grant Principal Investigator and MB board member Kiley Hamlin (left) described our project directly to Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Mélanie Joly (second from left), on July 9.

BTSCON submissions due soon!

2025 Big Team Science Conference, hosted virtually, October 6-8
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Please join us August 13, 2pm ET, for "Editors for an Inclusive Future: A Community Conversation." Sponsored by Reviewer Zero (https://www.reviewerzero.net/), this webinar brings together 4 editors at developmental science journals (Sudha Arunachalam, Shauna Cooper, Vaishali Raval, and Leher Singh) to surface concrete tools and strategies that promote equity, transparency, and shared responsibility across the field. Through a panel discussion and audience questions (moderated by Matt Goldrick from Reviewer Zero), we hope to initiate the process of including the wider developmental science community in addressing these issues. Register here: https://tinyurl.com/DevEditors  A recording will be made available to registrants.

Project Updates

MB5

Hunter & Ames Model of Infant Attention

We have piloted around 20 infants at Princeton, and after some troubleshooting (thank you Martin Zettersten and Kennedy Casey!), we are close to having a final version of the paradigm. A few more labs are going to begin pilot testing soon.

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