<div dir="ltr">Hi all, <div><br></div><div>I'm writing to announce a series of positions open in my lab. We are hiring a <b>research assistant</b>, two <b>postdoctoral fellows</b>, and a <b>research scientist. </b>These positions are at a range of different career stages but all will contribute to our lab's mission of building a data-oriented, quantitative understanding of early language and cognitive development (see below). </div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b><u>Positions</u></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><i>* Research assistant.</i> The research assistant will be the lab manager for the Language and Cognition Lab, with responsibility for designing, creating, running, and analyzing experiments with infants, children, and adults (including experiments delivered using web-based platforms); coordinating and recruiting undergraduate research assistants; coordinating participant recruitment; and assisting in planning lab events and meetings. Apply through Stanford careers at <a href="https://stanford.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=77872" target="_blank" style="font-weight:400;font-style:normal;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">https://stanford.taleo.net/<wbr>careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?<wbr>job=77872</a>. Review begins 3/1.<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><i>* Postdoctoral Fellow 1 (Data Science and Development).</i><b style="font-weight:400"> This position will involve the analysis of large datasets on language and cognitive development, including from <a href="http://wordbank.stanford.edu">wordbank</a>, <a href="http://childes-db.stanford.edu">childes-db</a>, <a href="http://metalab.stanford.edu">MetaLab</a>, and other partners. Some background in statistics / data analysis is an important qualification. </b>Send a CV, coverletter, names of 2-3 references, and two representative research products to <a href="mailto:dkellier@stanford.edu">dkellier@stanford.edu</a> with the subject line "DSD Postdoc Application." Review begins 3/15.</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><b><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><i>* Postdoctoral Fellow 2 (ManyBabies Project).</i> Follow the instructions found through the<span style="font-weight:400;font-style:normal"> </span><a href="http://manybabies.stanford.edu/postdoc.html" style="font-weight:400;font-style:normal;color:rgb(17,85,204)">full job ad</a>. <b style="font-weight:400;font-style:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline">Review begins 2/15 but will be ongoing until the position is filled. </span></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><i>* Research Scientist.</i><span style="font-weight:400;font-style:normal"> This is a 3+-year position intended for a researcher with some postdoctoral experience who is interested in collaborating with and supervising students and research assistants on a range of projects. An ideal candidate will have an overlapping research program with ongoing work in the lab such that their portfolio can include some of the ongoing data-oriented, collaborative projects in the lab. In addition, the Research Scientist will coordinate a new project on children's vocabulary development in China. I imagine this position as a flexible platform to engage with the lab's research at the highest level while also pursuing a personal research agenda. If you are potentially interested, please send a message to me along with an up-to-date CV.</span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-weight:400;font-style:normal"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Stanford and the Language and Cognition Lab value inclusiveness and encourage candidates that bring personal diversity of all types to these position. We recognize that many otherwise strong candidates will require training in particular areas and are prepared to provide appropriate training opportunities.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b><u>Lab Mission</u></b></div><div><br></div><div><div>How do children learn their native language, and how does language learning interact with other, parallel processes in child development? The goal of research in the Language and Cognition Lab is to use large-scale datasets, novel measurement methods, and statistical/computational models to come to a quantitative understanding of early child development. </div><div><br></div><div>We particularly seek to:</div><div>* Characterize the mechanisms of social learning and developmental change that drive the process of language acquisition; </div><div>* Explore the patterns of variability and consistency in children’s development across individuals, languages, and cultures; and</div><div>* Understand how early language learning depends on – and in turn enables – children’s social interaction and conceptual representation.</div><div><br></div><div>Theory development requires reproducible and replicable empirical measurements that converge across labs, measures, and methods. We accomplish our goals through a combination of data-oriented theoretical synthesis – compiling and analyzing multiple datasets to reproduce and add precision to existing constructs – and targeted experimental work with both children and adults to explore new constructs. This joint approach yields rich, reusable data and shared tools and resources that enable further work. </div></div><div><br></div><div>best, </div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="m_3924181694588562012gmail_signature">----</div><div class="m_3924181694588562012gmail_signature">Michael C. Frank</div></div><div class="m_3924181694588562012gmail_signature">Associate Professor </div><div class="m_3924181694588562012gmail_signature">Department of Psychology</div><div class="m_3924181694588562012gmail_signature">Stanford University</div><div class="m_3924181694588562012gmail_signature"><a href="http://langcog.stanford.edu" target="_blank">http://langcog.stanford.edu</a></div>
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