Michael C. Frank

Do you want to do a psychology experiment while following best practices in open science? My collaborators and I have created Experimentology, a new open web textbook (to be published by MIT Press but free online forever).

experimentology.io

Some highlights! 🧵

New blog post: I used Claude to audit the reproducibility of every journal paper I've been an author on in the last five years. Our commitment to openness meant that the code and data were available, but there were some significant issues. 🧵babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/11/an-ai-…

New blogpost: my lab's AI policies and norms.

I'm trying to figure out how researchers should make use of AI to accelerate discovery without letting it replace human understanding or falling off the "slop cliff." Here are some ideas.

babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/10/my-lab…

How do children learn the meanings of their first words? One idea is cross-situational learning: tracking which words go with which things across many situations. In a new preprint, we test this idea at scale on video from children's own perspective 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2610.31842

Wordbank, my lab's open database of children's vocabulary development, has a new home. There's a new website, a new data release, and wordbankr is back on CRAN. A few details 🧵 wordbank.stanford.edu