Lab meetings

Fall 2026

For the Fall 2026 Semester, we will meet on Tuesdays from 8:00 to 8:50 pm in room 444 Moore.

Psych 494 Syllabus

The Gilmore Lab Manual contains many useful instructions for on-boarding new lab members, required training, and connecting RStudio and Github.

Poster Presentation Opportunities - Spring 2027

Psi Chi Research Conference - Application to Present: Check Back February 2027 - Date: April XXX and the Application to Present

Undergraduate Exhibition

• Application to Present: Details available February 2027
• Abstract Submission Deadline: March 3, 2027
• Final Poster Submission Deadline: April 2, 2027
• Poster Presentations: April 28, 2027 @ Alumni Hall, HUB-Robeson Center

Tuesday, October 6, 2026

0. Attending
1. Watch & Discuss

• PLAY videos
• Read: Soska et al. (2021)
• Review: Soska, Hertzberg, Adolph, Gilmore, & Tamis-Lemonda (n.d.)

2. Homework

• Create biographies for lab website (Kristina, Rebecca, Sarah, Hayden, Hiya)
  • If you email me a picture, I will include this on your page.
  • Use the Month/Year you will graduate instead of sophomore/junior/etc.so updates are not required yearly.
  • Please use at least 2 links in your biography formatted for markdown
    • Markdown Basic Syntax Cheat Sheet
    • How to create Links

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

0. Attending
1. Watch: The Royal Institution (2025)

• “Nobel Prize in Physics 2024” (n.d.)

2. Homework

• Finish Training Certificates

  • Do this FIRST: CITI Training (Hayden)
  • Clery Act Training (Kristina)
  • Reporting Suspected Child Abuse (Kristina)
  • Values, Ethics, & Compliance Training (Kristina)
  • Title IX Training (Kristina)
  • Data Privacy at Penn State (Kristina)

• Create biographies for lab website (Faith, Kristina, Rebecca, Sarah, Hayden, Hiya)

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

0. Attending
1. Watched (~25 mins) and Discuss: Stanford CS229 I machine learning I building large language models (LLMs) (2024)
2. Homework

• Everyone Read: Apostolov et al. (2025)

• Finish Training Certificates

  • Do this FIRST: CITI Training (Kristina, Hayden)
  • Clery Act Training (Kristina)
  • Reporting Suspected Child Abuse (Kristina)
  • Values, Ethics, & Compliance Training (Kristina, Anika)
  • Title IX Training (Kristina)
  • Data Privacy at Penn State (Kristina)

• Create biographies for lab website (Faith, Kristina, Rebecca, Sarah, Hayden, Hiya)

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

0. Attending
1. Discuss: Feynman (1974)

• Feynman on Space Shuttle Challenger congressional review panel
• Replication Studies

2. Homework

Finish Training Certificates

• Please complete the Human Subjects Research Training FIRST: CITI Training (Kristina, Hayden)
• Clery Act Training (Andrea, Kristina, Sarah, Anika, Megan)
• Reporting Suspected Child Abuse (Andrea, Kristina, Sarah, Anika, Megan)
• Values, Ethics, & Compliance Training (Kristina, Sarah, Anika, Kassandra, Megan)
• Title IX Training (Andrea, Kristina, Rebecca, Sarah, Anika, Megan)
• Data Privacy at Penn State (Andrea, Kristina, Sarah, Anika, Megan)

Create biographies for lab website

• Please make sure to use the Month/Year you will graduate instead of saying you are a sophomore/junior/etc. so updates are not required yearly.
• Please use at least 2 links in your biography
  • Markdown Basic Syntax Cheat Sheet
  • How to create Links

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

0. Attending
1. Discuss Quarto/Rmarkdown & Create biographies.

• Markdown Basic Syntax Cheat Sheet
• How to create Links

2. Watch Data Sharing and Management Snafu in 3 Short Acts & Discuss

• Reproducability Crisis
• Why is sharing data important?
• Data format shared is unreadable.
• Column Variable Names not clearly labeled
  • Need to Document Data (e.g. Data Dictionary) so that Data can be used by others.

3. Homework

• Everyone Read: Feynman (1974)

• Begin writing Lab Biographies in markdown format:

  • Use How to create Links to add at least 2 links in your biography using the markdown format.
  • Email to lab email address along with your picture if you wish it to be on the website. This picture will be reformatted to a headshot image 175x233px (3:4).

• Finish Training Certificates

  • Please complete the Human Subjects Research Training FIRST: CITI Training (Rebecca, Sarah, Hayden)
  • Clery Act Training (Sarah, Megan, Hayden, Brianna, Anika)
  • Reporting Suspected Child Abuse (Sarah, Kassandra, Megan, Hayden, Brianna, Anika)
  • Values, Ethics, & Compliance Training (Sarah, Megan, Hayden, Anika)
  • Title IX Training (Rebecca, Sarah, Megan, Anika)
  • Data Privacy at Penn State (Sarah, Anika)

Tuesday, September 1, 2026

0. Attending
1. Introductions
2. Fall 2026 Lab Priorities (Rick)

• Databrary Overview
• Play and Learning Across a Year (PLAY) Introduction

3. Homework

• Please complete the Human Subjects Research Training FIRST: CITI Training ASAP - new lab members (Rebecca, Sarah, Hayden)
• Clery Act Training (Rebecca, Sarah, Megan, Hayden, Hiya, Brianna)
• Reporting Suspected Child Abuse (Rebecca, Sarah, Kassandra, Megan, Hayden, Hiya, Brianna)
• Values, Ethics, & Compliance Training (Rebecca, Sarah, Megan, Hayden)
• Title IX Training (Rebecca, Sarah, Megan, Hiya)
• Data Privacy at Penn State (Rebecca, Sarah)

Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Apostolov, A., Bradley, A., Dreher, S., Dwyer, C., Edwards, J., Evans, M. E., … Lesch, R. (2025). Tracking domestication signals across populations of north american raccoons (procyon lotor) via citizen science-driven image repositories. Frontiers in Zoology, 22, 28. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-025-00583-1

Feynman, R. P. (1974). Cargo cult science. Engineering and Science, 37, 10–13. Retrieved from http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/3043/1/CargoCult.pdf

Nobel Prize in Physics 2024. (n.d.). Retrieved September 29, 2026, from https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/hinton/facts/

Soska, K. C., Hertzberg, O., Adolph, K. E., Gilmore, R. O., & Tamis-Lemonda, C. S. (n.d.). Play & learning across a year. Retrieved September 4, 2025, from https://play-project.org/

Soska, K. C., Xu, M., Gonzalez, S. L., Herzberg, O., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Gilmore, R. O., & Adolph, K. E. (2021). (Hyper)active data curation: A video case study from behavioral science. Journal of Escience Librarianship, 10. https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2021.1208

Stanford CS229 I machine learning I building large language models (LLMs). (2024). Youtube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vM4p9NN0Ts

The Royal Institution. (2025). Will AI outsmart human intelligence? - with ’godfather of AI’ geoffrey hinton. Youtube. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkdziSLYzHw