“Developmental scientists have often worked as individuals or in small teams, and there are limitations to this work compared to larger collaborations,” Mills said. “ChildrenHelpingScience.com was a solution for an immediate problem: Researchers had to move their research online,” Mills said. How can we help researchers connect to families and families connect to lots of different opportunities to participate in research studies from home? “Academic developmental studies can suffer from demographic bias toward whomever is able to come to a college campus to participate,” she said. “Developmental science is not currently making full use of the internet revolution of recent decades,” Sheskin said.