It’s mutual!

Keeping families in debt or out of the workforce is a policy choice. Universal childcare needs to be prioritized - hope NY follows suit! @governor.ny.gov

Excited to be in Dublin for #Flux2025! Stick around for the final symposium session on Saturday 3-4:15 with this all-star lineup 🤩 @danibeck.bsky.social @herzberg-mp.bsky.social

📣 🚨 Yale Psychology has 3 searches this year! Links below: Quantitative link: apply.interfolio.com/171903 Social link: apply.interfolio.com/171989 Clinical link: apply.interfolio.com/171970

We have an open-rank position in quantitative psychology at Yale! Please apply if this describes you: apply.interfolio.com/171903

Huge congrats to Dr. Lucinda Sisk on receiving the Flux Dissertation Award! 🎉 @fluxsociety.bsky.social #Flux2025

Spotlight Moment: Saturday, 4 September, 11:15–11:30 AM — Dissertation Award Talk with Lucina Sisk. Immediately after, 11:30–12:00 PM — Young Investigator Award Talk by Carolina Makowski (Kennedy Krieger Institute sponsored) #Flux2025 #AwardTalks

Nory Sontay Ramos was a thriving high school student in L.A. until she and her mom were deported by the Trump administration in July. For @msnbc.com, we visited her in Guatemala as she tries to graduate remotely while hiding from the same gang they fled years ago. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/n...

NIH cuts kill people - including children. "The Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium, an association of 16 academic centers and children’s hospitals dedicated to trials of novel treatments for pediatric brain cancer, directed its members last week to stop enrolling... www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

So privileged to work with this incredible experimental data to examine brain networks at the intersection of past trauma and future stress. Grateful to all the coauthors and my mentors @evgoldfarb.bsky.social @dylanggee.bsky.social

How do brain networks tracking past trauma react to stress in the future? Thrilled to share new work from the lab led by rockstar postdoc @felhardi.bsky.social with wonderful collab @dylanggee.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #psychscisky #neuroskyence

Excited to share my new edited book Cannabis and the Developing Brain—a deep dive into how cannabis impacts the brain during pregnancy, childhood, & adolescence. Thanks to all the amazing contributors! 💚🧠 Available via Springer, Amazon + more: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #Cannabis #Brain

Can we start talking about the war on children?

By me: A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference jeopardizing the future of US enterprise. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I grew up in rural South Carolina with a single mom who worked multiple jobs. At times, we relied on Medicaid and SNAP—like so many others. My heart breaks for those now wondering if that help will still be there. Imagine having all that power and choosing to make people’s lives worse. Shameful.

🚨 New paper in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We combined data from 3 studies (including an SSRI RCT) to explore how endocannabinoids relate to anxiety & treatment response in kids + teens. Team science w/ Jeanne Barcelona, Jeffrey Strawn & more! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @wsuthinklab.bsky.social

Still looking for a few WV scientists to join my non-scientist dad to advocate for NIH to Senator Capito, head of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee and key player for NIH budgeting. Please get in touch if interested or have any leads! prospect.org/politics/202...

Congratulations to Dr. @lucinauddin.bsky.social, Associate Director of the #ABCDStudy Coordinating Center, on her keynote lecture at this year's @ohbmofficial.bsky.social Conference! 🧠 #OHBM2025

Mass deportation IS family separation. With colleagues @jordancfoster.bsky.social and @profdfhesq.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

My statement on today’s decision in Trump v Casa:

thank you Seth for such a lovely conversation about the city and people I love so much, Los Angeles and Angelenos. @latenightseth.bsky.social

I co-authored this piece with two wonderful colleagues. There are many things to be horrified by in this administration's fascist actions - child abuse, masked civilian vigilantes, Exec disdain for the Courts, the Constitution and Congress, mass assaults and kidnapping.

1618 people have been taken by federal agents from the streets of L.A. over the last three weeks.

The ABCD Study 6.0 release is finally here! 🧠 Apply for data access here @theabcdstudy.bsky.social www.nbdc-datahub.org

The U.S. government has collected DNA samples from upwards of 133,000 migrant children and teenagers—including at least one 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic data into a national criminal database used by local, state, and federal law enforcement, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

A US judge has ordered hundreds of terminated research projects at the US National Institutes of Health to be reinstated, calling the processes that led to their cancellation “bereft of reasoning”. https://go.nature.com/4kOmXDy

Since we featured the Stand Up for Science letter in the Good Trouble segment of the Daily Beans podcast this morning, signatures have gone from roughly 5,000 to 15,000! You can add your name by clicking the link below:

Yale Psych & Yale Med hiring FT clinical psychologist for Transitions Clinic (serving people returning from incarceration). Therapy, assessment, groups in halfway houses, supervision opps. Strong EBT skills & interest in justice-impacted populations. Please share! sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

One of the people ICE re-arrested in NYC on Wednesday was a man who was previously separated from his wife and daughter in 2023. They'd been diligently following every rule and restriction the government placed on them. None of that mattered; ICE re-arrested him anyway, again separating the family.

The full story is here. It is heartbreaking and infuriating simultaneously. ICE's actions are actively undermining the rule of law and telling people that they shouldn't comply; that if they follow the rules, they'll be punished for it. Stop this madness! www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/04/i...

Excited for the NextGen in STEM Conference tomorrow June 6th organized by @aprilpruitt.bsky.social and sponsored by @hhmi.org in collaboration with @wutsaiyale.bsky.social! We have an amazing group of speakers who will discuss their research and career trajectories. Please join us!!

It was such a pleasure to have you with us, Sofia!! Can’t wait to reunite at Flux 🙌

So excited to share my *first* first-author paper, out now in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social!! In this review, we argue that even if you don’t remember being a baby, evidence that infants form episodic-like memories is actually all around us: authors.elsevier.com/c/1l82g4sIRv...

Honored to introduce my dear friend and mentor, Dr. Christine Rabinak at Michigan SfN’s keynote. Her talk was entitled “Fearless-ish”. She spoke with courage and clarity about trauma, PTSD, and facing a terminal cancer diagnosis—leading and inspiring every step of the way.

To be clear, these kinds of breakthroughs are going to come to a screeching halt with the current NIH funding cuts. This new treatment is only possible because of decades of basic research. What might be possible 20 years from now if we don't destroy basic research? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NYT: Doctors fixed a baby born with a life-threatening genetic disorder using a customized, gene-editing therapy. "Researchers emphasized the role govt funding played in the development. The work...began decades ago with federal funding for basic research on bacterial immune systems." Gift link!

This. This is why we invest in biomedical research and development in this country. A bespoke gene-editing treatment for a baby born with a life-threatening disorder : Shots - Health News www.npr.org/sections/sho...

“I hope that the judge rules Wednesday that I can be released, so I can return to my lab. There is a data set that I’m halfway finished analyzing. I want to go home and finish it.”

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

Huge congrats to Dr. Lucinda Sisk who brilliantly defended her dissertation on the role of adversity timing & neural circuit maturation in mental health! We’re going to miss her so much in the CANDLab & can’t wait to see all the amazing work she does with @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social at Penn 🥹🤩🧠🎉

It’s been wonderful to be part of this team, thanks for your leadership @aidangcw.bsky.social!

Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑‍🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.

Congress needs to block this. This so incredibly detrimental to the health, welfare, and prosperity of the nation.

Fans of the global signal, check out this new work from @tsbolt.bsky.social! 🧠 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

Daphna wouldn’t be in the US if not for NIH and I wouldn’t be at NIH if not for Daphna ❤️ grateful to read her words during this difficult time.

Sequential decreases in BLA response to threat predict failure to recover from PTSD www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fabulous reporting from @cprnews.bsky.social on the devastating cuts to #NIH funding and direct impacts on medical research and cures. A beautiful story of a family’s fight for their child with Bloom syndrome and the research being done @cuanschutz.bsky.social. Real consequences, real lives.

Congratulations to psychologists Rich Petty, Phoebe Ellsworth, BJ Casey, Jamie Pennebaker, & Alison Gopnik on their election to the National Academy of Sciences today!!