The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

🚨New article alert! Led by doc student Tash Chlebuch. Youth (esp girls) w/family dysfunction are increasingly adjudicated for domestic violence (DV). But does the YLS accurately predict recidivism for youth with DV charges? And is accuracy moderated by gender? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

🚨New article alert! This review explores how adolescent development shapes youth trust as a distinct precursor to adult trust, highlighting the need for more ecologically valid and interdisciplinary approaches to studying trust. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Want to know more about how Developmental Psychology and Ecological Psychology go hand in hand? Read our new paper! www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... This paper marks finishing our special issue on Resources for Developmental Ecological Psychology. The issue includes nice and diverse studies.

🚨New article alert! Led by doc student Tash Chlebuch, we tested whether girls in the JJS who have experienced sexual victimization are judged differently by probation officers, and whether this differs by officer gender. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/3WQDH...

I read 66 books in 2025! I circled my favorites. What did you enjoy reading this year? I’m looking for recommendations!

A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country. Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢

I had so much fun talking about career path, approach to research, and current projects with the MSU Psychology Club! Plus I honestly got some of the toughest questions I’ve ever gotten in my career— these students are deep thinkers!

Why yes I did get not one but two desk rejects this morning

Happy fall semester from the ADJust Lab!

Check out my piece in The Conversation about a new law in Detroit aimed to curb youth violence. But might it have unintended negative consequences? And what approaches might be more effective? Learn more here: theconversation.com/detroit-pare...

🚨New article alert! Aaaand it’s a timely one! We tested how Latina immigrants' attitudes toward police and judges differed based on their documentation status and history of family deportations. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/BNE9D... Or read the explainer 🧵 below...

The capitulation of universities—one after another after another after another without a shared strategy to fight the fascist assault together—is a historical blunder that will also end these elite institutions as ostensible places of genuine knowledge seeking.

Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back. The damage is generational.

If you missed @caitcavanagh.bsky.social’s discussion of adolescent development & legal system issues, her Law & Mental Health Series talk is available on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/RlFj6bu0A3E?...

Great discussion today as part of the University of New Mexico Law & Mental Health series! Thanks @anthonyperillo.bsky.social for the invite and to the participants for joining the conversation.

A huge congratulations to the newly-minted DOCTOR @alyssa-laberge.bsky.social! Alyssa has worked with me for 7 years, first as a master’s student and then as a PhD student. Her growth as a scholar, teacher, and person has been such a joy to witness. She’s on to a TT position at UW LaCrosse!

The number of extreme weather disasters has jumped fivefold worldwide over the past 50 years, and the number of deaths has nearly tripled, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

Deporting childcare workers is a backhanded way to force US-born White women out of the workforce and into stay-at-home motherhood, where they'll become easier targets for conservative propaganda campaigns.

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

US science is being taken apart brick by brick.

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Hiiiiii, please check out “Chain Gang All-Stars” from your local library!

Check this one out! Our daily diary study examined how virtual social interactions influenced youth mental health during COVID. Justice-involved youth saw strong enough benefits from virtual social contact to make up the "well-being gap" between JJ-involved and community youth.

This is devastating. It will cause immense harm and make communities less safe. We know that youth justice programs like these benefit everyone. We condemn this cut to critical funds. imprintnews.org/justice/juve...

Last week was Youth Violence Prevention Week! Here's an op-ed I wrote about violence prevention efforts in Michigan. cj.msu.edu/news/2025-ca...

🚨New article alert! Led by a team of 3 awesome doc students. You probably know I’m a big believer in family-level interventions for justice-involved youth. But, not all programs work for a given population. We evaluated a voluntary parenting program 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New article alert! Led by law student Ashtaan. Although success for youth on probation is often measured via recidivism, the goal of the JJS is rehabilitation. Are youths’ risks and needs actually being addressed while under court supervision? If so, for whom?🧵 journals.sagepub.com/eprint/CN3BZ...

Beautiful last day of class- my Family Law and Social Policy undergrads all shared what stuck with them most from the semester. It was so rewarding to hear their takeaways and how they will use this knowledge in other contexts.

The science that we do can matter.

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

NSF killing broader impacts as they've been practiced. "efforts should not preference some groups at the expense of others ... projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities." www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

Greg entered Michigan’s juvenile system at the age of 11. He recalls lawyers pressured him to plead guilty and didn’t explain court fees to him. “All they were saying is guilty, guilty, guilty. Let’s plead out.” He amassed over $10,000 in court debt. boltsmag.org/michiga...

Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

The NSF's flagship fellowship program typically gives offers to 2,000+ young scientists. This year, in the face of looming budget cuts, that number was halved: only 1,000 received an offer. Our story on what that means for the science talent pipeline: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A reminder that collapsing the economy is not an unintended consequence of autocracy, it’s a feature.

If you want to run for state or local office tonight for public schools - and tell Trump to fuck off in the process - @runforsomething.net will help you. runforwhat.net

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Extremely disappointing & cowardly. The American Psychological Association is rescinding diversity requirements. Not due to any actual mandate from the federal government, but only because it may *someday* face pressure from the government www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

Louisiana reversed its “Raise the Age” reform last year, sending 17-year olds back into the adult criminal system. Today, voters are considering a measure that would give lawmakers more leeway to treat even younger kids as adults. boltsmag.org/louisia...

🚨New article alert! “Expanding the Collateral Consequences of Formal Processing to Youth Homelessness”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The US is experiencing a housing crisis. Does formal processing in the juvenile justice system increase the likelihood that youth will experience homelessness?

🚨New article alert! “Expanding the Collateral Consequences of Formal Processing to Youth Homelessness”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The US is experiencing a housing crisis. Does formal processing in the juvenile justice system increase the likelihood that youth will experience homelessness?

Steps to take if your papers/books were stolen. At least 30 of mine were. I’ll do these steps and look to join a class action if one has started yet…(if not, it needs to!).

Shoutout to the student in my class who starts every short answer response with “I’m not sure if this is right but,…” and proceeds to explain the concept better than I could