📢 Late-breaking poster submissions for FIT’NG 2026 are open. 👉 If you’re going to ICIS (@infantstudies.bsky.social), why not submit to FIT’NG, which begins the day after! 📝 Work presented at FIT’NG will reach our rich community of neuroscientists studying early brain development. #FITNG26 #ICIS26

$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers

One of my students had her whole family sit in on my Intro to Psych class today. Her parents were former K-12 teachers and said they loved the lecture - totally made my day 🥰

I ❤️ NYC

Had the opportunity to organize a workshop with @alonaf.bsky.social and Sandy Waxman on the intersection of AI/ML & Infant Learning! Two days of fabulous talks, great discussion, and amazing scenery. 🇨🇦With generous funding from CIFAR

My latest in @thetransmitter.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

Late Breaking Poster Submissions are now open for ICIS 2026! infantstudies.org/abstracts/ Come join us July 6-9 in Panama City, Panama 🇵🇦 ☀️ @infantstudies.bsky.social

We invite submissions for our 3rd annual DEI Committee Symposium on methods, data, or practical work in dev. psychobiology (human and/or animal research) that engages community partners. 📄 250-word abstract due March 17 📧 Send to: [email protected] & [email protected]

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair." n.pr/3N9Foa8

The Dilley family detention center is run by CoreCivic, a major Trump donor who has raked in millions from federal contracts already. Never forget who is profiting from this cruelty.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

The trove of files released by the Department of Justice, illuminates Epstein’s deep interest and entrenchment in the scientific community. But the files also underscore how he used his power and money in ways that kept women out of places where they might succeed. https://bit.ly/4qWgPLz

Plainclothes DHS agents reportedly showed a fake missing-persons bulletin, for a 5-year-old girl, to dupe a Columbia University security guard -- and snatch an undergrad student from her room. Before dawn

Neuroscience undergrad abducted at 6:30am. No judicial warrant. ICE lied to gain entry into the residence. State-sanctioned kidnapping. And I’m supposed to somehow teach class this afternoon?

Pre-blizzard lab bonding this past weekend!

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

U2 dropping a new surprise 6-song album explicitly addressing the hellscape of our nation. Wow. Stunning stuff. The world is with us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3zi...

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

“There are such things in the world as human rights. Among these, is the right to migration; the right which belongs to no particular race, but belongs to all alike. It is the right you assert by staying here, and your fathers asserted by coming here.” nyhistory.bsky.social

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

For a panel this morning at the #aaasmtg, the other speakers and I will share ideas and examples for improving trust in science. Here are a few I'll mention if I get a chance (we have a LOT to talk about). I'd love to hear yours. (1/7)

"Revokes scientific finding"

Do you work or study in the fields of psychology, neuroscience, computer science, artificial intelligence, or philosophy? What does the term 'representation' mean to you? We invite you to participate in a brief survey on key conceptual questions across fields. eu.surveymonkey.com/r/VX9GNXM

New research on postpartum depression as a mechanism of the motherhood penalty (i.e., mothers' reduced lifetime earnings) in Denmark "The penalties are concentrated among less educated mothers and those in less family-friendly jobs." (Application to the US is left as an exercise for the reader)

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Benito said "God Bless America," and then proceeded to name every country in South and North America. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

💯- Abolish ICE

ICE has detained at least 3,800 kids under the second Trump administration — more than 500 of whom were under 5 years old. Children shouldn't be locked up by our government.

Every lie told by this regime, no matter how brazen, shocking, or dehumanizing, makes perfect sense when I think about their claim that immigrants were eating pets in Ohio. It's not about evidence or credibility, it's about pushing narratives to facilitate ethnic cleansing.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

A lot of Second Amendment advocates about to explain that carrying a gun is an executable offense in America if you oppose the Trump administration. Expect deafening silence from the NRA.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

Stop voting with the republicans to fund literal kidnappers. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @delauro.house.gov @texasdemocrats.bsky.social Rep. Henry Cuellar

Just spoke to The Hill about how the dismantling of the NIH is impacting science in America. We still face a cliff of unfathomable heights, w easily 1000+ labs poised to close in the next year due to funding ending. A generation of young scientists lost because there is nowhere for them to train.

The @isdp.org Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee invites all ISDP members to join us for our annual self-reflection meeting this Friday, January 23rd from 1PM-2PM ET. Please join us and share w your colleagues! @joscelinrocha.com @drkoraly.bsky.social @efcardenas.bsky.social #ISDP #DEI

💯 - wish our democratic leaders would grow a backbone and say the same

(If you don't know, the *BIG* NYC protest against ICE is Friday at 4pm in Union Square, here's the flyer, please come, and let me know if you'd like to meet up. I'll be with a 3-year-old trying to find a spot that's high-energy, high-chanting, relatively-low-noise)

The president -Is occupying a major city with armed paramilitiaries -Is blackmailing treaty allies to hand over their sovereign territory -Is trying to set himself up as chairman for life of a UN rival with $1B fees for permanent membership -Is talking about canceling elections

An absolute must read from @hebagowayed.bsky.social & @victorerikray.bsky.social.

Black folks and immigrants have long lived in a "perogative state" when it comes to law enforcement, and maybe pundits at the largest national outlets should recognize that their past support for punitive policing and immigration enforcement laid the groundwork for the current moment.

Truly damning investigative reporting in @rollingstone.com on how Danish researchers long favored by RFK.Jr for their studies which cast doubt on vaccines,secured a no bid grant to fund the unethical trial in Guinea Bissau. This read is worth your time. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

these are numbers that would have previous administration heads rolling. yet congress doesn't act because the GOP is all Trump. yet national media continues to treat everything as normal (at best; or carries water for the admin, at worst) because they think it's good content/business.

This should be a national shutdown

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.