ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray. The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter. These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby. We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

This year saw almost a 50 percent decrease in funded grants on mental health. This is not okay. There is a literal mental health crisis in our country & instead of funding more work on cures we are cutting the amount of work in half. Our children will suffer from this. archive.is/2025.12.02-2...

Excited to share our new review “Mapping interactions between adversity and neuroplasticity across development” in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. We discuss how experience - particularly adversity - interacts with neuroplasticity during human development authors.elsevier.com/c/1mB5U4sIRv...

The CDC website under RFK Jr. now argues that we “can’t say vaccines don’t cause autism” because studies haven’t ruled out every possible scenario. It’s wild to see this misunderstanding of science on a federal health website, but it’s also an opportunity to explain how the scientific process works

🚨Cyber Monday Discounts for smart-workshops.com Monday, Dec 1 Only! Give yourself the gift of methods expertise this year! 25% off for professionals, 50% for trainees (usual 33% plus 25%) with codes: cyber25pro or cyber25train Please RT and share with colleagues!🙏 1/2

I wrote a piece for The Conversation on the importance of SNAP for reducing food insecurity and improving child health. I’d love it if you would read and share!

🚨I am in the most delightful position of having a postdoc land a faculty job! Which means I will be looking to hire at least one new postdoc this cycle! More to come soon but if you're interested feel free to email me or come say hi at @isdp.org in a week or two!

If you think your kids aren't old enough to hear about what's happening in this country, remember that there are millions of kids their same age who don't have that choice.

Just published! ✨ Across 15+ timepoints, we found that unpredictability in economic hardship – not only severity – shapes young children’s self-regulation. Understanding these dynamics can help us design supports that promote stability and adaptive development. 👉 bit.ly/4oIZO75

SNAP benefits are about to lapse for 42 million people, because nothing says “save the children” like starving them.

📣 I am excited to be recruiting PhD students to my lab in Psychology and Neuroscience at UGA! If you are applying for Fall 2026 and passionate about environmental effects on brain function, plasticity, and behavior development, consider joining me in Athens! psychology.uga.edu/how-apply-ou...

New lab paper in DCN! 🧠 We conducted interviews with adolescents to better understand their perceptions of neuroscience research and barriers to participation, w/qualitative data that is shaping how we design lab studies & efforts to increase representation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 Calling 2nd-year grad students and their mentors: You just abruptly lost the ability to apply for the NSF grad research fellowship. Join ~900 others (and growing!) in signing @omfishient.bsky.social's petition to reverse that. [Or reshare this petition if you're not directly impacted]

You cannot keep your head down and expect to sneak through the next three years unaffected. We MUST come together and say “NO!” Suppression of freedoms *always* starts at universities and in the press. You’ve got like 5 seconds to wake up.

bb's first podcast. Here's my conversation w/ Heather McSherry abt @defendpublichealth.bsky.social, science, power, organizing, & the existential threats to public health in this precipice moment. www.infectiousdose.com/post/from-ev... @pathogenscribe.bsky.social @infectdosepodcast.bsky.social

I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share: phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo

I'll be reviewing applications for developmental and biobehavioral psychology PhD students this cycle (not clinical). More info and FAQs here! www.fernlab-uvm.com

Anyone offering a course on digital mental health these days? Would love a peek at your syllabus 👀

If you're looking at pre-6.0 ABCD results with subcortical rs-fMRI correlations, the labels are all wrong! We reported a result as Auditory - L Putamen, but it it was actually Default Mode - L Cerebellum. docs.abcdstudy.org/latest/docum...

Shameless plug that I'm on the job market! As a postdoc at Stanford's Center on Early Childhood, I study how children navigate growing up in poverty, w/ attention to both the challenges they face & the adaptive strengths they develop. To learn more & download my CV, see www.meriahdejoseph.com

My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :) psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...

Really enjoyed speaking about adversity and the developing brain today at the final symposium session of #flux2025 So grateful to everyone that turned up. And of course to my fellow speakers and brilliant chair @abrieant.bsky.social

OMG I can't believe Taylor Swift and Beyonce are coming to our symposium at 3pm!!! Higgins Suite!! That's up the stairs from where all the other talks have been. Join us.

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

Climate change is reshaping human development. ISSBD members, especially those from LMICs, are invited to share work on risks, resilience, and policy. Abstracts due Oct 15, 2025. Learn more: bit.ly/3VhXUOh #ClimateChange #HumanDevelopment

Hi all! It looks like I *will* be able to take a new student this year! If you are interested in perinatal mental health, cognitive bias, and/or cats, apply to work with me at UVM! :)

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

We're hiring in clinical psychology at the University of Vermont-- spread the word!

University of Vermont is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in Clinical Psych! Come work with me! I love it here so far :) www.uvmjobs.com/postings/81602

Our paper - Neuroimaging Insights into Adolescent Depression and Development - is now out in Nature Mental Health! 🧠 Huge thanks to my wonderful co-authors @yaratoenders.bsky.social and @cktamnes.bsky.social. I loved bringing these ideas together with you! rdcu.be/eugUM

The NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Hub is now available! •Researchers can explore ABCD & HBCD Study data in one place – with robust query & data analysis tools, documentation, & workflows •Learn more & apply for data access: www.nbdc-datahub.org @theabcdstudy.bsky.social

🚨Publicly available brain-age prediction code🚨 I have adapted my code used in a recently published paper (doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...) and decided to share on GitHub for any that would like to use it. #ABCD #neurodevelopment

A new paper coming out of our lab uses six years of longitudinal data to examine links between the chronicity and timing of maltreatment and risk-related functional connectivity across adolescence. Read it here! (Open-access in DCN) doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...

Want your NIH and NSF program officers and division directors to be fired and turned into political appointees? Deadline extended: 3 days left! Already 33,000+ public comments Comments can tank a proposed rule in court. 📣 Oppose the rule with a brief comment: shorturl.at/WKuBj

Look at these cuts that will devastate med/behavioral health research, severely limit mental health services, & end educational programming. YOU help STOP these cuts by flooding Congress using the link below. This is for ANYONE to do, so please spread the word!! www.votervoice.net/APAAdvocacy/...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) have an Open Access Special Issue ‘Physical Environmental Influences on the Psychosocial Outcomes of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults’, edited by Keri Wong, Efstathios Papachristou, Marta Francesconi, and Tycho Dekkers. www.acamh.org/blog/camh-20...

Joint w/@asinclair.bsky.social and the #SCIMaP team: brief correspondence in @nathumbehav.nature.com on the impact of NIH indirect cost cuts on the economy and employment, impacts that will only worsen given similar proposals for NSF/DOE + overall science proposal. rdcu.be/eo3Hp

Outstanding presentation of the devastating cuts at NSF and their impact across multiple areas of scientific research and training. Angry at the impact now and in the long-term to US research. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

Please share widely! #NPSP supports people applying to Psychology PhD programs in the US, including students from underrepresented groups. We're accepting applications til May 23 for mentees (undergrads/postbacs) & mentors (grad students/postdocs)! z.umn.edu/NPSP25-26

📣📣 A recent paper by Jorge Cuartas et al. in JCD: "Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @jorgecuartas.bsky.social

Grateful for the incredible love and support at #SRCD2025 in response to the injustices and tragedies of recent deportations. I hope more conferences continue to stand in solidarity with scholars facing such hardships across the field. #DevPsych #PsychSci #Psysci

(LATER TODAY): "Adolescent Development in Context: Effects of Neighborhood and Ecological Environments on Brain and Mental Health" @felhardi.bsky.social @abrieant.bsky.social & Tianying Cai "Shaped by the city: A mixed methods investigation of neighborhood factors for adolescent mental health" (3/4)

We’re hiring postdocs to join my lab at UNC. If you’re interested in adolescence, brain, and social development, DM me. Our work incorporates fMRI, social media, and longitudinal methods. We study risks and opportunities in adolescence. If you’re at #SRCD2025 and want to meet, please reach out!

My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.” ⭐️ Please share ⭐️

Looking forward to #SRCD2025!

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨 If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way. 🗓 Application review begins April 15 ⏰ Final deadline is April 25 📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP

Kristina Olson and I have a truly incredible advisee who won an NSF but had no luck on clinical psych PhD applications this round. Anyone able to consider another candidate this late in the process? Trust me, you won't regret it!