New publication in DCN, co-led with Natasha Chaku! 🧠Combining our expertise in brain and pubertal development, we sought to clarify how adversity shapes timing and pace of adolescent development across multiple levels of analysis: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Deadline extended to May 1!

The FERN Lab is in Toronto for SRA! Stop by OV’s poster today at 12:30, and @errenwick.bsky.social tomorrow at 10!

Help save SBE at NSF (and 3 cheers for Paige 💙). Friends in the district Unis ++ have extra influence b/c their reps are on Appropriations. Click! Write! NYC schools (NYU/Columbia/Weill Cornell ..) Brown Vanderbilt U Delaware U Maryland UOregon & OSU Texas A&M U Rochester U Alabama +++

I’m sorry, come again? The silent closeout of NSF-SBE is a travesty. #nsf #nsfsbe

Saving SBE starts before the bill is written. SBE needs a distinct FY27 appropriation. If your sch. is on the list, get a group of colleagues to meet w your House/Sen. offices. Esp. for Republican seats, direct constituent comms matter. Timeline/templates/updates: www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337

Congrats to @abrieant.bsky.social @drkaiip.bsky.social and all of the other new APS Rising Stars!

Inbox: Trump is announcing the new PCAST membership. It is dominated by CEOs and includes only one academic scientist, John Martinis.

@eeskevanroekel.bsky.social @charlottev.bsky.social & myself are recruiting a PhD student on momentary emotion beliefs and well-being in adolescents (includes ESM & qualitative methods). Position requires Dutch (for data collection). Happy to answer questions! 👉 Apply: tiu.nu/23638 (27 april 2026)

We plan to hire a post doc to start in Fall 2026 (flexible), in the Aulet Lab at UMass Amherst, funded for two years. The postdoc will help establish our developmental fMRI research program studying symbolic number acquisition in 4-8 year old children (among other things!).

Really excited to be guest editing this special issue with Dani! Abstracts are due April 15th, reach out with any questions!

ICE is breaking into college dorms now.

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?

We're hiring! The Emotion and Psychopathology in Context Lab at Harvard invites applications for a full-time RA/lab manager to start in 2026 summer. Ideal for students preparing for graduate study (e.g., clinical psych). Please consider sharing & applying! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive...

My lab at UW Madison is hiring a new lab manager! I’m looking for a motivated and detail-oriented person to help run the lab’s day-to-day, including our ongoing neuroimaging and behavioral studies. This is especially well suited for graduating undergrads thinking about grad school. Link below

They’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas. For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare. www.startribune.com/walz-demands...

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at [email protected] so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'" www.startribune.com/preschooler-...

Excited to share a new preprint that examines how adversity exposure across development is associated with subcortical-cortical structure-function coupling and youth mental health! 🧠 Thread below: 🧵⬇

This is unconstitutional lawless terror & intentional child abuse. These thugs should be prosecuted as a gang of child abusers engaged in kidnap & all other related offenses. Unthinkably evil.

We're hiring! The Computational Clinical Science Lab @ Yale is seeking a full-time lab manager/research coordinator to start in early summer 2026. For more information about the position and to apply: forms.gle/LtQwVgPUfaGk... Please share widely & consider applying!

New year🎊, new preprint📰 Using multimodal brain-age prediction models trained and tested on 4-wave MRI data from #ABCD, we examined how deviations in brain age align with changes in internalising and externalising symptoms across 10 waves. 1/4🧵

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!