Columbus friends - let's throw a big ass party to help unseat Balderson! See post for details. gofund.me/5864cf11d

In case you missed our OSUN Psi Chi Webinar with Esenia Cassidy from The Center for Psychedelic Drug Research and Education, here's the link to the recording. youtu.be/O2FxTk1ZoWM?...

Please join us in a few hours as we discuss cutting-edge studies using psychedelics in research and treatment. You can join the webinar here: osu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Still looks pretty grainy.

Tenure track position in Psychology at UW-Madison — CogSci or comp neurosci with an AI emphasis, broadly construed. Apply!

Come be my colleague! We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of developmental psychology at the University of Denver. Please share with anyone on the job market this year! jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

Violence is never the answer. But neither is silence. The foundation of our democracy was forged in the crucible of debate & the idea that our voices are our most powerful tool. History will remember those who spoke up & worked to protect our democracy and bend the arc of history towards justice.

Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder... Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed. Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.

How do we update our predictions when our environment changes? The hippocampus rapidly integrates previously distinct sequences to support updated predictions. Proud of this work with Hannah Tarder-Stoll & @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New on the Baby Blog - Language learning in a digital world: How screen time impacts children’s language development by Sarah Kucker @skucker.bsky.social infantstudies.org/language-lea... #infantstudies #EarlyYears #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #science #research #LanguageLearning

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

🚨 GRADUATE PHD APPLICATIONS OPEN 🚨 I'm accepting students for the next psychology PhD admissions cycle! If you're passionate about developmental neuroscience and clinical psychology, this might be for you 👇 #GradSchool #Psychology #Research /1

This madness needs to stop.

California is devising a plan to create their own National Institutes of Health to counter federal cuts to science research.

Cool idea. laist.com/news/educati...

Join us Monday, September 15th from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm ET for a talk by Simona Mancini, Ikerbasque Research Associate Professor / Neurolinguistics and Aphasia group leader at the Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language. Register now at https://bit.ly/45LjrF1

Yes, quite.

“We have seen too much violence on our campuses, whether it was the brazen murder of Charlie Kirk yesterday or the threats against these HBCUs today," Rev. Al Sharpton said in a statement. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Charlie - Jesse Welles

The BLoCKS team (PI: Prof Teodora Gliga, Dr Nadja Althaus, Barbara Zapior, Jade Archer & Dr Kelsey Frewin) at the 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 @lcicd.bsky.social, sharing their latest work on how babies learn object categories www.gligalab.co.uk

Truth!

Two more weeks to apply 😊

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Seems accurate

Bastards!👇🏼

Millions of women could lose birth control due to Trump cuts www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

Yeah dopamine encodes reward but what about when contingencies shift and behavior needs to be flexible? Turns out VTA GABA neuron activity plays a role, check it out in my first postdoctoral research article here!👇

Review now out in @npp-journal.bsky.social! Epigenetic regulation of brain development, plasticity, and response to early life stress rdcu.be/ezzYq

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES sound DAY 6 AUGUST 2025 60 YEARS AGO TODAY PRESIDENT JOHNSON SIGNS THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT NOW TODAY Texas Democrats fighting for ALL OF US Not Only Texas Stand With These Heroes Listen to the amazing Rep. Jasmine Crockett "Where is the fight " "Well here it is "

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

Noticing a pattern here.

You can use this tool to find out just how much funding your local district (or any district in the country) will be losing in the new federal budget: "DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT will lose $8,175,391 in federal funding." public.tableau.com/app/profile/... #EduSky #EdChat

🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from reallocating $4 billion meant to help communities protect against natural disasters.

TEXAS IS JUST STEP ONE Trump plans to take redistricting fights nationwide—and now he’s gaslighting, claiming blue states gerrymander more than red ones. FACT: House Dems are on record backing a national ban on gerrymandering. Republicans blocked it. Democrats should fight fire with a blowtorch.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 🇺🇸

Those mRNA vaccine programs that RFK Jr. is killing because he claims they don't work? The people who invented them got the f***ing Nobel Prize. And they've saved literally millions of lives already. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

Shocking

Great event by @indivcentraloh.bsky.social in Columbus Ohio on 8/9! youtu.be/_fwmzh_NP90?...

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center. www.wthr.com/article/news...

Making a new friend 💙 #birds

I'm reviewing PhD applications this cycle to join my lab at @uwpsych.bsky.social in Fall ‘26. Ideal for those interested in dev, decision-making, emotion regulation, fMRI, and quant/comp methods. We have cool stuff in the works and want more brilliant ppl in the fold! psych.wisc.edu/joao-guassi-...