Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name! #clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

So many things to be concerned about. Here’s one more! Based on everything we know about infant development, we should be exceedingly cautious about letting our littlest play with generative AI toys & bots. If you agree please sign & share our scientific statement: gsolen.ucsd.edu/position-sta...

Rounding out our #flux2025 neural synchrony symposium - Kathryn McNaughton will share findings (with chair Elizabeth Redcay) across behavioral synchrony & neural similarity using fMRI in both typically developing and ASD adolescents. Join us at 3 in Hyde 1! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32025922/

Looking fwd to our neural synchrony symposium today - & especially learning more from @pvrticka.bsky.social on synchrony in #fNIRS. For a preview check out an excellent 2025 review led by @saradefelice.bsky.social - join us 3pm in Hyde 1. 🧠 ⚡️ 🧠 #flux2025 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fantastic talk on differential pathways of threat and deprivation across brain and behavioral outcomes from childhood > adolescence from Margaret Sheridan. Many open questions on how plasticity actually works. #flux2025

John Cryan’s microbiota-social cognition talk was a revelation and made me want to eat some sauerkraut and give some to all my neighbors. 🥦 🫐 🧠 🍏 🥬 @jfcryan.bsky.social #flux2025

🎓 FLUX is proud to spotlight Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova. Her research focuses on understanding how children's early language experiences shape their brain, cognitive, and socio-emotional development. Read about her journey, motivations, and advice for other young scientists: 👉 buff.ly/19APuWX

Is neural synchrony a dev. mechanism? How do we know? One methods insight - we should be cautious about interpreting brain synchrony w/o behavioral context. Our 2nd speaker, IM Haresign, wrote a great paper on this w/ E. Phillips & @profsamwass.bsky.social - learn more Sat @ 3! #flux2025 🧠⚡️🧠

I’ve wondered how we meaningfully interpret brain synchrony findings across regions in humans (eg motor v PFC). Going much deeper - @honglab.bsky.social will share how GABA- v glutamatergic neurons sync up - distinctly! - across two interacting mice - learn more 3pm Sat at #flux2025 🐁 🧠 ⚡️ 🧠 🐁

Great talk on combining behavioral and EEG data during parent-child dialogic reading to predict language outcomes from Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus at #flux2025 @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social symposium

My lab has an open post-doc position! We will begin reviewing applications as they come in. The post-doc will work with a vibrant research team at Penn State in the Department of Psychology and the Child Study Center. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic... 1/3

I am so excited to moderate this symposium at #flux2025. Please join us Saturday, 3pm in Hyde 1. Across 4 methods & stages (direct neural recording, EEG, fNIRS, fMRI | mice, babies, toddlers & adolescents) we'll explore whether neural synchrony represents a developmental mechanism. Please join us!

This times infinity. If you don't have time to read "Don't think of an Elephant" just watch Josh Lyman's perfect 30-second explanation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIYg... Every time we get hooked on refuting Trump's irrational claims, we lose the frame and support his.

Thank you @amandahess.bsky.social & @nytimes.com for this critical commentary on AI toys marketed to young children. We have no evidence that these kinds of toys support healthy development, and so many reasons to be cautious. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/a...

Tuesday: 3 of us on my corner Wednesday: 7. I banged so joyfully I chipped my spoon Thursday: a dozen Tonight: dozens. Soup pot? Bass drum. People walk by, ask what we’re doing, grin, & start clapping along. Join us every night at 8 to free dc. #freedc #fuckfascism 🥄 🎶 🥣 🍳 🥁

Fantastic coverage of the legal battle unfolding in DC. Who's in charge of my local police force? The people I elected, or the people attempting a coup? Notably - in addition to rescinding protections for immigrants Bondi's order is an attempt to punish protestors like me. #freedc

We just published an excellent commentary in Vaccine by @gavinyamey.bsky.social & Chris Beyrer breaking down how the current regime is laying waste to US vaccination programs & what we can do about it: ✅Congress must withdraw support for RFK Jr ✅Speak up...loudly ✅Study anti-vax movements ✅VOTE

I initially became a paid subscriber to @51st.news for symbolic reasons - to support local journalism. I am now relying on them for excellent coverage of the rapidly intensifying situation in DC, where the administration is now attempting to overrule our votes. #freedc 51st.news/why-d-c-is-t...

Turn down for what. 🔥 Proud of this movement & the way we organize and push back together. #HandsOffHeadStart #TogetherForHeadStart www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Fantastic round-up of what's happening in DC. Thank you @51st.news and @streetsensedc.bsky.social.

TONIGHT: It’s time for a new phase of national campaign work that puts pressure on institutions enabling Trump. You’ll learn to plan and execute a non-cooperation campaign, and how to coach others to do the same. Plus, Texas House Democratic leader Gene Wu joins us: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Super interesting new study from @joscelinrocha.com @drkoraly.bsky.social @kabuss.bsky.social V. Lobue, B. Ostland - "Multilevel growth models show that infant neg. affect decreased post COVID onset, contrary to hypotheses." onlinelibrary-wiley-com.proxy.library.georgetown.edu/doi/full/10....

Tonight and every night until the fascist occupation ends, we're banging pots and pans in the streets here in the district. See you at 8. #freedc #fuckfascism

Every serious media outlet should be immediately tracking down & bombarding Mike Johnson & John Thune with questions about why Congress is doing nothing in the face of this abuse of executive power, in the total absence of actual emergency conditions. No more free passes. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

D.C. residents rallied near the White House this morning to protest President Trump’s federal takeover of city law enforcement. Free DC led a rally near LaFayette Square this morning, where speakers called on D.C. area residents to fight back President Trump’s ‘fascist’ federal takeover.

The University of California system is publicly mobilizing against federal attacks. That’s historic. It's time for ALL of us in US #highered to act. Join our movement at standtogetherhighered.org. #academicsky #highered #standtogether 🔗 universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved/stand-up-for-uc

Trump will federalize D.C. police, deploy the National Guard, & send the FBI after homeless people to combat a made-up crisis in D.C. But on Jan. 6th when violent insurrectionists stormed the Capitol he couldn't be bothered to call the National Guard. Make it make sense.

My desk looks out onto a #DC street where I walk safely every night by myself. I live right on the edge of one of the highest crime areas in the city - and have for my entire adult life. Even in high crime neighborhoods, violence is rare, and it has declined in the last year.

The only place in DC where crime is up is the White House.

I have lived & worked in DC for ~20 years, including in largely peaceful neighborhoods w/ high crime rates. I have never been afraid to live here until today. “You will see them [national guard troops] flowing into the streets of Washington in the coming weeks” www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

“Aid is distributed by gunpoint by American mercenaries. It is inhumane, degrading, dangerous, and it violates every principle of humanitarian law.”

Our department is recruiting! New tenure-track, open rank faculty position in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan (emphasis on human cognition and artificial intelligence). apply.interfolio.com/169170

Inspiring and sobering research from @sherimadigan.bsky.social Thomas Robinson, Nilam Ram & Matias Dodel at #mediaandminds25

Good breakdown from @newamerica.org on the harmful effects of the new bill on children: www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Philly showin' up today

High Point, NC - NO KINGS #indivisible #50501movement #11Mstrong #nokings

Little Rock #NoKings

Anti-Trump 'No Kings Day' protesters endure the rain to demonstrate in Nashville, TN

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Af-0... Gavin Newsom’s press conference tonight was powerful. ♥️ 🇺🇸 ☮️

I just signed the Bethesda Declaration and urge you to do the same today, so that we all stand with NIH researchers as Battacharya appears before the Senate Appropriations Committee tomorrow.

“My family's resilience helped us flourish in America…When I think about the American Dream now…I think about my right to be fully human, with all the contradictions and complexities that entails. I think about achieving success without compromising dignity” Phillipa Hughes time.com/7274637/kenn...

This is a good explanation of the massive Medicaid cuts that nearly every House Republican voted for yesterday: www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

Thanks @joscelinrocha.com for inspiring/guiding us on #fnirshyper methods! 🧠 🔦 @umdleadlab.bsky.social

"As a Head Start student in the 1970s, Blalock loved reading books. She also enjoyed the school day routines of learning, meal time and napping. By the time Blalock was ready for kindergarten, she was reading above her age level." www.k12dive.com/news/Head-St...

BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

So powerful to see educators, parents and advocates gathered on Zoom for #daywithoutchildcare (in multiple languages 😍) - thank you organizers ♥️ @spacesinaction.bsky.social #dwcc2025

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.

Alert! Developmentalists & all who care about young children - the next few weeks are a critical period for federal budget development - this is an ideal time to get your voice out there on behalf of children. I have a template you can use to write a local op-ed. It's easy - I just sent mine in.

Super interesting article on birth rates, pro-natalism, feminist demography, and various versions of the future. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...