2nd year grad students are no longer eligible to apply. Currently enrolled grad students must be in their first year, whether in a MS, BS-MS, or Ph.D.

Engage in policy work in bold new ways with SRCD. SRCD is building the nation’s go-to hub for trusted, evidence-based insight on child development, and we want you to be a part of it. https://www.srcd.org/child-policy-hub

🎓 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

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!

I’ve spent the last 15 years thinking about math skills that set kids up for success at school entry. Now, I’m excited to dive into new work on how math is conceived in California’s universal transitional kindergarten (UTK) funded through the Barbara White Bequest @berkeleyeducation.bsky.social

Bee news 🐝🍯🧪: Scientists have developed a honeybee "superfood" that could protect the animals against the threats of climate change & habitat loss. Bee colonies that ate the supplement during trials had up to 15 times more baby bees that grew to adulthood. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The updated version of the database of PhD fellowships produced and maintained by my team can be downloaded by anyone here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-... For each of the 187 fellowships, you will find a short description, deadline, $ amount, link, etc. Good luck!

In a second, we form expectations about the likely traits and behaviors of people we meet. How does this ability develop? How do others’ perceived gender factor into it? I’m thrilled to share a new paper now in press at Cognition with @andreicimpian.bsky.social and‪ @lucaspbutler.bsky.social. 1/6

We are looking to hire a new post-bac MRI tech! Great opportunity pre grad school! umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...

I wrote for Columbia University Press: I would like to say that whether to engage with the public is a career choice reasonably left to the individual scholar. In today’s world, I don’t think so. Everyone needs to find a way to express how our work matters. cupblog.org/2025/07/10/w...

NAEP science scores planned for release in June are now delayed, in the wake of Education Department cuts, via @hechingerreport.org @jillbarshay.bsky.social: hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

🚨Hiring for a postdoc in HCI, LS, & EdPsych!🚨 Looking for a postdoc to join my lab tomonag.org as a Humboldt Research Fellow (www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/apply/spo...). This fellowship is unique and comes with many benefits. Please see more details and apply by July 25! tomonag.org/wp-content/u...

My first dissertation paper is out in Nature Mental Health! 🤩 With colleagues from @tudresden.bsky.social and @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, we conducted a meta-analysis on the link between childhood trauma and interoception — our ability to sense internal bodily signals. rdcu.be/eu8bo 1/🧵

Alert! ... for the child development world! @fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪ The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive. Check here: docs.hbcdstudy.org and here: nbdc-datahub.org Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

Call for Manuscript Proposals! Special Issue on Intergroup Allyship in Current Directions @sylviapperry.bsky.social Submissions due July 18: www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

@angelicaalonso.bsky.social, @rachelromeo.bsky.social, and I wrote one of the top 10 papers (by citations) published in Child Development Perspectives in 2023! 🎉✨ How parent-child brain-to-brain synchrony can inform the study of child development: doi.org/10.1111/cdep...

Budgets reveal what universities are really about & what they truly value. As universities decide how to survive, will their budgets put people first? chroni.cl/4jsXQF3

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

Can we start May over again I wasn’t ready

Looking forward to sharing our work in today's symposium, entitled "Asian American Child and Youth Development: Contexts, Processes, and Outcomes" at #SRCD2025 #SRCD25 with Yoko Yamamoto, Tianlu Zhang, and Hua (Elaine) Luo

Thrilled to present our work at #PAS2025 and really enjoyed this interdisciplinary experience! Effective program implementation is critical for reaching families and making a higher impact.

⛔ NIH ended ALL of my grants mid-project, given LGBTQ health focus 🏳️‍🌈 ⚖️ So what am I doing? Suing RFK, Jr. As one team member shared in this story👇: "The threats to our work don’t just make me fear for my career — they make me fear for my safety.“ #SaveDemocracy #SupportScience #PublicHealth

LSC member @rachelromeo.bsky.social received the Graduate Mentor of the Year Award, awarded by the UMD Graduate School! Congratulations Rachel 🥳

Want to level up your computational neuroscience skills? 🧠💻 Apply for this hands-on course by EITN & @ebrains.bsky.social featuring lectures, tutorials & project work - from cells to whole-brain models! 📍 Marseille, France 🗓️ 19–28 Nov 2025 Deadline: 4 Jun buff.ly/8U4tgSf

NEW PAPER! I am really so excited the share this brand new paper led by @abifiske.bsky.social. Despite pandemic challenges, we assessed inhibitory control and its neural substrate (using fNIRS) from 10 months to 3.5 years in more than 100 children. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧪 NSF GRFP update! New graduate NSF fellowships will likely be announced this week for the GRFP (see bottom of 🧵 for why). First off, I'm *very* glad to hear of those going forward, given the otherwise bleak year so far for graduate training. Some observations... 1/12

Welcome to the LEAD Lab @ UMD! Located in the Benjamin Building and led by Dr. Rachel Romeo, we study how kid's early experiences shape brain development, language & learning! Using interactive games and non invasive brain imaging, we study how minds grow and develop! #LEADLab #UMD #neuroscience

Hey! Are you an American considering a PhD or a postdoc, and the funding / academic situation just went absolutely bonkers? Canada's federal funding awards just added eligibility for international applicants if at Cdn institutions. www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/NewsDetail-D...

Happy Valentine's Day to all the scientists and educators and people committed to knowledge and critical thinking skills 💗🫶👩‍🔬🧑‍🏫🧑‍⚕️ #sciart

National Parks Service Stonewall page on the Wayback machine vs right now. They wrote trans folks out of Stonewall.

Now do the same for the postdoc ones: K01, K99, and F99. My postdocs grant is still “unassigned”.

AERA and COPAFS have issued a statement on the sudden termination of 169 contracts within IES, including those that NCES holds for the collection and reporting of education statistics. Read the full statement: www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

LSC Director Yi Ting Huang and @langscistation.bsky.social Director Charlotte Vaughn will receive the Maryland Research Excellence Award on March 27th for “demonstrably elevating the visibility and reputation of the University of Maryland Research Enterprise.” Congratulations 🎉

An explainer about how health research funding happens and why this NIH funding cycle shutdown matters: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

👀 new paper alert! Over the last few years I have read & thought - a lot - too much!? - about whether/how neural synchrony (measured by #fNIRS) ⚙️mechanistically⚙️ supports child development. So E. Redcay and @rachelromeo.bsky.social and I wrote about what we know - and what we don’t. 🧠🔦 ⚡️ 🧠🔦 🧵 1/7

I'm baaaack! And just in time to promote the first empirical first-author paper from @alexamcd.bsky.social! Can parent-child relationships buffer SES & chaos risk factors to promote children's cognition and socioemotional skills? Find out! Article is free rn: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thrilled to be named among this year's @PsychScience Rising Stars 🥳 many thanks to my mentors for the nomination, and congrats to the other awardees!! www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...

🚨LEAD Lab Job Alert 🚨 Please share widely! Our fearless LEADer @rachelromeo.bsky.social is looking for our next Lab Manager! Please apply by 3/1 for best consideration for this fantastic job with a supportive team in College Park, MD! go.umd.edu/leadlabjob

“Costs have come down substantially, and while corporations were quick to pass on their increased costs to consumers, they are surprisingly less quick to pass on their savings to consumers,”

I am *so* excited for our lab's brain-themed storytime with the People's Book this Sunday, Jan 14 at 9:30 AM! We'll be reading the iconic Ada Twist, Scientist; playing show + tell with real brains; making brain hats; and sharing info about our PLANES project! Hope to see you there!

This was such a fun paper & started as an assignment for my grad neuro class! There are now dozens of studies of parent-child neural synchrony, but what do these mean for developmental science more broadly? Led by students Angelica Alonso & Alexa McDorman srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The LEAD Lab had so much fun at our holiday party playing Kahoot, participating in a white elephant gift exchange, and, best of all, drawing each other as snowpeople! Here's our team posing with the snowperson another beloved team member drew of them. ☃️