My quote of the day Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way. Scott Pelley

ALRIGHT SCIENCE ACTIVISTS! Here is what to expect in the next couple days from @standupforscience.net: ✨ Our organizational comment on OMB-2025-0034 ✨ A tutorial on HOW to make a good comment for orgs and individuals ✨ Emergency Meeting Recording!! ✨ Wide press/media coverage

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

🚨Preprint Alert 🧠 Our new preprint „Menarche onset is an inflection point for mental health and brain development“ is now online! 👉 Preprint available here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨Preprint Alert🚨 Our new preprint 'A Scalable fMRI Estimate of Basal Ganglia Brain Tissue Iron for Use in Developmental and Translational Neuroscience' is live!! lnkd.in/gpG9naba

Article spotlight! BIBSNet: A Deep Learning Baby Image Brain Segmentation Network for MRI Scans. BIBSNet provides a viable alternative for segmenting the brain in the earliest stages of development. buff.ly/w4HHx7h

TEDx PDX 14 speaker @uoregon.bsky.social Knight Campus faculty Dr. Bala Ambati talks about myopia - what causes it, why it’s increasing. I was most fascinated that the retina has insufficient dopamine in childhood myopia. ambati.uoregon.edu

TEDx PDX 14: Keely Cat-Wells at shares her journey from dance to medical challenges illustrating the disability employment gap, and creating her own “option C” - C Talent, and Making Space, a talent and learning platform of opportunities and education for disabled professionals. www.making-space.com

TEDx PDX year 14 here we goooo! John Branam of Get Schooled leads off with a powerful idea to fight the disparities in support and resources launching late adolescents into careers and adulthood. Solution: closed-universe, agentic AI coaches in partnership with real human counselors. getschooled.com

NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October. No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out. Why...? 1/x source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 🟦🧠 #academicsky

Next up: a panel on navigating uncertainty in the future of work for young people @cda-adolescence.bsky.social including @candiceodgers.bsky.social, Mimi Haley + Jaime Jimenez from NYEC, Vicki Phillips from NCEE. Core message here is let young people lead. 1/

Incredible opening keynote for @cda-adolescence.bsky.social summit on supporting youth and economic opportunities in the transition to adulthood! Lisa Lawson, CEO @annieecaseyfdn.bsky.social, spoke about their initiatives to help all young people thrive. 1/ www.aecf.org/series/thriv...

This is a gutting visual. The effect is staggering already, but the losses will escalate exponentially.

Ever wonder how much your fMRI preprocessing choices shape your results? 🤔 Register now for the #SANS2026 pre-conference workshop: Navigating the fMRI Multiverse Learn best practices in fMRI preprocessing and explore how analytic variability affects reproducibility through multiverse analyses

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

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on our NIH-funded R01 which is a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (13-20) doing EMA and passive text sensing! Please apply, especially if you have experience in the analysis OR collection of these data. PLEASE SHARE!! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE

I am escorting the Crespo-Gonzalez family, including their seven year old daughter, back to Oregon now. Out of respect for the family, additional information is not being shared at this time.

More on NSF funding data A deeper dive into the numbers of awards by Directorate. 1/9

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Please stop saying the bill allows "no more multi-year funding" - or at least be clear the 'more' is in reference to disastrous FY25 levels. The bill allows 39% MYF, same as in FY25, which contributed substantially to a 24% drop in new research. The bill has some wins. MYF is not one of them.

Did Trump’s 2024 re-election make it okay to be openly prejudiced? New work from @chriscrandall.bsky.social suggests it did. The more negatively Trump spoke about a group, the more okay it became to express prejudice (and the more prejudiced people were) towards that group after the election.

Basic Experimental Studies Involving Humans (BESH) will no longer be subject to the requirements under the NIH Clinical Trial Definition. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Can we please, just for a moment, focus on the guns that are killing our kids and not their phones.

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one. It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

This website update is unacceptable anti-science that seems designed to be misleading. As pointed out in the article, many high-quality studies run over the past ~25 years, involving millions of people in total, have shown there is no link between vaccines and autism. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Check out this overview of amazing work on youth voting! 🗳️ @dcosme.bsky.social and colleagues present a developmentally-informed approach that will support youth civic engagement and break the disempowerment cycle. This is so important, because young people are the future of our communities.

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.

In an over 2-mile walk, hundreds of students made their way from Little Village Lawndale High School to the Little Village Arch, denouncing recent ICE action and supporting immigrant communities.

If we keep saying this generation is being destroyed, how will adolescents ever believe in their own potential? My TEDx talk is live on @ted.com. Changes in their brains, bodies, and social worlds create opportunities for young people to grow & thrive - with our support. www.ted.com/talks/jennif...

Papers from July to Sept 2025 at AMPPS are killer. We don't have formal print issues, but we have this-- journals.sagepub.com/toc/ampa/8/3

Vanderbilt University's Peabody College is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Clinical Psychology (child/family focus) with expertise in AI methods (ML, NLP, LLMs, CV). 📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418 Please share!

The Biological Psychiatry family of journals is now officially on Bluesky! Follow us for the latest research in psychiatric neuroscience, cognitive neuroimaging, and global open science from our three leading journals.

Call for Editorial Fellows at Developmental Psychology! *Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD) *Commitment to addressing the needs of underserved populations or increasing access to psychological knowledge & publishing *1-yr term; $1,000 USD www.apa.org/pubs/journal... @apajournals.bsky.social

🧠📊 New research examines potential bias in brain age algorithms across racial groups 📈 Study of 6 popular algorithms found lower accuracy for African American participants (r=0.51-0.85) compared to White/Hispanic participants (r=0.57-0.89)/1

If you need a little hope this morning - the current tween trend involves decorating clothespins with affirming messages, then clipping them on friends' backpacks when they're not looking. Here are a few that my 11-year-old decorated this weekend ❤️

The people doing the non-glamorous government jobs right now are really putting in the work. thank you tireless NIH workers. 💕🫡

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Kirsten Donald (Univ of Cape Town) challenges the field #flux2025 about the importance of studying brain development in Africa, which will have 40% of the world’s children by 2050. New tool: Hyperfine 64mT SWOOP MRI enabling greater access to imaging. @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Brilliant talk on gut microbiome, brain, and development by John Cryan (Univ College Cork) #flux2025 “Microbiomes were here first - they’re like friends with (social) benefits.” Consider birth exposures, but remember microbiome is modifiable. @fluxsociety.bsky.social

It’s almost like science fiction - Ron Whelan from Trinity College Dublin tells #flux2025 about the future of longitudinal remote EEG - 2D, 1 atom thick electrodes!!! 🤯 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Margaret Sheridan inspires us all with reflections and insights at her Linda Spear mid-career award talk 👏 Reminding us of the incredible growth and value of our field! #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus gave a dynamic talk on synchronization of behavior and brain during storytelling in multiple contexts: Hebrew and Arabic, physical books vs tablets, phone interruptions, and interventions! #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Science of Learning symposium #flux2025 - sponsored by the Jacobs Foundation. First up: the LEVANTE research network which embraces open science principles to studying learning variability in children around the world. @fluxsociety.bsky.social

“Science is not only what we produce, it’s how we relate.” 💚 #flux2025 — President Eveline Crone @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Eveline Crone gives thoughtful opening remarks at @fluxsociety.bsky.social - thanking all the organizers and also acknowledging our challenging times. Very excited for the next 3 days of developmental cognitive neuroscience in Dublin! #flux2025

Excited to share that my TEDx talk is finally available online. I loved sharing what the science shows us: that it's time to reframe adolescence - from problem to ✨ potential ✨ 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8V...

Let's please keep the remaining staff at NIH, NSF, etc in our thoughts even as you lose sleep over your own lab and scientific career. They are enduring pure chaos to try to hold the fort. See snapshot from wapo.st/4feKKuu (gift 🔗) saying they are "barely holding it together"