Happy Monday; TODAY'S THE DAY!! New ✨Sensitive Periods✨ content out NOW!! 🎤🎧🧠 This next edition of Sensitive Periods is a two-part miniseries featuring Dr. BJ Casey and Dr. Eveline Crone, and it discusses our current understanding of the adolescent brain.

What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In sum, SES dominates childhood brain organization. Zip code matters most. These findings have been at the forefront of my mind daily, with Darwin’s quote living rent free in my head: “if the misery of the poor not be caused by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great be our sin.”

🚨 New paper alert! 🎉🎉🎉 The largest meta-analysis to date on physical activity & mood in daily life is out in Nature Human Behaviour. An amazing effort led by Johanna Rehder & Markus Reichert et al. (2026)!

Now out in JAD! We (@olinotom.bsky.social, and a co-author group largely stemming from Pitt) looked at how functional connectivity during positive mood predicts anxiety treatment response in an early adolescent sample. authors.elsevier.com/a/1n1KUbXYj0...

The past 15 months have marked a dark chapter in US science; one that will require significant effort to repair. But I'm not interested in duct tape and bandaid solutions. Our system had problems before Jan 20th, 2025. So, @standupforscience.net is doing what we do best: TAKING ACTION. 1/7

To enable broad adoption, we provide an open-source, lightweight, publicly available processing tool for deriving ∆R2* from standard fMRI datasets, enabling scalable investigation into basal ganglia neurophysiology and its contribution to neuropsychiatric risk across the lifespan.

🚨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

📣 📣 I am beyond excited to announce I will be joining the Yale Dept. of Psychology as an Assistant Professor in July 2027! Deepest gratitude to my colleagues and mentors, without whom this would not have been possible. More to come—I'll be recruiting students and hiring staff this coming year!

Precision reward/affect fMRI study out now in HBM! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @dvsmith.bsky.social @olinotom.bsky.social @coopersharp.bsky.social and @shenghanwang.bsky.social Intensively sampled task + rest fMRI data with behavioral manipulation openly available on OpenNeuro! (1/2)

The CANDLab at Yale is hiring a new full-time research assistant! Excellent opportunity to gain post-bacc experience before applying to PhD programs in child and adolescent clinical psychology and neuroscience. 🧠 candlab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/YaleCANDLab_RA_2026.pdf

New preprint from the lab! Led by @martingell.bsky.social . There is something for everyone: brain-behavior prediction, latent variable modeling, test-retest reliability. 🧠📈📊 "Disentangling Brain-Psychopathology Associations: A Systematic Evaluation of Transdiagnostic Latent Factor Models"

Brain scans do not help here

Many thanks to @mattmattoni.bsky.social for presenting his interesting work in persons vs. people neuroscience this afternoon at @unirdg-cinn.bsky.social Read Matt's wise and varied papers: scholar.google.com/citations?hl...

New paper & a thread on the results 👇 ‘Reward-specific learning parameters change across normative adolescent development and are blunted in youth with high risk for depression’ acamh-onlinelibrary-wiley-com.ezp3.lib.umn.edu/doi/full/10....

Update: now it feels personal

In the big 2026 can we agree to not require a seperate document for all these items that are already in the manuscript file

Check out this cool new experimental study by Jonas Dora, et al on the effects of negative mood ☹️ and alcohol intoxication 🍺🍸on reinforcement learning!!

I was fortunate to write this paper with some of the smartest and most courageous folks in any room: @lluaces.bsky.social @sheilacrowell.bsky.social @junegruber.bsky.social @tinaboisseau.bsky.social @anthonyperillo.bsky.social @jenperillo.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social 9/9

Just accepted at Nature Mental Health: Crises and Opportunities for Psychological Science under Fascism https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nz42x_v3 1/9

🆕 New open neuroimaging dataset released! I’m happy to share that our Naturalistic Neuroimaging Database (NNDb3T+) is now publicly available! NNDb3T+ captures rich, multimodal brain activity in a naturalistic setting with 40 participants and over 160 hours of scanning!

Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization? @rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print): go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky 🧵👇

🧵8 We focused on fMRI studies of 🧠 networks… but there’s so much more neat idiographic work being done in other neuroimaging & psychology domains! See @mattmattoni.bsky.social's recent review for more thoughts on uniting these perspectives www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New work led by @mattmattoni.bsky.social “Overall, results suggest that BOLD activation to reward tasks, and likely other fMRI tasks, is more appropriate for within-person study than between-person study, highlighting a need for intensive longitudinal neuroimaging designs.”

🚨🚨New precision imaging study and open dataset 🚨🚨 Featuring almost 200 functional runs acquired in 3-4d intervals and behavioral manipulations focused on intraindividual study of the reward response - The Night Owls Scan Club (NOSC) With @dvsmith.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social!

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Delighted that PINE Lab will be accepting applications for PhD students to start Fall 2026! Please share with applicants looking for developmental & neuroscience programs? Our website is updated with current studies, questions, and guidance about fit: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/join-us

Final version!

Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev

📣 New preprint from the SCIMaP team! Across three studies, we show that communicating the economic impact of NIH funding cuts—especially with interactive quizzes and maps—decreases approval and motivates action to oppose the cuts, across the political spectrum. 🧵 1/8 osf.io/preprints/ps...

My dissertation / first RR is out now in Imaging Neuroscience! Lots of folks discuss how between-person heterogeneity may limit the utility of group-averages for brain functioning - we empirically tested that idea! doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Ugh..

🚨📚 New book! I’m thrilled to share that our edited volume, Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions (Springer Nature), will be out later this year. Co-edited with @thepsychologist.bsky.social and @dfareri.bsky.social — huge thanks to all our brilliant contributors. 🧵 (1/12)

The Academy of Psychological Clinical Science is offering dissertation awards to students in our member programs. Please see: www.acadpsychclinicalscience.org/07-07-25-apc... for all the details, deadline 9/1/25. We also need reviewers, details at same link!

Is anyone talking about the big design flaws in this study, e.g. 1) small N, btwn subject design, 2) v. heterogeneous sample, 3) writing prompt confounded with condition (really!), 4) vast number of measures with no preregistration? I can't believe this is getting so much press...

NEW: Statement from the PCI RR Managing Board on the withdrawal of Infant and Child Development as a PCI RR-friendly journal, and the decision by Wiley to refuse preprints that have been peer-reviewed by @peercommunityin.bsky.social / @pci-regreports.bsky.social Read here ➡️ osf.io/tn8mh

As a part of the @standupforscience.bsky.social Summer Fight for Science campaign, we want to host 1000 teach ins across the US between now and Sept 30th. Yeah, it’s a big, hairy, audacious goal. I know. Here is a running list of ideas, please scoop and do! 🧵🪡

ATTENTION New crowdsourced site collecting and sharing stories of public impact of research publicusaresearchbenefits.com Take a look and consider contributing. Let's make this as powerful as possible!

As @kypsychassoc.bsky.social and others have been saying, attacks on DEI have real consequences for healthcare! kentuckylantern.com/2025/05/07/l... Appreciate @kentuckylantern.com @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social for covering! @cherilev.bsky.social does great work that we needs funding!

An open, fully-processed data resource for studying mood and sleep variability in the developing brain | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Please consider making a public comment opposing the possibility of making NIH directors, program officers, and other staff (e.g. SRO, GMS) political appointees. This only took me ~90 seconds. Please repost. Thanks 👍

Chaewon Lee lead a (recently accepted) tutorial paper for psychologists who want to classify/predict using autoML: osf.io/preprints/os... autoML lets you conduct and compare multiple machine learning algorithms quickly without requiring computer scientist-level knowledge of optimization. Try it!

Statement from APA re/autism and what the science really says: updates.apaservices.org/autism

Dissertation ✅️

It's shocking how little is known about the brainstem red nucleus. In our new paper “The human brainstem’s red nucleus was upgraded to support goal-directed action” out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social we show that current thinking on the red nucleus is in need of a serious upgrade. rdcu.be/ehbOy

Writing for Local Impact - a new webinar on April 14 @spiantado.bsky.social will introduce participants to the @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social movement and explore how researchers can write effective opinion pieces for local newspapers. member.psychologicalscience.org/events/event...

This disconnect in research and practice priorities limits science-practice integration and suggests clinical researchers should focus more on within person questions. With @aidangcw.bsky.social @whitneyringwald.bsky.social Vera Békés Katie Aafjes-van Doorn Xiaochen Luo

We then reviewed six high impact journals in assessment, psychopathology, and psychotherapy. Between-person designs predominate.

We asked clinicians what kind of research questions are most important to them, focusing on questions that could be addressed with between and within-person designs. For practice, within-person questions are at least as/more important