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...

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🚨📚 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

If you only support something when it's convenient, is it really your value?

Extremely disappointing & cowardly. The American Psychological Association is rescinding diversity requirements. Not due to any actual mandate from the federal government, but only because it may *someday* face pressure from the government www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

Today You Tube announced a new initiative......based on psych science and a report with APA!!!! Hooray!! YouTube and industry leaders announce the Youth Digital Wellbeing Initiative blog.youtube/news-and-eve...

Many psychological scientists are now calling for a “heterogeneity revolution,” focused on uncovering individual and contextual differences in experimental outcomes.

Damnit. I’ve been sucked in. The SAT has done more to reduce inequality in college admissions than probably any intervention other than maybe Pell grants and scrapping it because it picks up on bias in our educational system would be catastrophic for a whole generation

Amazing speech by @sarahmackattack.bsky.social inspiring us to be "bad" for the greater good - Embrace chaos and break the right rules. #StandUpForScience2025 #Philadelphia

There’s something emerging in all this: pushback (especially senior-level) is effective. For anyone in that type of role, (say professors with a big “P”), please note - this is not the time for hide-and-see; this is the time to use our privilege to protect those that don’t have it. Let’s step up 💙

🧵 Little late to the party, but really excited for our work integrating idiographic science and cognitive neuroscience to be out in NBBR! Collaboration with @aaronjfisher.bsky.social @kgates.bsky.social @mindimager.bsky.social @olinotom.bsky.social https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2025.106024

Averaging brain responses is not a great idea... #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.

Incredibly excited to be heading to UIC for my internship! Can't wait for the clinical and research opportunities, people to meet, and city to explore :) Also very grateful for the numerous folks who supported me throughout this process!

Check out this awesome project to help our field: sciencehomecoming.com

👉 "We ... consider two requirements of group-to-individual generalizability ... and suggest that most processes in cognitive neuroscience do not meet these assumptions. Consequently, interindividual findings are inappropriate for intraindividual inferences" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Are we still promoting science in these days of woe? Here's a gift link to a fantastic new paper from @mattmattoni.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Don't know if this will hit a target audience but despite working on my diss and internship interviews, my biggest accomplishment in the past week: a 3 billion chip hand in Balatro

So excited! A donor has made The Portable Mentor totally and completely FREE for anyone!!!!!! No royalties, no sign up, just download any/all of the 30 chapters of professional development advice!!! HOORAY!!!!! Equal access for everyone!!!! Check out the ToC! www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...

new viewpoint article forthcoming at Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science with @cassie-boness.bsky.social Thinking Beyond Substances: Why Behavioral “Addiction” Research must Move past Substance Use Disorder Paradigms osf.io/preprints/ps...

👋 hello! new Assistant Prof of Cog Neuro here! I study how the brain pays attention to what's important 🔎 with applications in mental health and neurodevelopment 🧠 arielleskeller.wixsite.com/attention #Neuroskyence #neuroimaging #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #ClinPsych #WomenInSTEM #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci

How does one get on these fancy starter packs

I have a joke about internship applications, but I can't afford to send it. (But seriously this is absurd and removes any relief from actually finally finishing these apps. How did people also manage in-person interviews???)

We wrote this paper to address that very concern (among others). doi.org/10.1525/coll...

There's a lesson in the Dartmouth SAT reversal about how it makes little sense to focus only on what information goes into a decision process and ignore how that information will be used. I do not expect that lesson to be widely taken to heart

It was an honor to be asked to speak on the Flux Sensitive Periods Podcast with the wonderful @mattmattoni.bsky.social & @elliektaylor.bsky.social ! I hope my perspective is useful! I'm cheering on everyone applying this cycle!!! sensitiveperiods.buzzsprout.com

⚠️ Please repost to spread the word! We have a page on our Resources for Researchers site now ALL about applying to psychology (clinical and non-clinical)/neuro graduate PhD programs! Tips from start-to-finish, example statements! www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...