New campus building and workspace brings so much joy and gratitude! 🌳🏫 Kicking off my first year in the Stanford GSE 📚

Shameless plug that I'm on the job market! As a postdoc at Stanford's Center on Early Childhood, I study how children navigate growing up in poverty, w/ attention to both the challenges they face & the adaptive strengths they develop. To learn more & download my CV, see www.meriahdejoseph.com

Words and gestures help tune infant attention before they can speak. New UC Davis study finds babies focus longer when object labels ("bear") are paired with spatial words ("here"), and even longer when paired with gestures like pointing. ucdav.is/4lYtXgL

Interested in applying to graduate programs or research positions in psychology? Want more information and feedback on your submission materials? Then Harvard’s Prospective Ph.D. & RA Event in Psychology (PPREP) Is for you!! psychology.fas.harvard.edu/pprep More info in the link!! Please retweet!

Calling @isdp.org members! To increase feelings of belonging and support, the ISDP DEI working group is establishing affinity groups. Tell us what types of affinity groups you would like to join or lead. Affinity groups may meet at the 2025 meeting in person or remotely. forms.gle/cV3WXV4iaFj3...

Please share with trainees in the San Diego area! The International Society for Developmental Psychology @isdp.org will have a limited number of waivers available for local trainees (undergraduate, graduate, postbacc, and others) to attend the 2025 annual meeting! 🌴 Apply via QR code/link on flyer:

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

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Exciting news to share: As of June 12th, I have completed my PhD in Psychology at UC Davis! I am so grateful to my advisor @camhostinar.bsky.social, lab @seslab.bsky.social, and department @ucdavispsych.bsky.social for supporting me over the past 6 years! Here's to the next step – postdoc!

Alert!!!! “An Action Networks Model for Pain” We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it. 👉 thread below 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause. Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974 Or help us spread the word 💫

🎉 Congratulations to Manisha Biswas for winning the #SocialSciences category in this year's #DanceYourPhD competition. Watch the entire video on the power of collective synchrony—and learn more about the other category winners: scim.ag/4lSpjCl

We are excited to attend #SRCD25! Here are presentations from members of the Social Environment and Stress Lab. We look forward to sharing our work and seeing what everyone else has been working on!

SRCD week! Looking forward to the conference and being back “home”. Our symposium, “Bio-behavioral synchrony across contexts: Within-dyad analysis and methodological considerations”, is on Thurs, May 1st from 10 to 11:30am in 209AB. 🧑‍🧒 Hope to see you there! #SRCD25

Rümeysa Öztürk hasn’t been given her asthma medication and has had three asthma attacks, putting her life in danger and possibly violating disability civil rights. New from me with @hurwitz.bsky.social for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Walked out of lecture to find the Sheepmowers! Sheepmowers.org @ucdavis.bsky.social 🐑🩵

Tell Congress to protect crucial medical research funding #saveNIHresearch ucal.us/saveNIHresearch @uofcalifornia.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

New review from Jess Morrel & the @hertinglab.bsky.social exploring links between air pollution and the developing brain. tl;dr: this literature is growing, but there are still gaps in time (sensitive exposure windows, timing of exposure -> brain changes) and space (most data from US/Europe)

Hearing from all corners of HHS this morning about a total bloodletting — firings of scientists, analysts and many more as delayed RIFs take effect. Many folks didn’t see early AM email and showed up, only to be turned away when badges didn’t work. Was sent this photo of long lines at one HHS site.

Welcome back to campus, Aggies! We hope you have a great first day of spring quarter 🌷 #OurUCDavis Image description: Students walking and biking by on campus with light pink spring blooms in the foreground.

I know not everyone can keep up with all the grant terminations, but it’s important to know what we’re losing so I’ll try to compile them here. First is a study on intimate partner violence with perinatal women (note: the #1 cause of death during pregnancy is homicide) bsky.app/profile/rebe...

Spring conference season is kicking off… holding a poster workshop next month for undergraduate researchers. What poster tips or tricks do you have to share?

📣 Call for submissions: The ISDP DEI Committee is seeking submissions for a symposium on the intergenerational transmission of trauma – see the call for more information! @isdp.org docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#NIH PIs, check the federal register tomorrow. Nothing is final until you receive your NoA. Nothing is confirmed until it's in the FR. If you have a pending application, check eRA. Thanks, @jeremymberg.bsky.social.

📣 Call for submissions: The ISDP DEI Committee is seeking submissions for a symposium on the intergenerational transmission of trauma – see the call for more information! @isdp.org docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This feels like scientific hell for us, but I can only imagine how it feels for our POs. They must be gutted inside. One day we will learn of their heroics to try to save one of the greatest science funding agencies in the world. For now, we are all stuck and suffering.

Larger view of the crowd at #standupforscience2025 Sacramento

Stand up for Science in Sacramento @standupforscience.bsky.social

By @katherinejwu.com "The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,” The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal. Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled. All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

Our #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨ ✅ two-years full-time PAID research ✅ $41,000 annual salary +benefits ✅ personalized grad school prep & cohort of peers ✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds ✅ dedicated mentors + more! z.umn.edu/minds Please share ✨

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

A smile on this Monday morning 😊

Keep sharing your JOY ✨ Keep celebrating your PhD defenses, job offers, and awards! Keep telling us ALL the good things. Joy & Hope are what keep us going when things look bleak. They are also forms of resistance.

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

Mid-week sunshine ☀️

I'm thrilled to share this new paper led by the amazing @ellroche.bsky.social on unpacking caregiver-child neural synchrony, and thoughts for moving forward in this field. This is a must read! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Developmental Psychology Starter Pack…Part Two! go.bsky.app/ERzYGod

Excited to share our new article in DCN! In this systematic review, we summarize research on outdoor air pollution exposure and child brain outcomes. We also provide research and policy recommendations related to this issue. 🧠🌎 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to share our new paper!

Excited to kick off the 2024 APS Annual Convention SO soon! Presenting this week? Share using #APS24SF so we can repost and help spread the word!

Several of our lab members will be presenting at #APS24SF this week — can’t wait! Stop by our posters if you are interested in stress, social relationships, and adolescence!

Psych Spring Conference Day! Organized by PsychSA @ucdavispsych.bsky.social

This is an amazing video produced for our kickoff ceremony of the Ann S. Bowers Women's Brain Health Initiative, led by @emilyjacobs.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX5u...

My op-ed is out today in the NY Times! I wrote about the surprising evidence that school-based mental health programs make teens feel worse, the proliferation of social media mental health content, & the value of comprehensive solutions to promote youth mental health. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/o...

Hi #DevSci! What are your go-to resources for grant writing?

November 1st in Davis CA

Couldn't be more proud of a paper📝 than this one, at such intense times in history! Beyond grateful to participants in the midst of a global pandemic😷 to contribute data📈📊 and hair💇‍♀️ of kids to help advance our scientific understanding of the effects of experienced a pandemic on young people!🙏