Thank you to @alexusgramirez.bsky.social for an insightful Language Science Lunch Talk on how language practices, beliefs, and context shape children’s pathways to school readiness 📚🗣️

Join us on October 30th for our latest LSLT: Language Practices, Beliefs, and Contexts: Pathways to School Readiness with Alexus Ramirez.

The @umdleadlab.bsky.social and the world lost a bright star this week. Victoria was such a kind, dedicated, and passionate person. She was one of my first students, helping me set up my lab from scratch, and I am honored to have worked with her. There aren't words for how much we will miss her. ❤️

A few of my mentees are getting ready to apply for the #GRFP in Clinical Psychology. Does anyone have sample applications they’d be willing to share? #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share: phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo

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

So unbelievably proud of @alexusgramirez.bsky.social and my mentee Paola for her first ever poster presentation at UMD's SRI/REACH poster session today! Yay Paola!! 🥳🎉

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

No-cost extensions of NIH grants are no longer automatically approved drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/n...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

So excited to present at SRCD! Please let me if you will be there -- I'd love to connect!

We'd like to give a huge congratulations to Alex Haralanova, our Senior Undergraduate Research Assistant! Alex has been at the LEAD Lab since its beginning, so it was amazing to all watch her defend her honors thesis today. We are all so proud of you Alex and we can't wait to see what you do next!🥳🧠

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

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

As I would usually say on Twitter when GRFP results are announced: You're not a failure if you didn't get it! *MANY* (if not most) incredible researchers did not get the GRFP!! If you received one, you totally deserve it and CONGRATS!!!! If you didn't, welcome to the club of many rejections 😎

Senator Cory Booker on the economic value of the NIH and what we stand to lose with the Trump administration destroying scientific research

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

And before it is wiped from existence, here is our grant that received a *perfect score* last year. I really do hope we get to continue this awesome work. www.imls.gov/grants/award...

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025. www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...

Being a Latina, immigrant, & 🏳️‍🌈 in science/academia is exhausting. And w/ shifting politics, the weight of it all feels heavier. I’m tired of proving my worth & fighting for a seat @ the table. To every immigrant, Latiné, & 🏳️‍🌈 scholar feeling this exhaustion—you're not alone. We BELONG. Always have.

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

Very excited to share a new preprint from the LEAD lab on Inclusive Practices for fNIRS Research with Participants with Afro-Textured Hair, an amazing mixed methods study by Abria Simmons, @gavkhar-a.bsky.social & @elliektaylor.bsky.social! Check it out and share! osf.io/preprints/ps...

Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

Please share with undergrads! The CHILD Lab is one lab in USC's JumpStart program! JumpStart provides a pathway to PhD programs for undergrads & works with USC to invite students from outside colleges to apply for summer research opportunities in various subjects. Apps due Feb 28 (lnkd.in/gW4fZtwG)

Curious about what the LEAD Lab got up to in 2024? Check out our year in review: education.umd.edu/leadlab/news... Congrats to @rachelromeo.bsky.social @alexusgramirez.bsky.social @alexamcd.bsky.social @gavkhar-a.bsky.social @ellroche.bsky.social & the rest of our team for a fab year!

👀 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

New Publication 🎉 We examine the predictive validity of the QUILS:TOD--a quick, tablet-based language screener designed to assess children’s language as early as 24-months. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

go.bsky.app/75ZZntU Who else should we add? 😎

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...

Are you a #devpsych scientist/trainee looking for a space to connect, collaborate, & share resources? 🧠✨ Join our Slack community focused on building connections & sharing resources to support each other in this dynamic field! ➡️ join.slack.com/t/traineesin... #psych #psychSciSky #academicSky

Developmental Psychology Starter Pack go.bsky.app/9kHQS7i