We are hiring! Department of Psychology at the University at Buffalo is recruiting for a SUNY Empire Innovation faculty hire at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. The hire is focused on the study of human cognition and behavior to address gaps in learning, development, or education using AI.

We want to record a set of stimuli featuring children, thoughts on how to do this so they can be shared/reused? Does a parental release like for data sharing on e.g. Databrary suffice? Do you situate it inside a "task" so the consent process is clearer? #devscisky #psychsky

Last month, I launched my lab at Ohio State. Our lab website is now live, and we're recruiting graduate students this cycle! If you're interested in the cognitive (neuro)science of learning & memory, please reach out! www.momentslab.org

Always excited to publish papers with former undergraduate RAs! Here is the latest one that shows young adolescents' differential thinking about conflict with friends versus unfamiliar peers may be explained by differences in perceived stress. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

First blog piece from the new partnership between ISSBD and the Child and Family Blog! Check it out to learn more about parent- and adolescent-perceptions of daily mood: childandfamilyblog.com/parents-and-...

This right here. Most people don't really understand that this is happening. And even those of us that are following it, have uncertainty about the exact magnitude of what will happen.

Hopefully good news. Permanent injunction in dropping indirect cost rates www.statnews.com/2025/04/04/n...

Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

A recent trend at international academic conferences is that some American participants use burner phones or minimalist laptops. Their devices often run only browsers and basic software. This resembles the security measures travelers took 15 years ago when visiting China. rb.gy/erdz48

URGENT: students being told to self-deport because their visas are revoked. For issues as benign as a social media post. I'm disgusted and horrified.

New insights on loneliness: Oscar Ybarra writes on 4 prototype patterns of agency and connection that can influence loneliness over time-- with results suggesting that interventions may focus not just on social ties but on personal agency. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

ISSBD 2×2 Grant for Early Career Scholars: 2025 awardees announced! Congratulations to: 🔹 Dr. Orok Afor Betek Mary & Dr. Galia Meoded Karabanov 🔹 Dr. Narcisa Prodan & Dr. Meng Dai 🔹 Dr. Emmy Reilly & Dr. Rose Opiyo 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/3R0hiNh #ISSBD #DevelopmentalScience #EarlyCareerResearchers

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

The field of gender and sexual minority (LGBTQ) health is being erased. Hundreds of ongoing NIH grants being immediately terminated. Deb Umberson and my decade long longitudinal study on marriage and health joined the termination list last night.

🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

Having recently lost a friend to a chemo-resistant cancer, I'm deeply saddened to see scientific progress slowing down... This scientist's NIH-funded work on a new drug for chemo-resistant breast cancer is now on hold indefinitely. www.breastcancer.org/news/nih-fun...

The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“An analysis suggests that a cap on overhead costs for research funded by the National Institutes of Health would cause a $6.1-billion hit to the overall economy, as well as a $4.6-billion reduction in labor income.”

This is truly amazing. 85% accurate test in 45 minutes. The work was funded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Good thinking on the part of Trump/Musk to cut its funding. Make Cancer Great Again.

At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:

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.

The Stand Up For Science website has been updated. Find your local protest site! March 7! Get out there! standupforscience2025.org

The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.

School structure explains age group differences in friend selection similarity - Molly Selover, Mary Page Leggett-James, Goda Kaniušonytė, Brett Laursen, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #IJBD #ISSBD #School

Hey - please help save jobs and lives! Anyone who works at a university, who works on medical research, or could benefit from medical research is at risk! Please tell them to click the link below. Takes 2 seconds, literally. click.info.apa.org?qs=09c745fe0...

When Elon was a kid, survival for ALL, the most common childhood cancer, was <10% Now it’s >90% due to funded collaboratives (high indirect costs) whose work ultimately SAVES THOUSANDS OF LIVES EVERY YEAR. For other cancers there’s still so much progress to be made. I think it’s worth it.

Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

is it woke to want to end cancer?

The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.

On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

A new NIH directive indicates that all current NIH grants (starting Feb. 10) and any new grants will have their indirect cost rate cut to 15%. THIS IS INSANE and of course illegal. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

As the executive branch initiates rapid orders/changes, and agencies scramble to keep up, implement, or pause implementation of each order, clear, fast communication is needed within the psychological community. This new site will have all of the latest updates you need: updates.apaservices.org

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

Another crazed change from the Trump Administration: removing the NIH No-cost extension form

- 10,000 research grants flagged for review by NSF Program Directors - Reviews due by 5 p.m. today - They flag grants with "broadening participation" language, foreign aid, climate science, domestic energy, and "discriminatory programs including illegal DEI"

Here's a text document with the words docs.google.com/document/d/1...

🚨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.

If your research could be affected by such policies, you can use OSF or similar services to post a preprint with a CC-BY license to ensure it is accessible to everyone: osf.io/preprints OSF is open source, free-to-use, and maintained by @cos.io a 501(c)3 charity.

CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System data can be found through link below. Share widely so folks can find it. 🙏🏼 web.archive.org/web/20241221...

Currently putting together SRCD SECC Conversation Hour "Building Your Career: Postdoc and Academic Job Market Insights" to take place during the conference. Who has been on the postdoc and/or job market **this** year and can talk about their experiences and will be at the SRCD conference?

The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving. osf.io Contact [email protected] if you need assistance

Happy to share the product of a very enjoyable collaboration, led by Sakshi Ghai, on bridging inclusivity and open science principles and practices: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Duty to Warn: 77 Nobel Prize winners signed a letter imploring senators NOT to confirm RFK Jr., Trump’s highly controversial pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Warning that Kennedy is an existential threat to “important and highly respected institutions and…

I hope this is helpful to parents everywhere!! mashable.com/article/four...

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich statement on federal grant freeze: "Trump is clearly willing to pummel New Mexicans and the American economy for his twisted and deranged agenda and fragile ego. But the Constitution is clear: the president cannot override, delay, or rescind Congress’s funding laws."