Excited to present at @CogSci2025 tomorrow at 1pm in Salon 6! Looking forward to presenting alongside incredible cognitive scientists @cvales.bsky.social, @elainewang.bsky.social, and @junyi.bsky.social ✨

Come see my poster at cogsci! My grandma says it’s great

My latest opinion piece. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Please share widely! #NPSP supports people applying to Psychology PhD programs in the US, including students from underrepresented groups. We're accepting applications til May 23 for mentees (undergrads/postbacs) & mentors (grad students/postdocs)! z.umn.edu/NPSP25-26

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

Woo!! So excited to be cohort-mates!

Anyone looking to take an amazing clinical psych student who would come to grad school with an NSF GRFP in hand? Interests in stigma, adversity, but flexible! (Side note that it is awful that nsf doesn’t let you defer, apply next yr w/grant in hand, and just count that as 1 of 2 deferral yrs)

Glad to see Princeton's president stand up for universities even after the administration suspended their grants. "we have to be willing to speak up, and we have to be willing to say no to funding if it's going to constrain our ability to pursue the truth.” www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

Wesleyan President Michael Roth gets it and — more importantly — says it out loud. time.com/7272520/appe...

“Without the support of my community, I would have never pursued a career in science”, writes Chantal Valdivia-Moreno from Chula Vista, CA 🥑. Now research cuts threaten that community: its health, economy & children’s futures. 🧪🏠 @talvaldivia.bsky.social www.thestarnews.com/we-owe-it-to...

As part of @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social ng.bsky.social, I wrote an op-ed in my local paper about how cuts to federal funding put the present and future health of our communities at enormous risk. www.thestarnews.com/we-owe-it-to... @cantlonlab.bsky.social @spiantado.bsky.social

"College administrators across the nation are closely watching whether Columbia acts with deference or defiance." Columbia: please, please, pretty please, choose defiance. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

“Framing these actions as a defense of Jewish students not only distorts reality but also puts Jews at greater risk.” www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

Excellent excellent excellent from Princeton president and constitutional/ political theorist Chris Eisgruber. There's been far too little of this kind of thing; here's hoping others follow his good example. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

As part of @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social, I wrote an opinion piece for San Antonio Express News on the dangers of cuts to federal science funding for today and tomorrow's scientists: www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm... @cantlonlab.bsky.social @spiantado.bsky.social

Over 200 academics across the country, and across fields, have signed on so far. The full letter and current list of signatories (updated periodically) can now be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

📣 From Kerem Oktar & Tania Lombrozo: How aggregated opinions shape beliefs

woooooo! Out in Child Development: "Learning Loopholes: The Development of Intentional Misunderstandings in Children" paper: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... preprint-pdf: www.tomerullman.org/papers/kids_...

If, like me, you (a) oppose research funding cuts to US institutions and (b) are Jewish, please consider signing this open letter: forms.gle/prnRbq69a6YN...

So so excited to be starting my PhD at Yale this fall with @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social!! If you know me you know this is the dream! Huge thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social, @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social, @reutshachnai.bsky.social, Tracy Gleason, and @wellesley.edu for helping me get here

The platform I run, Children Helping Science, is supported almost entirely by US government science funding, both directly and in collaboration with CHS researchers. Here's the note we sent to users today - we need help gathering your stories and citations! Submit here: forms.gle/zFnzrVURntdZ...

Overparenting can hold kids back—but our research shows that framing tasks as learning opportunities helps parents step back and foster kids' independence! ✨ Read more in our latest Psychology Today piece: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/deve... @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social @mika-asaba.bsky.social

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations. psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

Literally does take under 1 minute, even if you edit the message to include what your professional role is. ...also I know this is risking Discourse but IMO this is a case where you should definitely go ahead and throw a "Dr." into the title/prefix field if applicable.

Now hiring for two lab manager positions at Stanford! Hyo Gweon and I are coordinating joint searches since our labs collaborate frequently. Please join us! careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc... and careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-coo...

I am hiring a lab manager to start ~ July 1st. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

SO excited for you!!!!

Source: www.wsj.com/articles/wha... h/t @himself.bsky.social

Here are my slides from at the World Summit AI in Qatar today: drive.google.com/file/d/1_bgG...

New Paper! Adults differ in their ability to generate emotion and non-emotion words, but how these develop is unclear. We found both increases with age, plateau in adolescence, and are correlated. Negative words were the most common. Emotion fluency may be a subtype of verbal fluency. osf.io/h3gtp/

Huge congrats to @talvaldivia.bsky.social on her first first-author paper accepted at Emotion! An outstanding contribution to what we know about how children, teens, and young adults bring to mind emotion words. Check it out! Many thanks to coauthors for an excellent collab! osf.io/preprints/os...

Overparenting is on the rise and hurts children’s motivation starting in early childhood. How can we help parents step back? Our new paper in Child Dev shows that pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting. srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

For decades, developmental psychologists have noticed that optimism declines with age. Why does this presumably good thing decrease across development? In this Nature Reviews Psych article, @jessicas.bsky.social and I draw from prior hypotheses to offer an integrated account.

new paper out with @ashleycleung.bsky.social and dan yurovsky in child development! 📄🔓: doi.org/10.1111/cdev... brief 🧵 below on our findings!