I'm thrilled to be attending #SANS2026 this week! I'll be presenting "Prospection Explains Age-Related Increases in the Use of Situation Selection for Emotion Regulation" (P1-A-f-62) on Thursday, 4/16. Catch the highlights at the 3pm spotlight or come chat at the boards from 3:30-5pm!

I am thrilled to share that I’ll be joining the University of Notre Dame (@notredame.bsky.social) as an Assistant Professor of Psychology this July!☘️🧠 Please reach out if you're interested in joining my lab! More details to follow soon.

Loved being a part of this project team! And super interested by our finding that reward-related improvements in working memory emerge during early adolescence (vs. mid- to late-adolescence in other cognitive domains). Shout-out to Megan and Katie for leading this charge!

Our experiences have countless details, and it can be hard to know which matter. How can we behave effectively in the future when, right now, we don't know what we'll need? Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com , @marcelomattar.bsky.social and I find that people solve this by using episodic memory.

** Recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher! ** We are seeking a postdoc to help examine how brain networks might change within individuals across transitional times, such as adolescence & pregnancy! Please share widely and apply at the link! #NeuroJobs uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/...

I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠 Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...

📣New review 📣 Hot off the presses! This paper from a recent special issue in @fluxsociety.bsky.social was a collaborative effort between myself and co-lead author @rebeccahennessy.bsky.social with the support of our PIs Heather Brenhouse and Juliet Davidow. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

So grateful for this collab with rockstar @caitlyncody.bsky.social and our mentors! Excited to share our translational take on the neurodevelopment of anxiety in adolescence (and can’t believe my first publication is live!)

My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :) psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...

Seeking WV scientists! My dad (a non-scientist who works with scientists) is leading a FABBS delegation to discuss NIH funding with Senator Capito in August and needs to build the delegation. Please reach out and I’ll put you in touch with him! CC @standupforscience.bsky.social

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Are you heading to #APS2025?! ➡️ Check out posters from my rockstar RAs! Through adolescence, they examine... 💡 Metacognition across different contexts | Waverly Huang (III-84, Fri @ 12:30pm) ⚙️ Cognitive mechanisms underpinning emotion regulation strategy use | Shuyao Wang (VII-22, Sat @ 12:30pm)

Welp. I'm a postdoc whose NIH funding source has just been cancelled in a mass grant termination targeting Harvard. We've been using these funds to study how puberty affects the brain and adolescent mental health.

New paper with @catehartley.bsky.social How does the reward structure of the environment influence the specificity with which children, adolescents, and adults learn and remember information? See preprint 🧵 and paper for our efforts to answer to this! #PsychSciSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Stoked to be at my 1st in-person SANS this week! I'll be presenting "Emotion 😀😨 and Reward 💰 Information Influence Choice in Age-Varying Ways" at poster P2-B-31 tomorrow afternoon. Looking forward to conversation and feedback! #SANS2025

🧠💡 NEW PAPER ALERT 💡🧠 Together w/ Isabelle Jacques, @katieinsel.bsky.social, @arossotto.bsky.social, & Leah Somerville, the 1st project from my PhD is now out in JEP:G! How do children, adolescents, & adults decide when to think hard? Our study examines learning the value of cognitive effort.

Excited to share this brief review where @katieinsel.bsky.social & I discuss studying adolescence to understand how brains work! We highlight avenues for future collaborative work at the intersection of cognitive, computational, & developmental neuroscience 🧠 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Very excited that this fun collaborative piece with @aliocohen.bsky.social is now in press! We highlight how insights from adolescent brain development can shape and enhance computational models of learning.

Abstracts are due FRIDAY! Submit submit submit! 🧠💫

🌵Out now! Using an RL task that manipulates people's beliefs about agency, we show that exposure to & severity of early-life adversity is associated with lower learning rates & agency beliefs. w/ the brillant @thephelpslab.bsky.social, Kate McLaughlin, & Bryan Dong learnmem.cshlp.org/content/32/1...

DISI folks, we've made a starter pack of alums and past faculty so it's easier to find everyone here. Enjoy! And do tell us if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/AyYDTHa

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!!! Harvard's graduate student organization, Women in Psychology, is super excited to host the 2025 Trends in Psychology Summit (TiPS) conference in May! Abstract submissions for poster presentations, blitz talks, and sketchpads closes Friday, February 14th at 12:00PM EST.

Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social

📣📣📣 Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org

People use uncertainty to negotiate the explore-exploit trade-off in reinforcement learning. Do they do something similar during mental planning? This is what @haoxuefan.bsky.social, with me and @fredcallaway.bsky.social, has shown: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Starter pack for researchers studying the control of cognitive processes e.g., attentional control, inhibition, task switching, working memory, error adaptation etc go.bsky.app/12KTqED

Help us learn more about why we like listening to music! Our collaborative study at Northeastern University is seeking participants ages 7-17 years old local to the Boston area. For more info, email [email protected] & pls share! 🎸🕺🎧

Our lab is recruiting a PhD student this cycle! Apps for Emory are due in exactly 2 weeks & many of my awesome colleagues are also recruiting including @pf-hitchcock.bsky.social @vanessabrown.bsky.social @jaredmedina.bsky.social & more! More info: psychology.emory.edu/home/graduat...

🚨We're hiring a lab manager!🚨We're looking for a stellar post-bacc interested in studying emotions, supporting lab infrastructure, and building community. Please spread the word! See links in 1st comment for our mission and culture. Review starts 3/1! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/18407/r...

New preprint! Here, we examine how the specificity of learning computations adapts to the reward structure of the environment and influences memory across development.   osf.io/preprints/ps... Read on for more details. 🧵⬇️

🧠 My PhD lab is recruiting 10-13 yos to participate in paid online research studies. 💡 Know someone who fits the bill? Pls pass our info along to their parent/guardian! 🙋‍♀️ Have a child in this age range? Sign them up here: harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_.... 💖 Thank you! #AcademicSky #DevSci