The Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at UNL is hiring a Research Assistant Professor! Work with my wonderful colleague Tim Nelson on NIH-funded developmental/health projects and grow your own line of research. The DCN Lab is an amazing team with lots of opportunities and support.

Just wanted to post one more time to say that I am recruiting a Ph.D. student to work on my NSF-funded COMET study! There will be extensive opportunities for this student to conduct classroom-based data collection, write manuscripts, & share their research with both academic & community audiences!

Your h-index will not save you. Solidarity will. As the UNL AAUP president, I call on our faculty to stand together in the face of destructive budget cuts. thebugeater.com/uncategorize...

The National Center for Education Statistics is hiring two researchers to work on NAEP, the first green shoots after DOGE came through back in February. They limit to 150 applications, so move fast if interested. www.usajobs.gov/job/844948000 www.usajobs.gov/job/844947600

I am recruiting a Ph.D student to join my lab at UNL in Fall 2026! This student will be fully funded through my NSF-funded COMET study examining EFs, math achievement, and math attitudes in the transition from 2nd to 3rd grade. Learn more: www.jenna-finch.com/comet Please share broadly!

CYFS’ Lisa Knoche, Tammi Hechtner-Galvin and Katie Zabel, with Christen Million of Rooted in Relationships, joined ESU 13's Nici Johnson to host a Connections for Kids Coach Kick-Off in the #Nebraska Panhandle. Learn about CFK: bit.ly/3HoFgAW #TransformED #NurtureNebraska #ECE #GrandChallenges

CYFS research affiliate Jenna Finch, asst professor of psychology, is exploring the factors that shape students’ transitions from second to third grade. ▶️ Watch news story via KMTV 3 News Now: www.3newsnow.com/lincoln/unl-... #EdResearch #STEM #EarlyMath #NUforNE #GoBigResearch #NSFfunded

news.unl.edu/article/finc... I am so grateful to be able to do this work, especially at a time when federal support for education research has come to a halt. I didn't get this grant alone - thank you to my lab, past and present, who helped me run the (huge) pilot SMILE study for

If you teach cognitive psychology or related topics & are willing to share your favorite teaching resources (e.g., demos, videos), please reply to/quote this post, tag me in a new post, or send me email. I'll compile them, share the list, & keep updating it this summer. Let's inspire each other!

I am confident that LEVANTE will be among the most impactful work done in the next decade to advance our understanding of children's learning and development - what a great opportunity!

So your research area has been politicized and your federal funding cancelled, what now? I try to give some answers in this opinion piece for @nature.com 1/ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Highlighted in purple on my AERA presentation! I am not able to share tables or figures because of the personnel cuts to the Department of Education.

Nice to see all the education research orgs put out a joint statement calling for Congress to safeguard the (Congressionally established) IES and NCES I would have liked to see them underscore the historical dimensions a bit more (surprise!) 1/ www.aera.net/Portals/38/E...

I had a great conversation with my congressman's staffer this morning before I saw these great suggestions. They were very responsive and asked for an email with more information so they could look into this and see what can be done.

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...

In this op-ed, we - the presidents of SREE and AEFP - joined forces to argue for the importance of evidence on "what works" and how cutting such funding is not "efficient" - it is wasteful. www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...

Clever study looking at response time in completing surveys and cognitive outcome. A non-obtrusive way to gather processing speed data that relates to cog. outcomes. No formal testing of cog outcomes.

This is great work and aligns with something I have been saying for a while... humans enjoy working hard toward goals. It gives us a sense of purpose. I think the current emphasis on quick and easy solutions is making people feel lost (with impacts on mental health), including many college students.

Directly from the brilliant @geofflorenz.bsky.social

Hi! ECE & policy folks: I'm looking for a postdoc to join our (really terrific) SEE-Partnerships team, doing research on ECE access & workforce issues! Please spread the word! uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/...

High-quality curricula can move the needle on early learning, but implementation varies widely. We’re excited to start 2025 off with a new effort to systematically measure implementation readiness & target supports at baseline: fordschool.umich.edu/news/2025/u-...

This was a joy to create, especially with early career scholars in mind. All papers can be found here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Does anyone have an assignment they enjoy grading for developmental psych that has students engage with a (or multiple) scientific article(s)? I have tried many iterations of different assignments and want one I look forward to grading. Right now... not enjoying grading AI-written policy letters.

HDFS @ Purdue is hiring a research professor (assistant/associate level) focused on early childhood education. This position is a non-tenure, but promotable, track. View the ad and submit your materials at: careers.purdue.edu/job/Professo.... We will begin reviewing applications after January 2nd.

Special Issue at Developmental Psychology! New Approaches to Understanding How Early Experience Shapes Executive Function and Self-Regulation Skills Guest Editors: Sabine Doebel, Dana Miller-Cotto, and Jennifer McDermott @sabinedoebel.bsky.social @damcotto.bsky.social 1/3

Good morning! I put together an Ed Psych starter pack for educational psychologists and those who do educational psychology research. Let me know if you’d like to be included! go.bsky.app/2rLLNzP

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

Now more than ever community and support is needed. That’s why @sylviapperry.bsky.social and I are happy to solicit applications for the 3rd annual CASBS Summer Institute on Diversity. If you're a pre-tenure prof studying diversity, apply & repost! Apps due: Dec 11 casbs.stanford.edu/call-applica...

From IES 📣 Funding Opportunity! IES’s FY 2025 RFA for the Early Career Development and Mentoring Program for Education Research is available now. Applications are due March 7, 2025: ies.ed.gov/ncer/project...

Yes! I have been saying this for quite a while. Offering schools year-round would not only help to reduce income-based achievement gaps, but would also solve significant child care problems that exist for all parents of children too young to take care of themselves.

Gearing up to teach for the spring semester? I made some Powerpoint files with collections of activities I use in my classes--weekly checkins, warm-up activities, and exit tickets. You are welcome to download and adapt for your class! #EduSky #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

In addition to sending to @shariliu.bsky.social, if anyone wants to share their Dev Psych teaching tools more broadly -- send them to us and we'll set up an open repository! #devpsych #openscience

Looking for journal suggestions. I have an undergraduate who is finishing up her thesis. She pre-registered her longitudinal SEM model. The pathways of interest were all non-significant, but there are some interesting covariate effects. The RQs and hypotheses were empirically based & well-motivated.

How can the transparency of RT data pre-processing be addressed? With our checklist for reporting RT pre-processing decisions, published in @CORTEXjournal! This easy-to-grasp checklist will help to increase transparency & standardize data processing prior to statistical analyses.

Found while cleaning out my childhood closet (probably a decade+ too late, but that’s besides the point). Note that this box only contains “very special schoolwork” from 7th and 8th grade.

Good sources on the internet disagree, so I’m hoping someone here has the answer: “Graduates of masters and doctoral programs in…” Is it “masters” or “master’s” or “masters’” or… something else…?

I’m a fan of trying to quantify how often reviewers & editors check authors’ preregistrations (eg, by @syeducation.bsky.social), but also we should not forget that reviewers fail to check for deviations from a priori plans in 100% of unpreregistered studies. Because they can’t.

⭐️ postdoc ad ⭐️ I’m hiring a postdoc to work on our bilingual (Spanish/English) math language e-book project! careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Laf... Please share with anyone who may be interested. First round of review starts January 15th. Position is for two years and pays $70,000/year.

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

Most papers comparing clustered data methods use biostat/econ language, so I tried to write one using psyc/ed language that covers the origin of the independence assumption, how each method handles ind. violations, and types of questions best-suited for each method psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

The Bay Area Open Science Group has developed a really nice Open Science Team Agreement - this would be a great starting point for a lab manual! zenodo.org/records/7154...

The NYU Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is taking applications (Deadline DEC 13) apply.interfolio.com/135668 -NYU will award up to 6 fellowships in 2024 -Appointments are for two years -Fellows receive a $62,000; a $2,000 research allowance; and moving fees ($3,000)

I explained that dinner was at this time last week, but now with daylight savings, they have to wait another hour…

Now that it's job market season again Could hiring committees PLEASE recognize how It reinforces inequality to require grad students to pay for their market travel upfront? Unless they have rich parents they are ILLIQUID and this is SUPER STRESSFUL

So proud of this incredible paper led by my grad student Kimia Akhavein, just published in Cog Dev: shorturl.at/chk47 We show that preschool EFs uniquely predict accuracy and speed on arithmetic problems in elem school, controlling for early math abilities and longitudinal continuity in arithmetic.

yep, here you go! z.umn.edu/diversitypsy...

This whole thread is very thoughtful and useful for those who conduct peer reviews. I am going to try and write more to the AE (including emphasizing strengths of the work), as I move forward. Thanks!

I currently have two PhD opportunities available. One is on early EF dev in children born preterm, the other is on the association between attention and early EF dev. Please share or get in touch if interested :-) www.findaphd.com/phds/project... www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

What is your threshold for "in prep" work on a CV? Is there a point in your career where you remove these papers and just keep things under review/published? Thinking about myself as I prepare my CV for 4th year review, but also grad students on the job market...