Article spotlight!💡 This paper reviews brain connectome development, which the authors posit is due to "a shift from segregation to integration, facilitated by... growth of short-range connections [then] strengthening of long-range connections." 🧠👶🏻https://buff.ly/lPXr4jI

I had so much fun at @cda-adolescence.bsky.social last week speaking about socio-emotional development and the transition to adulthood along side the incredible heartoforegon.org and americasucceeds.org organizations!

H/t @connormhaughey.bsky.social 1st pub from grad school! It was such an excellent group:)

First time at #ISDP2025! Great conference & great presentations by Circle Lab students!!

So exhausting..

Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.

SO excited to present the beautifully validated new deprivation & threat questionnaire- final answer to the question “but how do you measure this?” Lead author Angelina Tsai, grad student extraordinaire! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Great work, NIH

You will never convince me that throwing our trans and immigrant communities under the bus to appease hate is 1) morally justifiable 2) politically valuable. It’s neither. Political parties SHAPE social norms/narratives. We learn from one another what is okay. That’s social learning.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Guess what? Megan Davis shows that trajectories of cortical thickness in infancy in the prefrontal cortex (esp the MFG) predicts your working memory *eight* years later when you're 9 years old - out now at PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Outstanding presentation of the devastating cuts at NSF and their impact across multiple areas of scientific research and training. Angry at the impact now and in the long-term to US research. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

#BRAEN The new Brain and Environment has a special issue coming up edited by @evatelzer.bsky.social 😍 consider submitting: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/brai...

GREAT NEW JOURNAL investigating the impact of the social, natural, and built environment on brain structure and function (free to publish open access this year)! www.sciencedirect.com/journal/brai...

Amen sister

Congress needs to block this. This so incredibly detrimental to the health, welfare, and prosperity of the nation.

🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Diversity supplement for my grant was just canceled today. The graduate student who it was for just needed to pay tuition this summer so that she could defend her dissertation. She is, of course, a total superstar.😡🤬

New special issue on social media & the brain from #BRAEN www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Excited to share our new paper where we show on links between #greenspace exposure, brain development over time, and mental health and academic outcomes, now published in Biological Psychiatry. Led by Qingyang Li! @kingsioppn.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out this very cool initiative/project @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social ! I’m going to go let #salinemichigan know how great I think science funding is! Go hornets:)

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

Yesterday the NIH publish new directive- grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

Two newly-minted doctors this week!!! @nicolasmurgueitio.bsky.social and Lucy Lurie🥳🎉👏🍾

Super excited and proud to receive the Linda Speer award from @fluxsociety.bsky.social (fluxsociety.org/awards/linda...) See you all in Dublin!!! #Flux2025

And WHILE I'M HERE @connormhaughey.bsky.social will be joining me as a graduate student next year and he got an NSFGRP!!! IN THIS CLIMATE!

honors thesis defense o' rama in the CIRCLE lab - so many INCREDIBLE honors theses this year!!!

Hard agree. Let’s get organized, fellow academics!

Without NIH funding for research, "your mother's cancer will wait for a cure. Your child's genetic disorder will wait for a breakthrough. The research that could save lives may be delayed or never come." ~Melissa Byrn, UChicago @standupforscience.bsky.social #StandUpForScience2025

So excited to announce that I’ll be starting my PhD in Clinical Psychology at UNC Chapel Hill this Fall working under Dr. Margaret Sheridan @mabsher.bsky.social! Can’t wait to continue researching how adversity and experiences impact brain development across childhood and adolescence 🧠

🌍🧠 Exciting news! I am thrilled to be deputy editor of a new journal: Brain and Environment. #BrainAndEnvironment #Neuroscience sciencedirect.com/journal/brain-and-environment

Fellow professors #UNC please come! Useful time for us to come together and figure out how to move forward.

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) have compiled resources for defending our campuses and communities: www.defendingourcampuses.org