I am thrilled to share a new manuscript, out in Scientific Reports: Examining associations among maternal stress, social support, and the infant gut microbiota. In collaboration with @fquerdasi.bsky.social, @drbcallaghan.bsky.social, and @nataliebrito.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hadley Wickham made a GenZ version of dplyr 😂 hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

Love my students - can’t believe two of them are assistant professors 🥰 @denisewerchan.bsky.social @sarahcvogel.bsky.social

Our department is hiring two positions (2026 and 2027 start dates) - come be my colleague! apply.interfolio.com/175428

Interested in early life stress, self-regulation, and the gut-brain axis? Apply to work with Sarah at UMass Boston! She is an amazing researcher and mentor! ✨ www.sarahcvogel.com

The Developmental and Brain Sciences PhD program at UMass Boston is recruiting, and I am planning to accept a student for Fall 2026! Join our info session on 10/24 to learn more: go.umb.edu/register/?id... or check out our department website: www.umb.edu/academics/pr...

Come be my colleague! We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of developmental psychology at the University of Denver. Please share with anyone on the job market this year! jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨ Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21. Please share widely! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share: phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo

A natural experiment provides evidence for promoting moderate-vigorous physical activity: the importance of walkable cities www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Delighted to share Resources for Researchers webpage has received a 2025 Commendation from @improvingpsych.org! We look forward to continuing this work to help everyone navigate academia and help academia be more welcoming to everyone! www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

The BASE Lab is hiring. See below for more information, and please share! www.bu.edu/cdl/files/20...

The question isn’t whether people like my daughter have something to offer. It’s whether society is finally ready to stop measuring value with the wrong scale. Autism doesn’t destroy families. Ignorance does. Isolation does. Shame does.

For decades the NIH has led a public health campaign credited with saving thousands of babies from dying in their sleep. The administration's cuts come as sleep-related infant deaths have been rising.

Poster: Exploring the relationship between conduct problems, callous-unemotional traits, and executive function in middle childhood Friday, May 2, 2025 4:40 PM Poster Number: 161

Don't miss @nicolehuth.bsky.social's presentations at #SRCD25!! Symposium: Examining Adversity and Biomarkers as Predictors of Emotion Regulation Development from Infancy through Emerging Adulthood Thursday, May 1, 2025 10:00 AM Room: 205D

Lab writing retreat. Reconnected and reaffirmed what really matters. Not gonna let anyone dictate the kind of science (or scientists) allowed

In light of all the chaos and uncertainty around us, I wanted to take a moment to share some ✨good news✨ I am thrilled to announce that this Fall I will be joining the University of Massachusetts Boston as an Assistant Professor of Psychology!

It feels like things are hitting a tipping point. Key debrief items: - The Harvard letter - FDA food safety inspection - Financial devastation of NIH, NOAA, USGS - DOGE hits NSF - grant terminations - Doublespeak & disinfo And more This was Week 13 buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

I have a new Substack out today, on the new science of breastmilk timing and composition, and why it tells us that breast pumps are a poor, and particularly American, substitute for the real maternity leaves that women get in other countries. darbysaxbe.substack.com/p/the-proble...

🧵 US states that implemented abortion bans saw higher than expected infant mortality rates, with larger increases among Black infants and those in southern states, according to this analysis of US national vital statistics data from 2012–2023. ja.ma/4aVchPn #MedSky

To vote in the election to defeat Eric Adams you must register in the Democratic Party in NYC before Valentine’s Day vote.nyc/page/party-a...

2024 had some twists and turns but finishing out the year with feelings of immense gratitude ✨ My involvement with an amazing non-profit, Social Creatures, is one of many things I’m grateful for. Check out some of our achievements this year: www.thesocialcreatures.org/2024-annual-...

Clancy Blair was a brilliant and thoughtful scholar who brought out the best in everyone around him. I will remember Clancy as a generous, enthusiastic, and inspiring mentor who has forever shaped the way I think. I am so thankful to have worked with him. He will be greatly missed

Brilliant scholar, but more importantly one of the nicest humans in academia. I am so grateful to have been his colleague - Clancy was instrumental to my success at NYU. He was genuinely excited to chat about new ideas and never missed an opportunity to provide support. He will be missed greatly

No matter how many times I go through this process, it still takes me hours to submit a paper every time

Fab coverage by @spoke32.bsky.social for @science.org of our recent paper on Magdalenian children's drawings at Las Monedas. Led by the awesome @izzywisher.bsky.social we use x-cultural dev psych to inform how early-age drawing reflects embodied cognition across ontogeny!

My newest baking adventure- peppermint brownies for the lab end of year party!👩‍🍳🎉🪩

Searching for candidate information for my town’s local elections today, and the most helpful resource by far is a write up in the local high school’s newspaper. Thanks, teens!

For the first time ever I’m late turning in a review. Am I a real academic now???

Examining associations among caregiver stress, social support, and the infant gut microbiota: http://osf.io/h235w/

May the majesty of the eclipse cure all of our writer’s block

Excited to share a piece with the incredible Emma Margolis integrating DOHaD and sensitive/critical period frameworks to provide new perspective on biological embedding mechanisms from pre- to post-natal neurodevelopment! Please repost and give it a read! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I had so much fun on The Kids’ Table podcast talking about my research on early life experiences and the microbiota-gut-brain axis. Take a listen if you’re interested! open.spotify.com/episode/44Xa...

Poverty is a policy choice www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/n...

🚨LEAD Lab Job Alert 🚨 Please share widely! Our fearless LEADer @rachelromeo.bsky.social is looking for our next Lab Manager! Please apply by 3/1 for best consideration for this fantastic job with a supportive team in College Park, MD! go.umd.edu/leadlabjob

Update: I fixed it!!

“Hey Sarah, how’s data analysis going?”

Went to hide 2 columns in an excel sheet and ended up hiding the entire sheet 👻

I’m so excited to teach this semester, I just added one of my all time favorite papers to my syllabus and I cannot wait to hear my students’ perspectives on it 👩‍🏫🤓

(5/9) Sleep, Poverty, and Biological Stress: Mitigating Sleep Health Disparities in Early Childhood - Amanda R. Tarullo, Arcadia R. Ewell, Michelle M. Garrison, 2023 journals.sagepub.com/share/CC6X4W...

(3/9) The Intersection of Racism and Neuroscience Technology: A Cautionary Tale for the Criminal Legal System - Emily R. Perkins, Daniel E. Bradford, Edelyn Verona, Roy H. Hamilton, Keanan J. Joyner, 2023 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

It's that time of year again: Unpaid and underpaid internships disadvantage people without independent $$ support.

🚨I need your help, academic BlueSky! For those who navigated parental leaves as faculty, what worked or didn't work for you/your labs navigating that experience? Please repost widely to help us gather ideas & I'll compile them for our Resources Website to share with all!

I’m always fascinated by field-specific differences in how papers are presented/constructed. Presenting the results before the methods? How are readers meant to understand what they’re reading without jumping back and forth? Is there rationale for this?

More than 6 million people in the U.S. get benefits from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women and Children, known as WIC. In states with fewer WIC stores, the impact is most pronounced in rural areas

Types “no worries if not!” for the 10th time in 2024

Oh noooo, i made these delicious and decadent peppermint brownies to share with my kind and hardworking colleagues 🤗