Our new paper explains the #polarization of public health Identifying with a social group can shape people’s beliefs and values, leading them to act in ways that have consequences for their health From vaccine hesitancy to smoking cessation, identity plays a critical role: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

Ok @uf forcing everyone back to work is making traffic horrible & parking impossible. Also everyone is angry because- traffic for an hour & 30 mins trying to park. Not a good plan: paying people to drive around angry on campus, when they could be peacefully & productively working at home.

Me: coach posted a powerpoint presentation about volleyball rotations for you to look at. 12year old: what’s a powerpoint presentation? 😬is this good or bad parenting?

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

Over 2,000 members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine write to Congress:

C👀L! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I like this take on screen time and cutting NSF and NIH funding wont get us any closer to understanding the complexities. www.bbc.com/news/article... What screen time really does to children's brains - BBC News

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

thrilled to share this project over a decade in the making out now in @pnas.org! We show that precocious GABA boosting in neonates by early sevoflurane/propofol anesthetic exposure accelerates visual cortical maturation in human infants www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Introducing our new favorite stimulus. A few minutes are enough to map the visual preferences of thousands of neurons. Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and @kenneth-harris.bsky.social

📍 Join us at the WISE Luncheon at #2025SPR! We'll cover negotiating contracts, navigating unsupportive lab environments, applying for awards, and managing impostor syndrome. Thurs 10/15 | 12:00–1:30 PM

Vitamin D supplements may be a promising, low-cost strategy to support brain development while reducing racial disparities, according to a professor of nutrition science. theconversation.com/about-a-thir... By Melissa Melough @udelaware.bsky.social

For the past 3 years, I've taught a course on Machine Learning for Climate Change to undergrads. At times, people have asked if the course lectures could be made available online. While I can't offer that, I have decided to start making "5 Minute Papers on AI for the Planet" videos. Hope its useful!

Great trip to Ameila Island! Lots of fun finding and identifying fossils and getting up for the sunrise!

Great to see this one finally out in PNAS! Asymptotic theory of in-context learning by linear attention www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Many thanks to my amazing co-authors Yue Lu, Mary Letey, Jacob Zavatone-Veth @jzv.bsky.social and Anindita Maiti!

I did this before in German but I guess today is a good day to compile English resources on why AI isn‘t actually intelligent and also a real danger: 🧵

Different #memory domains can recruit similar brain areas, but is the role of these overlapping regions shared or domain-specific? This study shows that the function of the #hippocampus to preserve the order of sequential behaviors is shared across memory domains @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3GzcM6Q

Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions. Work with @zejinlu.bsky.social @sushrutthorat.bsky.social and Radek Cichy arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168

Becoming a Cultural Being: A Dynamic Systems View of Human Development: https://osf.io/ypz8s

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

sorry if I missed it but who is the new dean? Or we don’t do Deans at CLAS anymore?

Alert! ... for the child development world! @fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪ The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive. Check here: docs.hbcdstudy.org and here: nbdc-datahub.org Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

Interested in the development of vision and the brain in the first years of life? The BCD Lab is expecting to hire a postdoc and a lab coordinator/tech in the coming months! Send me an email if interested and I’ll make sure to send you the job postings once open!

📅Save the date for SRCD’s first-ever Child Policy Connect Hill Day being held on July 29th through July 31st. If you’re interested in learning more or participating, please visit bit.ly/CPCinDC before June 25th #ChildPolicyConnect #SRCDHillDay #ScienceMatters

Super fun to do! Thanks @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social

Just by the way, much of the basic research on the cognitive psychology of attention can trace its history to early support from ONR. The problem of vigilance and detection while staring at a radar screen led to support of foundational research on visual attention now applied far and wide.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

trying Veo3 video generation, which has "a better understanding of real world physics, and is smarter at turning your text prompts into video clips." here is: "a man throws a stuffed animal (children's toy) at a tower of wooden jenga blocks, hitting the tower and causing the blocks to scatter"

SPR is now accepting applications for Travel Awards to attend #2025SPR (due July 1, 2025)! This award provides up to $1,200 in funding. Check out the call and apply: sprweb.org/spr-travel-a...

For folks who enjoy archival photos, Texas Highways did a nice #Juneteenth piece documenting celebrations over the past 160 years. #TexasHistory #BlackHistory #BlackTexasHistory texashighways.com/travel-news/...

My lab is hiring a research coordinator/assistant! If you or someone you know is interested in developmental cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging (MRI, EEG), clinical populations (specifically children with Tourette syndrome), and brain networks, check it out: employment.ucsd.edu/staff-resear...

I'm an Associate Editor at Current Directions in Psychological Science and I have a new Special Issue call on Intergroup Allyship. Proposal submissions are due by July 18. Please share widely! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

New Papercheck blog: Automatically Checking Journal Article Reporting Standards. We demonstrate how Papercheck can flag inexactly reported p-values and missing effect sizes, and remind researchers to follow the APA JARS guidelines. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2025/06/auto...

📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL” As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’

this statement was made just yesterday

the psych department at Waikato (in Hamilton, New Zealand) is recruiting at the junior level, in developmental and/or perception/cognition (in NZ 'lecturer' means 'assistant professor', and is a permanent role)

NSF is rejecting near-perfect applications for DEI-related projects on the grounds that they don't fit administration priorities. And I worry that the administration's goal isn't just to stop DEI research but to push the scholars doing this work out of academia, since tenure often hinges on grants.

Wanted to share a handy little resource with you all (especially those in dev psych) — my lab & I made a "journal submission cheat sheet" that summarizes article types, word limits, & other requirements for the journals we typically submit to. Link below 👇🏼 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

We need more PhDs in Congress. This interview with the ONLY PhD in congress has some good advice, like: universities and researchers in red states can get a group meeting with your Congress rep. federalnewsnetwork.com/budget/2025/...

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...

Anyone?

President Trump’s FY26 budget for #NSF will slash funding for the agency by 56.9% and funding for Social, Behavioral, and Economic sciences by 67.6% These cuts will end US STEM leadership, weaken national security, and set-back individual prosperity and well-being.

No president, No Dean. BOG just voted no on Ono despite BOT voting yes. Getting ugly bad in the sunshine state.

A study reveals the effects of Florida's new public university post-tenure review: * higher rate of faculty departure * younger star faculty were more likely to leave * new hires were less likely to be stars * low-performing faculty didn't increase their performance papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I just came across this (because I clearly don't have a gazillion more important things to do right now...? 🫠): aphantasia.com/guide/ I like their version of the apple cartoon (because it appears behind the head like it does for me 😏) & really like the ball on the table test.

Are you a PI of a federal grant cancelled by the Trump administration? Please share your info with the Democratic Staff of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, who launched this portal yesterday to track funding cancellations 🔭🧪 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Preprint / update on Healthy Brain Network’s 5,000+ publicly abailable, analysis ready, 128 channel #EEG + phenotypic, behavioral & structural imaging data. A massive scientific undertaking we have been honored to be a part of! @magstimegi.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...