I didn't get that job (or a ruptured eardrum), but I did get other offers, tenure, and a promotion years later. Your worth isn't determined by single moments, and certainly not those that feel like your worst. Hang in there and keep working hard. The field tends to reward hope and persistence.
I spent my flight home trying not to cry and willing my eardrums not to burst.
I was in so much pain, I called one of the faculty members by the wrong name and ultimately ended up having the department drive me to a pharmacy to get medicine (thank goodness for kind people).
If you are struggling on the job market right now, know this: When I was on the job market, I got one of the worst sinus infections of my life while at one of my interviews.
GOOD MORNING IT IS A GREAT DAY TO KEEP REPORTING THE NEWS
Revisited a favorite past paper that appeared alongside some other great science in this important message from journalist Joanne Chen.
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The 25th Occasional Temperament Conference (OTC25) will be held at Texas A&M University Nov. 6-8, 2025. OTC is an international conference uniting researchers & practitioners with special interests in the study of. Please visit the OTC25 website for conference and call for abstracts, then share!
Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.
Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.
Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.
Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies.
📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro
This group of research assistants, staff, and postdocs has worked SO INCREDIBLY HARD this year and I am so dang proud of them.
Thankful to be part of this effort with @hjvrutherford.bsky.social, @talyatziv.bsky.social, and the social-media avoidant Dr. Matt Vess.
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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
I am hiring a full and part-time post-bachelor's level research assistant for in-person work in my laboratory. We have a great environment here with a competitive salary ($45,000/year for full-time positions) for cost of living. Applications due 2/10/25.
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Every year we send holiday cards to families participating in our active studies. This year a family sent us a card back and it was so cute my heart exploded. Also, since this is my professional account, can this go into future “plans for retention” grant sections?
Gov. Greg Abbott threatened Texas A&M President Mark Welsh III’s job after a conservative activist shared a university email inviting some staffers and PhD students to a conference that limited participation to people who are Black, Hispanic or Native American. www.texastribune.org/2025/01/14/t...
New research from graduate and undergraduate students in my lab now published in the latest issue of Emotion. We linked maternal depression symptoms to out-of-context negative emotion in infants, even beyond tendencies to display negative emotion more generally.
The basic principle is that reviewers are tired, they're rushed, they're reading your and 10 other grants on top of their normal workload.
Anything you can do to make it easy for them will help.
Here's a list of my suggestions.
Can I be added, too, please?
Work led by DOME Lab graduate student Sarah Peoples showing that as early as age three, coordinated efforts across the brain and heart seem to be protective against childhood outcomes like stress and anxiety.
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Congrats to the new Dr. Sejal Mistry-Patel, who found, as part of her dissertation, that moms’ perceptions of smartphone-based support positively predict mother-infant relationship quality, suggesting phones are neither ALL good nor ALL bad, but likely have many possible impacts on development.
So proud of these DOME Lab graduate and undergraduate students, awarded for their hard work this year and representing a dozen others who are helping to make it all happen.
Thanks to Cooper's BBQ and #SOBP2024 for hosting a great event!
This is exactly why one would purchase adorable onesies for their research. (Posted with permission).
Had a great time talking about developmental science in the mountains last week. Thank you to Utah State Psychology for being such wonderful hosts.
Had a visit to the lab from TAMU President General (Ret.) Mark Welsh. It was a great opportunity to share some of our science and to introduce him to some of the amazing students working in the lab. They were SO excited.
Thrilled to share this new paper with student, Sarah Peoples, and college, Liz Davis. We found a predictable patterns of activation across preschoolers' neural and cardiac systems of regulation and preliminary evidence for links to more/less adaptive behaviors.
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Had a wonderful time hearing about amazing science and presenting out own work on maternal brain plasticity at the Winter Conference on Neural Plasticity.
