🚨Preprint Alert🚨

Our new preprint 'A Scalable fMRI Estimate of Basal Ganglia Brain Tissue Iron for Use in Developmental and Translational Neuroscience' is live!!

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To enable broad adoption, we provide an open-source, lightweight, publicly available processing tool for deriving ∆R2* from standard fMRI datasets, enabling scalable investigation into basal ganglia neurophysiology and its contribution to neuropsychiatric risk across the lifespan.

We’re hiring: remote-eligible Provost Postdoctoral Fellow, SEA Lab at Vanderbilt. Great fit for candidates interested in early caregiving, developmental psychopathology, neuroimaging, and ecological methods. Start Aug 1-Dec 1, 2026. Apply: k.humphreys@vanderbilt.edu

Join the MAClab in Chicago for #ADAA2026! 🧠 Catch Dr. Annmarie MacNamara’s presentation on the "Advances in Positive Emotion-Focused Interventions" on April 10th (8:30–10 AM CT). See you there for the latest in anxiety and depression research!

#PsychSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #AcademicSky

Issue 62, Volume 4 is out at Developmental Psychology!

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Topics Include

-Parents and Emotion
-Processes Supporting Control
-Embodied Foundations of Numbers
-Impacts of COVID-19

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We’re hiring! Seeking a full-time research assistant to coordinate and collect data for studies of neural and physiological predictors of depression and related symptoms in youth and families. More info below:

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The CANDLab at Yale is hiring a new full-time research assistant! Excellent opportunity to gain post-bacc experience before applying to PhD programs in child and adolescent clinical psychology and neuroscience. 🧠 candlab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/YaleCANDLab_RA_2026.pdf

Oh my gosh!! Congratulations Shauna!

Really excited to be guest editing this special issue with Dani! Abstracts are due April 15th, reach out with any questions!

Congrats to Brooke Smith, one of our FRED Scholarship recipients! 🎉 Brooke is an undergraduate student at Georgetown University, and her goal is to become a clinical psychologist who fights for mental health equity. We're proud to support Brooke in her academic journey!👏

If you are headed for psych grad school and want experience with EEG, fMRI, affective science and internalizing psychopathology research, apply to be my lab manager!

But did you get fire red or leaf green?

✨ Lab Member Spotlight ✨ Meet Ellie, one of our amazing master’s students in the MED Lab! Read to learn more about her research and interests outside of the lab

Research Assistant I Company Description: By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds...

We're hiring! The Emotion and Psychopathology in Context Lab at Harvard invites applications for a full-time RA/lab manager to start in 2026 summer. Ideal for students preparing for graduate study (e.g., clinical psych). Please consider sharing & applying! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive...

Postdoctoral Training in Developmental Psychopathology - International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP) Postdoctoral Training in Developmental Psychopathology The Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota offers NIMH-funded postdoctoral training via a T32 Institutional Training Grant...

Postdoctoral Training in Developmental Psychopathology - The Inst of Child Development at the Univ of Minnesota offers NIMH-funded postdoctoral training via a T32 Institutional Training Grant. The grant supports 2-2-year postdoc traineeships Fall 2026 through Spring 2028.
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I'm looking for a postdoc to work on our NIH-funded R01 which is a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (13-20) doing EMA and passive text sensing! Please apply, especially if you have experience in the analysis OR collection of these data.

PLEASE SHARE!!

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Hey #Neuroscientists and #Educators,
Does anyone know of a good 3D brain model for kids with structures labeled that can be taken apart?
Looking for accuracy and to support smaller businesses / #neuroartists rather than a big box store.

@laurabundesen.bsky.social @christineliu.art #art #brainmodel

I’ll be teaching Social Psych and Personality Psych for UGs (small classes) in the Fall! Tips, tricks, assignments, exercises, syllabi, etc. are invited and welcomed!!

I am incredibly honored to have been accepted into the Class of 2026 Career Development Institute for Psychiatry! This 2-year program will help me at a critical point in my career as I seek to make the transition from postdoc to faculty. Big thanks to Dr. Justin Riddle for supporting my application!

Congrats!!

🚨Thrilled to share I am able to hire someone (PhD preferred) with coding expertise to work on our HAPPE software for EEG! Knowledge of Matlab, Python, and EEG signal processing required. Enthusiasm for teaching/mentoring, collaboration, and developmental science preferred!

NIH grant writing people, do you have thoughts on the use of "I statements" in F fellowships and K training grant apps?

I thought someone told me once to use "I will", "I propose" in training-focused apps to emphasize independence, but maybe it sounds arrogant?

I used a mix - but for like the goals and background section I used primarily “I” statements!

Just a reminder!

This latest Special Issue has Letters of Intent Due on February 15.

Reimagining developmental science through the lens of Black girlhood

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SO EXCITED for this paper & super proud of @bella-peckinpaugh.bsky.social for leading this research question and paper. State affect, measured or not, is moving your estimand around! Check it out :D

We still have an opening for a clinical psych postdoc to join our team. Interested applicants are welcome to email me directly for more information, and I’m happy to set up a time to chat. Please share!

Can’t wait to give it a read! Congrats on this Holly!!

The Reward Positivity signals a goal prediction error The Reward Positivity (RewP) is an electroencephalogram (EEG) feature that emerges following performance feedback and is commonly understood to index both positive and negative reward-prediction error (RPE+ and RPE−, respectively) signals. In contrast to this dominant perspective, we argue that the RewP is an independent EEG feature that selectively responds to positive RPE and is superimposed on a common background signal. We further propose that the RewP signals a goal prediction error: it is elicited by abstract signals instead of by hedonic 'rewards'. This goal prediction error appears to be produced by a critic-like architecture that is associated with the actor–critic framework in reinforcement learning. This perspective emphasizes the role of the RewP in goal attainment and cognitive control as opposed to being a simple indicator of reward receipt.

Online Now: The Reward Positivity signals a goal prediction error

📜 Our new preregistered 36-month longitudinal study, investigating the mechanisms underlying adverse anxious symptom change patterns, and their long-term clinical outcomes, is now out.

Very excited to share after years of data collection & work on MS

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Intellectual Humility and Trust The problem of mistrust cannot be solved by increasing trust indiscriminately; rather, we need tools that help people trust more in what is credible a…

Want to know more about intellectual humility and trust? I have good news for you! We wrote a brief (but thorough) review on IH and trust in Current Opinion in Psychology! 10/10 experience publishing with some of my fave colleagues @michalehmann.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...