Ahh congratulations Debbie!

Flyer summarizing CDS Symposium: Title: Children’s developing understanding of the rights and responsibilities of collective decision-making Time: Saturday, April 11th, 2:30-4:00PM (Symposium S3.2 in Montreal 4) Talk 1: Children’s emerging understanding of emotional effort and its implications for representation in collective decision-making (Mia Radovanovic & Samuel Ronfard) Talk 2: Who should be the leader? Children’s democratic preferences when selecting a leader (Isabel Alessandra Herrera Guevara, Lana Isabel Abad, & Nadia Chernyak) Talk 3: Deciding together or alone?: Children’s expectations of leaders’ decision-making behaviors (Nicole H. Park & Isobel A. Heck) Talk 4: Holding leaders accountable: Examining 3-8-year-old children’s evaluation of leadership failure (Jessica J. Lee & Andrew Scott Baron)

Come check out our symposium on Saturday at #CDS2026! I'm biased but I think we have a really cool set of talks thinking about power as something that is negotiated dynamically and bidirectionally, and I'll be presenting new work done with @samuelronfard.bsky.social 🙌

Check out our lab #CDS2026! Talks on early intuitions about democracy, consequences of household inequality, and cross-cultural data on intuitive beliefs about social exclusion.

The worst part is knowing all of this yet still needing to apply for these fellowships & grants...

TCU FACES Lab The Families, Autism, and Child Emotion Studies lab—directed by Dr. Naomi Ekas—is based out of the Department of Psychology at Texas Christian University. The primary focus of our research is to inv...

My research lab is accepting a doctoral student to start Fall ‘26. I wasn’t initially searching, but funds opened up. www.tcufaces.com for details on our work. www.psychology.tcu.edu for program deets.
Please contact me after submitting application so I can pull for rapid review.

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Know a promising undergrad who wants more time before applying to grad school? Pitt has a funded postbac program for students from underrepresented groups.

This year, my lab will consider applications for solo supervision or to be co-supervised by @mehrgol.bsky.social!

App deadline is March 15!

🎉 PINE Lab is hiring a postbacc Research Coordinator! Projects include cohort studies examining brain mechanisms linking adversity to cognition/language & RCTs of early interventions on neurodevelopment.
apply: forms.gle/Dyay39x2XEMn...
more info: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/join-us

Technical Assistant I (Lab Manager, Suicide Prevention Research Lab) - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States Title: Technical Assistant I (Lab Manager, Suicide Prevention Research Lab) Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Psychology and Brain Sci Work L...

The Suicide Prevention Research Lab at UMass Amherst is hiring! We are looking for a lab manager to help grow our new lab with a start date of summer 2026.

Share and apply!

careers.umass.edu/jobs/technic...

Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women. Women whose paid and unpaid labor are toggled up or down depending on the whims of the men who engineered and profiteered our DIY society.

we developmentalists are a small minority of scientists, but had the NIH reorganization gone through, the entire child development wing of NIH (that is, the NICHD) would have basically been decimated. so yeah, this counts as a win in my book

a man in a white jacket and red shirt is standing with his arms crossed in front of a group of people . Alt: Professor Oak from Pokémon. a man in a white jacket and red shirt is standing with his arms crossed in front of a group of people .

Adulting is realizing you’re more of a Professor Oak and less of a Pokémon Master 🥲

US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

Instead of doomscrolling your social media feed, scroll through this stunning visualization of the state of government support for science and research. You’re going to want to see the end, which provides a glimmer of hope for our futures.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

who did this

When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families.

The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

This platform is so important! It allows researchers regardless of their university prestige to do research! So important for leveling the playing field for many developmental psychologist scientist from under resourced institutions. Please consider donating - donations will be matched!

This year saw almost a 50 percent decrease in funded grants on mental health. This is not okay. There is a literal mental health crisis in our country & instead of funding more work on cures we are cutting the amount of work in half.

Our children will suffer from this.

archive.is/2025.12.02-2...

Neuroscience funding: A source directory Our list features expected and lesser-known governmental and nongovernmental sources of funding for basic neuroscience research.

Most basic neuroscience research in the U.S. is funded by the federal government, but there is an entire funding landscape that lies beyond those federal agencies. To bring those sources together, @thetransmitter.bsky.social presents a funding source directory: bit.ly/4pBBF2B

#StateOfNeuroscience

Well this is exciting!

The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank!

Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146

Anyone looking for Christmas gifts for the whole lab?

Doesn’t your research team need something to wear at the next conference or rally?

Infants with exposure to multiple languages show no such bias.

Notably, this native–foreign difference emerges in mu desynchronization, but not in frontal theta or alpha asymmetry.

This work was due to a 5 year NSF grant that got terminated. Please support efforts to continue funding science!

Thrilled to announce a new publication:

We find that infants as young as 6–12 months show greater motor-system activation (“neural mirroring”) when observing a native language speaker compared to a foreign speaker—but only if they are monolingual.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

World-models in your head Talking with a lot of people, they have rather shocking different kinds of world-models. I believe that people have somewhat specialized simulators. Let me list some and then give you the chance to ad...

Let's compare our world models. I find that different people seem to have rather distinct internal world models. E.g. I personally have neither visual imagination nor an inner voice, found it weird others do. Here is a quick google forms to check idea:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I am an aspiring glow_up()

small potatoes relative to (waves hands all around) but just my yearly lament that PhD programs can't get their ish together to get *1* portal for uploading a letter for grad apps like med/law etc. instead of 50 separate ones, each w/their own bespoke rating scales/required questions. #AcademicSky

GenZ version of dplyr in R

Hadley Wickham made a GenZ version of dplyr 😂

hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

Introducing the 𝐏𝐈-𝐚𝐭-𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐞! 🤯

When activated, it will auto-reply to your PI's frantic ideas for new experiments, analyses, and projects with "Great suggestion! Saving this for later" (aka: let's talk when you’re back and got some sleep)

#sfn2025 #sfn25

Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t.
There’s some kind of lesson here

Norman Rockwell painting, depicting little Roby Bridges being escorted into a school by Feds. Racial slurs are pained on the wall behind here. A thrown tomato lies on the ground.

65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.