Just wrote a new blogpost trying to summarize my thoughts on the question of how and whether to use AI for research in psychology and cognitive science: babieslearninglanguage.blogspot.com/2026/04/usin...

One of the best-written cautionary pieces I’ve read in a long time.

In my time as a PhD student, I’ve often struggled with larger questions beyond my role as a truth-seeker within developmental cognitive neuroscience as I watched AI evolve, and I sympathize with large parts of this series.

Excited to share our new Nature paper: Functional hierarchy of the human neocortex across the lifespan

We built a continuous normative reference for the brain’s major functional connectivity gradients from 16 days after birth to age 100.

We Keep Rolling Out Good Ideas Without the Story. That’s Why They Stall Uncapher and Kendall-Taylor: The education sector spends billions designing programs but spends almost nothing to help people understand what they do.

We Keep Rolling Out Good Ideas Without the Story. That’s Why They Stall www.the74million.org/article/we-k...

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

​​UMD LEAD Lab Manager Ad The Language, Experience, and Development (LEAD) lab at the University of Maryland, College Park, directed by Dr. Rachel Romeo (she/her/hers), is seeking a lab manager. Expected start date is early su...

I am hiring a new lab manager for the @umdleadlab.bsky.social to start this summer! Job ad and link to apply here. Please re-post and share with your seniors, and/or anyone else who would be a good fit! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Technical difficulties: new stream here youtube.com/live/2lcCqjM...

Even if the only time we look in our neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough, we can do more about our neighbor’s bowls than just look.

Inequality is not inevitable, and a better world is possible.

Many parts of the world are still persistently underrepresented in neuroimaging research. I love how this article invites not just scientists and funders, but also MRI system manufacturers, to consider their role in the effort to diversify neuroimaging. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Data quality biases normative models derived from fetal brain MRI | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

👶 Brain-age models of neonatal dMRI data predict age within days.
🎯 Brain-age models are accurate with research and clinical dMRI data in preterm infants (within a week for the latter).
🏥 Brain-age gap was not sensitive to health status in a clinical preterm sample.

My first preprint is out! Thank you to my brilliant collaborators & mentors for making this possible @vmarchman.bsky.social @arokem.org @jyeatman.bsky.social, as well as everyone behind the awesome open source software that we use @pennlinc.bsky.social @cieslakmatt.bsky.social (& many not on bsky)

Publishing in New Research Domains and the “Building a New Island” Analogy Publishing in a new research discipline is like creating a new island by throwing rocks into the ocean. Eventually, the island becomes…

Doing some soul-searching in the middle of my PhD journey, and I found this post by @yoshikohno.bsky.social extremely helpful - particularly the analogy of interdisciplinary research like strategically throwing rocks to build an island somewhere!

Daniel Naroditsky, Chess Grandmaster, Dies at 29 He earned the highest title in the chess world as he built a career as an accomplished chess teacher, commentator and author.

Daniel Naroditsky, a chess grandmaster, the highest title given to competitors by the International Chess Federation, and a former Junior World Champion, has died at 29.

Research Coordinator, Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....

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

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Shameless plug that I'm on the job market! As a postdoc at Stanford's Center on Early Childhood, I study how children navigate growing up in poverty, w/ attention to both the challenges they face & the adaptive strengths they develop. To learn more & download my CV, see www.meriahdejoseph.com

“We present the first release of p-HCP (Prenatal Human Connectome Patterns), an imaging dataset of human fetal brain development covering the second half of gestation.” 🤯

A trans-Atlantic voyage to see @summerfieldlab.bsky.social after a decade! So many core memories from a most fulfilling time at @wadhamcollege.bsky.social and @oxexppsy.bsky.social that shaped who I am today.

It’s my third time at @fluxsociety.bsky.social and I’m thankful not just for the science, but also the intentional community-building and professional development of trainees. Glad to hear from @cmakowski.bsky.social that not all who wander are lost!

Happy reunion with @silk-tim.bsky.social at #flux2025! He started me on the journey down the white matter rabbit hole, and he’s recruiting for @enigmabrains.bsky.social!

Poster in an hour at T24 #flux2025. Come find out what I’ve been working on this year at the Stanford Center on Early Childhood!

TLDR: there is value in neuroimaging parents for parent-mediated interventions! Also this:
www.thefindprogram.org/thefindprogram

🧠 The State of the Brain Special Issue features insights from last year’s keynotes, award winners & committee leaders.

🔗 Explore major findings & themes from 2024: apertureneuro.org/issue/12560

@arokem.org @alexfornito.bsky.social @macshine.bsky.social @vcalhoun.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social

"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!

Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

TUNE IN: Governor Newsom delivers a formal address to California from Los Angeles.

Watch live at 6:30pm.

YouTube: youtube.com/live/Q69izEy...
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/14380...
X: @CAgovernor
Instagram: @Cagovernor

New paper examining longitudinal #brain data over 7y & relation to #reading; implications for early intervention/policy @fitngin.bsky.social
Longitudinal trajectories of brain development from infancy to school age and their relationship with literacy development | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are very excited to meet you!

We’re hiring a clinical research coordinator to lead a neuroimaging study on brain changes across pregnancy and perinatal depression.

wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

Please RT.

New study up on ROAR@Home BETA. We’re developing a phonics screener particularly for early elementary school. Please report bugs if you encounter any! roar.stanford.edu/signup/

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly. Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...