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Mood, Emotion, & Development Lab at Vanderbilt @medvanderbilt.bsky.social · 9h

We’re so proud of the MED Lab team for their excellent posters and presentations at VKC Science Day this week. Congratulations to Yinru @yinrulong.bsky.social , who won best research on underrepresented populations, and Ellie @elliewindham.bsky.social , who won best clinical poster!

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Autumn Kujawa @akujawa.bsky.social · 4d

New TT job opening in our dept at Vanderbilt! Looking forward to a new clinical colleague joining us. Please share!

Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · 13d

Vanderbilt University's Peabody College is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Clinical Psychology (child/family focus) with expertise in AI methods (ML, NLP, LLMs, CV).

📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025

👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418

Please share!

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 8d

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

apply.interfolio.com/174371

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Erin Dunn, ScD, MPH @drerindunn.bsky.social · 8d

Looking for a role between postdoc & faculty?

We're hiring TWO Senior Research Scholars at Purdue Indianapolis. You'll lead cutting-edge research on #epigenetics of #depression or using baby teeth for mental health #biomarkers 🧬🦷

Learn more & apply: www.thedunnlab.com/join-the...

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Autumn Kujawa @akujawa.bsky.social · 9d

Congrats @yinrulong.bsky.social! We had a great time at SRP catching up with friends and hearing about new research in psychopathology. Very grateful for this community!

Mood, Emotion, & Development Lab at Vanderbilt @medvanderbilt.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our posters at SRP! Excited to share that Yinru, our fourth-year doctoral student, received the Smadar Levin Poster Award! 🥳

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Mood, Emotion, & Development Lab at Vanderbilt @medvanderbilt.bsky.social · 14d

Don't miss our wonderful MED Lab members at SRP this week! #SRP2025

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Siri Leknes @sirileknes.bsky.social · 14d

Please RT
2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD!

Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all!

We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (286516), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Dr. Allison G. Harvey @allisonharvey.bsky.social · 15d

Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name!
#clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social

Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?

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Mark Shuquan Chen @markschen.bsky.social · 29d

My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :)
psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...

Mark Chen | Department of Psychology

psychology.fas.harvard.edu

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Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm happy to announce that Vanderbilt Psychology's clinical area is hiring a TT asst prof this year! Please share with your networks and consider applying if you're on the market! Happy to (try to) answer questions about the search if you have them.

Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316

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Autumn Kujawa @akujawa.bsky.social · Aug 24

Welcoming new lab members and kicking off our 8th year with @medvanderbilt.bsky.social

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Aug 14

🚨URGENT: SIGN AND SHARE OUR PETITION TO DEMAND THE IMMEDIATE IMPEACHMENT AND REMOVAL OF SEC. HHS RFK. JR🚨
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Sign the IMPEACH RFK Citizens' Petition to Congress — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Join with us to sign our Citizens' Petition to the US Congress to choose the people over Trump and Impeach RFK Jr Now!

www.standupforscience.net

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Autumn Kujawa @akujawa.bsky.social · Aug 13

I haven’t been paying as much attention to this as I should so thanks for starting the discussion, Ellen!

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Autumn Kujawa @akujawa.bsky.social · Aug 13

Preprints aren’t compliant with NIH policy because it has to be the accepted version, right? And then it looks like Wiley is saying subscription publications will need to be self archived but there is still an embargo for the accepted version. Anyone know if other publishers have similar policies?

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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · Aug 7

I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle.

Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.

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Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab – University of Pennsylvania, Department of Psychology

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João Guassi Moreira @jfguassimoreira.bsky.social · Aug 4

I'm reviewing PhD applications this cycle to join my lab at
@uwpsych.bsky.social in Fall ‘26. Ideal for those interested in dev, decision-making, emotion regulation, fMRI, and quant/comp methods. We have cool stuff in the works and want more brilliant ppl in the fold!

psych.wisc.edu/joao-guassi-...

Joao Guassi Moreira – Information for Prospective Graduate Students

Dr. Joao Guassi Moreira – Information for Prospective Graduate Students Website: https://psych.wisc.edu/staff/guassi-moreira-joao/ Current research: Dr. Guassi Moreira’s Computational Developmental Neuroscience Laboratory (CDNLab) studies the neurodevelopment of affective and social phenomena between late childhood and emerging adulthood. Currently, CDNLab is particularly interested in the development of emotion regulation and decision-making, and the nexus between the two.…

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Mood, Emotion, & Development Lab at Vanderbilt @medvanderbilt.bsky.social · Jul 23

📣 MED Lab Paper Spotlight 📣 (1/2)

Temporal dynamics of positive and negative affect in adolescents: Associations with depressive disorders and risk

@abitantegeorge.bsky.social @cbean.bsky.social @akujawa.bsky.social

link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Autumn Kujawa @akujawa.bsky.social · Jul 20

Interested applicants can email me www.vanderbilt.edu/psychologica... their CV, brief description of interests, and contact information for 2 references.

Please share with anyone looking for a postdoc this year or next. We know it’s a difficult time for many graduating students!

Profile

www.vanderbilt.edu

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Autumn Kujawa @akujawa.bsky.social · Jul 20

We are looking for a clinical psych postdoc to join our team in 2025 or 2026 to help with studies of mood disorders and suicidal behavior in youth and families (using EEG 🧠 and EMA 📱 methods).

See www.moodemotionlab.com for more info on the lab and projects.

Mood, Emotion & Development Laboratory

The Mood, Emotion & Development Lab at Vanderbilt University is directed by Dr. Autumn Kujawa. Our research examines social and emotional development and the ways in which alterations in emotion contr...

www.moodemotionlab.com

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Amanda Makara @amakara.bsky.social · Jul 14

💫 REPEAT lab hiring a research coordinator💫

The Research on Excessive Persistent and Emotion-based Actions and Traits (REPEAT) Lab in the Department of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University is recruiting to fill a Clinical Research Coordinator position. Posting will close in 1 week!!
1/7🧵

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 16

STAT story about the ruling

www.statnews.com/2025/06/16/n...

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Hundreds of NIH grant terminations are 'void and illegal,' federal judge rules

A federal judge ruled that some of the grant terminations by the National Institutes of Health on DEI grounds are “void and illegal.”

www.statnews.com

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Autumn Kujawa @akujawa.bsky.social · Jun 13

Ack, this is concerning. NIMH is listed on F32s though so yes hopefully an error.. 😬

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Jun 13

Extensive Propublica story about grant terminations

Sharing specifics and putting faces on the research…

Definitely worth a read

projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding

The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...

projects.propublica.org

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Jan R. Wessel @janw.bsky.social · Jun 9

I will be looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, using EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI, or related methods.

If you know anybody, please tell them to email me.

Formal ad to follow. Lab website: wessellab.org

Wessel Cognitive Neurology Lab | The University of Iowa

Thanks for visiting the Cognitive Neurology Lab at the University of Iowa. The lab is directed by Dr. Jan R. Wessel. We are affiliated with the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, the Depa...

wessel.lab.uiowa.edu

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · Jun 9

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🚨 It’s time to flood the zone.

NIH scientists just took a huge risk speaking out. Now it’s our turn.

📜 Read the Bethesda Declaration
✍️ Sign the Public Letter of Support
👯‍♀️Follow NIHers doing the work: @nihvigils.bsky.social

Read and sign here 👉 www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

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