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Anna Parenteau @aparenteau.bsky.social · 16d

New campus building and workspace brings so much joy and gratitude! 🌳🏫 Kicking off my first year in the Stanford GSE 📚

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Meriah DeJoseph @meriahdejoseph.bsky.social · 29d

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

Meriah L. DeJoseph, PhD

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UC Davis @ucdavis.bsky.social · Sep 8

Words and gestures help tune infant attention before they can speak. New UC Davis study finds babies focus longer when object labels ("bear") are paired with spatial words ("here"), and even longer when paired with gestures like pointing. ucdav.is/4lYtXgL

A woman and baby sit together reading a colorful book in a cozy room with shelves behind them; text overlay discusses babies' attention and communication cues. Text on image says, “Babies Pay Attention Longest When Words and Gestures Combined.”

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Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · Sep 5

Interested in applying to graduate programs or research positions in psychology? Want more information and feedback on your submission materials? Then Harvard’s Prospective Ph.D. & RA Event in Psychology (PPREP) Is for you!! psychology.fas.harvard.edu/pprep
More info in the link!! Please retweet!

PPREP Program | Department of Psychology

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Emili Cárdenas @efcardenas.bsky.social · Aug 18

Calling @isdp.org members! To increase feelings of belonging and support, the ISDP DEI working group is establishing affinity groups. Tell us what types of affinity groups you would like to join or lead. Affinity groups may meet at the 2025 meeting in person or remotely. forms.gle/cV3WXV4iaFj3...

ISDP Affinity Group Interest Form

Hi there! Affinity groups are informal groups for social support and community building for people who hold a particular minoritized or marginalized identity. Please use this form to indicate what typ...

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Anna Parenteau @aparenteau.bsky.social · Aug 13

Psychobiology* 😊🥲

Anna Parenteau @aparenteau.bsky.social · Aug 12

Please share with trainees in the San Diego area! The International Society for Developmental Psychology @isdp.org will have a limited number of waivers available for local trainees (undergraduate, graduate, postbacc, and others) to attend the 2025 annual meeting! 🌴 Apply via QR code/link on flyer:

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Rachel Romeo @rachelromeo.bsky.social · Jul 24

We are looking to hire a new post-bac MRI tech! Great opportunity pre grad school! umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...

MRI Tech/Faculty Specialist

Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The Maryland Neuroimaging Center (MNC) is the home for neuroimaging research at the University of Maryland, www.mnc.umd.edu. The center brings...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jul 8

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

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Anna Parenteau @aparenteau.bsky.social · Jun 26

Exciting news to share: As of June 12th, I have completed my PhD in Psychology at UC Davis! I am so grateful to my advisor @camhostinar.bsky.social, lab @seslab.bsky.social, and department @ucdavispsych.bsky.social for supporting me over the past 6 years! Here's to the next step – postdoc!

Anna turning to look at the camera wearing UC Davis doctoral regalia and sunglasses

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Jun 26

Alert!!!!

“An Action Networks Model for Pain”

We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.

👉 thread below 🧵

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · May 12

Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause.

Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

Or help us spread the word 💫

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Science Magazine @science.org · May 6

🎉 Congratulations to Manisha Biswas for winning the #SocialSciences category in this year's #DanceYourPhD competition.

Watch the entire video on the power of collective synchrony—and learn more about the other category winners: scim.ag/4lSpjCl

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Social Environment & Stress (SES) Lab @seslab.bsky.social · Apr 29

We are excited to attend #SRCD25! Here are presentations from members of the Social Environment and Stress Lab. We look forward to sharing our work and seeing what everyone else has been working on!

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Anna Parenteau @aparenteau.bsky.social · Apr 29

SRCD week! Looking forward to the conference and being back “home”.
Our symposium, “Bio-behavioral synchrony across contexts: Within-dyad analysis and methodological considerations”, is on Thurs, May 1st from 10 to 11:30am in 209AB. 🧑‍🧒
Hope to see you there!
#SRCD25

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · Apr 4

Rümeysa Öztürk hasn’t been given her asthma medication and has had three asthma attacks, putting her life in danger and possibly violating disability civil rights. New from me with @hurwitz.bsky.social for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is reportedly violating detained Tufts student’s right to medical care

Democrats say that Rümeysa Öztürk's inhaler has been withheld and she has had repeated asthma attacks.

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Anna Parenteau @aparenteau.bsky.social · Apr 2

Walked out of lecture to find the Sheepmowers! Sheepmowers.org
@ucdavis.bsky.social 🐑🩵

A fenced area with grazing sheep on the grass in front of Wellman Hall at UC Davis

A flock of sheep grazing on a grassy area of Wellman Hall lawn

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Apr 1

Tell Congress to protect crucial medical research funding #saveNIHresearch ucal.us/saveNIHresearch

@uofcalifornia.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

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katie b, phd @62442katieb.bsky.social · Apr 1

New review from Jess Morrel & the @hertinglab.bsky.social exploring links between air pollution and the developing brain.

tl;dr: this literature is growing, but there are still gaps in time (sensitive exposure windows, timing of exposure -> brain changes) and space (most data from US/Europe)

A systematic review of air pollution exposure and brain structure and function during development

Air pollutants are known neurotoxicants. In this updated systematic review, we evaluate new evidence since our 2019 systematic review on the effect of…

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · Apr 1

Hearing from all corners of HHS this morning about a total bloodletting — firings of scientists, analysts and many more as delayed RIFs take effect.

Many folks didn’t see early AM email and showed up, only to be turned away when badges didn’t work. Was sent this photo of long lines at one HHS site.

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UC Davis @ucdavis.bsky.social · Mar 31

Welcome back to campus, Aggies! We hope you have a great first day of spring quarter 🌷

#OurUCDavis

Image description: Students walking and biking by on campus with light pink spring blooms in the foreground.

Students walking and biking by on campus with light pink spring blooms in the foreground.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · Mar 23

I know not everyone can keep up with all the grant terminations, but it’s important to know what we’re losing so I’ll try to compile them here.

First is a study on intimate partner violence with perinatal women (note: the #1 cause of death during pregnancy is homicide)

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · Mar 22

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Anna Parenteau @aparenteau.bsky.social · Mar 21

Spring conference season is kicking off… holding a poster workshop next month for undergraduate researchers. What poster tips or tricks do you have to share?

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Anna Parenteau @aparenteau.bsky.social · Mar 19

📣 Call for submissions: The ISDP DEI Committee is seeking submissions for a symposium on the intergenerational transmission of trauma – see the call for more information!
@isdp.org
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Call for Speakers

Call for Speakers ISDP DEI Committee Symposium The International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee is seeking early-career (undergraduate – assistant p...

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · Mar 19

#NIH PIs, check the federal register tomorrow. Nothing is final until you receive your NoA. Nothing is confirmed until it's in the FR. If you have a pending application, check eRA. Thanks, @jeremymberg.bsky.social.

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Mar 19

Now that the first Advisory Council meeting will be announced in the Federal Register tomorrow (National Institute for Complementary and Integrative Health) tomorrow, I want to clarify something that has been happening for at least the past 30 days.

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