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Monica Ellwood-Lowe @mellwoodlowe.bsky.social · 23d

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:
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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,.....

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ACOG @acog.org · 16d

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

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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

www.meriahdejoseph.com

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Howard Chiu @howardchiu.bsky.social · 29d

“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.” 🤯

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 29d

Multimodal imaging of human fetal brain development at the mesoscopic scale using 11.7 T ex vivo MRI https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.669657v1

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Howard Chiu @howardchiu.bsky.social · 29d

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.

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Howard Chiu @howardchiu.bsky.social · Sep 7

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!

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Howard Chiu @howardchiu.bsky.social · Sep 5

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!

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Howard Chiu @howardchiu.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · Jun 20

🧠 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

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · Jun 15

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

"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.

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · Jun 11

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

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Dr. Nadine Gaab @gaablab.bsky.social · Jun 10

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/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Howard Chiu @howardchiu.bsky.social · May 21

We are very excited to meet you!

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Sheila Shanmugan @sheilashanmugan.bsky.social · Apr 28

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

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Please RT.

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Jason Yeatman @jyeatman.bsky.social · May 2

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/

ROAR@Home – ROAR (Rapid Online Reading Assessment)

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · Apr 23

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...

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.

Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

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Howard Chiu @howardchiu.bsky.social · Apr 21

Two weeks to do our homework fellow Singaporeans. The system is imperfect but it still works. Make your vote count or hold your peace till 2030.

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖 @kirstenhan.com · Apr 18

It used to just be a spreadsheet but I’ve now rebuilt the GE2025 Manifesto database. It’s a one-stop page to look up the manifestos of political parties contesting GE2025 in #Singapore: tinyurl.com/SGGE2025Mani...

GE2025 Manifestos (by We, The Citizens) | Notion

👀 Table of Contents

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Howard Chiu @howardchiu.bsky.social · Apr 19

An astute reviewer 2 would probably have noted: methods matter. “[We] should spend less time criticizing the content of the administration’s executive actions […] than focusing on its suspect methods. […] Don’t give up on the levers of political power prematurely. Use them, or they will disappear.”

How America Can Avoid Becoming Russia

Political pressure must be brought to bear—through the courts, the press, and the states, but also applied to legislators while they still have any power left.

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Communications Psychology @commspsychol.nature.com · Apr 17

Programming is essential for research in neuroscience and psychology. This Primer introduces ten principles guiding researchers toward writing clear, adaptable, and easily shareable code, supporting reproducible science.
@martinhebart.bsky.social @tsawallis.bsky.social
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Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience - Communications Psychology

Programming is essential for modern research in neuroscience and psychology, but it can quickly become a source of frustration and error. This Primer introduces ten practical principles guiding resear...

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tal yarkoni @talyarkoni.com · Apr 15

if you're a PhD student or postdoc working at the interface of personality psychology and CS/ML (construed broadly on both sides), and are interested in doing a full-time, remote, 3 - 6 month internship/residency at MidJourney, please DM me some kind of resume or CV-like thing

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Howard Chiu @howardchiu.bsky.social · Apr 16

There is no silver bullet - scaffolding the environment, medication, and other tools only facilitate but cannot replace skillbuilding through educational supports.

Child Mind Institute @childmindinstitute.bsky.social · Apr 15

Read our full response covering what the current science says, diagnosing, and effectively supporting children with ADHD:
childmind.org/blog/beyond-...

Beyond the ADHD Headlines: A Nuanced Look at Diagnosis, Drugs, and Daily Life - Child Mind Institute

A recent New York Times Magazine article by Paul Tough raises questions about the increasing number of children diagnosed with ADHD and the long-term use of medication for the treatment of ADHD. While...

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Ernie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi.bsky.social · Apr 10

• In the short-run, tariffs pinch bottom income households 2.5x more rel. to income than at the top.
• Families at the bottom lose $2,100. In the middle, $3,700. At the top, $10,000.
• Consumers face +64% higher apparel prices in the short-run, +27% in long-run.
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Howard Chiu @howardchiu.bsky.social · Apr 10

Thanks to Mario Cardona from EducationCounsel for sharing an extremely comprehensive summary of federal actions on the present state of education in the US here at the Stanford Center on Early Childhood’s RAPID Survey Project 5th Anniversary.

EducationCounsel - EXECUTIVE ACTIONS CHART: EducationCounsel’s Summary and Analysis of Trump Administration Executive Actions Impacting Education (through April 2, 2025)

President Trump has issued numerous Executive Orders and taken other administrative actions, several of which have significant implications for early childhood, K-12, and higher education. EducationCo...

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Howard Chiu @howardchiu.bsky.social · Mar 28

Not just big data, but beautiful visualizations! Raj Chetty also makes the poignant point at the recent @stanforddata.bsky.social lecture that beyond changes in the GDP, what matters even more is how that growth is distributed (especially in the US).

youtu.be/UCn5Bm0VEbw?...

graph depicting the geography of upward mobility in the united states comparing the average household income at age 35 for children born in 1980 whose parents earned 27k USD

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Mar 20

Explore the newly launched Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center, designed to help you navigate the field with news, expert insights and practical tools. The page also highlights job openings, seminars, and more:

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Early-Career Neuroscientists Resource Center

News, perspectives and resources to help navigate the early stages of your neuroscience career

www.thetransmitter.org

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