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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · 12d

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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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Sep 7

Calling all FIT'NG Trainees: Come have lunch with 11 leaders in our field, including 4 of our invited speakers, at 12.15pm - right after this session! Walk-ins are welcome.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · Sep 6

Clinical psychologists looking for an assistant professor position — Vanderbilt is hiring. Please see the job as below!

There’s a lot to like about Nashville and great colleagues too!

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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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · Aug 22

My lab has an open post-doc position!

We will begin reviewing applications as they come in.

The post-doc will work with a vibrant research team at Penn State in the Department of Psychology and the Child Study Center.

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Postdoctoral Research Scholar, The Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab, College of the Liberal Arts, Department of Psychology-2

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · Aug 15

Still accepting poster submissions & hoping folks can make travel plans - Prague in September sounds amazing 🇨🇿
More details: johnfranchak.github.io/icdl_mlcv_wo...

Workshop Overview – ICDL ML CV Workshop

johnfranchak.github.io

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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · Aug 15

🧠🤖 Excited to be speaking at the "Machine Learning for Tracking Early Behavior and Environments" workshop at #ICDL2025 in Prague this September 16th!
15 interdisciplinary speakers. Really looking forward to learning from the other researchers!

Workshop Overview – ICDL ML CV Workshop

johnfranchak.github.io

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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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Milagros Nores @mnores.bsky.social · Jul 18

I recommend reading the age 18 follow-up on the Bucharest Early Intervention Project: Children in foster care had significantly stronger communication & socialization skills than their peers who remained in institutional care, and higher quality was critical. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40638296/#fu...

Adaptive functioning at age 18 years following severe early deprivation: Results of a randomized controlled trial - PubMed

In the present study, we examined adaptive functioning data from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, a randomized controlled trial of foster care as an alternative to institutional care followin...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 10

HAPPY 75th, NSF!

We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.

Read on 🧵(1/11):

A chocolate cake with red and white decorations and lit candles shaped as the number 75. Bold text reads: ‘The NSF Turns 75 Today. What has it done over the past 7 decades?’ The background is a celebratory red with a spray-paint texture.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · May 31

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · May 26

New Harvard alum group formed to fight back and form alliances with other unis

See link about an online organizing event this week

www.crimsoncourage.com

Crimson Courage

Crimson Courage is a growing community of Harvard alumni from all schools and decades united in standing up for academic freedom at Harvard and beyond.

www.crimsoncourage.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · May 22

Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A line graph depicting cumulative grant funding by the National Science Foundation from 1990 to 2025, with funding amounts on the vertical axis and timeline indicators on the horizontal axis. The graph highlights funding trends over the years, with a specific emphasis on Biden’s term and this year (which is the lowest).

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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · May 16

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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · May 9

Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑‍🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.

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Kaylin Hill @kaylinhill.bsky.social · May 7

🚨 New Paper 🚨 Excited to share our work investigating how prenatal descriptions of babies relate to prenatal care visits AND how these descriptions relate to later child outcomes. With @klhumphreys.bsky.social a 🧵

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Jennifer Markfeld @jennifer-markfeld.bsky.social · May 1

I’m so excited to be at #SRCD25! I’m presenting Friday from 11:30am-1pm (209AB) in the symposium “Methodological Insights for Analyzing Children’s Diverse Language Environments and Development with Daylong Audio Recordings” & have a poster on Fri from 4:40-5:40pm (#206) w/ @klhumphreys.bsky.social!

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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · Apr 25

In the past month 4 trainees in my lab lost: NIH diversity supplement, MARC, & STEP-Up funding. NSF SBE meeting (incl. ECRs) indefinitely postponed. Pipeline cuts disproportionately affect underrepresented scholars. Individual lives & our collective future impacted. #ScienceMatters

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · Apr 18

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants

the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever

they aren’t going into universities’ endowments

they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · Apr 15

There is a PR narrative quickly emerging about “entitlement” of elite universities, as if this $ is some sort of subsidy

Harvard & others must counter this quickly

The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · Apr 2

Senator Cory Booker on the economic value of the NIH and what we stand to lose with the Trump administration destroying scientific research

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🧙🏻‍♀️ Spooky Elle 👻 Ready for Fall 🍄🎃 @hecatestorch.bsky.social · Mar 21

Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · Mar 18

✨ Join our research team at Vanderbilt! ✨

The Stress and Early Adversity (SEA) Lab at Vanderbilt University is hiring a full-time Research Assistant to join our team studying brain development, caregiving, and family interventions.

Apply here: shorturl.at/HsyAk

#Neuroscience #DevelopmentalScience

Photo of the job description, also found in the link in the post

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New Hampshire Public Radio @nhpr.org · Mar 14

A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.
www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained

Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

www.nhpr.org

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · Mar 7

Today at the “Stand up for Science” demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial.

A crowd of people demonstrating outside in front of the Lincoln Memorial on a clear, sunny day. Some of the signs read “Science over Stupidity,” “Science Makes America Great,” and “Team Public Health, Not Team Measles.”

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Autumn Kujawa @akujawa.bsky.social · Mar 7

We have an open post-bacc position in my lab! Primary responsibility is coordinating a study of postpartum depression risk (EEG, EMA, longitudinal design). Please share!

Mood, Emotion, & Development Lab at Vanderbilt @medvanderbilt.bsky.social · Mar 7

We’re hiring! Seeking a full-time project coordinator to run EEG study sessions with research participants, administer diagnostic interviews, and assist with the organization and analysis of study datasets. More info below:

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Research Technician - Full-Time, Term

This full-time research technician position is part of the Mood, Emotion, and Development Lab housed in the Department of Psychology and Human Development at Peabody College at Vanderbilt University a...

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · Feb 27

Strategically parked around the corner …

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