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Maria Schweer-Collins @schweercollins.bsky.social · Aug 29

Sharing this #postdoc that might be a good fit for @srcdorg.bsky.social trainees looking to launch their career post-PhD! @leveprev.bsky.social and I are looking for an awesome collaborator who is invested in shaping prevention programs for youth in foster care!

Maria Schweer-Collins @schweercollins.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨 We’re #hiring! 🚨
Looking for an awesome #postdoc to join our new #NIH R01 hybrid trial adapting prevention programs for youth in foster care!

Job ad careers.uoregon.edu/en-us/job/53...

See below for more info 🧵

Current Opportunities | UO HR Website

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Leslie Leve @leveprev.bsky.social · Aug 28

Come join our team as a postdoc to collaborate on this new NIH research study focused on supporting youth in foster care! Position info in @schweercollins.bsky.social posting below!

Maria Schweer-Collins @schweercollins.bsky.social · Aug 28

📍 Position in-person in Eugene, OR (mountains + ocean!) 👩‍🏫 Co-mentored by me
@iastateresearch.bsky.social
@leveprev.bsky.social of
@universityoforegon.bsky.social
🤝 Hands-on training in implementation science, research-practice partnerships & intervention adaptation +

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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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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · Aug 8

🌟🌟🌟 We are hiring! My group is looking to recruit a postdoc interested in genomic and epigenomic studies of child development. Start date flexible; one-year contract with option to renew.

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Postdoctoral Fellow (Harden)

Job Posting Title: Postdoctoral Fellow (Harden) ---- Hiring Department: Population Research Center ---- Position Open To: All Applicants ---- Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40 ---- FLSA Status: Exempt ---- E...

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Andrew & Virginia Rudd Research & Professional Practice Centre @ruddcambridge.bsky.social · Aug 5

Our new Rudd Research Centre website is live! 🥳
🎉 ruddcentre.com
Packed with evidence-informed blogs, podcasts, animations, films, collaborations, publications and much more!

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Andrew & Virginia Rudd Research & Professional Practice Centre @ruddcambridge.bsky.social · Aug 4

Dublin Delights and Research Insights! 🤩
bit.ly/45nAQ5j
Our PhD student, Xiaoning Zhang @xzhang777.bsky.social is researching family dynamics and adolescent development. She shares her academic trip to @tcddublin.bsky.social highlights in her new short blog.

New Rudd Centre blog by PhD student Xiaoning Zhang. Dublin Delights and Research Insights: A Cambridge PhD Student’s Visit to Trinity College, Dublin.

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Andrew & Virginia Rudd Research & Professional Practice Centre @ruddcambridge.bsky.social · May 13

To mark #mentalhealthawarenessweek read our informative & thought-provoking new blog on the power of Building Generational Bridges to Enhance Mental Health - Investing in the Currency of Community! 💡 bit.ly/3GQN8ue
By our Researcher Dr Iris Ji with contributions from our Director Prof Gordon Harold.

Building Generational Bridges to Enhance Mental Health – Investing in the Currency of Community

“It takes a village to raise a child …” (Ancient Proverb) Photo by John Cameron at Unsplash It has long been recognised, but not always fully understood, that healthy child development is promoted …

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Andrew & Virginia Rudd Research & Professional Practice Centre @ruddcambridge.bsky.social · Apr 28

Words Matter article @theguardian.com about why words really do matter to children.
👉 bit.ly/44clJwz
Our Director Prof G. Harold & affiliate Prof @leveprev.bsky.social are members of the Research Working Group for Childhood Verbal Abuse by Adults, supporting better understanding of its impact.

Being shouted at by parents can alter child’s brain, experts tell UK MPs

Meeting will hear how exposure to verbal abuse leads to biological changes and can make mental ill-health likelier

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Andrew & Virginia Rudd Research & Professional Practice Centre @ruddcambridge.bsky.social · Apr 10

Essential reading by our Director Prof Gordon Harold on navigating the online world for parents & carers in light of the issues raised by Netflix's #Adolescence.
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Bennett Institute for Public Policy @bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk · Apr 10

Netflix's Adolescence highlights the harmful risks of social media for young people.

In a 2-part blog, Gordon Harold emphasises the need for parents to be supported in navigating the digital world to protect their children's mental health & development.

bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/support...

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Leslie Leve @leveprev.bsky.social · Apr 8

Another job posting - please share!

Behavioral Health Research & Data Analyst (RA4)
REQ-178291
Application Deadline: 04/14/2025
Fully Remote or Hybrid Work Optional - see link below to apply

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Behavioral Health Research & Data Analyst (RA4)

Initial Posting Date: 04/04/2025 Application Deadline: 04/14/2025 Agency: Oregon Health Authority Salary Range: $6,123 - $9,409 Position Type: Employee Position Title: Behavioral Health Research &...

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Leslie Leve @leveprev.bsky.social · Apr 6

*Job posting alert- children’s behavioral health*! Please share with postbacs in Psychology and related fields, location is university of Oregon’s Portland campus careers.uoregon.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Research Assistant

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Leslie Leve @leveprev.bsky.social · Apr 4

Love seeing the engagement of earlier career + science communication at this important event!

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · Apr 2

This banner is showing up on NIH data repositories. If you use data from these archives you may want to consider what you need access to in the near and far term for your research

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UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent @cda-adolescence.bsky.social · Mar 21

Interested in learning more about adolescent development in a fun and easy way? 🎧🎤 Join Dr. Ron Dahl and his guests as they explore the science of #adolescence on #Adaptivity, a podcast by the UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent.
Listen now: developingadolescent.semel.ucla.edu/podcasts

Adaptivity Podcast: The Science of Adolescence

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Society for Research in Child Development @srcdorg.bsky.social · Mar 19

Last chance to apply to become a LEARN Program Mentor! Applications are due by Sunday, March 23, 2025: bit.ly/3FFgPxS!

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UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent @cda-adolescence.bsky.social · Mar 18

This article outlines the APA's recent evidence-based guide to help parents navigate the complex world of teen video viewing.

"The goal is not to control your child, but to help them learn to exert some measure of self-control, even if it takes practice," says @mitchprinstein.bsky.social.

NPR @npr.org · Mar 18

With teens, it doesn't help to just say no to screen time. Instead, experts suggest teaching them to be smarter viewers of content, and learn to recognize how influencers and algorithms can manipulate them.

Here are 4 ways parents can help their teens be smart with screen time

With teens, it doesn't help to just say no to screen time. Instead, experts suggest teaching them to be smarter viewers of content, and learn to recognize how influencers and algorithms can manipulate...

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Society for Research in Child Development @srcdorg.bsky.social · Feb 20

Please join SRCD in welcoming the following new Governing Council Members:
Deborah Rivas-Drake, President-Elect (2025-2027)
Natalia Palacios, GC Member-at-Large (2025-2031)
Ximena Franco-Jenkins, GC Member-at-Large (2025- 2031)

Congratulations to all!

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Crystal M. Glover, Ph.D. @cgster.bsky.social · Dec 15

🚨🔔Calling all Neuropsychologists and those who know and support them!!!

Check out a new position posting here.

Come join me and other awesome colleagues @ucimind.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social 🚨🔔

recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09362

Assistant Professor- Tenure Track, Clinical Neuropsychology

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · Dec 16

Just uploaded a new video that provides a brief introduction and overview of HiTOP! Tash did awesome work on this one too.

Hope it can be useful for some of you - please do share it widely with anyone who you think might be able to use it: youtu.be/196rqdAv4_w

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Bill Cresko @wcresko.bsky.social · Dec 13

It was very difficult but I’m very proud of what we were able to stand up and then provide nearly 275k tests for free. coronavirus.uoregon.edu/map And so glad to have been able to work with awesome colleagues like @leveprev.bsky.social

Monitoring and Assessment Program (MAP) | UO COVID-19 Safety Resources

The COVID-19 Monitoring and Assessment Program (MAP) ended on June 30, 2023 and the last day of operation was June 22. For questions or to request results until July 31st, email [email protected]. Th...

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Páraic O'Súilleabháin @paraic.bsky.social · Nov 29

We have a call open for editor for Psychological Bulletin. Deadline is Monday January 13, 2025. If you know someone or you are interested see the link below. Its a great journal to be involved with.

www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

Call for editor nominations

Find out which APA-published journals are seeking nominations for new editors or associate editors.

www.apa.org

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Andrew & Virginia Rudd Research & Professional Practice Centre @ruddcambridge.bsky.social · Nov 25

Hello #Bluesky! This is the new official account for our Rudd #Research Centre, we look forward to connecting with you! 🤗Learn more about who we are and what we do in our intro short! Link here 💡 ruddcentre.com

The Rudd Centre

Visit the post for more.

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Leslie Leve @leveprev.bsky.social · Nov 23

Please add me as well, I am a developmental psychologist and study youth mental health. Thanks

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Nov 22

New Lancet paper 'The cost of not investing in the first 1000 days'.

Cites our Cochrane review on preschool-based feeding programmes in socio-economically deprived settings.

FEED STARVING CHILDREN in a timely way. Later (when they're older) may be too late.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪

The cost of not investing in the next 1000 days: implications for policy and practice

Building on the evidence from the first paper in this Series highlighting the fundamental importance of healthy and nurturing environments for children's growth and development in the next 1000 days (...

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · Nov 21

**We are recruiting**

Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/

Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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