Alexis Brieant

@abrieant.bsky.social

Assistant professor @UVMvermont | Developmental psychologist studying adversity, 🧠 development, & mental health | she/her | fernlab-uvm.com | views are my own

The LUMeN Lab at Emory is hiring ✨ We’re seeking a full-time RA/lab manager and a postdoc to work on new NIH-funded studies! Formal job ads/apps forthcoming. We’re eager to hit the ground running so please share these flyers and/or reach out if interested!

The Learning, Understanding, Memory, & Neurodevelopment Lab (LUMeN Lab, Pl: Dr.
Alexandra Cohen) in the Department of Psychology at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) is seeking a full-time Research Assistant (RA) to work on studies examining how motivation and emotion influence learning, memory, and brain function across development. The RA will gain experience with all components of the research process, providing excellent preparation for graduate studies.

The expected start date for the position is Summer/Fall 2026. A two-year commitment is requested. Application review will take place on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Please reach out to
ali.cohen@emory.edu
with a CV and cover letter if you are interested
in this position.The Learning, Understanding, Memory, & Neurodevelopment Lab (LUMeN Lab, PI: Dr.
Alexandra Cohen) in the Department of Psychology at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to work on NIH-funded studies examining emotion-related learning, memory, and brain function across development.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Please reach out to
ali.cohen@emory.edu
with a CV and cover letter if interested.

New publication in DCN, co-led with Natasha Chaku! 🧠Combining our expertise in brain and pubertal development, we sought to clarify how adversity shapes timing and pace of adolescent development across multiple levels of analysis: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Timing and tempo of puberty and neurodevelopment following adversity: A registered report

Stress exposure may influence the pace of pubertal and brain development; however, empirical findings are mixed, with evidence for both acceleration a…

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Help save SBE at NSF (and 3 cheers for Paige 💙). Friends in the district Unis ++ have extra influence b/c their reps are on Appropriations. Click! Write! NYC schools (NYU/Columbia/Weill Cornell ..) Brown Vanderbilt U Delaware U Maryland UOregon & OSU Texas A&M U Rochester U Alabama +++

Paige Amormino@amormino.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Saving SBE starts before the bill is written. SBE needs a distinct FY27 appropriation. If your sch. is on the list, get a group of colleagues to meet w your House/Sen. offices. Esp. for Republican seats, direct constituent comms matter. Timeline/templates/updates: www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337

Saving SBE starts before the bill is written. SBE needs a distinct FY27 appropriation. If your sch. is on the list, get a group of colleagues to meet w your House/Sen. offices. Esp. for Republican seats, direct constituent comms matter. Timeline/templates/updates: www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337

Paige Amormino - Saving SBE starts before the bill is written.

Right now, NSF SBE does not have its own separate line of funding in the FY2027 budget structure. This matters because if SBE is not specifically protected ...

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We plan to hire a post doc to start in Fall 2026 (flexible), in the Aulet Lab at UMass Amherst, funded for two years. The postdoc will help establish our developmental fMRI research program studying symbolic number acquisition in 4-8 year old children (among other things!).

We're hiring! The Emotion and Psychopathology in Context Lab at Harvard invites applications for a full-time RA/lab manager to start in 2026 summer. Ideal for students preparing for graduate study (e.g., clinical psych). Please consider sharing & applying! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive...

Research Assistant I

Company Description: By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds...

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My lab at UW Madison is hiring a new lab manager! I’m looking for a motivated and detail-oriented person to help run the lab’s day-to-day, including our ongoing neuroimaging and behavioral studies. This is especially well suited for graduating undergrads thinking about grad school. Link below

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

Excited to share a new preprint that examines how adversity exposure across development is associated with subcortical-cortical structure-function coupling and youth mental health! 🧠 Thread below: 🧵⬇

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Corticolimbic structure-function coupling is sensitive to childhood adversity and buffers adversity-related symptoms during development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.22.696017v1

New year🎊, new preprint📰 Using multimodal brain-age prediction models trained and tested on 4-wave MRI data from #ABCD, we examined how deviations in brain age align with changes in internalising and externalising symptoms across 10 waves. 1/4🧵

Synchrony between brain age maturation and internalising and externalising symptoms across adolescence

Abstract Background: Adolescence is a period of rapid neurobiological and behavioural change, yet it remains unclear how deviations from normative brain maturation relate to the development of interna...

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The CDC website under RFK Jr. now argues that we “can’t say vaccines don’t cause autism” because studies haven’t ruled out every possible scenario. It’s wild to see this misunderstanding of science on a federal health website, but it’s also an opportunity to explain how the scientific process works