They’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas. For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare. www.startribune.com/walz-demands...

Walz demands DHS stop detaining Minnesota children

In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Walz demanded details about how many Minnesota kids are in detention facilities.

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Children are being tear-gassed and deported all over the US. Where is the outrage and resistance from societies like SRCD, all the fancy US based centres and institutes that claim to be advocates for child development and who have been lecturing the rest of the world for decades??? Crickets. Cowards

📣We are hiring an affective neuroscientist! Come join me and a bunch of other cool folks at University of Maryland's Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security.

Penn State Psychology is hiring in Child Clinical! Assistant or Associate Professor *This is a 2nd position* We're also hiring in quant-computational. Q's app process: PsychApplications@psu.edu Q's position: clh39@psu.edu, Cynthia Huang-Pollock psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Assistant or Associate Professor, Child Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology

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Excited to announce that I started as an Assistant Professor at Tulane’s Psychology Department! Made it to the beautiful New Orleans & enjoying the oak trees! Recruiting PhD students through the Brain, Cognition & Dev Science area (deadline Dec 1). Please share widely & contact me with questions!

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

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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. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic... 1/3

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

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The NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Hub is now available! •Researchers can explore ABCD & HBCD Study data in one place – with robust query & data analysis tools, documentation, & workflows •Learn more & apply for data access: www.nbdc-datahub.org @theabcdstudy.bsky.social

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Gut wrenching essay about trainees by Daphna Shohamy (Director of Columbia's Zuckerman Neuroscience Institute). "let’s be clear: It isn’t institutions that are being punished. It’s the researchers who are the future of science in this country ..." 💔 www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/u...

What am I supposed to say to this generation of young scientists?

Undermining the future of American science is not a path to accountability — it’s a path to decline.

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Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.

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Dear Tenured Facility, Over the past 100 days my career trajectory has turned into a question mark. At best, the TT job market just got even crazier, at worst there won’t be research career options in the US when I finish my PhD. It took me a while to find my path and I love being a scientist. 1/x

I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

No need to stop the 'brain rot': Modern kids aren't less intelligent www.newscientist.com... It's me, in New Scientist magazine, standing up for 'the kids' yet again, as they're subjected to an endless barrage of evidence-free accusations and paranoia #Technology #Brains #Teens

No need to stop the 'brain rot': Modern kids aren't less intelligent

The idea that the rise of tech means today's young people are less intelligent than previous generations is rife – but wrong, says neuroscientist Dean Burnett

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I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out

Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.

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RFK said Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants, and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms." Well, this country tried that once before. This is how it went. ⤵️

RFK Wants to Send People to ‘Wellness Farms.’ The US Already Tried That.

RFK said Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants, and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms."

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BREAKING: A federal court ruled the lawsuit of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Ph.D student detained for writing an op-ed, should proceed in Vermont — denying the Trump administration's motion to move the case to Louisiana. We will not stop fighting until Rümeysa is home.

BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

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Now out in Current Directions in Psychological Science-- The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology With @aliciavallorani.bsky.social & @kgunther.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/2

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

Bravo, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology! Thank you to the members who crafted this important statement. @drglitterbear.bsky.social sbn.org/news/news/wh...

Here are six examples of how foreign visitors to the US with no criminal record are being treated: 1. Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holding student with no criminal record married to an American is abducted by ICE and is still in detention over a week later. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/n... ......

For those folks who have been waiting to climb the pole and ring the “constitutional crisis” bell, it would appear we have arrived. Neither Judge Sorokin nor Judge Boasberg believed that he was signing a meaningless order, and both judges demanded compliance that never came.

We’ve Officially Entered the Next Phase of Trump’s Dictatorship Era

Taken together, these actions and declarations amount to a significant escalation in Trump’s transformation of his own presidency into an autocracy.

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Oof.

Inside the Collapse at NIH

Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

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