Wordbank, my lab's open database of children's vocabulary development, has a new home. There's a new website, a new data release, and wordbankr is back on CRAN. A few details 🧵 wordbank.stanford.edu/

Wordbank

An open database of children’s vocabulary development

wordbank.stanford.edu

Kind of obsessed with this spooky season scene my 12-year-old painted today.

The NSF-Social, Behavioral and Economics website no longer shows any of the programs that used to be there or the program officers. The only thing available is information on the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES). It is now only in name at NSF www.nsf.gov/sbe

Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE)

NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.

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The NIH just released a proposal that will apparently hide peer reviewers’ impact scores and percentiles from the research team, their institution, and NIH program officers. All the better to obscure how funding decisions will be made primarily via political review, I’m guessing.

For those looking for alternatives to OSF, I recommend two resources comparing features of other Generalist Repositories. Resources are from GREI, an NIH funded initiative. Comparison tool to help you pick which one you like best: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Decision tree:  doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Center for Open Science@cos.io · 2mo ago

OSF will continue to support study planning and preregistration, as well as community-run preprint services. Our overview explains what's changing, what will continue, key dates, & where to find detailed guidance. We've also shared why these changes are necessary. (🧵2/2)

Interesting use of my work in a new paper. Authors use well-established finding that ideology is weaker predictor of party id among Black Ams than among White Ams as benchmark for sample quality. Representative samples recover that pattern. Less rep. samples do not. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

U.S.-based SPSP members: The proposed FY2027 budget would eliminate the NSF SBE Directorate, which supports approximately 5,000 scholars each year. Urge your elected officials to protect the SBE Directorate, with help from COSSA: https://ow.ly/5PKz50Zs2xI

New paper! Executive function assessments shape real educational decisions, but scores reflect more than children's abilities; Context matters! We argue for more valid, equitable use of EF assessments in policy and practice. Open access 🚨 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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We've known that socioeconomics (SES) matters for the 🧠. New & 🤯 is that SES drowns out all other brain associations, incl. IQ. If you train an algorithm to predict IQ from brain data, it's still way better at predicting SES. Science Mag: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @smarek0502.bsky.social 👀🧵👇

Scott Marek@smarek0502.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We made an open repository of close relationships measures. Our goal is to catalogue all of the published self-report measures in relationship science. You can help us expand the database by suggesting measures you tend to use in your research, or by uploading your own measures! relascale.com

RelaScale - Psychological Measures and Constructs

RelaScale is a searchable database of psychological measures and constructs for relationship researchers.

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Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

Exclusive: NSF puts new research grants to top universities on hold

US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions.

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Excited to be a part of this group!

Association for Psychological Science@psychscience.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Congrats! 9 psychological researchers joined the 3rd cohort of APS Editorial Fellows #AcademicSky @bsiepe.bsky.social, @laura-j-botzet.bsky.social, @corinnecarlton.bsky.social, @hghwang.bsky.social, @eikekofi.bsky.social, @mjbalezina.bsky.social, Peejay Bengwasan, Jin Li, Christopher Osterhaus

Climate change impacts are here, but public support for action remains polarized. Which climate messages move people? In a ~13,500-person megastudy, we tested 10 of the most-cited messages. Six increased pro-environmental attitudes in the U.S.—but only by 1–4 percentage points. 🧵

Come check out our symposium on Saturday at #CDS2026! I'm biased but I think we have a really cool set of talks thinking about power as something that is negotiated dynamically and bidirectionally, and I'll be presenting new work done with @samuelronfard.bsky.social 🙌

Check out our lab #CDS2026! Talks on early intuitions about democracy, consequences of household inequality, and cross-cultural data on intuitive beliefs about social exclusion.

The worst part is knowing all of this yet still needing to apply for these fellowships & grants...

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

My research lab is accepting a doctoral student to start Fall ‘26. I wasn’t initially searching, but funds opened up. www.tcufaces.com for details on our work. www.psychology.tcu.edu for program deets. Please contact me after submitting application so I can pull for rapid review. Please share!

TCU FACES Lab

The Families, Autism, and Child Emotion Studies lab—directed by Dr. Naomi Ekas—is based out of the Department of Psychology at Texas Christian University. The primary focus of our research is to inv...

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Know a promising undergrad who wants more time before applying to grad school? Pitt has a funded postbac program for students from underrepresented groups. This year, my lab will consider applications for solo supervision or to be co-supervised by @mehrgol.bsky.social! App deadline is March 15!

🎉 PINE Lab is hiring a postbacc Research Coordinator! Projects include cohort studies examining brain mechanisms linking adversity to cognition/language & RCTs of early interventions on neurodevelopment. apply: forms.gle/Dyay39x2XEMn... more info: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/join-us

The Suicide Prevention Research Lab at UMass Amherst is hiring! We are looking for a lab manager to help grow our new lab with a start date of summer 2026. Share and apply! careers.umass.edu/jobs/technic...

Technical Assistant I (Lab Manager, Suicide Prevention Research Lab) - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Title: Technical Assistant I (Lab Manager, Suicide Prevention Research Lab) Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Psychology and Brain Sci Work L...

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Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women. Women whose paid and unpaid labor are toggled up or down depending on the whims of the men who engineered and profiteered our DIY society.

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 9mo ago

Roughly half a million women in the US exited the workforce in 2025, and 42% of those who voluntarily left cited their caregiving responsibilities as the main reason, according to a recent survey from Catalyst. www.hr-brew.com/stories/2026...

we developmentalists are a small minority of scientists, but had the NIH reorganization gone through, the entire child development wing of NIH (that is, the NICHD) would have basically been decimated. so yeah, this counts as a win in my book

Denis Wirtz@deniswirtz.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Both chambers of Congress have now passed the FY26 minibus with NIH provisions. The President will sign. (1) $48.7 billion for NIH (2) Full IDC recovery (3) No more multi-year funding (4) No NIH reorganization, maintaining the current IC structure.

Adulting is realizing you’re more of a Professor Oak and less of a Pokémon Master 🥲

a man in a white jacket and red shirt is standing with his arms crossed in front of a group of people .

Alt: Professor Oak from Pokémon. a man in a white jacket and red shirt is standing with his arms crossed in front of a group of people .

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Instead of doomscrolling your social media feed, scroll through this stunning visualization of the state of government support for science and research. You’re going to want to see the end, which provides a glimmer of hope for our futures. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

US science after a year of Trump: what has been lost and what remains

A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce.

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who did this

When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

This platform is so important! It allows researchers regardless of their university prestige to do research! So important for leveling the playing field for many developmental psychologist scientist from under resourced institutions. Please consider donating - donations will be matched!

Melissa Kline Struhl@mekline.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This is a fundraising post! An anonymous donor is matching contributions to Children Helping Science up to 100K through the end of the year - if it's in your giving budget, please consider supporting open science infrastructure! giving.mit.edu/search/node/... Details below...

This year saw almost a 50 percent decrease in funded grants on mental health. This is not okay. There is a literal mental health crisis in our country & instead of funding more work on cures we are cutting the amount of work in half. Our children will suffer from this. archive.is/2025.12.02-2...

Most basic neuroscience research in the U.S. is funded by the federal government, but there is an entire funding landscape that lies beyond those federal agencies. To bring those sources together, @thetransmitter.bsky.social presents a funding source directory: bit.ly/4pBBF2B #StateOfNeuroscience

Neuroscience funding: A source directory

Our list features expected and lesser-known governmental and nongovernmental sources of funding for basic neuroscience research.

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