Congratulations Emilia Cardenas, Ph.D., recipient of a 2026 Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Child and Adolescent Depression Fellowship for the project, "Maternal Depression, Reward Processing, and Parenting Effects on Child Internalizing Risk." @efcardenas.bsky.social

Excited to share that I’ve been awarded the UCI ICTS T32 training fellowship! Grateful for the opportunity to continue growing my research and to the mentors and collaborators who made this possible. @ucirvine.bsky.social

✨Lab Member Spotlight✨ Meet Julia, one of our amazing postdoctoral fellows in the MED Lab! Swipe to learn more about her research➡️

My first clinical PhD students graduated! So proud of @efcardenas.bsky.social and Sam!

✨Lab Member Spotlight✨ Meet Maya, our amazing lab manager! Swipe to learn more about her research and personal interests ➡️

✨Lab Member Spotlight✨ Meet Angela, our amazing EEG Coordinator in the MED Lab! Swipe to learn more about her research interests ➡️

Go apply to work with Raunak!! I can testify that he's an amazing mentor and brilliant scientist.

Raunak Pillai@rmpillai.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at Stony Brook in Fall '26! My lab will take a social cognitive approach to studying how we form/update our beliefs and why we disagree about what is true vs false I'll also be reviewing grad apps! See below for more info

🎶✨ Songs and stories are part of Hispanic Heritage! They connect generations, preserve culture, and support children’s learning and identity. 💜Try singing or telling stories together at home — it builds language, imagination, and connection!

Check out the research the MED Lab team will be presenting at SPR this week! #SPR2025 @therealspr.bsky.social

McGill psych is hosting a panel for under rep minority folks possibly interested in attending grad school on Oct 20. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/246051...

Thank you to everyone who stopped by our posters at SRP! Excited to share that Yinru, our fourth-year doctoral student, received the Smadar Levin Poster Award! 🥳

This is a fantastic resource for students applying to clinical/counseling programs this cycle: A list of PIs, organized by areas of research, accepting students! Please share widely! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?

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🧠Out now in @ohbmofficial.bsky.social ! 🧠 We scanned 32 first-time dads (~8 mos postpartum) while they watched videos of their baby, an unfamiliar baby, their romantic partner, and an unfamiliar woman…1/8 doi.org/10.1002/hbm....

My Baby Versus the World: Fathers' Neural Processing of Own‐Infant, Unfamiliar‐Infant, and Romantic Partner Stimuli

First-time fathers processed own-infant stimuli in mentalizing, emotion regulation, and reward processing regions, and posterior midline responses tracked with bonding and parental stress. Whole-brai....

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Calling @isdp.org members! To increase feelings of belonging and support, the ISDP DEI working group is establishing affinity groups. Tell us what types of affinity groups you would like to join or lead. Affinity groups may meet at the 2025 meeting in person or remotely. forms.gle/cV3WXV4iaFj3...

ISDP Affinity Group Interest Form

Hi there! Affinity groups are informal groups for social support and community building for people who hold a particular minoritized or marginalized identity. Please use this form to indicate what typ...

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Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded the ODYSSEE France grant to pursue scientific collaborations in France! I’ll be connecting with leaders in perinatal mental health—including the amazing @drjodipawluski.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @franceintheus.bsky.social—can’t wait to get started!

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...

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Good reporting on this aspect of the attacks on science — how the Trump administration is cutting research on mis and disinformation. Shout out to @lkfazio.bsky.social for taking a public stand (and being the lead photo). 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...

Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation

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🏠📉 New research in @jama.com (JAMA Network Open) highlights the impact of housing instability on children's mental health. We explored how stress about eviction or housing loss affects child depression, anxiety, ADHD, & behavioral problems. #HousingInstability jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... /1

Stress About Eviction or Loss of Housing and Child Mental Health

This cross-sectional study examines the association of stress about eviction or the loss of housing with caregiver-reported depression, anxiety, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and behaviora...

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I just learned that there's a national graduate student crisis line - gradresources.org. Might be worth spreading the word as I'm pretty sure exactly *checks notes* zero grad students are doing well emotionally right now.

Grad Resources

Encouraging and equipping graduate students for impact.

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Excited to share a new paper from our lab! This was truly a team effort with workbooks designed by Anh Dao, an amazing team of undergrad honors students leading data collection, and @yinrulong.bsky.social and @cbean.bsky.social leading analyses and writing 🌞

Mood, Emotion, & Development Lab at Vanderbilt@medvanderbilt.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper alert! A pilot randomized controlled trial of a brief intervention targeting positive valence systems function to prevent internalizing symptoms in college students. Now out in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology @yinrulong.bsky.social link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

We are currently accepting applications for a lab manager position to oversee the administration of multiple grant-funded research projects! More info below: ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

📣 Call for submissions: The ISDP DEI Committee is seeking submissions for a symposium on the intergenerational transmission of trauma – see the call for more information! @isdp.org docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Call for Speakers

Call for Speakers ISDP DEI Committee Symposium The International Society for Developmental Psychobiology Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee is seeking early-career (undergraduate – assistant p...

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Excited to share new research in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience #psynomCABN! Thanks to my bluesky-less co-first author, Maya Jackson, as well as @jgaronb.bsky.social b.bsky.social, @medvanderbilt.bsky.social, @klhumphreys.bsky.social, and the rest of our team! Link: rdcu.be/ed7MM

Congratulations to @ashleylwatts.bsky.social (and others) for winning the 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award for transformative contributions to psychology! Very well deserved. Ashley has influenced my thinking on nosology a lot. I mean she may reify the p factor but we all have flaws/s

Happy to see this paper published! I've been lucky to have David and @abitantegeorge.bsky.social helping with my study power analyses and have learned a lot from them 🙏

Daniel P. Moriarity@dpmoriarity.bsky.social · last yr.

On difficulties with power analysis using complex statistical models @ AMPPS Cole, @abitantegeorge.bsky.social , Kan, Liu, Preacher, & Maxwell. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...