Article spotlight!💡 This paper reviews brain connectome development, which the authors posit is due to "a shift from segregation to integration, facilitated by... growth of short-range connections [then] strengthening of long-range connections." 🧠👶🏻https://buff.ly/lPXr4jI

I had so much fun at @cda-adolescence.bsky.social last week speaking about socio-emotional development and the transition to adulthood along side the incredible heartoforegon.org and americasucceeds.org organizations!

H/t @connormhaughey.bsky.social 1st pub from grad school! It was such an excellent group:)

Connor Haughey@connormhaughey.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Shoutout to the joint first authors, Maresa Taté & Lauren Butler, for leading this thoughtful and meaningful paper! And @mabsher.bsky.social for all the support and help along the way

First time at #ISDP2025! Great conference & great presentations by Circle Lab students!!

So exhausting..

Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The fiscal year ends tomorrow. Here are results from NIH Reporter downloaded an hour ago. The total amount of funding committed for FY2025 at this point is 99.0% of that for FY2024. The same difference could be due to a variety of technical factors. 1/3

SO excited to present the beautifully validated new deprivation & threat questionnaire- final answer to the question “but how do you measure this?” Lead author Angelina Tsai, grad student extraordinaire! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The Development and Validation of a Dimensional Childhood Adversity Measure - Angelina Pei-Tzu Tsai, Peter F. Halpin, Lucy Lurie, Meredith Gruhn, Maya Rosen, Donald H. Baucom, Michael B. Sarabosing, S...

Research on the developmental consequences of early adversity has grown rapidly, yet measures of childhood adversity have not kept pace with evolving theoretica...

journals.sagepub.com

Great work, NIH

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

"Some NIH employees have previously come forward in televised protests to air grievances, and many walked out of Bhattacharya’s town hall with staff. The declaration is the first cohesive effort to register agency-wide dismay with the NIH’s direction. " zurl.co/VgS3f #BethesdaDeclartion

You will never convince me that throwing our trans and immigrant communities under the bus to appease hate is 1) morally justifiable 2) politically valuable. It’s neither. Political parties SHAPE social norms/narratives. We learn from one another what is okay. That’s social learning.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Best of Dying Twitter@bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social · last yr.

“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”

Guess what? Megan Davis shows that trajectories of cortical thickness in infancy in the prefrontal cortex (esp the MFG) predicts your working memory *eight* years later when you're 9 years old - out now at PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Longitudinal associations between birth-to-six cortical growth and childhood neurocognitive function | PNAS

The human cortex undergoes immense change in the first years of life, doubling in thickness within the first year and evidencing the greatest chang...

pnas.org

Outstanding presentation of the devastating cuts at NSF and their impact across multiple areas of scientific research and training. Angry at the impact now and in the long-term to US research. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article)

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

nytimes.com

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

BILL GATES: “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/bdd9...

#BRAEN The new Brain and Environment has a special issue coming up edited by @evatelzer.bsky.social 😍 consider submitting: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/brai...

GREAT NEW JOURNAL investigating the impact of the social, natural, and built environment on brain structure and function (free to publish open access this year)! www.sciencedirect.com/journal/brai...

Amen sister

Colette Delawalla, PhD@cdelawalla.bsky.social · last yr.

Dorks, it’s time to throw sand in the gears. They want us to stop teaching, we will teach in the streets. They want us to stop our research, we will use archival data. They want to send us back to the dark ages, we will be a light. We will not lay down and take this.

Congress needs to block this. This so incredibly detrimental to the health, welfare, and prosperity of the nation.

Science Magazine@science.org · last yr.

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Diversity supplement for my grant was just canceled today. The graduate student who it was for just needed to pay tuition this summer so that she could defend her dissertation. She is, of course, a total superstar.😡🤬

New special issue on social media & the brain from #BRAEN www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Excited to share our new paper where we show on links between #greenspace exposure, brain development over time, and mental health and academic outcomes, now published in Biological Psychiatry. Led by Qingyang Li! @kingsioppn.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out this very cool initiative/project @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social ! I’m going to go let #salinemichigan know how great I think science funding is! Go hornets:)

Jena Doom@truedrdoom.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote a piece for the Sioux Falls Argus Leader on the importance of supporting federally funded research for the health and economic well-being of South Dakotans! Thanks to @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social for the inspiration & resources! #sciencehomecoming

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.

Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

stanforddaily.com

Yesterday the NIH publish new directive- grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

In defense of our institutional independence

This University is a proud public university that belongs to all of us and generations to follow. It is a place to test ideas, shape futures and pursue, not prescribe, truth.

michigandaily.com

Two newly-minted doctors this week!!! @nicolasmurgueitio.bsky.social and Lucy Lurie🥳🎉👏🍾

Super excited and proud to receive the Linda Speer award from @fluxsociety.bsky.social (fluxsociety.org/awards/linda...) See you all in Dublin!!! #Flux2025

Linda Spear Mid-career - Flux Society

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And WHILE I'M HERE @connormhaughey.bsky.social will be joining me as a graduate student next year and he got an NSFGRP!!! IN THIS CLIMATE!

honors thesis defense o' rama in the CIRCLE lab - so many INCREDIBLE honors theses this year!!!