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Sarah McCormick

@smccormick.bsky.social

Postdoc in the PINE Lab @ Northeastern University | Adjunct Professor @ Boston College | Interested in neural development, social cognition, and family systems | she/her | 🏳️‍🌈 https://sites.google.com/northeastern.edu/sarahmccormick

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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · last yr.

thrilled to share this project over a decade in the making out now in @pnas.org! We show that precocious GABA boosting in neonates by early sevoflurane/propofol anesthetic exposure accelerates visual cortical maturation in human infants www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · last yr.

Let’s be clear: If the government can arrest, detain, and disappear peaceful protestors, none of us are free. That’s not law and order. It’s fascism. And we should all be outraged that this is being done in our name.

Kathleen Hughes, PhD @kathmhughes.bsky.social · last yr.

I am calling on all #devpsyc colleagues to condemn & speak out about the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk by the US govt on March 25, 2025. She is a developmental psychology graduate. #childpsyc #developmentalpsyc #lifespanpsyc #acadmicsky #childrenandyouth @srcdorg.bsky.social @issbd.bsky.social

Dear Developmental Colleagues,
I’m a developmental psychologist, Associate Professor (Teaching), and Undergraduate Program Director for the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary. I specialize in social emotional learning, peer relationships, and children’s media.
On March 25th, a developmental psychology graduate student at Tufts University in Massachusetts was abducted by the United States government. Rumeysa Ozturk is a PhD student in Child Study & Human Development with a focus on prosocial development and children’s media. She is from Turkey and was studying in the USA on a student visa. Her visa was revoked when she participated in political letter writing asking Tufts University to acknowledge the Palestinian genocide. This political activity made her a target.
No peaceful political activity should ever lead to unlawful detainment. The Palestinian-Israel conflict is heartbreaking. My spouse and child are Jewish, we lost an Israeli family member on October 7th, 2022. I’ve seen increases in anti-semitism on university campuses in the past two years, but I know and I acknowledge that the majority of protestors are not hateful, and they want peace and human rights.
Rumeysa Ozturk is one of us. Therefore, I am calling on leaders in Developmental Psychology to stand up for Ozturk, to pressure academic societies such as SRCD, SRA, & ISSBD to release a statement regarding her unjust abduction. We need to shine a spotlight and put international pressure on this abduction to help ensure her safety and release. Please also consider writing your political representatives. Ozturk has been relocated from Massachusetts to Louisiana. Her lawyer has lost contact with her in the past day. Our efforts can make a difference during these critical days.
Sincerely,
Kathleen Hughes, PhD
Associate Professor (Teaching)
Undergraduate Program Director
University of Calgary

Ellen Roche @ellroche.bsky.social · last yr.

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

Sarah McCormick @smccormick.bsky.social · last yr.

ICE is literally kidnapping people off the street - this is all so fucked up and I don't have any more eloquent words right now other than Free Rumeysa and abolish ICE

WBUR@wbur.org · last yr.

More than a thousand people gathered at Powder House Square near the Tufts University campus Wednesday evening to protest the arrest and possible deportation of student Rumeysa Ozturk.

Krystal Cashen, PhD.@krystalcashen.bsky.social · 2y ago

On that note, I want to share one of my favorite articles last year published last year in the Journal of Family Psychology! We examine associations between stigma, community connections, and thoughts of future parenthood in LGBTQ+ adults. We also look at differences by sexual and gender identity.

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Jenna Finch @jennafinch823.bsky.social · 2y ago

Does anyone have an assignment they enjoy grading for developmental psych that has students engage with a (or multiple) scientific article(s)? I have tried many iterations of different assignments and want one I look forward to grading. Right now... not enjoying grading AI-written policy letters.

Sarah McCormick @smccormick.bsky.social · 2y ago

My contribution to the lab is convincing everyone that our fall activity should be going to the International Cryptozoology Museum (it did not take much convincing).

Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam@laurelgd.bsky.social · 2y ago

PINE lab does Portland! Holy Donuts, Eventide, and the International Cryptozoology Museum all on our first road trip itinerary!

Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 3y ago

🎉🎉🎉HAPPE 4.1 is out for EEG: new Generate functionality for computing microstates courtesy of the EEGLab Microstate toolbox (Poulsen, A. T., Pedroni, A., Langer, N., & Hansen, L. K.)! Fantastic work from Priyanka Ghosh and Josh Rodriguez in PINE Lab! github.com/PINE-Lab/HAPPE