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Alexis Brieant

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Assistant professor @UVMvermont | Developmental psychologist studying adversity, 🧠 development, & mental health | she/her | fernlab-uvm.com | views are my own

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Alexis Brieant @abrieant.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Tenure track position in Clinical Psychology at the University of Vermont ‼️ Review begins Sept 30. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer any questions. www.uvmjobs.com/postings/88091
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Assistant Professor of Psychological Science: Clinical Psychologist
Officers of Instruction - Tenure Track
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Dylan Gee, PhD @dylanggee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The ABCD Study at Yale is hiring a new post-baccalaureate research assistant! This is a great position to gain hands-on research experience in the field and to learn more about adolescent brain and behavioral development! 🧠 @theabcdstudy.bsky.social candlab.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This #FreeAccess JCPP editorial highlights evidence that proximal, neighbourhood & structural conditions each contribute to #neurodevelopment & that their effects are often interdependent. Full Editorial by @divyangana.bsky.social et al. acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1…
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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry | ACAMH Pediatric Journal | Wiley Online Library
Environmental influences on child brain development operate across multiple levels of context, including family, neighbourhood and broader structural environments. While developmental cognitive neuro...
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Ali Cohen @aliocohen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The LUMeN Lab at Emory is hiring ✨ We’re seeking a full-time RA/lab manager and a postdoc to work on new NIH-funded studies! Formal job ads/apps forthcoming. We’re eager to hit the ground running so please share these flyers and/or reach out if interested!
The Learning, Understanding, Memory, & Neurodevelopment Lab (LUMeN Lab, Pl: Dr.
Alexandra Cohen) in the Department of Psychology at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) is seeking a full-time Research Assistant (RA) to work on studies examining how motivation and emotion influence learning, memory, and brain function across development. The RA will gain experience with all components of the research process, providing excellent preparation for graduate studies.

The expected start date for the position is Summer/Fall 2026. A two-year commitment is requested. Application review will take place on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Please reach out to
ali.cohen@emory.edu
with a CV and cover letter if you are interested
in this position.The Learning, Understanding, Memory, & Neurodevelopment Lab (LUMeN Lab, PI: Dr.
Alexandra Cohen) in the Department of Psychology at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to work on NIH-funded studies examining emotion-related learning, memory, and brain function across development.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Please reach out to
ali.cohen@emory.edu
with a CV and cover letter if interested.
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Nora Verlaine @noraverlaine.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
American science right now is basically 10,000 of these stories, all with their own heartbreaking specificity Lost careers, lost progress, lost discoveries I feel so sad every day for all we’ve lost and continue to lose 💔
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Alexis Brieant @abrieant.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New publication in DCN, co-led with Natasha Chaku! 🧠Combining our expertise in brain and pubertal development, we sought to clarify how adversity shapes timing and pace of adolescent development across multiple levels of analysis: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Timing and tempo of puberty and neurodevelopment following adversity: A registered report
Stress exposure may influence the pace of pubertal and brain development; however, empirical findings are mixed, with evidence for both acceleration a…
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Alexis Brieant @abrieant.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Deadline extended to May 1!
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Alexis Brieant @abrieant.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
The FERN Lab is in Toronto for SRA! Stop by OV’s poster today at 12:30, and @errenwick.bsky.social tomorrow at 10!
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Help save SBE at NSF (and 3 cheers for Paige 💙). Friends in the district Unis ++ have extra influence b/c their reps are on Appropriations. Click! Write! NYC schools (NYU/Columbia/Weill Cornell ..) Brown Vanderbilt U Delaware U Maryland UOregon & OSU Texas A&M U Rochester U Alabama +++
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Lauren N. Girouard, PhD @laurengh.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I’m sorry, come again? The silent closeout of NSF-SBE is a travesty. #nsf #nsfsbe
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Paige Amormino @amormino.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Saving SBE starts before the bill is written. SBE needs a distinct FY27 appropriation. If your sch. is on the list, get a group of colleagues to meet w your House/Sen. offices. Esp. for Republican seats, direct constituent comms matter. Timeline/templates/updates: www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337
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Paige Amormino - Saving SBE starts before the bill is written.
Right now, NSF SBE does not have its own separate line of funding in the FY2027 budget structure. This matters because if SBE is not specifically protected ...
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Dylan Gee, PhD @dylanggee.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Congrats to @abrieant.bsky.social @drkaiip.bsky.social and all of the other new APS Rising Stars!
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Inbox: Trump is announcing the new PCAST membership. It is dominated by CEOs and includes only one academic scientist, John Martinis.
Marc Andreessen
Sergey Brin
Safra Catz
Michael Dell
Jacob DeWitte
Fred Ehrsam
Larry Ellison
David Friedberg
Jensen Huang
John Martinis
Bob Mumgaard
Lisa Su
Mark Zuckerberg
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Dominique Maciejewski 🟥 @domimaciejewski.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
@eeskevanroekel.bsky.social @charlottev.bsky.social & myself are recruiting a PhD student on momentary emotion beliefs and well-being in adolescents (includes ESM & qualitative methods). Position requires Dutch (for data collection). Happy to answer questions! 👉 Apply: tiu.nu/23638 (27 april 2026)
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PhD kandidaat Emotie overtuigingen en emotie regulatie bij jongeren (23638)
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Lauren Aulet @laurenaulet.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We plan to hire a post doc to start in Fall 2026 (flexible), in the Aulet Lab at UMass Amherst, funded for two years. The postdoc will help establish our developmental fMRI research program studying symbolic number acquisition in 4-8 year old children (among other things!).
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Alexis Brieant @abrieant.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Really excited to be guest editing this special issue with Dani! Abstracts are due April 15th, reach out with any questions!
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Jon Shaffer @jonshaffer.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
ICE is breaking into college dorms now.
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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Neuroscience undergrad abducted at 6:30am. No judicial warrant. ICE lied to gain entry into the residence. State-sanctioned kidnapping. And I’m supposed to somehow teach class this afternoon?
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Mark Shuquan Chen @markschen.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
We're hiring! The Emotion and Psychopathology in Context Lab at Harvard invites applications for a full-time RA/lab manager to start in 2026 summer. Ideal for students preparing for graduate study (e.g., clinical psych). Please consider sharing & applying! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/HarvardUnive...
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Research Assistant I
Company Description: By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds...
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João Guassi Moreira @jfguassimoreira.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
My lab at UW Madison is hiring a new lab manager! I’m looking for a motivated and detail-oriented person to help run the lab’s day-to-day, including our ongoing neuroimaging and behavioral studies. This is especially well suited for graduating undergrads thinking about grad school. Link below
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 04/02/2026
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...
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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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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 02/02/2026
NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter
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Mark Armstrong @markarms.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'" www.startribune.com/preschooler-...
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Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says
The detentions of Columbia Heights students come after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities school property.
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Lucinda Sisk @lucindasisk.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Excited to share a new preprint that examines how adversity exposure across development is associated with subcortical-cortical structure-function coupling and youth mental health! 🧠 Thread below: 🧵⬇
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Joe Robertson @joro.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This is unconstitutional lawless terror & intentional child abuse. These thugs should be prosecuted as a gang of child abusers engaged in kidnap & all other related offenses. Unthinkably evil.
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Shirley Wang @shirleybwang.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We're hiring! The Computational Clinical Science Lab @ Yale is seeking a full-time lab manager/research coordinator to start in early summer 2026. For more information about the position and to apply: forms.gle/LtQwVgPUfaGk... Please share widely & consider applying!
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Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
New year🎊, new preprint📰 Using multimodal brain-age prediction models trained and tested on 4-wave MRI data from #ABCD, we examined how deviations in brain age align with changes in internalising and externalising symptoms across 10 waves. 1/4🧵
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Synchrony between brain age maturation and internalising and externalising symptoms across adolescence
Abstract Background: Adolescence is a period of rapid neurobiological and behavioural change, yet it remains unclear how deviations from normative brain maturation relate to the development of interna...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/12/2025
ICE sprayed a one-year-old in the face with pepper spray. The child and parents are US citizens, but that doesn't even matter. These monsters pepper-sprayed a baby. We cannot allow ICE to continue this behavior, and they aren't going to reform themselves. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Rafael Veraza, 25, said he pulled into Sam’s Club with his wife and baby on a weekend grocery run on Nov. 8 when he saw a commotion surrounding what looked to be unmarked vehicles full of immigration officers in Cicero, west of Chicago.
The family decided to leave the area without shopping, he said. On his way out, he believes a passing agent mistook him for one of the protesters who have followed immigration officials throughout Chicagoland in an effort to warn residents and document their operations.
Veraza’s wife happened to be filming the parking lot scene on her smartphone because they wanted to one day show their 1-year-old the turbulent times she was born in. She aimed her camera at a passing SUV and captured the moment when an officer filled the family’s vehicle with a mist of pepper spray.Video shows the moment Rafael Veraza says federal agents shot pepper-spray into his car, where he was with his wife and 1-year-old daughter. (Video: Zoeann Murphy/The Washington Post)
Veraza and his wife poured water on their crying baby’s face and rushed to the hospital. A doctor called in a poison control specialist for an expert opinion because they’d never seen such a young person pepper sprayed, Veraza said. They advised bringing the child to a specialist for follow-up visits to gauge potential long term damage to the child’s lungs and eyes.
McLaughlin denied that federal agents pepper-sprayed anyone outside of Sam’s Club in a statement issued after the incident to the news media. She did not offer an explanation for what is shown in the video.
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Dr. Cheri A Levinson @cherilev.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
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...
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Cleanthis Michael @clmich.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Excited to share our new review “Mapping interactions between adversity and neuroplasticity across development” in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. We discuss how experience - particularly adversity - interacts with neuroplasticity during human development authors.elsevier.com/c/1mB5U4sIRv...
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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
The CDC website under RFK Jr. now argues that we “can’t say vaccines don’t cause autism” because studies haven’t ruled out every possible scenario. It’s wild to see this misunderstanding of science on a federal health website, but it’s also an opportunity to explain how the scientific process works
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
🚨Cyber Monday Discounts for smart-workshops.com Monday, Dec 1 Only! Give yourself the gift of methods expertise this year! 25% off for professionals, 50% for trainees (usual 33% plus 25%) with codes: cyber25pro or cyber25train Please RT and share with colleagues!🙏 1/2
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a man with his hands folded and the words oh my god yes behind him
ALT: a man with his hands folded and the words oh my god yes behind him
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Jena Doom @truedrdoom.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I wrote a piece for The Conversation on the importance of SNAP for reducing food insecurity and improving child health. I’d love it if you would read and share!
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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🚨I am in the most delightful position of having a postdoc land a faculty job! Which means I will be looking to hire at least one new postdoc this cycle! More to come soon but if you're interested feel free to email me or come say hi at @isdp.org in a week or two!
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/11/2025
If you think your kids aren't old enough to hear about what's happening in this country, remember that there are millions of kids their same age who don't have that choice.
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Meriah DeJoseph @meriahdejoseph.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Just published! ✨ Across 15+ timepoints, we found that unpredictability in economic hardship – not only severity – shapes young children’s self-regulation. Understanding these dynamics can help us design supports that promote stability and adaptive development. 👉 bit.ly/4oIZO75
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Hidden dynamics of economic hardship: Characterizing economic unpredictability and its role on self-regulation in early childhood | Development and Psychopathology | Cambridge Core
Hidden dynamics of economic hardship: Characterizing economic unpredictability and its role on self-regulation in early childhood
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
SNAP benefits are about to lapse for 42 million people, because nothing says “save the children” like starving them.
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Max Herzberg, Ph.D. @herzberg-mp.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
📣 I am excited to be recruiting PhD students to my lab in Psychology and Neuroscience at UGA! If you are applying for Fall 2026 and passionate about environmental effects on brain function, plasticity, and behavior development, consider joining me in Athens! psychology.uga.edu/how-apply-ou...
psychology.uga.edu
How to Apply to Our Graduate Programs
The department offers two graduate degrees: the Ph.D.
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Alexis Brieant @abrieant.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
New lab paper in DCN! 🧠 We conducted interviews with adolescents to better understand their perceptions of neuroscience research and barriers to participation, w/qualitative data that is shaping how we design lab studies & efforts to increase representation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Understanding barriers to adolescent participation in developmental neuroscience research
Increasing representation of youth in developmental neuroscience research is essential to elucidating neurobiological mechanisms of cognition, behavio…
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📣 Calling 2nd-year grad students and their mentors: You just abruptly lost the ability to apply for the NSF grad research fellowship. Join ~900 others (and growing!) in signing @omfishient.bsky.social's petition to reverse that. [Or reshare this petition if you're not directly impacted]
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Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
You cannot keep your head down and expect to sneak through the next three years unaffected. We MUST come together and say “NO!” Suppression of freedoms *always* starts at universities and in the press. You’ve got like 5 seconds to wake up.
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Jon Shaffer @jonshaffer.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
bb's first podcast. Here's my conversation w/ Heather McSherry abt @defendpublichealth.bsky.social, science, power, organizing, & the existential threats to public health in this precipice moment. www.infectiousdose.com/post/from-ev... @pathogenscribe.bsky.social @infectdosepodcast.bsky.social
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From Evidence to Power: Organizing for Public Health with Jon Shaffer, PhD
Sociologist–organizer Jon Shaffer, PhD, joins Infectious Dose to explain why organizing—not just evidence—wins public-health protections, how DPH is building state teams, and what you can do next.
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Monica Ellwood-Lowe @mellwoodlowe.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share: phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo
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Research Coordinator, Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States
The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....
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Alexis Brieant @abrieant.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I'll be reviewing applications for developmental and biobehavioral psychology PhD students this cycle (not clinical). More info and FAQs here! www.fernlab-uvm.com
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Family, Environment, Resilience, and Neurodevelopment Lab | UVM
The Family, Environment, Resilience, and Neurodevelopment (FERN) Lab is a research team at the University of Vermont (UVM) committed to studying how and why stress and adversity affect brain developme...
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Maddy Frumkin (she/her) @maddyfrumkin.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Anyone offering a course on digital mental health these days? Would love a peek at your syllabus 👀
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David Baranger @davidbaranger.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
If you're looking at pre-6.0 ABCD results with subcortical rs-fMRI correlations, the labels are all wrong! We reported a result as Auditory - L Putamen, but it it was actually Default Mode - L Cerebellum. docs.abcdstudy.org/latest/docum...
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6.0 data release
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Meriah DeJoseph @meriahdejoseph.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Shameless plug that I'm on the job market! As a postdoc at Stanford's Center on Early Childhood, I study how children navigate growing up in poverty, w/ attention to both the challenges they face & the adaptive strengths they develop. To learn more & download my CV, see www.meriahdejoseph.com
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Meriah L. DeJoseph, PhD
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Mark Shuquan Chen @markschen.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
My website is official 🙌 Excited to share that I am interested in reviewing applications for Harvard’s Clinical Science PhD program this fall as I look for the first student to join my lab! I appreciate it if you can share with your network :) psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/mark-...
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Mark Chen | Department of Psychology
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Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Really enjoyed speaking about adversity and the developing brain today at the final symposium session of #flux2025 So grateful to everyone that turned up. And of course to my fellow speakers and brilliant chair @abrieant.bsky.social
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Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
OMG I can't believe Taylor Swift and Beyonce are coming to our symposium at 3pm!!! Higgins Suite!! That's up the stairs from where all the other talks have been. Join us.
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