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Alicia Vallorani

@aliciavallorani.bsky.social
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Developmental social neuroscientist using naturalistic methods to study how we develop through social interactions and social anxiety risk

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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New paper led by @aliciavallorani.bsky.social! During naturalistic interactions, negative affect tracked moment-to-moment mentalizing-network connectivity, with friend negative affect most salient with greater social anxiety. Mobile eyetracking + Behavior + MRI academic.oup.com/scan/article...
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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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Daniel Ansari 🇨🇦 @numcog.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Children are being tear-gassed and deported all over the US. Where is the outrage and resistance from societies like SRCD, all the fancy US based centres and institutes that claim to be advocates for child development and who have been lecturing the rest of the world for decades??? Crickets. Cowards
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Kelley Gunther @kgunther.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
📣We are hiring an affective neuroscientist! Come join me and a bunch of other cool folks at University of Maryland's Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security.
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Affective Neuroscience Assistant Research Scientist
Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), based at the University of Maryland College Park, was established in 20...
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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Penn State Psychology is hiring in Child Clinical! Assistant or Associate Professor *This is a 2nd position* We're also hiring in quant-computational. Q's app process: PsychApplications@psu.edu Q's position: clh39@psu.edu, Cynthia Huang-Pollock psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
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Assistant or Associate Professor, Child Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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Selin Zeytinoglu @selinzeytinoglu.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Excited to announce that I started as an Assistant Professor at Tulane’s Psychology Department! Made it to the beautiful New Orleans & enjoying the oak trees! Recruiting PhD students through the Brain, Cognition & Dev Science area (deadline Dec 1). Please share widely & contact me with questions!
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
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Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
My lab has an open post-doc position! We will begin reviewing applications as they come in. The post-doc will work with a vibrant research team at Penn State in the Department of Psychology and the Child Study Center. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic... 1/3
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Postdoctoral Research Scholar, The Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab, College of the Liberal Arts, Department of Psychology-2
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Hub is now available! •Researchers can explore ABCD & HBCD Study data in one place – with robust query & data analysis tools, documentation, & workflows •Learn more & apply for data access: www.nbdc-datahub.org @theabcdstudy.bsky.social
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NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Sharing Platform: Unifying ABCD and HBCD data management in one powerful platform.
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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.
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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Gut wrenching essay about trainees by Daphna Shohamy (Director of Columbia's Zuckerman Neuroscience Institute). "let’s be clear: It isn’t institutions that are being punished. It’s the researchers who are the future of science in this country ..." 💔 www.statnews.com/2025/05/07/u...
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What am I supposed to say to this generation of young scientists?
Undermining the future of American science is not a path to accountability — it’s a path to decline.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Dear Tenured Facility, Over the past 100 days my career trajectory has turned into a question mark. At best, the TT job market just got even crazier, at worst there won’t be research career options in the US when I finish my PhD. It took me a while to find my path and I love being a scientist. 1/x
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/04/2025
I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
No need to stop the 'brain rot': Modern kids aren't less intelligent www.newscientist.com... It's me, in New Scientist magazine, standing up for 'the kids' yet again, as they're subjected to an endless barrage of evidence-free accusations and paranoia #Technology #Brains #Teens
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No need to stop the 'brain rot': Modern kids aren't less intelligent
The idea that the rise of tech means today's young people are less intelligent than previous generations is rife – but wrong, says neuroscientist Dean Burnett
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Eric McD | Hill @ NPR @ericm.cd · 17/04/2025
I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out
Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 17/04/2025
RFK said Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants, and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms." Well, this country tried that once before. This is how it went. ⤵️
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RFK Wants to Send People to ‘Wellness Farms.’ The US Already Tried That.
RFK said Americans “addicted” to opioids, antidepressants, and stimulants should be sent to “wellness farms."
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ACLU @aclu.org · 04/04/2025
BREAKING: A federal court ruled the lawsuit of Rümeysa Öztürk, a Ph.D student detained for writing an op-ed, should proceed in Vermont — denying the Trump administration's motion to move the case to Louisiana. We will not stop fighting until Rümeysa is home.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/04/2025
BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.
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Aidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
If you are a graduate student planning on preparing an NIH individual graduate (F31) or postdoctoral (F32) research fellowship proposal this summer, check out my FREE webinar on Succeeding at NIH Fellowship Grant Applications: smart-workshops.com/fellowships-...
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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Now out in Current Directions in Psychological Science-- The Wobbly Bits of Development: Variability, Fluctuations, and Synchrony as Temporal Markers Linking Temperament and Psychopathology With @aliciavallorani.bsky.social & @kgunther.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/2
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵
US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
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J. David Jentsch 🏳️‍🌈 @jdavidjentsch.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Bravo, Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology! Thank you to the members who crafted this important statement. @drglitterbear.bsky.social sbn.org/news/news/wh...
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What Are Transgender Animal Experiments and Why Should We Do Them? | Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN)
The Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) is an interdisciplinary scientific organization dedicated to the study of hormonal processes and neuroendocrine systems that regulate behavior.
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Here are six examples of how foreign visitors to the US with no criminal record are being treated: 1. Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holding student with no criminal record married to an American is abducted by ICE and is still in detention over a week later. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/n... ......
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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
For those folks who have been waiting to climb the pole and ring the “constitutional crisis” bell, it would appear we have arrived. Neither Judge Sorokin nor Judge Boasberg believed that he was signing a meaningless order, and both judges demanded compliance that never came.
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We’ve Officially Entered the Next Phase of Trump’s Dictatorship Era
Taken together, these actions and declarations amount to a significant escalation in Trump’s transformation of his own presidency into an autocracy.
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Dr. Rabbithole @drrabbithole.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Oof.
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Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
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Dr. Katharine Dickson @metaomicsnerd.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I’m seeing an awful lot of posts from people on Bluesky responding to despairing scientists with the words “please keep going, the world needs you”. Scientists cannot keep going if we can’t keep a roof over our heads and our mouths fed.
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Autumn Kujawa @akujawa.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I wrote an op-ed for voters in a red state about how devastating NIH indirect cuts are. This type of writing isn’t my comfort zone, but I think we as scientists need to get the word out. Happy to chat with others looking to do the same in their communities! www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...
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National Insitutes of Health funding cuts by Trump administration benefit no one | Opinion
Indirect funds are essential for supporting the research infrastructure needed to develop innovative solutions to the most pressing health challenges.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 15/02/2025
📚Resisting Autocracy Lessons📚 BELIEVE IN TRUTH To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.
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tal yarkoni @talyarkoni.com · 12/02/2025
i continue to be amazed by, and embarrassed at, the number of otherwise intelligent people living in silicon valley who somehow _still_ think musk is a well-meaning, if slightly cringey, genius—as opposed to the unstable sociopathic grifter he so clearly is
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Rachel Romeo @rachelromeo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Now do the same for the postdoc ones: K01, K99, and F99. My postdocs grant is still “unassigned”.
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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“It won’t happen” medium.com/@lluaces/the...
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The aggressive uselessness of reactionary centrism in academia
I recently wrote about the segregation being perpetuated by the United States government in the form of National Institutes of Health (NIH)…
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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Trying to use my anger for good, I wrote about how some people have reacted to indirect rates being slashed. I borrowed from the writing on "reactionary centrists," a term I first head from @michaelhobbes.bsky.social but that was coined by @aaronhuertas.bsky.social medium.com/@lluaces/the...
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The aggressive uselessness of reactionary centrism in academia
I recently wrote about the segregation being perpetuated by the United States government in the form of National Institutes of Health (NIH)…
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 10/02/2025
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"'Women' is a banned word": Trump uses trans panic to strip rights from all women
Under the guise of "protecting women," the military, schools, and labs are forced to take women's safety away
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
If you are on a study section that will not be reviewing diversity fellowships but will be reviewing "regular" fellowships, your next move is clear. Do not participate in the review unless all submissions can be reviewed together. Reclassify diversity grants as "regular" grants & review them all
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This comment on the NYT site sounds spot-on, and it is why I disagree with my colleagues who say: "We'll know more in a few weeks, let's wait and see how things shake down before we take any action.": "As someone who grew up under an authoritarian regime, I can offer one crucial piece of advice: ...
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 09/02/2025
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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Let's be very clear: Gutting science/education sectors and calling it 'cost-savings' is manipulative and false. The truth: People in ALL states will lose jobs, cures for your diagnoses will be delayed, tuition costs will spike. The world depends on US Science and Ed and both will suffer severely.
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Brian Nosek @briannosek.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The OSF is available for preservation of datasets that need saving. osf.io Contact support@osf.io if you need assistance
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Science Magazine @science.org · 30/01/2025
Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh
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EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders
Grantee accounts remain frozen, while union accuses NSF of ignoring rules governing peer review
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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Actually, no. This misses the point of Jesus's Parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10: 25-37). After Jesus tells a lawyer that you should "love your neighbor as yourself," the lawyer asks him, "And who is my neighbor?"
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Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Can confirm I received this email yesterday.
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Angeline J. Dukes, PhD @heydrdukes.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I, too, got into science because I didn’t like politics. But guess what? Our entire existence is political. It only doesn’t seem that way when it doesn’t affect you directly.
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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 23/01/2025
When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️
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Billionaires Should Not Exist
Yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure.
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