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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨New article alert! Integrating developmental and antiracist perspectives into juvenile legal system research. This is a good one-- it came out of a packed room, overtime, lively discussion at the @srcdorg.bsky.social Anti-Racist Developmental Science Summit. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Integrating developmental and antiracist perspectives into juvenile legal system research

Legal system involvement can reshape youth development by altering the settings, relationships, and opportunities through which development unfolds. I…

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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🚨New article alert! Led by my good friend and former labmate, Cortney Simmons. Come for the review of developmental and legal research on how legal policies are misaligned w/adolescent development; stay for our ideas for more developmentally informed approaches! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.

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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

🚨New article alert! Led by doc student Tash Chlebuch. Youth (esp girls) w/family dysfunction are increasingly adjudicated for domestic violence (DV). But does the YLS accurately predict recidivism for youth with DV charges? And is accuracy moderated by gender? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Can the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory predict recidivism for youth adjudicated of domestic assault and battery?

The Youth Level of Service/ Case Management Inventory is a popular and extensively studied juvenile risk assessment tool. Although many studies suppor…

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Sean Westwood @seanjwestwood.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail

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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

🚨New article alert! This review explores how adolescent development shapes youth trust as a distinct precursor to adult trust, highlighting the need for more ecologically valid and interdisciplinary approaches to studying trust. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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A developmental psychological perspective on youth trust - Discover Psychology

Discover Psychology - Adolescence is a critical developmental period marked by significant social, emotional, and cognitive changes that profoundly impact trust. This paper examines how these...

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Lisette de Jonge-Hoekstra @lisette-djh.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Want to know more about how Developmental Psychology and Ecological Psychology go hand in hand? Read our new paper! www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... This paper marks finishing our special issue on Resources for Developmental Ecological Psychology. The issue includes nice and diverse studies.

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Frontiers | Editorial: Resources for developmental ecological psychology: organicism, epigenetics, relational development, dynamic systems

Phenomenology, exemplified, for example, by Colwyn Trevarthen's (1978) and Dan Zahavi's (2015) work.It is now widely accepted that the frameworks gu...

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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I read 66 books in 2025! I circled my favorites. What did you enjoy reading this year? I’m looking for recommendations!

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country. Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢

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Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I had so much fun talking about career path, approach to research, and current projects with the MSU Psychology Club! Plus I honestly got some of the toughest questions I’ve ever gotten in my career— these students are deep thinkers!

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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Happy fall semester from the ADJust Lab!

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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Check out my piece in The Conversation about a new law in Detroit aimed to curb youth violence. But might it have unintended negative consequences? And what approaches might be more effective? Learn more here: theconversation.com/detroit-pare...

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Detroit parents face fines if their children break curfew − research shows the policy could do more harm than good

The fines of $250 for a first offense and $500 for a second hit low-income families the hardest.

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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

🚨New article alert! Aaaand it’s a timely one! We tested how Latina immigrants' attitudes toward police and judges differed based on their documentation status and history of family deportations. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/BNE9D... Or read the explainer 🧵 below...

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The capitulation of universities—one after another after another after another without a shared strategy to fight the fascist assault together—is a historical blunder that will also end these elite institutions as ostensible places of genuine knowledge seeking.

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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 08/08/2025

Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back. The damage is generational.

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Anthony Perillo, Ph.D. @anthonyperillo.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

If you missed @caitcavanagh.bsky.social’s discussion of adolescent development & legal system issues, her Law & Mental Health Series talk is available on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/RlFj6bu0A3E?...

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Law and Mental Health: Adolescent Development and the Juvenile Justice System

YouTube video by UNM Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Great discussion today as part of the University of New Mexico Law & Mental Health series! Thanks @anthonyperillo.bsky.social for the invite and to the participants for joining the conversation.

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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

A huge congratulations to the newly-minted DOCTOR @alyssa-laberge.bsky.social! Alyssa has worked with me for 7 years, first as a master’s student and then as a PhD student. Her growth as a scholar, teacher, and person has been such a joy to witness. She’s on to a TT position at UW LaCrosse!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/07/2025

The number of extreme weather disasters has jumped fivefold worldwide over the past 50 years, and the number of deaths has nearly tripled, according to the World Meteorological Organization.

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The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come

Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/07/2025

Deporting childcare workers is a backhanded way to force US-born White women out of the workforce and into stay-at-home motherhood, where they'll become easier targets for conservative propaganda campaigns.

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...

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Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No

Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 28/05/2025

US science is being taken apart brick by brick.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/05/2025

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

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Restoring Gold Standard Science

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/05/2025

Harvard today, your institution tomorrow. It's all part of the Project 2025 plan to destroy high education in America. All leading US universities depend on federal funding and tuition dollars from international students. They severely curtailed the former. Now they're eliminating the latter.

The Trump administration on Thursday halted Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, taking aim at a crucial funding source for the nation’s oldest and wealthiest college in a major escalation in the administration’s efforts to pressure the elite school to fall in line with the president’s agenda.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Hiiiiii, please check out “Chain Gang All-Stars” from your local library!

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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Check this one out! Our daily diary study examined how virtual social interactions influenced youth mental health during COVID. Justice-involved youth saw strong enough benefits from virtual social contact to make up the "well-being gap" between JJ-involved and community youth.

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Juvenile Law Center @juvenilelawcenter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

This is devastating. It will cause immense harm and make communities less safe. We know that youth justice programs like these benefit everyone. We condemn this cut to critical funds. imprintnews.org/justice/juve...

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Trump Delivers Massive Blow to Youth Justice Programs | The Imprint

Trump administration cuts to federal grants threatens organizations with programs to prevent gun violence, protect runaways and more.

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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

🚨New article alert! Led by a team of 3 awesome doc students. You probably know I’m a big believer in family-level interventions for justice-involved youth. But, not all programs work for a given population. We evaluated a voluntary parenting program 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

🚨New article alert! Led by law student Ashtaan. Although success for youth on probation is often measured via recidivism, the goal of the JJS is rehabilitation. Are youths’ risks and needs actually being addressed while under court supervision? If so, for whom?🧵 journals.sagepub.com/eprint/CN3BZ...

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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Beautiful last day of class- my Family Law and Social Policy undergrads all shared what stuck with them most from the semester. It was so rewarding to hear their takeaways and how they will use this knowledge in other contexts.

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Jen Woolard @jlwoolard.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

The science that we do can matter.

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/04/2025

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.

We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks.

We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA

WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.

These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!

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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

NSF killing broader impacts as they've been practiced. "efforts should not preference some groups at the expense of others ... projects with more narrow impact limited to subgroups of people based on protected class or characteristics do not effectuate NSF priorities." www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

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Updates on NSF Priorities

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 14/04/2025

Greg entered Michigan’s juvenile system at the age of 11. He recalls lawyers pressured him to plead guilty and didn’t explain court fees to him. “All they were saying is guilty, guilty, guilty. Let’s plead out.” He amassed over $10,000 in court debt. boltsmag.org/michiga...

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How Michigan Stopped Saddling Children with Millions in Court Debt

Last year, Michigan stopped imposing court fines and fees on kids, and relieved millions of dollars in past debt. Now, it may also ensure that kids get adequate representation in court.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

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DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions

A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The NSF's flagship fellowship program typically gives offers to 2,000+ young scientists. This year, in the face of looming budget cuts, that number was halved: only 1,000 received an offer. Our story on what that means for the science talent pipeline: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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NSF slashes prestigious PhD fellowship awards by half

US National Science Foundation announces lowest number of Graduate Research Fellowship Programme recipients in 15 years.

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A reminder that collapsing the economy is not an unintended consequence of autocracy, it’s a feature.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

If you want to run for state or local office tonight for public schools - and tell Trump to fuck off in the process - @runforsomething.net will help you. runforwhat.net

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Extremely disappointing & cowardly. The American Psychological Association is rescinding diversity requirements. Not due to any actual mandate from the federal government, but only because it may *someday* face pressure from the government www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

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Under Pressure, Psychology Accreditation Board Suspends Diversity Standards

As the Trump administration threatens to strip accrediting bodies of their power, many are scrambling to purge diversity requirements.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 29/03/2025

Louisiana reversed its “Raise the Age” reform last year, sending 17-year olds back into the adult criminal system. Today, voters are considering a measure that would give lawmakers more leeway to treat even younger kids as adults. boltsmag.org/louisia...

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“Some of These Kids Are Already Lost When They’re Two Years Old”

Louisiana leaders want more leeway to charge kids as adults. A measure on the March 29 ballot would enable lawmakers to move more teenagers into the adult criminal system.

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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

🚨New article alert! “Expanding the Collateral Consequences of Formal Processing to Youth Homelessness”: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The US is experiencing a housing crisis. Does formal processing in the juvenile justice system increase the likelihood that youth will experience homelessness?

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Beyond Reoffending and Rearrest: Expanding the Collateral Consequences of Formal Processing to Youth Homelessness

There is robust evidence that juvenile justice contact during formative years is associated with deleterious outcomes. The effect of juvenile court intervention on youth homelessness, however, has ...

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Dr. Cait Cavanagh @caitcavanagh.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

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Beyond Reoffending and Rearrest: Expanding the Collateral Consequences of Formal Processing to Youth Homelessness

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