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clare mccann @clarefmccann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New paper out in Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology!! I had the pleasure of collaborating with a group of experts in puberty, adolescence, quantitative methods & more to create a comprehensive guide to measuring & modeling pubertal development over time: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Fabulous #Flux2026 local symposium on connecting neuroscience evidence to real-world impacts on youth justice organized by Kathy Do & Julie Schneider! We heard from Adriana Galvan @cda-adolescence.bsky.social about the neuroscience and then multiple practitioner perspectives on youth justice.

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In yesterday's simply phenomenal Young Investigator Award talk, Brenden Tervo-Clemmens @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social portrayed several things beautifully. First, challenges to reproducibility are challenges to translation. Our work needs to be robust to have value in improving developmental outcomes.

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

An outstanding Dissertation Award talk by Matt Mattoni @mattmattoni.bsky.social on heterogeneity and idiographic (vs. nomothetic) approaches in developmental cognitive neuroscience. He made his case very well - and bonus: increased everyone's vocabulary! 👏 See more @ 1/ doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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Functional connectivity heterogeneity and consequences for clinical and cognitive prediction: Stage 2 registered report

Abstract. Functional connectivity is frequently used to assess dynamic brain functioning and predict individual differences in behavioral outcomes, such as psychopathology. Inferences from functional ...

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

How to combat misinformation as scientists? Dr. Lewenstein suggests a few tips: Begin with a story! That is a powerful way of communicating. It could be a story about the damage that misinformation does. DON’T REPEAT the misinfo. Start with the truth. #Flux2026 Public Policy Symposium 1/

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Guadalupe Díaz-Laura @ CSU Fullterton shares tips for developing skills about communicating developmental science to policymakers. Points out policymakers care about what the science shows, what we do know; scientists are typically oriented towards what we don't know. We need to reorient ourselves!

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Bruce Lewenstein, sci comm expert @ Cornell: "Communication is the essence of science. What you do in the lab… meh, OK. When you communicate it to someone else, you’re not putting it out there for someone else to test. The testing you do in the lab is to identify the reliable knowledge.” #Flux2026

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ted Satterthwaite's brilliant #Flux2026 Linda Spear Mid-Career Award talk made it crystal clear why he won this honor. We all know he is a productive genius but to hear it condensed in a thirty-minute overview was kind of mindblowing. So well-deserved! 👏 @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Ron Dahl gives the Huttenlocher Lecture #Flux2026. Very few other scientists have had such a profound impact on our approach to studying adolescent development, tracing back to his pivotal 2004 keynote/paper on adolescence as a time of opportunity. nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1196/...

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here we go! Opening ceremonies for #Flux2026 are underway. 🧠 So excited for three days of science, connection (#ReinforceTheNet), and embracing a little change this week. 💚 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

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UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent @cda-adolescence.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

National Scientific Council on #Adolescence Co-Director @jenndsn.bsky.social was quoted in the August edition of the NIH's News in Health, discussing #puberty and how to support young people as they navigate it! Read more: newsinhealth.nih.gov/2026/08/navi...

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Navigating Puberty

Puberty is an exciting and often challenging time for teens and their parents. There are many ways parents can support their child during this period.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My quote of the day Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much that way. Scott Pelley

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

ALRIGHT SCIENCE ACTIVISTS! Here is what to expect in the next couple days from @standupforscience.net: ✨ Our organizational comment on OMB-2025-0034 ✨ A tutorial on HOW to make a good comment for orgs and individuals ✨ Emergency Meeting Recording!! ✨ Wide press/media coverage

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

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NAS 163rd Annual Meeting - Awards Ceremony

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Carina Heller, Ph.D. @carinaheller.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

🚨Preprint Alert 🧠 Our new preprint „Menarche onset is an inflection point for mental health and brain development“ is now online! 👉 Preprint available here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Holly Sullivan-Toole @hollysully.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🚨Preprint Alert🚨 Our new preprint 'A Scalable fMRI Estimate of Basal Ganglia Brain Tissue Iron for Use in Developmental and Translational Neuroscience' is live!! lnkd.in/gpG9naba

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Flux Society @fluxsociety.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Article spotlight! BIBSNet: A Deep Learning Baby Image Brain Segmentation Network for MRI Scans. BIBSNet provides a viable alternative for segmenting the brain in the earliest stages of development. buff.ly/w4HHx7h

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

TEDx PDX 14 speaker @uoregon.bsky.social Knight Campus faculty Dr. Bala Ambati talks about myopia - what causes it, why it’s increasing. I was most fascinated that the retina has insufficient dopamine in childhood myopia. ambati.uoregon.edu

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

TEDx PDX 14: Keely Cat-Wells at shares her journey from dance to medical challenges illustrating the disability employment gap, and creating her own “option C” - C Talent, and Making Space, a talent and learning platform of opportunities and education for disabled professionals. www.making-space.com

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Making Space Talent Platform

Discover Making Space, a talent acquisition and learning platform that creates new pathways to employment and career advancement for Disabled people.

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

TEDx PDX year 14 here we goooo! John Branam of Get Schooled leads off with a powerful idea to fight the disparities in support and resources launching late adolescents into careers and adulthood. Solution: closed-universe, agentic AI coaches in partnership with real human counselors. getschooled.com

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Get Schooled

Free, personalized support and resources to help you get to college, find your first job, and succeed in both.

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October. No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out. Why...? 1/x source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv... 🟦🧠 #academicsky

A line graph showing awards over time at NSF's SBE. The line for this year, 2026, is extremely FLAT compared to prior years. By this time in 2025, 179 grants had been awarded. In 2021, it was 243. This year... 16.

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Next up: a panel on navigating uncertainty in the future of work for young people @cda-adolescence.bsky.social including @candiceodgers.bsky.social, Mimi Haley + Jaime Jimenez from NYEC, Vicki Phillips from NCEE. Core message here is let young people lead. 1/

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Incredible opening keynote for @cda-adolescence.bsky.social summit on supporting youth and economic opportunities in the transition to adulthood! Lisa Lawson, CEO @annieecaseyfdn.bsky.social, spoke about their initiatives to help all young people thrive. 1/ www.aecf.org/series/thriv...

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Thrive by 25 Brief

A series highlighting challenges and opportunities facing youth ages 14 through 24 as part of the Foundation’s Thrive by 25® efforts.

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This is a gutting visual. The effect is staggering already, but the losses will escalate exponentially.

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SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Ever wonder how much your fMRI preprocessing choices shape your results? 🤔 Register now for the #SANS2026 pre-conference workshop: Navigating the fMRI Multiverse Learn best practices in fMRI preprocessing and explore how analytic variability affects reproducibility through multiverse analyses

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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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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on our NIH-funded R01 which is a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (13-20) doing EMA and passive text sensing! Please apply, especially if you have experience in the analysis OR collection of these data. PLEASE SHARE!! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

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Postdoctoral Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher Study of Affective Disorders’ Classification and Treatment (SADCAT) Lab Dr. Lorenzo-Lorenzo LuacesDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Blooming...

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/02/2026

"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE

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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I am escorting the Crespo-Gonzalez family, including their seven year old daughter, back to Oregon now. Out of respect for the family, additional information is not being shared at this time.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2026

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Please stop saying the bill allows "no more multi-year funding" - or at least be clear the 'more' is in reference to disastrous FY25 levels. The bill allows 39% MYF, same as in FY25, which contributed substantially to a 24% drop in new research. The bill has some wins. MYF is not one of them.

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Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Can we please, just for a moment, focus on the guns that are killing our kids and not their phones.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one. It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

This website update is unacceptable anti-science that seems designed to be misleading. As pointed out in the article, many high-quality studies run over the past ~25 years, involving millions of people in total, have shown there is no link between vaccines and autism. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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The CDC revives debunked 'link' between childhood vaccines and autism

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that previously stated "Vaccines do not cause autism" has been changed to cast doubt on the scientific research that supports the finding.

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Check out this overview of amazing work on youth voting! 🗳️ @dcosme.bsky.social and colleagues present a developmentally-informed approach that will support youth civic engagement and break the disempowerment cycle. This is so important, because young people are the future of our communities.

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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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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 28/10/2025

In an over 2-mile walk, hundreds of students made their way from Little Village Lawndale High School to the Little Village Arch, denouncing recent ICE action and supporting immigrant communities.

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Students walk out of Little Village schools, hold march in protest of recent ICE activity

Little Village high school students walked the streets calling for an end to ICE and deportations in Chicago.

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

If we keep saying this generation is being destroyed, how will adolescents ever believe in their own potential? My TEDx talk is live on @ted.com. Changes in their brains, bodies, and social worlds create opportunities for young people to grow & thrive - with our support. www.ted.com/talks/jennif...

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The surprising science of adolescent brains

Neuroscientist Jennifer Pfeifer digs into the fascinating brain changes driving young people’s behavior during the critical years of adolescence. She debunks some of the biggest misunderstandings abou...

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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Papers from July to Sept 2025 at AMPPS are killer. We don't have formal print issues, but we have this-- journals.sagepub.com/toc/ampa/8/3

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Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science - Volume 8, Number 3

Table of contents for Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8, 3

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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Vanderbilt University's Peabody College is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Clinical Psychology (child/family focus) with expertise in AI methods (ML, NLP, LLMs, CV). 📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418 Please share!

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Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The Biological Psychiatry family of journals is now officially on Bluesky! Follow us for the latest research in psychiatric neuroscience, cognitive neuroimaging, and global open science from our three leading journals.

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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Call for Editorial Fellows at Developmental Psychology! *Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD) *Commitment to addressing the needs of underserved populations or increasing access to psychological knowledge & publishing *1-yr term; $1,000 USD www.apa.org/pubs/journal... @apajournals.bsky.social

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Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

🧠📊 New research examines potential bias in brain age algorithms across racial groups 📈 Study of 6 popular algorithms found lower accuracy for African American participants (r=0.51-0.85) compared to White/Hispanic participants (r=0.57-0.89)/1

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15/09/2025

If you need a little hope this morning - the current tween trend involves decorating clothespins with affirming messages, then clipping them on friends' backpacks when they're not looking. Here are a few that my 11-year-old decorated this weekend ❤️

Clothespins decorated with paint markers and pens, with affirming messages. Like "bee you" with a drawing of a bee. And "you're sweeter than pie" with a checked motif. And "you can do it" and "unleash your creativity."

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