iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 24/01/2026

Today CBP officers executed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37 year old nurse who worked at the VA. He was an observer, he was restrained and he was on the ground.

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Revolution, human cognition, and AI. Three powerful strands that, woven together, perfectly capture the tension of the present moment. Well worth 20 minutes of your time.

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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 05/04/2025

Why Adolescents Are Especially Vulnerable — And What That Says About Design Kids aren’t gullible. They’re developing. And this study shows: fake news detection tracks closely with brain development. That has big implications for education—and for the platforms they use.

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Elephant in the room. Who's going to SRCD? Normally there's excitement leading up to it but I'm not seeing it this year. Are we all just overwhelmed? Will we still show up? Some of my students are afraid to travel and I imagine our foreign colleagues will sit this one out. #devpsych #devsci

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

With Adriana Weisleder (lead), Virginia Marchman, and Angeline Sin Mei Tsui. What a great team! #TopCitedArticle #devpsych #devsci

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Hi folks! We are recruiting children 16 to 60 months who speak either English or Spanish for our vocabulary (anywhere in the U.S.) and numeracy (California) projects. Join us! #devsci #devpsych login.redcapcloud.com/survey.jsp?c...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

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The Logic of Destruction

And how to resist it

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Benedick @eleventhdoctor.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

"I'm giving a talk today where I'm going to cite some of the latest data on mental health," said Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, a developmental psychologist at Stanford University, "But is this larger than just the website being down? Are they stopping the data collection? Are they stopping the reporting?"

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Trump administration purges websites across federal health agencies

Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agency websites.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 28/01/2025

A new OMB memo lists programs *potentially* affected by Trump's (illegal) funding freeze. The list does nothing to dispel confusion, since it includes programs (SNAP, Head Start) that OMB now claims are unaffected. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25... First reported by @jennifershutt.bsky.social

Instructions for Federal Financial Assistance Program Analysis in Support of M-25-13
All Federal agencies that provide Federal financial assistance are required by February 7, 2025
to complete the attached spreadsheet and submit it to OMB. The information requested must be provided for any program that has funding or activities planned through March 15. Agencies are encouraged to complete this task for all their programs as soon as possible. OMB will be following up with additional deadlines for subsequent periods.
Using the spreadsheet provided, locate or filter the spreadsheet to isolate the agency's list of Federal programs (by Assistance Listing number) and complete the requested information for each program (represented in columns C-G). Agencies should add additional lines to the spreadsheet to include any programs not listed in the spreadsheet.
Column B:
Column C-G:
Column H:
Column 1:
Column J:
Column K:
Column L:
Column M-T:
Column U:
Sub-Agency or component.
These columns contain pre-populated information on each Assistance Listing program.
Identify the email of the senior political appointee responsible for overseeing this program.
Indicate if the program has any pending funding announcements.
Indicate if this program has any anticipated obligations or disbursement of funds through 3/15/2025.
Indicate if this program has any statutory requirements mandating the obligation or disbursement of funds through 3/15/2025.
Provide the estimated date of the next obligation or disbursement of funds.
Provide responses to each of the questions (Yes/No).
Provide any additional relevant information on program or project activities.
Submit the spreadsheet no later than February 7, 2025 to: FFAPlans@omb.eop.gov.
OMB will review each agency submission and will communicate additional information to each Federal agency through the agency Senior Financial Assistance Official and the Points of Contact provided.

Screenshot of first page of spreadsheet (very small text, hard to read, just posted as visual example—follow link in post for full text)

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The extent of the devastating impacts of the unilateral and indefinite cancellation of NIH Study Sections is an unthinkable blow to science and to jobs, health, education, and America’s standing in the world. Devastating doesn’t even capture it…

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jryoung.bsky.social @jryoung.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

When it comes to new AI tools, there’s a tension in education between the efficiency prized in productivity features and the friction necessary for learning that sticks. Excited to have this @edsurge.bsky.social article republished in Fast Company. www.edsurge.com/news/2024-11...

edsurge.com

New AI Tools Are Promoted as Study Aids for Students. Are They Doing More Harm Than Good? - EdSurge News

As more AI tools hit the market aimed at helping students study, some teaching experts raise concerns, as well as point to benefits for neurodivergent ...

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Exciting new preprint on neural synchrony! This is such interesting work!

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Come see us at ASHA in Seattle this Saturday! Barbara Conboy will present The MacArthur Inventario del Desarrollo de Habilidades Comunicativas-III: A Measure for Spanish-Speaking Two- to Four-Year-Olds. 12:00 noon Arch Building Level Four Arch Hall #devpsych

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

How does AI plateauing affect your thinking/plans? "Perhaps we should not dwell too closely on the question of why it is that the sum of human civilization’s data fed into deep learning techniques plateaus at something smart—but not that smart—lest we see ourselves too clearly in the mirror." #aiedu

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AI progress has plateaued below GPT-5 level

Or, "Search isn't the same thing as intelligence"

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

We are pleased to announce the publication of The MacArthur Inventario del Desarrollo de Habilidades Comunicativas III: A measure of language development in Spanish-speaking two- to four-year-olds. We are grateful to Dr. Donna Jackson-Maldonado and miss her dearly. doi.org/10.34842/12f... #devsci

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The MacArthur Inventario del Desarrollo de Habilidades Comunicativas III: A measure of language development in Spanish-speaking two- to four-year-olds

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

New paper out on Indigenous language loss in Argentina with important implications for policy on bilingual education. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F... #devsci #devpsych

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

The NIH is proposing a restructuring that would eliminate the NICHD in favor of handling all developmental funding under the National Institute for Disability. If you are a developmental scientist and find this shortsighted, as I do, you can write to NIHReform@mail.house.gov to voice your concern.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 06/08/2024

if you are an NIH-funded investigator, or really just a person doing developmental science #psychscisky #neuroskyence in the states, you should be concerned about this proposal to eliminate the NICHD. take 5 minutes to write to NIHReform@mail.house.gov to voice your concern. Here's what I just sent

email screenshot to NIHReform@mail.house.gov (text cut off here):

Dear Cathy Rodgers:

I am an NIH-funded Associate Professor Adjunct at the Yale Child Study Center. In my lab we do basic science research on auditory perception, supporting a variety of health applications for infants and their families. These have particular importance for underprivileged American families.

As a stakeholder and as a highly research-active faculty member whose work is tied directly to NICHD priorities, my feedback is simple: The proposed elimination of the NICHD, to be subsumed by a new NIH institute on disability, would be disastrous.

The science of child development is of the utmost importance for the future of our nation, and would be left without a home at the NIH, the world's largest science funder. Indeed, many key advances in developmental cognitive science, with a variety of national and international health applications and outcomes, can be traced back to NICHD-funded research and initiative

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

We were pretty busy at #ICIS2024! What a great conference and venue! Hope you learned as much and had as much fun as we did #devsci #devpsych

Student standing in front of a poster explaining their research

Students standing in front of their poster explaining their research to a crowd

Five students posing in front of their research posters

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

For your consideration: If you’re coming to the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL 2024) in Prague, come see us on July 18! The program is packed but if you happen to have a window open from 11:30-1:30… #devsci

Image with the text: Visit our symposium at IASCL 2024 in Prague!
A direct approach to global vocabulary assessment
Margaret Friend, Celia Rosemberg, Florencia Alam, Naomi Havron, and Jawnaá Zoubi
Thursday, July 18 11:30-1:30 P131
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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

The SDSU Infant and Child Development Lab has been working hard to bring you updated findings on pandemic and family structure effects on early word learning AND a new method to bring early assessment to scale! Come see us at the poster session on July 9 if you’re in Glasgow! #devsci #devpsych

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

Anyone at the meeting of the Western Psychological Association 2024 this week? Come by and see us tomorrow! #devpsych

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

SDSU Infant and Child Development Lab looking forward to all the interesting work at CDS this week. Hope to see you there! #devsci #devpsych

Image of two presenters, Matthew McArthur and Diego Leon, who will present their research at the Cognitive Development Society meeting in Pasadena this Friday in Poster Session 2.

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International Congress of Infant Studies @infantstudies.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

The International Congress of Infant Studies is now on Bluesky! Follow us as we remind you about conference deadlines, share research findings from the Infancy journal and blog posts written by esteemed researchers from all over the world! infantstudies.org/the-baby-blog/ #AcademicSky #infancypapers

infantstudies.org

The Baby Blog - The International Congress of Infant Studies

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

Congratulations to two members of my research team who earned awards in the San Diego State University Student Symposium yesterday: 1/4 #DevSci #DevelopmentalPsych

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

Congratulations to SDSU’s own Emily Kappenman! Note to self: need to get her involved in a developmental collaboration! #DevSci #PsychSciSky

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 28/12/2023

SDSU Year in Review 2023: SDSU achieved record rankings, including No. 16 in Forbes' Top 25 Public Colleges and No. 51 among public universities by U.S. News & World Report.

newscenter.sdsu.edu

NewsCenter | SDSU | SDSU Ranked No. 16 on Forbes’ 2023 Top Public Colleges

The news comes against a backdrop of milestones and achievements this year for SDSU.

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Cognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Meet the winners of the 2023 CogSci #MindChallenge 🥇Ilina Bhaya-Grossman and Deb Levy, from UCSF 🥈 John Hollander, from the University of Memphis 🥉 Alex Carstensen, from Arizona State University, and Anjie Cao & Sarah Wu, from Stanford 🌟 Qi Guo, from UC Berkeley Check out their videos! 🤩👇

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Okay. This is just a lot of fun and I am totally onboard with the final two “more female professor” images!

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

Excited to explore this paper!

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

Hello Community! The Department of Psychology at San Diego State University invites applications for a developmental scientist at the Assistant Professor level whose research focuses on early attitudes/beliefs about marginalized groups within the context of social justice. #DevSci

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Excellent new preprint by @ufeest.bsky.social: "What is the Replication Crisis a Crisis of?” #MetaSci #PhilSci #PhilSky philsci-archive.pitt.edu/22620/ Few quotes follow 🧵

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

Nobel prize winner and “the mother of mRNA vaccines,” Katalin Karikó: “Every night I was working: grant, grant, grant…And it came back always ‘No, no, no.’” “She also talked about being demoted in 1995.” 🧪 🧬 #AcademicSky

researchprofessionalnews.com

Pure science ‘crucial’, says von der Leyen after Nobel award - Research Professional News

Commission president voices support for basic research, with prizewinner having struggled for funding

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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Rule-based categories are easier to learn when features are easier to name, for adults and 4-6-year-olds: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... new paper w/ Catherine Bredemann, Megan Kaul, Kaitlynn Ellis, Haley Vlach, Heather Kirkorian, @glupyan.bsky.social #devpsyc #cogpsyc (1/2)

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Hello everyone! I am a Developmental Scientist interested in language, cognition, sustainability, climate science, Smart Growth urbanism, and how all of these things intersect with public health. My research focuses on developmental relations between language and cognition. #HiSciSky

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

Progress. A four paper international collaborative symposium proposal submitted to the International Association for the Study of Child Language. My students still have a couple of poster proposals to submit before the deadline. Tick tock tick tock...

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

We’re all getting played with —Weird Barbie

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Maggie Friend @mfriend1.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

What to do with this amazing tomato harvest? Step 1. Invite a grad student to dinner!

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