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abrieant.bsky.social
Assistant professor @UVMvermont | Developmental psychologist studying adversity, 🧠 development, & mental health | #FGLI | she/her | fernlab-uvm.com
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🚨Publicly available brain-age prediction code🚨 I have adapted my code used in a recently published paper (doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...) and decided to share on GitHub for any that would like to use it. #ABCD #neurodevelopment

A new paper coming out of our lab uses six years of longitudinal data to examine links between the chronicity and timing of maltreatment and risk-related functional connectivity across adolescence. Read it here! (Open-access in DCN) doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...

Want your NIH and NSF program officers and division directors to be fired and turned into political appointees? Deadline extended: 3 days left! Already 33,000+ public comments Comments can tank a proposed rule in court. 📣 Oppose the rule with a brief comment: shorturl.at/WKuBj

Look at these cuts that will devastate med/behavioral health research, severely limit mental health services, & end educational programming. YOU help STOP these cuts by flooding Congress using the link below. This is for ANYONE to do, so please spread the word!! www.votervoice.net/APAAdvocacy/...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) have an Open Access Special Issue ‘Physical Environmental Influences on the Psychosocial Outcomes of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults’, edited by Keri Wong, Efstathios Papachristou, Marta Francesconi, and Tycho Dekkers. www.acamh.org/blog/camh-20...

Joint w/@asinclair.bsky.social and the #SCIMaP team: brief correspondence in @nathumbehav.nature.com on the impact of NIH indirect cost cuts on the economy and employment, impacts that will only worsen given similar proposals for NSF/DOE + overall science proposal. rdcu.be/eo3Hp

Outstanding presentation of the devastating cuts at NSF and their impact across multiple areas of scientific research and training. Angry at the impact now and in the long-term to US research. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

Please share widely! #NPSP supports people applying to Psychology PhD programs in the US, including students from underrepresented groups. We're accepting applications til May 23 for mentees (undergrads/postbacs) & mentors (grad students/postdocs)! z.umn.edu/NPSP25-26

📣📣 A recent paper by Jorge Cuartas et al. in JCD: "Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @jorgecuartas.bsky.social

Grateful for the incredible love and support at #SRCD2025 in response to the injustices and tragedies of recent deportations. I hope more conferences continue to stand in solidarity with scholars facing such hardships across the field. #DevPsych #PsychSci #Psysci

We’re hiring postdocs to join my lab at UNC. If you’re interested in adolescence, brain, and social development, DM me. Our work incorporates fMRI, social media, and longitudinal methods. We study risks and opportunities in adolescence. If you’re at #SRCD2025 and want to meet, please reach out!

My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.” ⭐️ Please share ⭐️

Six months ago, I accepted a postdoc offer in a fabulous lab. Three days ago, the Trump administration terminated the NSF grant supporting the position. Today, my offer had to be rescinded, and my PhD defense is a week away. (1/3)

Looking forward to #SRCD2025!

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨 If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way. 🗓 Application review begins April 15 ⏰ Final deadline is April 25 📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP

Kristina Olson and I have a truly incredible advisee who won an NSF but had no luck on clinical psych PhD applications this round. Anyone able to consider another candidate this late in the process? Trust me, you won't regret it!

I'm offering a new advice/Q&A session to help support our newest colleagues facing extraordinary conditions: How to start a lab during an (inter)national crisis? I began in 2020 COVID, I believe I've learned some translational tips. Please fill out if interested: forms.gle/6DPoZRWop1rY...

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

Thank you @srcdorg.bsky.social for issuing this statement concerning Rumeysa Ozturk from Tufts University. I am hoping that other scholarly societies will provide statements. To read the statement in whole: contentsharing.net/actions/emai... #academicsky #edusky #psycscisky #devpsyc

I am calling on all #devpsyc colleagues to condemn & speak out about the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk by the US govt on March 25, 2025. She is a developmental psychology graduate. #childpsyc #developmentalpsyc #lifespanpsyc #acadmicsky #childrenandyouth @srcdorg.bsky.social @issbd.bsky.social

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

Rumeysa Ozturk, aTufts human development PhD student, was kidnapped by ICE in broad daylight on the streets of Somerville today, presumably because of pro-Palestinian activism. No info has been shared with her attorney about her whereabouts or alleged charges. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

New open-access study in the Journal of Cognition and Development exploring the potential impact of climate change on families and human development: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨ ✅ two-years full-time PAID research ✅ $41,000 annual salary +benefits ✅ personalized grad school prep & cohort of peers ✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds ✅ dedicated mentors + more! z.umn.edu/minds Please share ✨

Hey - please help save jobs and lives! Anyone who works at a university, who works on medical research, or could benefit from medical research is at risk! Please tell them to click the link below. Takes 2 seconds, literally. click.info.apa.org?qs=09c745fe0...

Trainees who applied for an NIH diversity fellowship whose applications were withdrawn/not being reviewed, there's a NYTimes reporter who wants to talk, especially interested in applicants with disabilities. DM me & I'll put you in touch, will keep all contact confidential. Please amplify

Wonderful explainer on indirect costs by Dick Aslin open.substack.com/pub/dickasli...

🌟 I am recruiting a postdoctoral research fellow to join my lab at the Shaw Center for Children and Families and Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame! ⭐️ Full details about the position and application information are here: docs.google.com/document/u/0...

New analysis from Urban Institute: The majority of federal spending on children (57%) comes from programs facing proposed cuts (that is, Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, Head Start, TANF, the CTC, EITC) www.urban.org/urban-wire/h...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

I’ve now posted the National YRBS data, 2015-2023, here. I’ll add the state and district data soon. www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr...

We're hiring a lab manager to start this summer in the @logicemotionlab.bsky.social! Submit CV, cover letter, and reference contact info by Feb 17th for priority review. Description of the lab's research focus, mission, and values are on our website! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/20420/r...

Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) are invaluable opportunities for undergraduates to gain research experience, career development and mentorship! Join us Friday, Jan 10 at noon ET for an information session with universities on the application process. Register 👉🏽 tinyurl.com/4mzjyz9 🧪

Holy guacamole someone wrote a commentary about my work! Commentary: www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000... Original paper: www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

I'm hiring a full-time lab manager / research tech for my new psychology lab at Boston University, to start this summer (July 2025)! The lab's research focuses on understanding developmental changes in learning, memory, and exploration. More details here: cldlab.org/join/ 🧠💻 #psychscisky

A new Special Issue on developmental research that centers the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Feel free to reach out with any questions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Special Issue at Developmental Psychology! New Approaches to Understanding How Early Experience Shapes Executive Function and Self-Regulation Skills Guest Editors: Sabine Doebel, Dana Miller-Cotto, and Jennifer McDermott @sabinedoebel.bsky.social @damcotto.bsky.social 1/3

We're hiring in Developmental Psych @ University of Vermont! The Henderson-Harris Fellowship is a postdoc with possibility for transition to the tenure track. Review begins 12/2, more details here: uvmd10.drup2.uvm.edu/cas/harris-f... Feel free to reach out with Qs about the department/life in VT!

Developmental Psychology starter pack! I've included people doing child/adolescent research and as well as a few lifespan folks. Please share widely, and let me know if there is anyone who should be added! go.bsky.app/ECJtpXi #DevPsych #DevSci #PsychSciSky

Our latest paper, published today in Royal Society Open Science, found that being alone heightens 'threat alert' in teenagers—even when they're connected on social media. 🧠📲 doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

Lots of people seem to have flocked here, so it's probably a good time to post that I'll be recruiting Ph.D. students to join my new lab in BU's psychology department this cycle! more info about the lab and how to apply to BU here: cldlab.org/join