I could not be more proud of this work with Abria & the LEAD Lab UMD team! This is clearly not a problem I could solve on my own, and I'm so fortunate to have a team that prioritizes inclusion at every step of our research.🥰 Now to find more funding to support this hidden work!🤑

We are so luck that Jimena Cosso is joining us at UMD this fall! Hooray!!

scratch that -- 2 funded! both small internal grants, but both for community research-practice partnerships, so it makes my heart happy! Fingers crossed for the big federal ones...

And the final one is in! WHEW! Already one received and one rejected -- this is all such a numbers game.

🚨Job Alert 🚨

The Mind in Development Lab at Smith College (P.I. Me!) is hiring a new lab manager! Our lab focuses on how early life experience shapes neural and cognitive function in young children. Apply by May 6th. More info here: tinyurl.com/4ytv4drm.

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We should probably stop letting the pregnant lady buy snacks for lab meeting. This week’s great science brought to you by chocolate covered corn chips and some sort of jalapeño thing that was an impulse buy — for a breakfast meeting 😂

I'm the luckiest mama-to-be! My lab threw me the absolutely cutest surprise baby showerThank you to Ellie Taylor Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova Ellen Roche S. Alexa McDorman Dr. Alexus G. Ramirez and the whole LEAD Lab UMD team! This little one is certainly surrounded by love ❤️

📢NIH is pleased to announce revisions to the fellowship application and review process for grant submission deadlines on or after 1/25/25.

The goal is to improve the chances that the most promising fellowship candidates will be consistently identified. go.nih.gov/dvZKwiE

But I can say that an amazing place to start is the founders of POWER, womeninedresearch.com/history.html, the current steering committee of POWER womeninedresearch.com/about.html, the ambassadors of POWER, womeninedresearch.com/ambassadors.ht…, and the 1000 POWER members w deep expertise womeninedresearch.com/database.html

Are you a #STEM Ed researcher, thinking that you want to up your quant/stats/measurement game? Do you want year-long mentoring? We are recruiting our next (possibly final??) cohort! #aera2024

EEEEEEKKK! The LEAD lab is so lucky that Ellie Taylor (and Bonita) will be staying here at UMD!

Career options in academia other than being a PI are needed.

I am pleased to say we are looking for such a position in my lab!

If you are interested in living in Nashville and leading day-to-day operations of a lab as a Research Scientist please apply: redcap.vanderbilt.edu/surveys/?s=DR8…

How often do authors report SES in developmental research and why does it matter? Our recent paper (in press, Dev Sci) presents an in-depth analysis of SES reporting in 6 developmental journals and offers recommendations for greater attentiveness to SES. osf.io/preprints/psya…

Hearing lots of peers & mentees struggling with rejection this time of year. I'm sharing my concrete, CBT-informed method for dealing with rejection: Rejection prizes! I swear by this system and lay it out here (1/5)

🌟Full-time Research Assistant Opening🌟 in the Vanderbilt Stress and Early Adversity (SEA) Lab starting this summer. To apply, please complete the application at this link (redcap.vanderbilt.edu/surveys/?s=93D…), including resume/CV.

Ah yes, this is the time of year when I remind junior scholars that I also didn't get a NSF GRFP, and in fact got very negative feedback on my promise as a future scientist. Hang in there -- take the feedback that is helpful, and leave the rest. You are so much more than this.❤️

Our RA extraordinaire Alice Aizza got the NSF but has no grad school offers. Im determined to find her a spot! She is interested in psych/neuroscience (not clinical) and in the development of child executive functions, using imaging/computational methods. Pls RT/DM if you know

My students/colleagues really should know by now to not trust me on April Fools day. Apologies to my students who took this 4 hour ethics training go.umd.edu/research-ethics and to my business office who actually reported the pictured visitors to my lab to facilities. 😈