🚨 New pub alert!

We shine light 😉 on the exclusion of people with dark skin and coarse hair from studies of fNIRS, a low-cost, light-based neuroimaging method. We explain the physics of the problem and review best practices for inclusion. #fNIRS #research 🧵 (1/7) link @ end

New lab manager interview protocol -- how in sync are we neurally?
Testing out Ellen Roche's new synchrony study with Ellie Taylor !

It is #FreedomToLearn #nationaldayofaction day. I read #bannedbooks and stand with banned authors today and everyday.

Join me and post your favorite banned book. Don’t forget to tag #FreedomToLearn to show we stand in solidarity.

Amazing paper David G Weissman!! Such important findings.

(4/8) Junior Jun Ikeda will present 'Developing Methods to Analyze Time-Based Measures of Parent-Child Communications.' This project was mentored by Ellen Roche!

(1/8) Tomorrow is the big day! All ✨FIVE✨ LEAD Lab UMD students have posters at UMD's Undergraduate Research Day. Here's a 🧵about all the amazing work our undergrads will be sharing!

Children today have inequitable access to nature-based #ECE programs that support mental health, inspire a love of nature and facilitate the creativity and courage we all need to face and respond to #climate change. Funders can help! Philanthropy News Digest philanthropynewsdigest.org/features/comme…

(1/) I'm fundraising for the amazing organization Playtime Project: bit.ly/ellie_t

Here's a short 🧵about Playtime and the fundraiser!

I am SO lucky that Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova is my research soulmate / labmate in the LEAD Lab UMD. Congrats and thank you Dr. Beatrice Beebe for this resource.

Nature-based learning effortlessly integrates learning across the domains and provides healing in these post pandemic times. Tune in. The Hunt Institute Trust for Learning

Wow, thank you Society for Affective Science! I am delighted and grateful to collabs Dr. Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇴 Doug Piper Rachel Barr Gabrielle Strouse Lauren J. Myers @proflaurenmyers.bsky.social Jennifer M Zosh Georgene Troseth & E. McClure and mentor Rachel R. Romeo - and thx for an amazing conference!

Looking forward to #affectscience2023 where I’ll share new intergenerational triadic analyses from Early Learning Project - exploring joint caregiver sensitivity and infant affect over Zoom during the first year of COVID.

'Finally, we discuss how disparities in reading may be conceptualized as neurobiological
adaptations to adversity rather than deficit models' Congrats to my amazing colleagues! Ellie Taylor Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova Rachel R. Romeo onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… LEAD Lab UMD

It is with great pleasure to announce our 2-day Conference Workshop on 'Interpersonal #Synchrony and Its Relevance for #Attachment & #Caregiving ' EssexPsychology University of Essex on May 25-26.

More info: pvrticka.com/synchrony-conf….

Please get in touch if you have questions.

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'When parents can't find child care, they can't work. ...And when they can't work, families and businesses suffer.'

The country's broken child care system now costs taxpayers an estimated $122 billion a year. I looked and why that is: usatoday.com/story/news/edu…

Thank you, Georgia. We did it again.

🚨New paper alert! 🚨
A study a DECADE in the making, we find that the neural and cognitive markers of reading disorders systematically differ across the SES spectrum. w/ Joanna Christodoulou John Gabrieli Tyler Perrachione Halie Olson & Kelly Halverson sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Inspiring protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old woman, #MahsaAmini , are being lethally quashed by #Iran . Children are being killed while protesting. Take action and call on the international community to set up an investigation mechanism. amnesty.org/en/petition/ca…

📢New! Register now to join us Next Week Wed, Nov 2nd @1pm ET, for a publication launch highlighting 9 SEED projects, & hear from our partners about what kinds of investments are needed now to sustain racial equity & antiracism in #ECE . Register Now! 👇🏾us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Wordbank is an open database of children's vocabulary development across languages, archiving parent reports of what their children say.

Today we are updating Wordbank, adding 10k children, 9 new languages, and data on bilinguals.

wordbank.stanford.edu