Erik Nook 🏳️‍🌈

I'm reviewing PhD applications this cycle to join my lab at
@uwpsych.bsky.social in Fall ‘26. Ideal for those interested in dev, decision-making, emotion regulation, fMRI, and quant/comp methods. We have cool stuff in the works and want more brilliant ppl in the fold!

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Issue 61, Volume 8 is out @ Developmental Psychology!

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Topics Include

-Multilevel Targets of Intervention
-Cardiac Markers of Development
-Well-Being Over Time
-Maternal Depression
-Early Object Play
-Genetically Informed Approaches

@apajournals.bsky.social

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📣 New preprint from the SCIMaP team!

Across three studies, we show that communicating the economic impact of NIH funding cuts—especially with interactive quizzes and maps—decreases approval and motivates action to oppose the cuts, across the political spectrum. 🧵 1/8
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Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)!

Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.

Please reach out if you have any questions!

Huge congrats to @bennydemayo04.bsky.social, Nat Gallagher, @rachelesh.bsky.social, & @olsonista.bsky.social on this monumental work!

Our conversation analysis software is now on CRAN! Reach out with any questions. We hope it’s useful for all you language and social interaction folks out there.

SO EXCITED

Aug 3 I'll be at Caveat in NYC talking about research while COMEDIANS make jokes, rif, interrupt, engage the crowd, and cause havoc. Should be a great mix of learning and entertainment! Come if you're around!

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Sinclair Lab The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair

Excited to share my new lab website!

The Learning & Behavior Change Lab will launch at Rice in July 2026. I’ll be recruiting over the next year! @ricesocsci.bsky.social

www.sinclairlab-rice.com

Almost exactly one year after starting my lab (!), I'm thrilled to share our first preprint! 🥳 @leilyb.bsky.social @sharinahamm.bsky.social @francesghart.bsky.social

We propose future directions for mathematical, computational, & digital methods to advance suicide research: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Welcome Emily! We’re so excited to have you join us!!

Exciting day — we have a new lab manager, joining us from Stanford! Emily is interested in studying how people process and communicate emotional experiences, especially in clinical settings. Let's give her a warm welcome!

read this paper!!!! so so good

yesssssss so happy for you, Emma!!!!!

Huge congrats to Razia on spearheading this excellent work! And thanks to Derrick Hull and @veravine.bsky.social for being such awesome collaborators!

I'm an Associate Editor at Current Directions in Psychological Science and I have a new Special Issue call on Intergroup Allyship. Proposal submissions are due by July 18. Please share widely!
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The cruelty of this is, genuinely, staggering. This is a policy that saves virtually no money whatsoever whose success is measured in the number of children it kills.

ugh Sylvia I'm so sorry - that is extremelyyyyyy frustrating. Will send many prayers to the grant gods that some other route appears for supporting your work (foundations/donors), but I know that doesn't take away the sting of this situation.

Yessss huge congrats, Dan, on this recognition of your awesome work!!

Young scientists say they may abandon research as their career options shrink amid Trump cuts Across New England and the country, thousands of budding scientists have awoken to a stark new reality, following funding cuts by the Trump Administration.

A sobering piece on the impact of the destruction of science in the US on early-career researchers: “At one point, Sychla, a member of the group, asked if anyone had heard any positive news on the scientific funding front. For a long minute, the four scientists just stared at each other in silence.”

Congrats!!

My paper with @minzlicht.bsky.social on how trait empathy and features of the context such as valence predict everyday state experiences of empathy is now published #OpenAccess in #PSBP 🥳. Check it out here and let me know if you have any questions: doi.org/10.1177/0146....

I’ll be there Thurs for the joint APCS Clinical Science Forum - filling the Chair shoes for the great Dr. Alex Moussa-Tooks. Excited for talks from Rising Stars Drs. Maria Galano + @eriknook.bsky.social plus updates on APCS-funded initiatives focused on clinical science training. ☕️ hour to follow!

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!

📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted?

Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky

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I know there's a lot to feel upset about, but this is terrifying, disgusting, chilling, unacceptable, etc etc etc - we *cannot* tolerate this kind of treatment of people in our communities. Clearly aimed at terrifying and punishing, which will cause immense damage for all.

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Come see what the lab has been up to at @affectscience.bsky.social 2025! Can't wait to see y'all in Portland next week!!