Arielle Belluck

Wooo! Yay Emma!

Excited to present at @CogSci2025 tomorrow at 1pm in Salon 6! Looking forward to presenting alongside incredible cognitive scientists @cvales.bsky.social, @elainewang.bsky.social, and @junyi.bsky.social ✨

Come see my poster at cogsci! My grandma says it’s great

Ranked choice voting in NYC showed us what elections could look like The real story from the New York City mayoral primary isn't Zohran Mamdani's victory, but voters' response to a different way of voting, writes Ismar Volić, director of the Institute for Mathematics a...

My latest opinion piece.

www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

Congrats!!!

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.

This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NextGen Psych Scholars Program (2025-2026 mentor/mentee sign up) Year 6 The goal of NPSP is to cultivate long-term support structures between current underrepresented (e.g., BIPOC, first-gen, low-income, LGBTQIA+) graduate students and diverse undergrad or post-baccalaure...

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

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

Woo!! So excited to be cohort-mates!

Anyone looking to take an amazing clinical psych student who would come to grad school with an NSF GRFP in hand? Interests in stigma, adversity, but flexible! (Side note that it is awful that nsf doesn’t let you defer, apply next yr w/grant in hand, and just count that as 1 of 2 deferral yrs)

In Bloomberg interview, Eisgruber signals that Princeton will not make concessions University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 signaled that Princeton would not make concessions to the federal government after news broke that the Trump administration had suspended dozens of the U...

Glad to see Princeton's president stand up for universities even after the administration suspended their grants.

"we have to be willing to speak up, and we have to be willing to say no to funding if it's going to constrain our ability to pursue the truth.”
www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...

Appeasing President Donald Trump Won’t Work From Columbia University to Paul Weiss, leaders have gone beyond de-escalation into outright collaboration with Trump.

Wesleyan President Michael Roth gets it and — more importantly — says it out loud.

time.com/7272520/appe...

Screenshot of linked article

Chantal Valdivia-Moreno

“Without the support of my community, I would have never pursued a career in science”, writes Chantal Valdivia-Moreno from Chula Vista, CA 🥑. Now research cuts threaten that community: its health, economy & children’s futures. 🧪🏠
@talvaldivia.bsky.social

www.thestarnews.com/we-owe-it-to...

As part of @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social ng.bsky.social, I wrote an op-ed in my local paper about how cuts to federal funding put the present and future health of our communities at enormous risk.
www.thestarnews.com/we-owe-it-to...

@cantlonlab.bsky.social
@spiantado.bsky.social

Why Trump’s Ultimatum to Columbia Could Upend Higher Education A demand for the university’s administration to place the Middle Eastern studies department under receivership could signal a broader crackdown across the United States.

"College administrators across the nation are closely watching whether Columbia acts with deference or defiance."

Columbia: please, please, pretty please, choose defiance.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

'This doesn't protect us': Hundreds of Jewish scholars condemn Trump Columbia funding cut ***

“Framing these actions as a defense of Jewish students not only distorts reality but also puts Jews at greater risk.”

www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.

Excellent excellent excellent from Princeton president and constitutional/ political theorist Chris Eisgruber. There's been far too little of this kind of thing; here's hoping others follow his good example.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Cuts to federal research funding will hurt future Texas science students Cutting funding from anything perceived as “DEI-adjacent” harms us all. It freezes life-changing research, and shuts the door on talented, hardworking students.

As part of @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social, I wrote an opinion piece for San Antonio Express News on the dangers of cuts to federal science funding for today and tomorrow's scientists: www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm...

@cantlonlab.bsky.social
@spiantado.bsky.social

Over 200 academics across the country, and across fields, have signed on so far. The full letter and current list of signatories (updated periodically) can now be found here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

How aggregated opinions shape beliefs - Nature Reviews Psychology Aggregated opinions, such as election results and product ratings, are prevalent in the modern world. In this Review, Oktar and Lombrozo describe the properties of aggregated opinion and the mechanism...

📣 From Kerem Oktar & Tania Lombrozo:

How aggregated opinions shape beliefs

woooooo!

Out in Child Development:

"Learning Loopholes: The Development of Intentional
Misunderstandings in Children"

paper: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

preprint-pdf: www.tomerullman.org/papers/kids_...

If, like me, you (a) oppose research funding cuts to US institutions and (b) are Jewish, please consider signing this open letter: forms.gle/prnRbq69a6YN...

So so excited to be starting my PhD at Yale this fall with @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social!! If you know me you know this is the dream! Huge thanks to @adelegoldberg.bsky.social, @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social, @reutshachnai.bsky.social, Tracy Gleason, and @wellesley.edu for helping me get here

I'm writing today with a big request during a difficult time for all of us. Together, we've grown Children Helping Science into a cornerstone for online developmental research. Researchers from roughly 150 institutions have conducted remote studies with over 15,000 families since 2020, with many of those families returning to participate in multiple studies across labs. The CHS team and infrastructure is currently supported almost entirely by the United States government (NSF and NIH). Like many US researchers, we're facing substantial uncertainty about what this means for our financial stability over the coming months and years, and we are hard at work pursuing every angle to keep this platform available to the community. This includes exploring new funding strategies we have previously not considered, like possibly allowing some carefully vetted companies to display ads to families. Researchers will continue to be able to use the CHS platform for free, but your support right now is critical. At the same time, we know that many of you, especially those of you in the United States, are facing the same instability to present and future funding as we are. Today, we are asking for three FREE actions from all of you to support our immediate fundraising efforts:

**Send us your citations.** If you have publications that collected data or advertised studies through CHS or Lookit, please share those references. These citations are essential for demonstrating CHS’s impact to funders. A list of all the citations we're aware of is linked here, in case you're not sure whether we have your recent articles. **Send us publicly shareable materials and press coverage.** If you have cute study designs, engaging visuals, or images of adorable kids (with the necessary permissions) we’d love to use them in presentations to potential funders. Similarly, if your research has been covered in any public media (university publications, podcasts, news articles), please send these to us. **Share your funding applications and ideas.** If you are preparing a grant proposal (to any funding source), please reach out to discuss how you can include a budget line to support CHS. If you have ideas for joint projects, or even of funders you think we should reach out to - we're all ears! And if you have ever received funding to conduct studies using CHS/Lookit, please also make sure we know about it.

You can do all of these things right now at this link (https://forms.gle/zFnzrVURntdZizMK8). Please also feel free to email us (best address: mekline@mit.edu) with any other questions or ideas. We are committed to keeping CHS running and serving this community, and we will do everything in our power to keep the lights on. Thank you for helping to make CHS such a wonderful community resource and for helping us in whatever ways you can! With appreciation, Melissa Kline Struhl Executive Director Laura Schulz Scientific Director

The platform I run, Children Helping Science, is supported almost entirely by US government science funding, both directly and in collaboration with CHS researchers.

Here's the note we sent to users today - we need help gathering your stories and citations! Submit here: forms.gle/zFnzrVURntdZ...

Overparenting Is Holding Kids Back—Here’s What to Do Instead Overparenting can hinder kids' independence. Research shows that reframing everyday tasks as learning opportunities helps parents step back and let kids grow.

Overparenting can hold kids back—but our research shows that framing tasks as learning opportunities helps parents step back and foster kids' independence! ✨ Read more in our latest Psychology Today piece: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/deve...
@julia-a-leonard.bsky.social @mika-asaba.bsky.social

Are you a junior faculty member interested in spending 2-4 weeks at Princeton Psych? Please apply for our Microsabbatical program! It’s a fully funded visit for professional development and creating long-term collaborations.
psych.princeton.edu/diversity/mi...

Literally does take under 1 minute, even if you edit the message to include what your professional role is.

...also I know this is risking Discourse but IMO this is a case where you should definitely go ahead and throw a "Dr." into the title/prefix field if applicable.

Now hiring for two lab manager positions at Stanford! Hyo Gweon and I are coordinating joint searches since our labs collaborate frequently. Please join us!

careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
and
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-coo...

I am hiring a lab manager to start ~ July 1st.

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