Jon Korfmacher

AI, Brain and Child

How can AI empower early childhood learning? A new editorial article from 'AI, Brain and Child' explores the ethical and conceptual frameworks needed to ensure #AI supports children’s development responsibly. bit.ly/47flemr #AIInEducation #EducationalResearch #DevPsy

HARC SEED Projects cont:
3. Operationalizing Coverage of an Evidence-Based Intervention in Home Visiting (Led by Alexandra Morshed, Emory University)
4. Empowering Parents with Disabilities through Home Visiting (Led by Rhonda Jenson, Northern Arizona University)
Stay tuned for updates and results!

Imagine this as the second sequel to the Apple Dumpling Gang

"Mental health screenings are meant to help us identify kids who struggle with problems that are less visible in the classroom," said Dr. Dana Weiner, in an interview with CNN about the new Illinois mandate of #MentalHealth screenings for students. See what else she had to say: tinyurl.com/26x4w6jw

Want to know more about the people who actually do the work of home visiting?

Hey! A new initiative linking programs to researchers. Do you have a question about home visiting and want some advice around how to study it? They are here for you!

Extremely helpful closed captioning for #Eurovision finals

Join Us: Rally for Babies at the Capitol

On May 20 at 12 PM, join families from all 50 states and DC at Upper Senate Park to make some noise for infants & toddlers in the US.

We’re gathering to call on national leaders to prioritize what every young child needs to thrive.

New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line.

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

New report from @CentreforMH and @nhsconfed’s Mental Health Network highlights six key areas of mental health where investment could boost mental health and represent good value for money: www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/publications...
#InvestInMentalHealth #HealthVisiting

I'm excited that I can finally share what I've been working on for the past 9 months:

The United Nations 2025 Human Development Report: "A matter of choice: People and possibilities in the age of AI" 🧵

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Guest Post: Navigating the Ethical Paradox: Including Young Children’s Voices Without Tokenism - EECERA Attributed to Sigmund on Unsplash Lauren Henderson, PhD researcher from Swansea University, reflects upon the ethical considerations present when carrying

Just published a blog with @eecera.bsky.social where I reflect on the ethical tensions I’ve encountered while researching with infants & toddlers during my PhD.
Read here → www.eecera.org/general/gues...
#EarlyChildhood #ResearchEthics #PhDLife #InfantResearch #EECERA

YouTube video by Born in Bradford Social and emotional webinar

Watch our webinar with #BetterStart Bradford to find out more about our work so far and our evaluation plans 👉 youtu.be/X5KEIlzRrVg?...

Home visitors are a bit like McGyver. Resourceful in the same way he can take some epsom salt and a paper clip to win the day, home visitors can walk into a home find what works there and build a relationship. Hard work with limited resources but can be truly transformational for families #devpsych

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women

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Great article!

A little-known program could be a model for how to spend billions in federal money on childcare The Early Head Start partnership program has helped boost quality and provide stability for independent child care programs.

Re-upping this past story of mine for added context on how federal Head Start provides funding to support small, home-based programs. When I visited rural Colorado, one provider saw her quality improve and income double thanks to a Head Start partnership program:
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He was my undergraduate mentor and such a lovely man. His #devpsy course made me want to be in this field. He, his wife Ellie and longtime research partner Francie Green were so encouraging and accepting. A great way to start my career.

Got a nice message that 2 articles I co-authored are in top 10% viewed in past year for the journal. They are on ethics (always good to be reminded of these days) and thanks to my colleagues' institutions, open access #devpsy
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lnkd.in/gqrXci8P (also pretty good)

And another looking at how Head Start raises the productivity of K12 investments.
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How Trump 2.0 is slashing NIH-backed research — in charts Nature analyses which fields of science and US states are being hit hardest by grant terminations.

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts.

About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone.

See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

Know any teachers, administrators or parents? Angela Duckworth and her team are doing a short survey of cell phone use in schools. Pls pass it forward phonesinfocus.org

Great essay about a great film. And I was actually moved by the ending and its idea of a second chance. The style is the substance as Sparks says but you can't have enchantment without at least a little bit of heart hidden within.

Totally agree with rec for Natalie Holt's Loki Season 1.
I would add Strawberry Mansion by Dan Deacon
And Zola (at least parts of it) by Mica Levi

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”.


https://go.nature.com/4bpG2It

"So what if your research hasn’t been cited by any major scholars? ...Or if it isn’t really research at all, but a collection of shiny trinkets that you’ve meticulously washed in a puddle of rainwater behind the library? It’s your work, and you need to own it"

I feel seen

This platform needs more real discussions of ethics like this one

How Cuts to NIH Research Funding Would Hurt States Proposed changes to the National Institutes of Health’s $48 billion budget would risk jobs, threaten state economies, and hamper progress toward prevention and treatment of diseases such as cancer.

Looming National Institutes of Health funding cuts from the Trump administration would adversely impact patients.

Teenage boy engaging positively with a medical professional.

Protecting #Medicaid means promoting child safety. Research shows that when families have consistent healthcare coverage, the risk of child neglect reports decreases. Learn more: tinyurl.com/4jdp279k