Jenny Saffran

We’re recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join our team! 🎉

I’m happy to share that I’ve opened back up the search for this position (it was temporarily closed due to funding uncertainty).

See lab page and doc below for details!

Opinion | ‘That Was Shocking’: Four Autism Experts React to Trump’s Plan

Science pushes back. Thanks to Helen Tager-Flusberg for her work on this front!
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

Tenure track position in Psychology at UW-Madison — CogSci or comp neurosci with an AI emphasis, broadly construed. Apply!

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

Come be my colleague! UW-Madison Psychology is hiring! Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an AI emphasis. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development - Levante Ensuring that children around the world can flourish is one of the most important goals of our time. Developmental science has made major strides in understanding how children grow, learn, and thrive ...

A first blogpost from the LEVANTE team, introducing our global project perspective.

A good intro if you're interested in learning more about cross-cultural developmental data collection using LEVANTE.

levante-network.org/global-colla...

Really looking forward to this!

Signing the review makes it easier!

Saw these babies on campus yesterday 🐣 love seeing crane colts!

UGH! So sorry and hoping things turn around soon.

More Than Words by Maryellen MacDonald, PhD: 9780593545270 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books "This beautifully written book by Maryellen MacDonald demonstrates how 'word-work' shapes both our experience of the world and the very brain that produced our capacity to articulate and generate our ...

My book reveals the mostly hidden effects of talking *on talkers.* Talking boosts focus & learning, regulates emotions, changes perception, & more. The reason lies in how utterance planning for talking works. It's a book for gen'l audiences, but w scientific claims for production & its consequences

Fun new study by Ellie Breitfeld!

title of paper (in text) plus author list

Time course of word recognition for kids at different ages.

Super excited to submit a big sabbatical project this year: "Continuous developmental changes in word
recognition support language learning across early
childhood": osf.io/preprints/ps...

Psychology | Day of the Badger Students in the Department of Psychology are tomorrow’s change makers, shaping the future of mental health care, providing valuable psychological insights in legal settings, and driving innovation in ...

U of Wisconsin alumni & friends: today is "Day of the Badger"--a day to raise money to support our department & our students. If we reach 150 donors to the Dept of Psych, we unlock a big additional gift! Please support if you can! (any dollar amount, $5 is great!)
dayofthebadger.org/campaign/psy...

Getting into Good Trouble Former congressman John Lewis from Georgia was famously quoted as saying, “Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” Over the p...

Why isn’t the leadership of the National Academies of Science SAYING ANYTHING to protect science from being dismantled? Dick Aslin writes about the 1900+ scientists who spoke out —without their leadership. 🧪🧬🔬

dickaslin.substack.com/p/getting-in...

Trump Administration Has Begun a War on Science, Researchers Say Nearly 2,000 scientists urged that Congress restore funding to federal agencies decimated by recent cuts.

Grateful to the members of the National Academy of Sciences for standing up! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/s...

‘The Interview’: Chuck Schumer on Democrats, Antisemitism and His Shutdown Retreat The Senate minority leader discusses the backlash to his vote on the Republican spending bill, how he sees his role within the party and his new book.

In this interview Schumer says he agrees with Trump’s decision to pull $400 million from Columbia. A university in his own state. And he’s unconcerned about the unlawful arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, one of his constituents.

He is a traitor who needs to resign.

Exciting! The NYTimes snacking cake recipes are my go-tos (made one today) - fun to find more.

Mine in today’s @newyorker.com

Without the DOE’s Institute of Education Sciences, Helping Teachers Learn What Works in the Classroom Will Get a Lot Harder In short, the Institute of Education Sciences identifies what works and what doesn’t.

It seems relevant to reshare our info piece, given what just happened to IES. It’s now gonna become even easier for snake oil salesmen to peddle their junk to parents, teachers, and schools. www.the74million.org/article/with...

Contribute to Susan Crawford's campaign for WI Supreme Court: Show your support with a contribution.

In three weeks, Wisconsin will have an election for its Supreme Court. I understand a lot of you don't think fair elections will ever happen again, but this one is happening and it is extremely winnable for Democrats. I urge you to consider giving to Susan Crawford secure.actblue.com/donate/sc-we...

Last year, I was overjoyed to receive an NIH NRSA fellowship to study toddler brains and caregiving effects on memory at Columbia. Last night, my grant was terminated.

I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

'Structural racism': Top taxpayer-funded academy rife with DEI programs, hefty executive salaries The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has received millions of dollars of taxpayer grants while promoting a variety of left-wing causes.

The National Academies remained silent about the destruction of American science. They did nothing for the scientists comprising their membership

They calculated that they would be spared if they didn't make themselves a target.

They will not be spared.
www.foxnews.com/politics/str...

Can’t wait!

Grad Admission Impacts Survey It is grad admissions season and many postbacs are feeling the chilling impacts of the Trump administration's recent executive orders freezing and slashing extramural research funding. Dozens of gradu...

As a result of Trump’s slashes to research funding, dozens of graduate programs have announced reductions and cancellations of graduate admissions slots.

If you are an impacted applicant, please fill out this survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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DOGE By The Numbers
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🧵 Elon Musk is shredding the United States government. But that’s not enough for him. Now, he wants to buy Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court as well.

Help stop him: secure.actblue.com/donate/wisde...

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...