Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer

My lab at UW Madison is hiring a new lab manager! I’m looking for a motivated and detail-oriented person to help run the lab’s day-to-day, including our ongoing neuroimaging and behavioral studies. This is especially well suited for graduating undergrads thinking about grad school. Link below

I'm looking for a postdoc to work on our NIH-funded R01 which is a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (13-20) doing EMA and passive text sensing! Please apply, especially if you have experience in the analysis OR collection of these data.

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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

"This is Mia, 7 years old -- 'I don't want to be in this place. I want to be in my school'" -- Walkinshaw confronts Lyons with letters written by kids being detained by ICE

I am escorting the Crespo-Gonzalez family, including their seven year old daughter, back to Oregon now.

Out of respect for the family, additional information is not being shared at this time.

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More on NSF funding data

A deeper dive into the numbers of awards by Directorate.

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happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Please stop saying the bill allows "no more multi-year funding" - or at least be clear the 'more' is in reference to disastrous FY25 levels.

The bill allows 39% MYF, same as in FY25, which contributed substantially to a 24% drop in new research.

The bill has some wins. MYF is not one of them.

Changing Norms Following the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: The Trump Effect on Prejudice Redux Samuel E. Arnold, Jenniffer Wong Chavez, Kelly S. Swanson, and Christian S. Crandall Abstract Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election of Donald Trump, prejudice toward groups targeted during his campaign (e.g., Asian Americans, Mexicans) become more acceptable. By contrast, both Trump and Clinton voters reported less prejudice of their own. We conducted a 2024 conceptual replication, measuring perceived norms of prejudice and own-prejudice toward 128 groups, both before (N = 362) and after (N = 261) the U.S. election. We separately measured the negativity of Trump's campaign rhetoric toward these groups (N = 188). Levels of prejudice and perceived norms of prejudice acceptability were mostly stable pre-/post-election, but Trump's negative rhetoric predicted an increase in perceived acceptability of prejudice among targeted groups (replicating the 2016 results), and a rise in selt-reported prejudice in the same groups post-election (reversing the 2016 results). Despite changes in the sociopolitical context between elections, the election of a leading politician who campaigned on prejudice was again associated with increases in the acceptability of prejudice.

Did Trump’s 2024 re-election make it okay to be openly prejudiced? New work from @chriscrandall.bsky.social suggests it did. The more negatively Trump spoke about a group, the more okay it became to express prejudice (and the more prejudiced people were) towards that group after the election.

Basic Experimental Studies Involving Humans (BESH) will no longer be subject to the requirements under the NIH Clinical Trial Definition.
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Can we please, just for a moment, focus on the guns that are killing our kids and not their phones.

I am hearing that RFK Jr.’s minions are going to go after HPV vaccines. I’ve got problems with these people and now you’re going to hear about them, first from a personal perspective and then from a professional one.

It all boils down to this: WE HAVE A SAFE VACCINE THAT PREVENTS CANCER.

CONGRATS Rachel, that is outstanding news! Well-deserved and a huge round of applause for your persistence 🥳

The CDC revives debunked 'link' between childhood vaccines and autism A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that previously stated "Vaccines do not cause autism" has been changed to cast doubt on the scientific research that supports the finding.

This website update is unacceptable anti-science that seems designed to be misleading. As pointed out in the article, many high-quality studies run over the past ~25 years, involving millions of people in total, have shown there is no link between vaccines and autism. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Check out this overview of amazing work on youth voting! 🗳️ @dcosme.bsky.social and colleagues present a developmentally-informed approach that will support youth civic engagement and break the disempowerment cycle. This is so important, because young people are the future of our communities.

If you think your kids aren't old enough to hear about what's happening in this country, remember that there are millions of kids their same age who don't have that choice.

Students walk out of Little Village schools, hold march in protest of recent ICE activity Little Village high school students walked the streets calling for an end to ICE and deportations in Chicago.

In an over 2-mile walk, hundreds of students made their way from Little Village Lawndale High School to the Little Village Arch, denouncing recent ICE action and supporting immigrant communities.

Thank you! One of my favorite parts about this talk is identifying their strengths and opportunities, so I think it's a good one for young people to watch!

The surprising science of adolescent brains Neuroscientist Jennifer Pfeifer digs into the fascinating brain changes driving young people’s behavior during the critical years of adolescence. She debunks some of the biggest misunderstandings abou...

If we keep saying this generation is being destroyed, how will adolescents ever believe in their own potential? My TEDx talk is live on @ted.com. Changes in their brains, bodies, and social worlds create opportunities for young people to grow & thrive - with our support. www.ted.com/talks/jennif...

Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science - Volume 8, Number 3 Table of contents for Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8, 3

Papers from July to Sept 2025 at AMPPS are killer. We don't have formal print issues, but we have this-- journals.sagepub.com/toc/ampa/8/3

Vanderbilt University's Peabody College is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Clinical Psychology (child/family focus) with expertise in AI methods (ML, NLP, LLMs, CV).

📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025

👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418

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The Biological Psychiatry family of journals is now officially on Bluesky!

Follow us for the latest research in psychiatric neuroscience, cognitive neuroimaging, and global open science from our three leading journals.

Call for Editorial Fellows at Developmental Psychology!

*Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD)

*Commitment to addressing the needs of underserved populations or increasing access to psychological knowledge & publishing

*1-yr term; $1,000 USD

www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

@apajournals.bsky.social

🧠📊 New research examines potential bias in brain age algorithms across racial groups

📈 Study of 6 popular algorithms found lower accuracy for African American participants (r=0.51-0.85) compared to White/Hispanic participants (r=0.57-0.89)/1

Clothespins decorated with paint markers and pens, with affirming messages. Like "bee you" with a drawing of a bee. And "you're sweeter than pie" with a checked motif. And "you can do it" and "unleash your creativity."

If you need a little hope this morning - the current tween trend involves decorating clothespins with affirming messages, then clipping them on friends' backpacks when they're not looking.

Here are a few that my 11-year-old decorated this weekend ❤️

The people doing the non-glamorous government jobs right now are really putting in the work. thank you tireless NIH workers. 💕🫡

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
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Thank you for telling your story, Dani. If I can speak on behalf of the DIB committee here one last time I want to say we see you, and would love to talk with you further about how we can do better.

Kirsten Donald (Univ of Cape Town) challenges the field #flux2025 about the importance of studying brain development in Africa, which will have 40% of the world’s children by 2050. New tool: Hyperfine 64mT SWOOP MRI enabling greater access to imaging. @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Brilliant talk on gut microbiome, brain, and development by John Cryan (Univ College Cork) #flux2025 “Microbiomes were here first - they’re like friends with (social) benefits.” Consider birth exposures, but remember microbiome is modifiable. @fluxsociety.bsky.social