Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer

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

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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

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🧠📊 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

It’s almost like science fiction - Ron Whelan from Trinity College Dublin tells #flux2025 about the future of longitudinal remote EEG - 2D, 1 atom thick electrodes!!! 🤯 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Margaret Sheridan inspires us all with reflections and insights at her Linda Spear mid-career award talk 👏 Reminding us of the incredible growth and value of our field! #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus gave a dynamic talk on synchronization of behavior and brain during storytelling in multiple contexts: Hebrew and Arabic, physical books vs tablets, phone interruptions, and interventions! #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Ivy Nkrumah (Univ of Cape Coast, Ghana) delivered a video presentation on bilingual language processing and inhibitory control in Twi-English bilingual children. Results suggested more proficient L2 speakers applied a global inhibition strategy while less proficient used L1 to access L2. #flux2025

Science of Learning symposium #flux2025 - sponsored by the Jacobs Foundation. First up: the LEVANTE research network which embraces open science principles to studying learning variability in children around the world. @fluxsociety.bsky.social

“Science is not only what we produce, it’s how we relate.” 💚 #flux2025 — President Eveline Crone @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Eveline Crone gives thoughtful opening remarks at @fluxsociety.bsky.social - thanking all the organizers and also acknowledging our challenging times. Very excited for the next 3 days of developmental cognitive neuroscience in Dublin! #flux2025

Thanks Arielle 🥰 See you soon!

Thank you John! ☺️

Thank you!

Anyways, it was an incredible opportunity and unforgettable day. So grateful to be part of the TEDx Portland family. 5/ bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Also! Speakers don't have creative control over the tone of the different headlines and captions or clarifications (including my name 🫠 😅). So this isn't just a talk about adolescent brains 🧠 - I talk about puberty & hormones, decision-making & rights, social media & mental health. 4/

Note: I provided TEDx with 65 references for the ~1800 word talk, which was delivered without a script to the ~2,900 attendees (no, we do not use a teleprompter!) They only linked ~3, but I am happy to share the rest. 3/

Is this a new idea? Nope. Is it counterintuitive and does it go against so many of our societal intuitions and biases? Yep. Does it need to be shared again? Absolutely, now more than ever. 2/

YouTube video by TEDx Talks The surprising science of adolescent brains | Jennifer Pfeifer | TEDxPortland

Excited to share that my TEDx talk is finally available online. I loved sharing what the science shows us: that it's time to reframe adolescence - from problem to ✨ potential ✨ 1/

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Let's please keep the remaining staff at NIH, NSF, etc in our thoughts even as you lose sleep over your own lab and scientific career.

They are enduring pure chaos to try to hold the fort.

See snapshot from wapo.st/4feKKuu (gift 🔗) saying they are "barely holding it together"

I just left the Everglades Immigrant Interment Camp. No, I’m not using their ridiculous name. It was a very tough to witness humans in those cages. Every Floridian should be ashamed that our taxpayer money is being used for this.

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels “There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

I grew up in rural South Carolina with a single mom who worked multiple jobs. At times, we relied on Medicaid and SNAP—like so many others. My heart breaks for those now wondering if that help will still be there.

Imagine having all that power and choosing to make people’s lives worse.

Shameful.

The Trump administration is withholding $81 million from Oregon in federal funding for K-12 schools. Unacceptable.