ISLAND Lab

🎶✨ Las canciones y los cuentos son parte de la herencia hispana — conectan generaciones, preservan la cultura y apoyan el desarrollo y la identidad de l@s niñ@s.

💜 Canten o cuenten historias junt@s en casa ¡Esto fortalece el lenguaje, la imaginación y la conexión! 💛

🎶✨ Songs and stories are part of Hispanic Heritage! They connect generations, preserve culture, and support children’s learning and identity.

💜Try singing or telling stories together at home — it builds language, imagination, and connection!

headed to ISDP shortly? Come early for this wonderful session on advancing perinatal science through open and shared data- sponsored by the International Fetal and Infant Brain and Behavior (I-FIBB) Network! Excited to offer my perspective! @isdp.org

Interested in early life stress, self-regulation, and the gut-brain axis?

Apply to work with Sarah at UMass Boston! She is an amazing researcher and mentor! ✨

www.sarahcvogel.com

World Mental Health Day! Caring for caregivers is caring for children - emotional well-being is vital in shaping parent-infant connections & supporting healthy development!

Let’s continue to raise awareness, listen with compassion, & make mental health support a priority for all new parents! 💖

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

UCDavis Psych is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human Cognition or Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠✨

Come join a vibrant, collaborative dept and live in a fun college town near Sacramento, San Francisco, Napa, and Lake Tahoe. Applications due Oct.21.

Please share widely!

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07300

Dr. Annie Aitken presented her poster on dyadic physiological synchrony and associations with neural and autonomic development! 💕

Diversity Symposium

🌍 Diversity Symposium
🗓 Fri, Sept 5 | 3:15 PM | Hyde Suite 1 & 2

How do we defend science in challenging times? Join Christina Pagel, PhD, for strategies on safeguarding research, supporting trainees, and taking bold action.

#Flux2025 #DefendScience

Our RA Amy Hume presenting at #flux2025 on remote in-home measures of infant attentional biases towards threat

Lab writing retreat. Reconnected and reaffirmed what really matters. Not gonna let anyone dictate the kind of science (or scientists) allowed

In light of all the chaos and uncertainty around us, I wanted to take a moment to share some ✨good news✨

I am thrilled to announce that this Fall I will be joining the University of Massachusetts Boston as an Assistant Professor of Psychology!

Congratulations to our grad student extraordinaire, Maggie Zhang, on being awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!! 🥳💜🙌🍾🎉

Two scientists holding up sign at rally

#StandUpForScience
@britobabylab.bsky.social

Scientists holding up signs at rally in Washington square park

Scientist holding up sign at protest rally

Research in our lab would not be possible without government funding from the NIH - we must defend our science

#StandUpForScience #standupforscience2025

Toddler next to a science conference poster

Toddler next to a science conference poster

“Early Measures of Infant Attention as Predictors of Toddler Socio-Emotional Skills” explained by a toddler 😊

Let’s make sure there’s a future for our next generation of scientists - #StandUpForScience today at noon!

Lab members presenting at the Eastern Psychological Association annual conference this morning - great job everyone!!

Today’s the day. Let’s go.

Philly I’ll see you at city hall.

Everybody else, find your closest rally and turn out.

Time to flood the streets for science 🧪

Stand up for science flyer. Event happening Friday March 7th at 12pm in Washington square park

@britobabylab.bsky.social will be there - see you tomorrow!

Amazing talk by Bea Luna on E/I balance and critical period plasticity during adolescence. The optimal outcome obviously being @dylanggee.bsky.social

2024 Annual Impact Report — Social Creatures

2024 had some twists and turns but finishing out the year with feelings of immense gratitude ✨

My involvement with an amazing non-profit, Social Creatures, is one of many things I’m grateful for. Check out some of our achievements this year: www.thesocialcreatures.org/2024-annual-...

Happy New Year!! So thrilled to share this preprint (Kara Weisman, Lucy King, and I worked on this for 8+ yrs): "Beliefs about the development of mental life"

Read to find an interesting story on how people perceive different domains of capacities changing from birth to age 5 yrs.

osf.io/kq4j7

The Neuroscience of Risk and Development Laboratory loves postdocs!!! Please see the attached ad and email me if you have an interest in developing a T32 project alongside the work going on in the lab. Focus is developmental psychopathology, neuroimaging, and sleep!

Does anyone have an assignment they enjoy grading for developmental psych that has students engage with a (or multiple) scientific article(s)? I have tried many iterations of different assignments and want one I look forward to grading. Right now... not enjoying grading AI-written policy letters.

Brilliant scholar, but more importantly one of the nicest humans in academia. I am so grateful to have been his colleague - Clancy was instrumental to my success at NYU. He was genuinely excited to chat about new ideas and never missed an opportunity to provide support. He will be missed greatly

Our parents love tote bags!

We have plenty of evidence of how malnourishment impacts learning and cognitive development in children. No children should go to school hungry. Period. In some places, this sounds as radical leftist agenda. I wish it was just common sense.

TV screen with Robin Hood Heroes Breakfast on it

Page from a program describing the social creatures nonprofit

Picture of a speaker with a tv screen showing a baby

Group picture of social creatures staff and board members

Exciting morning attending the 35th Annual Robin Hood Foundation Heroes Breakfast! @robinhoodnyc.bsky.social

Social Creatures was honored for our Bonded by Baby program - a community driven, clinically integrated program embedding mental & social health into the standard of care for new parents

I loved being a mentor for this program! Great benefits all around

GitHub - profandyfield/discovr: discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio - profandyfield/discovr

Want to learn/teach R? I'm still actively developing my package of learnr tutorials at github.com/profandyfiel... Just added a tutorial on multilevel models and repeated measures.