@juliebowker
Professor of Psychology at the University at Buffalo | Membership Secretary, ISSBD | Developmental scientist in a clinical psychology program studying close relationships and adolescent outcomes across cultures and contexts
We are hiring!
Department of Psychology at the University at Buffalo is recruiting for a SUNY Empire Innovation faculty hire at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. The hire is focused on the study of human cognition and behavior to address gaps in learning, development, or education using AI.
We want to record a set of stimuli featuring children, thoughts on how to do this so they can be shared/reused? Does a parental release like for data sharing on e.g. Databrary suffice? Do you situate it inside a "task" so the consent process is clearer? #devscisky #psychsky
Last month, I launched my lab at Ohio State. Our lab website is now live, and we're recruiting graduate students this cycle! If you're interested in the cognitive (neuro)science of learning & memory, please reach out!
www.momentslab.org
Always excited to publish papers with former undergraduate RAs! Here is the latest one that shows young adolescents' differential thinking about conflict with friends versus unfamiliar peers may be explained by differences in perceived stress.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
First blog piece from the new partnership between ISSBD and the Child and Family Blog! Check it out to learn more about parent- and adolescent-perceptions of daily mood: childandfamilyblog.com/parents-and-...
This right here. Most people don't really understand that this is happening.
And even those of us that are following it, have uncertainty about the exact magnitude of what will happen.
Hopefully good news. Permanent injunction in dropping indirect cost rates www.statnews.com/2025/04/04/n...
Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
A recent trend at international academic conferences is that some American participants use burner phones or minimalist laptops. Their devices often run only browsers and basic software. This resembles the security measures travelers took 15 years ago when visiting China.
rb.gy/erdz48
URGENT: students being told to self-deport because their visas are revoked. For issues as benign as a social media post. I'm disgusted and horrified.
New insights on loneliness: Oscar Ybarra writes on 4 prototype patterns of agency and connection that can influence loneliness over time-- with results suggesting that interventions may focus not just on social ties but on personal agency.
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...
ISSBD 2Γ2 Grant for Early Career Scholars: 2025 awardees announced!
Congratulations to:
πΉ Dr. Orok Afor Betek Mary & Dr. Galia Meoded Karabanov
πΉ Dr. Narcisa Prodan & Dr. Meng Dai
πΉ Dr. Emmy Reilly & Dr. Rose Opiyo
π Learn more: bit.ly/3R0hiNh
#ISSBD #DevelopmentalScience #EarlyCareerResearchers
Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value
Iβve long used FiveThirtyEightβs interactive βHack Your Way To Scientific Gloryβ to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :(
So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
The field of gender and sexual minority (LGBTQ) health is being erased. Hundreds of ongoing NIH grants being immediately terminated. Deb Umberson and my decade long longitudinal study on marriage and health joined the termination list last night.
π§΅Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the β¬οΈ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
Just found out NIH has officially canceled our grant, a longitudinal study of Alzheimer's disease in Black Americans. I cannot even put into words how angry I am. The truth is they are canceling it because it has Black in the title. That's it, there is no other reason to do this.
Having recently lost a friend to a chemo-resistant cancer, I'm deeply saddened to see scientific progress slowing down...
This scientist's NIH-funded work on a new drug for chemo-resistant breast cancer is now on hold indefinitely.
www.breastcancer.org/news/nih-fun...
The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent β and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
βAn analysis suggests that a cap on overhead costs for research funded by the National Institutes of Health would cause a $6.1-billion hit to the overall economy, as well as a $4.6-billion reduction in labor income.β
This is truly amazing. 85% accurate test in 45 minutes. The work was funded by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health. Good thinking on the part of Trump/Musk to cut its funding. Make Cancer Great Again.
At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year
If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:
The National Institutes of Health had to stop considering new grant applications, delaying funding for research into diseases ranging from heart disease and cancer to Alzheimer's and allergies.
The Stand Up For Science website has been updated. Find your local protest site! March 7! Get out there!
standupforscience2025.org
The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
School structure explains age group differences in friend selection similarity - Molly Selover, Mary Page Leggett-James, Goda KaniuΕ‘onytΔ, Brett Laursen, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#IJBD #ISSBD #School
Hey - please help save jobs and lives!
Anyone who works at a university, who works on medical research, or could benefit from medical research is at risk!
Please tell them to click the link below. Takes 2 seconds, literally.
click.info.apa.org?qs=09c745fe0...
Child with alopecia from chemotherapy
When Elon was a kid, survival for ALL, the most common childhood cancer, was <10%
Now itβs >90% due to funded collaboratives (high indirect costs) whose work ultimately SAVES THOUSANDS OF LIVES EVERY YEAR.
For other cancers thereβs still so much progress to be made.
I think itβs worth it.
Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.