Anna Parenteau

Please share with Stanford undergraduates! 📣📽️
The Stanford Center on Early Childhood is seeking video coders. In this paid role, you’ll help code caregiver–child interaction videos and gain hands-on experience in developmental research.
Apply here: stanford.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs/107...

Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

Rent assistance is a HUGE need right now. People have drained their savings in hiding for months and now they’re losing their homes too.

If you need ideas about where to send your money:

Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23.

📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ

@isdp.org members, please join us in 30 minutes if you can. Annual self-reflection meeting time!

Friendly reminder that our @isdp.org self-reflection meeting is TOMORROW from 1PM-2PM ET. We welcome & encourage all #ISDP members to attend as we reflect on our work throughout the past year with transparency & identify areas of growth for the new year.

Please join and share with your colleagues!

Courage When the Cost Is Known In the final months of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke with a clarity that sounded like resolve rather than hope. He had received countless death threats, survived attacks, and watched viole…

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Newest published work from Dr. Cam Hostinar's @camhostinar.bsky.social SES Lab (@seslab.bsky.social), along with lab alumni and colleagues, Dr. Hannah Kramer
@hjkramer.bsky.social and Dr. Kristin Lagattuta

The effect of acute stress on executive function in children: Moderation by parasympathetic nervous system activity Executive functions (EF) are crucial for children’s self-regulation and academic performance. Thus, understanding factors that can undermine or promot…

New paper alert! Led by Dr. LillyBelle Deer (@lillybelledeer.bsky.social), we found that an acute stressor task did not significantly impact EF performance in middle childhood. Children with greater parasympathetic reactivity (RSA) performed better under stress.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#ISDP2025 mini-recap! 3 days of incredible science, learning, connection, and finding meaning.
A huge thank you to all who organized and facilitated such a stellar conference program! ⭐️ @isdp.org
Looking forward to New Orleans 2026!

I wrote a piece for The Conversation on the importance of SNAP for reducing food insecurity and improving child health. I’d love it if you would read and share!

Record in-person attendance at #isdp2025!!!

Stress in Childhood Cambridge Core - Developmental Psychology - Stress in Childhood

It was a wonderful opportunity to contribute to this book, alongside contributions from Geneva Jost, Sally Hang, Joanna Guan (@joannayguan.bsky.social), and Dr. Jamie Lawler.

Link to download PDF: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Stress in Childhood Cambridge Core - Developmental Psychology - Stress in Childhood

In this Element, led by @camhostinar.bsky.social, we highlight research on stress psychobiology during childhood across various contexts (family, peers, schools, neighborhoods, and clinical settings) and discuss possible sources of stress and resilience in each context. 📖

Stress in Childhood Cambridge Core - Developmental Psychology - Stress in Childhood

New online!🌟 Our book, Stress in Childhood, is now published online and can be downloaded for free over the next two weeks (until November 24th): www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Omg how did I miss this until now. Amazing!

Headed to @isdp.org next month?? Check out all the amazing events that our DEI committee has to offer! Make sure to save this image to help plan your conference.

#ISDP2025 @joscelinrocha.com @drkoraly.bsky.social @laurelgd.bsky.social @annamzhou.bsky.social @annavannucci.bsky.social

The Equity in Early Education (E3) Postdoctoral Fellowship application opened today! More info:
earlychildhood.stanford.edu/postdoc

New campus building and workspace brings so much joy and gratitude! 🌳🏫 Kicking off my first year in the Stanford GSE 📚

Shameless plug that I'm on the job market! As a postdoc at Stanford's Center on Early Childhood, I study how children navigate growing up in poverty, w/ attention to both the challenges they face & the adaptive strengths they develop. To learn more & download my CV, see www.meriahdejoseph.com

A woman and baby sit together reading a colorful book in a cozy room with shelves behind them; text overlay discusses babies' attention and communication cues. Text on image says, “Babies Pay Attention Longest When Words and Gestures Combined.”

Words and gestures help tune infant attention before they can speak. New UC Davis study finds babies focus longer when object labels ("bear") are paired with spatial words ("here"), and even longer when paired with gestures like pointing. ucdav.is/4lYtXgL

Interested in applying to graduate programs or research positions in psychology? Want more information and feedback on your submission materials? Then Harvard’s Prospective Ph.D. & RA Event in Psychology (PPREP) Is for you!! psychology.fas.harvard.edu/pprep
More info in the link!! Please retweet!

ISDP Affinity Group Interest Form Hi there! Affinity groups are informal groups for social support and community building for people who hold a particular minoritized or marginalized identity. Please use this form to indicate what typ...

Calling @isdp.org members! To increase feelings of belonging and support, the ISDP DEI working group is establishing affinity groups. Tell us what types of affinity groups you would like to join or lead. Affinity groups may meet at the 2025 meeting in person or remotely. forms.gle/cV3WXV4iaFj3...

Psychobiology* 😊🥲

Please share with trainees in the San Diego area! The International Society for Developmental Psychology @isdp.org will have a limited number of waivers available for local trainees (undergraduate, graduate, postbacc, and others) to attend the 2025 annual meeting! 🌴 Apply via QR code/link on flyer:

We are looking to hire a new post-bac MRI tech! Great opportunity pre grad school! umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UMCP/job/Uni...

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Anna turning to look at the camera wearing UC Davis doctoral regalia and sunglasses

Exciting news to share: As of June 12th, I have completed my PhD in Psychology at UC Davis! I am so grateful to my advisor @camhostinar.bsky.social, lab @seslab.bsky.social, and department @ucdavispsych.bsky.social for supporting me over the past 6 years! Here's to the next step – postdoc!

Alert!!!!

“An Action Networks Model for Pain”

We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it.

👉 thread below 🧵

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Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause.

Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

Or help us spread the word 💫

🎉 Congratulations to Manisha Biswas for winning the #SocialSciences category in this year's #DanceYourPhD competition.

Watch the entire video on the power of collective synchrony—and learn more about the other category winners: scim.ag/4lSpjCl