Jamie Amemiya

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

If you're hoping to show students evidence to support your tech rules/interactive pedagogical approach, here's what I use. Decidedly not comprehensive, but makes the key points.

Loved getting to do this work with the amazing @aarthipopat.bsky.social -- stay tuned for more! :)

I am thrilled to announce that this framework is out!

Who is responsible for inequality?

@tanialombrozo.bsky.social and I show that answers depend on whether people are judging causes or obligations, and the past vs the future.

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Please support this incredible resource for developmental science (I just donated!)! 👇

On official UC letterhead: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA James B. Milliken President Office of the President 1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607 universityofcalifornia.edu CAMPUSES Berkeley Davis Irvine UCLA Merced Riverside San Diego San Francisco Santa Barbara Santa Cruz MEDICAL CENTERS Davis Irvine UCLA San Diego San Francisco NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES November 18, 2025 Dear Chancellors: I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive. As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California. Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines. Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership. [continued on next image]

After learning more about the history and success of the program and weighing the thoughtful perspectives that have been shared, I have concluded that barring extraordinary financial setbacks, the PPFP faculty hiring incentive program will continue while the University continues to assess the program's structure as well as its long-term financial sustainability. As a result of our continuing consultation and review, there may be consideration of some changes to elements of the program including the total number of incentives supported, a number that has fluctuated significantly over the years, and how the awards are distributed among campuses. In the meantime, the University will continue to fund the PPFP faculty hiring incentive program and campuses may continue to take advantage of these incentives. We will have an opportunity to discuss any potential changes prior to adoption. As we look to the future, I will continue to engage with faculty leaders, program stakeholders, and UC community members about this important program. I especially appreciate the thoughtful perspectives shared in recent weeks by Academic Council Chair Palazoglu and Vice Chair Scott, the Council of Graduate Deans, UC faculty members, and you as our campus leaders. Sincerely, James B. Milliken President

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

THREE DAYS left to submit your poster or data blitz talk to the Origins of the Social Mind Preconference at #SPSP2026! 👶🐒🌍

LINK: spsp.org/events/annua...

Our morning timeslot is compatible with a variety of fantastic afternoon preconferences (e.g., Social Cognition, Gender, Economic Inequality).

Excited to announce DID lab's first paper!

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We find that children as young as 6 show political ingroup preference!

First paper of very talented @annie-schw.bsky.social!

In JEP: General's special issue on political development (1/3)

Submit your work to Origins of the Social Mind at #SPSP2026! Our morning timeslot is compatible with a variety of fantastic afternoon preconferences (e.g., Social Cognition, Gender).

Deadline is 10/13! (Talks/posters can focus on any topic related to the origins of social cognition). See you there!

Thrilled to share our TiCS paper! We review the latest research on how beliefs about “brilliance” shape gender disparities across fields, and, these beliefs take root EARLY! Check it out! Free access before Oct 10: tinyurl.com/yc6sttaw

Super cool work; looking forward to reading closely! 🤩

continuum of inductive potential from low (relatively minimal categories whose members are dissimilar) to high (coherent meaningful categories whose members are similar) above a cartoon child. an icon of a tiger appears under "high" inductive potential, with "closes eyes when happy" appearing as a feature of a tiger in a zoo, with an arrow pointing to the tiger icon, and a dashed arrow extending it to a tiger on a savanna. an icon of a pedestrian appears under "low" inductive potential, with "closes eyes when happy" appearing as a feature of a woman on a street, with Xs over arrows pointing to the pedestrian icon, and to a different pedestrian.

📣 new paper! people use some categories to generalize (e.g., we generalize something we learn about one tiger 🐯 to other tigers 🐅), but not others (e.g., we don't generalize from one pedestrian 🚶 to other pedestrians 🚶‍♂️). how do people learn what categories allow for generalization? 🧵

Experimentology cover: title and curves for distributions.

Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Screen shot of question grom Grant Watch's submittal form, showing text: Submission Type Use "Grant Termination" for stop-work orders, unexpected non-renewals, or effective termination through updated notice of award. And options:, Grant termination, Grant application that was pulled in the review process / prior to funding, and Grant reinstatement. The toggle by "Grant reinstatement" is checked. Clear Selection

With news of court-ordered #NIH grant reinstatements, and rumors of changes to termination policy, we're trying to get a handle on what is actually happening to PIs. Your reports are the best info we have!

Please submit reports of *reinstatements* to grant-watch.us as well as terminations.

This is SO cool; you're on 🔥!!

As #SPSP2026 submission season begins, please consider me for your symposia! My students & I have recent work on:
- Parents' estimates of their children's prejudices
- Development of homophobia in childhood
- Gender essentialism & domestic work disparities
- Structural explanations & stereotypes

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Congratulations, Allison!!! 🤩

Get on the Public Record. Take time to be part of history, and help save the future.

YAY, congrats, Alexis!! 🥳

Happy Mother’s Day to the feisty science moms out there.

You’re brilliant! You balance and manage SO MUCH. You bring excellence, creativity, innovation, and humanity to the world.

If I hadn’t seen others having families AND doing science, I wouldn’t have realized I could do it, too.

Thank you ❤️

This is so helpful! Thanks for sharing; I will be sharing it with my students! :)

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.

"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

From input to action: Examining how subtle contextual cues sustain gender inequalities in childhood Friday, May 2nd, 11:30-1:00PM (Room 200A) When seeking an explanation is an explanation: Children’s ability group stereotypes are influenced by explanation-seeking Jamie Amemiya, Serena Spada, Molly Tallberg, & Lin Bian The role of family inequality on children’s normative understanding of household labor Kiana Gee, Allegra J. Midgette, & Nadia Chernyak Gender inequities in expectations for invisible labor begin in childhood and persist into adulthood Mia Radovanovic, Tim Wei-Ting Chao, Nila Curtosi, Sofia Westerhoff, Emma Soler, & Jessica A. Sommerville The role of gender stereotypes in shaping communality in children Cameron Hall, Katharina Block, Antonya M. Gonzalez, Andrei Cimpian, Toni Schmader, & Andrew Scott Baron

Come to our symposium w/ @jamieamemiya.bsky.social, Kiana Gee, & Cameron Hall at #SRCD2025. We'll talk about how children may acquire, internalize, and perpetuate gender stereotypes. I'm really excited for this one, I think the talks build on each other well to unravel different mechanisms!

I'll be attending and would love to be added! :)

Come check out the EAST & DoT Labs at #SRCD. 🤩 I'm excited to share our work on children's causal reasoning about historical structural barriers, as well as their pragmatic inferences from what others seek--and do not seek--to explain!

Graphic of Washington Post poll from April 18-22, 2025, showing "Majorities of Americans oppose various Trump proposals" highlighting two lines in particular: "Increasing the Federal Government's role in how private universities operate" - 28 percent support, 70 percent oppose "Reducing federal funding for medical research" - 21 percent support, 77 percent oppose

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards.

It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist (Gift Article) Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security