Dr. Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo 🇧🇴🏳️‍🌈

Blue flyer announcing a call for abstracts for the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP) DEI Committee Sponsored Symposium. The top shows the ISDP logo and white outline icons related to developmental psychobiology, including brain activity graphs, a rodent in a testing apparatus, charts, DNA, lab equipment, and an infant. The main headline reads Call for Abstracts. Text states that the DEI Committee welcomes submissions featuring methods, data, or practical talks on human or animal research in developmental psychobiology that integrate community partners. Applicants are asked to submit a 250-word abstract to Drs. Lana Ruvolo Grasser at lgrasser@med.wayne.edu and Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo at jr1679@georgetown.edu by Tuesday, March 17, 2026. A note at the bottom explains that selection does not guarantee presentation at the annual meeting and that the symposium application will be submitted on March 31, 2026.

We invite submissions for our 3rd annual DEI Committee Symposium on methods, data, or practical work in dev. psychobiology (human and/or animal research) that engages community partners.

📄 250-word abstract due March 17
📧 Send to: lgrasser@med.wayne.edu & jr1679@georgetown.edu

Blue flyer announcing a call for abstracts for the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP) DEI Committee Sponsored Symposium. The top shows the ISDP logo and white outline icons related to developmental psychobiology, including brain activity graphs, a rodent in a testing apparatus, charts, DNA, lab equipment, and an infant. The main headline reads Call for Abstracts. Text states that the DEI Committee welcomes submissions featuring methods, data, or practical talks on human or animal research in developmental psychobiology that integrate community partners. Applicants are asked to submit a 250-word abstract to Drs. Lana Ruvolo Grasser at lgrasser@med.wayne.edu and Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo at jr1679@georgetown.edu by Tuesday, March 17, 2026. A note at the bottom explains that selection does not guarantee presentation at the annual meeting and that the symposium application will be submitted on March 31, 2026.

We invite submissions for our 3rd annual DEI Committee Symposium on methods, data, or practical work in dev. psychobiology (human and/or animal research) that engages community partners.

📄 250-word abstract due March 17
📧 Send to: lgrasser@med.wayne.edu & jr1679@georgetown.edu

The longer i do academia the more I value administrators who are really damn good at their jobs. True unsung heroes of science

MB8 Screen Use

ManyBabies8: Screen Use 📱

MB8 aims to document early screen use across diverse cultural contexts & examine links to language & socio-emotional development in children under 3.

We’re inviting you to join!

Interested?
🔗 Fill out our short survey: forms.gle/7ASVadD7LT4j...

More: manybabies.org/MB8/

You're doing awesome work and we want to hear your stories! Submit a talk for posit::conf(2026) - Today is the last call for talks!

MB8 Screen Use

ManyBabies8: Screen Use 📱

MB8 aims to document early screen use across diverse cultural contexts & examine links to language & socio-emotional development in children under 3.

We’re inviting you to join!

Interested?
🔗 Fill out our short survey: forms.gle/7ASVadD7LT4j...

More: manybabies.org/MB8/

The Visual Attention Lab @visualattentionlab.bsky.social is recruiting for a postdoc (and this link should work!)

So, if you know an about-to-finish PhD (or recent PhD) interested in search and why we fail to find what we're looking for...

#VisionScience #PsychSciSky #CogPsych

Details for the SLAM summer fellows program

🚨 📣 Summer Fellows Program Call for undergraduates interested in education research: What are the barriers to effective learning in college? How can we support motivated learning?

For more details, visit: sites.edb.utexas.edu/slam/fellows/

#cogscisky #edusky #academicsky #psychscisky

Jobs | City University of New York

I'm very excited to announce that the Psychology Department at Brooklyn College of CUNY is hiring a tenure-track line in Cognitive Neuroscience. Applications are being accepted now, and review will begin on or after February 23rd, please repost!

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

cuny.jobs/brooklyn-ny/...

🚨 I'm searching for a full-time research coordinator to join my group & work on precision brain 🧠 network and cognitive control projects at both 3T and 7T. Please rt 🙌

Applications due: Feb. 26
Start date: flexible, as early as June
More 👇
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

I’ve just published {typeR}, a small R package that lets you simulate live typing. It prints code
To install:
devtools::install_github("fgazzelloni/typeR")

If you teach or demo R, I’d love your feedback on how it works for you. #rstats #rpackages

To reflect on the efforts of the 2025 ISDP DEI committee and plan for 2026 towards furthering DEI in our society, the ISDP DEI committee invites you to join us for our 2025 self-reflection meeting. We invite feedback and dialogue to move into the future and welcome new applications to the committee. This meeting is open to all ISDP members. The meeting is scheduled for Friday, January 23rd at 1PM-2PM ET. If you cannot scan the QR code or use the link on the PNG image, please email lgrasser@med.wayne.edu for the direct link.

The @isdp.org Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee invites all ISDP members to join us for our annual self-reflection meeting this Friday, January 23rd from 1PM-2PM ET.

Please join us and share w your colleagues! @joscelinrocha.com @drkoraly.bsky.social @efcardenas.bsky.social #ISDP #DEI

This team is seeking interview participants for a study of the experiences of Two Spirit, transgender, non-binary, otherwise gender expansive people who have received medical misinformation from a clinician. Use the QR code or email greyson.lab@ubc.ca #MadStudies #AcademicChatter #2SLGBTQIA #Trans

Recruiting! If you're in the US, between 18 and 35 y/o, and a caregiver for someone 40 years+, please consider my survey. It helps me learn about your experiences as a caregiver; I am trying to build a research foundation rooted in the realities and the dreams/desires of care! #AcademicSky

#PsychSciSky

This book is a {gt} treasure trove!
rich-iannone.github.io/gt-effective...

Written by @richmeister.bsky.social, and shoutout to @libbyheeren.bsky.social for telling me about it.

#RStats

We're hiring! The Computational Clinical Science Lab @ Yale is seeking a full-time lab manager/research coordinator to start in early summer 2026.

For more information about the position and to apply: forms.gle/LtQwVgPUfaGk...

Please share widely & consider applying!

This week on What's New in R, we're featuring:
✅ A dive into {ggplot2}’s geoms and stats by @mattansb.msbstats.info
✅ New book on spatial data viz. by @jakubnowosad.com & Martijn Tennekes
✅ Demo of AI features in Positron by @ryjohnson09.bsky.social

Read the issue: buff.ly/bA4ar3v

#rstats

📚 R for the Rest of Us is offering a 50% discount on all self-paced courses (with lifetime access) from Nov 28 to Dec 2 for #BlackFriday, using discount code BLACKFRIDAY2025.

This year, 50% of the revenue will support the National Immigration Law Center.

Explore: buff.ly/sOSso7H

#Rstats

Wishing everyone a peaceful Thanksgiving!

Reflecting on gratitude, my family found safety here after fleeing Eastern Europe pogroms a century ago. Not everyone has that security today.

From Nov 28 through Dec 2, save 50% on any self-paced course at R for the Rest of Us with code BLACKFRIDAY2025.

Data Visualisation Gallery Gallery of data visualisations created by Nicola Rennie.

One of the things that has been on my to do list for a very long time, is building a gallery of all of the charts I've made across #TidyTuesday, #30DayChartChallenge, #30DayMapChallenge, and other miscellaneous projects 📊

And it's finally here!

Link: nrennie.rbind.io/viz-gallery/

#DataViz #RStats

When plotting, LLMs see what they expect to see - Posit Data science agents need to accurately read plots even when the content contradicts their expectations. Our testing shows today's LLMs still struggle here.

To be effective, data science agents need to be able to read plots reliably. @sara-altman.bsky.social and I wrote about some concerning findings on LLMs' ability to interpret plots when the content contradicts their expectations on the @posit.co blog.

posit.co/blog/introdu...

Tutorial online en castellano. Introduccion a Tidymodels. Francisco Cardozo y Edgard Ruiz. Lunes 1 de Diciembre a las 18:00 UTC-3.

🤖 Introducción a #Tidymodels
Aprendé a usar tidymodels para crear y evaluar modelos de #MachineLearning en #RStats
Con Francisco Cardozo y Edgar Ruiz

📅 1 Dic, 18:00–20:00 UTC-3 – Online
💵 Estudiantes USD 5 · Académicos USD 10 · Industria USD 15
🔗 www.eventbrite.com.ar/e/1962543491...

#LatinR2025

How Family Assets and Debts Relate to Children's Achievement and Behavior Problems Across Development Wealth matters for children's academic achievement and behavioral functioning; however, little is known about how the components of wealth, particularly assets and debts, uniquely relate to children'...

How Family Assets and Debts Relate to Children's Achievement and Behavior Problems Across Development onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Had the pleasure of organizing a symposium on how the timing of adversity exposure modulates neurodevelopmental outcomes. Such a great line up of speakers 🤩 #ISDP2025

@kieran-od.bsky.social, Lucinda Sisk, Annie Aitken, & @madrelabutd.bsky.social

Post is up! #rstats

rfortherestofus.com/2025/11/quar...

Excited to share our manuscript about BrainEffeX, a tool for exploring fMRI effect sizes. Includes why we made it, how to use it + contribute, and how we made it.

@sneuroble.bsky.social @psychonetrics.bsky.social
@alexkfischbach.bsky.social
@nichols.bsky.social
@dscheinost.bsky.social & MINDS Lab

So excited to present at this conference! First time at San Diego, second time at ISDP🎊 #ISDP2025