Woo-hoo!! American Psychological Association Science Advocacy staff made this new bipartisan bill happen! A $500M increase to NIH budget for research on mental health! Stay tuned for info on how we can get it passed next!!!

VT Psychology's graduate students have participated in this year's "Flip the Fair", where they were able to share their research methods and findings with nearly 200 elementary students of the Roanoke City Public Schools. See the full coverage here! 🧠 globalchange.vt.edu/news/news-stor…

VT Psychology would like to recognize Professor Pearl Chiu for being awarded the Patricia Caldwell Faculty Fellowship by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. Congratulations Pearl on your achievement! 🏅 Read the full article here ⬇️ news.vt.edu/articles/2023/…

Celebrating academic excellence with my Psychology colleagues and the VT College of Science. Congrats to our faculty fellows and student award winners! So much talent in this group!

Published! We co-organized a Flipped Science Fair, where children judged graduate student science fair posters—and it was so fun! Would love to see this repeated elsewhere!! Global Change Center ~ at Virginia Tech VT Center for Communicating Science @VTGradCommunity Virginia Tech Science VT Biology Fralin Biomedical Research Institute jstemoutreach.org/article/89291-…

Congratulations to Ivan Hernandez of Virginia Tech I-O Psychology for joining our latest cohort of Data Science Faculty Fellows. Virginia Tech Science news.vt.edu/articles/2023/…

VT Psychology would like to recognize Jungmeen Kim-Spoon for being awarded as an APA fellow on behalf of the Fellows Committee of the American Psychological Association, based on her outstanding contributions in the field of psychology. Congrats Jungmeen on your achievement! 🏅🧠

🚨 New paper in Early Childhood Research Quarterly! We show that a large preschool vocabulary may act as a buffer against adverse behavioral outcomes during the early school years for children with a tendency to experience strong negative emotions. authors.elsevier.com/a/1iRrg39HNKlv…

We’re hiring a Project Coordinator at University of Pittsburgh on a study examining social media use, the brain, and internalizing disorders in teen girls. Application link in the comments. Please share widely!

Full-time Research Assistant at Virginia Tech - lab of Martha Ann Bell isdp.org/2024/03/27/ful… via ISDP 🦋 @isdp.org.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to Delshad Shroff on successfully defending her dissertation today! 🥳👏So proud of you and excited for you to go on internship next year at the Virginia Treatment Center for Children! We are going to miss your kindness, leadership, and productivity next year

Such an important effort, led by Eryn Adams, PhD & Dr. Sonya Troller-Renfree. Reviews how cultural considerations around hair density, texture & styling have historically skewed pediatric EEG samples to be less representative, with recs to promote best practices for more inclusive science.

MSU Psychology & friends gathered at a memorial luncheon to celebrate Dr. Deborah Kashy who passed away on Sept. 8, 2023. Keynote speakers, Dr. David Kenny & Dr. Robert Ackerman, spoke about her lasting impact on the field and their lives. 💚 More here: psychology.msu.edu/news-events/ne…

Today, we’re honoring the lives of the 32 Hokies who were tragically taken from their loved ones and the Virginia Tech community on April 16, 2007. On the 2024 Day of Remembrance, we reflect on the tremendous promise each of them embodied for our world. #VTWeRemember 🧡

New Social Policy Report: "Creating Partnerships among Researchers, Practitioners, and Policymakers to Maximize Evidence Use." Essays by Jenni Owen, Cynthia Osborne, Dianne Haulcy, and @VivianT88; edited by Lisa Berlin, Jenni Owen, and Freya Kaur. Read more: bit.ly/4cYiScn

The day has finally arrived! 🎉 “What’s Next” is now available, and I couldn’t be more excited! It’s been a long journey, and I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on it. You can get “What’s Next” wherever you purchase your books. Thank you for your support, and happy reading! 📚

How can caregivers help shy children "open up"? Advice from Allie Volpe at Vox based on conversations with @RahaHassan3 Robert Coplan & Social Development Lab -a crackerjack Canadian contingent that I somehow snuck into. vox.com/even-better/36…

✨I will be reviewing applications for a PhD student to join me at Purdue in HDFS Purdue College of Health and Human Sciences for Fall 2025! Please apply if interested in social-emotional development, family systems, early childhood mental health, and biobehavioral and translational methods. More info 👇

✨New Global Executive Function Initiative's (GEFI) recommended practices for selection, adaptation, and administration of EF performance-based tasks and for processing, evaluating, reporting, and interpreting data that these tasks yield. Download here: gefi.stanford.edu/gefi-resources

Fantastic presentation by Santiago Morales as he received the 2024 Kucharski Young Investigator Award from ISDP 🦋 @isdp.org.bsky.social at #ISDP2024 I didn’t 🥹until the end.