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Ellen Roche
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** searching for fall 2026 postdoc **

Science — how do early experiences shape emotional development & regulation? 🧠

Democracy — how do emotion regulation/co-regulation support our highest ideals (freedom, justice, peace, etc)? 🌈

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Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely (and on X) so all applicants can benefit 😀. If you are mentoring please do add your name!
#clinicalpsychology @abctnow.bsky.social
Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?
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September 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
So many things to be concerned about. Here’s one more!

Based on everything we know about infant development, we should be exceedingly cautious about letting our littlest play with generative AI toys & bots. If you agree please sign & share our scientific statement: gsolen.ucsd.edu/position-sta...
September 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Rounding out our #flux2025 neural synchrony symposium - Kathryn McNaughton will share findings (with chair Elizabeth Redcay) across behavioral synchrony & neural similarity using fMRI in both typically developing and ASD adolescents. Join us at 3 in Hyde 1!

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32025922/
Interpersonal Synchrony in Autism - PubMed
Across domains, synchrony is present but reduced or atypical in individuals with ASD during interactions with individuals with typical development (TD). Atypical synchrony may reflect the contribution...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
September 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Looking fwd to our neural synchrony symposium today - & especially learning more from @pvrticka.bsky.social on synchrony in #fNIRS. For a preview check out an excellent 2025 review led by @saradefelice.bsky.social - join us 3pm in Hyde 1. 🧠 ⚡️ 🧠 #flux2025

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Fantastic talk on differential pathways of threat and deprivation across brain and behavioral outcomes from childhood > adolescence from Margaret Sheridan. Many open questions on how plasticity actually works. #flux2025
September 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
John Cryan’s microbiota-social cognition talk was a revelation and made me want to eat some sauerkraut and give some to all my neighbors. 🥦 🫐 🧠 🍏 🥬 @jfcryan.bsky.social #flux2025
September 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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🎓 FLUX is proud to spotlight Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova.

Her research focuses on understanding how children's early language experiences shape their brain, cognitive, and socio-emotional development.

Read about her journey, motivations, and advice for other young scientists:
👉 buff.ly/19APuWX
September 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Is neural synchrony a dev. mechanism? How do we know? One methods insight - we should be cautious about interpreting brain synchrony w/o behavioral context. Our 2nd speaker, IM Haresign, wrote a great paper on this w/ E. Phillips & @profsamwass.bsky.social - learn more Sat @ 3! #flux2025 🧠⚡️🧠
September 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I’ve wondered how we meaningfully interpret brain synchrony findings across regions in humans (eg motor v PFC).

Going much deeper - @honglab.bsky.social will share how GABA- v glutamatergic neurons sync up - distinctly! - across two interacting mice - learn more 3pm Sat at #flux2025

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I am so excited to moderate this symposium at #flux2025. Please join us Saturday, 3pm in Hyde 1.

Across 4 methods & stages (direct neural recording, EEG, fNIRS, fMRI | mice, babies, toddlers & adolescents) we'll explore whether neural synchrony represents a developmental mechanism. Please join us!
September 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Great talk on combining behavioral and EEG data during parent-child dialogic reading to predict language outcomes from Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus at #flux2025 @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social symposium
September 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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My lab has an open post-doc position!

We will begin reviewing applications as they come in.

The post-doc will work with a vibrant research team at Penn State in the Department of Psychology and the Child Study Center.

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Postdoctoral Research Scholar, The Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab, College of the Liberal Arts, Department of Psychology-2
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August 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I am so excited to moderate this symposium at #flux2025. Please join us Saturday, 3pm in Hyde 1.

Across 4 methods & stages (direct neural recording, EEG, fNIRS, fMRI | mice, babies, toddlers & adolescents) we'll explore whether neural synchrony represents a developmental mechanism. Please join us!
September 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This times infinity.

If you don't have time to read "Don't think of an Elephant" just watch Josh Lyman's perfect 30-second explanation:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIYg...

Every time we get hooked on refuting Trump's irrational claims, we lose the frame and support his.
August 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Thank you @amandahess.bsky.social & @nytimes.com for this critical commentary on AI toys marketed to young children. We have no evidence that these kinds of toys support healthy development, and so many reasons to be cautious. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/a...
They’re Stuffed Animals. They’re Also A.I. Chatbots.
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August 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Tuesday: 3 of us on my corner

Wednesday: 7. I banged so joyfully I chipped my spoon

Thursday: a dozen

Tonight: dozens. Soup pot?
Bass drum.

People walk by, ask what we’re doing, grin, & start clapping along. Join us every night at 8 to free dc.

#freedc #fuckfascism

🥄 🎶 🥣 🍳 🥁
August 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Fantastic coverage of the legal battle unfolding in DC. Who's in charge of my local police force? The people I elected, or the people attempting a coup?

Notably - in addition to rescinding protections for immigrants Bondi's order is an attempt to punish protestors like me. #freedc
UPDATE: The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee, and she has scheduled a hearing for 2 p.m. Friday to address D.C.’s TRO request. www.lawdork.com/p/dc-officia...
BREAKING: D.C. sued the Trump administration on Friday morning, asserting that the admin was violating the Home Rule Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, and separation of powers. D.C. A.G. Brian Schwalb is seeking a temporary restraining order to block A.G. Pam Bondi from enforcing her order.
August 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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We just published an excellent commentary in Vaccine by @gavinyamey.bsky.social & Chris Beyrer breaking down how the current regime is laying waste to US vaccination programs & what we can do about it:
✅Congress must withdraw support for RFK Jr
✅Speak up...loudly
✅Study anti-vax movements
✅VOTE
August 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I initially became a paid subscriber to @51st.news for symbolic reasons - to support local journalism. I am now relying on them for excellent coverage of the rapidly intensifying situation in DC, where the administration is now attempting to overrule our votes. #freedc 51st.news/why-d-c-is-t...
Why D.C. is taking Trump to court over MPD
This could be the first of many lawsuits over D.C.’s ability to govern itself.
51st.news
August 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Fantastic round-up of what's happening in DC. Thank you @51st.news and @streetsensedc.bsky.social.
We try to clarify what happened in D.C. this week, what we can expect in the future, and what this all means for the residents who call D.C. home. There's a lot we don't know, but we'll continue following this story in the days and weeks to come. 51st.news/trump-dc-mpd...
Trump’s D.C. ‘takeover’: What we know so far — and where we’re headed
How long will this last? Is it legal? And what are our leaders doing?
51st.news
August 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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TONIGHT: It’s time for a new phase of national campaign work that puts pressure on institutions enabling Trump. You’ll learn to plan and execute a non-cooperation campaign, and how to coach others to do the same. Plus, Texas House Democratic leader Gene Wu joins us: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
August 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Super interesting new study from @joscelinrocha.com @drkoraly.bsky.social @kabuss.bsky.social V. Lobue, B. Ostland - "Multilevel growth models show that infant neg. affect decreased post COVID onset, contrary to hypotheses."

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August 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Tonight and every night until the fascist occupation ends, we're banging pots and pans in the streets here in the district. See you at 8. #freedc #fuckfascism
August 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Every serious media outlet should be immediately tracking down & bombarding Mike Johnson & John Thune with questions about why Congress is doing nothing in the face of this abuse of executive power, in the total absence of actual emergency conditions. No more free passes.

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Once again, the imperial presidency, created by both parties during the Cold War, by passing laws allowing the POTUS to act like a king simply by using the magic words “national security” or “national emergency” w/o evidence, was a grave mistake, & if we make it through this, it must be dismantled.
August 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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D.C. residents rallied near the White House this morning to protest President Trump’s federal takeover of city law enforcement.

Free DC led a rally near LaFayette Square this morning, where speakers called on D.C. area residents to fight back President Trump’s ‘fascist’ federal takeover.
August 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM