NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

Do children in Early Head Start have a provider with their same race and ethnicity? CSCH affiliates and fellow researchers looked at this question. Read about their findings in our brief. csch.uconn.edu/wp-content/u...
#HealthyKids #WholeChild #WSCC

Receiving SNAP (food assistance) was linked with more supportive parenting among immigrant parents with low incomes and young children. Read more in our CSCH brief, written by affiliates and their colleagues: csch.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/u...

NEW Brief! Receiving SNAP (food assistance) was linked with more supportive parenting among immigrant parents with low incomes and young children. Read more: csch.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/u...

@drkevinfvl.bsky.social @caitlombardi.bsky.social

Tufts University has now released a statement about Rumeysa Ozturk. It's a great statement & is well crafted. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

#academicsky #devpsyc

Good article on a very important new lawsuit.

Lawsuit aims to overturn many NIH grant terminations | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Minority staff from the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology are surveying the impact of layoffs from science agencies. Stories are helpful in understanding how firings are impacting research and health. Anonymous submissions are accepted. democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

My academic department (at Wesleyan University, CT, US) is searching for a one-year Visiting Professor position in Developmental Psychology. Great place to teach for a year! Apply here: wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

At 5 pm Fri, the Social Security Admin announced that it will withhold the *entire* Social Security benefits of overpaid seniors & people w/disabilities, even if not their fault—reversing a Biden-era reform that limited repayment to 10% of the monthly benefit.

This will cause needless suffering.

To every one of my neighbors back in Boston, know this: You belong here. This is your home. Boston es tu hogar. Boston se lakay ou. 這是你的家.

This is our city.

We are the safest major city in the nation because we are safe for everyone.

#Boston #Congress #CongressionalHearing #Immigration

Public health is under attack in America.
Maternal and child health is under attack in America.
Health research is under attack in America.

Ultimately it won't just cost us in advancements, it'll cost us lives.

@caitlombardi.bsky.social & I recently published a mixed methods paper examining the role of state policy exclusions on immigrant parent wellbeing & development of their children. The paper is publicly available, please read and share: doi.org/10.1002/ajcp... #academicresearch

This is the first movement from Sen. Fetterman, please fill out immediately if you have been impacted. Please circulate Penn, Pitt, PSU, Temple etc @cbartman.bsky.social

How IES Helps Students and Educators. theconversation.com/helping-teac...

Please circulate: we have an open PhD-level (education, developmental psychology, sociology, economics, or other social science) research position in the Center for Thriving Children for someone cityconnects.applytojob.com/apply/eDFIzj...

👏👏👏 Congrats to Vanessa, a PhD candidate here in the UConn HDFS program, for receiving the Early Care &Education Research Scholars: Head Start Dissertation Grant from the Administration of Children and Families of the US DHHS! Take a look at this profile of her work

today.uconn.edu/2024/12/givi...

Incredibly proud of UConn HDFS graduate student Vanessa Esquivel for her ACF OPRE Head Start Dissertation grant! 🥹
today.uconn.edu/2024/12/givi...