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Caitlin Lombardi
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Associate Professor at UConn HDFS | Early childhood developmental scientist | Mother x 3. She|Her
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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:
ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.
Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.
www.thehandbasket.co
October 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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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
October 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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...
September 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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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...

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August 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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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
University Declaration for Rümeysa Öztürk
University Declaration for Rümeysa ÖztürkApril 2, 2025Dear Tufts community,Please see below a declaration by Tufts University in support of a motion filed today by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in Öztür...
www.tufts.edu
April 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Good article on a very important new lawsuit.

Lawsuit aims to overturn many NIH grant terminations | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Lawsuit aims to overturn many NIH grant terminations
Multiple groups and NIH-funded scientists challenge agency’s decision as arbitrary and capricious
www.science.org
April 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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
Were you fired by President Trump? | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
democrats-science.house.gov
April 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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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...
Visiting Professor of Psychology
Visiting Professor in Developmental Psychology. The Department of Psychology at Wesleyan University invites applications for a one-year visiting professor in developmental psychology to begin Septembe...
wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
March 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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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...
March 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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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.
March 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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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
Mayor Michelle Wu's Opening Statement to the United States House Committee on Oversight
YouTube video by City of Boston
youtu.be
March 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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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.
Trump’s funding cuts are hitting early-career researchers the hardest
Doctoral students at the University of Illinois Chicago say vital work on maternal health is threatened by Trump’s research funding cuts.
www.wbez.org
March 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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@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
March 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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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
🚨PA colleagues:

"Senator Fetterman wants to hear from you about how the federal funding freeze is affecting Pennsylvania."

"If your project has been impacted, please fill out our constituent impact form:" forms.office.com/g/mFv2JAPxpC

Get out your Other Support and share that info!
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
February 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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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...
Researcher - City Connects, Center for Thriving Children - Career Page
Apply to Researcher at City Connects, Center for Thriving Children in Boston, MA.
cityconnects.applytojob.com
December 18, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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👏👏👏 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...
Giving Latine Families an ‘Early Head Start’ - UConn Today
Vanessa Esquivel, a Ph.D. student in the department of human development & family sciences, has received a major federal grant to study early childhood ...
today.uconn.edu
December 6, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Incredibly proud of UConn HDFS graduate student Vanessa Esquivel for her ACF OPRE Head Start Dissertation grant! 🥹
today.uconn.edu/2024/12/givi...
Giving Latine Families an ‘Early Head Start’ - UConn Today
Vanessa Esquivel, a Ph.D. student in the department of human development & family sciences, has received a major federal grant to study early childhood ...
today.uconn.edu
December 6, 2024 at 5:45 PM