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Natalie Brito
@nataliebrito.bsky.social
Developmental Scientist 👶🏽🧠
Associate Professor at Columbia University
PI of @britobabylab.bsky.social
Board Chair - Social Creatures
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
“If anything we should be investing more money, not less, in science and scientific research” 💯 @captmarkkelly.bsky.social
"I think this president thinks we have the world's largest economy ever because of real estate investors. It's not—it's because of science."

Sen. Mark Kelly criticizes Trump's cuts to critical scientific research.
December 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Well this is exciting!

The Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University (@jhu.edu) invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member in Cognitive Psychology, in any area and at any rank!

Application + more info: apply.interfolio.com/178146
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December 2, 2025 at 3:18 AM
International Congress on Infant Studies (ICIS) abstract deadline has now been extended to Friday December 12th!

Don’t miss this opportunity to share your research, connect with leading scholars, and experience the unique setting of Panama City. ☀️ 🇵🇦 @infantstudies.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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So there you have it, twin study estimates were greatly inflated, and molecular data sets the record straight. I walk through possible counter-arguments, but ultimately the uncomfortable truth is that genes contribute to traits much less than we always thought.
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Yes, PINE Lab is accepting doctoral applications this cycle in Psychology! Apps due Dec 1! Interested in early life human neuroplasticity? how early pre- and post-natal experiences/exposures (promotional/adverse) shape malleable brains? Current research here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wFZj...
Laurel_Gabard-Durnam_Research Statement.pdf
drive.google.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team!

More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join...

Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...
People – Scaffolding of Cognition Team
soc.stanford.edu
November 21, 2025 at 12:16 AM
We have not ruled out the possibility that the worm in RFK Jr’s brain wrote these key points
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Wonderful time in San Diego! Great science, good food, and fun memories

Can’t wait for New Orleans! #ISDP2026

@isdp.org @drbcallaghan.bsky.social @dylanggee.bsky.social @drkoraly.bsky.social @kieran-od.bsky.social @brainsandplanes.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Bravo @drkoraly.bsky.social for a wonderful meeting! I’m gonna miss my afternoon popsicle #ISDP2025 @isdp.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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That’s a wrap on my 1st #ISDP experience! So many things to love: excellent interdisciplinary science, single session format, strong trainee inclusion, FRIENDLY & super welcoming community, not to mention THE FUN! Thanks @nataliebrito.bsky.social for the invitation…see you all in New Orleans!
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Love my students - can’t believe two of them are assistant professors 🥰

@denisewerchan.bsky.social @sarahcvogel.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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
November 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
What an absolute joke 🙄
November 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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The thing about being a woman and navigating the world, is that you are never safe from being sexually harassed by strangers even if you are a freaking head of state.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Mexico president to seek charges after being groped on street
Claudia Sheinbaum says she is pressing charges because "a line must be drawn" against the harassment of Mexican women.
www.bbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law.

A new generation that renews the “we” in “we the people.”

Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as part of its future.
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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I'm just happy for my many many friends in NYC that they will have a mayor who loves and understands the city and will try to make it a better place to live. he will surely have wins and losses, exceed expectations and disappoint bitterly. but he loves your weird city so much.
November 5, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist who shot to stardom and shook up Democratic politics, has won the race for mayor of New York City.

Read more: bit.ly/3JCt9RN
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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What does it take to make child care free? New Mexico is finding out. The state on Saturday became the first to offer universal, no-cost childcare, for which all families are eligible. trib.al/MmW46bB
New Mexico finds out what it takes to launch universal child care | Fortune
Other states might take note.
trib.al
November 4, 2025 at 9:48 PM