✨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

🚨Postdoc Application due: Nov 15. The IES Equity in Early Education (E3) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program trains the next generation of scholars to conduct research toward equitable, impactful, and sustainable early childhood care and education systems. Stanford Graduate School of Education Stanford Center on Early Childhood

Having serious FOMO missing #ISDP2024 this year but having a fun #momademia moment seeing my daughter make an appearance via poster from the awesome @BritoBabyLab 🤩

1/ I've long wondered why executive function in childhood predicts life outcomes. Why does juggling information in mind, shifting between tasks, and controlling our impulses matter so much? I'm increasingly convinced that our early answers missed something fundamental.

Interested in causal questions but working with observational data? Check out our new preprint, an accessible tutorial introduction to investigating causal questions in human development using marginal structural models (MSMs) & user-friendly R package!👇 osf.io/preprints/psya…

5 years, countless twists, & tons of ‘what are we even doing?’ moments. So happy to see this paper finally out in the world! Major kudos to Isabella (Isa) Stallworthy 🫶 for leading this beast of a project—I’m biased but I think this one’s going to shake things up in dev science 🎉🚀

🚨News! tinyurl.com/y3vskm73 Low-SES students are often portrayed as lacking skills. We test the effect of reframing this narrative in a field trial (N=786). Highlighting the strengths low-SES students show boosted grades over one semester, closing an SES-performance gap.

The academe has for a long time had a severely neglected social class problem. "Children from low-SES homes were already severely underrepresented [in the academe]." "Scientists from high-SES families have 38% higher odds of becoming stars." nber.org/papers/w33063

✨Excited to share our latest Dev Sci paper! We studied how 3- to 7-year-old children balance persistence and adaptation in decision-making tasks with diminishing rewards. We found unique explore-exploit patterns related to age and self-regulation skills! doi.org/10.1111/desc.1…

Excited to share our new PLOS One paper! We wanted to understand how childhood socioeconomic status affects decision-making later in life. We studied ~13,000 adults across 61 countries 🌍 journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… (1/3)

🚨 We've extended our deadline for the E3 Postdoctoral Fellowship to December 1st! More info here: earlychildhood.stanford.edu/postdoc

Finally making the move to 🦋 so find me there!

It was an honor to chat about strength-based approaches in developmental cognitive neuroscience alongside Monica Ellwood-Lowe & Divyangana Rakesh w/amazing host Gavkhar Abdurokhmonova ✨ Check it out to hear about the current state of this work, where it’s going, and why it’s important 👇

Two recent articles highlight the scientifically unsound and ethically problematic use of one-size-fits-all measures in Early Childhood Development globally. It’s time for the #ECD field to take action. manvir singh newyorker.com/magazine/2025/… aeon.co/essays/the-pro…

Opinion: Federal funding cuts threaten the next generation of U.S. scientists timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2025/0…

Federal funding opened the door to my career in science. Today, those doors are closing for the next generation. I wrote about why it matters in this op-ed for Times of San Diego as part of the #ScienceHomecoming initiative. timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2025/0…

For the first time, The Lancet has published a critical paper on the science of Early Childhood Development (#ECD). As an interdisciplinary and international group of authors, we call on the ECD field to move beyond the widespread use of deficit models. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

I'm reviewing PhD applications this cycle to join my lab at UW-Madison Psychology in Fall 2026. Ideal for those interested in decision-making, emotion regulation, fMRI, and quant/comp methods. Peep link below. We have cool stuff in the works and want more brilliant ppl in the fold!

Just published!✨ We tracked families’ experiences of economic hardship over 15+ timepoints & showed that unpredictability – not only severity – shapes young children’s self-regulation. These insights can guide supports that promote stability & adaptation. bit.ly/4oIZO75