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drdestiny.bsky.social
Clinical Psych PhD | Trauma & stress | risk & resilience | marginalized families | equitable assessment & intervention | ✊🏽🇨🇻🇵🇹 | 1920💙🕊️ | Views are mine. (She/Her)
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What better time than now to do a survey on the experiences of inequity among academics? Please share! ~20 min. rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Excited to share our latest paper in #NatureReviewsCardiology on why #women are more prone to #CardiovascularDisease due to #Autoimmunity & #SsensitiveHypertension! Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

February is #BlackHistoryMonth. Learn about Dr. Gail E. Wyatt, PhD and her development of novel methodologies and measures of sexual trauma—approaches that broke the silence around experiences of #sexualviolence, particularly among African Americans. bit.ly/40Gt4ki

Found in translation! from clinic to the lab-and now back! Our California initiative for precision medicine-funded study in >30,000 kids shows unpredictable signals from parents & environment impact mental health outcomes: they are a major risk factor for depression www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

a REALLY COOL paper showing that mom's stress during HER childhood & during pregnancy have unique signatures on genetic expression markers in the PLACENTA. Biological mechanisms of the intergenerational transmission of stress www.nature.com/articles/s41... #academicbluesky

Black women in America are more than twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth. Getting physicians to take their concerns seriously is one reason for this disparity, they say: “If you’re a Black woman, you get dismissed.” By @deldeib.bsky.social (Published Dec. 2022)

It may seem strange to folks outside of academia, but there has been a line of prominent research within it arguing that misinformation isn't a problem. This paper pushes back, noting how those arguments often rely on poor definitions & operationalizations of what misinformation is & how it works.

Check out our latest episode on infant feeding and maternal mental health! Available on our website and all of the usual podcast platforms

Our 1st paper from research evaluating the cultural acceptability of #PCIT for Black families w/ young kids. The paper outlines Black PCIT clinciians' perspectives on using PCIT w/ Black families & things Black clinicians do to make PCIT more culturally congruent www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/21... #Psych

Teachers, parents, and everyone: You should know Frontiers for Young Minds! It's a terrific (free) online journal with cutting-edge science articles, written for different age groups. Scientists write. *Kids* are the reviewers. Available in 5 languages. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Now published: #Caregiver or #Playmate? #Fathers’ and #mothers’ #brain responses to ball‑play with #children link.springer.com/article/10.3... Acil, D. (@mpicbs.bsky.social) & Puhlmann (LIR Mainz), L. & White (Uni Bremen), L. & yours truly (@soneatlab.bsky.social, @universityofessex.bsky.social)

Great reminder that body and brain health are not isolated. #PsychSciSky #Skychiatry #mentalhealth

Having a #baby can be incredibly beautiful AND challenging. Let's normalize talking about #Postpartum #MentalHealth during this period of family transitions 🧑🏽‍🍼, sleep deprivation 😴, and clothing perpetually covered in spit up 👕 #PPD #PPA #Maternal Mental Health Hotline: 1-833-TLC-MAMA

#JoinUs 🦋 Racism and Racial Trauma Scholars in Psychology. Let me know if you want to be added.

BLACK WOMEN IN #STEM i made a starter pack for black women in the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics and would really love to keep adding to it so please hmu if you fit the criteria or know someone who does! 🧪 go.bsky.app/9jYkUK1

Psychotropic medication during pregnancy: new umbrella review finds no convincing evidence of adverse health outcomes for the baby www.nationalelfservice.net?p=206720 Some interesting associations though between antidepressant use and harm, based on suggestive or weak evidence.

HEY PARENTS IN ACADEMIA!!! What do you wish people knew about your experience and how parenting impacts you/your career/your science/etc???

🧪 Scientist? 🟦 New to BlueSky? 👀 Wanna find posts by other people in your area and use the right hashtags in your own posts? 📃 Here’s a regularly-updated list of 190 science-related feeds and their hashtags. #AcademicSky #PhDSky

🔥🔥🔥: Tim‘s types of #psychotherapy research papers! #PsychSky #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

For decades, the EPPP has failed Black #psychologists & other psychologists of color in the U.S. & continues to perpetuate the racial gap in the workforce. Many stakeholders are involved & we must ensure this new shift in approach is equitable & inclusive. #BlackMenInPsych #psychology #PsychSky