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Psychologist @Yale studying brain development, stress, and mental health in childhood and adolescence 🧠 http://candlab.yale.edu/
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Our Center remains steadfast in our mission to accurately share the #science of #adolescence to promote positive development for all young people regardless of background, race, immigration status, sexuality, or gender. Read our full statement: developingadolescent.semel.ucla.edu/topics/item/...

After searching through bluesky, I realized there wasnt a starter pack for Adolescent Neurocognitive Development (at least I couldnt find one), so decided to start one! Please help me in adding members of the awesome community go.bsky.app/R8mzr8W

Mahmoud Khalil is a legal permanent resident of the U.S. - unlawfully arrested for expressing his political views and sent from his home in NY to Louisiana to be detained - away from his family and his attorneys. This is not ok. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration works on two of the most urgent U.S. health problems and has generally received bipartisan support. By the end of this week, the staff of the agency could be cut by 50%, according to senior staff members.

NIH is the epitome of government efficiency - turning tax $ into real wealth.

An internal EPA memo directs the closure of offices designed to ease the heavy pollution faced by poor and minority communities. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...

Individual Border Patrol agents knew they were doing this, and a supervisor signed off on it.

Pls share AMAZING opportunities! Studying Depression? its biology? UCI’s new Depression Res Ctr is hiring 1) Preclinical Models: systems mechanisms of vulnerability, resilience 2) Child Adolescent, Adult Depression 3) Biomed Engineer Deep Phenotype, Intervention recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09510 508, 507

Ps: there are mRNA vaccines that are showing promise to FIGHT CANCER (including pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma, and more)

Excited to share this brief review where @katieinsel.bsky.social & I discuss studying adolescence to understand how brains work! We highlight avenues for future collaborative work at the intersection of cognitive, computational, & developmental neuroscience 🧠 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The mood was defiant at many of the rallies, where chants of “Scientists will not be silenced”, “Facts over fear” and “What do we want? Peer review! When do we want it? Now!” were heard. https://go.nature.com/3F8T6FX

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/s... Kind of speechless. Thank you to @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social for coving our movement so well. @standupforscience.bsky.social @jpflores.bsky.social @samschuelstein.bsky.social @leslie-bern.bsky.social @emmalovesscience.bsky.social

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

cutting pediatric cancer research… www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/h...

Wondering what you can do to help set the world right? Show up Friday at a #standupforscience2025 rally near you! My sign is ready to head out to Hartford, CT! Join us!

The science done at the hutch and care provided by the hutch gave me precious bonus years with my parents. When my mom was diagnosed in 2005 with a rare cancer, her prognosis was a year at best. She got 14 years from experimental research by the late Ollie Press and colleagues. 1/

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it's an odd time to share with so much going on that is much more pressing and important, AND: @shirleybwang.bsky.social and I will be teaching our workshop, Assessing Suicidal and Non-suicidal Self-Injury again this March 27th!

Connecticut friends -- we're one week away! I hope to see you at the Capitol in Hartford on March 7. Let's bring some light to these dark times and stand up for science. @standupforscience.bsky.social @mcdb-yale.bsky.social

NIH cuts are getting the press, but VA research is getting slashed too. What do we lose when VA research goes away? Here's some greatest hits: The nicotine patch, invention of the cardiac pacemaker, first successful liver transplant, development of the CAT/CT scan prospect.org/health/2025-...

Want to learn more about @standupforscience.bsky.social ? I spoke with three of the lead organizers for a Q&A you can read here: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...

I wrote a piece for @sciam.bsky.social about why White parents should be talking to their kids about race and racism. It was so great to work with @megha.bsky.social on this piece! Please share! www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Thrilled to share our new perspective on "Attachment as Prediction" published in Current Directions for Psychological Science! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The most achingly beautiful explanation of what science is, from @edyong209.bsky.social: “the idea that much of the world is hidden from us, that we don’t perceive it and don’t understand it, and that it is worth understanding and it is necessary to understand.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

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Check out the updated @standupforscience.bsky.social website! Lots of local events within day-trips distance being organized by so many if getting to DC isn't within reach: standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...

Called my 2 Senators and Rep about this today! (Their #s are saved as contacts in my phone at this point.) đź‘Ź Calling matters!! As a former senate intern, each call (and vm) gets logged and informs how our reps spend their limited time and effort! Call to put YOUR issues at the top of their list!

The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

"...how can the same sensory information evoke such wildly different interpretations across people, or even within the same person across time?" Learn how @esfinn.bsky.social, a #CNS2025 Young Investigator Award co-recipient, is working to answer that in a new Q&A: #scicomm

National Day of Action TODAY.

Incredible story of how the NSF builds careers and opportunities while producing breakthroughs in science. Thanks @mammalssuck.bsky.social for sharing your story and for fighting to keep door open for other young scientists on their way to making discoveries that will save and improve lives.

Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders. Story by @sherylnyt.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

"Among staff who were caught up in the first wave of layoffs: Ph.D.-trained scientists tasked with helping local and state officials respond to outbreaks; employees who ensure that medical devices for patients with cancer and diabetes are safe; ..." 1/2

I wrote a column in my hometown newspaper about the importance of keeping SCIENCE FUNDING in our community 🧪 More soon about the power of writing back HOME 🏠 www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/15/g...

Hearing that the DOGE chaos hurricane is hitting HUD soon, and the plan is to devastate federal housing funding. Let's be clear: this would cause a cascade of catastrophic impacts nationwide, shutting down housing and dumping families into the street.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

I have been talking to the media, Time, Fortune, NBC, etc., to explain how the onslaught on science and NIH will impact the health of all Americans. Everyone knows someone who has cancer, heart disease, or depression. Spread the word about how cutting science impacts all. time.com/7216299/nih-...

I wrote an op-ed for voters in a red state about how devastating NIH indirect cuts are. This type of writing isn’t my comfort zone, but I think we as scientists need to get the word out. Happy to chat with others looking to do the same in their communities! www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

Shared some of my recent experiences and thoughts with @callimcflurry.bsky.social of @thetransmitter.bsky.social. In these chaotic times, it’s important that there’s an ability for voices to be heard. I’m very thankful to Calli and The Transmitter for the opportunity.

I am so damn busy doing the work (& encouraging others to do so, too) … PHEW. Do NOT give up your agency or your hope, my friends. Thanks to all for being in this together. Here’s to the long game. 🙏❤️

This is the second phase of catastrophe after wildfires - mudflows, landslides, collapse. If your people are in the area, help them get out of this continuing danger zone.

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...

Nearly 400 faculty signed an open letter to University President Maurie McInnis on Wednesday, calling for her to stand up in “word and deed” against federal policies threatening the University’s research and values. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/02...

Now do the same for the postdoc ones: K01, K99, and F99. My postdocs grant is still “unassigned”.