dev soc neuro professor @uoregon • studying the changing bodies, brains, & social worlds of adolescents • National Scientific Council on Adolescence • she/her
May 22, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Call for papers! Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience is curating a special issue to share science that might inform policy, especially work that has the potential to change the trajectory of large communities of children’s lived experiences. 1/
With an all-star guest editing team including @NatalieHBrito@dylanggee@EACrone! We want this to be a thoughtful process, acknowledging nuanced issues such as: 2/
Feb 19, 2021 • 15 tweets • 8 min read
A 🧵 on #COVID's impact on #adolescents, summarizing our preprint compiling longitudinal data from 1,339 adolescents in the U.S., Netherlands, and Peru, studied by 12 research groups. 1/ psyarxiv.com/hn7us/
Studies included participants aged 9-18 years old. Sample was 43% White, 16% Hispanic/Latinx, 9% Biracial/Multiracial, 8% Black, 2.5% Asian, 1.5% other, 20.5% missing; the international studies did not collect ethnic/racial identity information. 2/
Feb 18, 2021 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Check out this foundational work led by @hertinglab@Devel_Brain_Lab on pubertal development in the baseline #ABCDstudy data! Particularly innovative means of comparing self-reports and hormone levels. Buckle up, this 🧵 will also link you to a few bonus articles on puberty. 1/
Led by @cecily_cardew, a stellar international team of puberty scholars wrote a researcher's guide to using puberty baseline data in the #ABCDstudy, which you can find detailed in her wonderful tweetorial and also read the preprint (under review). 2/
The stories are endless; the collective impact enormous. That time at 5 weeks postpartum I was asked in the @uopsych faculty meeting if I would abstain from the vote to expand our dept parental leave policy (add'l course release from teaching). nature.com/articles/d4158…
Obviously, the comment was meant as a joke, given that the faculty had just a) discussed my tenure & promotion case 15 minutes earlier and b) warmly welcomed me to my first post-baby meeting. But nothing about this was a joke to me.
