Associate Prof and clinical psychologist
@ColumbiaPsych
. PI of
@the_lugo_lab
. health disparities, perinatal development, sleep, and early brain development🤰🏽
Our study linking prenatal sleep health and offspring neurodevelopment in the
@ECHOChildHealth
is out!
We found lots of interesting things, but most interesting of all that second trimester sleep may be most closely related to neurodevelopment in the next generation!
Longer and better
#sleep
in the 2nd trimester of
#pregnancy
may be associated with fewer
#ADHD
symptoms in children according to recent
#ECHOChildHealth
Cohort research. Learn more:
Thrilled to announce that I have been promoted to Associate Professor! 🥳 I’m proud to be one of the few Latinas 👩🏽🔬 at this stage in academia & look forward to empowering others to reach new heights!
Our RA extraordinaire
@aliceaizza
got the NSF but has no grad school offers. Im determined to find her a spot! She is interested in psych/neuroscience (not clinical) and in the development of child executive functions, using imaging/computational methods. Pls RT/DM if you know
🚨🚨🚨aghhh ☠️☠️☠️ Im so so honored to be receiving this award from
@SRCDLatinx
!! I was really not expecting this, and can't think of a better way to start
#SRCD2023
this is such a great caucus and society
@SRCDtweets
and Im so thrilled to be recognized by magnificent scholars!
A recent paper in
@JAMApsych
reports up to 40% of mental illness may be due to adverse childhood experiences. These shocking findings highlight the need for prevention & resilience conferring factors in research. Read more ⬇️
Proud to share our latest paper shedding light on how high neighborhood stress impacts sleep quality 😴 among young Puerto Rican adults is out in Sleep Health!
Grateful for the chance to contribute this vital research to my community! 🇵🇷
Learn more:
I swear I experienced the most racist/ignorant things in my career during IRB review. Troubling, as there are no channels for appeals, reviewers are anonymous, and the massive power imbalance. Do I write a paper on it to at least get something out of my suffering?
I matched at my 9th choice. I was relieved at having a job for the next year, but also shocked at having matched so low. I applied with a geographical restriction (e.g., only New York)
3 years ago, I matched to my 5th ranked
#APPIC
#internship
site and absolutely did not share on any social media.
I drank a glass of champagne that felt performative rather than celebratory.
“How could all my top sites have turned me down?”
#phdchat
#matchday
🧵
It's out! As
@JAMAPsych
's editorial fellow, I had the once-in-an-early-career opportunity to lead an invited Viewpoint series on a topic of my choosing. I naturally landed on climate change and mental health.
@ElPodcastPPP
los estudiantes viven en el campus y pagan por la comida. no hay problema alguno con quedarse callado cuando uno no tiene idea de lo que esta hablando.
🏆 Excited to announce that Dr. Nayra Rodriguez Soto & I received a
@columbia
SPIRIT Initiative Pilot Award in Climate & Mental Health!
With this support we’ll study how severe weather impacts family functioning & ACEs risk in PR 🇵🇷 & NYC. Learn more:
🚨🚨🚨 The Lugo Lab is seeking to hire a postdoc to join our team! We study how perinatal experiences shape the developing infant brain. Many of our studies focus on perinatal sleep and offspring ADHD, but we have exciting projects looking at other prenatal exposures.🚨🚨🚨
In our latest review, we discuss how prenatal depression🤰🏽impacts offspring
#socioemotional
&
#neurodevelopmental
🧠 outcomes & the underlying mechanisms ⚙️
An exciting review to push for diverse, comprehensive research to enhance family well-being!
I rarely bake these days, but when I do it turns out that
@the_lugo_lab
gets a grant funded and my partner reunites a family. (living with a lawyer puts things in perspective now and then). celebratory indeed 🥳
So happy to be able to share these news! Incredibly grateful to
@OneMindOrg
for this opportunity and looking forward to meeting and working with
@IgnacioSaezPhD
and
@your_arpy
soon!
🎉 Congratulations to the 2023 One Mind Rising Star Awardees:
⭐
@IgnacioSaezPhD
⭐
@Claudia_I_Lugo
⭐
@your_arpy
We’re looking forward to supporting your science and hearing more about it at the Science & Innovation Symposium on Sept. 9:
Our review on the possible intergenerational effects of interventions for prenatal distress is now out at
@BiologicalPsyc1
! Spoiler alert, there is a ton of work to do, especially when it comes to RCTs - which is what we reviewed.
In my “One Scientist’s Mind” interview with Dr.
@AmitEtkin
I explain how prenatal sleep extends beyond the mother and can shape the baby’s 🍼 brain health & long-term
#MentalHealth
Watch to learn more about my work:
I cannot say enough great things about the
@ACNPorg
travel awards program! I really think it propelled my career forward in ways that continue to benefit me to this day. Happy to share tips or answer questions, please RT!!
ACNP Travel Award Applications open TODAY for the ACNP 63rd Annual Meeting: December 8-11, 2024, JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa, Phoenix, AZ. Deadline to Submit is April 18, 2024, at 5:00 pm Central.
#ACNP2024
#travelawards
📢📢📢The Lugo Lab at Columbia University (psychiatry) keeps growing and we are hiring a research assistant. We focus on examining intergenerational and perinatal factors that increase children’s risk for ADHD, as well as early life factors that protect children from ADHD.
when your institution has decided to make your job literally impossible, make sure you are surrounded by the kind of friends that will support you through this nightmare, and perhaps deliver a bottle of wine to your door. las adoro
@EdmarieGV
@DrJennyZD
Not me getting emotional over a progress report 🤣 Writing my final progress report for my
@BBRFoundation
Young Investigator Award has been such a reminder of how far a relatively small award can take a young investigator hoping to break into the game.
Im legit thrilled (not my usual fake academic thrilled) that our min-panel: "Beyond the Monolith: Individual and Contextual Influences on Depressive and Associated Health Outcomes within Minoritized Ethnic and Racial Communities" got accepted into
@ACNPorg
#acnp2023
📣 Please share 📋 We’re surveying underrepresented folks in science to better understand helpful factors supporting the transition to a college career in
#STEM
More info here:
anyone recommend a website creation company/person? I'm looking to have a website as well as logo created for my lab!!!
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicTwitter
Last year I saw this post and decided to give it a shot, because why not . Turns out that was one of my best professional decisions as of late! Being a Rising Star has been an unforgettable experience that is opening doors and changing the way I think and go about my work. Apply!
📣 One Mind wants to fund your
#MentalHealth
research!
Applications are open for the 2024 Rising Star Awards ✨ Learn more about our $300K grants supporting early-career
#neuroscience
&
#psychiatry
investigators:
Happy World
#MaternalMentalHealth
Week!🤰🏽Up to 1 in 5 new mothers experience a mood or anxiety disorder & often go undiagnosed due to lack of awareness & stigma. To learn about supporting the mothers in your life read the below from
@katiahetter
in
@CNN
The wonderful but twitter-less Dr. Polaris Gonzalez-Barrios presenting the amazing work coming out of
@rcmupr
on maternal adversity and stress and bonding.
@kgmarti
So happy I get to work with this group on such important research!
#SRCD2023
Last week I saw a masterful talk on behavioral inhibition & risk by
@Dr_Koraly
- an Utado 🇵🇷 native! Such a wonderful lesson on how new tech can open avenues for developmental research across the world. Bravo on a successful
@Columbia
Grand Rounds!
The Lugo Lab continues to grow! We are looking for a SPANISH SPEAKING RA to join our studies of perinatal impacts on infant brain development. Ideally they'd start by May/June, but some flexibility here. Official job add coming soon, but here is what I envision:
🚨 Exciting update! Huge congrats to
@aliceaizza
for her admittance to
@UWPsychology
! Thank you to everyone for your support- watching the community come together for Alice was a joy 🥳
Our RA extraordinaire
@aliceaizza
got the NSF but has no grad school offers. Im determined to find her a spot! She is interested in psych/neuroscience (not clinical) and in the development of child executive functions, using imaging/computational methods. Pls RT/DM if you know
#AcademicTwitter
Looking to hire a research assistant to join our team and be a part of our studies of perinatal influences on early brain development at Columbia University in NYC. We are particularly interested in understanding the environmental influences most relevant to
📢📢📢The LUGO LAB and the Center for Intergenerational Psychiatry at Columbia University are HIRING📢📢📢We are looking for an MRI data analyst to join our team! We have tons of data from international and intergenerational cohorts and are looking to bring someone onboard!
There is no rulebook on what to do as a
#newPI
when your research comes to a screeching halt - for the second time in the few years you have had a lab. Given we’re making up the rules as we go, might I suggest that the day before a really important
Excelente oportunidad para un internado de verano para estudiantes de escuela superior de
#PuertoRico
interesades en temas de adición y uso de substancias. Si te interesa el tema y la posibilidad de hacer un internado de verano conmigo y el
@the_lugo_lab
, escríbeme!
Now for the real talk. This paper was a lesson in persistence. Too many comments from reviewers who did not read the supplement to keep track. Lesson for future Claudia and trainees: KEEP GOING. If your science is sane and important, it will find a home.
Publication day!!! FINALLY able to share our paper on intergenerational associations between maternal childhood maltreatment and
infant offspring brain volume and white matter
connectivity/somatic complaints in childhood.
Jaimie and Alice have worked SO hard to collect this data and on these posters. Together with the rest of the
@the_lugo_lab
, they make the magic happen. This
#babyPI
is just so proud of them!
First undergraduate honor's thesis out of the lab ✔️
Im learning so much via all our wonderful students and so grateful they chose our lab. Im SO proud of all the hard work that went into this!
#babyPI
Today we took a trip to see our very own Bina Aaronson presenting her honors project!!! Bina did SUUUCH a lovely job presenting on the complex associations between sleep health, reward processing and ADHD symptoms.
strongest possible start to
@ACNPorg
#ACNP2023
. meeting near peer mentee
@DrDominguezLop
for the first time! and having candid, heartfelt conversations about our identities, race, ethnicity, and the need to be seen and see ourselves in all of our identities in academia.
The second Viewpoint in our
#climatechange
and
#mentalhealth
series is out.
@kgmarti
and colleagues at
@rcmupr
discuss the intergenerational consequences of exposure to severe climate events in pregnancy.
Over the past 2 years I've had the wonderful opportunity to be the editorial fellow at
@JAMAPsych
. I 100000% recommend the fellowship to any early career folks. Happy to chat with folks about my experiences. APPLY!!!
.
@JAMAPsych
is once again accepting applications for a 2-year Editorial Fellowship. Please share the attached announcement and/or below link with your networks and anyone you think would be a good candidate. cc
@dost_ongur
@mpwpaulus
@Claudia_I_Lugo
->
@lisascottbcd
I don't even understand what the end goal here is, unless it's to get rid of 99% of their faculty and shut down the school? No one, liberal or conservative or otherwise, can sustain this. Am I'm missing something?
Another day, another reviewer asking me to include race/ethnicity in analyses where it has no business being. Its been almost TWO decades since the Helms paper came out. Did only I read it?
deadline you and your team drop everything and build ikea furniture for a couple of hours? Team-building galore.
@the_lugo_lab
starting to look good! PS we are open to wall decor ideas.
📢📢📢WE ARE HIRINGGG📢📢📢 The Center for Intergenerational Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute is seeking an MRI data analyst to join our interdisciplinary team and assist in our pediatric neuropsychiatry studies.
come hang during my (unfortunately very brief) appearance at
@FluxSociety
i loooove grant writing, hopefully i can share some of this annoying enthusiasm with you!
So happy to share these news!! I'm humbled to be recognized by my colleagues and department, who I so deeply admire. I am so grateful to Dr. Bender for her incredibly generous gift.
2010 Predoc Ford Fellow
@Claudia_I_Lugo
has been selected as the inaugural Estelle P. Bender, MD & T. Richard Fishbein Scholar and will be supported for the next 3 years by an endowment given by Dr. Bender to boost Assistant Professors at key points in their career development.
holding my breath for what promises a violent night for our campus. shame on senior leadership for choosing the most violent and repressive road out of this situation instead of listening to students’ demands
Faculty Statement on Imminent Police Action at Columbia University
The American Association of University Professors, Columbia University Chapter
For immediate release: April 30, 2024, 8:00pm
At this hour, the NYPD is massing on barricaded streets outside the gates of Columbia
We retreated! We set our individual and lab goals for the next coming year, and then we bowled! Thank you all for a wonderful year, 2023-2024 will be even better!
sharing how you only got into 2/5 of your favorite Ivys has the same energy as when celebrities sang to us from their mansions at the beginning of the pandemic.
Its been 6+ weeks since the lab has been trying to coordinate a shipment with
@Worldcourier
from Puerto Rico to California, because they can't decide if its international or domestic. Spoiler alert, it's domestic. The whole process of dealing with WC is insanity inducing.
Next year, I got my dream postdoc and haven't looked back since. Internship is just a bizarre 1 year gig. While I envy those that walked away with tons of new knowledge and fond memories, its not the end of the world if it isn't that way.
Feeling this in my soul. Maybe its just a
#newPI
thing, but not once in grad school was I told I'd be spending most of my time jumping through hoops to get orders, reimbursements, and hirings done. This can't be the way it was meant to be. Im not even good at math. 🙃
Get grants, they said. It will help fund summers, buy out teaching, fund students, do bigger, cooler research, etc. they said.
What they didn't say: The amount of time spent administering funds is not worth it. I am so tired of grants management. I cannot do the simplest things.
I got my personal life back, and chose the real world over my career. I'd do it all again. Chins up to all those who matched in their non-top choices, it all works out in the end.
congrats to all the new
@ACNPorg
associate members - including
@ZVR_BSJ
who is killing it this week also getting promoted to associate professor. Couldn't be prouder on Ben, the smartest, kindest, and most deserving scientist and friend out there. 🇵🇷🥰🥳
📢RECRUITING📢: If you are 18-35 years old, identify as Hispanic/Latinx, and are pregnant, we invite you to participate in our pilot research study on stress, sleep during pregnancy, and children's early development! See below for more details!
Colleagues . The word you are looking for is colleagues.
@AACAP
many of said colleagues are scheduled to speak at the upcoming meeting and may be reconsidering their role and value in this society. Whoever is running this account needs to stop.
Audience? They truly don’t get it, do they? What about colleagues, other mental health professionals, or clinical scientists? I guess psychiatry simply can’t conceive the idea that psychology is on its same level
In one of the most insanely frustrating days I have had in recent memory (Uni bureaucracy FTW), I received the wonderful news that our study testing if ADHD increases risk for childhood adversity in a sample of Puerto Ricans was published
@TheJCPP
:
Academia is under attack from politicians that care little about education and are willing to bring it all down just to make a (baseless) point. DEI elevates academia and engenders excellence. I am happy to see Dean Armstrong's Strategic Plan rise up to the challenge and
Dr.
@MilennavanDijk
(she/her) will start as an Assistant Professor at Columbia University Aug 2024 & is recruiting new Dijklab members (🌈logo TBA).
Her translational research focuses on neuro, genetic, & environmental mechanisms of resilience to intergenerational depression
a year ago my mom- who happens to be my entire world- was scrambling to get back home while borders and airports closed around her. today she got her second shot and I can't even believe it. like my ballet teacher used to say: llevaba los hombros puestos de pantalla hace un año
Need more time to prepare your
#fitng2023
abstract? You're in luck! The abstract deadline has been extended to✨April 30✨Can't wait to see you September 10-11 in Santa Rosa, CA
11- What is the link between sleep difficulties and the risk for ADHD in offspring? In November we published results from the ECHO cohort in children from the US. Read more here:
Reflecting on this grad recruitment cycle, I see opportunities in science expanding, yet room for improvement remains.
@EinsteinMed
's recent tuition relief set a powerful precedent for uplifting students. Here’s to more institutions paving the way 🌟
Don't need another Harvard paper to know there will be “excess deaths” registered in PR tonight. Privatization, colonialism, and austerity are quite literally killing us.
This is simply insane and unbearable. Puerto Rico constantly suffers from massive and lengthy power outages, most recently while experiencing life-threatening heat (up to 120 degrees). More than 248,000 households are currently without power (~700K people).
Our newest paper was just published in
@JAMAPsych
. Together,
@AngelicaMeinho1
, myself, and our colleagues
@JesseHinde
@epi_kerrykeyes
document increasing rates of cannabis use disorders in prenatal hospitalizations. This is the largest study to date on this topic.
A new study from Columbia and
@WeillCornell
researchers found that
#cannabis
use disorder in hospitalized prenatal patients increased 150% from 2010-18. Published in
@JAMAPsych
The Lugo Lab is super excited for
#SRCD23
presenting posters on prenatal sleep health, inflammation, and offspring outcomes this Thursday (3/23).
See you there!😊
@JinXunGoh
Oh what the heck. I have tenure. It was Cornell (receipt attached). The emails I knew of were also being sent to faculty of color after the applications were originally due (10/01). 🤨
What a pleasure to witness the launch of the 2024
#OneMindAccelerator
! So inspiring to see this cohort leverage innovation and technology to improve the lives of persons living with mental illness. Congratulations to this year’s cohort! 🥳
just fyi, everyone at
@Infantstudies
conference has been wearing masks and as far as i know singing 0 songs. (both highly appreciated) maybe the people that care about little kids really just really care about others, in general?
Under
@DrShuffrey
's guidance (yay for our first time officially collaborating!), we will use this technology to get out of the lab and into our participant's communities. We are SO EXCITED for this study.
@Columbia
@ColumbiaPsych
@ColumbiaFaculty
graciasss. if they don’t have time to consult with psychologists, maybe they shouldn’t be talking about our training. 💁🏽♀️
@AACAP
as someone who is supposed to present in their annual meeting in October I wonder how else my years of training will be misrepresented
A reputable organization posting this without fact checking with actual psychologists? I saw patients the entire 5 years I was in training and this is closer to the norm than the exception. 🤨
3 yrs ago Trump came to a devastated Puerto Rico and threw paper towels at us. I’d wish him the same resources and fighting chance he gave us back then, but they literally left us to die, so that’d be a death sentence.
The text of DeSantis' higher education bill has been released. It's as terrifying as the press release suggested it would be. Florida HB 999 would enact the most draconian and censorious restrictions on higher education in the history of this country.
sometimes you study things in a vacuum, because they’re the right questions to ask. Other times they hit your neighborhood and you become your research. After months of complaints because of violent people around the neighborhood, this is what we get.
quizás podemos bajarle *hoy* al protagonismo y darnos un break para pensar en Ucrania y sus ciudadanos. Habrá otros días para señalar como aquellos que se hacen pasar por mediadores son igual agresores. Pero mano, denle UN día a quienes están siendo literalmente bombardeados.
Are you a healthcare provider who works with perinatal populations? PLEASE complete this 2 min survey, especially you,
#SleepPeeps
. Please share widely!
Trabajas con pacientes perinatales?, por favor llena esta encuesta (toma 2 minutos)! Por favor comparte, queremos saber de ti!
Are you a healthcare provider who works with pregnant people? Take our 10-question survey (<2 mins!) to help us understand how you think about pregnant people's sleep! (There's no compensation you'd just be helping science :D)
PLEASE SHARE WIDELY!
FIT'NG Together is excited to launch our new series: "Elephants in the Room"! A collection of talks about questions we don't have a clear answer or solution yet. We'll start with two talks about sleep and the infant brain 💤 🧠
Join us and register here:
I’m saddened by the passing of my longtime friend Carlos Romero Barceló. I was grateful to serve with and work with him both as Governor and President. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and the people of Puerto Rico.