Darby Saxbe
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Professor @USC studying transition to parenthood as a window for neurobiological adaptation & writing Dad Brain, forthcoming from Flatiron Books.
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A RANT. Publishing is the coin of the realm in academia, but peer review is a sodden mess. Would a business delegate its most valued functions to unpaid volunteers? Journals depend on free labor from reviewers. This system sucked before the pandemic & is unsustainable now. 🧵
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This weekend, my lab tried a new experiment: we wrote a paper in one day! Inspired by
@JnfrLTackett
, we blocked out a whole Sunday, & in <8 hours, we cranked out a surprisingly decent full-length draft. Plus, we had fun, ate a lot of snacks, & fit in a Starbucks run. Here's how!
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I've racked up grant rejection after rejection over the last 7 or 8 years. During this time, I had a hard time reading happy funding announcements on twitter. So this is a happy funding announcement but with caveats. 🧵
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Random thoughts 🧵 about the evergreen topic of academia vs industry. In my opinion, Zoom - and the rise of remote work more generally - has made non-academic careers more desirable, and academic careers less desirable.
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I’m on a search committee this year, and we just rejected some amazing candidates for our faculty position. Important PSA: it's not personal. A rejection is (truly!) not a referendum on you or your skills/qualifications. More often than not, the decision comes down to fit. 1/
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Francisca Trigueros, a 24 year custodial worker in my building
@usc
, was recently arrested, suspended w/o pay & subsequently fired over a misunderstanding involving a student's backpack. Trying to understand & advocate in this case has been, to say the least, interesting. 1/n
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And at the same time, we need to get away from the idea that churning out tons of publications is the best metric of productivity. As a field, let’s embrace slow science: fewer papers of higher quality. Let’s not overvalue the results of a system that is so capricious and flawed.
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So we're not supposed to describe applicants as "caring" and "compassionate" because those words are too feminized. Frankly, this is what's wrong with academia! Can we celebrate stereotypically female traits instead? I'd rather mentor a compassionate student than a driven jerk.
This guide on avoiding
#genderbias
in reference writing in
#academia
is one I always return to! Print it out and hang it on your wall! 📌
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The field of psychology has become increasingly female, but men still publish more, hold more grants, are cited more, and are often regarded as more eminent. Our paper took a deep dive into these & other gender disparities and proposed solutions.
New paper out today:
This was a herculean effort by 59 authors to understand the evidence re: the status of women in psych sci and how to move forward to address remaining gender gaps. 1/
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I've been waiting with bated breath for findings from this once-in-a-generation study. This is really exciting evidence that direct cash support to families can affect infants' developing brain activity in measurable ways. Good policy builds brains! 🧠
NEW FINDING: Cash support for low-income families changes their infants' brain activity. The first study from our
#BabysFirstYears
randomized control trial of poverty reduction is out, in
@PNASnews
.
( 🧵)
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I just took myself out for this delicious late lunch at
@SQIRLLA
because I GOT TENURE!
@USCDornsife
hoorah!
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Academia is weird but 3 good things happened this week: my student
@sofia__cardenas
got a killer score on her F31; my hard-working lab manager got into 2 fantastic PhD programs; our dept just hired several brilliant first-gen scholars as new faculty. This is why I stick around.
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But the bigger problem is late capitalism. Academic publishing should not be a profit driven enterprise. Printing presses used to be expensive, but now the barriers to access are lower. It’s time for a rethink: We need better, fairer models for vetting & disseminating knowledge.
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Feeling two things on
#APPIC
Match Day:
✴️Thrilled for our stellar students who matched to top sites
✴️Frustrated that our training model in clinical psychology demands people uproot their lives for an underpaid one-year position that takes tons of time & stress to obtain
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I still love my job and feel incredibly grateful and fortunate to get to do the work I do. But I think we need to recognize that some of the greatest benefits of academic careers now longer look so unique as traditional industry jobs get more flexible & portable.
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In our new
@nytimes
op-ed,
@sofia__cardenas
& I argue that paternity leave supports families and helps shape the fathering brain. Excited to cite some of our favorite researchers, like
@susanna_carmona
@MagdaMartinezG1
@ClaraPretus
@OVilarroya
(cont)
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I repurposed a few unfunded grants into review papers that I'm proud of, too. So the process wasn't all bad...but I'm also left with the feeling that there must be a more efficient & less emotionally draining way to fund scientific research.
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Filling out the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science (
#APCS
) survey and I guess I had a lot to say about the predoctoral clinical internship! Make it postdoc, make it in-house, but we need to mix it up.
@PCSASNews
#psychtwitter
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Do men's brains change across the transition to first-time fatherhood? Write-up of our new study with
@MagdaMartinezGa
@susanna_carmona
@OVilarroya
@BeMotherProject
@neuromaternal
@fam_usc
@uscdornsife
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In the meantime, I'm thrilled to announce that I was just awarded an R01 to follow the 700+ expectant parents
@AlyssaRMorris
and recruited last spring, in the first wave of the pandemic in the U.S. We will be looking prenatal social disconnection and later parent/child health.
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FURTHER THOUGHT: In some ways, academic publishing is analogous to U.S. healthcare-- a profit driven system that really should be public. We see similar fall-out: warped incentives, arbitrary decisions, access issues, and deep burnout and frustration from many participants.
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But in academia, where freedom and flexibility have always been the big perks, these tools have eroded quality of life! Zoom means that meetings can happen any time, even on days that might be set aside for deep work. My email inbox has exploded to unsustainable proportions.
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WE ARE HIRING! Not one but two faculty positions in clinical psychology at USC. For one position, we're specifically looking for a clinical aging, geropsychology, or lifespan focus. The other position is wide open. Pls RT!
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🚨 New fathering brain paper! In a sample of first-time fathers, scanned during their partners' pregnancy & again at six months postpartum, we focused on prenatal-to-postpartum change in the left hippocampus, a seahorse-shaped structure linked to learning + memory. 🧵
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And the biggest irony is that after you get through this publication gauntlet that relies on free labor, your work will be paywalled and inaccessible to many, unless you pay exorbitant open access fees! It’s a Rube Goldberg contraption: unpaid work creates an unaffordable product
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A paper that might have sailed through review a few years ago now gets desk-rejected for lack of reviewers; a turnaround time of a couple months now drags on for two or three times that. This is not only bad for science, but it hurts early career folks trying to build a CV.
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Tons of energy & advocacy has gone towards getting girls interested in STEM, but the counter-push to get boys into HEED (healthcare, early education, and domestic roles) is 🦗🦗. We cannot achieve gender equality until we VALUE CARE and expand horizons for men as well as women.
Hi!
Two years ago,
@tjvalshtein
& I set out to understand why the abysmally low percentage of men in care-oriented work remains virtually unchanged from 1980 onwards
Our grounded theory analysis + data viz shows why this pattern persists & offers ideas for change. Link ⬇️
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I love studies like this: Nine weeks of group-based cognitive behavioral therapy for depressed mothers led to improved emotion regulation in their infants. Take-away: treating perinatal depression boosts the health of both mothers & children.
#cbtworks
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New preprint 🧵! We surveyed >600 pregnant women during spring 2020, the first wave of lockdowns in the U.S. We report strikingly elevated prenatal depression, anxiety, and perceived stress, changes to social connection and prenatal health concerns. 1/5
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And for those still struggling at the grant funding game, I send you all my sympathy and hope you get good news in the future. FIN.
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Personal news: I received a Fulbright to spend fall semester 2019 in Barcelona, where I'll be learning about the parenting brain research conducted by
@susanna_carmona
and Oscar Vilarroya. I'm excited to learn some Catalan, travel around Europe, & meet new friends & collaborators
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What are the solutions? Preprints help get work out faster, but peer review at its best can be constructive and helpful, an important source of quality control. I think journals should pay reviewers, and/or tie journal submission to peer review participation.
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Spread the word: I'm seeking a postdoc for next year (earlier start possible) to help with the 7-year follow-up of our transition to parenthood study. We'll have MRI data from kids + dads so analytic chops are needed. Reach out if interested!
@devpsybio
@fluxDCN
@SANS_news
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I'm VERY excited to announce that I'm writing a book for
@Flatironbooks
! It'll be about the neurobiology of fatherhood & how fatherhood transforms men's lives. Thanks to stellar
@WMEBooks
agents
@alexanderjkane
&
@RossGail
. Reach out if you have dad stories or research to share!
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@DorsaAmir
@tmandalaywala
Fantastic thread! A zillion years I wrote a proposal for a book called Underparenting that is all about this idea that kids do not need to be entertained/ stimulated/ taught at all times and can actually benefit from benign neglect + downtime. Parents don't hear this enough!
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I've seen some criticism of this work lately, with concerns that small or inconclusive findings may get overhyped. Twitter isn't the greatest place for scientific nuance, but I want to offer two reasons why I think this study warrants all the attention it's getting and more.🧵
I've been waiting with bated breath for findings from this once-in-a-generation study. This is really exciting evidence that direct cash support to families can affect infants' developing brain activity in measurable ways. Good policy builds brains! 🧠
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My 12 unfunded proposals and 1 success gives me a hit rate of about 8%, which interestingly is right around the R01 funding rate for NICHD, the institute I most often targeted. Given this, a lottery system would have worked just as well for an investigator like me.
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THREAD. Threats & magical thinking will not reopen schools. What will? MONEY. We have bailed out airlines and private businesses affected by the pandemic. And yet school budgets around the country have been cut. If we want to reopen safely, we need funds for (1/10)
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After striking out with nearly a dozen R01s over the last 7 years, I finally received a Notice of Award on a project that I'm so excited to carry out. But I also feel a bit bittersweet, and an odd sense of survivor's guilt, to have a success after so many rejections.
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🚨 New paper alert, & this is a big one: first results from our international collaboration w/ two samples of first-time fathers from
@susanna_carmona
&
@OVilarroya
's labs in Spain & my lab in California.
@MagdaMartinezG1
examined how men's brains change in the perinatal period🧵
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These tools have also chipped away at one of the other big perks of academia: the buzz that comes from teaching or collaborating in person with students & colleagues. And as higher ed funding has gotten tighter, stipends, salaries, + grant funding follow suit.
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Because peer review is typically anonymous, it becomes not only unpaid but invisible labor, with few incentives to participate. The adjunctification of academia compounds the problem: the system assumes that reviewers can afford to carve out extra time for service.
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NEW PAPER! We found that prenatal resting state connectivity between the medial prefrontal cortex and parietal & occipital regions, measured in expectant fathers during their partners' pregnancy, predicted their postpartum bonding and effective parenting about nine months later.
New paper alert!🚨"Stronger mentalizing network connectivity in expectant fathers predicts postpartum father-infant bonding and parenting behavior" led by twitterless Narcis Marshall and supported by
@darbysaxbe
,
@Jonas_Kaplan
,
@dr_sarahs
, me! [1/11] 🧵
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Millions of kids in the U.S. -including mine- have not seen the inside of a classroom or interacted in person with a teacher since March. This is a generationally unprecedented event with potentially long-term consequences for kids' learning & development. 1/6
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Pleased to report that after $10 worth of ingredients, 10 hours of cooking time (including overnight sourdough starter prep), and a toilsome kitchen clean-up, I have successfully replicated a $4.49 box of Thomas' English Muffins
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I'm seeking a neuro-focused postdoc for next year, funded by my NIH R01. We're adding a 7-year follow-up to examine child & family outcomes within a transition-to-parenthood study that incorporated brain and biobehavioral methods. Help us spread the word!
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Our new paper unpacks the cognitive dimension of housework - mental load - as a unique driver of gender disparity, relationship discord, and depression, stress, and burnout in women. We quantified mental load using
@eve_rodsky
's
#fairplay
system to tease out planning vs execution
New paper🚨! "Cognitive household labor: Gender disparities and consequences for maternal mental health and wellbeing" in
@AWMH_Journal
. Thanks
@darbysaxbe
,
@YWaizman
,
@eve_rodsky
,
@hellosunshine
, and
#FairPlay
for making this possible! [1/6]
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Here's a schematic of the whole project with a major graphic design assist from
@AlyssaRMorris
. I can't wait to get started! I will be looking for a postdoc with MRI chops, probably to start 2022, to help lead the follow-up wave, so reach out if interested in joining our team.
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Announcing a new special issue for Clinical Psychological Science on mental health and the COVID-19 pandemic. Thrilled to be guest editing with
@drrodebaugh
@DrCindyLiu
. Call for submissions below; send us your best work!
@JnfrLTackett
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THIS! We get >500 applications to our small clinical psych Ph.D program, and everyone says they want a research career - but frankly, research can be miserable if you don't love it! There is tremendous need for a mental health workforce + career paths w/ less onerous training 1/2
Please don't lie on your personal statement. Be honest about your research interests & career goals. Do you really want to end up spending 5-6 years in a program that doesn't support your goals?
If you think it's not what they want to hear, you're applying to the wrong place.
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One other thing to add. The (lack of) response from USC as an institution has been disappointing, but the groundswell of faculty, staff, and student support for Francisca has been incredibly heartening. A university is all about its people, & folks here have shown a lot of love.
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My family took a long-delayed spring break trip to visit the inlaws in Florida, and flew home on Saturday, masks on. This morning my kid tested positive for COVID. A guy in our row had his mask partially pulled down & was coughing. Lifting the air travel mask mandate is NOT SMART
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Got my
#CovidVaccine
at Dodger Stadium today! Quick, painless. Very surreal to get poked through the car window while listening to radio coverage of tomorrow's inauguration. Emotional moment: light at the end of a long tunnel.
#notthrowingawaymyshot
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WE ARE HIRING at
@USC
, Part 2! I posted our clinical psychology faculty position a few weeks ago. But we are also hiring in our Brain & Cognitive Sciences area. (& heads-up, another position in social is coming soon!).
@USCDornsife
@USC_Research
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I have a new piece on
@ConversationUS
today with
@maya_rossin
and Diane Goldenberg on the public health and mental health case for family leave. Here's what we're saying (1/n) Paid family leave is an investment in public health, not a handout
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Paid family leave is in danger of being cut entirely from
#BuildBackBetter
. It's a cost-effective policy shown to
--Benefit early child brain development
--Reduce the divorce rate
--Prevent postpartum mental illness
--Decrease childhood illnesses
--Improve educational outcomes
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I am reluctant to say that success pays off, because this process was often painful. I will say that it was helpful to me to reframe the grant-writing process as useful and valuable in its own right, a good opportunity to carefully put together a project idea.
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Proud mentor moment!
@sofia__cardenas
accepting the Sandra Weiner Student Investigator Award and talking about her work on white matter microstructure in fathers at
#isdp2022
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Academia seemed like a unicorn career: stimulating, high-status, but with tons of autonomy and flexibility. And I've loved it for that reason. When my kids were babies, I brought them to campus with me as often as I could. I set my teaching schedule around their daycare hours.
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This article is shocking and illustrates the downsides of scientific incentives that reward innovation/novelty over careful replication. Huge $$ and time cost of chasing shady findings. I got peer reviews back this week on two different papers that included the same feedback: 1/4
Were two separate, major lines of Alzheimer’s research tainted by image fabrication, with far-reaching implications for the field? I take a deep look for
@ScienceMagazine
🧵 1/11
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Understanding interpersonal synchrony - in hormones, brain, behavior, affect - is (in my mind) the next frontier for psych and neuroscience, and key to understanding why social connections are so profound for health
New Neuron opinion piece with
@StolkArjen
on the need to move beyond the isolated brain model. Heartened by the growing community of scientists invested in this push! . Free preprint:
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🧵Excited to share a new FATHERING BRAIN paper, led by the awesome
@sofia__cardenas
for a special issue edited by
@LeeGettler
&
@ELPlearn
. Good parenting may require "mentalizing": the ability to understand another's mind. 👶 can't talk, so we must guess what they need. 1/10
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Yet another SUPER COOL finding in the ever-growing parental brain research literature. This paper finds differences in resting state connectivity of the brain between mothers & non-mothers, with evidence that parenthood tunes the brain to be more flexible, responsive, & efficient
NEW PREPRINT 🥳 here we show circuit-level differences in brain function between new mothers and women who had never been pregnant. A tour de force by
@katharinavoigt
@SidChop
@ThapaTrib
@gary_egan
@SharnaJamadar
@Mon_Bio_Imaging
@ParentalBrain
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You're telling me that we have Democrats in the majority in Congress and the White House and we can't do paid family leave-- a policy with 80% bipartisan voter support, one that every other industrialized country has already figured out??
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To maximize success & minimize anxiety with this approach, I think it's helpful to start by reminding everyone to have fun + let go of imposter syndrome. Here is an intentions-setting document we reviewed together at the start of the day.
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New paper from our lab, led by
@AlyssaRMorris
. We measured plasma oxytocin from fathers after they interacted with their infants during free play. Fathers who showed more “hands-on” proprioceptive play subsequently had higher oxytocin levels. 1/4 $
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The proposed tax bill introduces new taxes on grad student tuition that could destroy higher education in the U.S. Join the national
#GradTaxWalkout
. Students will be walking out on Monday 11/27 10am PST/1pm EST to show what universities look like without grad students. Retweet!
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I just checked my era commons portal on NIH's website and counted 12 unfunded submissions over the years. Most were Not Discussed - a uniquely painful outcome, after spending months putting together a proposal and knowing that reviewers didn't deem it worth talking about.
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This blew up way more than I expected! It's been fun to see people's enthusiasm, but there's also been criticism of the fact that we did this on a weekend. I want to address this head-on, because frankly I agree: we should NOT normalize toxic overwork in academia! Some context:
This weekend, my lab tried a new experiment: we wrote a paper in one day! Inspired by
@JnfrLTackett
, we blocked out a whole Sunday, & in <8 hours, we cranked out a surprisingly decent full-length draft. Plus, we had fun, ate a lot of snacks, & fit in a Starbucks run. Here's how!
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Fabulous
#ISDP2020
talk from
@NatalieHBrito
linking paid maternal leave with infant language and emotional development. Strongest effects for lower-SES moms. Paid leave promotes child & family health-- happy to see this in the spotlight at an academic conference.
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I’m so happy that this paper with
@jimcoan
,
@lane_beckes
and Sarah Stoycos is finally out! It’s well-established that social groups may serve a regulatory function, but we argue in this paper that these regulatory processes may carry costs for groups. 1/
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I do understand that these resources are well-intentioned and designed to counter the very real problem of gender bias. But in the implicit assumption that male-typed traits are the default/ most desirable, they inadvertently reinforce the very biases they are trying to dispel.
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Really important finding linking structural racism with perinatal outcomes: higher rates of preterm births occurred in historically redlined districts, even after controlling for current community & patient-level characteristics via
@JAMANetworkOpen
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My 3rd grader's teacher just spent a full 30 min trying to give a test. EVERY KID has had some kind of tech problem, wrong pin #, wrong ID...She is quietly losing her mind. I want to play the audio in Congress. Teachers are heroes, remote learning is a mess, and schools need $$$
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True story about some dorky dads that is also a thought experiment about guns. 🧵
My husband went to see the Top Gun movie a few days ago with a group of buddies. A few of them got fired up and decided to rent electric scooters for the trip from our northeast LA neighborhood
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I wrote about the surprising evidence that large-scale school-based mental health programs can make teens feel worse, rise of the online therapy 'influencer,' and the importance of more comprehensive + structural solutions to promote youth mental health.
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Get multiple people to read yr materials to catch errors. Show you've done yr homework on the dept. Name specific programs, initiatives, & collaborators that would draw you here. But most of all, know that whatever is going on behind the scenes has nothing to do with your worth!
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In contrast, my stepdad- a poetry professor at a small college - seemed to play a lot of Nintendo baseball and plan complicated, delicious dinners. When I applied to grad school, I was working till 8pm most nights at a dotcom startup. Grad school was a ticket out of the rat race.
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Book rec! I was excited but nervous for
@cconaboy
's new book Mother Brain. I knew she was a thoughful reporter BUT parenting & neuroscience can get easily sentimentalized/hyped & I feared it'd fall into "oxytocin is the cuddle hormone/ milk is magic" territory. No need to worry--
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I'm the dinosaur who pursued an academic career for the work-life balance. I saw peers who pursued high-powered careers in business, law, and medicine working rigid, punishing hours that seemed totally incompatible with family or personal life.
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As I sit here feeling gloomy on day six of COVID quarantine, some thoughts about restoring mental health after the pandemic. 🧵
Mental health flourishes when there is a strong sense of purpose, meaning, and social connection. All three have eroded over the last two years.
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Wasn’t expecting
@elonmusk
to comment on our paper about fatherhood (adaptively!) shrinking the male cortex but he is welcome to come in for a scan
@USCDornsife
any time. In all seriousness, declining worldwide birth rates are a problem and I’m glad he’s doing his personal part
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🚨 NEW DAD BRAIN PAPER ALERT! I am excited about this one! It builds on our interntl collab w/
@MagdaMartinezGa
@susanna_carmona
finding cortical brain volume decrease in men transitioning to fatherhood, but focuses on predictors & outcomes of remodeling in our California dads.🧠
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My department did a brownbag today on navigating the academic job market for clinical psychology Ph.Ds. Here are a few slides on my own path to the tenure track and general career thoughts, which will hopefully be useful to someone!
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As a champion ignorer of my own kids and an enemy of programmed childhood "fun," I wrote a piece for
@NYT
on why underparenting can reduce parental stress and boost kids' resilience. Down with fun, up with boredom!
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Are you pregnant, or is your partner currently pregnant? Our lab hopes to learn about what it's like to expect a child during the COVID-19 pandemic. Please fill out our survey-it should take about 30 min-& enter lottery for a $100 gift card. Please share!
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Breast milk is one of the most fascinating, understudied substances on the planet. Its composition changes across the day and may help program infant circadian biology. But what if babies drink pumped milk that's "mistimed"?
@jHahnHolbrook
and I speculate:
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@kph3k
All of this. I interviewed for faculty positions while breastfeeding a newborn and started as an Assistant Prof with a 1 & 3 year old. It was brutal. So much sleep deprivation and stress.
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I just listened to a
@MommyBrain_Pod
episode on this program of research and it is so cool: when rats are housed in enriched environments (multilevel cages with more space to take breaks from their babies) they produce better quality milk! Translation: moms need time off to CHILL
Very cool, our recent
#eNeuro
paper is being featured as a cover slide on the website! Check out the funky microbiome promo pic. Enriched rats on the left are more diverse than the standard housed on the right. Link to paper here:
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We'll also be following up with our existing lab sample, also recruited in pregnancy, as their babies reach school age. We'll assess child neurodevelopment via imaging + behavior, and re-scan our fathers to measure fathering brain structure and father-child neural synchrony.
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Excited to attend
@SRCDtweets
with
@NestLabUSC
@YWaizman
&
@lizzieaviv
- come see us present on the fathering brain, birth stress + mental health, couples' perinatal division of labor, & face masks + child emotion processing. Talk to me about postdoc opportunities in our lab!
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🚨Job alert! 🚨 We are hiring an Associate Director of Clinical Training for our clinical psychology training program
@USCDornsife
- a great job for a clinical science Ph.D who enjoys teaching, training, and supervision. Please RT!
@PCSASNews
@APA
@ABCTNOW
@SSCP_Tweets
@SCPdiv12
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For traditional careers that are tethered to an office, the rise of email, Slack, zoom, and other remote work options has enabled greater freedom and flexibility, as people can increasingly choose where and when to work in a post-pandemic world.
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This study is truly amazing. Not just a fascinating investigation with important results, but a true (literal) labor of love from a pregnant mom who volunteered her time & her brain to provide these data! 🧠
💥New paper from the lab is out today in
@NatureNeuro
by phenom
@laura_pritschet
!! See LP's great summary below. This paper launches The Maternal Brain Project, an international effort to longitudinally map the brain & proteome across pregnancy, thanks to
@bowers_wbhi
@CZIscience
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Shifting the required predoctoral clinical psych internship to an optional postdoctoral training year would reshape clinical psychology training to be more efficient, more equitable, & dramatically less stressful for students.
@PCSASNews
and
@APA
need to make this happen.
I woke up and immediately chose rage. So…here we go.
Hot take to start off the week.
Psych interns are so egregiously underpaid that it not only wrecks their quality of life & mental health but also (because of that fact) is an active & ongoing risk to the patients they see.
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A few of these rejections were for special NIH mechanisms with different due dates or a limited timeframe...also a uniquely demoralizing experience to get rejected on a proposal that you have carefully crafted to fit a mechanism that is expiring or has only one due date per year.
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I might have to catch up on writing after bedtime, but I could pick my kid up early from preschool and head to the playground. And having flexible summers has been an incredible gift, allowing for long visits to extended family.
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