We need a clear, data-driven definition of what it means to be a first-generation college student. In addition to what’s covered here, I rarely see parents with distance or adult learning included.

I don’t know but mine said brick layer.

Wondering how to navigate the postdoc to tenure process? Set up a lab? You still have 3 days to register and ask all your questions to our panellists: Valentina Borghesani Olga Kepinska @olgakepinska.bsky.social Lucina Uddin Priya Suppiah Elisa Castaldi 👉👉forms.gle/1121XYFfUw1hN7…

📢'The World Is Your Oyster' is for those who are born in global north countries--don't experience visa bureaucracy & emotional burden that non-white global south scholars do. Citizenship is a privilege that we need to recognize in the academe. 1/n nature.com/articles/d4158…

I talk about the differences between mentorship and sponsorship and their impact on academic careers in Times Higher Education

In light of a certain news story this week, I’m looking to interview academic mothers for a piece on the joint pressures of academia and motherhood. Get in touch.

Thanks to everyone who has expressed interest in being interviewed for my piece on academia and motherhood. I am still working through my DMs and emails (I have been overwhelmed in the best possible way) and will be in touch shortly!

For those that missed it, I recently talked about whether you need a Mentor… or a Sponsor. In Times Higher Education

Commandeered a corner at today’s Bay Area Affective Science meeting in Berkeley. We have heart rate reactivity to acoustic startle in autism and heart rate variability contributions to creativity in dyslexia ❣️🧠🌈

Meanwhile, Belinda Zhang has been in Scottsdale sharing data in which we examine the pros and cons of having lots of emotion words at your disposal.

“Academia produces much of the research that guides policy around the needs of parents and children. It is ironic, then, that it appears highly reluctant to put these policies into practice,” writes Eleanor Palser. timeshighereducation.com/opinion/valori… via Times Higher Education

My latest in Times Higher Education. Thank to all the academic mothers who spoke to me for this piece. You’re all heroes…but shouldn’t have to be.

🧵I was interviewed by Times Higher Education on academic motherhood. I discuss my struggles with accommodations as well as my definition of the ideal graduate student based on my research on university corporatization. Thanks Eleanor Palser timeshighereducation.com/opinion/valori…

Can anyone recommend a measure of quality of life/ well-being that has previously been validated in autistic youth?

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

Also greatest number of women in cabinet in history. (UK general population is 51% female and 88% state educated)

Influence is hearing your partner parrot your previously eschewed advice on zoom.

In other news, our new article is published today demonstrates heightened startle responses contribute to anxiety symptoms in #Dyslexia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dy…

"Postdoc positions can be exploitative." My latest story—about a study showing that international postdocs in the U.S. are paid less and received less careeer support and guidance than U.S. citizens. #AcademicChatter #postdocs Science Careers science.org/content/articl…