As scientists, we go to conferences but don’t connect with the local community at all. Thanks to JSDavis, #BlackInNeuro will be hosting a Brain Carnival during SfN at a local Chicago church for the community to meet Black scientists, play games & learn about the brain 🧠✨

‼️Starting to email prospective advisors for #Psychology #PhD programs? Check out our resource guide which includes several tips, tricks, and templates. Erin Kaseda 加世田エリン Jeri Sasser, PhD drive.google.com/drive/folders/… #AcademicChatter Academic Chatter™

Making preparations for ISDP 🦋 @isdp.org.bsky.social meeting next week! The Before and After Baby Lab is heading to Chicago!

Prewired For Depression? Brain Scans Reveal Network Linked to Depression Researchers have identified a unique brain network pattern that may predispose some people to depression. By repeatedly scanning patients’ brains, they found that individuals with larger salience networks

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If you’re heading to #ISDP2024 - check out The Before and After Baby Lab presentations this week! ISDP 🦋 @isdp.org.bsky.social Yale Child Study Center

I am excited to be attending my first conference! Wish me good luck! 😆 #ISDP2024

I love when we can craft during lab meeting! Getting activities ready for our Halloween recruitment events coming up! The Before and After Baby Lab

Whew, what a relief to have one app submitted! I hope the other 10-12 are less daunting now that I got this first one out of the way! 😆

Woke up with the surreal feeling that I’m actually DONE with all my PhD applications. 📣To those applying this cycle: Be proud of yourselves. It takes courage, dedication, and so much hard work to chase the dream of doing meaningful science. You’re doing amazing & keep going!

Did you apply to #psychology PhD programs this cycle? It’s time to prepare for the interview. Check out these sample questions and access additional resources here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/… Academic Chatter™ PsychinOut 🧠 Society of Clinical Psychology (APA Div. 12)

"I began to see my time off not as a failure, but as a necessary pause." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/3ZZBCCS

Thrilled to share our latest work on the importance of considering social identities in brain imaging research, now out in Nature Neuroscience. rdcu.be/d4XWM

"Maybe impostor syndrome wasn’t a sign of failure, but a sign of growth." This week's #ScienceWorkingLife. scim.ag/415zESX

Maternal Inflammation May Disrupt Infant Brain Wiring A new study links maternal inflammation during pregnancy to impaired brain development in infants by disrupting a specific population of immune cells called CD11c-positive microglia. These microglia are essential for

As the application cycle is wrapping up, congrats everyone for getting into their dream program! It was technically an unsuccessful cycle for me, but being waitlisted for my first cycle was honestly already a milestone. You'll see me again next year grad app portals ✌🏼😎

First-time expecting mother? Participate in a research study with $500 compensation! The Before and After Baby Lab (BABL) is studying how the maternal brain changes over pregnancy, the causes of change, and the impact on child development. Interest Form: tinyurl.com/promise-study

A much-needed reminder from therapy: “I am human. I have the space and grace to make mistakes.” ✨

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We are going to lose an entire generation of scientists. NSF, one of the largest federal funder of STEM education has seen an 80% reduction in funding, including support for trainees, so far this year. “You can’t have science without scientists”