In light of recent protests for racial justice, it may be difficult to explain what’s happening to children, especially when you might not fully understand it yourself. One proactive approach to this call to action is to discuss race with children. 1/

I’m passionate about representation in Clinical psychology. Me and my friend created a LinkedIn group for aspiring clinical psychologists of Black, Asian and Mixed heritage. I’d appreciate any retweets 😊- linkedin.com/groups/12423672

Youth Matters Philly has also assembled a comprehensive guide for COVID-19 resources in Philadelphia: docs.google.com/document/d/1M7… 2/

Healthy Minds Philly is an initiative of the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (dbhids.org). Healthy Minds Philly offers a variety of tools and resources to improve the mental health of all Philadelphians. 1/

As the school year approaches, our lab has been thinking more about how we can better support scientific growth in our junior trainees through mentorship. Here are some resources to help you continue brainstorming about this as well! #AcademicChatter 1/

Check out our new work - Environmental influences on the pace of brain development w/ Dani S. Bassett & @ally_mackey in Nature Rev Neurosci! We suggest that childhood SES affects not only the outcome but also pace of brain dev, w/ implications for plasticity. nature.com/articles/s4158…

It was a joy to work on this project with Allysa Warling Armin Raznahan et al. - so glad to see it out!

In our new preprint out in @bioRxiv, we show that variability in fMRI-based proxies of neuroplasticity predicts individual differences in adults' learning! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… @ally_mackey & I are so excited to finally share this rich dataset + some fascinating results! 🧵⬇️

Our paper on children's functional brain network structure is out in NeuroImage! With Dani S. Bassett & @ally_mackey. Lots of great work on functional communities (aka networks) in adults. We wondered – do children's brains show the same patterns? 🧵 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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. pnas.org/content/119/5/… ( 🧵)