I also decided to lean into my style and dyed my hair orange (my daughter’s inspiration).

This year, I have grown my lab and found my groove in terms of mentoring. I’m so proud of what I (and we) have accomplished so far and will continue to do.

I need to use this platform more often. Alas, I’m here. I’ve been soaking up all the fun fall moments in this final year before going up for tenure.

I’m training a PhD student who is so great to work with. I get random messages about how excited they are to see my publications using intersectionality. 🥲

A new NBER working paper by @jscottclayton.bsky.social and colleagues shows that about two-thirds of the unexplained gap in post-college earnings by family income may be due to challenges in finding that first job. Family connections and resources matter.

(2) An Assistant/Associate Professor specializing in population health unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Thanks to an initiative led by Duke Health emergency medicine physicians, EMS teams in Wake & Durham counties now offer buprenorphine in the field turning overdose response into a gateway to recovery. 🔗 Read more: https://medschool.duke.edu/stories/opioid-addiction-treatment-delivered-front-lines

Does anyone here know about the Aging with Pride study and if they’re still collecting data and/or granting access to their data?

I wanna signal boost this - I am looking to recruit a prospective PhD student to join my Stress and Health Equity lab at the University of Delaware in HDFS. My research concerns biopsychosocial mechanisms of health across the life course with an emphasis on stress and coping.

Interested in applying to graduate programs or research positions in psychology? Want more information and feedback on your submission materials? Then Harvard’s Prospective Ph.D. & RA Event in Psychology (PPREP) Is for you!! psychology.fas.harvard.edu/pprep More info in the link!! Please retweet!

I am excited to share that I’m looking to recruit a PhD student to join my Stress and Health Equity lab in Fall 2026. We are located in the HDFS department at the beautiful University of Delaware. Feel free to share! ☺️

Faculty position announcement! Assistant/Associate Professor in Human Development and Family Science and Center for Developmental Science at the University of Georgia @universityofga Find me @FluxSociety #Flux2025 meeting to talk and learn more!! www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/448...

Today is such a big day for my lab! Two of my students are presenting findings from their summer projects at the UD Undergraduate Research Symposium!

As Alzheimer’s disease & related dementias become more common, understanding risk factors is crucial. Research using the Health & Retirement Study finds food insecurity (affecting 13% of participants) negatively impacts executive functioning myumi.ch/R3dZ5 @umisrcps.bsky.social @umisr.bsky.social

How’s everyone doing? I am tending to some areas that I had to get stitches on and also searching for my chemical romance tickets that are less than $200. I’m also still so happy from seeing my favs The Dollyrots on Friday with my kiddo!

Twyla wants you to have a great Friday. She says you can do this!

And because I can only (1) never post at all or (2) post multiple times consecutively…look at this sticker I got for my car at a punk rock flea market. I couldn’t not get it.

Kids are great. Even when they assume that movies were only in black and white when you were a kid.

From the administration that erased trans people from Stonewall's history:

I grew up hearing relatives describe feeling brushed off in clinics and spoken to like their concerns were a nuisance. Those stories pushed me toward a PhD in Population Health Sciences and my 1st project on discrimination in healthcare. @journalgim.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

‼️🚨 postdoc position 🚨‼️ I am looking for a postdoc in psychoneuroimmunology - come join our group to work on sickness behavior in humans 🤒🦠 at Karolinska Institutet @ki.se !! ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... deadline July 31st @pnirs.bsky.social #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #interoception

I know I have great collaborators when I’m excited to set up recurring meetings with them and counting down till we meet. @jeffstokes.bsky.social 🥲 I cherish our friendship and working together. Sorry I hid from you that time at GSA so u didn’t have to be social with a new person.

🧪 Attention those with terminated grants, including for NSF, NASA, EPA, NIH, etc: Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela... Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).

I’m recovering from another surgery and have fallen into the labubu craze. I love them and want some of the energy ones and the pumpkin one.

A rare and honest statement from @alzassociation.bsky.social about the dangerous myths being perpetuated by RDK Jr about Alzheimer’s disease and our incredible research and progress. Please read. www.alz.org/news/2025/ke...

My glasses are breaking and @warbyparker.bsky.social is not being as helpful about it as I’d hope. Who’d yall recommend that’s got great selection, high quality, and not overly expensive?

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

I had a very big adhd moment at work where I spent an obnoxious amount of time looking up the history of the mullet

Can confirm

Ironically I learned about and tasted malort last weekend

Alarming new study in JAMA modeling measles in the US: If we stay at CURRENT vaccination rates, measles will become endemic again over roughly 20 years. If rates drop by even 10 percent (and they're sliding), there would be 11 MILLION cases over the next 25 years. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

And just like that, the RCMAR grant was terminated.

You all deserve Ruby on your feed this morning 🌈

I decided to change up the hair this spring break 🔮

The field of gender and sexual minority (LGBTQ) health is being erased. Hundreds of ongoing NIH grants being immediately terminated. Deb Umberson and my decade long longitudinal study on marriage and health joined the termination list last night.

Anyone have ideas for a fun in-class activity to reinforce course material on marriage and cohabitation? Ruby for tax

New paper alert 🚨 in The Gerontologist! This was a paper with @jeffstokes.bsky.social where I got to extend my line of research in some interesting ways - by studying married dyads and focusing on loneliness doi.org/10.1093/gero...

Woohoo!!!

My favorite thing is to see a dog unexpectedly. Even better when it’s a giant dog. Anyone else still call these dogs “Beethoven”? I texted my partner after seeing this beauty and said “I saw a Beethoven!!!”

Trying to do my 1st graders math is the worst 🥴

Q (my toddler) is such a vibe. Today a security guard at Target said “have a good day!” on the way out of the store and he replied “no thanks”

Toddlers are hysterical. Mine (Q) is 3 and instead of just screeching when he’s annoyed or doesn’t like/want something, he says “no thanks.” After putting him to bed, I hear him getting his toys set up and a “no thanks” to something in there 😆

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

Directory of free, open psychological datasets docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

Everyone, we need to make sure we contact our senators!

What the NSF is doing this week is damaging *generations* of scientific researchers and American investments in science. Billions of US tax payer dollars in investment, being thrown away, because of a fucking fishing expedition that is intended to terrorize and set the stage for a real witch hunt.

If anyone here needs Girl Scout cookies, my kiddo is selling some *and* they can be shipped 💁🏻‍♀️🌈💯🤯

Early career scholars: Consider @pop.psu.edu's External Scholar program. Prepare a NICHD grant over 4 days of intensive grant-writing training, networking, and mentorship at the start of the first year of the program, May 13-16, 2025. Apply: pop.psu.edu/resources/si...

Just called my senators and representative to oppose the federal funding freeze. If you want help deciding what to say my colleagues created this template - customized for Tennessee concerns about research grants but easily modifiable for other states and issues. 1/ docs.google.com/document/d/1...