we did it !! we figured out the role of the corticospinal tract in reading !! okay … maybe still a work in progress … but i’m beyond grateful for the enthusiastic questions and spirited discussions i received and engaged in at SSSR this year !! 🥰📚🧠🤓 #SSSR2026

today’s the day!! 🤓🥰 #SSSR2026

happy SSSR 2026!! 🥰🤓🧠📚 #SSSR2026

headed to SSSR 2026 ?! curious as to the role of the corticospinal tract in reading ?! love brain pictures and raincloud plots ?! do i have the poster for you !! 🤓🤓 come hang - poster #32 on SATURDAY !! #SSSR2026 🤓🧠📚

received my TA course evals today. can’t wait to present these to a faculty search committee one day !! 😂😂😂 #phdlife

thanks for yapping with me !! it was so much fun !! 🥰🤓🧠 #CNS2026

wow what a spot to be assigned !! come grab some breakfast and hang out with me at poster F30 ‘til 10 am PST !! 🥰🤓🧠 #CNS2026

happy cns day 1 !! so excited to be here !! 🧠🇨🇦

happy CNS 2026!! I’m SO excited to share some developmental EF white matter stuff I’ve been pondering recently … especially during during poster session F!! come hang!!🤸🏻‍♀️🤓🧠 #CNS2026 *in a wild turn of events, we’ve replaced all the pretty plots with beautiful diagrams!!😱

almost exactly 4.5 years ago, my phd advisor asked me to write a chapter of a textbook. i thought that was crazy and also immediately said yes. today, i got to hold that textbook !! with that painstakingly written chapter !! in my little hands !! 📘🤲🏼

I guest lecture & TA a fair bit, and absolutely love it. Regardless of level of class (undergrad/grad), I usually get mistaken as a student in the class. This time around, I got mistaken as a professor - “because you look so confident”. …growth.🥹 Here’s to a great semester!

happy halloween from the logan lab girlies at the vandy trick or treat parade 🎃👻 xoxo, Joy from Inside Out

gave my yearly “works in progress” talk in forum today! had an absolute ball! shoutout to everyone at the Vandy Brain Institute for listening to me yap about white matter & reading AGAIN🧠📚✨

happy, happy Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Science Day!! 🧬🧠📚✨ (come hang out with me, poster session 1 / poster 33, to talk about transcranial magnetic stimulation & myelination in adults !! 😱🧠⚡️)

happy Vanderbilt Brain Institute retreat!! 🧠✨

HAPPY FIT’NG !! so excited to be here !! 👶🧠💻 #fitng2025

shoutout to everyone who indeed came to hang. grateful for some fantastic conversations with some phenomenal people that gave me some great ideas!! 🥰🥰🥰 #flux2025

come hang !! F38 right now !! 🥰🧠 #flux2025

HAPPY FLUX DAY 2!! I’m so excited to discuss some ideas I’ve been pondering recently… come chat with me at poster F38 4:30-6:00 today! 🥰🥰 #flux2025

favorite conference, favorite city. could not be more excited to be at @FluxSociety 2025 in DUBLIN, IRELAND🥹🥰☘️✨🇮🇪 #flux2025

immaculate vibes in lab today✨ #phdlife (for better or worse, i am the “you” 😂)

SSSR 2025: ✅ learned a lot, co-chaired a symposium, gave a talk, saw some old friends, made some new friends… and line danced !! yeehaw !! 🤠 can’t wait for next year already🥰 #SSSR2025 🧠📚🤓

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they can hike a mountain (literally. this is at the top of sulphur mountain in the canadian rockies) but can they science?! come find out at Macleod E1 at 10:30 am today - we’re co-chairing a symposium on all things white matter & reading!! 🤓📚🧠 #SSSR2025

its happening!! tomorrow!! eeeep!! i’m co-chairing and giving a talk as part of a symposium at SSSR !! 10:30 am in Macleod E1!! see you there!! 🧠📚 #SSSR2025

achievement unlocked: my symposium talk is on saturday, but today, i was 2nd author on not one but TWO posters across TWO universities!! it is truly just the coolest thing to get to be involved in several reading related research projects with diverse methodologies. #SSSR2025

phenomenal “day 1” (preconference) at SSSR 2025!! made some friends, learned a lot, so excited for tomorrow!! 🤓📚🧠 #SSSR2025

SO excited to have made it to calgary for SSSR 2025 - and for the next few days of science, fun, & friends!! 🤓🧠📚 #SSSR2025

went to a ~fantastic~ seminar (as part of the VUIIS seminar series) on white matter across the lifespan by dr. kurt schilling today !! the MASI lab has created some really neat white matter development charts (a la height/weight growth charts for infants & toddlers) !! 🤩🤩🤩

NERDY ‘25 was the best… it’s not every day that you get to spend your entire day discussing reading research with so many reading research rockstars !! 🤓🧠📚 additionally, i had the opportunity to give my very first official conference talk (!!) & see many friends !! 🥹🥰

happy NERDY ! 🤓🥹🥰🧠📚

i had the absolute best time at CNS 2025 !! i learned so much & made a whole host of new friends !! see you all next year ?! 🥰🧠📚✨ #CNS2025

i’ve been reading dr. marie banich’s work for years, and today at CNS i finally got to hear her talk about it in the context of her career in her “CNS distinguished career contributions award” lecture. it was amazing! 🧠📚✨🤓 #CNS2025

CNS people: come by my poster at #CNS2025 about morphological processing (D121) in the pediatric brain and let’s talk some language in this methods poster session!

one of my favorite parts of every conference is listening to some very established scientist talk about the entire scope of their career, and today’s george miller prize in cognitive neuroscience lecture was certainly no exception.

we !! did !! it !! 🤸🏻‍♀️💃🏻 so, so grateful for the scientists who stopped by, the conversations we had, & the future directions generated 🥰🤓🧠📚 #CNS2025

here we go !! 🤪🧠📚✨ #CNS2025

attending CNS ? want to yap about white matter & executive functioning during development? OMG wow what a coincidence - ME TOO !! see you at poster A77 at 3 pm today 🥰📚🧠✨ #cns2025

cue “shipping up to boston” - see you soon, CNS & NERDY!! 🧠📚✨

proud best friend alert! alisha gave her forum talk today, and it was AMAZING !! 🤩🥳 (also wow what a phenomenal topic!! 🧠📚)

UPDATE: I FINALLY SUBMITTED IT TODAY, YAY (deep sigh of relief)

had a great time at the Vanderbilt University graduate school honors banquet tonight !! 🤓🧠📚✨

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if you thought you saw me sprinting across vandy‘s campus at 12:55 today because the MRI scan i was 500% sure was at 1:30 was actually at 1:00… ~ no you didn’t ~ 🙅🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️(🥲) #phdlife

proud to have stood up for science today !! #StandUpForScience2025

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“am i a real academic now?” achievement unlocked: crushing guilt bc i have a paper review that’s 2 months overdue 🤦‍♀️🙈 (im so sorry @ authors) …..it’ll happen this week!!! for sure this time!!! 😅

YAYAYAYYY!! 🤸🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️ + CNS, that’s like 10 days of fun & science in Boston. I’m so excited!! 🤓🤓🧠🧠📚📚