(1/6) We have a new paper out in #eNeuro! How does the brain’s reward processing change across social contexts? We mapped brain activity (cFos) & found that social context reshapes how reward circuits are coordinated🐭🏆 Read more: www.eneuro.org/content/12/1...

Curious if anyone has gotten a DUC for the sandbox approved by your university’s signing officials? We could definitely use some guidance :)

Excited to see these studies (finally) published in Scientific Reports! 🚨 S1: More social media users perceived themselves as addicted than met clinical addiction criteria. S2: Increasing perceived addiction hurt perceived control over use and increased self-blame for overuse. Thread below... 🧵

Tuve el gusto de ser consultada en la elaboración de el informe sobre Redes Sociale y Menores de la Oficina de Ciencia y Tecnología del Congreso de los Diputados (de España). oficinac.es/es/informes-...

Short on time for the full research paper?📑 Introducing SMART Talks, research delivered directly by the experts. Our first episode reveals a major insight: The #1 student #mentalhealth stressor is HOMEWORK, not social media.👀 Research. Practice. Simplified. ⏯️👇Watch below to learn more!

🧠I am excited to announce that our manuscript introducing a new data resource – PennLEAD (Penn Longitudinal Executive functioning in Adolescent Development) – is now available on bioRxiv. Below are some details highlighting our data resource🧵funded by NIMH R01MH113550 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am very excited to share the newest preprint from our lab - led by the wonderful Kimberly Nielsen Molaib. Our new preprint examines the prevalence and quality of in-person and online-only friendships among 6,000+ youth from Peru, Bolivia, and Uruguay. (1/5) osf.io/preprints/ps...

I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠 Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...

I will take students interested in adolescent development and intensive longitudinal data. Something we do: parenting, impulsivity, psychopathology, emotion regulation, peer relationships, modeling stats, all in daily contexts. Multi-timescale data main foci. Very affordable place to live. Plz apply

Teen Brain Bootcamp A free email course on the science of adolescent brain development knowablemagazine.org/teen-brain-b...

I’m in! Please share. This is a small ask where if enough people come together we can fight those who are trying to disrupt a valuable platform

Applying for graduate studies in psychology and neuroscience can be challenging and confusing. Frequently, applicants have some support from mentors at their home institutions, but sometimes applicants are looking for additional reassurance, feedback, or perspectives on the processes.

This project led by @carlygray.bsky.social poses important questions about the environments in which adolescents develop! Such a careful and comprehensive project, made possible by the @theabcdstudy.bsky.social data.

Thank you for the invitation to speak about how brain and psychological development can influence adolescents’ susceptibility to positives and negatives of digital media!

Incredibly proud to be part of Dr. @carlygray.bsky.social’s journey! A truly remarkable researcher and teacher, profoundly committed to understanding and improving the spaces where adolescents develop!

So excited to showcase the research by interACTlab members (@yonatanambrosio.bsky.social, @dannyml.bsky.social, @carlygray.bsky.social and Kimberly Molaib) at SRCD (@srcdorg.bsky.social) this week. Please come and say hi!

Fallacies in the supermarket

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):

La primer entrada de @yonatanambrosio.bsky.social para @neuromexico.bsky.social resumiendo los resultados de un estudio de Common Sense sobre IA generativa y adolescencia neuromexico.org/2024/12/03/q...

Delighted to share @yonatanambrosio.bsky.social ‘s post for @neuromexico.bsky.social on what teens and families think about AI neuromexico.org/2024/12/03/q...

A study on sample diversity in > 5500 psycholinguistic studies "find that representation of Global South researchers & contexts has grown, but this growth is centered in a handful of countries, and Africa and Southeast Asia remain severely underrepresented." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Eleanor Maguire, who died 4 January at age 54, pioneered the famous London taxi-driver study and naturalistic approaches for studying spatial and episodic memory in people. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/memory/remem...

NEW “Handbook of Children and Screens” by @childrenandscreens.bsky.social is out! I co-authored a chapter on Global Perspectives on Youth and the Digital Environment sharing insights on #DigitalMedia and #ChildDevelopment. bit.ly/handbook-of-children-and-screens

Handbook of Children and Screens is out! I co-authored a chapter on Global Perspectives on Youth and the Digital Environment: Learnings from Majority World Countries. Download ➡️bit.ly/handbook-of-children-and-screens @childrenandscreens.bsky.social

How do neurodiverse children and adolescents experience digital spaces? Read Hannah Coulstock’s literature review and advice for parents and carers navigating this new environment. #DigitalYouth #Parenting4DigitalFutue blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4di...

NEW: Where the teens are YouTube 90% TikTok 63% Instagram 61% Snapchat 55% Facebook 32% (down from 71%) WhatsApp 23% X 17% (down from 33%) Reddit 14% Threads 6% report: www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

“outright bans enforced through technological measures of questionable efficacy risk being both invasive and ineffective. They may also increase online risks for young people”

As an international scholar, I’m learning to speak up—accent and all | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Trying to find the Latinx psych folks here… LMK if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/77ZBUCn

A start on who to follow for the science on social media and adolescent mental health! Who else is here? go.bsky.app/2PqckAy

Help me welcom @carlygray.bsky.social to Bluesky. Carly is doing her PhD at the interACTlab working with ABCD data to investigate the association of greenspace, mental health and screen use in youth!

I honestly should have seen this coming, but if you are running surveys with open ended questions be careful! We got some Chat-GPT crafted answers in a recent survey asking about the pros and cons of phones in schools! We now learned how to block copy-pasting into Qualtrics.

"It is as though we give ourselves permission to acknowledge the power of adolescent love in stories, but cannot acknowledge it publicly about ourselves." My article about teenage love now online www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

My first starter pack! Adolescence is all about exploration and learning, right? 😅 For researchers studying #adolescence from all angles (biology, brain, mental/physical/global health, cognitive/social/identity development, YPAR, PYD, education, etc.)! Reply if you want to join! go.bsky.app/HzkrXH8

Enjoy this pack of #Data Ladies to help diversify your feeds a smidge 😉 It is quite bare bones at the moment but I'll continue to curate over the coming days ✨ go.bsky.app/5388qNY

Very interesting paper on computational model of social media likes in adolescence www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I talked to a lot of apple researchers for this story, and do you know who loves their jobs? Apple researchers. They have made the world more delicious! 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/appl...

Developmental Psychology starter pack! I've included people doing child/adolescent research and as well as a few lifespan folks. Please share widely, and let me know if there is anyone who should be added! go.bsky.app/ECJtpXi #DevPsych #DevSci #PsychSciSky

Delighted to share that this paper has been published! We investigated the trajectories of symptoms of anxiety, depression, loneliness and life satisfaction among low-and-middle income Peruvian adolescents during 2 years of remote schooling in the pandemic www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do we have good and bad days for cognitive performance? Our new preprint, led by Michael Aristodemou, set to find out, testing day-to-day stability of working memory (n=4150;t =1,048,576) and nonverbal reasoning performance (n=449;t=454,913) using hierarchical modeling osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thrilled to share this commentary by members of the International Committee of @SRAdolescence. We reflect on the path to our proposal of a Special Issue on the Majority World for JRA as part of a broader need to lower barriers to research and publication for scholars from the MW.

I am delighted to share our rapid systematic review on the impact of COVID 19 on peer relationships in adolescence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Thank you so much to Dr. Ying Xu who presented her cutting edge work on whether conversational AI can help children learn at the UW Psychology's Developmental Seminar. marsal.umich.edu/directory/fa...

I had the chance to talk to Pamela Paul and highlight the digital divides that affect marginalized youth that both reflect and amplify existing inequalities www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/o...

Welcome @kimberlynielsen.bsky.social to this new site! Kimberly is a 1st year PhD student in Developmental Psychology at UW who has just joined interACTlab. Previously she worked at the Family Screenome project at Stanford, where she implemented and managed a longitudinal study on smartphone use!

I am learning more details about the HomeNet study(Kraut et al., 1996 & 1998), one of the earliest studies on the impacts of the internet. Thanks to the Internet Archive I stumbled into a goldmine of websites created by adolescents participants in 1996. web.archive.org/web/19961119...

Welcome @dannyml.bsky.social to this new site! Danny is a PhD student in Child Clinical and Developmental Psychology at UW, and the inaugural student of the interACTlab. She is doing very cool work on adaptive and maladaptive online experiences and youth mental health.

We're hiring a postdoc! In this grant we pit higher-order theories of consciousness against each other in really cool & collaborative ways. We'll get to study perception, imagination & consciousness using fMRI, psychophysics, modeling and machine learning! tiny.cc/subjectivitylab_postdoc

Cool new feature in Zotero: it automatically warns you when a paper in your library has been retracted

I couldn't think of a better first post for this platform. I am over the moon to share that Kate Foster and I were awarded an R01 to investigate the relationship of social media and mental health in adolescence using person-specific and longitudinal modeling. Very excited about the road ahead!