Drs. Jiabin Shen, @sarahmerrill.bsky.social, and I are recruiting students for the Psychology PhD program @ UML for Fall 2026! If you are interested in pediatric health psych, pediatric injury prevention and rehabilitation, or epigenetic research, contact us! Please share! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

Check out what the @reidlab.bsky.social is up to at #SRCD2025

Way to go, @sarahmerrill.bsky.social! 🎧🗣️🎙️💬🔬 bestlives.buzzsprout.com/2432042/epis...

It was so great chatting about the considerations of using cheek swabs in DNA methylation epigenetic research for pediatric health on the Best Lives podcast! www.buzzsprout.com/2432042/epis... #DNA #methylation #epigenetics #pediatric #age

So excited to see your success in this new chapter, Meingold! Congratulations - Purdue is so lucky to have you! 🎉❤️

A very well argued and thought provoking blogpost by @wiringthebrain.bsky.social www.wiringthebrain.com/2025/01/euge...

A strategy to slow/reverse human aging—partial epigenetic reprogramming—has big bets (many $ billions). Here's a simplified graphic + explainer for how it works, along with the many uncertainties and serious risks www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202... @gretchenxreynolds.bsky.social

DNAm aging biomarkers are responsive: Insights from 51 longevity interventional studies in humans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.22.619522v1

Behind every great woman in science, there’s another great woman in science www.nature.com/articles/d41... #iwd #womeninstem #IWD2025

One study simply asked ppl to describe (in single words) love and/or commitment. The diagram below shows that ppl represent the constructs similarly to Kelley's model. Love is therefore NOT a triangle; yet in my class this week almost all students had heard of the triangular theory of love.

Register interest in THE EPIGENETICS Gordon Research Conference Barcelona 10-15 August 2025. A great line up of speakers on the theme: Epigenetic Variation: Mechanisms & Impact Across Systems. ~15 talks to be chosen from submitted abstracts, so upload yours ASAP: www.grc.org/epigenetics-...

In case you needed more evidence that social media may not be the thing we should be obsessing about when it comes to wellbeing…another meta-analysis of experimental data showing no link.

Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/evolutionary...

Wow. Funded NIH studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Now out in Sleep Advances! We are excited about these findings and have new pilot intervention data we hope to share soon on this topic. academic.oup.com/sleepadvance...

New preprint! osf.io/preprints/ps... The age-period-cohort problem is something that many researchers are vaguely aware of. There have been very cool advances in how to reason about it which don't seem to be well-known in psych. So, I've written a primer!

Great analysis of the indirect cost rate announcement by @stuartbuck.bsky.social

I just learned that our @psychscience.bsky.social paper (collab with @sarahmerrill.bsky.social) was featured as APS #5 most downloaded paper in 2024 See the podcast, where they describe A TON of beautiful science, including ours. So honored! www.psychologicalscience.org/news/utc-202...

❗ HUGE important paper for stress and epigenetic science: rdcu.be/d50Ki If you do epigenetic biomarker research, read, listen to, and cite this masterpiece on cell-type proportions. Thank you @sarahmerrill.bsky.social & friends for your service! #Epigenetics #StressScience #Biomarkers

Age is also predicted by histone marks! De Lima Camillo et al. revealed age-linked epigenetic changes beyond DNA methylation. Their open-source models may unlock new aging insights! 🖥️ 🧬 🧪

Excited to share our most recent work in Cell Stem Cell, led by @georgiaplea.bsky.social, characterising determinants of DNA methylation patterning in human trophoblast stem cells! A great collaboration with @vpglab.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/93mchcd2 @loke-ctr.bsky.social @cam-repro.bsky.social

Multimodal analysis of RNA sequencing data powers discovery of complex trait genetics https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54840-8 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/PejLab/Pantry

Another tenure-track position has posted! We seek someone with expertise in clinical intervention research. This position will also support our new Master’s program and our PhD program. jobs.uri.edu/postings/14461 @abctnow.bsky.social @sccap53.bsky.social

DNA Methylation Signature of a Lifestyle-based Resilience Index for Cognitive Health #NeuroDegeneration 🧪🧠 https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-5423573/latest

New preprint: DNA methylation association study of depression www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...