Developmental Scientist (she/her) • Assistant Professor @IUPsychBrain • Research: adolescence, cognition, puberty, positive development, quantitative methods
Ann Arbor, MI
Joined August 2013
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In a commentary for a special issue of the Journal of Research on Adolescence honoring the legacy of John Schulenberg, @Natasha_Chaku & Pam Davis-Kean explore positioning adolescence in the developmental timeline myumi.ch/r8g7b
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Proud PI moment when all my trainees are giving a talk at @SRAdolescence ! Come check out their presentations and say hi! 🎓 #SRAdolescence
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I am hiring a postdoc to start this summer in my lab
@IUPsychBrain, on an NSF-funded project on preschoolers’ flexible attention to magnitudes (intersection of numerical cognition and executive function). Apps can be submitted here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/post…. Please share!
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I am excited to be recruiting new PhD students to Indiana University @IUPsychBrain to study preschool numeracy, math language, executive functioning, spatial skills, beliefs about effort, and more. Prospective students, please reach out if you are interested!
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I am recruiting 1-2 Ph.D. students for Fall 2024 to join our dynamic team @3DYouthResearch and #FordhamADP! Please circulate this flyer to prospective students. We are hosting a virtual information session on Halloween (it will also be recorded). 🎃 Hope to see you there!
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Please join us to discuss “Understanding puberty and its measurement: Ideas for a maturing field” at #ISPNE2023 with Drs. @niamh_mac @Natasha_Chaku and Anne-Lise Goddings! #puberty
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✨BIG NEWS!!✨
SRA-2024 Annual Meeting submissions are now open!
Abstract submission deadline is September 27, 2023.
s-r-a.org/2024-annual-meetin…
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Please share! @fordhampsych is looking for adjunct faculty to teach undergraduate Psychopathology (M/Th 11:30-12:45pm) and/or Law and Psychology (Tu/F 8:30-9:45am) THIS FALL. Wonderful students and colleagues (who will share teaching material)! fordham.edu/academics/depart…
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New pub on moving @HiTOP_system to better represent & apply to underrepresented populations.
We spent the last 1.5 years putting this together so I'm glad to see it out and about now!
'Diversity and the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)', by Rodriguez-Seijas, Li, Balling, Brandes, Bernat, Boness, Forbes, Forbush, Joyner, Krueger, Levin-Aspenson, Michelini, Ro, Rutter, Stanton, Tackett, Waszczuk & Eaton
FREE for 2 weeks: go.nature.com/3PeZnTl
I'm so excited to share the first paper from our 100-day study of adolescents' daily behaviors and cognitions! Find it here (1/3): link.springer.com/article/10…
We first validated a 100-day adapted version of the Stroop-Color-Word task and then looked at associations between inhibitory control and externalizing behaviors. We found that day-to-day fluctuations in inhibitory control were uniquely related to impulsivity. (2/3)
We also emphasize the need for more intensive cognitive assessments which are necessary for assessing heterogeneity and person-specific effects. The task is openly available as well: osf.io/9yabr/!
Natasha Chaku retweeted
New pre-print alert from me and @Marybel08 !
In this paper we discuss how, despite being used as "control/nuisance variables", there is still little discussion in neuro spaces on how it is that we operationalize/contextualize #RaceandEthnicity.
psyarxiv.com/xs8t3
1/16
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To my fellow white parents (and any parent striving to be anti-racist), please read our @ChildFamilyBlog post. Today the #SupremeCourt ban colleges from considering racism in the admissions process. Let's remember that our understanding about race/#racism begins at home. 🧵1/3
Great blog by @LindsayTillHoyt, assoc prof. of psychology, and two @FordhamAlumni on fostering social justice: "White adolescents who are in environments that acknowledge racism and inequities take more actions toward social justice in young adulthood."
childandfamilyblog.com/foste…
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We are guest editing a special issue for @Youth_MDPI to advance discourse on the reciprocal links between healthy development and sociopolitical action, with particular attention to the burdens and benefits of social justice work for youth. Please check it out! (1/2)
📢📢📢Call for papers: Special Issue "Youth Sociopolitical Action: Costs, Benefits, and Supporting Sustainable Sociopolitical Practices", edited by
Dr. Parissa Jahromi Ballard, Dr. Lindsay Till Hoyt and
Dr. Christopher M. Wegemer
mdpi.com/journal/youth/speci…
@kellybarrypsych and I recently published a #registeredreport, looking at hormonal milieus in the #ABCDStudy. doi.org/10.1002/icd.2415. 1/5
Even with a #registeredreport, we still ran into some unforeseen issues when cleaning the hormone data (e.g., boys with estradiol values, freeze time occurring before collection time). We built a decision tree outlining these issues. 4/5
And encourage everyone to check out @hertinglab's open source code and decision tree as well: 10.3389/fendo.2020.549928. 5/5
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📢Open rank faculty positions at the intersection of biological and artificial intelligence at @IndianaUniv
