NIH T32 postdoc fellow, family depression, UCI Psychiatry, Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries. 🇲🇽 🇺🇸https://teapaw.org/t.co/lwuUVxcmYw
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New paper w/ @darbysaxbe & @gendflores! First-time expectant fathers who report being raised in a riskier family environment show lower white matter integrity in limbic regions and lower effective parenting, even when controlling for depressive symptoms. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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🚨 new article alert! 🚨 Led by Julia Felton, we targeted parents' delayed discounting and consideration of future consequences when parenting their children age 5-10. Peer parents implemented the intervention with lower resource parents. #umdadhd tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Great to see The New York Times highlighting postpartum depression in fathers, including research I did with @darbysaxbe at USC: nytimes.com/2026/06/19/well/…
For researchers like me looking to ethically integrate AI into our workflow, the folks at Quester (quester.tech) are doing it right!
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Excited to share that I’ve been awarded the UCI ICTS T32 training fellowship! Grateful for the opportunity to continue growing my research and to the mentors and collaborators who made this possible. @UCIrvine
New research institution, same favorite conference! Excited to submit my first @devpsybio abstract using data from the Depression Institute at @UCIrvine. Looking forward to ISDP 2026!
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1/6: Two faculty positions at the Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries
Delighted to announce two faculty openings for the Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries at UC Irvine. The submission deadline is June 15, 2026.
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Fatherhood can transform men’s brains and hormones, just as motherhood can us.macmillan.com/books/97812…
At #ISDP2025! 🧠 Catch my poster (P2.47) on sleep + cingulum white matter in first-time fathers.
Thanks to Quester for helping me get this poster organized! (quester.tech)
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Headed to @devpsybio next month?? Check out all the amazing events that our DEI committee has to offer! Make sure to save this image to help plan your conference.
#ISDP2025
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New paper in Nature Mental Health where we show that macroeconomic inequality is associated with brain structure and function over and above individual SES and other state-level factors. These alterations may serve as pathways to mental health problems.
nature.com/articles/s44220-0…
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Our latest @RuvvyLab newsletter is coming to you in English AND Spanish to celebrate National Hispanic American Heritage Month! We celebrate Hispanic and Latine scientists as well as provide mental health and immigration resources in Spanish. #NHAHM
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Are you applying to a PhD in Clinical or Counseling Psychology? Here is a list of mentors who are taking students. Please circulate widely so all applicants can benefit 🤓.
And if you are a PI recruiting students, please don't forget to add your name!
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📢 I'll be recruiting a PhD student in Developmental Psychology for 2026 at UNC Chapel Hill! Student will be co-mentored with Dr. Eva Telzer at the Winston Center. Interests in naturalistic fMRI/fNIRS, developmental affective neuro, and behavioral addictions would be great fits.
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Our paper is finally out there, waiting to be cited! @CathHDemers
More sleep problems during pregnancy predict neonatal uncinate fasciculus white matter, and higher infant negative emotionality!
ABOVE & BEYOND maternal depression, anxiety, etc.
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Times published parent stress levels are at new high (nytimes.com/2024/09/14/upsho…) We published on paid leave and parent mental health 3 years ago (link.springer.com/article/10…). How many studies/op-eds until our government makes systemic change? Maybe paid leave should be a right?
Hot off the press! Excited for this new paper to be off my desk and out in the world. Thank you @darbysaxbe, @YWaizman and my other co-authors for their support on this paper. Sneak peek below... (1/3) sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
We performed diffusion-weighted imaging at prenatal and postpartum to identify differences in white matter as indexed by fractional anisotropy (FA) in a sample of first-time fathers. (2/3)