Anna Zhou

@annamzhou.bsky.social

developmental psychologist studying mechanisms underlying risk for psychopathology within families. passionate about health equity across the perinatal period. mom | asst prof @ uofl | phd @ penn state | tufts alum

We are recruiting new students for our NSF-funded Bridge Program at University of Delaware this year. The positions are fully funded for 2 years and the summer bridging those years. To receive funding applicants must be residents of an NSF EPSCOR jurisdiction. Questions? email me tvickery@udel.edu

Ad for a Bridge Program for post-bac students to gain training in data science, psychology, and neuroscience. Free tuition and a graduate stipend is provided for two academic years (and the summer in between them). Apply by June 6, more info at www.psych.udel.edu/bridge-program
Contact tvickery@udel.edu with questions.

New paper— everyone is collecting intensive longitudinal data but recent review studies report that less than half of studies consider measurement/psychometrics. The paper covers a few foundational psychometric methods for ILD and provides a shiny app to apply them link.springer.com/article/10.3...

A primer on intensive longitudinal psychometrics - Behavior Research Methods

Many intensive longitudinal studies are interested in topics that are not always amenable to direct physical measurement and instead are often theorized as latent constructs (e.g., affect, emotion, mo...

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mlVAR #Rstats 📦 version 0.6.1 is now on CRAN! Major updates include the mlGGM function for multi-level GGM estimation on nested cross-sectional data (e.g., students nested in classrooms) and the inclusion of residuals + predicted values from the mlVAR results. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

mlVAR: Multi-Level Vector Autoregression

Estimates the multi-level vector autoregression model on time-series data. Three network structures are obtained: temporal networks, contemporaneous networks and between-subjects networks.

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Call for submissions! This call invites submissions on innovative community-engaged research in developmental psychobiology for the 2026 ISDP Annual Meeting in New Orleans (11/11–13). More details in the attached flyer, please submit your research abstract and CV by March 17! Reach out with Qs 😊

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I'm looking for a postdoc to work on our NIH-funded R01 which is a longitudinal cohort of adolescents (13-20) doing EMA and passive text sensing! Please apply, especially if you have experience in the analysis OR collection of these data. PLEASE SHARE!! indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

Postdoctoral Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher Study of Affective Disorders’ Classification and Treatment (SADCAT) Lab  Dr. Lorenzo-Lorenzo LuacesDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Blooming...

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Do individual differences in fetal physiology shape later sensitivity to early environments? Excited to share our new paper: interactions between fetal heart rate variability and postnatal parenting stress were associated with toddler externalizing behaviors! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Lower fetal heart rate variability and parenting stress associate with toddler psychopathology risk - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Lower fetal heart rate variability and parenting stress associate with toddler psychopathology risk

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Sad. Risk of maternal death during pregnancy greatly underestimated, study finds, "The new analysis found that the mortality risk from pregnancy (including up to one year postpartum) is 44 to 70 times higher than the mortality risk from abortion" www.brown.edu/news/2026-01...

Risk of maternal death during pregnancy greatly underestimated, study finds

A new study comparing deaths of pregnant people and of those who have an abortion show that risk of death due to pregnancy is three times higher than previously estimated.

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New postdoc position with the LEVANTE project! We're looking for someone with language development / reading knowledge to help work on our international adaptations of language assessments. Please forward to interested candidates

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Excited to share this Annual Review synthesizing 75+ yrs of research (150+ studies) on stress effects--from pregnancy through adolescence--on children’s mental, physical, social, and functional health. This review fills a critical gap & finds pervasive stress effects. www.ucsf.edu/news/2026/01...

Trauma or Toxic? A Deep Dive into the Impact of Stress on Kids’ Health

UCSF researchers found evidence that stress occurring as early as before birth or as late as adolescence can affect multiple conditions in kids, from asthma to mental health to cognitive functioning.

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Smaller subgroups deserve big data attention. Our Center for Panel Survey Sciences presents a case study on oversampling AANHPI respondents showing it can be done, efficiently and effectively. See how AmeriSpeak doubled sample sizes in the 2022 General Social Survey. Read the research below.

Research Brief titled "Using Probability Panels to Enhance AANHPI Representation in Cross-Sectional Surveys" published by NORC at the University of Chicago. The image shows a formatted research summary with various sections including introduction and GSS-AmeriSpeak Case Study. Dated December 2025.Image from a document titled 'Using Probability Panels to Enhance AANHPI Representation in Cross-Sectional Surveys' detailing the methodology and observations of an AAPI population survey conducted in different cities, discussing motivations, challenges, and distribution of participants. Includes charts and bullet points for clarity.Image of a document titled 'Using Probability Panels to Enhance AANHPI Representation in Cross-Sectional Surveys' The document includes a table comparing baseline and effective sample sizes by AANHPI subgroup in the 2022 GSS study, featuring data on various Asian ethnic groups.This image shows a page from a research brief titled, "Using Probability Panels to Enhance AANHPI Representation in Cross-Sectional Surveys". It includes sections for references, acknowledgements, and an author note, formatted in a typical scholarly style with citations and institutional affiliations.