📣 My lab is looking to hire a full-time RA to coordinate a new NIMH-funded clinical trial! The RA will assist in trial coordination, community advisory board meetings, and collecting EEG, clinical, and behavioral data. Link to position: www.chla.org/careers/jobs...

Had a blast being live on air at KTLA News yesterday to raise awareness for Autism Acceptance Month! Appreciated this platform to highlight such a rich and fantastic community that is important to me personally and professionally, and a chance to spotlight great work we're up to at CHLA 🎉

📣 My lab is looking to hire a postdoc! Applicants with interests in longitudinal data analysis, clinical trials, youth mental health, EEG, and/or mentored research training are welcome to apply! Funding available for up to 2 years. Link to position: careers-chla.icims.com/jobs/55607/f...

Honored to receive funding from the Eagles Autism Foundation! Our project with @santimoralesphd.bsky.social will expand the inclusivity of neuroscience by examining EEG measures of anxiety & depression risk in autistic youth with intellectual disability. www.philadelphiaeagles.com/news/eagles-...

Eagles Autism Foundation contributes $10.8 million to fund 54 research & community projects

Through fundraising efforts associated with the Eagles Autism Foundation, 223 research projects and community grants have now been funded worldwide since 2018.

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🎉 Shoutout to @mengchuanlai.bsky.social and his team for landing an awesome new grant titled, "Recalibrating Autism Measures for Sex and Gender Equity" It's a stellar project on advancing the rigor and inclusivity of autism assessments and I'm excited to partner with them as Co-I. Congrats!

New preprint out! "Feasibility of measuring social and nonsocial reward responsivity in autistic adolescents: An EEG study" Link: osf.io/preprints/ps... First EEG paper from my K23 examining potential neural markers of depression risk in autistic adolescents! More to come!

Excited to join San Francisco NPR KQED live call-in radio show forum this coming Monday 12/15 from 10-11am PST! I’ll be joining colleagues to discuss suicide prevention for the autistic community! Grateful for this platform to highlight the needs of this community. Announcement: lnkd.in/g8hbZzqd

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😮‍💨 The NOA for Year 4 of my K23 award came in today from the NIMH! Two more years to go and I'm feeling grateful to continue our work!

My lab and I will be hosting a booth this weekend at the @autismspeaks.org Empower Walk & 5K run at UCLA to connect with local families and share about our research studies! We're recruiting autistic youth with and without intellectual disability for various studies, so we hope to see you there!

In honor of Suicide Prevention month, colleagues and I partnered with @afspnational.bsky.social to create an Autism and Suicide webpage: afsp.org/autism-and-s... Proud of this team and hopeful this webpage can be a helpful resource for autistic people and their families!

Autism and Suicide

Autism is a neurodevelopmental condition. This means it relates to how a person’s brain develops and functions, influencing communication, social interaction, behavior, and sensory processing from ear...

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🆘 Measurement help needed I'm looking for a parent/self-report measure to quantify behavioral crisis events (e.g., suicide, aggression, etc.) in youth. Any suggestions?

🆘 'Tis the season of prepping RPPR docs, Loan Repayment renewal application, and multiple IRB submissions....

🆘 Autistic adolescents & young adults needed for a new study! We aim to study the experiences of autistic & gender diverse young people through online surveys and interviews. Study flyer below and link to register! Link: udenver.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please RT to spread the word!

📣 Autistic adult volunteers needed for a brief online anonymous research study! This dissertation project is led by a new doctoral student in our lab this year, Lauren Bacchus, and she's hoping to recruit participants! Flyer below with info and reposts appreciated!

🎉👏My NIH Loan Repayment award was renewed today! Breathing a sigh of relief. Really grateful for this program and its incredible help in covering my loans! Highly recommend applying for this award and I’m happy to chat with anyone who has questions.

Sharing fun updates from my K23 study on mental health in autistic teens! Recently, we started one-year follow-up visits & created this infographic for our families. We're still recruiting teens (14-17 y.o.) with confirmed or suspected autism in Los Angeles! Call/text 323-207-5910 if interested!

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

🎉 New paper! The protocol for my K23 study on reward responsivity, depression, & broader mental health in autistic teens is published! An ongoing 5-yr project with some talented collaborators at USC, CHLA, and Vanderbilt. Stay tuned for more to come from this project! Link to paper: rdcu.be/epC81

Question for CBT providers and/or researchers: Do you have a brief, free, and publicly available measure of clinicians' knowledge of CBT? I'm looking for a quick way to gauge a clinician's knowledge of standard CBT for some of our ongoing work. Thank you!

My lab received a new grant from the Southern California Center for Latino Health! 🎉 "Community-guided depression & anxiety treatment for Latino youth with intellectual & developmental disabilities" With our community partners, we will adapt a treatment for Latino youth with IDD. More to come!

Headed to Boston in November 2025 for the International Academy for Suicide Research! Excited for our symposium, "Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in Autism: Contributors to Risk and Use of Crisis Services" & presenting with @pittreaact.bsky.social & others! suicide-research.org/iasr-afsp-in...

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OCTOBER 15-18, 2023 • BARCELONA, SPAIN We hope you will make plans to join us for the 2023 International Summit […]

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I’m sharing some of our work with autistic teens at #INSAR20205 today from 12:30-1:30pm! 418.047 - Disclosure of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors and Self-Harm in Autistic Adolescents from Adolescent and Parent Perspectives: A Mixed-Methods Investigation Swing by and say hello! 👋

Looking forward to presenting tomorrow as a panelist at the INSAR 2025 Community Conference! “Taking Care of Each Other – Creating Systems of Care” tomorrow from 12-4:30pm at the Seattle Convention Center! Open to all! Link to event: ihdd.org/2025/03/24/i...

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The International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) will be hosting a free community conference on April 30, 2025...

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Looking forward to attending and presenting at #INSAR2025 in Seattle this week! Happy to be with fellow autism researchers amidst an incredibly challenging time in science and autism research in the U.S.

Join our #SRS25 symposium tmrw 2 PM EST: "Leveraging Qualitative Methods to Advance Suicide Prevention in Under-Researched Communities" + featuring some work I'm honored to collaborate on! @suicideresearchsym.bsky.social @kathrynfox.bsky.social @drjessicaphd.bsky.social @kirstyclarkphd.bsky.social

Autistic people are not a disease. They never have been. Autistic people have fundamentally shaped our world...an incredibly net positive community. To condemn the existence of any autistic person is unacceptable. Autism is an inherent part of our culture and history, and it always will be.

At the Gatlinburg Conference all week in San Diego! ☀️ I'm excited to connect with colleagues, attend my husband's panels, and support several of my lab members in presenting their research!

It's autism acceptance month! Autistic people have fundamentally improved my life both personally and professionally in countless ways. I'm so grateful to work with, have friends, and connect with family in this community!

🚨New paper out! "Elevated Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Autistic Youth and Adults: A Multinational Study" in the journal Autism in Adulthood Link below to the paper and a brief 🧵of findings! Link to paper: www.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Elevated Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Autistic Youth and Adults: A Multinational Study | Autism in Adulthood

Background: Autistic people are at significant risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI). We examined STB and NSSI in different age-groups, considering sex- an...

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🌟Recruiting for study! We aim to study the experiences of autistic & gender diverse teens! We hope to recruit 50 teens to take an online survey, with some participants invited to interview. Study flyer below! Please RT to spread the word! #Autism #Neurodiversity #MentalHealth