Congratulations Emilia Cardenas, Ph.D., recipient of a 2026 Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation Child and Adolescent Depression Fellowship for the project, "Maternal Depression, Reward Processing, and Parenting Effects on Child Internalizing Risk." @efcardenas.bsky.social

Great to see The New York Times highlighting postpartum depression in fathers, including research I did with @darbysaxbe.bsky.social at USC: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/w...

Dads Get Postpartum Depression, Too

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For researchers like me looking to ethically integrate AI into our workflow, the folks at Quester (www.quester.tech) are doing it right! open.substack.com/pub/quester3...

Foundations of Academic Inquiry and Scholarly Success

Introducing Quester and the Quester Group

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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.bsky.social

New research institution, same favorite conference! Excited to submit my first @isdp.org abstract using data from the Depression Institute at @ucirvinemedschool.bsky.social . Looking forward to ISDP 2026!

1/6: Two faculty positions at the Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries Delighted to announce that we have two faculty openings for the Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries at UC Irvine. The submission deadline is June 15, 2026.

I'm reviewing abstracts for an upcoming scientific conference, helping the planning team to select which attendees get a chance to present their work. Some are amazingly good. Some suggest that the applicant has not ever been taught how to write an abstract. Here are some basic tips: 🧪

Pregnant or postpartum and wondering about vaccines? Maternal and fetal medicine provider Anna Euser, MD, PhD walks us through which ones are needed and how they work. https://bit.ly/48GO1ja

What Pregnant Women Should Know About Vaccines During Pregnancy

Pregnant or postpartum and wondering about vaccines? Maternal and fetal medicine provider Anna Euser, MD, PhD walks us through which ones are needed and how they work.

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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! (www.quester.xn--tech)-sw3b @darbysaxbe.bsky.social

Duke University is holding virtual office hours for students to get feedback on their psychology PhD applications! Due October 31st! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Virtual Office Hours For Psychology PhD Applicants - Registration Form

To broaden the pool of applicants in psychology PhD programs across the country, Duke University's Department of Psychology & Neuroscience is holding our 6th Annual Virtual Office Hours Program. All a...

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Our paper is finally out @darbysaxbe.bsky.social @genesisflores.bsky.social! Expectant fathers raised in riskier environments show lower white matter integrity in limbic regions and less effective parenting, even controlling for depressive symptoms. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Just got back from ODYSSEE France. I am grateful to have met with Drs. Sutter (Bordeaux), Apter (Rouen), and Pawluski @drjodipawluski.bsky.social (Rennes). 🧵 [1/4]

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ALT: a plane is taking off with the words woo hoo welcome home

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Timing and plasticity are critical to progress in research on stress and neurodevelopment @ariellekeller.bsky.social @jamapediatrics.com @utdallas.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Neurodevelopmental Timing Links Stress and Psychopathology

This Viewpoint discusses the importance of contextualizing stressful experiences and the neurodevelopmental trajectory to predict the risk of psychopathology.

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🧠Out now in @ohbmofficial.bsky.social ! 🧠 We scanned 32 first-time dads (~8 mos postpartum) while they watched videos of their baby, an unfamiliar baby, their romantic partner, and an unfamiliar woman…1/8 doi.org/10.1002/hbm....

My Baby Versus the World: Fathers' Neural Processing of Own‐Infant, Unfamiliar‐Infant, and Romantic Partner Stimuli

First-time fathers processed own-infant stimuli in mentalizing, emotion regulation, and reward processing regions, and posterior midline responses tracked with bonding and parental stress. Whole-brai....

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Applying for graduate studies in psychology and neuroscience can be challenging and confusing. Frequently, applicants have some support from mentors at their home institutions, but sometimes applicants are looking for additional reassurance, feedback, or perspectives on the processes.

Thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded the ODYSSEE France grant to pursue scientific collaborations in France! I’ll be connecting with leaders in perinatal mental health—including the amazing @drjodipawluski.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @franceintheus.bsky.social—can’t wait to get started!

In 2023, a program connecting Utah farmers and ranchers to free therapy vouchers was so successful, the federal money ran out in four months. “I want you to know,” the program director recalled one recipient telling him, “that this saved my life.” With @sltrib.com

Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped.

Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

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Stellar new paper from Tochukwu Nweze "Developmental trajectories of externalizing and internalizing linked to harsh parenting: The role of ethnicity and socioeconomic status" now out in Development and Psychopathology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In the past month 4 trainees in my lab lost: NIH diversity supplement, MARC, & STEP-Up funding. NSF SBE meeting (incl. ECRs) indefinitely postponed. Pipeline cuts disproportionately affect underrepresented scholars. Individual lives & our collective future impacted. #ScienceMatters

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

URGENT: students being told to self-deport because their visas are revoked. For issues as benign as a social media post. I'm disgusted and horrified.

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Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...

Analysis of Terminated NIH Grants with Word Clouds First, using the titles of grants not to Columbia... Gender and DEI predominate

🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies

Excited to share new research in Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience #psynomCABN! Thanks to my bluesky-less co-first author, Maya Jackson, as well as @jgaronb.bsky.social b.bsky.social, @medvanderbilt.bsky.social, @klhumphreys.bsky.social, and the rest of our team! Link: rdcu.be/ed7MM

Successfully passed my dissertation defense ✅ So grateful for the support of my mentors and family! (Ph)Done!

As we watch all mention of diversity actively get scrubbed from the NIH website in real time it's important to know that, we were not taking over anything, we were just trying to exist. - Only 2% of NIH R01 grants are awarded to Black investigators. The goal is total erasure/elimination.