It’s officially official! I’m so grateful to have been awarded an F31 through NIDCD. Huge thanks to all the mentors who have gotten me here (especially co-sponsor @K_L_Humphreys and sponsor Tiffany Woynaroski)! Very excited to have the opportunity to do this work.
People who spend their careers writing NIH grants are the literal opposite of grifters.
It is a soul-sucking, brutal process.
The scientists don’t get rich when they get funded. Their salary doesn’t change.
They do it for science. For patients.
You know, to make 🇺🇸healthy.
It's time to explain a little more about what 'diversity' and DEI initiatives mean in the context of NIH and NSF grants. One of NIH's funding mechanisms is called a 'diversity supplement.' What this means is that if an investigator already has a funded NIH grant (see my earlier
As a med student who had 2 children during med school I'm often asked what kind of support I need, and besides the obvious like childcare, I never had a good answer. This elective at the University of Minnesota is the definition of support, all med schools should take notes.
We had an amazing time yesterday as all of our PhD students presented work in our annual department poster session and enjoyed the annual Dan Ashmead lecture!🧵below!
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Fall 2024 Learning Lab is back by popular demand! Researchers and clinicians in #CSD, #SLP, #AUD, #specialeducation, and #educationalpsychology: Join us for a free learning lab to kickstart or maintain your self-archiving journey. 📅 Save the dates listed below:
I'm reviewing applications for PhD students to start Fall 2025 - if you're interested in integrating naturalistic methods and experimental methods to study how infants learn from their environment, please consider applying/reach out with questions! arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/ps…
🚨New paper! 🚨We’re excited to share our latest work exploring prenatal descriptions of babies and how these perceptions influence future child outcomes. Check it out here: osf.io/preprints/osf/hc7p6@AbbyLBlum12@K_L_Humphreys
Abria and I are very excited to share this important work we’ve been doing to figure out best practices for inclusive fNIRS scanning w/ @RachelRRomeo and the entire @LEADlabUMD team!
Join our webinar with experts from the University of Maryland's LEAD lab discussing best practices for scanning Black participants with diverse hair types. Don't miss out on this opportunity to broaden your perspective on this subject.
Pregnancy may rewire the brain—but does it shape our ability to care for babies? 🧠✨
We wrote a correspondence in @Nature that cautions against embracing this hypothesis. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
w/ @MEDVanderbilt
Grateful and excited to be able to recruit 4 PhD students to join us Fall 25!
More to come, but please reach out if you are thinking about grad school next year! Broad focus is on the use, implementation, and sustainment of evidence-based practices in school contexts #impsci
So grateful for a wonderful time at #ICIS2024 with such incredible mentors and friends (@K_L_Humphreys, @sharbick, lots of others)! If anyone is interested in reading my posters just let me know and I’ll send them along!
I’m so happy to be at #ICIS24 and to be presenting preliminary data from part of my dissertation this afternoon in the first poster session looking @ caregiver stress in infant siblings (with very unexpected results)! Would love to chat with people at poster E-85! @Infantstudies
This is how you implement an inclusive conference for an #AcademicMama - a livestream of the auditorium with an infant play area & toys in front of it. This sends such a powerful message. Great job @Infantstudies#ICIS2024@Momademia
I'm so grateful to have spent the past 2 days at the ASHA Pathways Program! The mentorship (from @JasonChow & many others) was thought-provoking and encouraging in the best ways! @ASHAWeb@ASHAJournals