Super excited to launch Kindred’s 'Mental Health Toolkit for Young People' kindredminds.org Joumana 🍌 and I created this toolkit to help young people navigate mental health resources. It’s free, reviewed by psychologists and easy to use.

I’m excited to share a new, long-in-the-making, theoretical perspective piece, written with Catherine Hartley in Nature Reviews Psychology. Here, we explore how models of meta-learning may inform our understanding of the developmental process. rdcu.be/dE8nQ 🧵

NEW PAPER: In this brief commentary, Jack Andrews and I reflect on the importance of adolescent social development for (group) school mental health interventions rdcu.be/dFjdp summary below

Excited that our new paper is out in NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience on social media and smartphone use in youth from the ABCD cohort. Using an exposome-wide association study (ExWAS) approach, we identify many factors related to youth mental health Auerbach Lab at Columbia Ran Barzilay

An absolutely astonishing act of persuasion here by the peerless Scott Galloway. Should be viewed by every policy maker - and parent, and citizen. btw, it's also hilarious. go.ted.com/rvxjN

Mechanisms linking social media use to adolescent mental health vulnerability New Review by Amy Orben (Amy Orben), Adrian Meier, Tim Dalgleish (Tim Dalgleish) & Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore) 🚨FREE🚨 to access until May 21 -- download now! go.nature.com/4dwD71i

Thrilled to announce AlphaFold 3 which can predict the structures and interactions of nearly all of life’s molecules with state-of-the-art accuracy including proteins, DNA and RNA. Biology is a complex dynamical system so modeling interactions is crucial blog.google/technology/ai/…

Looking for a postdoc position? Are you interested in: (1) how the brain changes across development in infants and/or pregnant people, or (2) how everyday experiences vary across children and shape development, or (3) transition to parenthood? If yes, message me! I'm hiring!

‘High-Functioning Anxiety Isn’t a Medical Diagnosis. It’s a Hashtag.’ - timely opinion piece featured today in the NY Times by the brilliant Dr Lucy Foulkes! nytimes.com/2024/05/14/opi…

New job alert 📣 I’m hiring a postdoc to work with me on a Wellcome project investigating peer influence/social contagion effects on adolescent mental health Oxford ExpPsychology. Get in touch with any questions. Deadline June 7th! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

What does it actually feel like to have a mental disorder as an adolescent? This is a very impressive co-produced paper that reports the 'inner subjective experience' of a number of disorders /1

PhD position at Leiden University! Come join our team to develop new assessments of adolescents' online risk taking and misinformation beliefs. Advisory team A van Duijvenvoorde and Dr. Neeltje Blankenstein and me. Apply before June 20th! tinyurl.com/52vx7bw3

PAID INTERNSHIPS - please share! Galit.Geulayov and I are excited to offer 3 *fully-funded* NIHR Research 6-8 week summer internships at Oxford Psychiatry Oxford Child & Adolescent Psychiatry for 2nd/3rd year undergraduates. Advert here ➡️ psych.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us (deadline 1st July) #mentalhealth #schools

1/ Beyond thrilled to see this paper out in the world! Here we call for the integration of developmental neuroscience research with community-engaged research approaches to address mental health outcomes for youth experiencing housing insecurity doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.… 🧵

Couldn’t rate this PhD opportunity in mental health with the brilliant and lovely Susanne Schweizer more highly. And it’s in Sydney! Open to int’l candidates too. 🇦🇺

We at ANDL anticipate an open Research Assistant/Lab Manager position starting this summer, contributing to our work on brain and psychological development through adolescence. Official ad coming soon (we will update it on our lab’s News page)!

Our new review paper on understanding #maternalbrain in the context of #mentalload of #motherhood is out now in Nature Mental Health. I'm lucky to work with such an inspiring group of women Dr. Jodi Pawluski, PhD, HDR, PMH-C Clare McCormack and Dr. Pilyoung Kim DU Psychology nature.com/articles/s4422…

⏰ New preprint: Higher friendship quality in adolescent girls is related to greater positive self-judgements and lower negative self-judgements. doi.org/10.31219/osf.i… This preprint has been accepted for publication in Sage Journals Journal of Early Adolescence 🧵🧵

I'll be reviewing PhD apps for admission for Fall 2025 (apply through Developmental)! The fun, hardworking and diverse crew in SAND Lab is doing all kinds of fMRI and behav work on early adversity, inflammation, emotion, adolescence and emerging adulthood. Join us!

Introducing UCLA's NEW 🧠Center for Friendship Research🧠 Science needs to pay more attention to FRIENDSHIP. So, we're doing that! The multi-faculty center will help lead the way in forwarding a science of friendship. Let's be friends!👇 center-for-friendship.com