Dr. Laura Stroud PhD

Early Life Stress Effects on Children's Biology, Behavior, and Health: Evidence, Mediators, Moderators, and Solutions This review synthesizes and critiques research on early life adversity and stress effects on multidomain health outcomes in child samples to fill a gap in the literature that has largely focused on ad...

Early Life Stress Effects on Children's Biology, Behavior, and Health: Evidence, Mediators, Moderators, and Solutions - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

An alternative framework for nonexperimental cross-sectional mediation studies: Associational variable analysis.
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Implementation of perinatal mental health screening for parents of infants in a level IV neonatal intensive care unit: A quality improvement initiative - Journal of Perinatology Journal of Perinatology - Implementation of perinatal mental health screening for parents of infants in a level IV neonatal intensive care unit: A quality improvement initiative

New research in Nature finds perinatal mental health screening in NICU's helps identify parents who need mental health support.

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Our Health ROI Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.

www.ourhealthroi.com

🧵🧪”Paying taxes can feel like money lost. In truth, it is money shared. When we fund the NIH, we are betting on ourselves and on one another. We are saying that every American life is worth saving, whether that life sits next door or across the country.”

a woman is crying and the words okay thank you are below her ALT: a woman is crying and the words okay thank you are below her

That moment in the midst of the current surreality when your long-time mentee gets a perfect 10 on her R01.... 💛💛

Our first Science Homecoming article for Mississippi 🚢 🍾

2025 Brown Postdoctoral Excellence Awards

Just celebrated the brilliant @debyee.bsky.social for receiving the prestigious Brown postdoctoral excellence award for community service!

Love how you have fostered such a positive & kind community that benefits so many! Grateful to work with you!

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Celebrating the rich contributions postdocs make to academic life at Brown.

US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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How has Science Impacted your Life? Why do you personally stand up for science? Is it because a life-changing discovery sparked your passion, or perhaps because you’ve seen how science can directly improve the lives of people in your co...

#standupforscience2025!

Do you have a story to share on how science, funding, and federal institutions impact people in your region?

Democratic representatives in congress are asking for your stories!

Please fill out this form to share!

@standupforscience.bsky.social @sufsseattle.bsky.social

Commentary: Federal science funding fuels education, STEM careers A science museum curator who grew up in Orlando talks about how federal science funding fueled her own life journey and so many others.

Entomologist Megan Barkdull curates a world-class insect collection but she got her start through federally-funded science programs — like those that teach Florida’s kids about wildlife from the Everglades 🐊 to the coasts. Now, that funding is at risk. 🧪🏠

@meganbarkdull.bsky.social

Oops @debyee.bsky.social !!

Fantastic opinion piece on the importance of #fundingforscience and particularly how cuts will hurt the next generation….by the brilliant @debyeend.bsky.social.

‘Silence is complicity’ — universities must fight the anti-DEI crackdown Higher-education establishments must not be bullied into abandoning their mission of diversity, equity and inclusion.

DEI is under attack, but the stakes are higher than many realize. Universities *must stand firm* in defending it. I lay out why in my latest piece for Nature.

Silence is complicity. Without DEI, we fail our students, our research, and our future.

www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Judge issues preliminary injunction blocking Trump cuts to NIH research overhead payments A federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from slashing NIH payments for research overhead

Preliminary injunction in nationwide indirect cost rate case.

This means that the judge found that the plaintiffs (AAMC, et al.) are likely to win on the merits when the ruling is finalized.

www.statnews.com/2025/03/05/n...

Robyn St. Laurent: Why science funding matters more than you think Cutting funding to NIH and and NSF does more than take away career paths for our upcoming generations; it threatens the well-being of people.

From Newmarket, NH, 🫎 to Stanford, neuroscientist Robyn St. Laurent researches OCD & addiction to develop new treatments. ‘The opportunities I had shouldn’t be the exception; they should be the foundation for the next generation.’ 🧪🏠
@robynstlaurent.bsky.social
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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

Reporting by Science Magazine:

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research

Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

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The NIH is Being Slashed and Burned, not “Reformed” A strong and well-argued rebuttal to NIH criticism

This rebuttal to Vinay Prasad’s point-of-view in Sensible Medicine has food for thought given the pace, nature, scope of cuts and impact on extramural science community throughout the US

The NIH is Being Slashed and Burned, not “Reformed”

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Trump NIH funding cuts, policies threaten Pitt research A Trump administration decision to cap indirect cost rates in science and health grants, plus federal staff cuts, has Pitt researchers wondering if they can continue.

Good reporting out about Pittsburgh and the potential effects of indirect cost cuts.

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Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘A gut punch:’ How U.S. neuroscience trainees are grappling with diversity-based funding flux Ten trainees spoke with The Transmitter about how the precarious state of U.S. federal funding is affecting their research and career plans.

Programs focused on increasing the diversity of the scientific workforce are imperiled. Ten trainees funded by these programs spoke with The Transmitter about what the uncertainty of the past few weeks has meant for them, their research and their futures.

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/a-gu...

Studies show that funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) contributed to 354 of 356 drugs (99.4%) approved by the FDA from 2010 to 2019. Recklessly slashing NIH funding will mean that patients will be waiting much longer for life-saving treatments.

The Erasing of American Science How far can the Trump administration bend U.S. research before it breaks?

How long until American research breaks?

I have thoughts, as shared with @katiewuwrites.bsky.social in her outstanding piece.

And I also know there is a blueprint for how we will rebuild (albeit slowly, sadly, after too much lost time & too many lost lives).

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

THIS IS A MUST-READ PIECE. Please share, off Bluesky as well as on it.

Most people *do not understand* how harmful these short-sighted cuts are going to be - for our economic as well as our physical health. 🧪🛟🩺

I’m an NIH-funded researcher, drowning in uncertainty “I’ll keep doing what I can to move my research forward. But I, and so many others, can’t do this indefinitely,” this assistant professor writes

In my latest article for @science.org, I reflect on the current challenges faced by early-career researchers, including delays in grant reviews, uncertainty around NIH funding freezes and changes, and the critical need for continued support and advocacy.
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Federal judge extends restraining order on Trump administration's cap on NIH indirect costs Judge Angel Kelley kept in place an order blocking the Trump administration from implementing a 15% cap on NIH indirect cost payments

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This is what leadership looks like

Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.


https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

Developmental Plasticity in Early Human Development: Infancy Click on the title to browse this issue

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