Lily May

child drawing of a figure, with notably large circles around the eyes and a frown

Poppy, age 3: dis is a drawing of your students, Mama

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Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?

Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

pharmacists can prescribe some meds now for short-term coverage!! (I say, as a person who somehow constantly forgets I am running out of things until on my last pill 🤪...)

The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.

Thank you @natureportfolio.bsky.social for making my review of the Anxious Generation open access for parents, policy-makers, and the public. The story told in this book runs counter science and is leading to poor policy decisions that will ultimately fail our kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New paper out today in PNAS 🎉 demonstrating:
1) an association between social disadvantage & child brain function can be observed as early as birth
2) these alterations are brain-wide, but most pronounced in functional networks & subcortex later linked to childhood adversity

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

A social media ban in Australia for children under 16 will be first in the world A social media ban for children under 16 will become first law in the world to levy fines on TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram for allowing youth accounts.

Terrible law.

This kind of ban stigmatizes young peoples’ use of tech and mental health challenges while potentially isolating many children/teens in need from supportive social networks.

Censorship is not a mental health intervention.

www.npr.org/2024/11/28/g...

I've created a Black In Psychology Starter Pack to highlight the excellence of Black psychologists, #psychology trainees, psych organizations, & prospective students. Let me know, if you'd like to be added! 👨🏾‍🏫👩🏾‍🏫🧠

Help me spread the word by reposting 🙏🏽
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#BlackSky #PsychSky #SciSky

chouette designs!

asking for an image of a professor and asking to make it "more professor", a thread.

Please share: @UBCScience is searching for 15 TT faculty in diverse areas of expertise science.ubc.ca/about/careers. Included are 2 positions in Quantitative and Environmental Science as part of a hiring cluster for black faculty; you will join 6 current UBC faculty science.ubc.ca/blackscholars.

One Key to Student Success? Socializing in Class. It’s one of the rare places where people who might have little in common are asked to learn together, and from one another.

"one answer is to focus less on having students prove what they know and more on improving their ability to use that knowledge to do something meaningful, together."

www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

We are happy to share our new commentary on why using language inclusively for transgender people is perfectly appropriate biologically, socially, and scientifically. A 🧵 on the commentary by @andyperfors.bsky.social, @spiantado.bsky.social, & me

People who whine about “grade inflation” are almost always ignorant of the relevant scholarship on learning’s relationship to grades, which is uhhhh tenuous, at most

Women more likely to leave academia due to work place climate than due to work family conflict.

"Agency, dialogue, self-actualization, and social justice are not possible in a hierarchical system that pits teachers against students and encourages competition by ranking students against one another."

I've been slowly reading @jessifer.bsky.social 's "Undoing the Grade" while my big kid is in gymnastics class on the weekend. This quote really hit home today... 🔥🔥🔥

Yikes!! I'd do allergy meds (cetirizine/reactine or loratadine/claritin), plus advil for the swelling!

And make a (non-urgent) doctor's appointment for the future-- allergies tend to get worse with each exposure, so you might want an epipen for next time 😬

(obvs not a dr, just an allergy mom!)

how many different social media platforms do I need to join, before I get over my shyness about actually posting gahhhh???

AWKWARD FIRST POST on this new place, just to get it out of the way so I don't feel the pressure on subsequent posts.