Dashiell Sacks

“Leave the lab! Escape the ivory tower!” they said.
Hold our EEGs!

@dreamteamicm.bsky.social is teaming up with Alexia Barrier and The Famous Project, the first all-female crew racing the Trophée Jules Verne!

We’ll track their brain activity across 40 days at sea!

@institutducerveau.bsky.social

CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research The announcement this week that CSIRO are to cut 350 research jobs is another damning indictment on Australia’s ongoing failure to prioritise research and development.

I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint
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Another ~monthly update on the state of the #psychjobs market: more jobs continue to trickle in, though at a decreasing pace. We've nearly hit parity with covid in absolute terms, although the prior year baseline was higher this year than that, so we still see a slightly larger relative decrease.

Neurophysiological sensitivity in early childhood: The aperiodic EEG slope moderates the association between maternal anxiety and child internalizing symptoms https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.01.25339315v1

Early-life neural correlates of behavioral inhibition and anxiety risk - Neuropsychopharmacology Neuropsychopharmacology - Early-life neural correlates of behavioral inhibition and anxiety risk

#ThisWeekInNPP

This 🔄 Review 🔄 highlights behavioral inhibition (BI) & maternal anxiety in infancy as anxiety risk factors; infants w/ BI or maternal stress exposure have altered 🧠 patterns in attention & control systems, predicting anxiety in adolescence

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le...
#autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic

Temperament and Psychopathology: Time-varying associations from infancy to adolescence https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.15.25338125v1

Thanks for clarifying Koraly!

Hi Koraly! Are these Editorial Fellowships open to postdocs to apply to, or do they require an assistant professor or equivalent industry position for eligibility? Thank you!

The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

Postdoctoral Research Scholar, The Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab, College of the Liberal Arts, Department of Psychology-2 APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

My lab has an open post-doc position!

We will begin reviewing applications as they come in.

The post-doc will work with a vibrant research team at Penn State in the Department of Psychology and the Child Study Center.

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It probably doesn't help that people in the states are being actively persecuted based on their social media content. 😔

And why some ... big name ... Aussie academics are still exclusively posting on Twitter/X is totally lost on me.

I wish they'd all come over to Bluesky instead. Having to traverse all the 'LinkedIn style' posts on LinkedIn makes me close it every time. It doesn't feel like there is an 'academic LinkedIn' in the way it feels like there is academic Bluesky.

Are there any openings for Australian early-career academics currently working internationally?

The NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Hub is now available!

•Researchers can explore ABCD & HBCD Study data in one place – with robust query & data analysis tools, documentation, & workflows
•Learn more & apply for data access: www.nbdc-datahub.org

@theabcdstudy.bsky.social

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🚨New paper🚨
EEG aperiodic slope & offset followed nonlinear trajectories from infancy to middle childhood
🧠 Trajectories varied by brain region & sex
🧩 Maternal anxiety showed age-specific associations with slope; direction varied by developmental stage
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Difference Between “Significant” and “Not Significant” is not Itself Statistically Significant It is common to summarize statistical comparisons by declarations of statistical significance or nonsignificance. Here we discuss one problem with such declarations, namely that changes in statisti...

all this talk about changes in p-value magnitude being interpreted as an increase in the "quality of evidence" necessitates that i share this. we all should share and actually read this in fact (for starters).
#stats #metasci

Maternal anxiety and depression influence children's internalizing symptoms through changes in brain activity by age five.

by Sacks DD, Wang Y (...) Bosquet Enlow M et 5 al. in J Child Psychol Psychiatry #MedSky

📖 read the article: https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpp.14129

Trump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalate Many worry about retribution. But for others, speaking out is worth the risk

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Fleshed out this awesome slide to share with my lab too - keen for any feedback on things I might have gotten wrong

If you're willing to walk 10-15 mins, Downtown has many options. SK Coffee and Vitality Roasting seem like great choices!

Join us next Tuesday, April 22nd at 11:00am EST for a free Earth Day panel discussion on Recycling Archival FIT Neuroimaging Data with @dashiellsacks.bsky.social and Dr. Laura Cabral!

Registration is free and open to all at: tinyurl.com/fitngearthday

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🚨New paper🚨 EEG frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA) mediated the association between maternal and child internalizing symptoms. 🧠➡️🧠 Greater maternal anxiety/depression at age 3 → more right relative cortical activation (right FAA) at age 5 → child internalizing symptoms at 7. 📖 doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...

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@academic-chatter.bsky.social #OpenScience

Great advice re how to communicate research's value in this thread.

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