Candice Odgers

I’m sad to hear the news that the wonderful Jane Goodall is no longer in the world. Her work with chimpanzees at Gombe in Tanzania taught us to look at other apes - and ourselves - differently. I was privileged to meet her later in life and tell her what an inspiration she was to me.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

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They’re going to kill hundreds of thousands of children.

The UVA Clinical Psychology area is hiring! We're looking for someone whose research is at the intersection of youth mental health and digital technology. I love my colleagues and Charlottesville and would love to have you as a colleague!
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The Panic Over Smartphones Doesn’t Help Teens It may only make things worse.

and a gift link to The Atlantic article: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

New figures quantify teenagers’ self harm. Once again, we’re hearing social media is to blame. See if you can spot another reason why teens might be more depressed.

mikemales.substack.com/p/new-figure...

the danger is that adults claim victory and believe they have saved the children, when in reality they have just kicked down an already open door and did nothing to support youth mental health (oh, and by the way, we are in the midst of an adult mental health crisis but keep pointing only at youth)

with phones in backpacks, lockers, or in holders at the back of the room. So the bans are doing little to change access to phones, are costing us lot of money (with these bizarre yonder pouches), time, and resources and are not solving any of the real problems that young people are facing - so...

Not surprisingly I have lots of thoughts on this. But in a nutshell, Yes, we should support teachers and no students should not be on their phones in class (unless they are integrated into the class plan or supporting learning), but, most teachers and schools had already solved this problem...

How to go viral with dire-sounding – but phony – “statistical trends” Those bent on creating anti-internet panics keep rigging their presentations.

Please, I beg everyone panicking about “kids these days” to just display the full scale on the y-axis of their (not so) terrifying charts. Oh wait, maybe that story would not sell 🤔 mikemales.substack.com/p/how-to-go-...

Welcome to the methodical disaster that is the “impacts of tech” on kid’s brains/bodies/ learning/ mental health field where “preliminary findings” or sometimes just vibes are front page headlines

This does not sound like “addiction”, instead it sounds like a child who is turning to online games and communities to distract from or cope with challenges in their life.

But, sadly we can predict the headlines already from this paper..

is not surprising to learn from this study that, for example, young people who repeatedly report that they “play video games so I can forget about my problems” also report experiencing worse mental health.

…yes, AND we have also known that young people with mental health problems often report spending more time gaming and online. Instead of calling them addicted because of it, we should ask what they are searching for and what we can do to help them find what they need.

…yes, AND we have also known that young people with mental health problems often report spending more time gaming and online. Instead of calling them addicted because of it, we should ask what they are searching for and what we can do to help them find what they need.

Jay Bhattacharya’s legacy 😢

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!!

PLAINTIFF'S WIN!!

Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

San Diego is full of dancing and amazing signs and families. Huge diverse coalition has come together for this. So much love and protection energy for our border community is here

Look at downtown LA right now

Protesters carry a banner that says “No Kings!”

A protester holds a mock guillotine.

Chicago #NoKings

Sorry, cancer patients, but we just don't have the money.

We had to prioritize spending tens of millions on a military parade so the president could compensate for his many personal inadequacies.

I'm sure you understand.

I took my daughter in the day after he was confirmed.

‼️ 🚨🔔 WOW. Martin Kulldorff, who RFK Jr picked to be on ACIP, has been making $$$$ testifying against the HPV vaccine (he lost the case in NC). This is a HUGE conflict of interest. ACIP rules BAN being “a paid litigation consultant or expert witness in litigation involving a vaccine manufacturer.”

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

"Japan readies $700m package to lure talent amid US brain drain" asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Jap...

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Help the Humanitarian Research Lab Keep Finding Ukraine’s Abducted Children The Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at Yale helps to locate and bring back Ukraine’s children who have been abducted by Russia. But without additional funding,

Russia has abducted thousands of Ukrainian children, plunging families into every parent's worst nightmare.

Now, Trump funding cuts threaten to close a Yale center that helps identify these children and bring them home.

Please consider donating to help continue this work: sph.yale.edu/give-hrl