Alexis Brieant

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Neuroimaging insights into adolescent depression risk and development Nature Mental Health - Adolescence marks a critical period for the onset of depression, yet the neurobiological mechanisms remain unclear. Here the authors review literature linking adolescent...

Our paper - Neuroimaging Insights into Adolescent Depression and Development - is now out in Nature Mental Health! 🧠 Huge thanks to my wonderful co-authors @yaratoenders.bsky.social and @cktamnes.bsky.social. I loved bringing these ideas together with you! rdcu.be/eugUM

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

GitHub - dani-beck/brain-age-prediction: Brain age prediction code for training and testing using the ABCD Study release 5.1 data. Brain age prediction code for training and testing using the ABCD Study release 5.1 data. - dani-beck/brain-age-prediction

🚨Publicly available brain-age prediction code🚨

I have adapted my code used in a recently published paper (doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...) and decided to share on GitHub for any that would like to use it.

#ABCD #neurodevelopment

A new paper coming out of our lab uses six years of longitudinal data to examine links between the chronicity and timing of maltreatment and risk-related functional connectivity across adolescence. Read it here! (Open-access in DCN)
doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...

Want your NIH and NSF program officers and division directors to be fired and turned into political appointees?

Deadline extended: 3 days left! Already 33,000+ public comments

Comments can tank a proposed rule in court.

📣 Oppose the rule with a brief comment: shorturl.at/WKuBj

Look at these cuts that will devastate med/behavioral health research, severely limit mental health services, & end educational programming.
YOU help STOP these cuts by flooding Congress using the link below.
This is for ANYONE to do, so please spread the word!!
www.votervoice.net/APAAdvocacy/...

CAMH 2025 Special Issue - ‘Physical Environmental Influences on the Psychosocial Outcomes of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults’ The Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) Journal are delighted to announce the CAMH 2025 Special Issue on ‘Physical Environmental Influences on the Psychosocial Outcomes of Children, Adolescents,...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) have an Open Access Special Issue ‘Physical Environmental Influences on the Psychosocial Outcomes of Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults’, edited by Keri Wong, Efstathios Papachristou, Marta Francesconi, and Tycho Dekkers.

www.acamh.org/blog/camh-20...

NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment Nature Human Behaviour - NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment

Joint w/@asinclair.bsky.social and the #SCIMaP team: brief correspondence in @nathumbehav.nature.com on the impact of NIH indirect cost cuts on the economy and employment, impacts that will only worsen given similar proposals for NSF/DOE + overall science proposal.

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Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades (Gift Article) The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

Outstanding presentation of the devastating cuts at NSF and their impact across multiple areas of scientific research and training. Angry at the impact now and in the long-term to US research. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees

Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday

📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful

Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

NextGen Psych Scholars Program (2025-2026 mentor/mentee sign up) Year 6 The goal of NPSP is to cultivate long-term support structures between current underrepresented (e.g., BIPOC, first-gen, low-income, LGBTQIA+) graduate students and diverse undergrad or post-baccalaure...

Please share widely! #NPSP supports people applying to Psychology PhD programs in the US, including students from underrepresented groups. We're accepting applications til May 23 for mentees (undergrads/postbacs) & mentors (grad students/postdocs)! z.umn.edu/NPSP25-26

Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence Climate change comprises acute shocks and protracted hazards that threaten societies, communities, and families worldwide. Still, little work has investigated the potential impacts of climate chang...

📣📣 A recent paper by Jorge Cuartas et al. in JCD: "Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@jorgecuartas.bsky.social

Grateful for the incredible love and support at #SRCD2025 in response to the injustices and tragedies of recent deportations. I hope more conferences continue to stand in solidarity with scholars facing such hardships across the field. #DevPsych #PsychSci #Psysci

(LATER TODAY): "Adolescent Development in Context: Effects of Neighborhood and Ecological Environments on Brain and Mental Health" @felhardi.bsky.social @abrieant.bsky.social & Tianying Cai "Shaped by the city: A mixed methods investigation of neighborhood factors for adolescent mental health" (3/4)

We’re hiring postdocs to join my lab at UNC. If you’re interested in adolescence, brain, and social development, DM me. Our work incorporates fMRI, social media, and longitudinal methods. We study risks and opportunities in adolescence. If you’re at #SRCD2025 and want to meet, please reach out!

Research to Advance Racial and Indigenous Health Equity We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...

My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.”

⭐️ Please share ⭐️

Six months ago, I accepted a postdoc offer in a fabulous lab. Three days ago, the Trump administration terminated the NSF grant supporting the position. Today, my offer had to be rescinded, and my PhD defense is a week away. (1/3)

SRCD 2025 FERN Lab schedule POSTER: Associations between trauma exposure and perceptions of conflict within the family system. Emma Renwick. {May 1, 3:20pm} TALK: Protective role of community cohesion across rural and urbam contexts: Implications for youth mental health. Dr. Alexis Brieant. {May 1, 3:30pm} TALK: A review of policies and interventions to mitigate climate adversity and support children and families. Dr. Alexis Brieant. {May 2, 4:40pm}

Looking forward to #SRCD2025!

🙏 We need your help 🙏

The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.

We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
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NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

w/ @noamross.net

🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨

If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.

🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP

Kristina Olson and I have a truly incredible advisee who won an NSF but had no luck on clinical psych PhD applications this round. Anyone able to consider another candidate this late in the process? Trust me, you won't regret it!

a man is holding a cardboard box with a label that says business mix ltd. ALT: a man is holding a cardboard box with a label that says business mix ltd.

I'm offering a new advice/Q&A session to help support our newest colleagues facing extraordinary conditions:

How to start a lab during an (inter)national crisis?

I began in 2020 COVID, I believe I've learned some translational tips.

Please fill out if interested: forms.gle/6DPoZRWop1rY...

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody.

She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care.

This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

Statement from SRCD President Vonnie C. McLoyd on SRCD Member Rümeysa Öztürk’s Detainment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) The United States (U.S.) has proudly built an international reputation for upholding fundamental freedoms, including speech, press, and religion—principles that are not only protected by the U.S. Constitution but are also essential to a strong and thriving democracy. Academic freedom, derived from these core liberties, is a fundamental pillar of higher education in the U.S. The Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) is deeply concerned when these principles are violated, as in the recent detention of SRCD member Rümeysa Öztürk, a Fulbright scholar and doctoral student at Tufts University. Öztürk held an F-1 student visa, which allows international students to pursue education in the U.S. Öztürk, like many members of SRCD and other scientific societies, legally migrated to the U.S. with the intention of experiencing the freedom to explore, express, and contribute to the scientific community. As a doctoral student in child and human development, Öztürk is one of many emerging scholars poised to make crucial contributions to research, ultimately helping to ensure that children and families thrive.1 Research consistently demonstrates the significant contributions of international students to the U.S. economy and the advancement of the scientific enterprise.2,3 SRCD stands with science and the scientific workforce, ensuring that our members have the freedom and opportunity to engage with their peers, challenge prevailing ideas, and contribute to the advancement of knowledge. This is the engine of the research enterprise—the freedom and opportunity to conduct excellent science and be a force of change for good. An important part of rigorous science is the exchange of ideas across national borders. Actions that threaten this exchange can ultimately disrupt international research collaborations that are essential to expand…

Thank you @srcdorg.bsky.social for issuing this statement concerning Rumeysa Ozturk from Tufts University. I am hoping that other scholarly societies will provide statements. To read the statement in whole: contentsharing.net/actions/emai...
#academicsky #edusky #psycscisky #devpsyc

Dear Developmental Colleagues, I’m a developmental psychologist, Associate Professor (Teaching), and Undergraduate Program Director for the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary. I specialize in social emotional learning, peer relationships, and children’s media. On March 25th, a developmental psychology graduate student at Tufts University in Massachusetts was abducted by the United States government. Rumeysa Ozturk is a PhD student in Child Study & Human Development with a focus on prosocial development and children’s media. She is from Turkey and was studying in the USA on a student visa. Her visa was revoked when she participated in political letter writing asking Tufts University to acknowledge the Palestinian genocide. This political activity made her a target. No peaceful political activity should ever lead to unlawful detainment. The Palestinian-Israel conflict is heartbreaking. My spouse and child are Jewish, we lost an Israeli family member on October 7th, 2022. I’ve seen increases in anti-semitism on university campuses in the past two years, but I know and I acknowledge that the majority of protestors are not hateful, and they want peace and human rights. Rumeysa Ozturk is one of us. Therefore, I am calling on leaders in Developmental Psychology to stand up for Ozturk, to pressure academic societies such as SRCD, SRA, & ISSBD to release a statement regarding her unjust abduction. We need to shine a spotlight and put international pressure on this abduction to help ensure her safety and release. Please also consider writing your political representatives. Ozturk has been relocated from Massachusetts to Louisiana. Her lawyer has lost contact with her in the past day. Our efforts can make a difference during these critical days. Sincerely, Kathleen Hughes, PhD Associate Professor (Teaching) Undergraduate Program Director University of Calgary

I am calling on all #devpsyc colleagues to condemn & speak out about the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk by the US govt on March 25, 2025. She is a developmental psychology graduate.

#childpsyc #developmentalpsyc #lifespanpsyc #acadmicsky #childrenandyouth @srcdorg.bsky.social @issbd.bsky.social

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

Tufts international graduate student taken into ICE custody A Tufts University international graduate student was reportedly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials and remains in federal custody, according to an email sent by the university ...

Rumeysa Ozturk, aTufts human development PhD student, was kidnapped by ICE in broad daylight on the streets of Somerville today, presumably because of pro-Palestinian activism. No info has been shared with her attorney about her whereabouts or alleged charges.

www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence Climate change comprises acute shocks and protracted hazards that threaten societies, communities, and families worldwide. Still, little work has investigated the potential impacts of climate chang...

New open-access study in the Journal of Cognition and Development exploring the potential impact of climate change on families and human development: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A group selfie of the 2024-25 cohort of MINDS post-baccalaureate scholars and their program director at the 2024 ABRCMS conference. This diverse group of historically marginalized scholars are all dressed up in conference attire and smiling widely for the photo.

Our #MINDS post-bacc program is accepting applications til March 1st! ✨

✅ two-years full-time PAID research
✅ $41,000 annual salary +benefits
✅ personalized grad school prep & cohort of peers
✅ $1,500 to relocate + $1,500 in prof dev funds
✅ dedicated mentors
+ more!

z.umn.edu/minds
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