Arianna Gard

📗 Part II of our new open textbook: Conceptualizing Social-Spatial Determinants of Health

With contributions from @maryniakolak.bsky.social & @averyeverhart.bsky.social, these chapters address health inequities through place, space, and power.

👉 Read the full volume: go.illinois.edu/PlaceSSDOH

Data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Over 2/3 of SNAP recipients are children (42%), or elderly/disabled (26%).

PSC experts @pamherd.bsky.social and Luke Shaefer @umfordschool.bsky.social help us understand the consequences of blocking SNAP benefits, which mostly go to children or disabled elderly adults.

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Just published! ✨ Across 15+ timepoints, we found that unpredictability in economic hardship – not only severity – shapes young children’s self-regulation. Understanding these dynamics can help us design supports that promote stability and adaptive development. 👉 bit.ly/4oIZO75

back to this thread 10 days later… this was an absolutely wild thing to say. What is happening 🙀

Thanks to the journal, reviewers, students on the paper, Luke Hyde, and @colterm.bsky.social. ALL raw data is publicly available @cos.io [link in paper] so go wild re-analyzing it! #science

Reviewers improved implications … we should lean in to practices promoted by @ohbmofficial.bsky.social incl COBIDAS guidelines. Journal-level intervention also an avenue. @bidsstandard.bsky.social is another piece. “Community-driven neuroscience” out of my lab will also be part of changing the field

We also had an inkling that larger studies would not necessarily be more transparent in reporting practices… data supported this hypothesis. Looking at research visibility, study sample size but not transparency was strongly linked to 2-year citation counts … so study N is rewarded

Nice figure put together by grad student Deena Shariq: in all 134 papers that reported education continuously, only 3 reported study sample education levels lower than the country of recruitment average; most samples are “over educated”

We found that most standard methodological details were not reported. Particularly bad IMO were recruitment procedures (29%), inclusion/exclusion criteria (46%), and reasons for missing imaging data (31%). Only 15% and 28% of paper reported race-ethnicity and SES, respectively

PRISMA diagram flow chart of included/excluded papers

We were interested in documenting reporting practices related to generalizability, replicability, and reliability of MRI/fMRI papers published in top journals journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 New Paper Alert🚨 focused on #representation and #generaliability in #neuroscience. A real labor of love. Was rejected from [… checks list 🤔] SIX journals and originally presented in 2020 at FLUX to find a home at AMPPS #persistence

YES!!! IT IS A FEATURE OF BOTH SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY!!!!

Particularly a representative democracy…where we ELECT EXPERTS TO REPRESENT OUR BEST INTERESTS!!!

This man has to go.

#impeachthequack

I am reviewing applications for the Neuroscience (NACS), and Developmental programs this year at @umdscience.bsky.social . I will also review Clinical applications, but priority is to grow the Dev and NACS areas. Email me for info! arigard[at]umd[dot]edu & check out our website gardlab.umd.edu

Three GARD Lab members holding up some of the Art Tiles created by community members

The spread of Art Tiles and supplies

For now, check out the "Our Neighborhood, Our Stories" series that Joelle worked on with @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social Commissioner Ra Amin, and the Brookland Intergenerational Village (brooklandvillage.org). findingyourgood.org/repurposed-p... (8/8)

We learned a lot ... community members' goals for researchers, concerns about the changing city, pride for DC. It ushered the entire CARE Project, which has many many many many parts (stay tuned!). (7/8)

Lastly, all residents advocated for more "third spaces" and community events - block parties, coffee shops, rec centers. Ultimately, we should endeavor for all folks to benefit from even "weak" neighborhood ties ... but social structures are needed to support this goal (6/8)

For caregivers & community leaders, "orientation towards the common good" & "social relationships" were strong facilitators of neighborhood social integration ... people with whom you share civic-minded goals and the people with whom you interact regularly (5/8)

One major findings was just how socially disconnected from neighborhoods youth were ... teens described friends going to school in different Wards or moving from DC. Some parents didn't know neighbors anymore. Turns out that over 70% kids in DC go to school outside their in-boundary school (4/8)

Conceptual figure showing the community-level factors of social cohesion, transience, and safety interact with individual-level factors of social role, housing tenure, and race-ethnicity to shape the process of neighborhood social integration

Neighborhood social integration was defined as resident engagement with the physical context - what (e.g., community events), where (e.g., parks), & how (e.g., bus) folks used their neighborhoods. Three themes captures barriers/facilitators to integration: social cohesion, safety, & transience (3/8)

DC flag

Joelle was interested in barriers & facilitators to neighborhood social integration, and whether those factors differed across social role, race-ethnicity, and housing tenure. We wanted to understand this process deeply for DC - the original "chocolate city", rich w/ culture, history, & change (2/8)

<em>American Journal of Community Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Social isolation has reached concerning rates, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Social integration is critical to combatting social isolation and loneliness by promoting a sense of ...

🚨New publication alert!🚨The first paper from primary data collection in my lab 😀, led by grad student Joelle Fuchs. "Facilitators and Barriers to Neighborhood Social Integration" leverages qual interviews with teens, caregivers, and comm leaders in DC ... (1/8) doi.org/10.1002/ajcp...

Coming back from maternity leave is i-n-t-e-n-s-e ... but no surprise, the lab killed it over the summer while I was gone, and we are back baby! 🚨Stay tuned for some threads on new publications🚨

Omg Dana - 7 rounds?!?!

How DOGE's push to amass data could hurt the reliability of future U.S. statistics DOGE's murky push to amass data at federal agencies could hurt the U.S. government's ability to produce reliable census results, economic indicators and other statistics in the future, experts warn.

U.S. Census Bureau's decades long with falling public participation in surveys and trust in government is now compounded by DOGE's handling of data. Distrust in how government uses data is higher among people of color, which can lead to selection bias and skewed data. myumi.ch/jJVMG

Didn't get into grad school, what now? Stories of Women in Neuroscience · Episode

This academic cycle was really challenging for those students that applied for PhD programs. Please help me share this special episode discussing what to do if you didn't get accepted into a PhD program. open.spotify.com/episode/5tsj...

Donald Trump’s proposed budget would gut American science It would slash cancer research, drug trials, space exploration, and so much more.

Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health.

But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."

Took me 5 min to draft and submit a comment. FLOOD THE ZONE 🧬🧫🧬🔬⚗️🔭🥼🧪

Opinion | Trump’s White House accidentally admitted the truth about its tax plan Earlier this week the White House published evidence that the president’s “big, beautiful bill” hikes taxes on the poor to cut taxes for the rich.

"Americans who make less than $51,000 a year would see their after-tax income fall as a result of the Republican proposal beginning in 2026."

"Americans making less than $15,000 — the poorest of the poor — will pay 53% more in taxes than they do now

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Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵

"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."