Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam

If we haven't met yet, apparently I look like this (according to my toddler) 😂

Excited to head to @isdp.org this week! And thrilled that I'll be recruiting graduate students and postdocs this cycle to join PINE Lab!
Please come say hi if interested (current lab studies here: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/current-stud...)

Hoping for someone interested in early development (prenatal through age 3 years), especially keen on asking about neuroplasticity serving sensory/language development and/or how early experiences/exposures/caregiving shape early brain development

🚨I am in the most delightful position of having a postdoc land a faculty job! Which means I will be looking to hire at least one new postdoc this cycle! More to come soon but if you're interested feel free to email me or come say hi at @isdp.org in a week or two!

Congratulations! So happy for you!!!

Our department is hiring two positions (2026 and 2027 start dates) - come be my colleague!

apply.interfolio.com/175428

Coming up on 1 month post-surgery, have completed 60 days of EMA, 20 sessions of MRI, 16 sessions of fNIRS, 20 sessions of EEG, not to mention blood, saliva, and a host of other data collection. It's been super fun to hang out with folks in my colleagues' labs. (Also a little exhausting!)

9 DAYS until the abstract submission deadline for the 2026 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Cape Town!

Submit your abstract by 29 October 2025. LEARN MORE: https://ow.ly/vapZ50WYsSE

#ISMRM2026 #ISMRT2026 #ISMRM #ISMRT #MagneticResonance #MRI #MedicalImaging #MR #MREducation #CapeTown

Applying to faculty jobs 101 — Stories of WiN This episode features Dr. Monique Smith (Assistant Professor, UCSD) discussing faculty job applications with host Dr. Nancy Padilla-Coreano.

Applying for faculty jobs this cycle? Check out our latest special episode! @moeneuro.bsky.social and @drnancypadilla.bsky.social discuss when to apply, important considerations when preparing applications, and more! Listen below!

www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

#AcademicBluesky #NeuroJobs

YAAAAAY!!!!

Incredible work! 👏

headed to ISDP shortly? Come early for this wonderful session on advancing perinatal science through open and shared data- sponsored by the International Fetal and Infant Brain and Behavior (I-FIBB) Network! Excited to offer my perspective! @isdp.org

sounds like a committee is required first to determine who should sit on such an important committee, with representation from the whole campus, whenever all of those representatives are free at the same time

I know you mean diversification in another sense, but given the panel makeup (though excellent speakers!), may I suggest including someone to speak to how under-represented scholars experience traditional review, best practices to alleviate biases, & how new frameworks alleviate (or not) issues?

LOVELY people, collaborative place, excellent top 10 program! Incredible opportunity, please help us share widely!

so important! thank you!!!!!!

Understanding barriers to adolescent participation in developmental neuroscience research Increasing representation of youth in developmental neuroscience research is essential to elucidating neurobiological mechanisms of cognition, behavio…

New lab paper in DCN! 🧠 We conducted interviews with adolescents to better understand their perceptions of neuroscience research and barriers to participation, w/qualitative data that is shaping how we design lab studies & efforts to increase representation.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Headed to @isdp.org next month?? Check out all the amazing events that our DEI committee has to offer! Make sure to save this image to help plan your conference.

#ISDP2025 @joscelinrocha.com @drkoraly.bsky.social @laurelgd.bsky.social @annamzhou.bsky.social @annavannucci.bsky.social

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

How good is the MR data we'll be sharing as part of this deep phenotyping study? So good that someone asked if Jonathan was sedated while viewing his resting-state data collection 😆 Watch this space!

WOAH! So excited to read this!

I am BEYOND grateful & honestly still in shock about the lovely comments from the anonymous external letter writers on my tenure case! I don't know who I'm thanking, but I hope you see this and know that I will treasure these always and they meant the world to get (we see anon. quotes)! THANK YOU!

Thank you so much!!!! Rockstar!!!

Kudos to everyone who shares their materials! I aspire to do this but have not done as well as I'd like. @laurelgd.bsky.social is inspirational in this regard. 👏

If you have tenured and would share your own tenure application materials, I would love to build this section out on our Resources webpage! Please email me for eternal gratitude and as always, credit on the site: l.gabard-durnam@northeastern.edu
Please repost to help me reach folks to share!

I continue to believe sharing example materials is useful in academia, so in that spirit, my tenure statements and CV are now available on our Resources for Researchers website (bottom of the New PI page: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...)

WONDERFUL news! So happy to hear it!!!!!

Thank you for your incredible service in this role, @mitchprinstein.bsky.social ! That's incredible!

Incredibly chuffed to share I've been selected as the 2026 APA Boyd McCandless Award winner for Division 7! It is a distinct privilege to work in the name of carrying on Boyd's legacy of deep investment in the development of youth and his own mentees through his science. I will do my very best.

I submitted tenure materials! There is so much to be done still, but I am proud of what we've done already since 2020. I am more grateful than I have words for my lab members, my mentors, my family. May there be many more full and fulfilling years ahead in this academy.