Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam

🧠 Not all brain age algorithms are equal!

In our new study, one algorithm (Pyment) outperformed other models in youth. Algorithms fail when your sample's age range is narrow or mismatched with training data. So, choose wisely...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#BrainAge #Neuroimaging

Can't wait to read it! Congratulations!

Thanks Ethan! I'm so excited!

Fantastic opportunity!

@isdp.org @fitngin.bsky.social @sfn.org @ohbm-dic.bsky.social @magstimegi.bsky.social @brainsandplanes.bsky.social

We've got big plans and exciting opportunities in a supportive science environment in our Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health at Northeastern University, Boston! Please share to help us find this critical new team member! Interested candidates can email me at: l.gabard-durnam@northeastern.edu

🚨Thrilled to share I am able to hire someone (PhD preferred) with coding expertise to work on our HAPPE software for EEG! Knowledge of Matlab, Python, and EEG signal processing required. Enthusiasm for teaching/mentoring, collaboration, and developmental science preferred!

Yay! Can't wait to read! You're a science hero of mine, @lauriebayet.bsky.social, excited for your thoughts and ideas in this piece!

Amidst it all, my toddler said "I love you" back to me for the first time tonight

Yay! Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Science, Developmental Psychobiology are all receptive!

Thrilled to be part of this really engaging conversation! What a treat!

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Very excited to share the first empirical paper from LEVANTE: we describe the LEVANTE core tasks, a set of nine open source tasks for measuring learning and development in kids ages 5-12 years.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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We are pleased to announce that the first LEVANTE data release is now publicly available!

To access and download the pilot data, follow instructions on researcher.levante-network.org/data. This data release accompanies the preprint linked in the thread.

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We're collecting examples of funded F31 and F32 grants in Psych/Neuro that folks are comfortable sharing for a new section of our Resources website, please email me if you'd be willing to share! Small token and eternal gratitude if you do! L.gabard-durnam@northeastern.edu

Great minds, Peter 😂

Also extraordinarily proud of @emma-margolis.bsky.social who just started her newly funded NIH F31 examining longitudinal, multimodal MR-Spectroscopy and EEG-derived markers of visual neuroplasticity over infancy and their early cognitive sequelae! GO EMMA!

We started this project to better reflect the complexity of lived experiences in development and help explain the wide range of individual differences in adult behavior and health following early adversity. Our data show measuring both promotional and adverse experiences together is key!

The scale takes 5-10 minutes to complete, shows excellent test-retest reliability over 6 months, and explains critical variance in adult mental health over and above dimensions of adverse developmental experiences and SES. Available here! www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/pos-dev-retr...

across caregivers, close friends, and other positive adults in youth's lives. You can examine dimensions across social figures, dimensions within social figures, or sum scores within or across developmental periods flexibly to meet your study goals.

Happy new year! If you'd like to start it on a POSitive note, we have a new scale led by Kelsie Lopez and now preprinted measuring dimensions of promotional socioemotional experiences in development validated for retrospective reporting in childhood, adolescence 1/n osf.io/preprints/ps...

So exciting!!!! Can't wait to see your research program move forward!

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Despite the current funding climate, the competitor in me is really excited, motivated, and determined to teach the heck out of our new class this spring with @jpeelle.bsky.social on grant writing for graduate students. LET'S GO!!!!!!!

Hooray! Wonderful news!

HAAAH! so good! eeks!

if you want to know what jargon you use too much in your science, ask your partner! They'll know and tell you fun things like: oh you're writing a grant? you gotta "harmonize" and "scaffold" "trajectories". 😆 Busted.

We welcome Symposia, Paper Presentations, and Poster Presentations. All of these sessions will be held for 60 minutes.

Division 7 especially welcomes research on this year’s theme: Understanding the Lives of Children and Families. Presentations considering children’s & families’ everyday lives & their communities’ strengths in support of their well-being are especially encouraged.

🚨👀 Join Co-Chairs @santimoralesphd.bsky.social and myself to share developmental psychological research at APA in 2026 (August 6-8, Washington, DC)! Submissions are due on Wednesday, January 14, 2026, by 5 pm ET.

More information and submission requirements at (lnkd.in/ejUfZ4h5)

Yay! Thank you!

Hello all of you #ABCD and #HBCD data users!

Did you know we recently deployed the NBDC Sandbox?

Jupyter, R-Studio, or open your own linux environment.

Compute in place, No Download. A 'SAFE' Cluster environment.

Go check it out!

nbdc.lassoinformatics.com/sandbox