Scientist, runner, Canadian still trying to figure out how to live in the US.
Psychology Prof and Associate Dean at UCI, who sometimes writes about why we should trust science and avoid panic to really help our kids.
Candice Odgers
“The pitch behind all of this is simple and confident: pull teenagers off the platforms and their mental health will improve. There is just one awkward problem with that pitch…”
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Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/
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I am recruiting an exceptional postdoc to join my lab at UC Irvine. Must be a productive researcher with experience in functional neuroimaging, network neuroscience, AI/ML, who is interested in aging, neuropsychiatric or neurodegenerative illness.
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
anyway that 'smartphones tank fertility' chart everyone was sharing the other day is fake
Although research has bipartisan support in the US Congress, and trust in science is above 75% across the country, the Trump administration seems as determined as ever to mortally wound the nation’s s...
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“Death by suicide is a male emergency. Although 3x as many women as men report suicidal ideation & attempts, the vast maj of deaths by suicide in the US—up to 80%—are among men…
[A recent analysis of 988 data] sheds light on [part of the] explanation: Men reach out for help a lot less than women”🛟🧪
Posted 12:31:04 AM. Postdoctoral Fellow – Neuroimaging, Network Neuroscience & AI/ML in Cognitive DisordersYassa Lab |…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
“Since 2020, firearms have been the leading cause of death among children & teens. While a majority of those deaths are due to homicides, a significant % are suicides”🛟🧪
Safe & secure gun storage—unloaded & locked up—saves lives.
Spread the word: Firearm violence prevention is everyone's job.
We looked for the experimental evidence showing that social media bans benefit youth... and found nothing. Like, lots of studies with null results? No, literally nothing-- there are no experimental studies of social media restriction that target minors like these bans do. Check out our new paper!
Imagine your children in a school, a church, a mall, a parade crowd, a movie theater, a store, a parking lot, a sidewalk, a birthday party, or a friend's house and realize that they face potential and real bullets every single day.
Trump is surrounded by security while our kids are unprotected.
And invited article that was killed at the last minute. Perhaps because it contains a few inconvenient truths about our quest for simple solutions around social media and smartphone bans…
open.substack.com/pub/holdenth...
Mike Yassa
Reposting for no particular reason... ok, there is a reason.
jenna newman phd
Around the world, governments are banning youth from social media. Proponents of bans claim that banning or restricting social media access is necessary to c...
Smartphones can do a lot, but apparently they cannot keep you from analysing your data in an incredibly wacky manner to feed a certain narrative about smartphones.
