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Arianna Gard

@arigard.bsky.social
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Developmental psychologist @UMaryland studying neighborhoods, adversity, the brain 🧠, and resilience. Trying to figure out what community-driven neuroscience looks like. gardlab.umd.edu (she/her)

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Healthy Regions + Policies Lab @healthyregions.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
📗 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
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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be... fordschool.umich.edu/news/2025/ef...
Data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Over 2/3 of SNAP recipients are children (42%), or elderly/disabled (26%).
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Meriah DeJoseph @meriahdejoseph.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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
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Hidden dynamics of economic hardship: Characterizing economic unpredictability and its role on self-regulation in early childhood | Development and Psychopathology | Cambridge Core
Hidden dynamics of economic hardship: Characterizing economic unpredictability and its role on self-regulation in early childhood
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
back to this thread 10 days later… this was an absolutely wild thing to say. What is happening 🙀
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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”
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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/...
PRISMA diagram flow chart of included/excluded papers
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🚨 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
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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
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Gard Lab
We study how environments shape brain and behavioral development. We are dedicated to serving families in the DC Metro Area by advocating for environmental equity through research and championing community resilience.
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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)
Three GARD Lab members holding up some of the Art Tiles created by community membersThe spread of Art Tiles and supplies
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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)
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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)
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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)
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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)
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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)
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
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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)
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🚨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...
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<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 ...
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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🚨
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Omg Dana - 7 rounds?!?!
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UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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
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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.
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Nancy Padilla-Coreano @drnancypadilla.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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...
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Didn't get into grad school, what now?
Stories of Women in Neuroscience · Episode
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 31/05/2025
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."
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Donald Trump’s proposed budget would gut American science
It would slash cancer research, drug trials, space exploration, and so much more.
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Took me 5 min to draft and submit a comment. FLOOD THE ZONE 🧬🧫🧬🔬⚗️🔭🥼🧪
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
"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 www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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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.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"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."
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com
Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation
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TAKE ACTION
Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation.

 

Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work.

 

 Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Too pregnant to go to @srcdorg.bsky.social but never too pregnant to shout out to the GARD Lab amazing students!! Deena Shariq and Joelle Fuchs! (1/4)
Schedule for GARD Lab paper talks at SRCD
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
(TOM AT 4:40CDT) "Recent Advances in Community-Engaged Developmental Neuroscience: Three Stories of Process and Outcomes" w/ Hurd, Michalska, & Maza, Joelle presents "The CARE Project: A Community-Driven Study of Environmental Effects on Health and Wellbeing across Development" 4/4
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
(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)
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
(IN 1 HOUR): "Applying a critical lens to strengths-based developmental frameworks" with @mellwoodlowe.bsky.social @meriahdejoseph.bsky.social @damcotto.bsky.social Deena presents: "Community perspectives on strengths-based developmental research: A qualitative inquiry" (2/4)
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Too pregnant to go to @srcdorg.bsky.social but never too pregnant to shout out to the GARD Lab amazing students!! Deena Shariq and Joelle Fuchs! (1/4)
Schedule for GARD Lab paper talks at SRCD
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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
GO BLUE
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linda @lxyzxy.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
last friday my nsf career award to study when and why different forms of racial discrimination are likely to occur was terminated. I’m incredibly crushed and sad and stressed out and also angry. what I don’t feel is any sense of resignation. we’ll find ways to get the research done.
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Thank you for writing this simple script Calvin! Really speeding up the process of a revision… current count = 275 …
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Nature Neuroscience @natneuro.nature.com · 08/04/2025
Task-free functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging data from 33,250 individuals at 32 weeks of postmenstrual age to 80 years from 132 global sites 🧠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome - Nature Neuroscience
Sun et al. report human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome in 33,250 individuals, which highlights critical growth milestones and distinct maturation patterns and offers a normative...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Georgetown scholar Dr. Khan Suri, who was abducted by ICE, was refused food/water to break Ramadan fast, housed in a room without a bed, and issued *used* underwear. His child cried for days after he was taken and has since stopped speaking. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...
In just four days, Dr. Khan Suri was transferred among five different ICE facilities across three states, despite the fact that ICE records indicate there were beds in Virginia facilities. Dr. Khan Suri was fasting in religious observance of Ramadan, but multiple ICE facilities refused him food or water to break his fast.

For almost two weeks, he was housed in a room without a bed and with a television blaring 21 hours a day. Dr. Khan Suri was issued used underwear, and a bright red uniform that is usually reserved for detained individuals who have been classified as ‘high security’ based on their criminal history or alleged affiliation with criminal organizations. He is not permitted to work or spend more than two hours per week outside of his dorm.
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Amanda Kay Montoya @akmontoya.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
It's that time of year again: I'm teaching Linear Regression. As such I've updated my writing guide for linear regression. Tips and tricks for writing accurate and clear interpretations and inferences in regression. You can check it out on OSF osf.io/aeqn6
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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help contextualize your neuroimaging findings 🧠
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A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results - Nature Communications
Here, the authors present the Network Correspondence Toolbox, which enables researchers to examine and report spatial correspondence between their neuroimaging results and widely used brain atlases.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
French politician Raphaël Glucksmann suggested that the Statue of Liberty be returned, saying “It was our gift to you. But apparently you despise her.” Naomi Osaka, whose father, Leonard Francois is of Haitian descent, posted “Since we’re trying to repossess things, can Haiti get their money back?”
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Naomi Osaka Demands Reparations for Haiti From France
Osaka’s father, Leonard Francois, is of Haitian descent.
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
What’s wild is that they are already so much bigger than early Jan!
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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The number of visits I have made to see these cuties since they arrived in January is unreal lol 🐼 🐼 🐼
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The University of Puerto Rico has built a strong neuroscience community via federally funded programs. Carmen Maldonado-Vlaar explains how funding cuts threaten minority-serving institutions’ progress toward becoming premier research institutions. www.thetransmitter.org/funding/the-...
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The future of neuroscience research at U.S. minority-serving institutions is in danger
Cuts to federally funded programs present an existential crisis for the University of Puerto Rico’s rich neuroscience community and for research at minority-serving institutions everywhere.
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