Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDMarc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026National Norms and Psychometrics for the Pubertal Development Scale | medRxiv www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... 032
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDclare mccann @clarefmccann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026New paper out in Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology!! I had the pleasure of collaborating with a group of experts in puberty, adolescence, quantitative methods & more to create a comprehensive guide to measuring & modeling pubertal development over time: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.com 1115
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDMaria Jalbrzikowski @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social · 04/08/2026HIRING: Staff Scientist @ NeRD Lab at Boston Children's Hospital. Come join a powerhouse lab of 14 remarkable women. Looking for someone who loves neurodevelopment, sleep, & psychopathology, thrives on collaboration, & is excited to become the scientific backbone of our lab. tinyurl.com/mveskh4p 01315
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDCondeNanoLab @condenanolab.bsky.social · 14/05/2026My Working Life article @science.org - When I stopped trying to have all the answers, my lab members thrived | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgWhen I stopped trying to have all the answers, my lab members thrivedThis professor learned “to be there when people struggled without taking the wheel,” he writes 1184
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDUCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent @cda-adolescence.bsky.social · 14/05/2026How will #AI shape the next generation's ability to love, work & connect? 🤝 In a new #Adaptivitypod episode, host Ron Dahl talks with researchers about what young people need to become connected & thriving humans in a changing world. 🎙️Listen now: developingadolescent.semel.ucla.edu/podcasts/ite... 031
Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Very excited to share new findings from an NIMH-funded R21 on the neurodevelopment of worry! Manuscript led by super 🌟 Postdoctoral Scholar in the lab @ceciwestbrook.bsky.social , check it out! 👇👇👇 @psychiatry.pitt.edu 0166
Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Excited to share recent findings from the lab examining how puberty-related changes in connectivity within the mesocorticolimbic circuitry is associated with sensitivity to reward/punishment. Manuscript led by the talented @amarojha.bsky.social - check it out in @npp-journal.bsky.social ! 👇👇👇 052
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDMatt Mattoni @mattmattoni.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Precision reward/affect fMRI study out now in HBM! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @dvsmith.bsky.social @olinotom.bsky.social @coopersharp.bsky.social and @shenghanwang.bsky.social Intensively sampled task + rest fMRI data with behavioral manipulation openly available on OpenNeuro! (1/2)onlinelibrary.wiley.comPrecision Imaging for Intraindividual Investigation of the Reward ResponseWe present open data for an intensively sampled precision imaging study including multiple reward-related tasks and a behavioral mood manipulation. Our initial analysis found low test–retest reliabil.... 16025
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDAidan Wright @aidangcw.bsky.social · 27/03/2026🚨FREE WEBINAR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 Get an early start to #statnerdsummer with a free seminar on how multilevel models and structural equation models intersect. I'll be showing this through MLM and SEM growth curves. Sign up for free! Share widely! You can register here: smart-workshops.com/workshops 03016
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDKarin Roelofs @epanlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Super proud of @sjoerdmeijer.bsky.social who demonstrated that amygdala-TUS slows initial threat acquisition and enhances subsequent extinction. Great collaboration with @lennartverhagen.bsky.social and @deVoogdld.bsky.social ea. Thanks to @ERC.europa.eu. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgThe human amygdala in threat learning and extinctionUltrasonic neuromodulation of the human amygdala provides causal evidence for its role in forming persistent threat memories. 36221
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDBrenden Tervo-Clemmens @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social · 26/03/2026👇👇👇 041
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDJennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...open.substack.comI Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research 211238732
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDCheng Huang @huangchengwashu.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Recent review about long-range axons rdcu.be/eXeDGrdcu.beLong-range axon branching: contributions to brain network plasticity and repairNature Reviews Neuroscience - Connectome reconstructions across multiple species reveal that the morphology of axonal projections is highly variable, even between neurons of the same location or... 14118
Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Registration is open!!!! You can also submit a poster abstract! Come join us for an amazing set of talks and insightful discussions on the impact of stress on brain development and implications for the development of affective disorders… @pittpsychiatry.bsky.social 011
Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Excited to share these findings from our CATS center in a manuscript led by the talented Ceci Westbrook, MD, PhD, Post-doctoral Scholar in the lab!🤩 👇👇👇 000
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDDr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Excited to share that my TEDx talk is finally available online. I loved sharing what the science shows us: that it's time to reframe adolescence - from problem to ✨ potential ✨ 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8V...youtube.comThe surprising science of adolescent brains | Jennifer Pfeifer | TEDxPortlandYouTube video by TEDx Talks 35619
Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Spread the word!! DANS 2025 registration is opening very soon…take a look at some of our amazing speakers! You can present a poster you will present or have presented elsewhere…the goal is to foster discussion. Check dans.pitt.edu for updates! 054
Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Wow…awesome and impactful work!!! Bravo! 👏👏👏 062
Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 18/07/2025grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...grants.nih.govNOT-OD-25-131: Revision: NIH Policy and Guidelines on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical ResearchNIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Revision: NIH Policy and Guidelines on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research NOT-OD-25... 001
Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 18/07/2025drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/n...drugmonkey.wordpress.comNIH will only accept six applications per PI per calendar year.NIH has issued NOT-OD-25-132 Supporting Fairness and Originality in NIH Research Applications which informs us that NIH will only accept six new, renewal, resubmission, or revision applications fro… 001
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDNiamh MacSweeney @niamhmacsweeney.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Our paper - Neuroimaging Insights into Adolescent Depression and Development - is now out in Nature Mental Health! 🧠 Huge thanks to my wonderful co-authors @yaratoenders.bsky.social and @cktamnes.bsky.social. I loved bringing these ideas together with you! rdcu.be/eugUMrdcu.beNeuroimaging insights into adolescent depression risk and developmentNature Mental Health - Adolescence marks a critical period for the onset of depression, yet the neurobiological mechanisms remain unclear. Here the authors review literature linking adolescent... 0188
Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Screens, Sleep, and White Matter in Childhood and Adolescent Depression url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2835092?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=062825 020
Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 13/06/2025grants.nih.gov/grants/guide... Got my hopes up for a hot minute when the R13 notice came out-for our DANS conf- only to find this notice today 😢 But happy to see Fs are finally out!grants.nih.govNOT-MH-25-210: Notice of NIMH Withdrawal from Participation in PA-25-080, "NIH Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings (Parent R13 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)"NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of NIMH Withdrawal from Participation in PA-25-080, 000
Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 13/06/2025CAN-D lab staff and trainees had fun showcasing their work at our Dept annual Research Day! Celebrating science! 🤩 010
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDNeuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 10/06/2025#ThisWeekInNPP This study explored relapse & recurrence in late-life depression, finding widespread 🧠 network configuration was required for resilience, while failure to reconfigure was associated w/ vulnerability to relapse @agerlachphd.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comNetwork homeostasis: functional brain network alterations and relapse in remitted late-life depression - NeuropsychopharmacologyNeuropsychopharmacology - Network homeostasis: functional brain network alterations and relapse in remitted late-life depression 012
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDFriedemann Zenke @fzenke.bsky.social · 27/05/20251/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance? Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... led by @jrbch.bsky.social 518257
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDDr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Really happy to receive my first paperback copy of Coming Of Age 🎉 I wrote this book to examine the emotional power of the adolescent years – I explore why adolescents behave the way they do, but also about why events from those years continue to affect who we are, even many years later 1/ 2497
Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 12/05/2025DANS is happening!! 🎉🎉 Mark your calendars and please spread the word! 083
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."spencer.orgRapid Response Bridge Funding ProgramIn the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap... 6760548
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDDr. David Miller 🏳️🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 02/05/2025I 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 9600419
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDIsabelle Rosso @irosso.bsky.social · 28/04/2025How delays in issuing NIH funds may create the appearance of a budget 'surplus' that becomes justification to cut the NIH budget. @statnews.com #neuroskyence 098
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDNeuroendocrinology and Behavior lab at UCLA @alwardlab-ucla.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Please tell everyone you know that 60 minutes is covering the NIH tonight youtu.be/noyS-L5gK7k?...youtu.beNIH | Sunday on 60 MinutesYouTube video by 60 Minutes 163
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDLiz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 17/04/2025For my scientist friends who have been struggling with anxiety, depression, grief and more, two licensed therapists are hosting a 90min pro bono session. It's today (Apr 17), starting in half an hour (9:30am PT) but there will be more sessions in future. www.eventbrite.com/e/coping-wit...eventbrite.comCoping with Upheaval: Support for Terminated/Defunded ScientistsIf you're a US scientist feeling demoralized, burned out, or anxious in this unprecedented political moment--you are not alone. (Free event) 38057
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDScience Magazine @science.org · 17/04/2025The National Science Foundation has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency set up shop at the agency this week. scim.ag/4iowX4tscim.agNSF halts grant awards while staff do second reviewAction comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency 34730
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDSusan Perlman, Ph.D. @drperlman.bsky.social · 17/04/2025So happy to write this opinion standing up for science in my local paper! 03810
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDACNP @acnporg.bsky.social · 31/03/2025ACNP Travel Award Applications open TODAY for the ACNP 64th Annual Meeting: January 12-15, 2026, Nassau, Bahamas. Deadline to Submit is May 8, 2025, at 5:00 pm Central. acnp.org/annual-meet... #ACNP2026 #travelawards 0158
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDbbrfoundation @bbrfoundation.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Congratulations to the 2025 Distinguished Investigator Grantees! . Read the Press Release: ow.ly/oVn050Vk6vx . #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #neuroscience #depression #anxiety #schizophrenia #autism #OCD #PTSD #BPD #bipolardisorder #ADHD #ADD 33613
Reposted by Cecile Ladouceur, PhDKatie Witkiewitz @katiew.bsky.social · 25/02/2025And a plug for a new special issue on sex differences and alcohol use disorders led by @nicoleacrowley.bsky.social and Erin Calipari. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...sciencedirect.comAlcohol | Sex and Alcohol Use Disorders | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirectThere has been a lack of preclinical research studying sex differences in the mechanisms that lead to sex differences in vulnerability to disease. This special issue brings together a collection of pr... 2216
Cecile Ladouceur, PhD @cdladouceur.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Finally here! First post on @bsky.app! Come join us in Pittsburgh! 0110