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Dashiell Sacks

@dashiellsacks.bsky.social
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Research fellow at Harvard Medical School / Boston Children's Hospital. Passionate about youth mental health. Interested in cognitive neuroscience and computational approaches. Aussie 🇦🇺

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Congratulations to Dashiell Sacks on receiving a FIT'NG 2026 Young Investigator Award! Dashiell is a postdoc at Harvard Medical School & Boston Children's Hospital. Join us in congratulating @dashiellsacks.bsky.social at the #FITNG2026 conference in Panama!
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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Infant EEG profiles prospectively differentiate temperament and early mental health risk in childhood www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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Neurophysiological sensitivity in early childhood: EEG aperiodic slope moderates the association between maternal anxiety and child internalizing symptoms | Development and Psychopathology | Cambridge...
Neurophysiological sensitivity in early childhood: EEG aperiodic slope moderates the association between maternal anxiety and child internalizing symptoms
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 19/05/2026
ABC News, ie NPR for Aussies, has joined bsky and encouraged their Twitter followers to move here More mainstream journos is good! Follow them at @news.abc.net.au
Tweet from abcnews: not seeing as many abc news updates here as you used to? Find us on bluesky
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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Join us on April 14th at 11am ET / 5pm CEST for a FIT’NG + ICIS preview of the Panama 2026 meetings: exclusive program sneak peeks, highlighting events of shared interest, and what you gain by attending both. Register: tinyurl.com/fitngicis
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Let’s not forget that Donald Trump threatened to destroy an entire civilization. We move so quickly through our insane new cycles. But this outrage should be a keeper and not cast quickly to the side because Trump again decided not to make good on an absurd and extreme threat.
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Evan @ereller.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Is there a single AI company that isn't engaged in massive amount of theft?
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Bridging the gap: Translating fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging insights into clinical practice - ScienceDirect www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Bridging the gap: Translating fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging insights into clinical practice
Over the past decade, fetal, infant, and toddler (FIT) neuroimaging has become a rapidly expanding field, driven by advances in technology and computa…
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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🚨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!
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Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Latent profiles of maternal psychopathology and risk for lifetime/perinatal substance use: Findings from the HBCD study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Latent profiles of maternal psychopathology and risk for lifetime/perinatal substance use: Findings from the HBCD study
Existing research on perinatal psychopathology has often focused on categorical disorders, overlooking the high prevalence of comorbidity and polysubs…
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Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Neural correlates of child temperament: The role of brain network connectivity in psychopathology risk - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry - Wiley Online Library acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
“Leave the lab! Escape the ivory tower!” they said. Hold our EEGs! @dreamteamicm.bsky.social is teaming up with Alexia Barrier and The Famous Project, the first all-female crew racing the Trophée Jules Verne! We’ll track their brain activity across 40 days at sea! @institutducerveau.bsky.social
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research
The announcement this week that CSIRO are to cut 350 research jobs is another damning indictment on Australia’s ongoing failure to prioritise research and development.
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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Another ~monthly update on the state of the #psychjobs market: more jobs continue to trickle in, though at a decreasing pace. We've nearly hit parity with covid in absolute terms, although the prior year baseline was higher this year than that, so we still see a slightly larger relative decrease.
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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Neurophysiological sensitivity in early childhood: The aperiodic EEG slope moderates the association between maternal anxiety and child internalizing symptoms www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
#ThisWeekInNPP This 🔄 Review 🔄 highlights behavioral inhibition (BI) & maternal anxiety in infancy as anxiety risk factors; infants w/ BI or maternal stress exposure have altered 🧠 patterns in attention & control systems, predicting anxiety in adolescence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Early-life neural correlates of behavioral inhibition and anxiety risk - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Early-life neural correlates of behavioral inhibition and anxiety risk
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le... #autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic
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A LEAP into the future, or off a cliff: Wellcome LEAP's new $50M program
A few days ago, I saw this post on LinkedIn: How does the gut microbiome shape early brain development? That’s what FORM, a new $50 million...
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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Temperament and Psychopathology: Time-varying associations from infancy to adolescence www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs
Bar plot showing the number of psychology jobs posted each year by area. There are major dips in 2020 due to covid, and in 2025 (now).
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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
My lab has an open post-doc position! We will begin reviewing applications as they come in. The post-doc will work with a vibrant research team at Penn State in the Department of Psychology and the Child Study Center. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic... 1/3
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Postdoctoral Research Scholar, The Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab, College of the Liberal Arts, Department of Psychology-2
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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Koraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Hub is now available! •Researchers can explore ABCD & HBCD Study data in one place – with robust query & data analysis tools, documentation, & workflows •Learn more & apply for data access: www.nbdc-datahub.org @theabcdstudy.bsky.social
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NBDC Data Hub
NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Sharing Platform: Unifying ABCD and HBCD data management in one powerful platform.
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Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
🚨New paper🚨 EEG aperiodic slope & offset followed nonlinear trajectories from infancy to middle childhood 🧠 Trajectories varied by brain region & sex 🧩 Maternal anxiety showed age-specific associations with slope; direction varied by developmental stage srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
all this talk about changes in p-value magnitude being interpreted as an increase in the "quality of evidence" necessitates that i share this. we all should share and actually read this in fact (for starters). #stats #metasci
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The Difference Between “Significant” and “Not Significant” is not Itself Statistically Significant
It is common to summarize statistical comparisons by declarations of statistical significance or nonsignificance. Here we discuss one problem with such declarations, namely that changes in statisti...
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STITCHES Medicine - the Best of Medical Research @medicine.stitches.today · 25/02/2025
Maternal anxiety and depression influence children's internalizing symptoms through changes in brain activity by age five. by Sacks DD, Wang Y (...) Bosquet Enlow M et 5 al. in J Child Psychol Psychiatry #MedSky 📖 read the article: acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1…
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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Fleshed out this awesome slide to share with my lab too - keen for any feedback on things I might have gotten wrong
An infographic titled 'How Journals Make a Killing' that explains the profit in academic publishing, the life cycle of a journal article, and the cost for tax payers
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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Join us next Tuesday, April 22nd at 11:00am EST for a free Earth Day panel discussion on Recycling Archival FIT Neuroimaging Data with @dashiellsacks.bsky.social and Dr. Laura Cabral! Registration is free and open to all at: tinyurl.com/fitngearthday
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Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🚨New paper🚨 EEG frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA) mediated the association between maternal and child internalizing symptoms. 🧠➡️🧠 Greater maternal anxiety/depression at age 3 → more right relative cortical activation (right FAA) at age 5 → child internalizing symptoms at 7. 📖 doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...
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M. Gonzalez-Marquez @aerynthrace.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Public notice: If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-). @academic-chatter.bsky.social #OpenScience
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Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Great advice re how to communicate research's value in this thread.
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Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
New research out in Psychophysiology (doi.org/10.1111/psyp...). The EEG aperiodic slope, thought to reflect cortical excitatory/inhibitory balance, was linked to temperament traits (surgency, regulation) in infancy and moderated associations between maternal anxiety/depression and infant regulation.
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<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
In this study, we demonstrate novel associations among EEG aperiodic slope, the temperament domains of orienting/regulation and surgency, and maternal anxiety/depressive symptoms in infancy. The resu...
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