Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Of course a between-groups comparison isn't actually testing this, but a small effect probably wouldn't yield highly sensitive/specific clinical discrimination from that measure alone. The question is whether your aims/inferences are actually attempting to address this. Probably not. 010
Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I think the leap often being made is that small between-group effect sizes -> not sensitive/specific for individual classification (or an equivalent depending on the question). Often this is being benchmarked against some unstated assumption about existing clinical practice (true or not). 111
Reposted by Dashiell SacksFetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Congratulations 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! 052
Reposted by Dashiell SacksmedRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Infant EEG profiles prospectively differentiate temperament and early mental health risk in childhood www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/20… 011
Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 01/06/2026www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgNeurophysiological 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 010
Reposted by Dashiell Sackssamuel mehr @mehr.nz · 19/05/2026ABC 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 1184
Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 18/04/2026I don't think we can assign 'well intentioned' to an administration whose entire platform is antithetical to improving mental health. 031
Reposted by Dashiell SacksFetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Join 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 076
Reposted by Dashiell SacksDavid Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Let’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. 70774222
Reposted by Dashiell SacksEvan @ereller.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Is there a single AI company that isn't engaged in massive amount of theft? 517551
Reposted by Dashiell SacksMarc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Bridging the gap: Translating fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging insights into clinical practice - ScienceDirect www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comBridging the gap: Translating fetal, infant, and toddler neuroimaging insights into clinical practiceOver the past decade, fetal, infant, and toddler (FIT) neuroimaging has become a rapidly expanding field, driven by advances in technology and computa… 043
Reposted by Dashiell SacksLaurel 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! 34740
Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Latent profiles of maternal psychopathology and risk for lifetime/perinatal substance use: Findings from the HBCD study www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comLatent profiles of maternal psychopathology and risk for lifetime/perinatal substance use: Findings from the HBCD studyExisting research on perinatal psychopathology has often focused on categorical disorders, overlooking the high prevalence of comorbidity and polysubs… 000
Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Neural 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/...acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com 062
Reposted by Dashiell SacksThomas 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 1325
Reposted by Dashiell SacksGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 19/11/2025I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...thepoint.com.auCSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on researchThe 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. 28407109
Reposted by Dashiell SacksMark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Another ~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. 0246
Reposted by Dashiell SacksmedRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Neurophysiological 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… 011
Reposted by Dashiell SacksNeuropsychopharmacology @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...nature.comEarly-life neural correlates of behavioral inhibition and anxiety risk - NeuropsychopharmacologyNeuropsychopharmacology - Early-life neural correlates of behavioral inhibition and anxiety risk 101
Reposted by Dashiell SacksDorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 20/10/2025New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le... #autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnosticdeevybee.blogspot.comA LEAP into the future, or off a cliff: Wellcome LEAP's new $50M programA 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... 1112379
Reposted by Dashiell SacksmedRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Temperament and Psychopathology: Time-varying associations from infancy to adolescence www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/202… 001
Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Hi Koraly! Are these Editorial Fellowships open to postdocs to apply to, or do they require an assistant professor or equivalent industry position for eligibility? Thank you! 110
Reposted by Dashiell SacksMark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 03/09/2025The 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 1416573
Reposted by Dashiell SacksKoraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 22/08/2025My 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... 1/3psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comPostdoctoral Research Scholar, The Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab, College of the Liberal Arts, Department of Psychology-2APPLICATION 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... 24845
Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 26/07/2025It probably doesn't help that people in the states are being actively persecuted based on their social media content. 😔 040
Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 26/07/2025And why some ... big name ... Aussie academics are still exclusively posting on Twitter/X is totally lost on me. 130
Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 26/07/2025I wish they'd all come over to Bluesky instead. Having to traverse all the 'LinkedIn style' posts on LinkedIn makes me close it every time. It doesn't feel like there is an 'academic LinkedIn' in the way it feels like there is academic Bluesky. 160
Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Are there any openings for Australian early-career academics currently working internationally? 000
Reposted by Dashiell SacksKoraly @drkoraly.bsky.social · 26/06/2025The 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.socialnbdc-datahub.orgNBDC Data HubNIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Sharing Platform: Unifying ABCD and HBCD data management in one powerful platform. 07938
Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Free access link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...onlinelibrary.wiley.com 010
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/... 241
Reposted by Dashiell SacksBerna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 02/06/2025all 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 #metascitandfonline.comThe Difference Between “Significant” and “Not Significant” is not Itself Statistically SignificantIt 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... 411433
Reposted by Dashiell SacksSTITCHES Medicine - the Best of Medical Research @medicine.stitches.today · 25/02/2025Maternal 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… 0143
Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 14/05/2025www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgTrump’s ‘fear factor’: Scientists go silent as funding cuts escalateMany worry about retribution. But for others, speaking out is worth the risk 010
Reposted by Dashiell SacksMiri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Fleshed out this awesome slide to share with my lab too - keen for any feedback on things I might have gotten wrong 14615
Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 01/05/2025If you're willing to walk 10-15 mins, Downtown has many options. SK Coffee and Vitality Roasting seem like great choices! 000
Reposted by Dashiell SacksFetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Join 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 022
Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Free access link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author... 020
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... 160
Reposted by Dashiell SacksM. Gonzalez-Marquez @aerynthrace.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Public 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 25630
Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Great advice re how to communicate research's value in this thread. 020
Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Free access link here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...onlinelibrary.wiley.com 010
Dashiell Sacks @dashiellsacks.bsky.social · 09/01/2025New 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.doi.org<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online LibraryIn 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... 121