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Bridget Callaghan

@drbcallaghan.bsky.social
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Associate Prof of Psychology at UCLA studying the impact of early experiences on mind and body health across generations | neuroimaging | microbiome | behavior | physiology | interoception

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Two openings for a Staff Research Associate (Study Coordinator/Lab Manager) in the Brain & Body Lab and SAND Labs at UCLA with @jasilvers.bsky.social and @drbcallaghan.bsky.social working on different #NIMH #NIA funded research studies. Apply here: jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/9781 jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/9782
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'll be speaking at the Brain, Behavior, & Mind 2026 Spring Conference on April 21st! I hope to see you there! #BBMSpring2026 by @CSTS_USU is free, virtual, and open to the public. Continuing education credits are available. Register here: brainbehaviormind.org/conferences/...
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2026 Brain, Behavior, & Mind Conference
2026 Spring Conference Tuesday, April 21, 20269:00am – 4:15pm EST (virtual) REGISTER   The Center...
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Tell me you are a parent without telling me you are a parent …
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Fun times were had #ISDP2025. Wish us luck driving home in this rain!! See you in NOLA 2026 ✌🏻
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
New Paper ‼️ Read @pw-savoca.bsky.social paper on discrimination, alexithymia, and anxiety in women.
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
So Proud of @fquerdasi.bsky.social and Dr. Jess Uy for this exciting paper linking gut microbiome to mental health in school age kids.
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Fran Querdasi @fquerdasi.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Just out! ✨ Using a novel machine learning approach, we identify a developmental pathway by which the early life gut microbiome may shape mental health at school age via effects on functional brain development. This work can help identify microbial biomarkers of later health issues. 👉 rdcu.be/eNsUK
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Childhood gut microbiome is linked to internalizing symptoms at school age via the functional connectome
Nature Communications - Here, the authors find that relative abundances of stress-sensitive gastrointestinal microbes at age 2 years predicts internalizing symptoms in middle childhood through...
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I really resonate with this sentiment
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
The Brain & Body Lab at UCLA is hiring a Staff Research Associate to work on a productive and dedicated team under the NIMH funded Teen Bugs study - investigating brain-gut communication in teens. Send your best and brightest! jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8072
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Staff Research Associate in Los Angeles, California | The Regents of the University of California on behalf of their Los Angeles Campus
UCLA is hiring a Staff Research Associate in Los Angeles, California. Review all of the job details and apply today!
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
So proud of @shibaesfand.bsky.social for this amazing achievement. Very well deserved. What a 🪨 ⭐️
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Shiba Esfand @shibaesfand.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Very honored to have recieved the NSF GRFP amidst all the current budget cuts toward research. Feeling immense gratitude to everyone who supported me, including current @drbcallaghan.bsky.social and past @levelsof.bsky.social @diegopizzagalli.bsky.social mentors! (1/3)
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Mary Ford @maryeford.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Full of gratitude-my experience as a research assistant in the bablab has meant so much to me. This has been one of the most formative chapters in my life-growing in ways I didn’t even know I needed to. Thank you for opening the door and mentorship @drbcallaghan.bsky.social @pw-savoca.bsky.social
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
HUGE congratulations to Brain & Body Lab graduating seniors: @maryeford.bsky.social, Andrea Sosa, Angelina Meng, Brandon Parenti, and Naomi Escobar. And special appearance from aspiring Bruin graduate - Freddie! All the best on your wonderful futures in science and life!
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Have recent changes led to uncertainty in your future scientific career? Wonder it's like in Australia? Good news! Monash's is seeking to hire talented EMCRs from other countries. Come join a wonderful community of brain mappers & modellers! www.monash.edu/research/eme...
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EMERGE
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
An enormous congratulations to the newly appointed Dr Fran Querdasi!
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Emi Tanaka @emitanaka.org · 02/04/2025
Looking for a postdoc in stats or a job with computer vision / deep learning? Postdoctoral position in statistics is now out at Australian National University! jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc... And also APPN is looking for a data lead @scienceanu.bsky.social jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/data-le...
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Postdoctoral Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification: Academic Level ASalary package: $85,010 - $106,702 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full time, Continuing (contingent funded) This position is continuing (contingent funded). The...
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Technically effective July 1st, but I need a celebration today. You are looking at Associate Professor with Tenure at UCLA. Tickled pink! 🤓🥳
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Go Mary!! Excited for you to be presenting this!!
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
⏰🚨 REMINDER that the @isdp.org symposium proposals are due March 31st. Come join us at the beautiful Catamaran Resort in sunny San Diego!🌞🌴 isdp.org/call-for-sym...
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Call for Symposium Submissions for ISDP 2025 - International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP)
Submit your symposium proposals by April 1, 2024 for consideration as a 1.5 hour symposium session at ISDP 2024 in Chicago, USA
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Just ordered my copy!! Can’t wait to sit down and binge this!! @drtomori.bsky.social nice work!!
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Maya Opendak @maya-opendak.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
So excited to share our Perspective out this week in Translational Psychiatry! We provide a conceptual framework for studying brain function in infancy. A true labor of love and hopefully useful for many related questions! @drbcallaghan.bsky.social Open access link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Understanding the development of a functional brain circuit: reward processing as an illustration - Translational Psychiatry
Translational Psychiatry - Understanding the development of a functional brain circuit: reward processing as an illustration
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Extremely excited to launch our new Brain & Body Lab website and branding today! It was a pleasure to work with the great team at @stellatecomms.bsky.social to create this. I am thrilled with the outcome. Please drop on over and check us out! www.brainandbodylab.psych.ucla.edu
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Brain & Body Lab
The Brain and Body Lab (BABLab) at UCLA explores how early experiences shape health and development to improve emotional and physical well-being across generations.
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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love. Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...
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Grief Makes Us Time Travelers (Gift Article)
A neuroscientist studying memory, I used to believe time was linear. Then my mother had a stroke.
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
check out the fantastic papers contained in this special issue on maternal cognition in Archives of Women’s Mental Health co edited by Jodi Pawluski and myself link.springer.com/collections/... You can read a summary in our editorial here rdcu.be/d2AZZ ❤️🥳🧠
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Julia Ditzer @juliaditzer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Today, I’m reminiscing about my summer research stay at @drbcallaghan.bsky.social 's BaBlab @UCLA! 🤩 Thanks to @cfmhlab.bsky.social's support, I spent the summer geeking out on interoception & early adversity research. 🤓 Now there’s even a news piece—read more here: tu-dresden.de/mn/psycholog...
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Julia Ditzer about her stay at UCLA
Thanks to the support of the Society of Friends and Sponsors of TU Dresden, Julia Ditzer, doctoral student at the Chair of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology at TU Dresden under the direction of...
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Post thanksgiving - day 4 of appreciating my BABLab peeps. Today is a highlight of our newest lab member @genesisflores.bsky.social who has more than hit the ground running, starting with an NSF GRFP, and working on a protocol paper for our new NIMH funded Teen Bugs study.
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Continuing our theme of giving thanks to the graduate students who make the research happen, next up for Black Friday we have a Shiba Shoutout @shibaesfand.bsky.social. Shiba joined the lab last year and has been a delight to have on our team.
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Installment #3 of thanks giving to my wonderful students and their cool research. Next is @fquerdasi.bsky.social who is on the job market right now! Fran has been working so hard on her dissertation this year and it has been a pleasure to watch her bring everything together.
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Feeling a swell of pride at #Aussie representation at Macy’s TG Day parade. ❤️😍🦃🌟 So special for my American-Aussie boy!
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Dan Wuori @danwuori.bsky.social was the best thing about Twitter. Thrilled to see him here in the blue sky! I love using his examples in my child development lectures. Follow along for wonderment and cuteness.
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Installment 2 of Thank you to my lab for being so great and making these memories! BABLab hits of the year will next feature the inimitable @ngancz.bsky.social publishing this paper on oral #microbiome changes in maltreated youth. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39280088/
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Characteristics of the oral microbiome in youth exposed to caregiving adversity - PubMed
Caregiving adversity (CA) exposure is robustly linked to increased risk for poor oral, physical, and mental health outcomes. Increasingly, the gut microbiome has garnered interest as a contributor to ...
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
For Thanksgiving I want to spend the week highlighting some work that I’m really proud of from 2024. In doing so I’m going to highlight the wonderful research of students I am so thankful and lucky to work with! 🦃
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Interoception in pregnancy: Implications for peripartum depression
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
While I appreciate and share my Uber driver’s Christmas spirit, I do think that suffocating cinnamon air freshener paired with non-stop carols is a bit much for 11am in November.
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
So neat!
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Excited to be heading to Pomona today to talk about #interoception #brain-gut-axis #adversity
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Does anyone know of starter packs for brain-gut-microbiome axis?
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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
#HiSciSky I am a developmental psychologist at UCLA Big into brain-mind-body interactions across development. Most recent work focuses on the brain-gut axis and interoception in kids, teens, and pregnant people/mammas. I also study how early experiences (esp. caregiving) impacts our development.
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