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Victoria Guazzelli Williamson

@vgwpsych.bsky.social
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PhD in clinical & developmental psychology from @uoregon, current t32 postdoc @ucla, interested in adolescent social development and internalizing psychopathology vgwpsych.wixsite.com/home

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Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New paper🗞️ How does the pace of brain development relate to mental health? Using brain scans and symptom data from youth in the ABCD Study, we found that youth whose brains increasingly drifted from the typical path for their age also showed rising anxiety, low mood, and behavioural difficulties.
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Synchrony between brain age and internalising and externalising symptoms across adolescence - Communications Biology
Self-supervised neural networks are directly compared to category-selective visual cortex using a functional localizer approach, indicating that model features exhibit many classic effects of high-lev...
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Last year, I was honoured to give the Huttenlocher Lecture at the @fluxsociety.bsky.social conference. Over the past year, I’ve been writing it into a paper: The developing adolescent brain: Implications for youth justice and children in criminal proceedings www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Victoria Guazzelli Williamson @vgwpsych.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What are folks without research funds doing when they get a pub accepted at a journal with a high APC? 😩
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clare mccann @clarefmccann.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New 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...
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Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
More U.S. kids live in net worth poverty than income poverty, and almost no one studies it. Our new paper argues wealth deprivation shapes children's development in its own right, and that standard wealth measures miss the debts poorer families carry. academic.oup.com/cdpers/advan...
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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ron Dahl gives the Huttenlocher Lecture #Flux2026. Very few other scientists have had such a profound impact on our approach to studying adolescent development, tracing back to his pivotal 2004 keynote/paper on adolescence as a time of opportunity. nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1196/...
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Victoria Guazzelli Williamson @vgwpsych.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Thrilled to share that I’m starting a new position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)! Very excited to be joining the Child Mental Health T32 at UCLA - Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior and for the exciting work ahead! 🤩
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Victoria Guazzelli Williamson @vgwpsych.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Excited to share a recent review with @prof-nick-allen.bsky.social and @jenndsn.bsky.social: Multidimensional social cognitive profiles: Implications for adolescent internalizing psychopathology out in Trends in Cognitive Sciences! Free access until Aug 28: authors.elsevier.com/a/…
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”
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Paige Amormino @amormino.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Saving SBE starts before the bill is written. SBE needs a distinct FY27 appropriation. If your sch. is on the list, get a group of colleagues to meet w your House/Sen. offices. Esp. for Republican seats, direct constituent comms matter. Timeline/templates/updates: www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337
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Paige Amormino - Saving SBE starts before the bill is written.
Right now, NSF SBE does not have its own separate line of funding in the FY2027 budget structure. This matters because if SBE is not specifically protected ...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 04/04/2026
Surprise, surprise. The party hell-bent on destroying the social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental fabric of the US doesn't want experts studying "how social, economic, political, cultural and environmental forces affect the lives of people."
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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...
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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Excited to share our latest paper on computational mechanisms of self-enhancement with links to mental health. We used hierarchical Bayesian drift diffusion modeling to decompose choices on a social comparison task and relate them internalizing symptoms. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/GPFSV...
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Computational Mechanisms of Self-Enhancement During Social Comparison and Their Relationship to Internalizing Symptoms - Moriah S. Stendel, John A. Clithero, Robert S. Chavez, 2026
Internalizing disorders, such as anxiety and depression, commonly feature cognitive biases in self-evaluation, particularly in the context of social comparison....
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Dani Beck, PhD @danibeck.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I wrote a short piece on what funding and hiring committees often overlook when assessing merit. @academic-chatter.bsky.social
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What committees miss when they judge merit
Diversity and equity policies are often dismissed as a numbers game: too many white men at the top, so institutions try to balance the…
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2
A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...
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I Wrote Research Funding Announcements for NIH for 22 Years. This Year They’ve Published 14
How NIH went from 756 funding announcements to 14 in two years — and what it means for every disease that depends on federal research
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26) Directorates to follow 1/10
A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.
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Victoria Guazzelli Williamson @vgwpsych.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
SPSP is crazy. So many presentations on climate change and environment, yet folks aren’t allowed to take the leftover lunches without tickets because all leftover lunches “must” be thrown away 🤔 Anyways is you see me, say hi! #SPSP2026
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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Apologies, here is the right link to apply for postdoc positions in the lab: forms.gle/Hb8rS9hD3BV7... Please repost to help us spread the word!
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João Guassi Moreira @jfguassimoreira.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
My lab at UW Madison is hiring a new lab manager! I’m looking for a motivated and detail-oriented person to help run the lab’s day-to-day, including our ongoing neuroimaging and behavioral studies. This is especially well suited for graduating undergrads thinking about grad school. Link below
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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
If we keep saying this generation is being destroyed, how will adolescents ever believe in their own potential? My TEDx talk is live on @ted.com. Changes in their brains, bodies, and social worlds create opportunities for young people to grow & thrive - with our support. www.ted.com/talks/jennif...
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The surprising science of adolescent brains
Neuroscientist Jennifer Pfeifer digs into the fascinating brain changes driving young people’s behavior during the critical years of adolescence. She debunks some of the biggest misunderstandings abou...
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Theresa Cheng @tcheng.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Update: My contract won't be cancelled due to an internal fund. This is a personal relief after weeks of uncertainty! Still thinking about: how answering deep questions in basic science often takes years, and how much we are losing now in talent, infrastructure, and intellectual freedom
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Sherry Pagoto, PhD @drsherrypagoto.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report
National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.
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Madeleine Goldberg (she/her) @maddiegoldberg.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Absolutely gorgeous weather for #standupforscience2025 in Salem, OR today! It’s a privilege to work with and learn from @jenndsn.bsky.social and @amaliaskyberg.bsky.social , and an even greater honor to defend our work and many others’ alongside them 😊💕👩🏻‍🔬
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
The @standupforscience.bsky.social DC rally is on. What we are hearing from around the country: "this is big!" "biggest rally I have seen around here in years and years" The public cares about medical research--and students, GenZ, and other people too are ready to stand up.
Crowd at Lincoln memorial
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Angela Huttner @angelahuttner.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Good morning, US colleagues! In Switzerland, we'll speak up for you and #science everywhere! #Standupforscience walkout in #Geneva So many came even with little notice ☺️ We'll stay with you, and we'll only grow 🙏🏼 to the great leadership of #unige #ScienceSky #MedSky #EpiSky
Photo shows a Swiss scientist holding a flyer for Stand Up for Science.Photo shows Swiss scientists holding flyers for Stand Up for Science.Photo shows Swiss scientists holding flyers for Stand Up for Science.
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Armelle Rancillac 🔬 @rancillac.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
#StandUpForScience Science not silence!
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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Hello from #StandUpForScience @standupforscience.bsky.social in Washington, DC!
Selfie in front of a crowd at the Lincoln Memorial
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Laura D’Adamo @lauradadamo.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Philly standing up for science today! 🧪🧬👩🏻‍🔬 #standupforscience2025
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Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
In case you needed more evidence that social media may not be the thing we should be obsessing about when it comes to wellbeing…another meta-analysis of experimental data showing no link.
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Nina C. Christie | PhD, MPH @ninachristie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
BIG NEWS for @standupforscience.bsky.social New Mexico! The Governor of New Mexico officially signed a proclamation declaring Friday March 7th, 2025 as Stand Up For Science Day!! @govmlg.bsky.social I stand for science, New Mexico stands for science. I'd like to know, what do you stand for?
Image is of an official proclamation by the State of New Mexico with an official seal, declaring March 7, 2025 to be "Stand Up For Science" Day.
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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Apropos of nothing, now is a good time to brush up on your rights as a protester or protest organizer. You are largely protected under the first amendment, thiugh there are limitations. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...
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Know Your Rights | Protesters’ Rights | ACLU
The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place certain narrow restrictions on the exerc...
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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I wrote about why the most important Oscar nominee is the movie about how living under authoritarian rule can feel surprisingly normal.
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The Year’s Most Urgent Best Picture Contender Is the One Almost No One Has Seen
I’m Still Here has a warning—and a reason for hope.
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Victoria Guazzelli Williamson @vgwpsych.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Could not be more thrilled to share that I matched at my dream #APPIC internship site at UPMC/Western Psychiatric Hospital!!! I am indebted to my community and star mentors (@jenndsn.bsky.social and @prof-nick-allen.bsky.social) for supporting me every step of the way! Pittsburgh, here I come!! 🤩
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Mitch Prinstein @mitchprinstein.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Troubling: Congresspeople say they are NOT hearing from academics, or university administrators. PLEASE SPEAK UP! Oppose these budget cuts to research, health, student loans! www.votervoice.net/APAAdvocacy/... Tell others to do the same!
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Tell Congress Today: Reject Budget Resolution that Will Harm the Nation’s Health
Please take 2 minutes today to ask your officials to oppose the proposed $3 trillion in federal budget cuts. If Congress moves forward with its current proposed budget resolution, these cuts will...
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
DOGE plans to slash about as much ($4B) from NIH, and hence from universities and medical centers, as the government gave SpaceX ($3.8B) last year. It's not about the money and government "waste." It's never been about the money or government "waste." www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
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Elon Musk wants to cut government spending. Tesla and SpaceX benefit from it
Over the last 16 years, Musk's business deals with the government total nearly $20 billion, according to federal contracting data.
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
If you are on a study section that will not be reviewing diversity fellowships but will be reviewing "regular" fellowships, your next move is clear. Do not participate in the review unless all submissions can be reviewed together. Reclassify diversity grants as "regular" grants & review them all
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Still time to apply pressure before RFK nomination- come armed with data that speaks to Senators' concerns (your vote, state-level economy, etc)
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Margaret Crane, PhD @margaretcrane.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
A lot of folks have followed me after I posted about NIH funding. Glad you're interested in the topic! You can help by contacting congress to voice your support for federally funded research and encourage them to increase, rather than cut NIH/NSF, funding in the 2025 fiscal year. Links below:
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