Postdoc @UCLA📚 Visiting postdoctoral scholar @Stanford 🧬 Science junkie 🔬 Dog mom 🐾 I study stress, health, & birth control use from an evo perspective
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So honored to have been selected to receive the UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research today! 🥰
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Still bubbling with energy from the powerful @NASEM_Health workshop on Essential Health Care Services Related to Anxiety and Mood Disorders in Women
Honored to have met so many brilliant advocates for #womenshealth 💪
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So excited to speak at the @NASEM_Health workshop on Essential Health Care Services Related to #Anxiety & #MoodDisorders in Women tomorrow!! There is still time to register for this free hybrid meeting at: ow.ly/jinN50QzorV
#WomensHealth
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Looking for measures to use in your next EMA study? We gathered a few here!
mdpi.com/2077-0383/13/1/24
Now published, our new article in the J. of Clinical Medicine, "Using ecological momentary assessments to study how daily fluctuations in psychological states impact #stress, #wellbeing, and #health! Let by our incredible post-doc, @PsychdOnScience
See: mdpi.com/2077-0383/13/1/24
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Caveats and next steps are detailed in the paper. I didn't get a big enough sample size to tease apart generational effects, but do report effects by progestin generation in the supplementals ars.els-cdn.com/content/imag…!👀
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... when HC users had rises in cortisol post-stress, their moods got more negative as well.
Results suggest that HC use alters women's inflammatory stress reactivity in ways that might make them more susceptible to stress-induced negative mood.
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In naturally cycling women, when cortisol rose IL-6 rose as well.
In HC users, when cortisol rose, tnf-a rose with it. Additionally, ...
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Biologically, I found HC users had higher levels of tnf-a both before and after stress and a larger decrease in IL-1b post-stress (vs. non-users). Cortisol results were unexpected (see paper for discussion).
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This is the first study to assess differences in inflammatory stress reactivity between HC users and non-users in vivo.
Subjectively, HC users reported more stress than non-users after the TSST, a psychosocial stress task (for a full hour after the stress test ended!!)
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In our new paper (collab with @UCLAStressLab & @SnyderShot lab), we break down different omic layers, give recommendations for everything from study design to analytic approaches in multi-omics studies, and provide estimates of costs and analyte yields with different omics types
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Have you, a PNI/health/social scientist, started doing bio work and then thought to yourself,
"hmm, I feel like this could be way more complicated, expensive, and difficult to interpret??"
Well then buckle in my multi-omics curious friends, bc I have just the paper for you:
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The #hbes2023 student mentor lunch is in full swing! Students: come, eat, and be mentored.
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Going to @HumBehEvoSoc ? I'm looking for members willing to serve as mentors for the student mentorship lunch! Topics of interest are listed below. If you're interested, DM me your email, and I'll follow up!
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This was a huge project, and science is a team sport, so check out the team: @GeorgeSlavich @LydiaGRoos @dp_moriarity @jenna_c_alley @eric_shattuck @ChrisWebbphd @UCLAStressLab (9/9)
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SST is evolutionary at its core, which means I got to write some fun sections throughout that highlight ideas from some of my favorite evo scholars! (6/9)
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That is, we can likely survive ok in a state of social neutrality, but, having meaningful, safe social connections throughout our social networks does more than prevent harm - it increases health, happiness, and well-being! (5/9)
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The basic tenets of SST are simple: we’re designed to seek and foster social safety bc this confers fitness benefits (we are a social species, after all). Social threats harm our health and well-being (3/9)
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Fig 1 lays out the mechanistic, often bi-directional, pathways through which social-environmental conditions impact bio processes, and eventually, health and behavior (2/9)
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Scrunchie, who is always transparent about his data cleaning and analysis plan, with his full underbite on display.
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In memory of John, I would love to hear your favorite animal behavior finding you read about in his textbook! Mine is the alpha, beta, gamma male mating strategies in marine isopods.
We lost John Alcock on January 15th, 2023 at age 80 to Parkinson’s disease. In addition to being my Dad and role model, he was a prolific scientist and author, proudest of his Animal Behavior textbook, with an insatiable curiosity for the world and all life that evolved in it.
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Excited to share some findings today at ZAMM about women’s attunement to musical quality (and if this can help us slow the spread of a zombie apocalypse through early zombie detection)
Livestream: youtu.be/GlUHMxxuQPI
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I did a thing where I didn’t do anything with my hair for five years over grad school (too busy/poor for cuts and color). See Fig. 1a-1b for pre-post grad school hair, and Fig. 1c for my new postdoc hair.
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Check out this fabulous evolution-themed comic, created by a very talented high school student (shared with their permission, find more of their work on insta: instagram.com/continuityeerr… ) 💜
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Looking for career advice? Swing by the student mentoring event, starting at 3:45 UTC, to chat with these amazing early career researchers! (Zoom link in the program) #HBES2022
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Successfully defended my dissertation project today (I investigated inflammatory responses to stress in women on the pill) 🎉 and my fabulous labmate @KatjaCunningham decorated my office!! Feeling very accomplished and loved 💕
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Y'all. Look at what @KatjaCunningham made me for my birthday!! How clever and wonderful is she?? 💕
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The @sarahehillphd lab is accepting a new grad student for 2022!! Send us your rockstar undergrads interested in women's hormones :) Happy to answer any questions about life in the Hill lab!
App info: cse.tcu.edu/psychology/gradu…
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My childhood cat is approaching his last days 😢 and I know y'all think you have the best cat, but he really was the best friend I could have had growing up 💕
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Fabulous air bnb in Colorado. Watched storms over pike's peak turn into rainbows, saw fireworks from my bed (far enough away that they didn't scare my pup), and the place came with an extra dog to cuddle during my stay 💕
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Taking a break from science to hang out with this puppy for a bit (puppy sitting). Meet Marceline, the bulldog queen.
She's a monster and I absolutely adore her.
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I crocheted this baby sack. It magically turns babies into dogs, which, imo, really ups the value of a baby.
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Today I made one of my chickens a Santa hat! 🎄
Chickens do not seem to enjoy wearing hats. If you were wondering.
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A normal tree, three themed grinch trees, a homemade fireplace, and a little village. Even the art is festive. Tis the season 🎄
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Forgot to post the lab halloween picture this year. We won the costume contest, and I'm certain it had little to do with us being one of the only department entries. Ft @KatjaCunningham and twitterless matthew
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Writing my dissertation has been about 30% writing and 70% staring into space and now it seems my dog thinks that staring into space is how you get a PhD. He's practiced his staring and is ready for his dog-torate now please.
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I kicked ass last week. Submitted a first author empirical paper, got a late draft of another one to my advisor, and finished this charmander baby sack 🎉 (Now if I could just get my dissertation proposal mapped out..)
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I have been gamifying my work lately to help me avoid picking up my phone, using an app called focus plant. It's very cute and I would absolutely recommend for anyone who feels like they deserve an external reward for not scrolling through twitter during the work day.
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Lhasa apsos are great too! Cousin to the shih-tzu, and mine has always been a bit quieter than the shih-tzus I have known! (Also no shedding, no drool!)
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Scrunchie wishes I would just leave him alone. He is trying to learn everything he can about immune function and does not need me distracting him. 12/10 great focus pup.
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Also reading the witcher books on my tablet.
#6books6people @sarahehillphd @KatjaCunningham @_torishort @JeffGassen @KhandisBlake @daxkellie
Thanks @durkeepk - plus Innate and Sapiens: A brief history of humankind on my iPad, and A mind of her own: The evolutionary psychology of women on my desk at work. Maybe this is why it takes me forever to finish books 🤷🏻♀️
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