Natalie Saragosa-Harris
neuralnat.bsky.social
Natalie Saragosa-Harris
@neuralnat.bsky.social
Research Scientist
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To set up our young people for thriving futures, we need to provide them with enough healthy food.
In a new blog post, we explain how food insecurity impacts adolescents, and highlight changes to food assistance programs & related data collection: developingadolescent.semel.ucla.edu/blog/item/th...
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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2 weeks left to apply!!
I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠

Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com

Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...
CATS Lab
Child & Adolescent Translational Science Lab at Northwestern University
nucatslab.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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In a new Science Spotlight, we explain the consequences of food insecurity during #adolescence and offer ways to use scientific insights to help ensure that adolescents get the reliable nutrition their developing brains and bodies need.

Read more: developingadolescent.semel.ucla.edu/steps-for-yo...
October 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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In a new #Adaptivity podcast episode, host Ron Dahl speaks with the authors of The Disengaged Teen about how we can harness adolescents’ natural motivations for agency and connection to spark authentic engagement in education! ✨
Listen now🎙: developingadolescent.semel.ucla.edu/podcasts/ite...
September 3, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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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
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!
jobs.ucla.edu
June 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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We are #hiring a Policy & Practice Associate‼️
Join our team as we work to improve adolescent health, education, and well-being through developmental science.
Experience with processes and procedures for influencing policy is required. This position is remote.
Apply now: jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/6456?la...
May 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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As part of April's theme of #purpose & contribution, we are sharing the National Scientific Council on Adolescence report, Cultivating Purpose in Adolescence!
This report explores how and why a sense of purpose is so important during #adolescence:
developingadolescent.semel.ucla.edu/topics/item/...
Cultivating Purpose in Adolescence | Center for the Developing Adolescent
developingadolescent.semel.ucla.edu
April 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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🔬🧪🧬 SCIENTISTS! we are collecting stories from folks whose research has been disrupted by the Trump admin. Whether you’re a grad student, postdoc, faculty, we want to hear from you! ty to everyone who has already shared.

my signal: caitlingilbert.24

thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/scient...
Are you a scientist who has lost funding or grants in recent weeks? - Formstack
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March 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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The UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent is excited to join BlueSky's vibrant research & advocacy community as we work to improve #adolescent health, education, and wellbeing through developmental science! 🦋 🧠
Learn more about us on our website: developingadolescent.semel.ucla.edu
#Adolescence
Center for the Developing Adolescent
The Center for the Developing Adolescent is a transdisciplinary research center founded on the recognition that adolescence represents a maturational period of great vulnerabilities and opportunities ...
developingadolescent.semel.ucla.edu
March 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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We are seeking a full-time Research Specialist to join our team & become a LUMeNary @EmoryPsychology in Summer 2025! ✨

Applications accepted here:
staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/141227/...
And feel free to reach out to me!
January 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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🚨 New pre-print! 🚨

Previous Institutionalization is Associated with Elevated Functional Connectivity between the Nucleus Accumbens and Amygdala during Safety Learning

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

#PsychSciSky #PsychSky #Neuroscience #DevPsy
OSF
doi.org
November 23, 2024 at 6:34 AM