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...

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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...

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...

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

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...

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/...

🔬🧪🧬 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...

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

🚨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.

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!

🚨 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