Theresa Cheng
@tcheng.bsky.social
Developmental scientist and educator at Stanford. Interested in learning, brain development, adolescence, care & caregiving, and mutual aid.
Based in Los Angeles
Based in Los Angeles
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🔬✨Applications are open! The Science for Public Good Fund offers up to $1500 to support community-driven science advocacy projects. From workshops to local campaigns, you can help spark change.
🔗 Apply here now: act.ucsusa.org/4nCzPhl
🔗 Apply here now: act.ucsusa.org/4nCzPhl
October 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🔬✨Applications are open! The Science for Public Good Fund offers up to $1500 to support community-driven science advocacy projects. From workshops to local campaigns, you can help spark change.
🔗 Apply here now: act.ucsusa.org/4nCzPhl
🔗 Apply here now: act.ucsusa.org/4nCzPhl
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Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
July 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
These are really digestible – thanks!
Interested in the latest research on adolescent development?💡🧠
Check out our Summer Research Roundup, a curated list of new research from the field of #adolescence. This season's issue highlights sleep, prosocial behavior, adversity, and more:
developingadolescent.semel.ucla.edu/topics/item/...
Check out our Summer Research Roundup, a curated list of new research from the field of #adolescence. This season's issue highlights sleep, prosocial behavior, adversity, and more:
developingadolescent.semel.ucla.edu/topics/item/...
July 15, 2025 at 6:37 PM
These are really digestible – thanks!
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I am not alarmist. I'm writing what needs to be said. Higher ed is on the brink of collapse and so much could be lost. College, alongside the military, is a second family for many adults. It is where people fall in love, pick sports teams, meet lifelong friends, and form a professional identity. A 🧵
May 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I am not alarmist. I'm writing what needs to be said. Higher ed is on the brink of collapse and so much could be lost. College, alongside the military, is a second family for many adults. It is where people fall in love, pick sports teams, meet lifelong friends, and form a professional identity. A 🧵
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🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
May 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday
📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful
Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
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
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
Welp. I'm a postdoc whose NIH funding source has just been cancelled in a mass grant termination targeting Harvard. We've been using these funds to study how puberty affects the brain and adolescent mental health.
May 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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
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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What a damn shame! Now more than ever do we need more research insight into understanding the mental health of kids! 😡 #academicSky
Welp. I'm a postdoc whose NIH funding source has just been cancelled in a mass grant termination targeting Harvard. We've been using these funds to study how puberty affects the brain and adolescent mental health.
May 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM
What a damn shame! Now more than ever do we need more research insight into understanding the mental health of kids! 😡 #academicSky
Welp. I'm a postdoc whose NIH funding source has just been cancelled in a mass grant termination targeting Harvard. We've been using these funds to study how puberty affects the brain and adolescent mental health.
May 15, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Welp. I'm a postdoc whose NIH funding source has just been cancelled in a mass grant termination targeting Harvard. We've been using these funds to study how puberty affects the brain and adolescent mental health.
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Excited to share the DIMS Dashboard—a tool for displaying multimodal, extracted time series alongside the original video source! It’s designed to support and inspire a richer qualitative–quantitative research cycle.
Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators and mentors who made this possible! 🙌
Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators and mentors who made this possible! 🙌
Postprint: osf.io/987fm_v1 To appear in Proceedings of Cog Sci 2025
DIMS Dashboard for Exploring Dynamic Interactions and Multimodal Signals.
The interdisciplinary @graceqmiao.bsky.social in the lead here! Developing a dynamic dashboard for a quali-quanti social neuroscience research cycle!
DIMS Dashboard for Exploring Dynamic Interactions and Multimodal Signals.
The interdisciplinary @graceqmiao.bsky.social in the lead here! Developing a dynamic dashboard for a quali-quanti social neuroscience research cycle!
May 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Excited to share the DIMS Dashboard—a tool for displaying multimodal, extracted time series alongside the original video source! It’s designed to support and inspire a richer qualitative–quantitative research cycle.
Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators and mentors who made this possible! 🙌
Huge thanks to my amazing collaborators and mentors who made this possible! 🙌
Delighted that my first post on Bluesky is this joyful announcement. Rümeysa is a fellow developmental scientist and her imprisonment for protected speech should never have happened.
I've been following this closely and appreciate folks who've been breaking down the legal proceedings — thank you!
I've been following this closely and appreciate folks who've been breaking down the legal proceedings — thank you!
May 9, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Delighted that my first post on Bluesky is this joyful announcement. Rümeysa is a fellow developmental scientist and her imprisonment for protected speech should never have happened.
I've been following this closely and appreciate folks who've been breaking down the legal proceedings — thank you!
I've been following this closely and appreciate folks who've been breaking down the legal proceedings — thank you!