Dashiell Sacks
@dashiellsacks.bsky.social
Research fellow at Harvard Medical School / Boston Children's Hospital.
Passionate about youth mental health.
Interested in developmental cognitive neuroscience approaches.
Aussie 🇦🇺
Passionate about youth mental health.
Interested in developmental cognitive neuroscience approaches.
Aussie 🇦🇺
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I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research
The announcement this week that CSIRO are to cut 350 research jobs is another damning indictment on Australia’s ongoing failure to prioritise research and development.
thepoint.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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Another ~monthly update on the state of the #psychjobs market: more jobs continue to trickle in, though at a decreasing pace. We've nearly hit parity with covid in absolute terms, although the prior year baseline was higher this year than that, so we still see a slightly larger relative decrease.
November 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Another ~monthly update on the state of the #psychjobs market: more jobs continue to trickle in, though at a decreasing pace. We've nearly hit parity with covid in absolute terms, although the prior year baseline was higher this year than that, so we still see a slightly larger relative decrease.
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Neurophysiological sensitivity in early childhood: The aperiodic EEG slope moderates the association between maternal anxiety and child internalizing symptoms https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.01.25339315v1
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Neurophysiological sensitivity in early childhood: The aperiodic EEG slope moderates the association between maternal anxiety and child internalizing symptoms https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.01.25339315v1
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#ThisWeekInNPP
This 🔄 Review 🔄 highlights behavioral inhibition (BI) & maternal anxiety in infancy as anxiety risk factors; infants w/ BI or maternal stress exposure have altered 🧠 patterns in attention & control systems, predicting anxiety in adolescence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This 🔄 Review 🔄 highlights behavioral inhibition (BI) & maternal anxiety in infancy as anxiety risk factors; infants w/ BI or maternal stress exposure have altered 🧠 patterns in attention & control systems, predicting anxiety in adolescence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Early-life neural correlates of behavioral inhibition and anxiety risk - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Early-life neural correlates of behavioral inhibition and anxiety risk
www.nature.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
#ThisWeekInNPP
This 🔄 Review 🔄 highlights behavioral inhibition (BI) & maternal anxiety in infancy as anxiety risk factors; infants w/ BI or maternal stress exposure have altered 🧠 patterns in attention & control systems, predicting anxiety in adolescence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This 🔄 Review 🔄 highlights behavioral inhibition (BI) & maternal anxiety in infancy as anxiety risk factors; infants w/ BI or maternal stress exposure have altered 🧠 patterns in attention & control systems, predicting anxiety in adolescence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le...
#autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic
#autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic
A LEAP into the future, or off a cliff: Wellcome LEAP's new $50M program
A few days ago, I saw this post on LinkedIn: How does the gut microbiome shape early brain development? That’s what FORM, a new $50 million...
deevybee.blogspot.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
New blogpost on my concerns about Wellcome LEAP new $50m program on autism/microbiome links. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-le...
#autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic
#autism #microbiome #biomarkers #diagnostic
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Temperament and Psychopathology: Time-varying associations from infancy to adolescence https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.15.25338125v1
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Temperament and Psychopathology: Time-varying associations from infancy to adolescence https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.15.25338125v1
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The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs
September 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs
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My lab has an open post-doc position!
We will begin reviewing applications as they come in.
The post-doc will work with a vibrant research team at Penn State in the Department of Psychology and the Child Study Center.
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
1/3
We will begin reviewing applications as they come in.
The post-doc will work with a vibrant research team at Penn State in the Department of Psychology and the Child Study Center.
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
1/3
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, The Cognition, Affect, and Temperament Lab, College of the Liberal Arts, Department of Psychology-2
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
August 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
My lab has an open post-doc position!
We will begin reviewing applications as they come in.
The post-doc will work with a vibrant research team at Penn State in the Department of Psychology and the Child Study Center.
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
1/3
We will begin reviewing applications as they come in.
The post-doc will work with a vibrant research team at Penn State in the Department of Psychology and the Child Study Center.
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
1/3
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The NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Hub is now available!
•Researchers can explore ABCD & HBCD Study data in one place – with robust query & data analysis tools, documentation, & workflows
•Learn more & apply for data access: www.nbdc-datahub.org
@theabcdstudy.bsky.social
•Researchers can explore ABCD & HBCD Study data in one place – with robust query & data analysis tools, documentation, & workflows
•Learn more & apply for data access: www.nbdc-datahub.org
@theabcdstudy.bsky.social
NBDC Data Hub
NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Sharing Platform: Unifying ABCD and HBCD data management in one powerful platform.
www.nbdc-datahub.org
June 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The NIH Brain Development Cohorts (NBDC) Data Hub is now available!
•Researchers can explore ABCD & HBCD Study data in one place – with robust query & data analysis tools, documentation, & workflows
•Learn more & apply for data access: www.nbdc-datahub.org
@theabcdstudy.bsky.social
•Researchers can explore ABCD & HBCD Study data in one place – with robust query & data analysis tools, documentation, & workflows
•Learn more & apply for data access: www.nbdc-datahub.org
@theabcdstudy.bsky.social
🚨New paper🚨
EEG aperiodic slope & offset followed nonlinear trajectories from infancy to middle childhood
🧠 Trajectories varied by brain region & sex
🧩 Maternal anxiety showed age-specific associations with slope; direction varied by developmental stage
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
EEG aperiodic slope & offset followed nonlinear trajectories from infancy to middle childhood
🧠 Trajectories varied by brain region & sex
🧩 Maternal anxiety showed age-specific associations with slope; direction varied by developmental stage
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
June 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
🚨New paper🚨
EEG aperiodic slope & offset followed nonlinear trajectories from infancy to middle childhood
🧠 Trajectories varied by brain region & sex
🧩 Maternal anxiety showed age-specific associations with slope; direction varied by developmental stage
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
EEG aperiodic slope & offset followed nonlinear trajectories from infancy to middle childhood
🧠 Trajectories varied by brain region & sex
🧩 Maternal anxiety showed age-specific associations with slope; direction varied by developmental stage
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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all this talk about changes in p-value magnitude being interpreted as an increase in the "quality of evidence" necessitates that i share this. we all should share and actually read this in fact (for starters).
#stats #metasci
#stats #metasci
The Difference Between “Significant” and “Not Significant” is not Itself Statistically Significant
It is common to summarize statistical comparisons by declarations of statistical significance or nonsignificance. Here we discuss one problem with such declarations, namely that changes in statisti...
www.tandfonline.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Maternal anxiety and depression influence children's internalizing symptoms through changes in brain activity by age five.
by Sacks DD, Wang Y (...) Bosquet Enlow M et 5 al. in J Child Psychol Psychiatry #MedSky
📖 read the article: https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpp.14129
by Sacks DD, Wang Y (...) Bosquet Enlow M et 5 al. in J Child Psychol Psychiatry #MedSky
📖 read the article: https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpp.14129
February 25, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Maternal anxiety and depression influence children's internalizing symptoms through changes in brain activity by age five.
by Sacks DD, Wang Y (...) Bosquet Enlow M et 5 al. in J Child Psychol Psychiatry #MedSky
📖 read the article: https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpp.14129
by Sacks DD, Wang Y (...) Bosquet Enlow M et 5 al. in J Child Psychol Psychiatry #MedSky
📖 read the article: https://acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpp.14129
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Fleshed out this awesome slide to share with my lab too - keen for any feedback on things I might have gotten wrong
May 7, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Fleshed out this awesome slide to share with my lab too - keen for any feedback on things I might have gotten wrong
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Join us next Tuesday, April 22nd at 11:00am EST for a free Earth Day panel discussion on Recycling Archival FIT Neuroimaging Data with @dashiellsacks.bsky.social and Dr. Laura Cabral!
Registration is free and open to all at: tinyurl.com/fitngearthday
Registration is free and open to all at: tinyurl.com/fitngearthday
April 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Join us next Tuesday, April 22nd at 11:00am EST for a free Earth Day panel discussion on Recycling Archival FIT Neuroimaging Data with @dashiellsacks.bsky.social and Dr. Laura Cabral!
Registration is free and open to all at: tinyurl.com/fitngearthday
Registration is free and open to all at: tinyurl.com/fitngearthday
🚨New paper🚨 EEG frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA) mediated the association between maternal and child internalizing symptoms. 🧠➡️🧠 Greater maternal anxiety/depression at age 3 → more right relative cortical activation (right FAA) at age 5 → child internalizing symptoms at 7. 📖 doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...
February 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
🚨New paper🚨 EEG frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA) mediated the association between maternal and child internalizing symptoms. 🧠➡️🧠 Greater maternal anxiety/depression at age 3 → more right relative cortical activation (right FAA) at age 5 → child internalizing symptoms at 7. 📖 doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...
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Public notice:
If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-).
@academic-chatter.bsky.social #OpenScience
If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-).
@academic-chatter.bsky.social #OpenScience
February 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Public notice:
If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-).
@academic-chatter.bsky.social #OpenScience
If you want to read a research article, please don't pay for the paper on the publisher's website. All that money goes to the publisher, we don't get any of it. Instead, contact us. We'll be happy to send you the paper :-).
@academic-chatter.bsky.social #OpenScience
Great advice re how to communicate research's value in this thread.
Having funded teams/contracts that required six figure+ funds a few times now, these numbers SOUND really huge in isolation to normal folks but they're not! Don't make floating numbers! I like to say things like this: "A cancer lab is basically a small business, with many jobs created by each grant"
Earth & Life Sciences Academics communicating the new EO about indirect rates, imma need you to improve yer messaging- maybe don't say "If I get a million dollar grant, my uni gets another $700k to keep the lights on & water running" bc isn't going to get the traction you think it is-
February 9, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Great advice re how to communicate research's value in this thread.
New research out in Psychophysiology (doi.org/10.1111/psyp...). The EEG aperiodic slope, thought to reflect cortical excitatory/inhibitory balance, was linked to temperament traits (surgency, regulation) in infancy and moderated associations between maternal anxiety/depression and infant regulation.
<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library
In this study, we demonstrate novel associations among EEG aperiodic slope, the temperament domains of orienting/regulation and surgency, and maternal anxiety/depressive symptoms in infancy. The resu...
doi.org
January 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
New research out in Psychophysiology (doi.org/10.1111/psyp...). The EEG aperiodic slope, thought to reflect cortical excitatory/inhibitory balance, was linked to temperament traits (surgency, regulation) in infancy and moderated associations between maternal anxiety/depression and infant regulation.