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Leanna McWood
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HDFS AIRS Lab | I’m interested in understanding how to promote sleep, health, and adjustment in the context of challenging peer and family relationships.
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Please come check out my lab members at our posters for SRCD from my project focused on a cool peer mentoring program!
April 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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It is worth stating clearly, since stories like that from the Times and similar outlets continue, in the face of overwhelming evidence, to refuse to do so: This is fascism. It is what happens in a dictatorship. It does not happen in a functioning democracy. It will not stop at people on university campuses who opposed a genocide in Gaza, or at Venezuelans with tattoos who had followed rules about applying for asylum. "Dictatorship" isn't something that just gets applied retroactively in textbooks to distant places; it can, in fact, happen here, and it will be marked by more and more masked agents of the state, blithely ignoring the questions about their shyness, as they put another person who said the wrong thing into the back of a van.
March 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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This is not a drill!!
jennaudrey.bsky.social Jenn Kauffman @jennaudrey.bsky.social · Feb 11
17 states are suing to end Section 504, which ensures that schools, hospitals, and other places that receive federal funding cannot engage in #disability discrimination.

Join the Zoom to learn how you can help stop the attack on Section 504: dredf-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 11, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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This is not the kind of news I was prepared for today.
February 8, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Today I made three phone calls, one to my representative and one to each of my senators. All to their DC offices. My goals is to call all three every weekday at both their DC and local offices. My next mission is learning when my rep will be in town (especially).
February 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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I’m working on organizing an interest meeting for a potential caucus at #SRCD focused on disability/chronic illness! If you’re interested please come and if you might want to help me with the meeting reach out ASAP! Please share this!
January 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Good news today! My most recent publication on discrimination and health/sleep in adolescence is officially out in the Journal of Health Psychology! Excited that years of hard work on this paper are finally paying off 💕
January 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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This is one of my work from home buddies!
A mostly white toy poodle with a brown head and brown spot on his butt is picture laying on a white blanket with black pine trees. A gray laptop is in the background on the gray couch.
December 31, 2024 at 7:17 PM
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Holidays like this one really make me feel time doesn’t exist how we use it day to day. This is one of my favorite things to think about so it does come up other times, too 🤣
December 31, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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Okay how can I save things I see!?
December 27, 2024 at 11:19 PM
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All five of the posters my students and I submitted to #SRCD25 were accepted! Two undergraduate and three graduate students will get to share about all the awesome research going on in my lab at #NDSU 🎉
December 20, 2024 at 6:37 PM
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The developmental science program at North Dakota State University is taking applications this year! If you’d like to study adolescence, sleep, or disability related topics please reach out to me! I’m happy to chat about potential research opportunities in my lab!
December 13, 2024 at 4:07 AM
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I started an affinity group at my university and our first meeting is in five days. It’s a fiction book club to read from own voices diverse perspectives 🎉 I’m so excited!
December 5, 2024 at 2:13 AM
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I officially deleted X and I do feel a bit of nostalgia for #academictwitter days and building my connections there. Who should I follow over here? I’m interested in #adolescence and study a variety of things within this age group. Really interested in the intersections of identities!
December 3, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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I’m spending my free time working on what guides my research or what my longer term research goals are. Reflecting on my favorite parts of this job and how to increase them. Collaborating is truly the best part.
December 3, 2024 at 2:19 AM
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I’m working on following folks here that I used to follow on the app that shall not be named so that I can delete it ASAP! I research adolescent development!
November 16, 2024 at 3:10 PM