Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam
banner
laurelgd.bsky.social
Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam
@laurelgd.bsky.social
PINE Lab PI @ Northeastern, HAPPE EEG software creator, neuroscientist exploring how experiences shape brain & behavior development. Loves cheese. She/her
https://www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/
https://github.com/PINE-Lab/HAPPE
Reposted by Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam
Northeastern University is recruiting an Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health. 🧠🎶

Faculty have the chance to be part of the (smart, fun) Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health (and be my neighbor).

Please help spread the word!

northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health
About the Opportunity About the Opportunity: The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain ...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We have longitudinal multimodal (EEG, MRI) datasets to richly characterize developmental plasticity and an interest in public health relevant prenatal factors (e.g. iron deficiency, prenatal stress) and postnatal factors: caregiving, music, and language experiences!
Yes, PINE Lab is accepting doctoral applications this cycle in Psychology! Apps due Dec 1! Interested in early life human neuroplasticity? how early pre- and post-natal experiences/exposures (promotional/adverse) shape malleable brains? Current research here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wFZj...
Laurel_Gabard-Durnam_Research Statement.pdf
drive.google.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
🚨🚨 NEW Assistant professor position at Northeastern! Do you study sound/language/music + brain + health? Apply! We're so excited to add a new faculty member to our community! Please post widely, we begin reviewing apps Dec 15!
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health
About the Opportunity About the Opportunity: The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain ...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Reposted by Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam
Laurel has a fantastic lab and you also get to hang out with other amazing trainees including from the Department of Psychology and Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health (including from my lab)
Yes, PINE Lab is accepting doctoral applications this cycle in Psychology! Apps due Dec 1! Interested in early life human neuroplasticity? how early pre- and post-natal experiences/exposures (promotional/adverse) shape malleable brains? Current research here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wFZj...
Laurel_Gabard-Durnam_Research Statement.pdf
drive.google.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Yes, PINE Lab is accepting doctoral applications this cycle in Psychology! Apps due Dec 1! Interested in early life human neuroplasticity? how early pre- and post-natal experiences/exposures (promotional/adverse) shape malleable brains? Current research here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wFZj...
Laurel_Gabard-Durnam_Research Statement.pdf
drive.google.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Reposted by Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam
Science People: We at NSF are still recovering/catching up/getting our lives together. But the agency posted these FAQs about post-shutdown resumption of operations which might answer a lot of Qs for you: www.nsf.gov/resumption-o...
Resumption of Operations at NSF
Information for NSF staff and the research community regarding the agency's resumption of operations after a lapse in appropriations.
www.nsf.gov
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
If we haven't met yet, apparently I look like this (according to my toddler) 😂
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Excited to head to @isdp.org this week! And thrilled that I'll be recruiting graduate students and postdocs this cycle to join PINE Lab!
Please come say hi if interested (current lab studies here: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/current-stud...)
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
🚨I am in the most delightful position of having a postdoc land a faculty job! Which means I will be looking to hire at least one new postdoc this cycle! More to come soon but if you're interested feel free to email me or come say hi at @isdp.org in a week or two!
November 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Reposted by Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam
Our department is hiring two positions (2026 and 2027 start dates) - come be my colleague!

apply.interfolio.com/175428
October 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Reposted by Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam
Coming up on 1 month post-surgery, have completed 60 days of EMA, 20 sessions of MRI, 16 sessions of fNIRS, 20 sessions of EEG, not to mention blood, saliva, and a host of other data collection. It's been super fun to hang out with folks in my colleagues' labs. (Also a little exhausting!)
October 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Reposted by Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam
9 DAYS until the abstract submission deadline for the 2026 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Cape Town!

Submit your abstract by 29 October 2025. LEARN MORE: https://ow.ly/vapZ50WYsSE

#ISMRM2026 #ISMRT2026 #ISMRM #ISMRT #MagneticResonance #MRI #MedicalImaging #MR #MREducation #CapeTown
October 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Reposted by Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam
Applying for faculty jobs this cycle? Check out our latest special episode! @moeneuro.bsky.social and @drnancypadilla.bsky.social discuss when to apply, important considerations when preparing applications, and more! Listen below!

www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

#AcademicBluesky #NeuroJobs
Applying to faculty jobs 101 — Stories of WiN
This episode features Dr. Monique Smith (Assistant Professor, UCSD) discussing faculty job applications with host Dr. Nancy Padilla-Coreano.
www.storiesofwin.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
headed to ISDP shortly? Come early for this wonderful session on advancing perinatal science through open and shared data- sponsored by the International Fetal and Infant Brain and Behavior (I-FIBB) Network! Excited to offer my perspective! @isdp.org
October 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
LOVELY people, collaborative place, excellent top 10 program! Incredible opportunity, please help us share widely!
🚨Job Alert!! Please share widely!!🚨

Where: Applied Psychology, Northeastern University

What: Clinical Professor (open rank), as new program director for our Master of Science in Counseling Psychology

Why: We are a fun department 🎉 Please apply!!
October 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reposted by Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam
New lab paper in DCN! 🧠 We conducted interviews with adolescents to better understand their perceptions of neuroscience research and barriers to participation, w/qualitative data that is shaping how we design lab studies & efforts to increase representation.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Understanding barriers to adolescent participation in developmental neuroscience research
Increasing representation of youth in developmental neuroscience research is essential to elucidating neurobiological mechanisms of cognition, behavio…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reposted by Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam
Headed to @isdp.org next month?? Check out all the amazing events that our DEI committee has to offer! Make sure to save this image to help plan your conference.

#ISDP2025 @joscelinrocha.com @drkoraly.bsky.social @laurelgd.bsky.social @annamzhou.bsky.social @annavannucci.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Reposted by Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
October 8, 2025 at 11:29 PM
How good is the MR data we'll be sharing as part of this deep phenotyping study? So good that someone asked if Jonathan was sedated while viewing his resting-state data collection 😆 Watch this space!
I’m scheduled for surgery today on my Achilles tendon, followed by 2 weeks of no weight bearing.😵‍💫

So, like any good scientist, I got together 7 colleagues to study consequences of limb disuse.

Introducing the HEALING study

with @laurelgd.bsky.social @sneuroble.bsky.social @briemreid.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I am BEYOND grateful & honestly still in shock about the lovely comments from the anonymous external letter writers on my tenure case! I don't know who I'm thanking, but I hope you see this and know that I will treasure these always and they meant the world to get (we see anon. quotes)! THANK YOU!
I submitted tenure materials! There is so much to be done still, but I am proud of what we've done already since 2020. I am more grateful than I have words for my lab members, my mentors, my family. May there be many more full and fulfilling years ahead in this academy.
October 6, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Reposted by Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam
Kudos to everyone who shares their materials! I aspire to do this but have not done as well as I'd like. @laurelgd.bsky.social is inspirational in this regard. 👏
I continue to believe sharing example materials is useful in academia, so in that spirit, my tenure statements and CV are now available on our Resources for Researchers website (bottom of the New PI page: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...)
September 30, 2025 at 7:29 PM
If you have tenured and would share your own tenure application materials, I would love to build this section out on our Resources webpage! Please email me for eternal gratitude and as always, credit on the site: l.gabard-durnam@northeastern.edu
Please repost to help me reach folks to share!
I continue to believe sharing example materials is useful in academia, so in that spirit, my tenure statements and CV are now available on our Resources for Researchers website (bottom of the New PI page: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...)
September 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I continue to believe sharing example materials is useful in academia, so in that spirit, my tenure statements and CV are now available on our Resources for Researchers website (bottom of the New PI page: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...)
September 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Incredibly chuffed to share I've been selected as the 2026 APA Boyd McCandless Award winner for Division 7! It is a distinct privilege to work in the name of carrying on Boyd's legacy of deep investment in the development of youth and his own mentees through his science. I will do my very best.
September 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I submitted tenure materials! There is so much to be done still, but I am proud of what we've done already since 2020. I am more grateful than I have words for my lab members, my mentors, my family. May there be many more full and fulfilling years ahead in this academy.
September 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM