Lily May
@lilymay.bsky.social
teaching developmental psychology at UBC, while wrangling several tiny terrors at home. I think a lot about education, parenting, inclusion, and reality TV.
she/her. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. too shy on social media to post much, but very happy to like/RT!
she/her. 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇦. too shy on social media to post much, but very happy to like/RT!
Poppy, age 3: dis is a drawing of your students, Mama
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May 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Poppy, age 3: dis is a drawing of your students, Mama
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My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
www.scientificamerican.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:03 PM
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"?
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
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Thank you @natureportfolio.bsky.social for making my review of the Anxious Generation open access for parents, policy-makers, and the public. The story told in this book runs counter science and is leading to poor policy decisions that will ultimately fail our kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
The evidence is equivocal on whether screen time is to blame for rising levels of teen depression and anxiety — and rising hysteria could distract us from tackling the real causes.
www.nature.com
December 11, 2024 at 3:03 AM
Thank you @natureportfolio.bsky.social for making my review of the Anxious Generation open access for parents, policy-makers, and the public. The story told in this book runs counter science and is leading to poor policy decisions that will ultimately fail our kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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New paper out today in PNAS 🎉 demonstrating:
1) an association between social disadvantage & child brain function can be observed as early as birth
2) these alterations are brain-wide, but most pronounced in functional networks & subcortex later linked to childhood adversity
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
1) an association between social disadvantage & child brain function can be observed as early as birth
2) these alterations are brain-wide, but most pronounced in functional networks & subcortex later linked to childhood adversity
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
December 2, 2024 at 11:26 PM
New paper out today in PNAS 🎉 demonstrating:
1) an association between social disadvantage & child brain function can be observed as early as birth
2) these alterations are brain-wide, but most pronounced in functional networks & subcortex later linked to childhood adversity
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
1) an association between social disadvantage & child brain function can be observed as early as birth
2) these alterations are brain-wide, but most pronounced in functional networks & subcortex later linked to childhood adversity
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Terrible law.
This kind of ban stigmatizes young peoples’ use of tech and mental health challenges while potentially isolating many children/teens in need from supportive social networks.
Censorship is not a mental health intervention.
www.npr.org/2024/11/28/g...
This kind of ban stigmatizes young peoples’ use of tech and mental health challenges while potentially isolating many children/teens in need from supportive social networks.
Censorship is not a mental health intervention.
www.npr.org/2024/11/28/g...
A social media ban in Australia for children under 16 will be first in the world
A social media ban for children under 16 will become first law in the world to levy fines on TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, X and Instagram for allowing youth accounts.
www.npr.org
November 29, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Terrible law.
This kind of ban stigmatizes young peoples’ use of tech and mental health challenges while potentially isolating many children/teens in need from supportive social networks.
Censorship is not a mental health intervention.
www.npr.org/2024/11/28/g...
This kind of ban stigmatizes young peoples’ use of tech and mental health challenges while potentially isolating many children/teens in need from supportive social networks.
Censorship is not a mental health intervention.
www.npr.org/2024/11/28/g...
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I've created a Black In Psychology Starter Pack to highlight the excellence of Black psychologists, #psychology trainees, psych organizations, & prospective students. Let me know, if you'd like to be added! 👨🏾🏫👩🏾🏫🧠
Help me spread the word by reposting 🙏🏽
go.bsky.app/KbrZvB8
#BlackSky #PsychSky #SciSky
Help me spread the word by reposting 🙏🏽
go.bsky.app/KbrZvB8
#BlackSky #PsychSky #SciSky
November 17, 2024 at 4:31 PM
I've created a Black In Psychology Starter Pack to highlight the excellence of Black psychologists, #psychology trainees, psych organizations, & prospective students. Let me know, if you'd like to be added! 👨🏾🏫👩🏾🏫🧠
Help me spread the word by reposting 🙏🏽
go.bsky.app/KbrZvB8
#BlackSky #PsychSky #SciSky
Help me spread the word by reposting 🙏🏽
go.bsky.app/KbrZvB8
#BlackSky #PsychSky #SciSky
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asking for an image of a professor and asking to make it "more professor", a thread.
November 30, 2023 at 10:31 PM
asking for an image of a professor and asking to make it "more professor", a thread.
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Please share: @UBCScience is searching for 15 TT faculty in diverse areas of expertise science.ubc.ca/about/careers. Included are 2 positions in Quantitative and Environmental Science as part of a hiring cluster for black faculty; you will join 6 current UBC faculty science.ubc.ca/blackscholars.
October 27, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Please share: @UBCScience is searching for 15 TT faculty in diverse areas of expertise science.ubc.ca/about/careers. Included are 2 positions in Quantitative and Environmental Science as part of a hiring cluster for black faculty; you will join 6 current UBC faculty science.ubc.ca/blackscholars.
"one answer is to focus less on having students prove what they know and more on improving their ability to use that knowledge to do something meaningful, together."
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
One Key to Student Success? Socializing in Class.
It’s one of the rare places where people who might have little in common are asked to learn together, and from one another.
www.chronicle.com
November 4, 2023 at 5:09 AM
"one answer is to focus less on having students prove what they know and more on improving their ability to use that knowledge to do something meaningful, together."
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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We are happy to share our new commentary on why using language inclusively for transgender people is perfectly appropriate biologically, socially, and scientifically. A 🧵 on the commentary by @andyperfors.bsky.social, @spiantado.bsky.social, & me
www.kiddlab.com
October 23, 2023 at 7:44 PM
We are happy to share our new commentary on why using language inclusively for transgender people is perfectly appropriate biologically, socially, and scientifically. A 🧵 on the commentary by @andyperfors.bsky.social, @spiantado.bsky.social, & me
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People who whine about “grade inflation” are almost always ignorant of the relevant scholarship on learning’s relationship to grades, which is uhhhh tenuous, at most
October 23, 2023 at 5:44 PM
People who whine about “grade inflation” are almost always ignorant of the relevant scholarship on learning’s relationship to grades, which is uhhhh tenuous, at most
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Women more likely to leave academia due to work place climate than due to work family conflict.
1/ New paper! “Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty” w/ N Laberge KH Wapman @samzhang AC Morgan M Galesic BK Fosdick @danlarremore @aaronclauset: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵
A systematic study of gendered rates & reasons for faculty attrition in US academia 🧵
October 20, 2023 at 8:44 PM
Women more likely to leave academia due to work place climate than due to work family conflict.
I've been slowly reading @jessifer.bsky.social 's "Undoing the Grade" while my big kid is in gymnastics class on the weekend. This quote really hit home today... 🔥🔥🔥
October 15, 2023 at 3:30 AM
I've been slowly reading @jessifer.bsky.social 's "Undoing the Grade" while my big kid is in gymnastics class on the weekend. This quote really hit home today... 🔥🔥🔥
how many different social media platforms do I need to join, before I get over my shyness about actually posting gahhhh???
September 29, 2023 at 5:17 AM
how many different social media platforms do I need to join, before I get over my shyness about actually posting gahhhh???
AWKWARD FIRST POST on this new place, just to get it out of the way so I don't feel the pressure on subsequent posts.
September 20, 2023 at 4:56 AM
AWKWARD FIRST POST on this new place, just to get it out of the way so I don't feel the pressure on subsequent posts.