Postdoc @UCLA📚 Visiting postdoctoral scholar @Stanford 🧬 Science junkie 🔬 Dog mom 🐾 I study stress, health, & birth control use from an evo perspective
Ok I finally got my favorite paper published: https://t.co/pbWG3ur0OS
Here’s why I think it’s cool (a thread): we looked at relationships between facial attractiveness ratings and immune function, using multiple in vitro immune challenge assays
Our awesome research assistant @afshar_kimya is attending her first conference #SPSP25 this week! Check out what we've been working on at the @UCLAStressLab@CALSTARNetwork
Thur, 9-10:15 Exhibit Hall D (Health Pre Conference)
Fri, 12:30 pm — Poster Session C Exhibit Hall D
Did you know that hormonal contraceptives can affect your #immune system & #health⁉️
In this new review, @PsychdOnScience, Kimya Afshar, & I examine how hormonal contraceptives impact biology and health. See: https://t.co/Q4zffhmtxl
Video overview at: https://t.co/meLEYemkFv
Congratulations to our STAR researchers @PsychdOnScience and @MathildaNS1220 for their amazing achievements this year. We are incredibly proud of their contributions to stress and resilience research 🥳. @UCLAStressLab
Curious about how #stress affects #health? Listen to (and please share!) my recent podcast episode on the topic with the amazing @ryanlinnbrown ! Available at the link below and wherever you access podcasts on the interweb! ❤️ 🙏
Listen here: https://t.co/5qevrk0Sor
I am recruiting a two-year postdoc. Please apply if you have a background in the evolutionary social sciences and familiarity with research on disgust, pathogen avoidance, sickness behavior, or hygiene! https://t.co/rtzdKeUlv0
We are recruiting healthcare workers to participate in our study! Together, we seek a novel therapeutic solution to alleviate anxiety symptoms and burnout in our valuable healthcare workers.
Click on the link to learn more/participate!
https://t.co/lWprE6bbwm
This theory is from an article in @healthpsychrev which uses the primary goal of the human brain as the basis for specifying the social-environmental situations to which these systems should respond most strongly to maximize success. https://t.co/34GWnLsaf7 2/14
📢Mark your calendars and help us spread the word for the next speaker in the Bowers WBHI Seminar Series! Prof. Adrienne Beltz joins us from @UMich on Monday, Sept 9 at 8am PST/11am EST to discuss her rigorous body of work on hormonal contraceptives.
Pre-proof available online for new research from a team including @uarkfulbright faculty Drs. Stacey Makhanova & Grant Shields (@grantsshields), along with @uarkgsie students Mikayla Tolliver (@TolliverMikayla) & Colton Hunter: https://t.co/6ORt8Z9dTp
Mark your calendars for @srp_science 2024!
Our precision psychopathology treatment symposia will be Sunday morning (with @PsychdOnScience Jha Berwain and @GeorgeSlavich )