I am a researcher investigating how individuals change with aging, using longitudinal data. My expertise is gerontology and lifespan developmental psychology.
Every parent wants to keep their children safe, and vaccines are among the most powerful tools for doing that, making deadly diseases preventable.
@WHO is concerned that recent changes to US immunization policy are not aligned with decades of evidence that show when children are most vulnerable to disease, when vaccines provide the strongest protection, how many doses are needed, and which vaccines can be given together safely.
That evidence is reviewed continuously as new data emerge from across the globe. The current evidence is unequivocal: vaccines - including the MMR vaccine - are safe and do not cause autism.
Delaying vaccines or separating doses unnecessarily does not make vaccination safer and can leave children unprotected.
Global evidence and recommendations, including from @WHO, inform national experts, who consider local disease patterns, health systems and population needs, to determine which vaccines and schedules are best for their country.
Vaccination policy should be guided by rigorous, independent and transparent review of the best available science, not by political influence.
A new @ScienceAdvances study finds the statistical properties of birdsong are similar to those of human language and whale song.
Learn more: https://t.co/1b48SruEyf
Researchers with greater scientific impact are less happy.
The reason is that they suffer from worse work-life balance. All work and no play, makes academics miserable.
However...scholars who are having a prosocial goals and creative engagement are not unhappy.
The key is tenure (or job stability). It allows academics to pursue altruistic goals and creativity under the pressure of creating high impact work. This is why creating job stability is crucial for ensuring impactful work without burning out the academic workforce.
I definitely feel this in my own work. The more I'm able to do the creative work that is genuinely interesting and meaningful to me, the greater impact I'm able to have while still enjoying my work. And I've really leaned more and more into my own interests after tenure.
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A new analysis in Science of more than 116,000 bird songs has revealed that the astonishing variety of passerine birdsong is built from just eight basic acoustic motifs, like trills, whistles, and harmonic notes.
The findings also reveal that local environments greatly shape how birds communicate around the world.
Learn more: https://t.co/3oaQ0sKQfJ