Findings: maternal depressive symptoms impacted offspring omega-3 in cord blood only for infants with mothers who were overweight or obese before pregnancy; published at bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @laurencostello.bsky.social

incoming @reidlab.bsky.social PhD student @laurencostello.bsky.social presents on pregnancy adiposity, mental health, and omega-3 and their association with newborn cord blood omega-3 levels, critical for infant brain development #SRCD2025

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Oh my gosh I’ve been away from academia social media for so long — a belated CONGRATS on your AP position!!!

Please give us more empirical work on this!! We didn’t even get into the whole what about development and timing in the immune system *gestures wildly*

We decided against it 🫠

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Currently looking at flow data now and wow there’s no composite or factor that even goes well with our dataset

To your point I have also had to complicate my understanding of inflammation from my own projects past and present

I agree; the deeper I get into immune work the less I find composites helpful for interpretation. I’d rather see individual cytokines corrected for multiple comparison & contextualized than a composite (personally!!). Granted the author team on the paper do great work - not an indictment on anyone

Would love your thoughts - don’t have time to dig in on this myself right now but i have the same feeling about many inflammatory composites