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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · 20d

I really resonate with this sentiment

Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 21d

Taps side of head… can’t get bored if I never truly specialize!

Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 21d

Want some free career advice? #AcademicChatter

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · Jul 24

Congrats Laurel!

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · Jun 27

The Brain & Body Lab at UCLA is hiring a Staff Research Associate to work on a productive and dedicated team under the NIMH funded Teen Bugs study - investigating brain-gut communication in teens. Send your best and brightest! jobs.ucla.edu/jobs/8072

Staff Research Associate in Los Angeles, California | The Regents of the University of California on behalf of their Los Angeles Campus

UCLA is hiring a Staff Research Associate in Los Angeles, California. Review all of the job details and apply today!

jobs.ucla.edu

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · Jun 17

So proud of @shibaesfand.bsky.social for this amazing achievement. Very well deserved. What a 🪨 ⭐️

Shiba Esfand @shibaesfand.bsky.social · Jun 16

Very honored to have recieved the NSF GRFP
amidst all the current budget cuts toward research. Feeling immense gratitude to everyone who supported me, including current @drbcallaghan.bsky.social and past @levelsof.bsky.social @diegopizzagalli.bsky.social mentors! (1/3)

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Shiba Esfand @shibaesfand.bsky.social · Jun 16

Very honored to have recieved the NSF GRFP
amidst all the current budget cuts toward research. Feeling immense gratitude to everyone who supported me, including current @drbcallaghan.bsky.social and past @levelsof.bsky.social @diegopizzagalli.bsky.social mentors! (1/3)

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Mary Ford @maryeford.bsky.social · Jun 5

Full of gratitude-my experience as a research assistant in the bablab has meant so much to me. This has been one of the most formative chapters in my life-growing in ways I didn’t even know I needed to. Thank you for opening the door and mentorship @drbcallaghan.bsky.social @pw-savoca.bsky.social

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · Jun 5

HUGE congratulations to Brain & Body Lab graduating seniors: @maryeford.bsky.social, Andrea Sosa, Angelina Meng, Brandon Parenti, and Naomi Escobar. And special appearance from aspiring Bruin graduate - Freddie! All the best on your wonderful futures in science and life!

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · May 27

Have recent changes led to uncertainty in your future scientific career?

Wonder it's like in Australia?

Good news!

Monash's is seeking to hire talented EMCRs from other countries.

Come join a wonderful community of brain mappers & modellers!

www.monash.edu/research/eme...

EMERGE

www.monash.edu

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · May 11

Courtesy of one @ngancz.bsky.social

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · May 10

An enormous congratulations to the newly appointed Dr Fran Querdasi!

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Emi Tanaka @emitanaka.org · Apr 2

Looking for a postdoc in stats or a job with computer vision / deep learning?

Postdoctoral position in statistics is now out at Australian National University!

jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

And also APPN is looking for a data lead @scienceanu.bsky.social

jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/data-le...

Postdoctoral Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia

Classification: Academic Level ASalary package: $85,010 - $106,702 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Full time, Continuing (contingent funded) This position is continuing (contingent funded). The...

jobs.anu.edu.au

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · Mar 21

Technically effective July 1st, but I need a celebration today. You are looking at Associate Professor with Tenure at UCLA. Tickled pink! 🤓🥳

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · Mar 21

Go Mary!! Excited for you to be presenting this!!

Mary Ford @maryeford.bsky.social · Mar 20

Presenting a poster @affectscience.bsky.social tonight, on maternal fetal attachment and interoception!

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · Mar 11

I'm so sorry Tristan.

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · Mar 11

⏰🚨 REMINDER that the @isdp.org symposium proposals are due March 31st. Come join us at the beautiful Catamaran Resort in sunny San Diego!🌞🌴 isdp.org/call-for-sym...

Call for Symposium Submissions for ISDP 2025 - International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP)

Submit your symposium proposals by April 1, 2024 for consideration as a 1.5 hour symposium session at ISDP 2024 in Chicago, USA

isdp.org

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · Mar 8

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · Mar 7

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · Mar 6

Just ordered my copy!! Can’t wait to sit down and binge this!! @drtomori.bsky.social nice work!!

Dr. Cecília Tomori @drtomori.bsky.social · Mar 6

Our new book is out!! So excited to share this with the world. We hope you find it useful! Labor of love with the best co-author one could imagine.

Dr. Sallie Han @salliehananthro.bsky.social · Mar 5

Now available for those of us teaching and learning #anthropology and #reproduction. By @drtomori.bsky.social and me
www.routledge.com/The-Anthropo...

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Maya Opendak @maya-opendak.bsky.social · Feb 23

So excited to share our Perspective out this week in Translational Psychiatry! We provide a conceptual framework for studying brain function in infancy. A true labor of love and hopefully useful for many related questions! @drbcallaghan.bsky.social
Open access link:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Understanding the development of a functional brain circuit: reward processing as an illustration - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Understanding the development of a functional brain circuit: reward processing as an illustration

www.nature.com

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · Jan 24

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · Jan 4

Special thanks to the BABLab team @fquerdasi.bsky.social @ngancz.bsky.social @pw-savoca.bsky.social @shibaesfand.bsky.social @genesisflores.bsky.social as well as Matt Figueroa and Savannah Lopez for brainstorming logo ideas and lab content!

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · Jan 4

Extremely excited to launch our new Brain & Body Lab website and branding today! It was a pleasure to work with the great team at @stellatecomms.bsky.social to create this. I am thrilled with the outcome. Please drop on over and check us out! www.brainandbodylab.psych.ucla.edu

Brain & Body Lab

The Brain and Body Lab (BABLab) at UCLA explores how early experiences shape health and development to improve emotional and physical well-being across generations.

www.brainandbodylab.psych.ucla.edu

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · Dec 27

This is such sad news. A giant.

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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · Dec 20

Honored that a piece I wrote made it to NYTimes. It’s about how my mom’s stroke changed my connection to time, science, and nature. What a privilege to honor my mom in Modern Love.
Below is a gift link. Let me know your thoughts 🙏🏼

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/s...

Grief Makes Us Time Travelers (Gift Article)

A neuroscientist studying memory, I used to believe time was linear. Then my mother had a stroke.

www.nytimes.com

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Bridget Callaghan @drbcallaghan.bsky.social · Dec 9

check out the fantastic papers contained in this special issue on maternal cognition in Archives of Women’s Mental Health co edited by Jodi Pawluski and myself link.springer.com/collections/... You can read a summary in our editorial here rdcu.be/d2AZZ ❤️🥳🧠

Helath.you

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