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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

1 year

Starting this August I will be an: Associate Professor with Tenure! 🎉🍾😅🎉

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

@llmunro As a clinical psychologist I’ve seen orphanage care (and study its effects). Family care and especially stable family placements are far superior. Adoption allows for stable family placements for children as an alternative to institutions.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

As a developmental researcher, I find it helpful to be able to test out new ideas/studies with my own kids. The problem is that they keep aging out! Thankfully, I have a new one on the way🤰 In all seriousness, very happy to announce we plan to welcome baby #3 this August.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

Does anyone else get the sense that an R01-sized project requires more than an R01-sized budget?

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

The NSF has recommended my CAREER grant for funding!!!🎉🍾 Examining Prenatal and Postnatal Influences on Infant Brain Development I am thrilled to get to do this research, and am grateful to the project director, reviewers, my lab members, and mentors who supported this effort

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

5 years

After devoting his career to understanding how trauma can rewire a child’s brain architecture, @CharlesaNelson1 said separating families at the border under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy is “the worst thing you could be doing.” ⁦⁩

How detention causes long-term harm to children

For young children who do not have a sense of time, staying in detention facilities feels like it will last forever.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

Excited to share🎉-I received the NOA for an R01 funded by @NIMHgov ! This project pairs 2 lines of research in the lab: naturalistic caregiving assessments and imaging the developing infant brain. Special thanks to @salovphd for the 🍾 (given with confidence last summer).

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

The physical distance infants/children have with those who care for them is broadly relevant to scholars across disciplines. In this review we highlight the important (and assessment) of caregiver–child proximity as a dimension of early experience. /1

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

Submitted 1st solo-PI R01 in June 2019, Not Discussed. Waited 17 months (solo parenting in a pandemic) to resubmit after generating more data & publishing papers to address weaknesses, added expertise, & Not Discussed😢. But I really like this project and I'm not giving up!

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

NEW FINDING: Family placements following severe deprivation lead to long-term gains in IQ. This study documents early adult outcomes from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP), a randomized control trial of foster care (), in @PNASnews .🧵

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

7 months

Pregnancy is a time of immense biological change, and approximately 80%+ of women carry to term in their lifetime. Despite this, we know remarkably little about pregnancy-related brain changes. We sought to address some answered questions with this paper:

Neurobiological Changes Across Pregnancy: A Longitudinal Investigation

Pregnancy is a period of profound biological transformation. However, we know remarkably little about pregnancy-related brain changes. To address this gap, we charted longitudinal changes in brain...

www.biorxiv.org

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

Now that I am the one leaving student manuscripts in a sea of red track changes, I can't help but flash back to the dismay I felt when receiving my own papers in such a state during graduate school. Students, please know that this is done out of love, and it does get easier.❤️

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

Early deprivation alters structural brain development from middle childhood to adolescence

An RCT demonstrates that early-life deprivation alters patterns of neural development from childhood to adolescence.

www.science.org

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

5 years

Getting this news today led to a true “holy guacamole!” 🤭 reaction! I’m humbled and honored to be part of this group of recipients🥳. Feeling much gratitude for my mentors, collaborators, students/trainees, and nominators 🙏

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

I am SO EXCITED to announce a new research tool we've been developing. This "TotTag" device (part of the SociTrack system) allows researchers to study proximity with high accuracy (including between children and caregivers). @salovphd /1

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

5 years

Nearly 4 years ago, my daughter piloted for an MRI study so we could develop age appropriate sequences. This morning our first imaging paper from the study was accepted at Developmental Science. Thanks to Alice and the truly remarkable team that made this work happen!

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

In theory, personalized approaches to match people to the best psychological intervention for them sounds great and all… But, like, when making referrals I can’t even locate providers with openings (setting aside whether they accept insurance or use evidenced-based practices).

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

After processing this award news I wanted to say how incredibly honored I am to join the list of McCandless Award winners🙌, grateful that interdisciplinary work is acknowledged in dev psychology🙏, & for the truly amazing scientists🤩 I have the privilege to learn from/work with

Cam Hostinar, Ph.D.

@CamHostinar

2 years

Natalie Brito and I are pleased to announce the 2023 winners of the @APA Boyd McCandless Award for distinguished early-career contributions to developmental psychology. Let's congratulate Eddie Brummelman ( @UvA_Amsterdam ) & Kathryn Humphreys ( @VanderbiltU ) @K_L_Humphreys !

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

Excited to see this write up by @VanderbiltU re: new R01 from @NIMHgov on parent–child proximity and emerging psychopathology (w/ collaborators @PatPannuto Will Hedgecock and Niall Bolger)

Humphreys receives $3.7 million grant to study relationship between parent–child proximity and...

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Human Development Kathryn Humphreys will investigate parent–child proximity and emerging psychopathology with a new five-year research grant in excess of $3.7...

news.vanderbilt.edu

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

Didn't have high hopes, but it was good news! @BBRFoundation has awarded me funding to conduct a longitudinal study on prenatal stress exposure, newborn BNST volume, and infant temperament. Amazing/inspiring Dr. @JenniBlackford is my mentor on the project. Grateful and excited!

Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

Anyone else waiting to hear about "2020 Young Investigator Grant from @BBRFoundation "? So many announcements but no news in my inbox. Hoping no news is good news...

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

Really thrilled to share this pre-print "The Value of Dimensional Models of Early Experience: Thinking Clearly about Concepts and Categories" Effort led by the incredible Kate McLaughlin with @masherid Jay Belsky and Bruce Ellis /1

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

Honored to be selected as the #2021 @ZEROTOTHREE Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Emerging Leadership Award (in Research)! Grateful to be part of this organization & their fantastic work on behalf of infants, young children, & families.

Home

Zero to Three is dedicated to ensuring a strong start for every child. Explore our resources, research, and advocacy for early childhood development.

www.zerotothree.org

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

2nd year in a row my NSF grant proposal was deemed "Competitive-Highest Priority". This time the 3 reviewers unanimously gave it the highest possible rating ("Excellent"). Declined "because of budgetary limitations." Any ideas for how to get developmental science research funded?

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

I CANNOT recommend this paper more highly!! If you are interested in child adversity/early life stress/caregiving this paper offers a fascinating & important perspective (esp. wrt how we DEFINE adversity). Bravo @wfrankenhuis1 @DorsaAmir 🎆

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

Grateful for @NIMHgov 🙌 funding my parental leave supplement. Launching an R01 while gestating & caring for a new baby has been 😓 & having $ to support my amazing team as they fill in some of the gaps during this life stage is priceless. Yay for progress! #acamama

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

Pretty amazing to see growth and change in these anatomical images taken from a single participant at ages 1 and 6 months! We recently resumed infant scanning and my amazing 1st yr PhD student @sanjana_ravi (w/ @CatCamachoNeuro 's guidance) is reviewing our progress.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

1 year

Our BIG research paper from the groundbreaking Bucharest Early Intervention Project is out in the American Journal of Psychiatry (). We provide the most robust evidence yet that children exposed to early deprivation benefit from family-based care.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are now widely accepted to be harmful for kids, but how should teachers use this info? Check out our paper "What's the matter with ACEs? Recommendations for considering early adversity in educational contexts" () 🧵

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

Results from the age 16 followup of the Bucharest Early Intervention Project provide causal evidence that family care in reduces risk for psychiatric disorder following adversity. /1

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

At the risk of starting conflict, #psychtwitter is there a good (and clear) resource for when (and what) covariates should be used in nonexperimental research? Pretty much every lab I have been in used different approaches and now I am lost in trying to train my students...

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

Looking for a postdoc position or know someone else who is? Please consider applying for an open position in (Stress and Early Adversity Lab) @VanderbiltU ! #Nashville is a fun, affordable city 🌆🎸🎶 and our lab does really cool stuff🤰🧑‍🍼🧠 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 .

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

6 years

Evidence for a sensitive period for the effects of stress on hippocampal volume (). Severity of a child's worst stress is linearly associated with smaller HV, even after accounting for number of stressful events and severity of stress in later childhood.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

Hello new friends! I'm Kate--at work I am a scientist, professor, and clinical psychologist, at home I am a mom to 2 kids (ages 3 and 5 yrs). Most of my tweets are about infancy/early childhood, family well-being, stress/adversity & mental health, or academia--and contain typos.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

“Pregnancy is more than thirty times more dangerous than abortion. One study estimates that a nationwide ban would lead to a twenty-one-per-cent rise in pregnancy-related deaths….They will die of infections, of preëclampsia, of hemorrhage….”

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

It’s possible to truly love and adore your children and also to really need a break from them. #parentinginapandemic

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

Rejection stings. It does get easier over time (screen shot to show my lack of success at a particular journal), and I find that remembering that there was a reason you wrote the paper and want to share it with other people can help with persisting. #AcademicTwitter

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

My expertise is the care and well-being of 0-5 year olds, and am solo caregiving for 2 kids <5 during the pandemic. Yet, hearing economist @ProfEmilyOster say “if you have a kid in the 1 to 4 range, I really, really feel for you” allowed me to admit to myself how hard this is.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

5 years

During gestation, baby's brain isn't the only one that is changing! This paper led by Emilia Cárdenas (co-mentored by me and Autumn Kujawa) argues that individual differences in maternal brain changes during the peripartum period is important too!

Neurobiological changes during the peripartum period: implications for health and behavior

Abstract. Pregnancy and the transition to parenthood is an important period marked by dramatic neurobiological and psychosocial changes that may have impli

academic.oup.com

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

I know self-worth is supposed to come from within, but to the anonymous peer reviewer who just called my trainees' paper "important" and "coming from a great lab” ... thank you! I needed that more than you know! 🥰

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

5 years

Today the Stress and Early Adversity Lab met a milestone that is arbitrary, but something I have been very much looking forward to. We interviewed our 100th participant in pregnancy! 🎆Grateful to our participants, my team, and those who have given helpful advice along the way!

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

7 months

Check out: Caregiving relationships are a cornerstone of developmental psychopathology Grateful for @Juliagaron09 @KaylinEHill @drlaurenbailes @WhitneyCBarnett @MeganMHare & Dante Cicchetti to be able to contribute to the special issue in his honor

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 months

Thrilled to announce a project to conduct multimodal assessments on 100 participants across pregnancy! Thank you to my amazing trainees, collaborators, @NIMHgov , and the original (funded) and A1 reviewers (pulled 3 days before study section)

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

This quote from Alan Kazdin is something I want to include on future responses to reviewer comments.... For context, I am teaching a graduate course in research methods in clinical psychology and am looking forward to digging more deeply into the why and how of our research.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

Our new paper provides evidence that maternal prenatal stress is associated with functional and structural assessments of amygdala–mPFC connectivity in infants assessed ~5weeks

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

The @NSF funded a supplement to help support my #CAREER grant while I am on maternity leave. I very much appreciate the steps the NSF & other funding agencies have taken to support investigators. Starting a lab 2 littles, followed by COVID closures hitting when they were 2 & 4...

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

Early life stress is associated with youth-onset depression for some types of stressful events but not others Write-up about the study (published online a little while back) I had the pleasure to co-lead with Joelle LeMoult @ubcpsych

Early life stress is associated with youth-onset depression for some types of stress but not others

Examining the association between eight different types of early life stress (ELS) and youth-onset depression, a study reports that individuals exposed to ELS were more likely to develop a major...

www.sciencedaily.com

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

Pleased to share our accepted paper () for "Measuring naturalistic proximity as a window into caregiver–child interaction patterns" (led by @salovphd ) using a Team Science approach with @PatPannuto @AndreasBiri @willhedgecock85 et al. /1

Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

I am SO EXCITED to announce a new research tool we've been developing. This "TotTag" device (part of the SociTrack system) allows researchers to study proximity with high accuracy (including between children and caregivers). @salovphd /1

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

Caregiving is critical to understanding child functioning, including the development of psychopathology. We ( @lucysking @salovphd @MEDVanderbilt ) review research on the caregiver–child relationship in understanding risk for psychopathology & ...

Advancing the RDoC initiative through the assessment of caregiver social processes | Development...

Advancing the RDoC initiative through the assessment of caregiver social processes - Volume 33 Issue 5

www.cambridge.org

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

5 years

Thought I was handling this with a stiff upper lip, but a last minute trip to get something from my lab today led me to burst into tears. Closing down is 100 percent the right thing to do, but it’s sad to see those empty rooms and not knowing when we’ll restart. #AcademicTwitter

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

Trying out different "thank you" gifts for families who come in for our infant imaging studies. I would love a little print out of my kid's brain so hoping this is a hit!

Vanderbilt Brain Institute

@VanderbiltBrain

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At the SEA Lab, we’ve been working on creating a tangible version of participant’s brain scans! These 3D printed brains are going to be offered to each of our infant participants who attend the MRI portion of the BABIES Project.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

6 months

Career options in academia other than being a PI are needed. I am pleased to say we are looking for such a position in my lab! If you are interested in living in Nashville and leading day-to-day operations of a lab as a Research Scientist please apply:

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

It’s Infant Mental Health Awareness Week! The first years are characterized by dramatic brain growth and plasticity as well as reliance on caregivers for survival, stimulation, and nurturance. Those caregiving experiences set the foundation for health and wellbeing.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

Trying not to take this personally.

National Hurricane Center

@NHC_Atlantic

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Tropical Depression #Kate Advisory 15: Kate Still a Poorly Organized Depression.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 months

Academic psychologists, how did you consider family planning in terms of your career? Were there especially good or bad times to be pregnant/have a child? What advice would you give to early career scholars who want to plan ahead (as a person, partner, parent, & academic)?

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

Amazing line up 🤩 at the #2021 international symposium on resilience research (and I am looking forward to be part of this)!

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

Snuggling at home with 4 week old 🤱 (more on that later) instead of living it up in Paris 🗼🥐🇫🇷🥖 for #FITNG and #Flux2022 and got some fantastic news - PhD student @sanjana_ravi was selected for a FIT'NG poster award 🍾🙌🤩 for a project co-led with @CatCamachoNeuro . So proud!

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

6 years

No paper has been more influential in my class on poverty and child development than . Intervention targets should be malleable, fundamental, unlikely to develop on their own, and sustained through the child's environment. Thank you @candice_odgers et al!

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

5 years

Rejection is an inevitable part of academia. Sharing unpleasant news of grants not funded with the lab (who worked so hard to generate the pilot data) without making it sound like the ship is sinking is a new sort of balancing act. #newPI struggles.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

This year, instead of pajamas after bath time, I started dressing my kids in their clothes to wear for the next day. Morning tantrums reduced by 30-50%. Passing it on in case it’ll make 2021 a little easier for parents of young children.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

1. submitted journal article and was invited to resubmit 2. revised and resubmitted (no major changes) 3. waited for months "with editor" 4. editor rejected without review saying it was low priority 5. icing on cake: "We hope this process was helpful"

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

Grateful to announce 2🤩 incoming @VanderbiltU PhD students ( @Yanbin46361631 in developmental @HannahAPiersiak in clinical). I am very lucky!! Please follow these⭐️ There were SO MANY AMAZING, impressive, well above threshold candidates & I'm sorry that there aren't more slots.

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@K_L_Humphreys

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Eddie Brummelman and I are pleased to announce the 2024 @APA Boyd McCandless Award for distinguished early-career contributions to developmental psychology: Lin Bian ( @LinBian_ ) ( @UChicago ) Juan Del Toro ( @DrJuanDelToro ) ( @UMNews ) Caren Walker ( @CarenMWalker ) ( @UCSanDiego )

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

5 months

Looking for a postdoc position? Are you interested in: (1) how the brain changes across development in infants and/or pregnant people, or (2) how everyday experiences vary across children and shape development, or (3) transition to parenthood? If yes, message me! I'm hiring!

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

@saraannhart The "feminization" of fields is linked to diminished status and pay. Both mental health and child development fields have become heavily feminized. The result seems to be my area "infant mental health" is the bottom of the prestige barrel (but I would argue THE most important)

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

1 year

Really thrilled to do this project on the everyday interactions related to attachment security, supported by the @NSF #developmentalsciences division 🙌 in a collaboration between @VanderbiltU and @MeharryMedical with Dr. Erves. Grateful to use the #tottag for this new direction!

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

Me, today, trying to explain my program of research.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

Rates of psychiatric disorder jumped📈 19% from ages 12 to 16 years among children from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project assigned to care as usual. Among those randomized to foster care, the increase was half as much. More later (paper provisionally accepted JCCP 🏆)

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

Polls are still open! #vote for people and policies that support women/birthing people in their choices about family size 🗳️

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

🥳🎉Congratulations to Dr. @lucysking ! Today's dissertation defense featured important and innovative research focused on quality, quantity, and consistency of caregiving! We are fortunate you used your intellect and drive to influence the field. The future is bright!

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

Developmental scientists: We created an interactive tool to examine trends in biomarker research (NIH funding and publications) in child/developmental populations and describe the findings in this new paper in Infant and Child Development:

Biomarker adoption in developmental science: A data‐driven modelling of trends from 90 biomarkers...

Developmental scientists have adopted numerous biomarkers in their research to better understand the biological underpinnings of development, environmental exposures, and variation in long-term...

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

Because she's humble, I will 📣 @E_F_Cardenas (collaborator & @MEDVanderbilt PhD student) had 2 first-author papers accepted in the past 10 days 🎉 stay tuned for papers on benevolent childhood experiences & peripartum depression; brief mentalizing intervention for parents

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

🚨 Postdoc position available in 2023 🚨 Looking for candidates to be co-mentored by @czeanah and me to work on data from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project. Details below! Please RT/forward to those who may be interested!📣

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

5 years

We were so fired up by these ideas that we submitted an R21 to get some more empirical data examining within-person change across the peripartum in relation to depression risk during this important period. I think we will get to do it based on this 1st percentile score!! 😃💃🧠

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

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5 years

🤓💃🧠🥰 So excited to see this proof! Work lead by my Ph.D. student, Emilia Cárdenas, will be out in the world soon. 🤓💃🧠🥰

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

Honored to be 1 of 8 @VanderbiltU Moms who research moms:

Moms who research moms: Spotlighting VU research on motherhood

They say motherhood is the toughest job you’ll ever love. That’s true for this group of Vanderbilt researchers, who’ve built successful careers around researching various aspects of parenthood while...

news.vanderbilt.edu

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

5 years

New meta-analytic evidence that emotional maltreatment in childhood may be particularly depressogenic. Our meta-analysis examining the associations between different forms of childhood maltreatment and depression is now out in Child Abuse & Neglect: /1

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

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4 years

Our new paper explores the link between maternal experiences of childhood maltreatment and offspring psychopathology, identifying prenatally assessed maternal attachment security as a mediator. Led by PhD student Marissa Roth, with @lucysking @GotlibLab

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

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I really wish scientists would stop using "effects of X on Y" when it's really "X is correlated with Y." This language implies causality and I see it outside of experiments regularly. I am guilty of this in the past, and worry that it's a mistranslation from quant coursework.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

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Our new study suggests that infant seating devices may reduce language exposure ()

Infant seating devices may reduce language exposure

When a parent needs to cook dinner or take a shower, often they will place their baby in a bouncy seat, swing, exersaucer, or similar seating device intended to protect the baby and grant a degree of...

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live. -Sarah Kendzior

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

Women increase their likeability if they imply success is due to luck (rather than effort), but then don’t get credit for their accomplishments. More evidence that it is hard for women to get into the warm/competent zone

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

7 months

Our manuscript “Neurobiological Changes Across Pregnancy: A Longitudinal Investigation” led by all-star PhD student @YanbinNiu is available on #BioRxiv . This study offers striking new insights into how pregnancy shapes brain structure. 🤰🧠📉 #Neuroscience

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

6 years

Grateful to be at a university that thought that this research was important enough to help disseminate the findings! Glad to be @vupeabody @VanderbiltU

Peabody College

@vupeabody

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Peabody Professor @K_L_Humphreys finds that #stress during a child’s earliest years—birth to age 5—affects the development of the #hippocampus , which is connected to learning, memory & mood. Learn more about this groundbreaking #research : #braindevelopment

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

5 years

Paper by @mellwoodlowe et al. is a must-read for those interested in SES and language: Excited to see this multimethod work that examines a potential explanation for the SES word gap. And it moves the focus of intervention from parents to structures.

What causes the word gap? Financial concerns may systematically suppress child-directed speech

Parents with fewer educational and economic resources (low socioeconomic-status, SES) tend to speak less to their children, with consequences for children’s later life outcomes. Despite this well-e...

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

Spouse said the hospital where he works is on divert status... & my 4yo tested ➕ for the coronavirus yesterday 😩 Parents & 6yo are negative (& vaccinated, which I think isn't a coincidence) My suggestion: Stay home if you can - at least until more hospital beds are available

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

A friend who left academia for industry raved about the quality of the on-boarding process. Anyone have a good manual for new faculty? I’d love to make the start up process easier (esp. for people learning a new system with high expectations & often far from social support).

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

5 years

Moving infants and young children between families disrupts attachment relationships. The consequences of family separation on children extend well beyond reunions with parents. ...A baby who was separated could feel lasting impacts from trauma - INSIDER

A 4-month-old baby was separated from his parents at the border last year and still can't walk or...

Constantin Mutu was 4 months old when he was separated from his father, and 9 months old when he was finally reunited.

www.businessinsider.com

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

I can’t help notice how strange this cat looks. And if anyone recognizes this book, this is just before my tears start to interfere with finishing the story.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

5 years

Being a parent of young children is challenging and delightful, in varying degrees, depending on the day. Today mine reminded me that life is happening NOW, not sometime in the future, not after I get x, y, and z done. I’m grateful for that reminder.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

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5 years

I was reappointed for another 2 years 🥳... though I didn't anticipate that "what comes next" was becoming a SAHM! Very grateful to have a job (I like!) when so many are out of work. Could not do it without my staff and students keeping things running with a less available PI.

Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

5 years

Second year review materials are in! Hope I get to stick around and see what comes next.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

Serious question: Is there a "writings of Paul Meehl" for dummies? I am teaching graduate level clinical psychology research methods next semester (and need for me).

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

Expectable environments in early life () challenges assumptions about what types of caregiving experiences are normative for infants/young children. Assuming caregivers are sensitive by nature may have costs for prevention/intervention efforts. @salovphd

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

Fostering resilience in children following adversity is an important goal! Here (), we ( @lucysking @K_GuyonHarris @czeanah ) propose a framework to improve children's access to effective caregiver regulation as the way to do so.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

Just a note: When someone wins an award announced on a listserv, it may be kinder to congratulate the winner directly than to reply-all saying the winner was the "perfect choice" etc. Lots of others on the listserv were nominated and not selected and get all of those emails too🤷‍♀️

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

2 years

Celebrating my last day of teaching for a year, positive 4th year review/reappointment @vupeabody , & Abby Blum signing on as a coordinator in my lab!!!

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

My track record of getting my submissions selected for @SRCDtweets is not great, which makes it all the sweeter that @salovphd -- my fantastic postdoc I was fortunate to convince to join me 2.5 years ago -- had 2 (!) talks accepted for the 2021 convention. Yay, Virginia!

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

3 years

When authors “control” for SES when examining the association between trauma and “outcome”, what is this testing? Traumatic experiences aren’t randomly distributed and given low-SES circumstances are likely casually linked (on average) to more trauma, this seems problematic.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

Growing up lots of people asked why my mom worked (as a licensed psychologist) even though she was married to a surgeon. Like, why do something stimulating and that could help people when you could otherwise not do those things? I’m proud @DrBiden is keeping her day job.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her)

@K_L_Humphreys

4 years

#pandemicparenting moment of success! Taught my 5 year old how to read during her repeat preschool year 🥳. Getting through this tested my patience more times than I’d like to admit 😬, but it paid off! Thanks to @ProfEmilyOster for the recommendation. Highly recommend to others.

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