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Arianna Gard

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Developmental psychologist @UMaryland studying neighborhoods, adversity, the brain 🧠, and resilience. Trying to figure out what community-driven neuroscience looks like. https://gardlab.umd.edu (she/her)

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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 47m

I am reviewing applications for the Neuroscience (NACS), and Developmental programs this year at @umdscience.bsky.social . I will also review Clinical applications, but priority is to grow the Dev and NACS areas. Email me for info! arigard[at]umd[dot]edu & check out our website gardlab.umd.edu

We study how environments shape brain and behavioral development. We are dedicated to serving families in the DC Metro Area by advocating for environmental equity through research and championing community resilience.

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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 1h

For now, check out the "Our Neighborhood, Our Stories" series that Joelle worked on with @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social Commissioner Ra Amin, and the Brookland Intergenerational Village (brooklandvillage.org). findingyourgood.org/repurposed-p... (8/8)

Three GARD Lab members holding up some of the Art Tiles created by community members

The spread of Art Tiles and supplies

Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 1h

We learned a lot ... community members' goals for researchers, concerns about the changing city, pride for DC. It ushered the entire CARE Project, which has many many many many parts (stay tuned!). (7/8)

Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 1h

Lastly, all residents advocated for more "third spaces" and community events - block parties, coffee shops, rec centers. Ultimately, we should endeavor for all folks to benefit from even "weak" neighborhood ties ... but social structures are needed to support this goal (6/8)

Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 1h

For caregivers & community leaders, "orientation towards the common good" & "social relationships" were strong facilitators of neighborhood social integration ... people with whom you share civic-minded goals and the people with whom you interact regularly (5/8)

Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 1h

One major findings was just how socially disconnected from neighborhoods youth were ... teens described friends going to school in different Wards or moving from DC. Some parents didn't know neighbors anymore. Turns out that over 70% kids in DC go to school outside their in-boundary school (4/8)

Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 1h

Neighborhood social integration was defined as resident engagement with the physical context - what (e.g., community events), where (e.g., parks), & how (e.g., bus) folks used their neighborhoods. Three themes captures barriers/facilitators to integration: social cohesion, safety, & transience (3/8)

Conceptual figure showing the community-level factors of social cohesion, transience, and safety interact with individual-level factors of social role, housing tenure, and race-ethnicity to shape the process of neighborhood social integration

Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 1h

Joelle was interested in barriers & facilitators to neighborhood social integration, and whether those factors differed across social role, race-ethnicity, and housing tenure. We wanted to understand this process deeply for DC - the original "chocolate city", rich w/ culture, history, & change (2/8)

Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 1h

🚨New publication alert!🚨The first paper from primary data collection in my lab 😀, led by grad student Joelle Fuchs. "Facilitators and Barriers to Neighborhood Social Integration" leverages qual interviews with teens, caregivers, and comm leaders in DC ... (1/8) doi.org/10.1002/ajcp...

<em>American Journal of Community Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library

Social isolation has reached concerning rates, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Social integration is critical to combatting social isolation and loneliness by promoting a sense of ...

Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 7d

Coming back from maternity leave is i-n-t-e-n-s-e ... but no surprise, the lab killed it over the summer while I was gone, and we are back baby! 🚨Stay tuned for some threads on new publications🚨

Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · 7d

Omg Dana - 7 rounds?!?!

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UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social · Jun 4

U.S. Census Bureau's decades long with falling public participation in surveys and trust in government is now compounded by DOGE's handling of data. Distrust in how government uses data is higher among people of color, which can lead to selection bias and skewed data. myumi.ch/jJVMG

How DOGE's push to amass data could hurt the reliability of future U.S. statistics

DOGE's murky push to amass data at federal agencies could hurt the U.S. government's ability to produce reliable census results, economic indicators and other statistics in the future, experts warn.

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Nancy Padilla-Coreano @drnancypadilla.bsky.social · Jun 1

This academic cycle was really challenging for those students that applied for PhD programs. Please help me share this special episode discussing what to do if you didn't get accepted into a PhD program. open.spotify.com/episode/5tsj...

Didn't get into grad school, what now?

Stories of Women in Neuroscience · Episode

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · May 31

Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health.

But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."

Donald Trump’s proposed budget would gut American science

It would slash cancer research, drug trials, space exploration, and so much more.

www.motherjones.com

Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · May 21

Took me 5 min to draft and submit a comment. FLOOD THE ZONE 🧬🧫🧬🔬⚗️🔭🥼🧪

Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · May 21

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees

Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday

📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful

Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

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Nathan Newman- ANTIFA Since Nazis Murdered Family in Death Camps @nathansnewman.bsky.social · May 18

"Americans who make less than $51,000 a year would see their after-tax income fall as a result of the Republican proposal beginning in 2026."

"Americans making less than $15,000 — the poorest of the poor — will pay 53% more in taxes than they do now

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | Trump’s White House accidentally admitted the truth about its tax plan

Earlier this week the White House published evidence that the president’s “big, beautiful bill” hikes taxes on the poor to cut taxes for the rich.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · May 14

Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵

Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · May 13

“Her departure, which she announced this morning in an essay in Time, is believed to be the first time in the agency’s 75-year history that a member of the 24-person board resigned over a policy disagreement with an administration”
@policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪

NSF board member resigns in protest of Trump policies at agency

Alondra Nelson fingers DOGE in taking an unprecedented step

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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · May 14

"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."

Michigan Advance @michiganadvance.com · May 13

The National Science Foundation was established 75 years ago this week, but as Professor Scott L. Greer writes in this commentary, it’s “been a bit of a rough birthday party.”

michiganadvance.com/2025/05/13/a...

A troubled birthday for the National Science Foundation • Michigan Advance

Happy 75th birthday, National Science Foundation! On May 10, 1950, Congress established one of the world’s best value, highest impact, and, frankly, coolest science agencies. The NSF finances federal ...

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 2

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!

Has a take action toolkit with:

1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points

Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.

www.savensf.com

Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation
A Girl Looking at a Physics Model
TAKE ACTION
Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation.

Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work.

Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.

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Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · May 1

Too pregnant to go to @srcdorg.bsky.social but never too pregnant to shout out to the GARD Lab amazing students!! Deena Shariq and Joelle Fuchs! (1/4)

Schedule for GARD Lab paper talks at SRCD

Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · May 1

(TOM AT 4:40CDT) "Recent Advances in Community-Engaged Developmental Neuroscience: Three Stories of Process and Outcomes" w/ Hurd, Michalska, & Maza, Joelle presents "The CARE Project: A Community-Driven Study of Environmental Effects on Health and Wellbeing across Development" 4/4

Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · May 1

(LATER TODAY): "Adolescent Development in Context: Effects of Neighborhood and Ecological Environments on Brain and Mental Health" @felhardi.bsky.social @abrieant.bsky.social & Tianying Cai "Shaped by the city: A mixed methods investigation of neighborhood factors for adolescent mental health" (3/4)

Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · May 1

(IN 1 HOUR): "Applying a critical lens to strengths-based developmental frameworks" with @mellwoodlowe.bsky.social @meriahdejoseph.bsky.social @damcotto.bsky.social Deena presents: "Community perspectives on strengths-based developmental research: A qualitative inquiry" (2/4)

Arianna Gard @arigard.bsky.social · May 1

Too pregnant to go to @srcdorg.bsky.social but never too pregnant to shout out to the GARD Lab amazing students!! Deena Shariq and Joelle Fuchs! (1/4)

Schedule for GARD Lab paper talks at SRCD

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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · Apr 23

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.