Summer Mengelkoch, PhD

Ok I finally got my favorite paper published: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Here’s why I think it’s cool (a thread): we looked at relationships between facial attractiveness ratings and immune function, using multiple in vitro immune challenge assays

@CostelloWilliam I might exclusively date men with golden retriever energy… more of a type than a good or bad. Everything has context.

If a woman describes a man as having "golden retriever energy", is that more of a compliment or an insult/neg? Are you male or female?

Excited to see friends in Denver for #spsp2025 🔬📚

Our awesome research assistant @afshar_kimya is attending her first conference #SPSP25 this week! Check out what we've been working on at the @UCLAStressLab @CALSTARNetwork Thur, 9-10:15 Exhibit Hall D (Health Pre Conference) Fri, 12:30 pm — Poster Session C Exhibit Hall D

Did you know that hormonal contraceptives can affect your #immune system & #health⁉️ In this new review, @PsychdOnScience, Kimya Afshar, & I examine how hormonal contraceptives impact biology and health. See: uclastresslab.org/pubs/Mengelkoc… Video overview at: youtu.be/GoH1RH6_xm4

Now published, the protocol paper for our massive #multiomics-based precision medicine study on #stress, #health & #resilience. Read the article at: tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/10… @UCLAHealth @UCLASemel @dgsomucla @UCLAHealthNews @SnyderShot @atulbutte @StanfordMed @UCSFMedicine

Now published, our new article on the molecular basis of risk for #depression in adolescent #females. Check it out at: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @UCLAHealth @UCLASemelFriend @UCLASemel @UCLAHealthNews

Congratulations to our STAR researchers @PsychdOnScience and @MathildaNS1220 for their amazing achievements this year. We are incredibly proud of their contributions to stress and resilience research 🥳. @UCLAStressLab

So honored to have been selected to receive the UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research today! 🥰

@JaimieKrems veterans.ucla.edu/vets-research reach out to this group!

Advice? I want to do a better job reaching out to veterans (to work in my lab, to apply to grad school). What are the best strategies for this? Last time I asked this on Academic Twitter is was 🦗🦗

Curious about how #stress affects #health? Listen to (and please share!) my recent podcast episode on the topic with the amazing @ryanlinnbrown ! Available at the link below and wherever you access podcasts on the interweb! ❤️ 🙏 Listen here: lnkd.in/gHb7EPY3

@dp_moriarity I bet this scale performs so well in ADHD pops though 🤣

I am recruiting a two-year postdoc. Please apply if you have a background in the evolutionary social sciences and familiarity with research on disgust, pathogen avoidance, sickness behavior, or hygiene! workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/post…

We are especially recruiting ER residents with anxiety 👀

This theory is from an article in @healthpsychrev which uses the primary goal of the human brain as the basis for specifying the social-environmental situations to which these systems should respond most strongly to maximize success. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 2/14

@ed_hagen Commodification

What's the bigger *internal* threat to science? (by "internal" I mean within academia, and by "science" I mean providing correct explanations of the world) vpt divers: viewpoint diversity repl crisis: replication crisis

@RandomMutations That is exactly what I’d recommend!

@PsychdOnScience She wants to be a clinical psychologist but also trained in EP. I may suggest a clinical phd with an evo postdoc, but I don't know if postdoc was in her grand plan.

If I have a student interested in combining a clinical psychology PhD with a evolutionary psychological lens, which programs should we look at? Clinical is outside of my expertise. Any suggestions and retweets are welcomed!

📢Mark your calendars and help us spread the word for the next speaker in the Bowers WBHI Seminar Series! Prof. Adrienne Beltz joins us from @UMich on Monday, Sept 9 at 8am PST/11am EST to discuss her rigorous body of work on hormonal contraceptives.

Pre-proof available online for new research from a team including @uarkfulbright faculty Drs. Stacey Makhanova & Grant Shields (@grantsshields), along with @uarkgsie students Mikayla Tolliver (@TolliverMikayla) & Colton Hunter: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Mark your calendars for @srp_science 2024! Our precision psychopathology treatment symposia will be Sunday morning (with @PsychdOnScience Jha Berwain and @GeorgeSlavich )