Photos from 2022, but the lesson stays the same—UCLA is where you level up 📚✍️

I'm excited to share my newly published article, which examines the potential adaptive (protective) role of suppressing the expression of emotions in the relationship between stress and cardiovascular disease risk using five biomarkers sciencedirect.com/science/articl… UCI Social Ecology

My new editorial!

being annoyed is the price you pay for community. it means having guests when you'd rather be alone. it means letting someone live with you even when they get on your nerves. it means showing up for events that you'd rather not go to. it means turning the other cheek.

I truly love my advisor🥹. PhD programs are already tough enough but having an advisor who sees you as a human being and supports your journey makes the process so much more manageable. When you’re applying to these programs make sure the people you seek to work under are KIND.

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. go.nature.com/4i2EaIb

nature "NIH staff members have been instructed to identify and potentially cancel grants for projects studying transgender populations, gender identity, DEI...., environmental justice and any other research that might be perceived to discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity"

Deported is not the correct word. They’re not being deported out of the country and back to their home country. They’re being shepherded into a concentration camp where we’re being told they will not be allowed to leave.

The @ucirvine clinical psychology program has reached a significant milestone in its development, receiving “accredited, on contingency” status from the American Psychological Association Commission on Accreditation, a crucial step in the program's growth & recognition within the field tinyurl.com/uciCSaccredAPA

If ICE disappeared tomorrow, no one’s life would be worse. Millions of lives would be better. Abolish ICE.

Los Angeles is protesting our friends and family members being kidnapped without any due process, they don’t even care if you’re a citizen As an Mexican American, I stand with the protestors resisting fascism Abolish ICE and fuck Donald Trump

ICE caught & detained a 5-year-old girl—to lure her father out of house. "She's special, she has autism... give me my daughter back," her mother cries. "They grabbed my girl." Agents then taunt her parents, "Is that your daughter? Come here and show us her ID." Mother did

Check out the new QR codes for UC Irvine's third annual Día de los Muertos from 4-8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 3 at Irvine Barclay. There's also a new link to RSVP: cglink.me/2eo/r1942357

Celebrated submitting my internship apps with lab ramen 🙌🏼