So what did you do?

The first thing I did after freaking out, mourning my future as an academic and deciding that I was a terrible scientist was to decide to use the data we had at home, which was this blue sky data set that I had collected with collaborators, including Nicholas Landry at the University of Virginia, who actually nominated me for the Control Z Award.

And some other folks, including my advisor, Brooke Foucault-Wells, Ilya Amberg, and Sagar Kumar, who's a lab mate of mine.

We had collected this data set of blue sky data, which conveniently included the entire for the following events.

And we had released an anonymized version of this data set.

So instead of having the specific account IDs, we gave everyone an integer ID and we coarsened the timestamps to day level precision so that people could not be re-identified.

And that data set is publicly available on the social media archive at the university.

not have to go through the retraction process.

So what did that experience teach you that years of professional success never could?

So Yeah, I think for me, it was coming to terms with the fact that as young people do, there's an age piece and then there's what I think is a female piece.

So on the age side, I think we're sort of just focused on short term and it's gotten even more so in the past few years, as I'm sure you've seen as well.

We are so focused on instant gratification and short term results.

And so I think that gets the best of you.

And then on the other side, I, as a female, I don't think that we are primed or educated, guided, much less encouraged to tune in.

Even just the fact that we have a 30-day reproductive cycle, right? And what that does to every system of the body, not just our hormones, but our our gut and digestion, our nervous system, our endocrine system, our mental health.

Like you said, um, the body keeps the score right so whatever it is you're doing today your body would your body actually you know stores those things and at the end of the day the results will show right so if you're not sleeping enough i feel like it has you know effects there are like side effects to not sleeping enough and a whole lot of things from diets to not moving to you know a whole lot right so in regards to that i would like to ask you right what do you think are like some daily habits or should i say practice that one can begin today you know that to just live like a much more healthier life basically

Mm-hmm.

Um, you had used the word consequence earlier when we were talking about resentment, and you know, what happens as that, and I see when we have these feelings as kind of opportunities, right? Opportunities to see things differently, right? To invite kids in where we used to just wring our hands or look at the sky and be like, "Why can't they?" But instead, right, as they get older, just be like, "Cool, what have you tried so far?" And often they'll be like, "Oh, like, I don't even know if I tried anything.

It's just, it sucks." Be like, "Great, cool.

Okay, so we're now gonna move forward from the problem and start playing with solution finding.

Let's go," right? Getting in there and, like, turning the challenges into opportunities for growth, for collaboration, for iteration, yeah? Playing around.

You're so right.

We're just like, "We gotta get them to the solution," 'cause my kid's popsicle is melting, the friend doesn't like him.

We do.