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Dr. Brenda Straka

@brendacstraka

Assistant professor studying social and developmental psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. @uiucmosaiclab.bsky.social Duke and UVA alumna; she/her

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Latest posts by Dr. Brenda Straka @brendacstraka

👏 a successful #SPSP!

02.03.2026 23:21 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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SPSP Day 2-3: Teresa presented her poster on “The Discriminatory Experiences of Transgender Women of Color vs Other Multiple Marginalized Women”, and Sarah presented her poster on “The Embodied Consequences of Identity Denial.”

Another great year at SPSP!

02.03.2026 22:31 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Congratulations to our undergraduate RA, Miranda, for receiving the Conference Travel Grant! 👏🎉

This grant is awarded to students to help subsidize the cost of presenting their research at in-person and virtual professional conferences.

17.02.2026 20:51 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Study: Demographic forms can undermine sense of belonging in Latino Americans – News Bureau

Check out this news article on our recent published paper!
news.illinois.edu/study-demogr...

13.02.2026 22:25 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

🚨🚨 New paper alert ‼️

11.02.2026 22:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🔥🔥🔥check it out in February @spspnews.bsky.social!

21.01.2026 01:09 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Woo hoo!! ✨✨

12.01.2026 17:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🦃Happy Thanksgiving from the MOSAIC Lab!
The MOSAIC Lab is currently on fall break, but we want to wish everyone a safe and warm holiday! 🍂
PS Here’s a photo taken from our joint lab meetup at Curtis Orchard with the TREE Lab!

27.11.2025 16:07 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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"AI-Faces by Illinois" include 1,152 AI-generated images of children by age (3-15), gender, eight racial background, and emotion (smile, angry, sad). Images (osf.io/vurm5/) and Preprint available(doi.org/10.31234/osf...) with @brendacstraka.bsky.social and @Dr. Michael Rizzo!

15.11.2025 03:54 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

Starting the week strong with a newly accepted paper in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, co-authored with postdoc @lizsnoland.bsky.social and Sohad Murrar! We merged two largely independent research lines to call for data disaggregation of Asian Americans and MENA Americans

17.11.2025 15:17 👍 64 🔁 17 💬 4 📌 2

Headed to @spspnews.bsky.social in February! 💫

05.11.2025 20:40 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

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07.08.2025 18:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

✨✨ And some more info: psychiatry.duke.edu/news/study-s...

24.07.2025 22:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

👏👏

27.06.2025 22:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

👏👏👏 #OhioState #Buckeyes

06.06.2025 21:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Where does the time go??? Can’t believe I have lab alum! 🥹

24.05.2025 16:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🥳 another amazing student!

09.05.2025 20:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🥳 these students are incredible!

02.05.2025 19:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So excited to welcome Sarah to the lab! 🤩

22.04.2025 19:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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MOSAIC Lab took over #MPA25 this past weekend! Lilian, Teresa, Abir, and Isabela all presented their Capstone projects they have been working on over this past year, amazing!

15.04.2025 19:39 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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@uiucmosaiclab.bsky.social took over #MPA25 this year! So proud of these incredible students 🤩

15.04.2025 19:42 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0