Amanda Wood

The Liberal party is preferencing One Nation ahead of every other party in almost every seat in the country. A vote for Peter Dutton is a preference for Pauline Hanson. #Goldsteinvotes #auspol

boosting because good and we need more good

Editorial: A Polygenic Risk Score in Practice nej.md/4jv4JWJ

Such important work on 3 fronts: (1) identifies a new anti-SARSCov2 drug (desperately needed), (2) develops an impressive mouse model for long COVID, (3) offers an avenue for potential treatment, not just prevention, of long COVID. Kudos to the team @wehi-research.bsky.social and collaborators.

Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283 University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences  School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...

We are recruiting for 5 permanent staff positions (Prof, Senior-, Lecturer) including for 7T-MRI. Please have a look and share widely.
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From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
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Today marks the five year anniversary of Covid being declared a pandemic. Some things I want people to remember:

The threat is not gone. People are still dying and becoming disabled every single day

COVID is airborne. It’s always been airborne.

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Sublime… back to grants but with a moody mood going on ♥️

Oooh my heart. Grant writing is going to have to wait because @pjharveyofficial.bsky.social in Melbourne is totally the go tonight ♥️

There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the opposing side, but because if you do not speak, they have changed you.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ON MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION ANGEL KELLEY, D.J. These three cases came before the Court on an emergency basis on Monday, February 10, 2025. The National Institutes of Health ("NIH") issued a Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates (NOT-OD-25-068) ("Rate Change Notice") on Friday night, February 7, 2025, slashing and capping previously negotiated indirect cost rates on all existing and future grant awards for biomedical research, with an effective date of February 10. This Notice impacts thousands of existing grants, totaling billions of dollars across all 50 states- -a unilateral change over a weekend, without regard for on-going research and clinical trials. The imminent risk of halting life-saving clinical trials, disrupting the development of innovative medical research and treatment, and shuttering of research facilities, without regard for current patient care, warranted the issuance of a nationwide temporary restraining order to maintain the status quo, until the matter could be fully addressed before the Court. Following full briefing and oral argument by the parties, as well as review of accepted amicus briefs, the Court GRANTS a nationwide preliminary injunction.

BREAKING: Federal judge issues a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking NIH from implementing its "Rate Change Notice" that would dramatically cut payments under grants.

Judge Angel Kelley had previously issued a TRO blocking the change. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

#neurojobs Looking for a new role as Professor in Human/Cognitive/Translational Neuroscience? @thechbh.bsky.social has great facilities, lovely people...and an open position: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLW735/p...

Montefiore Einstein Robust Geriatric Normative Project: Robust Age- and Regression-Based Demographic Norms for the Repeatable Battery for Neuropsychological Status and Select Neuropsychological Tests ... AbstractObjective. This study introduces the Montefiore Einstein Robust Geriatric Normative Project (MERGER-NP), which provides robust normative data for o

🚨 Excited to share our new paper where we introduce the Montefiore Einstein Robust Geriatric Normative Project (MERGER-NP) and provide age and demographic norms for the RBANS and select neuropsych tests, including the TMT, BNT, and measures of verbal fluency. academic.oup.com/acn/advance-...

‘These are challenging times, with an overwhelming (and unsustainable) growth in academic literature creating a major signal-to-noise problem for scientists and the students they are training’

Programs like that at Aston medical school are geared towards increasing access for bright folk whose personal circumstances might prevent all the ‘extra’ achievements that only happen if there is (usually family) wealth to support them. Also applies to clinical psychology training in the UK & Oz…

Based on clinician diagnosis, the parent-report Child Behavior Checklist's DSM-5-Oriented Affective Problems scale (CBCL-Aff) is a valid continuous measure of depression in 8–12 year olds, though it does disagree with self-report of symptoms acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This is really encouraging. We've talked about doing a lottery for some of our open access funding, so going to be following this trial with interest

Give yourself a good stretch for recovery… both incredibly memorable shows because of their ability to express raw emotion forcefully and delicately in equal measure.

You might also enjoy ‘This is going to hurt’ in which the same actress - Ambika Mod - appears.

Hauntingly good, both of the shows.

Eleanor Maguire | 1970 - 2025 | Online-Tribute.com Learning and memory are so fundamental to us, so enmeshed throughout cognition, that ‘solving’ memory, unpacking its neural mechanisms and being able to conceptualise it fully will, I believe, res…

It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly.

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I just learned the very sad news that Eleanor Maguire passed away. It is very unlikely that I would be where I am if it wasn't for the work that she did since the early 2000s. She was a real trailblazer in the cognitive neuroscience of autobiographical memory, and conducted some (1/n)

Oh that’s cool. Too much festivus reading and I’m not quite on leave yet!! I do love a sciencey summer break…

We define neuro- & psycho- pathological patterns considering:
a) Structural abnormalities
b) Physiological abnormalities
c) Behavioral patterns
d) Subjective experience
e) Neuropsychological functioning
f) Etiological factors (social, psychological & biological)

Two examples of case formulation:

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First page of the paper Being really confidently wrong by Victoria Clarke et al.

Qualitative researchers' experiences of methodologically incongruent peer review feedback

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Ok so that’s cool, one for lab reading, and super helpful for some of our thinking about epigenetic effects

Abstract Vs. Results

It’s laughable even though not remotely funny that this is being promulgated as some sort of powerful revelation.

I recall first year clinical training covering these issues (ie medication can help but it does NOT mean that there is an imbalance of chemicals) and that was 25 (eek!) years ago…