Laura Thi Germine

We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python

Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

In my new role, I'll be hiring both Program Manager and Staff Scientist positions to help me build this new division (hybrid positions, NYC). If you know any talented MA or PhD-level scientists with strong leadership skills and interest in neuropsychiatric disorders, have them get in touch! (thx!)

I'll be continuing my work developing and validating technologies to understand and improve cognitive health, with an emphasis on cognitive changes that occur prior to symptom onset in serious mental illness and preclinical dementia. I am excited to get to know my new colleagues at Einstein!

Some news! In September, I am starting a new role AND hiring for MA and PhD-level positions. After 10 years at McLean and HMS, I am delighted (but a little sad!) to announce I am joining the Albert Einstein College of Medicine as the Chief of the Division of Brain and Cognitive Health Technology.

I lack words to describe what happened today to NIH, CDC, FDA. It is a dark day in our history as a country, and I am frankly close to tears. But @booker.senate.gov, making history, has the words, below. America is a country by the people and for the people, and we will fight to protect it 👊 🇺🇸 🔥

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

Some really terrific resources in this thread for anyone doing EMA or other ambulatory assessment research

Strong Boston showing for stand Up For Science rally. Lots of energy and passion.

One quick question - and sorry if this was already in your post. Did you have to combine data across multiple task versions for this analysis? I'd be curious if you saw variability in the reliability distribution across the different versions. Happy to discuss further! (i'm coauthor on that paper)

Haven't had a chance to read your blogpost in depth (standing up for science today!) but just wanted to say this looks really interesting and thanks for taking the time to re-analyze those data using a different approach. 🥳

1/6 Hello Bluesky! 👋 Excited to join this community and share my new blog. First post: Using Bayesian hierarchical models to rescue "unreliable" cognitive tasks, with the dot-probe task as my case study. cogpsychreserve.netlify.app/posts/dotpro...

Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.

Great write up at @thetransmitter.bsky.social on the seeming erasure of SABV in the new era of NIH. Gotta say The Transmitter is killing it the last few weeks, first to report on the Federal Register block and now this. Leading the charge! 💪 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...

My heart is just shattered for NIH as an institution. It represents what, in my view, is best about America:

A group of committed people working hard and creatively with one another to achieve important goals to help people across the country and around the world.

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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

🚀 Introducing tidypollute: an R package designed to simplify working with environmental data. It currently supports data extraction from EPA AirData flat files and the Atmotube Pro API.

@atmotube.com

🔗 Explore the package: lnkd.in/eUgVAn-8

I hope this is massive! #standupforscience2025

🧵 The Fight Has Come to Them: Science, Institutions & The Indirects Cut

I want to take a moment to talk about the perspective behind these slides I put together. I’ve framed them to be as nonpartisan as possible—but in a moment this polarized, there are limits here. 1/

the yield on NIH research for economic activity

How to get 146% return on investment?
The NIH. That's just the economic benefit.
Biomedical research promotes human health.

Let's hope it's as easy a fix as that...

Since MGB is a nonprofit, you can directly inspect its form 990 that is publicly available online. Revenue < Expenses

I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment.

Humor me?

ATTENTION

If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com.

I will keep all information confidential.

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1000x THIS!

I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.

1/ This whole anti DEI thing IS racism. It’s not even that subtle. Consider when people say we should “go back to hiring based on merit.”

People who say this have to know sociodemographic disparities in hiring, education, etc. When they are talking about “going back” and

They're scrubbing health disparities information. This isn't "gender ideology." This is public health data. We need to be outraged and demand the assault on public health stops.

Happy Lunar New Year BlueSky! Wishing all of my fellow Asian Americans - and our democracy - good fortune, health, and prosperity in the coming year.

NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.

The rapid reporting of our Boston / New England earthquake just now made me feel like BlueSky is really working! (Also, mother nature really feeling the apocalyptic vibes this past week between snow in Florida and earthquakes in New England...)

Three Maryland Democrats urged the Trump administration Monday to reverse a directive that has frozen some operations at the National Institutes of Health, saying they have “grave concerns” about the effect on the nearly $50 billion agency’s medical research and other operations. “Without quick corrective action, the consequences of further disruption could be disastrous for both medical progress in America and our nation’s overall standing and competitiveness on the world stage,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, Sen. Chris Van Hollen and Sen. Angela Alsobrooks wrote in a letter sent to Dorothy Fink, the acting secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and shared with The Washington Post.

Democrats are calling on Trump officials to “restore full operations at NIH,” warning that it’s threatening medical research.

“Without quick corrective action, the consequences of further disruption could be disastrous,” @raskin.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov and Sen. Alsobrooks write.