Ashley Sanders

Effective May 5, 2025, NSF will apply a standard indirect cost rate not to exceed 15% to all grants and cooperative agreements awarded to IHEs for which indirect costs are allowable.1 The awardee is authorized to determine the appropriate rate up to this limit.

NEW: Starting May 5, NSF will implement an across-the-board 15% indirect cost rate (mirroring policies at DOE, NIH)

Also, NSF staff expect 341 additional terminations today, bringing the total number of terminations to ~1,380.

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

*adds funding line for emotional support MRI dog to grant application*

Happy Birthday! Hope it's a great one.

Social disadvantage during pregnancy is associated with newborn brain function Social disadvantage (e.g., reduced household income, poorer neighborhoods) can be a major risk factor for developing children and is associated with altered trajectories of brain development. Yet, giv...

A nice little summary of our new paper out in PNAS.

link.growkudos.com/1q2uuiaw16o

Best of luck to you!! 🤞

First semester at UGA was a blast! I’m incredibly lucky to have had the pleasure of teaching and getting to know this amazing group of students. Happy holidays and #GoDawgs!

Excited to share our novel white matter ICN template and preprint from 100K+ fMRI scans, revealing 97 ICNs and novel WM-GM insights.
Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@vcalhoun.bsky.social

We're excited to release new versions of our BIDS-Apps for processing and analyzing #dmri data, QSIPrep and QSIRecon! Our team has been working hard to prepare these pipelines to process infant data and bring them in line with the @nipreps.bsky.social ecosystem. #neuroimaging #nipreps #bids 1/10

VertexWiseR: A package for simplified vertex-wise analyses of whole-brain and hippocampal surfaces in R direct.mit.edu/imag/article... (I'm selfishly interested in this... so posting it here as a personal reminder... also it looks cool for #Freesurfer analyses in R)

would love to join if there's room!

Evaluating Models of the Ageing BOLD Response Linear and nonlinear methods for estimating the BOLD response in the sensorimotor task from a large dataset show important effects of adult age on response features and biophysical parameters, some o....

Our paper finally appeared on modelling the effect of age on the BOLD fMRI response, one implication of which is that many age effects previously reported may be vascular rather than neural… onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I’d love to be added!

Would love to be added!

Hi! I’d love to be added :)

📣 🧠 I’m recruiting 1-2 PhD students interested in disadvantage-related brain development & neuro-immune crosstalk to join my new lab at the University of Georgia. Application deadline is December 1st. Please feel free to contact me with any questions! #neuroskyence #psychscisky #academicsky

Hi! I’d love to be added :)

📣Excited to announce our new manuscript published in Translational Psychiatry investigating socioeconomic disadvantage & maternal inflammatory biomarkers during pregnancy in relation to neonatal white matter microstructure 🧠 #academicSky #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

flyer for the Neuroprep Postbacc Program at Washington University with a fluorescent red and green brain image at the top. flyer text: Recent graduates and undergraduates who will be finishing this year are invited to apply for this exciting opportunity to receive scientific and professional skills training at one of the best neuroscience institutions globally. Neuroprep Scholars receive: • Two years of research experience guided by dedicated mentors expert in clinical and basic neuroscience • Competitive salary ($35,000+), plus generous benefits and travel costs • An inclusive community that values diversity of thought, background, and ability • Opportunities to present at research symposia and travel to scientific conferences Applications due February 15, 2024. neuroprep.wustle.edu Washington University in St. Louis logo at the bottom.

WashU Neuroprep is now accepting applications! this 2yr postbacc program is geared toward individuals who had limited opportunity for research experience as undergrads to prepare for graduate training in neuroscience. apps due 2/16/24! neuroprep.wustl.edu

New paper+package combination for linear estimation with nonlinear inference (LENI) - methods to obtain the results of a nonlinear model without the hassle of nonlinear estimation. Presented this at Flux this fall and really excited to see it out!

osf.io/preprints/ps...
github.com/E-M-McCormic...

Ah, forgot we don't have DM on this platform! Feel free to email me (ashley.sanders@wustl.edu) - happy to let you know how we got in contact!

I had a similar experience recently with MP in the post peer review phase. Feel free to DM me - we went about getting in contact a couple of ways 😅

Functional parcellation of the neonatal brain bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

New preprint 🚨🧠 from Michael Myers, Alyssa Labonte, Chad Sylvester & team at WashU! Functional parcellation of the neonatal brain, developed from a dataset of resting-state fMRI from 261 neonates #neuroskyence
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨We have a new perspective out today in @natureclimate called “Leveraging neuroscience for climate change research” shorturl.at/dyN35 where we call on #Neuroskyence researchers to help combat #climatechange 🧠

Just got my K99/R00 impact score. I've officially entered level 2 of the waiting game. 😅

Hi Paul! No, no pain research here. It is a very interesting area, though!

Longitudinal changes in grey and white matter during adolescence - PubMed Brain development continues actively during adolescence. Previous MRI studies have shown complex patterns of apparent loss of grey matter (GM) volume and increases in white matter (WM) volume and frac...

Hi Lea! Here's one of GM and WM volume changes in adolescence: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19679191/

Many researchers in cognitive neuroscience and deep learning seem to assume that inference in the brain is hierarchical. 

Our new Nature Reviews Neuroscience paper questions this assumption and proposes the shallow brain hypothesis.

#neuroskyence #brain

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great goal for all of us!

I’m accepting a grad student to work in my lab on LGBTQ health and development research! Very excited to see the Queer Development Lab grow 🌈

Interested applicants can attend our virtual Open House on November 7 @ 6:30pmET.