Miguel Arce Rentería

If you're at #AAIC25 this week, come check out some work that's either directly from my lab or lab affiliated 🧠😄

If you get the @apajournals.bsky.social newsletter from Division 40 Clinical Neuropsychology (NeuroBlast!), there is an article by @kmueller123.bsky.social and I on item-based analysis for Alzheimer's. Go read it nowwwww! Or enjoy some grass instead.

I'm hearing from NIH staff that Columbia's funding has been restored (minus terminated grants). Let's see if it makes it past five hours this time.

I'm also told that today is the school's deadline to negotiate a deal with the Trump administration. I'd love to know what concessions the school made.

Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article) Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A chart showing cancelled NIH grants

“I would like to cure brain cancer. I think that's not particularly controversial.” Be that as it may, the NIH terminated that scientist's grant. Here's a huge survey of the 2,500 grants that NIH has killed or delayed...so far. Gift link: nyti.ms/43Jz1yJ

Do the cognitive benefits of multilingualism vary by education level? Petrosyan et al. take a careful look at this important question in a large sample of adults in India. @neuropsycharce.bsky.social @apajournals.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1037/neu0...

The information I am receiving is consistent with the STAT story.

The boards are being purged of women and minoritized scientists with no other obvious pattern. And for the cases where I have some information, the effects are not subtle...Boards going from 35% women to 10% women.

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a group of penguins standing next to each other with the words " i think we all know the right thing to do " below them ALT: a group of penguins standing next to each other with the words " i think we all know the right thing to do " below them

If you're organizing a scientific meeting outside the U.S. and a U.S.-immigrant scientist pulls out because they do not want to risk going back through immigration, do the right thing and refund their registration.

If you really can't do it for everyone, at least refund trainees.

“I want to make this clear: Trump’s cuts & the attacks on Columbia’s medical school KILL.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President speaking at today’s press conference on the lawsuit filed by AAUP & AFT on the weaponization
of Federal Research Funds against Columbia University.

Plasma p‐tau217 identifies cognitively normal older adults who will develop cognitive impairment in a 10‐year window INTRODUCTION We assessed the prognostic accuracy of plasma p-tau217 in predicting the progression to mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in cognitively unimpaired (CU) individuals over a mean follow-up ...

What is the prognostic capacity of plasma p-tau217 in cognitively unimpaired patients?

Alzheimer’s & Dementia reports plasma p-tau217 is a prognostic marker for identifying individuals who will develop cognitive impairment within 10 years.

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I’m curious how you think about how protests should be addressed, considering the context of what you just said. The Trump administration just announced it’s pulling $400 million in funding from Columbia University, giving the reason as “relentless violence, intimidation and antisemitic harassment.” I’m wondering what you make of that. Columbia did not do enough. I criticized them. And believe me, I believe in free speech, I believe in the right to protest, as you read in my book. I started my career protesting the Vietnam War. I say to some people, “If I were your age, I’d be protesting something or other.” So I get that, and I love it, and it’s about America. But when it shades over to violence and antisemitism, the colleges had to do something, and a lot of them didn’t do enough. They shrugged their shoulders, looked the other way. Columbia among them. So what did they do? They took away $400 million. I’m trying to find out what they took away. Are they taking away money from cancer

"Columbia did not do enough....shrugged their shoulders, looked the other way. So what did [Trump] do? Took away $400 million.
... I think we have to see." @schumer.senate.gov to @nytimes.com.

Oh, my word.
This is a punch in the stomach.
Schumer is not standing up for science, or universities. 1/

NIH is still terminating active grants including transgender people, men who have sex with men, LGBTQIA+ people, LGB youth and more!

While they say it isn’t due to executive orders (EOs), this is because of EOs forcing changes to areas OMB is allowing NIH to fund.

Meet the Authors: A Neuropsychology Podcast Meet the Authors is a podcast brought to you by a collaboration between the Society for Clinical Neuropsychology (APA Division 40) and the journal, "Neuropsychology." In this podcast, host Dr. Scott S...

Want an insider’s perspective on science in clinical neuropsychology? @apadivision40.bsky.social and Dr. Scott Sperling bring an article from each issue of Neuropsychology to life in their "Meet the Authors" podcast. Check it out: tinyurl.com/MTA-PedCogRes @apajournals.bsky.social

I have confirmation from several sources now that all T32s, many F30s and F31s, and most or all Center awards (P30, P50) have been terminated at Columbia.

This is quite damaging to research and to individuals.

This is pure terrorism and cannot be legal. But litigation will take time...

NIH terminating active research grants related to LGBTQ+, DEI studies The National Institutes of Health is terminating several active research grants related to studies involving LGBTQ+ issues, gender identity and DEI.

Making it known abcnews.go.com/Health/nih-t...

Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03
TheRiseRegistry.org

Dr. Frances Collins is a world-renowned scientist and a man of strong faith and conviction. For these reasons, he has always been a role model for me. This is a huge loss for the NIH and science in general. This is also a reflection of how bad things are for science right now in our country.

Pubmed website unavailable

This is going to be a big problem.

Not typically on pubmed (a free online database of medical literature) on Saturday nights but heard it was down and had to check for myself.

The DOGE kids have been reported to be inside NIH all week.

Realized that people don’t seem to know this, but wasn’t this reported this week??

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.

Dear friends,

On Friday, March 7, I will not be attending my usual meetings. Instead, I will be in Washington, DC, participating in the #StandUpForScience (@standupforscience.bsky.social) rally on the National Mall (12–4 PM).

Congressional Rep Steve Cohen (D-TN) confirming that Collins is out w NYT story from @sherylnyt.bsky.social

Extending my grant update this morning. Here are data limited to new and competitive renewal applications.

The Pause is dead, Long live the Pause...

Just got this passed on to us, about the damage at NIH's home campus -- the largest biomedical research institute in the world.

"The articles on cuts and damage assessments are largely grants focused. The grants program is a bit easier to characterize because it’s visible outside the NIH..." 🧪
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Facts: Representatives Tim Burchett (R-TN) and Victoria Spartz (R-IN) voted to gut #Medicaid while nearly 1 in 5 of Burchett's constituents and 1 in 4 of Spartz's rely on Medicaid for their healthcare....

Neuropsychological profile associated with financial exploitation vulnerability in older adults without dementia Objective: Reports of financial exploitation have steadily increased among older adults. Few studies have examined neuropsychological profiles for individuals vulnerable to financial exploitation, ...

⚡HOT OFF THE PRESS⚡

This paper shows that neuropsychological measures sensitive to default network functioning and Alzheimers neuropathology are also associated with financial exploitation vulnerability in older adults without cognitive impairment.

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/RAS8X...

Yes. The NIH’s Undiagnosed Diseases Program helps people who get to a point where their doctor can’t figure out what’s wrong.

Hundreds of patients come to the NIH Clinical Center, a part of NIH’s main research campus, for this.

And it’s gov’t funded, and so at risk from Trump/Musk. 🧪

Maria Glymour on LinkedIn: Building on 90 Years of Progress: Approaches to Increase Efficiency of… #NIH #HealthResearch #Efficiency #Government

I'm frustrated with the messaging that indiscriminate firings at NIH and proposed decimation of research via changes to indirect rates are about increasing efficiency. Here are some thoughts on how to actually increase returns to NIH investments. shorturl.at/KnWU9

#EpiSky #ScienceSky

How Federal Funding Propels the SPH Research Making a Difference in People’s Lives With federal research funding cuts looming for academia and medical centers across the US, we take at look at how federally funded research at SPH has produced tangible results that benefit real lives...

We need to shout from the rooftops how and why NIH funded health research is important, and what is accomplished with this work: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
We're not just doing this because we secretly love reformatting our biosketches & spending weekends writing grants. #EpiSky

For today's Friday at #INS2025inNOLA come check out some work from my lab at the 1:45pm session on "Social Determinants of Brain Health: Longitudinal Studies." Iris Strangmann and Uriel Urias will be presenting our work with the LASI-DAD cohort. I'll also be moderating the session!