It’s grad school application season, and I wanted to give some public advice.

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> These are my opinions, based on my experiences, they are not secret tricks or guarantees

> They are general guidelines, not meant to cover a host of idiosyncrasies and special cases

You know it’s a great lab when we drop everything for a balloon arch selfie @dammi-lab.bsky.social #excitednerds

We are seeking a senior tenured professor in our Department working on affective and/or motivational neuroscience (defined in the ad, but pretty broad). The idea is that this person is going help lead our growth in this area alongside our excellent Centers. jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30693

We’re hiring! Open Rank Faculty Position in Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience. Come join our vibrant research community at @cvlneuro.bsky.social. More info and application here: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30507

Where’s the link? 🤓

Democrat-led government shutdown.” She added: “Due to a recent court order, HHS is not currently taking actions to implement or administer the reduction-in-force notices.” According to the document reviewed by POLITICO, the National Institutes of Health was to take the hardest hit among HHS agencies, 4,545 layoffs, or roughly a quarter of its workforce. It ended up firing no one. A federal judge in San Francisco blocked the firing of 362 of the 954 HHS employees who did receive the October layoff

Russ Vought

My reax to the big planned NIH shutdown firing news from @politico.com:

The Project 2025 ppl didn’t do big (illegal) NIH firings because they know there would be public outcry.

Keep speaking up!

🎉UTD now has a #PCSAS accredited Clinical program🎉
I can/hope to accept clinical folks through psych or cogneuro PhD for Fall 2026!

bbs.utdallas.edu/departments/...

I really love it here!
Please share broadly!
I’m happy to answer questions!

Department of Psychology / School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS) at UT Dallas has an open tenure faculty position in Lifespan Cognitive Neuroscience.
The appointment commences for the fall 2026 semester.
Further details available at: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30507

Hearing distressing voices can be devastating.

A new German trial found rTMS modestly reduced auditory hallucinations compared to sham treatment.

Psychiatrist Iris Sommer shares her reflections on what this means for treatment and for hope.

🧵 THREAD

#Psychosis #Neurostimulation #rTMS

Collecting language, speech acoustics, and facial expression to predict psychosis and other clinical outcomes: strategies from the AMP® SCZ initiative - Schizophrenia Schizophrenia - Collecting language, speech acoustics, and facial expression to predict psychosis and other clinical outcomes: strategies from the AMP® SCZ initiative

Another great achievement from the AMP® SCZ initiative: building a global pipeline for speech, facial, and acoustic markers of psychosis risk.
nature.com/articles/s41537-025-00669-z

How the body and brain process time Recent evidence from two independent meta-analyses reveals that subjective time is processed in the insular cortex alongside the supplementary motor a…

The two main hubs in the brain for the processing of human time perception have been identified: SMA and Insula. Here Alice Teghil from Sapienza Università di Roma and I provide the conceptual background in our review on 'How the body and brain process time'. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We applied graph theoretic analyses to fMRI data of participants watching movies/listening to stories. Integration across large-scale functional networks mediates arousal-dependent enhancement of narrative memories. Open access link: rdcu.be/eKKAw

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.

What if NIH had been 40% smaller? Replaying history with less NIH funding shows widespread impacts on drug-linked research

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨🚨New Paper Alert🚨🚨

💫Hippocampus💫: at the nexus of risk and resilience for psychosis

My first solo paper in an exciting new special issue in SzResearch

kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

If you're headed to #Flux2025 in Dublin, swing by Poster S63 on Saturday to chat with rockstar @heatherarobinson.bsky.social about this work! 🧠 🇮🇪 👩‍🔬

(and of course, catch me all conference long kvelling to any/everyone about how totally amazing my students are 🥰)

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky

YouTube video by TEDx Talks The surprising science of adolescent brains | Jennifer Pfeifer | TEDxPortland

Excited to share that my TEDx talk is finally available online. I loved sharing what the science shows us: that it's time to reframe adolescence - from problem to ✨ potential ✨ 1/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8V...

Neurodevelopmental Timing Links Stress and Psychopathology This Viewpoint discusses the importance of contextualizing stressful experiences and the neurodevelopmental trajectory to predict the risk of psychopathology.

@dammi-lab.bsky.social

Understanding healthy neurodevelopment can help us understand the when, why, and how stress impacts us but timing is key!

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Neurodevelopmental Timing Links Stress and Psychopathology This Viewpoint discusses the importance of contextualizing stressful experiences and the neurodevelopmental trajectory to predict the risk of psychopathology.

Timing and plasticity are critical to progress in research on stress and neurodevelopment

@ariellekeller.bsky.social
@jamapediatrics.com
@utdallas.bsky.social
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Wonderful work from Kate- the lab is proud of you!!

Neurodevelopmental Timing Links Stress and Psychopathology url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2837717?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=081925

It’s real!! I have a lab!!

Cognition predicts social outcomes including social network size, reciprocity, and communication in CHR for psychosis (by Nashya Linares)

kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...
@daniellepratt.bsky.social
@vijayamittal.bsky.social

osf.io/2snjr/files/...

SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

16B USD/~68K Jobs and counting
scienceimpacts.org

Is there any body that has some sort of contraband ABCD Study data dictionary for the 5.1 release?

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz.

At least 10 principal researchers at NIH have been fired, including Richard Youle, winner of the Breakthrough Prize for his groundbreaking research identifying mechanisms behind Parkinson’s disease.
Is this making America great?

www.wired.com/story/doctor...

YouTube video by Ann S. Bowers WBHI "What if...?"

I went to an amazing seminar last week at the Center for Brain Health and can’t stop thinking of this video from @emilyjacobs.bsky.social

Everyone should watch it!
Support this amazing work!

youtu.be/tX5uczeISOQ

CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 : Centers for Disease Control and Prevention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive An archive of all CDC datasets uploaded to https://data.cdc.gov/browse before January 28th, 2025. Excludes corrupt datasets and data not publicly accessible.

This is great open dataset back up for others with this problem

archive.org/details/2025...

Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.

jessica.substack.com/p/cdc-birth-...

This has 2021 but my dataset is the 2023 😬