Michaelle DiMaggio-Potter

A bold, patriotic-themed flyer for “31 Days of Action” by Stand Up for Science. The top half features red diagonal banners with white text reading “31 Days of Action” and the Stand Up for Science logo beneath it. The background includes blue ink splatters, red and white stars, and distressed textures evoking protest art. The right side prominently displays the Statue of Liberty in grayscale, holding her torch high. At the bottom, there is a red QR code and a blue banner with the URL: “standupforscience.net/31-DAYS-OF-ACTION”. The overall design conveys urgency, activism, and American iconography.

📣 ANNOUNCEMENT: 31 Days of Action – All August!

Funding cuts. Banned words. Fired public servants.

Trump & his cronies are dismantling America’s greatest experiment - our democracy - & with it, science.

Between now & Sept 30th we decide: Are we a democracy… or an oligarchy?

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I will be interviewing for a clinical psychology PhD student in the Precision Psychopathology + Dynamic Immunopsychiatry Lab this interview cycle.

Please see our website for more info about what we do + share with applicants you think might be a good fit.

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Need to learn how to do simulation based power analysis for project planning and grants?

In my last workshop for me for the summer, I teach folks how to use Mplus to do flexible power analysis for everything from regression to multilevel SEMs.

Please RT! 🙏

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smart-workshops.com/mplus-power-...

Two kittens, one orange and one gray, curled up in a ball together on a blanket

After 6 months and 80 allergy shots, meet Chester and Maple!

Capturing Creative Imagination in the Adolescent Brain: Development of a Novel fMRI Task Adolescence is a pivotal time for developing creative imagination. To advance knowledge about the neural underpinnings of creative imagination during this critical developmental phase, a task capab...

🚨New pub on the creation of a neuroimaging task used to capture imaginative thinking in teens!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Michaelle standing at a podium with a clicker presenting master’s thesis talk at ARP conference in Evanston IL

I presented my first two symposiums this summer at @psychscience.bsky.social and @arpposts.bsky.social, the first of which I chaired! 🎉🎉

But I’m still learning a lot about science dissemination in these settings. What are your go-to tips/strategies for presenting at/attending research conferences?

Ten simple rules for thriving in a post-baccalaureate research program

For those considering post-bacc programs, here’s a fun paper I led describing 10 ways to thrive in them!

Though the state of these programs is uncertain, I hope it’s still informative for students
@therealdrdukes@bsky.social

journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

A termination notice for a post-baccalaureate research program that reads “This project is terminated effective 07/31/2025. Research programs based primarily on artificial and non-scientific categories, including amorphous equity objectives, are antithetical to the scientific inquiry, do nothing to expand our knowledge of living systems, provide low returns on investment, and ultimately do not enhance health, lengthen life, or reduce illness. Worse, so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion ("DEI") studies are often used to support unlawful discrimination on the basis of race and other protected characteristics ICO's, which harms the health of Americans. Therefore, it is the policy of NIH not to prioritize such research programs. Therefore, no additional funding will be awarded for this project, and all future years have been removed. If appropriate, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA may request funds to support patient safety and animal welfare to support an orderly phaseout of the project.”

The 2025-2026 cohort of MINDS post-baccalaureate scholars, their near-peer graduate student mentors, faculty mentors, program directors, and mini-MINDS participants standing in front of a project screen that reads 2025 MINDS post-baccalaureate research symposium

A full seminar room of faculty, students and community members listening to the oral presentation by a second year MIND scholar.

A Ten Simple Rules perspective paper “Ten simple rules for thriving in a post-baccalaureate research program” authored by Michaelle E. DiMaggio-Potter, Angelica Velosa, John C. Brent IV, Osmar Del Rio, Eyerusalem F. Abebaw, Fernando Aguilar-Ortega, Dante Rogers, Patrick E. Rothwell, and Angeline J. Dukes.

June was a whirlwind for our post-bacc program.

The grant that funds us was terminated 😣

But we had an amazing symposium & celebrated our scholars going to grad school🎉 🎓

Now the Ten Simple Rules paper authored by our scholars is finally published 🙌🏾 journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Lab road trip to Association for Research in Personality conference is off!

Excited to present “Interpersonal Complementarity Across Levels of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors in BPD,” at ARP! @arpposts.bsky.social

Come check it out Friday at 1:15 pm in the Rogers Room!

@aidangcw.bsky.social
@annikafrom.bsky.social
@hasaganitissera.bsky.social
& Kathryn Bollich-Ziegler

Call for papers for a Brain, Behavior, and Immunity special issue on precision immunopsychiatry of depression! If you have a project in the pipeline that fits the bill, we encourage you to submit.

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

@pnirs.bsky.social

For a social drug, there is surprisingly little lab research on alcohol use in social settings. Check out this new paper by Kasey Creswell and friends (myself included) that adds to this small but critical body of work.

www.psychologicalscience.org/article?ru=h...

Congrats!! 🥳

Today, NSF added another 500 GRFP awardees, bringing this year’s total to 1500
www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

Congrats Dan! 🥳🥳

Research Saves Lives

At Hopkins, we just went live with an expansive website showing the extraordinary value of research, the impact of cuts to research, what's at stake, resources for our research community, etc.

Check it out: researchsaveslives.jhu.edu

Care about suicide research? Then you should care about how we measure suicide-related constructs! Very proud to share this viewpoint led by @kirstenchristensen.bsky.social, recently accepted at J Psychopathology and Clinical Science 🥳

osf.io/preprints/ps...

The biggest endorsement I can make for Bluesky is that replacing Twitter with this app on my phone probably improved my general mood when I’m on my phone by 20-25%. I know there are better reasons but it is what it is!

Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉

Need to analyze intensive longitudinal data or panel data?

Multilevel or mixed effects modeling offers one of the most powerful methods to do so.

Join my 3-day (June 18-20) workshop for longitudinal multilevel modeling to learn how.

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smart-workshops.com/long-mlm-info

PSA that NIH BRAINS RFA is terminated

Easy to miss (at least to me and one grants admin) because the change was listed in Notice NOT-OD-25-113, not in the main body of the solicitation

Suicide Researchers

We’re updating the list of suicide researchers who may take a grad student for 2026:

shorturl.at/yTT9n

Applicants - this year may feel especially heavy. Hope this brings you a little direction, hope, and a reminder that you’re not alone.

You are the future. Let your voice shape what comes next.

At APS?

Come to our symposium "Advancing Dimensional Models of Psychopathology: Bridging Psychometric, Behavioral, and Neurodevelopmental Perspectives on the HiTOP Framework"! (Friday at 1)

I'll be presenting working linking HiTOP to *actual behavior* assessed by smartphone sensors.

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

There’s been some “advice” coming from some quarters for scientists not to focus on DEI-related funding cuts.

I wholly reject this concept.

Cutting programs designed to reduce science and healthcare disparities is as detrimental to science as anything else, both morally and functionally.

All NIH and NSF grants for my entire team--and for all of Harvard, I guess?--have been terminated.

As provocative as that sounds, the practical effect is probably not much. Everything was already frozen. 🤷‍♂️

On the upside, it makes tracking terminated grants easier. No more guesswork at Harvard!

Congratulations!!! 🎉🎉

New preprint with @hollysully.bsky.social & @kevinmking.bsky.social:

Alcohol intoxication and negative mood similarly affect reward learning but not punishment learning in the Iowa Gambling Task

doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Hello my #autistic #actuallyautistic #ND and #disability friends. I am putting together a starter pack on Autism/ND/disability platforms—I am also happy to add any individuals who would like to be included. Please make recs! We need community to fight RFK Jr.🧪♿️

go.bsky.app/wbCudt

sadness from inside out is crying and saying it 's ok ... i 'm fine . ALT: sadness from inside out is crying and saying it 's ok ... i 'm fine .

All #NIH grants have now terminated here at #Harvard, including ours, which examined shared/distinct underlying neural & cognitive mechanisms between typical/atypical #arithmetic and #reading skills. Results would have been invaluable for development of #screening, diagnostic, & intervention tools.