With PhD applications due soon, thousands of young people are currently beginning their statements of purpose with the same cliché story, or the same anodyne statement Stop right now! Here are 10 thoughts for doing this right. Helps you, and helps admissions committees.👇

Paper with a former undergrad, Jonathan Liao. Familial AUD and childhood trauma related to increased delay discounting (DD) and escalated college drinking in students who started binge drinking before age 18. Lower DD was protective for high-risk students shorturl.at/jGLMV

⭐️Closing in 2 days!!! (if you are interested but need a little more time to pull the app together DM me.⭐️

Sliding windows analysis can undo the effects of preprocessing when applied to fMRI data biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

Excited to see this one in press. Check it out!

📢We are hiring! A postdoc position CAMRI UNC is open until filled. We are eager to welcome a new team member with "BOLD ideas", with particular interest in silent fMRI of awake behaving mice, brain networks and behaviors. Please help retweet. 🙏 unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/276226

Hoping this will be out soon - but for now, here's the preprint

🚨New Paper Alert🚨 I am super excited to share our recently published work in Drug and Alcohol Dependence investigating multimodal predictors of adolescent alcohol initiation using the ABCD Study sample!! Please check it out if you're interested 😁 doi.org/10.1016/j.drug…

All IDCs capped at 15% as of today. If this stands we’re done. Every research institute immediately out of business. Nearly every university ends large scale research. Back to the age of the aristocrat tinkerer. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/n…

Every dollar invested by NIH produces $2.46 in return. This will cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and set back cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and others for decades

RUSSELL DOTSON Joseph Allen If it goes to private sector, they get to decide who gets what. Only diseases that will generate a profit for research will be funded. Will anyone care about ALS because those stricken are small in number? Ignore childhood brain cancer since numbers are only 30k a year??

Things I wish more people knew about doing science in the US (thread):

It's clear that many do not understand what NIH-funded research does to improve health. It's time to revive a study published 10 years ago that provides incredible information about this. link in the comment Every single new drug approved by the FDA from 2010–2016 was built on

loved working with this team on this project!