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Mark your calendars for Oct 15, 2024 to hear Sharon Inouye, MD share insights and lessons learned as JAMA Internal Medicine Editor in Chief. Be sure to bring questions to this NIDUS Delirium Network webinar! ->Learn more and register: tinyurl.com/2evrxbef #delirium

Hey that’s us! If you’re attending ISTSS come check out our Featured Session: Traumatic Stress and Epigenetic Aging on Thursday from 11am-12:15pm

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Just days after completing her postdoc at Brown, Dr. Sarah Merrill dove into a new role this fall as an assistant professor at UMass Lowell, where she’s leading a social epigenetics lab. Get a look at her exciting first day on the job: uml.edu/news/stories/2…

A query that has come up a few times recently is whether a trial Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) should review trial data blind to allocation or not.  Some reflections … 1/7 #MethodologyMonday #102

Christina Tortolani, adj. asst. prof. of psychiatry, shares insights on the mental health crisis in RI. With anxiety & depression rates rising, she emphasizes the need for more mental health professionals. Read ow.ly/MGIi50TVMEP #MentalHealthAwareness #StressAwarenessDay

How to solve for parameters of beta distribution with given mean and variance johndcook.com/blog/2021/04/0…

The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever x.com/sfmcguire79/st…

The Lumley book on surveys is so good! I hope the {survey} package has a longevity plan because I’m all in

Many people will continue struggling to come to terms with the election results, but there’s still a lot you can do: 1) Be irritable at work 2) Withdraw from people who love you/need you 3) Make an impulsive and self destructive major life decision

How to write a grant? 1. Write it for the reviewer, not you, the applicant. 2. Communicate in stories. 3. Make your story cohesive—leave no puzzling gaps. 4. Make your story resonate to keep the reviewer reading. 5. Accept chance and noise in peer-review. pnas.org/doi/epub/10.10…

For colleagues in the US interested in NIH grants: Here's a paper by three NIH Scientific Review Officers on what makes a successful grant application. Link: www.pnas[.]org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2315735121

Join the January 28 NIDUS Delirium Network webinar f. @devlinpharmd and Leanne Boehm as they discuss strategies for improving cognitive function after critical illness. Register here: tinyurl.com/4dnaayce

Still time to keep that New Year’s resolution to learn something cool! Join us next week…

Professor Bess Frost’s research on #tauopathies is driving new treatments! From tau toxicity spread to targeting retrotransposon activation in #Alzheimers, her work is moving from the lab to the clinic. A well-deserved 2025 #RainwaterPrize winner! More: ow.ly/LPKh50V6VnK

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