Jessica Bernard
@bernardlcmnlab.bsky.social
Cognitive neuroscientist, director Lifespan Cognitive and Motor Neuroimaging Lab at TAMU, dog obsessed, baker, chaser of an energetic third grader, shameless cerebellum fan. Opinions my own.
An amazing opportunity! Check it out below.👇
My lab at USC is recruiting!
1) research coordinator: perfect for a recent graduate looking for research experience before applying to PhD programs: usccareers.usc.edu REQ20167829
2) PhD students: see FAQs on lab website dornsife.usc.edu/hklab/faq/
1) research coordinator: perfect for a recent graduate looking for research experience before applying to PhD programs: usccareers.usc.edu REQ20167829
2) PhD students: see FAQs on lab website dornsife.usc.edu/hklab/faq/
September 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
An amazing opportunity! Check it out below.👇
We're hiring! We have an open TT faculty position in lifespan neuroscience. I'm not on the committee but happy to answer questions about the department and TAMU more generally (I also co-chaired similar searches the last two years). Come join us, please share widely. apply.interfolio.com/172150
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September 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
We're hiring! We have an open TT faculty position in lifespan neuroscience. I'm not on the committee but happy to answer questions about the department and TAMU more generally (I also co-chaired similar searches the last two years). Come join us, please share widely. apply.interfolio.com/172150
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📣 We’re recruiting 1-2 postdocs to the incredible WBHI team to lead projects mapping brain & behav’l changes across major endocrine transitions—from adolesc to pregnancy to menopause. Expertise in MRI & human subjects necc. Please reach out to [email protected] and learn more at wbhi.ucsb.edu 🌊
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August 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
📣 We’re recruiting 1-2 postdocs to the incredible WBHI team to lead projects mapping brain & behav’l changes across major endocrine transitions—from adolesc to pregnancy to menopause. Expertise in MRI & human subjects necc. Please reach out to [email protected] and learn more at wbhi.ucsb.edu 🌊
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We’re hiring! Pls share widely:
In conjunction w/ the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social, my team is recruiting a full-time clinical research coordinator to assist with research efforts at UC Santa Barbara. 1-2 yrs experience in MRI data collection preferred.
Submit apps to: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974
In conjunction w/ the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social, my team is recruiting a full-time clinical research coordinator to assist with research efforts at UC Santa Barbara. 1-2 yrs experience in MRI data collection preferred.
Submit apps to: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974
August 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
We’re hiring! Pls share widely:
In conjunction w/ the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social, my team is recruiting a full-time clinical research coordinator to assist with research efforts at UC Santa Barbara. 1-2 yrs experience in MRI data collection preferred.
Submit apps to: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974
In conjunction w/ the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social, my team is recruiting a full-time clinical research coordinator to assist with research efforts at UC Santa Barbara. 1-2 yrs experience in MRI data collection preferred.
Submit apps to: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974
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Online now:
The estrous cycle modulates hippocampal spine dynamics, dendritic processing, and spatial coding
In this study, Wolcott et al. explore estrous-cycle modulation of hippocampal neuron structure and function. Using longitudinal two-photon imaging across the estrous cycle, they find significant modulation at the synaptic, cellular, and population levels.
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May 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Online now:
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Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause.
Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974
Or help us spread the word 💫
Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974
Or help us spread the word 💫
May 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause.
Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974
Or help us spread the word 💫
Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974
Or help us spread the word 💫
So pubmed and eRA Commons seem to be down. The repository that brings federally funded science to the public is seemingly inaccessible. The site for tracking grants is down. And based on a quick search, the whole NIH website.
March 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
So pubmed and eRA Commons seem to be down. The repository that brings federally funded science to the public is seemingly inaccessible. The site for tracking grants is down. And based on a quick search, the whole NIH website.
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Most of what we know about health and disease centers on the male body. This 2016 NIH policy was a huge win for those of us that want the scientific body of knowledge to serve, well, all bodies.
Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies
Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Most of what we know about health and disease centers on the male body. This 2016 NIH policy was a huge win for those of us that want the scientific body of knowledge to serve, well, all bodies.
Timeline cleanse: while everything else has been scary and uncertain particularly with respect to research and research funding, the awesome team in my lab has been working hard on projects. I have a backlog to share as I held off in *these times*. But their work deserves to be celebrated & shared.
February 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Timeline cleanse: while everything else has been scary and uncertain particularly with respect to research and research funding, the awesome team in my lab has been working hard on projects. I have a backlog to share as I held off in *these times*. But their work deserves to be celebrated & shared.
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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Feeling like a bit of a rebel in these times Editing a new SI for Neurobiology of Aging - “Brain Resilience & DIVERSITY in Aging & Dementia”
Please consider submitting your work & share broadly. This work is essential for supporting healthy aging for ALL.
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Please consider submitting your work & share broadly. This work is essential for supporting healthy aging for ALL.
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
February 4, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Feeling like a bit of a rebel in these times Editing a new SI for Neurobiology of Aging - “Brain Resilience & DIVERSITY in Aging & Dementia”
Please consider submitting your work & share broadly. This work is essential for supporting healthy aging for ALL.
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Please consider submitting your work & share broadly. This work is essential for supporting healthy aging for ALL.
www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
This is devastating. Women are 50% of the population. Women's health work is necessary.
The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...
orwh.od.nih.gov
January 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
This is devastating. Women are 50% of the population. Women's health work is necessary.
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How it feels to be working on a grant application right now.
a sign that says " what is even happening " next to a dumpster
ALT: a sign that says " what is even happening " next to a dumpster
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January 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
How it feels to be working on a grant application right now.
I'm handling several papers where I've sent over 30 (!!) invitations to potential reviewers. I feel terribly for the authors. Is there a magic trick I'm missing to get reviewers?
January 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I'm handling several papers where I've sent over 30 (!!) invitations to potential reviewers. I feel terribly for the authors. Is there a magic trick I'm missing to get reviewers?
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Reminder that I am looking for a graduate student to start in Fall 2025! Deadline is Jan 15. Check out my lab website for more info about my research www.ndsu.edu/labs/spanh/ and learn about the PhD program here www.ndsu.edu/psychology/g... Margot can’t wait to help review your application!
January 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Reminder that I am looking for a graduate student to start in Fall 2025! Deadline is Jan 15. Check out my lab website for more info about my research www.ndsu.edu/labs/spanh/ and learn about the PhD program here www.ndsu.edu/psychology/g... Margot can’t wait to help review your application!
Old fashioned shortbread cookies (via NYT Cooking) and an old fashioned. Plus -- a new lab paper to share.
December 21, 2024 at 2:55 AM
Old fashioned shortbread cookies (via NYT Cooking) and an old fashioned. Plus -- a new lab paper to share.
A hold over from this weekend: chocolate peppermint buche de Noel.
December 17, 2024 at 1:37 PM
A hold over from this weekend: chocolate peppermint buche de Noel.
This is pretty much a baking account for the next two weeks.
December 15, 2024 at 2:12 PM
This is pretty much a baking account for the next two weeks.
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Disaggregating analyses by Sex & Gender may help too. We have found there are sex differences in the latent brain networks underlying episodic memory - even when there are no group differences in performance. #SGBA+
The limiting factor for MRI based prediction of behavioral traits may be neither the imaging nor the pipeline or learning algorith but rather the reliability of the target phenotypes
Thought provoking work my Martin Gell et al:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thought provoking work my Martin Gell et al:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How measurement noise limits the accuracy of brain-behaviour predictions - Nature Communications
Our ability to identify associations between behaviour and brain imaging is important for uncovering markers of cognition and disease. Here, the authors illustrate the importance of the reliability of...
www.nature.com
December 14, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Disaggregating analyses by Sex & Gender may help too. We have found there are sex differences in the latent brain networks underlying episodic memory - even when there are no group differences in performance. #SGBA+
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“Women’s expressions of passion can also be perceived as overly emotional or even inappropriate, further diminishing their likelihood of being selected for high-potential programs.”
Sigh.
#AcademicChatter
Sigh.
#AcademicChatter
"When passion is expressed by men, it’s often seen as a promising indicator of diligence and leadership capacity. Yet when women display the same passion, they face a different reaction — one that deems their passionate expressions as inappropriate."
Research: Why Passionate Men Succeed, Even When They’re Mediocre
By identifying and developing promising employees early, high-potential programs aim to level the playing field and increase the representation of women in senior roles. But new research reveals an un...
hbr.org
December 10, 2024 at 7:09 PM
“Women’s expressions of passion can also be perceived as overly emotional or even inappropriate, further diminishing their likelihood of being selected for high-potential programs.”
Sigh.
#AcademicChatter
Sigh.
#AcademicChatter
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It is unfortunate how little we know about women’s brain and cognitive aging and the effects of menopause. Help us understand:
🧠 why some 🚺 experience memory difficulties during menopause
🧠 why 2/3 of Alzheimer’s cases are diagnosed in 🚺
Participate in the BHAMM study!
Please share this post.
🧠 why some 🚺 experience memory difficulties during menopause
🧠 why 2/3 of Alzheimer’s cases are diagnosed in 🚺
Participate in the BHAMM study!
Please share this post.
December 7, 2024 at 2:30 AM
It is unfortunate how little we know about women’s brain and cognitive aging and the effects of menopause. Help us understand:
🧠 why some 🚺 experience memory difficulties during menopause
🧠 why 2/3 of Alzheimer’s cases are diagnosed in 🚺
Participate in the BHAMM study!
Please share this post.
🧠 why some 🚺 experience memory difficulties during menopause
🧠 why 2/3 of Alzheimer’s cases are diagnosed in 🚺
Participate in the BHAMM study!
Please share this post.
I should probably embroider this on a pillow or get it tattooed because this AI bot was not wrong. blueskyroast.com/roast/bernar...
December 5, 2024 at 2:52 PM
I should probably embroider this on a pillow or get it tattooed because this AI bot was not wrong. blueskyroast.com/roast/bernar...
Pulled out of a committee I had agreed to co-chair. On the one hand, I feel absolutely awful doing so. But on the other, I hardly have time to focus on research (my first love) and I have grants apps that need attention, especially in this *ever uncertain* funding environment.
December 2, 2024 at 2:56 AM
Pulled out of a committee I had agreed to co-chair. On the one hand, I feel absolutely awful doing so. But on the other, I hardly have time to focus on research (my first love) and I have grants apps that need attention, especially in this *ever uncertain* funding environment.
Heading into the Thanksgiving holiday later this week, and very excited that post-doc Ashwini Sansare had her first lab paper accepted to Neurobiology of Aging. And with a major assist from my other postdoc Thamires Magalhaes (an actual dream team!).
November 26, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Heading into the Thanksgiving holiday later this week, and very excited that post-doc Ashwini Sansare had her first lab paper accepted to Neurobiology of Aging. And with a major assist from my other postdoc Thamires Magalhaes (an actual dream team!).
Texas really showing off today.
November 23, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Texas really showing off today.