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Elvisha Dhamala

@elvisha.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor at Northwell Previously McGill, Cornell, Yale Brain-Based Predictive Modeling Lab: bpmlab.org Interested in sex, gender, brain, behavior, mental health, neurodevelopment, and machine learning Views are mine 🧠🇨🇦🇳🇵

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Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · Aug 18

"At a time when unsubstantiated opinions are often presented as facts, data are our most powerful tool to separate truth from misinformation. But data are now under attack."

Check out my essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social on what this means for research.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Aug 18

An explosion in open-neuroscience datasets has created a new generation of researchers with expertise in data science. But new restrictions put our research programs in jeopardy, writes Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

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Deleting data or stopping its collection will erase years of valuable brain research

An explosion in open-neuroscience datasets has created a new generation of researchers with expertise in data science. But new federal restrictions in the United States put their research programs in…

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PennMedCSO @pennmedcso.bsky.social · 1d

Reproducible Brain Charts: Mapping brain development & mental health ft. @goliashf.bsky.social, T. Moore, T. Salo, M. Calkins, R. Gur, R. Gur, @cieslakmatt.bsky.social, @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social, C. Davatzikos & R. Shinohara (@dbei-upenn.bsky.social) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely! Yes, and ACNP too!

Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · 3d

I’m just a tortured poet trying to will myself into my showgirl era 🤍 ❤️‍🔥

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 8d

Applications are now open for our spring internship! This is an excellent opportunity for a beginning science journalist to report and write about the fast-moving field of neuroscience. Apply now: simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/simons...

#neuroskyence

Science Reporting Intern, The Transmitter

The Transmitter offers up-to-date news and analysis of neuroscience and is dedicated to helping scientists at all career stages stay current and build connections. Our award-winning news team is seeki...

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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 6d

We're a month further into the job market - how are things looking? The good news is that the market does seem to have been delayed: ~150 new listings have appeared since my last post. The bad news is that the total is still substantially lower than what it was during the covid dip.

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Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · 7d

Congrats Armin!!

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Divyangana Rakesh @divyangana.bsky.social · 7d

New paper in Nature Mental Health where we show that macroeconomic income inequality is associated with brain structure and function over and above individual-level SES and other state-level factors. These alterations may serve as pathways to mental health problems.

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Macroeconomic income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health - Nature Mental Health

Rakesh et al. used data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development cohort study to evaluate the relationship between state-level income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health in young people.

www.nature.com

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Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · 8d

I'm reviewing textbook chapters and I think this is the first time in my life I'm reading textbook chapters in their entirety. I never really read them as an undergrad or when I was teaching undergrads so this is quite an interesting experience.

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Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 8d

In this review, @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Hugh Garavan examine how task and resting-state fMRI can reveal brain-behavior relationships in youth, highlighting current controversies and challenges, outlining solutions, and proposing future directions in developmental neuroscience research.

Task and resting state fMRI modelling of brain-behavior relationships in developmental cohorts

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data are often used to inform individual differences in cognitive, behavioral, and psychiatric phenotypes. These so-called “brain-behavior” association stu...

www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com

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Lexi Decker @lexidecker.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to share that I'm joining WashU in January as an Assistant Prof in Psych & Brain Sciences! 🧠✨!

I'm also recruiting grad students to start next September - come hang out with us! Details about our lab here: www.deckerlab.com

Reposts are very welcome! 🙌 Please help spread the word!

DeckerLab

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 9d

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist!

Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply!

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 9d

We will have an NHP position open at @westernu.ca this year. Posting is coming soon. If you're interested about our setup and the opportunities here, feel free to get in touch.

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Corey Horien @coreyhorien.bsky.social · 11d

Awesome stuff here from @annierhcheng.bsky.social g.bsky.social and @yiplab.bsky.social using predictive modelling of fMRI connectivity data to find markers of impulsivity and negative affect in IMAGEN and ABCD

w/ @toddc.bsky.social, @baderchaarani.bsky.social et al.

Sarah Yip @yiplab.bsky.social · 12d

New paper from @annierhcheng.bsky.social

using data from IMAGEN and ABCD she identifies distinct signatures of impulsivity and negative affect in youth that uniquely overlap with a neuromarker of risky alcohol use

#development #equifinality #abcd #connectome

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Impulsivity and neuroticism share distinct functional connectivity signatures with alcohol-use risk in youth - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - Impulsivity and neuroticism share distinct functional connectivity signatures with alcohol-use risk in youth

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Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · 10d

On the bright side, I just got my new laptop with 128GB of RAM so I guess you win some, you lose some 🤷🏽‍♀️

Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · 11d

It’s not even 9am and I’ve already been threatened at the border to have my clearance status revoked and taken a Lyft where the steering wheel stopped working in the middle of the highway during rush hour.

Happy Monday!

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11d

New from the Washington Post

[Gift link]

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White House considers funding advantage for colleges that align with Trump policies

The proposal has the potential to transform the government’s vast research funding operation, which has long awarded university grants based on scientific merit.

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Sarah Yip @yiplab.bsky.social · 12d

Impulsivity and neuroticism share distinct functional connectivity signatures with alcohol-use risk in youth - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - Impulsivity and neuroticism share distinct functional connectivity signatures with alcohol-use risk in youth

www.nature.com

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Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · 13d

Had the best week in Tübingen talking about sex, gender, and the brain with some of the most amazing people doing this work 🧠🩷

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David Baranger @davidbaranger.bsky.social · 14d

Excited to share that I am officially recruiting a postdoc to study the neurobiology of addiction! Looking for someone who would be excited to lead current projects in the lab and develop new directions in related areas.
More info: bearlab.science/opportunities/

Opportunities

Interested in the neuroscience of addiction? We are recruiting at all levels!! Reach out to Dr. Baranger – [email protected] Postdoctoral fellows/Senior Scientists: Please send an email conta…

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Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 15d

The Biological Psychiatry family of journals is now officially on Bluesky!

Follow us for the latest research in psychiatric neuroscience, cognitive neuroimaging, and global open science from our three leading journals.

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Thomas Nichols @nichols.bsky.social · 15d

Happy to be a part of Anya Topiwala's new work, using Mendelian Randomisation with @ukbiobank.bsky.social & Million Veteran Program, finding that even modest alcohol consumption increases risk of dementia. ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...

Alcohol use and risk of dementia in diverse populations: evidence from cohort, case–control and Mendelian randomisation approaches

Objectives To investigate the relationship between alcohol consumption and dementia. Design Prospective cohort and case–control analyses combined with linear and non-linear Mendelian randomisation. ...

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Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · 15d

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Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · 19d

Another day, another airport.

(Also fun lil fact since I recently had to fill this out on a form - I have exited/entered the US 100+ times since 2018 🤯🌏)

Elvisha Dhamala @elvisha.bsky.social · 20d

Did I ignore this email every day for the last month? Yes.
Did I immediately fill it out after they added a Sabrina Carpenter ticket giveaway? Also yes.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Sep 9

So... I did some analysis of grants that did receive noncompetitive renewals.

In particular, I looked a those award where the title of the grant changed.

Warning: The results are just what I expected, but oooph...

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