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Britton Barbee

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Texas A&M • Emory MSP PhD • CU Anschutz T32 DPRG postdoc • DPN editorial intern 🐭🧠👩‍💻 interested in PI3K, SABV, (in)flexible behavior, K-12 science outreach, sci comm, and my dog 🐕 | she/her/hers

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Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · Mar 3

So excited to be part of this team! 🥳🥳🥳

NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience @dpn-journal.bsky.social · Mar 3

We are excited to announce Dr. Britton Barbee
@brittonrae.bsky.social as DPN's Editorial Intern!

Dr. Barbee is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado Anschutz where she studies how genetic risk factors influence neurodevelopmental trajectories.

Welcome to the team, Britton🎉

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Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · 5d

testing antibodies = pretty pictures

Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · 8d

After a couple of years going to the dentist every 3 months (boo), I am pleased to report that dental anxiety is now afraid of ME

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 9d

The Michigan church shooter reportedly has a flag on his truck that said "F**k Biden". That means he was probably Pod Save America fan who was frustrated with Biden's decision to run for reelection.

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Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · 11d

obviously not a queen tide

Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · 17d

Kirby’s the same way. Super frustrating.

Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · 20d

Kirby shares his content of the day with you

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Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · 20d

says who bb

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Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · 28d

Congrats. I didn’t qualify for Pell Grants. I got plenty of merit scholarship offers at smaller schools that didn’t have the research opportunities that I had at A&M.

I was in the honors college. None of my friends were republicans. And yes, at 18, it did matter to me where the school was.

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Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · 28d

I wanted a college town experience (no UT and Rice), my parents paid for my degree and I wasn’t going to ask them for extra or take loans out for private tuition, and A&M is a top research university, which was necessary for my future career. I did not qualify for tuition assistance.

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Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · 28d

Breaking news: a campus of 60,000+ students is not a homogenous population. 🙄

Signed, disappointed A&M grad who did indeed attend for a STEM education and is certainly not a Christian nationalist (nor are any of my college friends).

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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · Sep 3

And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 3

Ted Cruz: "I don't want to get between JB Pritzker and the Dominos Pizza line, but I'll tell you what I am willing to get between -- him and his open doors for every human trafficker ... "

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Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · Aug 30

good morning besties it’s game day

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NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience @dpn-journal.bsky.social · Aug 27

🚨New Deep Dive🚨

This episode covers a recent study by Vizer et al investigating if language features extracted from smartphones can be used as a proxy for posttraumatic symptom severity over time following a traumatic exposure.

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Smartphone language features may help identify outcomes in trauma survivors

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Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · Aug 27

Yesterday my bottle of cresyl violet mysteriously broke. It looked exactly like this poster and the floor in front of my bench now looks like I murdered Barney. Perhaps a serial criminal.

Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · Aug 26

🥹🥹🥹 congrats!!!!

a man applauds with the words way to go super proud of you behind him

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Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · Aug 26

What a timely gif choice! 💍

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Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome @crnicinstitute.bsky.social · Aug 25

Congratulations to Cristina Lau, PhD candidate in the Espinosa Lab, for receiving an NIH F31 grant for her project, "Deciphering Central Nervous System Autoimmunity in Down Syndrome." We look forward to seeing these exciting discoveries!

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Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · Aug 23

big fan of college football Saturdays

Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · Aug 23

Courtyard?

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Aug 23

10/14

These are real early career scientists, many of whom have had their careers and lives turned upside down by arbitrary and capricious grant terminations. They received their K99/R00 awards through a highly competitive program with no set-aside funds. I show a dare I-say mosaic below with ~1/4 of the MOSAIC scholars to depict what is at risk.

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Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · Aug 23

it’s the mooost wonderful tiiiime of the year - college football is back!! 🏈✨🥳

a football player wearing a texas a & m helmet is celebrating a touchdown

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Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · Aug 23

You gotta come up with a C word for patio for the alliteration

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Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · Aug 23

Congrats! 🎉🎊

Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · Aug 22

I didn’t see any prairie dogs and that reflects how my day went lol

Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · Aug 21

The prairie dog colony I drive past on my way to work is rapidly becoming my own version of Groundhog Day, where the number of prairie dogs I see correlates to the quality of my day

Britton Barbee @brittonrae.bsky.social · Aug 21

The prairie dog colony I drive past on my way to work is rapidly becoming my own version of Groundhog Day, where the number of prairie dogs I see correlates to the quality of my day