Cat Camacho
@catcamacho.bsky.social
Neuroscientist at WashU in St. Louis studying emotions, brain development, anxiety, and depression | she/her pronouns | 🏳️🌈🇺🇸🇲🇽 https://sites.wustl.edu/crablab/
The ABCD Study at Yale is hiring a new post-baccalaureate research assistant! This is a great position to gain hands-on research experience in the field and to learn more about adolescent brain and behavioral development! 🧠 @theabcdstudy.bsky.social candlab.yale.edu/sites/defaul...
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Vought is trying to destroy American science as we know it. Here's what you can do to stop him: 👉 Visit our action center: zurl.co/NXVak 👉 Donate to Fuel the Fight for Science: zurl.co/PHtGH
I already commented but WAY more briefly and less specifically than is suggested here. Please read, and THEN comment.
elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 4mo agoCalling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...
Excited to share our new preprint “Functional brain network correlates of pubertal timing and depressive symptoms in preadolescence” doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.22.727009 We examined how pubertal timing relates to whole-brain functional connectivity and depression risk in >9,000 youth (ABCD Study)
Several people have asked for possible content and structure for comments regarding the proposed OMB regulations. With some suggestions from others, I have posted on example (as a Word document) for downloading). jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... I hope this is helpful.
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I followed these instructions to comment on the new proposed (disatrous) OMB rule - super helpful! Please take the time to write a specific, personal comment!!!
elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 4mo agoCalling all Scientists! Research Administrators! Deans! Fans of Science! No one is coming to save us. Here is your assignment. I have written a step by step, easy to understand "how-to" document to help you comment on the proposed OMB rule. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...
Good. This may actually have an impact, given the number of folks who post preprints on Arxiv. 🧪
anil oza@aniloza.bsky.social · 4mo agowow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖
🚨Mentor/Mentee Matching Join the FIT'NG Mentor–Mentee Matching Program and connect with others in the field based on shared interests. Get matched ahead of the conference and coordinate a meeting either in person in Panama or virtually. 💻 Sign-up: fitng.org/mentor-mente... 📅 Deadline: June 15
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Very good (if tragic) story from the Washington Post [GIft Link] wapo.st/3OONwh6 1/8
For U.S. medical researchers, shrinking labs and bare budgets are the new reality
The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.
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Those of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year
The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.
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“A Washington Post analysis found that through March 31, halfway through this fiscal year, the number of competitive grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health is down by more than half compared with the same period last year” 😢
Dr. Becca@docbecca.bsky.social · 5mo agoThose of us doing research related to women’s health have been hit particularly hard by the govt’s sabotage of the NIH. I spoke to WaPo for this piece, as painful as it was to discuss the reality my lab is facing. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...
Congratulations to @jadynpark.bsky.social and colleagues for winning the #SANS2026 Innovation Award for their paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And that's a wrap! We hope you had a great conference! Join us for #SANS2027 in Montreal! With program co-chairs @p1sh.bsky.social and Nina Lauharatanahirun
I know the summer isn't quiiiiiite here yet (and those who are on the quarter system are cussing me out for even thinking about summer). But here is my Summer Writing Worksheet for those who use it! Share widely, please! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Summer 2026 Writing Goals Worksheet [TEMPLATE]
Building a Summer Practice of Writing in 2026 *Download a copy to edit If January is a mythical month for productivity, the summer is even more magical. It’s the time where you simultaneously get to ...
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Hope everyone is getting excited for #SANS2026 next week! 🧠 Quick reminder that you can still sign up for the NIH Roundtable over lunch at the main conference. Open to all attendees. First 100 signups get complimentary lunch! 🍱 More info here: t.e2ma.net/click/b2zckk...
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So excited to see everyone soon!!
SANS@sansmeeting.bsky.social · 5mo agoHope everyone is getting excited for #SANS2026 next week! 🧠 Quick reminder that you can still sign up for the NIH Roundtable over lunch at the main conference. Open to all attendees. First 100 signups get complimentary lunch! 🍱 More info here: t.e2ma.net/click/b2zckk...
jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️⚧️
The Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at WashU has an opening for a postdoctoral scholar! Deadline is May 1. ctcn.wustl.edu/postdoc-fell...
Postdoc Fellows
The CTCN funds a cohort of outstanding Postdoctoral Fellows to work at the interface between theoretical and experimental labs and help forge new collaborations. CTCN Fellows have strong training i…
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RFK Jr.'s pseudoscience vaccine committee is chaotic and harmful. It’s time to dismantle it. Contact your rep here!: tr.ee/removeRFKJr and demand their support to remove RFK Jr. Want to do more? Join the No Kings 3 Virtual Rally hosted by SUFS on March 28th! More details coming soon! zurl.co/wNEMP
Confusion abounds over future of US vaccine advisory committee
Former ACIP members make contradictory statements following judge essentially invalidating panel and recent decisions
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Traveling waves. Your brain has them. There must be a reason. Cortical traveling waves in time and space: Physics, physiology, and psychology www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... #neuroscience
Cortical traveling waves in time and space: Physics, physiology, and psychology
Cruddas et al. reviewed how core concepts from wave physics relate to cortical wave physiology and psychology. They examined how cortical waves emerge, how they facilitate coordinated, hierarchical, a...
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A recently discovered brain network that links cognition and actions may have an important role in Parkinson’s disease and could improve its treatment, according to a study in Nature. go.nature.com/49VBuKI #Neuroskyence 🧪
Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our review on the physics, physiology, and psychology of cortical waves led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social, out now in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
President Mandela said, "there can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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"For much of the 20th century, Black physicians were significantly underrepresented in Canadian medicine, often navigating exclusion from training programs, leadership roles and professional networks."
How Black health-care pioneers influenced modern medicine in Canada | CBC News
From early public health advocacy to modern research, Black Canadian physicians and health professionals have shaped medicine, patient care and policy across the country. Yet many of their contributio...
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The highlight of my week was the publication of "Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder" in @nature.com. It's a great paper that shows how conceptual changes in fundamental neuroscience - the discovery of SCAN - can improve treatment 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder - Nature
The substantia nigra and all Parkinson’s disease deep-brain stimulation targets are selectively connected to the somato-cognitive action network rather than to effector-specific motor regions.
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