I'm helping mentor junior faculty through the grant writing process, as part of an official program this year. Two things: First, I have to stop referring to assistant professors as "the kids". 🤣 Second, you really do learn stuff by doing it for 30 years. 👩‍🦳

SOBP webinar on the stuff they don't teach you in grad school (often) -- team leadership for your lab! Next week the 24th -- lnkd.in/dfNdBjRz to register (I hope that link works!)

I don't like days full of meetings--like so many, I look back fondly on the days where I was just analyzing data and writing papers/grants -- but I must say, when it's one good progress update after another, with results coming thick and fast--that's a good day. 😁

We did our summer progress review/fall goals setting at lab meeting on Friday. I love doing that!! Everyone is chugging along, checking off what they said they would do and setting, if I may say so, mighty ambitious plans for the fall. Here we go! 🧠

Josh Bennett: Science It Up!

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On the other hand, stuff like this makes it all worth while. Oba got his Master's in IO psychology!! He was an undergrad with me quite some time ago and took a winding path.

Not about science specifically, but I made a donation to Ohio's Imagination Library in Dolly Parton's honor. I hope her Imagination Library is rolling, in donations in her memory!! www.ohioimaginationlibrary.org/about

About — Ohio Imagination Library

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Ohio is reaching children in all 88 counties, thanks to a network of early childhood literacy partners and generous support from the Ohio General Assembly, corpor...

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Fooey. This time I left town for a week and came back to two manuscripts getting rejected. Rats. 😭 They were solid, too. I'm not sure what happened there. We continue, however. Revise and resubmit elsewhere!

Kids these days. They don't believe we ever localized fMRI results by comparing an individual brain to published *books* of labeled brains in different orientations, poring over every bend of every sulcus. Mind you, I knew my own brain well enough to pick it out of a line up, in those days. 😁

When you panic about needing to do your continuing review for a study for the IRB, wondering why they didn't email you to remind you--and then re-read the approval letter from last year, where they said no need for continuing review!! Happy days, indeed. 😁

Yahoo! Cindy's honor thesis about non-suicidal self injury in people with and without first episode psychosis is up as a preprint! 🧠 She looked at dynamic connectivity models across relevant brain regions... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Anomalous Emotion Regulation & Reward Network Connectivity Underlying Suicidal & Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Early Psychosis

Background: Individuals with early psychosis (EP) have elevated risk for suicide, the leading cause of death in the first five years following diagnosis. Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) significantly ...

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Tremendous time at the Black Mens' Wellness Day today! myfox28columbus.com/features/goo... OSU was out in force to help with screenings for lungs, kidneys, memory, skin cancer, diabetes, mental health connections, you name it! But, it was hopping early. I took the video below at 8:30 am...

So we have EMA analyses going on about suicide risk; effective connectivity analyses of cerebellar fMRI; cerebellar aging studies; visual thalamus conn'y in schizophrenia; and random pop ups here and there about predicting cognitive decline in AD or gen'tive models of fMRI. Never a dull moment! 😁

When a youngster gets a desk rejection on their first submission--completely unexpected by their senior co-authors, too! My emotional regulation is to figure out "what to do next", which luckily seems to work well even with students. Revised and improved version to be submitted elsewhere! 💪

I'd complain about working on Sunday, but I knocked out responses to three lab papers (by undergrads!! Woot!!) and skimmed a final dissertation before its defense later this week. Yes, I was supposed to be grantwriting, but this is more immediately rewarding. 😁

I'm told the OMB proposal got over half a million comments--I know I accounted for one! Fingers crossed that changes the course of things.

And congrats to Kannan and Theo for pulling this one off--it was a hard job, but it's a really strong update on some of our previous work harmonizing measures across psychosis symptom scales! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats to the post-docs and research fellows who are taking on NIH grant submissions around the US, as the older PIs reach the newer NIH caps and have to share the load. 😆

The thing is, science as a career is exhausting, but dang it, it does lead to really spiffy stuff. An artist said once you can't be bored as an artist because you can just LOOK at ANYTHING. Same point for scientists, I think.

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Yus!! 🎉 Structural networks within the cerebellum in Sz and BD! We are banging the heck out of the P-HCP dataset. 😁 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cerebellar structure is abnormal in schizophrenia and deviates from bipolar disorder

The cerebellum has been implicated in schizophrenia-related structural and functional deficits, with posterior Crus I and II most consistently affecte…

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I feel deranged trying to submit grants to NIH, given the funding limitations, delays, recalls, etc. We've got folks here whose grants were recommended for funding, but no sign of $$ from NIH even after 6 months. What was that about doing the same thing but expecting a different outcome... 😉

Look, it worked! I did it! 😆 Seriously, I am really happy to be a Fellow of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping. 🧠 And it's an august company.

In our review of the goals we came up with in January--we had a good semester! We had theses defended, papers submitted and accepted!, conferences posters, and new projects are underway. Much applause all 'round! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Hah! I left town, and two papers got accepted for publication--can't argue with that!

nothing like checking out for a week's vacation, to make everyone show up asking for an updated biosketch... 🤣

In case you think you can't change the world--Dr. Delawalla is a key counter-example.

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Allow me to reintroduce myself! Thank you to every last person who supported me along the way (the list is so so long) of this insane thing of moming, PhDing, and CEOing. ❤️

I will be live-posting the dissertation defense of @standupforscience.net founder @cdelawalla.bsky.social this afternoon. While she has been building an organization and leading national efforts, she has been completing her PhD work. Of Mice & (hu)Mans: C. Delawalla Dissertation Defense 1/n

I do get very happy when members of the lab find new datasets they'd like to work on, and initiate the process for getting them. (I'm training 'em up right. 😁) But whenever there's a chance to help *collect* data, they are also always first in line to volunteer. Best of both worlds!

Italian mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi was born #OTD in 1718. She wrote the first book discussing both differential & integral calculus and was the first woman appointed as a mathematics professor at a university (University of Bologna). #WomenInSTEM #mathematics

We are implementing a similar policy at @arxiv.bsky.social. If there is incontrovertible evidence of LLM slop in a paper, this means the authors did not take the time to read the LLM output and we can't trust anything else in the paper. Penalty is 1 year ban from arXiv followed by...

We had a conference! Well, our second annual EPICENTER Research Day (the OSUMC Psychiatry psychosis division), which included ~50 attendees, an invited speaker, ~25 posters, and this year an award for best poster. 😁 Looking forward to great things between now and the third one!