Last year I looked at NIH grants for which the the titles had changed in the course of administrative renewal. These title changes were part of the negotiations required between program officers and applicants (a process referred to as "remediation" by Deputy Director Jon Lorsch). 1/5

So excited to hear about our lab’s research assistants (FOUR of them) getting into grad school!!!

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🎉 PINE Lab is hiring a postbacc Research Coordinator! Projects include cohort studies examining brain mechanisms linking adversity to cognition/language & RCTs of early interventions on neurodevelopment. apply: forms.gle/Dyay39x2XEMn... more info: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/join-us

If you’re able Immigrant Rapid Response Fund (Women’s Foundation of MN) www.wfmn.org/funds/immigr... VEAP Food Shelf veap.org International Institute of Minnesota iimn.org/how-to-help/ GiveMN (to find MN nonprofits) www.givemn.org Minnesota is amazing because of its people.Let’s take care of them.

Immigrant Rapid Response Fund

The Immigrant Rapid Response Fund (IRRF) was created by a group of philanthropic leaders close to the communities most impacted to ensure that resources move quickly and responsibly during immigration...

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The shingles vaccine has demonstrated in what is now a 4th replication that it results in a ~20% reduction in dementia. This is better than any drug ever designed and tested for Alzheimer’s.

Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Shingles vaccine and reduction of dementia: a new natural experiment from Canada replicated 3 others and adds to this week's link to slowing of biological aging. erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...

📚 The international DIM C-BRAINS PhD program is back! Up for grabs: 7 fully funded, 3-year doctoral contracts in the Île-de-France region, 3 of which will be hosted by Paris Brain Institute. 📆 Application deadline: February 1, 2026. 👉 Find out more: parisbraininstitute.org/dim-c-brains...

The DIM C-BRAINS international PhD program opens its 2026 call for applications. | Paris Brain Institute

The international DIM C-BRAINS PhD program is back. Up for grabs: 7 fully funded, 3-year doctoral contracts in the Île-de-France region, 3 of which will be hosted by the Institut du Cerveau. Applicati...

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Income insufficiency impacts early #brain development in infants facing increased psychosocial adversity: A network-based approach @PNAS.org

Income insufficiency impacts early #brain development in infants facing increased psychosocial adversity: A network-based approach

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 2, January 2026. SignificanceThis paper demonstrates the key role of adversity on the earliest stages of postnatal brain development. Data from the Baby Steps study, an ongoing longitudinal study collecting electroencephalography (EEG) and socioeconomic status related ...

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Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n... 1/3

The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left

“We can no longer lend our credibility to an organization that has lost its integrity,” write four scientists and administrators who recently resigned from the NIH.

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Money stress may slow early brain development in babies: www.earth.com/news/money-s...

Money stress may slow early brain development in babies

Babies in financially stressed households show slower brain development, highlighting the importance of income stability early in life.

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Sharing our recent sobering publication: Income Insufficiency Impacts Early Brain Development In Infants Facing Increased Psychosocial Adversity: A Network-based Approach. Great work by postdoc Haerin Chung and proud of our Baby Steps Study team. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2513598123

Really happy with this years lab gift! Feeling like this brain guy is going to bring joy throughout the year.

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

Trump’s HHS put me on “non-disciplinary” admin leave today. This was retaliation for speaking up. Moves like this are designed to silence us. Let’s not let. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Dteoop/

I guess I am hitting a nerve, because they just put me on admin leave.

TikTok video by Jenna

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Happy Halloween from the Wilkinson Lab Library!

thrilled to share this project over a decade in the making out now in @pnas.org! We show that precocious GABA boosting in neonates by early sevoflurane/propofol anesthetic exposure accelerates visual cortical maturation in human infants www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are hiring a Spanish-speaking research assistant for our Baby Steps Study - great opportunity for a pre-med or pre-grad postbac interested in working in the area of child neurodevelopment. Please share! jobs.bostonchildrens.org/job/22060807...

Clinical Research Assistant I- Baby Steps

Careers at Boston Children’s Hospital will help you reach your goals – both in and out of the workplace.

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NIH just posted a Notice with the new Terms and Conditions... grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · last yr.

New STAT story about the possible new NIH grants terms and conditions www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...

Please share: Opportunity for soon to be graduating grad students with an interest in neurodevelopment and mental health - our T32 postdoc program in neurodevelopmental disorders at Boston Children’s is accepting applications: rsztnc.org/wp-content/u...

Check out this paper! @ccclements.bsky.social dug deep into understanding EEG differences in Tuberous Sclerosis and teasing apart effects of seizures and seizure meds on EEG power spectra. Important implications for EEG use in clinical trials. What a fun collaboration!

Caitlin C Clements@ccclements.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper alert! A story where secondary findings were perhaps more interesting than our original question. rdcu.be/d6LnQ Before I start, I extend deep thanks to the families in the study. 🧵 1/x

New EEG paper! Amazing work by Winko An utilizing the incredible data collected across many years in Chuck Nelson’s lab. doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...

Beautiful gift from Megan Tsou - an amazing study coordinator in the lab. Love love love it!

Gave some advice to prospective medstudents. I think it was sound…but can folks on admissions or teaching medstudents can give me a thumbs up or down? TLDR: medschool evaluate (1) whether you will sink or swim, (2) are you committed to the profession, and (3) will you make a positive impact.

Putting this years holiday lab gift to use - had to keep one for myself! #braincoaster #perlerbeads

Holiday Lab Yankee Swap! Not pictured - me and my new brain notebook!

Happy Halloween from my zoo- lab!

Our paper - Developmental trajectories of EEG aperiodic and periodic components in children 2-to-44 months of age - now published in Nature Communications. Interesting dynamic changes in alpha and beta peaks that we think are related to steps in early thalamocortical development. rdcu.be/dNj0I

Developmental trajectories of EEG aperiodic and periodic components in children 2–44 months of age

Nature Communications - Using longitudinal EEG data from 592 infants and toddlers, the authors identify age-dependent nonlinear changes in periodic alpha and beta peaks suggestive of distinct...

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