This afternoon, our 3rd year students presented their Master’s theses for Temple’s annual Research Day! Moira McKniff won the Gary Foster award for Outstanding Research in Clinical Psychology - a huge accomplishment and well-deserved honor! We are so proud of our graduate students!
Attending #NAN2025? Check out our 3rd year Kimberly’s paper presentation on relations among depressive symptoms, cognition, and everyday function this Thursday @ 9:15am! Can’t wait to learn from our neuropsychology colleagues in sunny LA! @neuropsychblog.bsky.social @khalberstadter.bsky.social
Day 2 of #AAIC25 ✅ Yesterday was filled with inspiring sessions and more amazing poster presentations from current and former members of our lab. What an exciting and motivating day! @alzassociation.bsky.social @istaart.bsky.social
📣Today is a turning point in what we know about brain health.
The results from the U.S. POINTER trial provide the rigorous data needed to say with confidence that healthy behaviors can meaningfully protect brain health across diverse populations in the U.S.
#AAIC25 alz.org/USPOINTERresults
@istaart.bsky.social
We are so excited to attend #AAIC25 this year! Check out our amazing students’ work throughout the conference - poster details below! @alzassociation.bsky.social
Very excited to share my first paper on my smartwatch dissertation study! We found that 4 week smartwatch monitoring combined with daily EMA is highly feasible and acceptable in older adults. Avg smartwatch wear time was 21h/d and EMA adherence was 94%!
humanfactors.jmir.org/2025/1/e69952
📣 HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE!
Join @standupforscience.bsky.social on April 5th, in coalition with @indivisible.org and 100+ other partners, for a national day of action in support of our democracy, our future, our rights, our science, and our health.
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🧪The Alzheimer's Disease Research Center program is a crown jewel in the NIA's funding portfolio. 35 centers in red, blue and purple states put data in a single repository working towards a shared goal of curing AD. Funding for center renewals is on hold.
tinyurl.com/yc2pr626
#standupforscience2025
Thanks to @nature.com for featuring Stand Up for Science! ☀️🧬🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Stand up for science. March 7, 5-6 PM. Meet at the federal building.
Stand up for Science! March 7!
Just received notice that our grant was terminated. 5R24AG066599-03
TheRiseRegistry.org
NIH is rescinding grants focusing on factors related to Alzheimer disease (risk, caregiving, etc) in LGBTQ populations. lgbtqcaregivers.org/rise-registry/. Brilliant scientists and people they care about are being devastated @schiff.senate.gov @altnih4science.bsky.social @jaceflatt.bsky.social
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
In contrast, greater IIV of sleep measured from a daily EMA question (i.e., how many hours did you sleep the night prior?) and a higher score on the PSQI sleep quality measure were related to worse executive function. We also went on a spooky lab ghost tour which was awesome! (3/3)
I found that greater intraindividual variability (IIV) of daily sleep measured from a smartwatch was related to worse memory. (2/3)
Had a great time presenting at #INS2025inNOLA ! I presented initial findings on how various types of sleep measurement captured daily for 30 days are related to different domains of cognition from my dissertation data. (1/3)
Screenshort of New York Times article titled "Ban on DEI language sweeps through the sciences"
I can't even begin to explain how bad this for science and for America
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/s...
Wonderful explainer on indirect costs by Dick Aslin open.substack.com/pub/dickasli...
If you live in AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC, your reps are on the Senate HELP Committee which has jurisdiction over NIH.
Write to them pointing out the jobs and money coming to your state from NIH: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
describe impact of NIH cuts on....
Made some slides for scientists to talk about what's been happening & what we should do next. There are probably many people better qualified than me to talk about these issues. If that's you, please, please, please consider holding some virtual advocacy training sessions for researchers this week.
In 2017, during his first administration, President Trump made a budget proposal that would have reduced the indirect cost rate for research institutions to an across-the-board, categorical rate of 10%. Congress unequivocally responded to ward off such a change to the calculation of indirect cost rates. In 2018, Congress enacted an appropriations rider prohibiting HHS or NIH from spending appropriated funds “to develop or implement a modified approach to” the reimbursement of “indirect costs” and “deviations from negotiated rates.” Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, Pub. L. No. 115-141, 132 Stat 348, § 226. That rider has remained in effect through every appropriations law governing HHS to this day. See Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, Pub. L. No. 118-47, § 224.
The complaint filed by 22 states attorneys general argues that the Trump administration's capping of NIH indirects at 15% is illegal.
In 2018, Congress acted specifically to prevent "deviations from negotiated rates" for indirects. This remains in effect to this day.
www.mass.gov/doc/ecf-comp...
5calls.org/issue/nih-ns...
call your congresspeople with a <1 minute script!
A Lancet Editorial: “American chaos: standing up for health and medicine”
“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.”
The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av
Another brilliant commentary for our (@jamiereillycog.bsky.social) series on the vices and virtues of the biological dx of #Alzheimer's disease 🧠🧪 (@bpsofficial.bsky.social). This one is by the amazing @jetmjvonk.bsky.social!
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Just called my state representatives to voice my concern over pausing NIH funding/DEI grants, help make our voices heard!
Contact your senator: senate.gov/senators/sen...
Find your representative: house.gov/representati...
