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Professor Bess Frost’s research on #tauopathies is driving new treatments! From tau toxicity spread to targeting retrotransposon activation in #Alzheimers, her work is moving from the lab to the clinic. A well-deserved 2025 #RainwaterPrize winner! More: ow.ly/LPKh50V6VnK

Honoring Excellence: Dr. Bess Frost Receives 2025 Rainwater Prize - Rainwater Charitable Foundation

The Rainwater Charitable Foundation (RCF) is proud to award Bess Frost, Ph.D., Brown University, with the 2025 Rainwater Prize for Innovative Early-Career Scientist of $200,000. The Rainwater PrizeTM...

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AMA Manual of Style@AMAManual26 Feb 2025
In JAMA Network journals we tend to avoid this, as you note it's redundant and cluttering.
CaranW@caranrw21 Feb 2025
Replying to @AMAManual
@AMAManual Is it ever OK to label the bars in a chart with the actual number? It seems redundant to me, and adds to chart clutter.
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Join the January 28 @NIDUS_Delirium webinar f. @devlinpharmd and @boehmleanne as they discuss strategies for improving cognitive function after critical illness. Register here: tinyurl.com/4dnaayce
Join the January 28 NIDUS webinar with John Devlin and Leanne Boehm as they discuss strategies for improving cognitive function after critical illness.

ALT Join the January 28 NIDUS webinar with John Devlin and Leanne Boehm as they discuss strategies for improving cognitive function after critical illness.

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Still time to keep that New Year’s resolution to learn something cool! Join us next week…
Gregory R. Hancock@GregoryRHancock2 Dec 2024
Interested in a fun 3-day online course covering intro-to-intermediate structural equation modeling? umd-cilvr.catalog.instructur… Join me and Yi Feng (@TheYiFeng) synchronously and/or asynchronously, January 8-10, 2025. Student discount available.
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For colleagues in the US interested in NIH grants: Here's a paper by three NIH Scientific Review Officers on what makes a successful grant application. Link: www.pnas[.]org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2315735121
"Elements of successful NIH grant applications" by Houmam Araj, Leroy Worth Jr., and David T. Yeung.

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Itai Yanai
@ItaiYanai24 Nov 2024
How to write a grant? 1. Write it for the reviewer, not you, the applicant. 2. Communicate in stories. 3. Make your story cohesive—leave no puzzling gaps. 4. Make your story resonate to keep the reviewer reading. 5. Accept chance and noise in peer-review. pnas.org/doi/epub/10.1073/pn…
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The Lumley book on surveys is so good! I hope the {survey} package has a longevity plan because I’m all in
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Noah Garfinkel@NoahGarfinkel6 Nov 2024
Many people will continue struggling to come to terms with the election results, but there’s still a lot you can do: 1) Be irritable at work 2) Withdraw from people who love you/need you 3) Make an impulsive and self destructive major life decision
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Probability Fact@ProbFact1 Nov 2024
How to solve for parameters of beta distribution with given mean and variance johndcook.com/blog/2021/04/0…

Solve for beta distribution parameters given mean & variance

For a given mean and variance, solve for the parameters of a beta distribution with that mean and variance.

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The Simpsons on PhD students - almost twenty years old & more cutting than ever xitter.cf/sfmcguire79/status/185…
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Christina Tortolani, adj. asst. prof. of psychiatry, shares insights on the mental health crisis in RI. With anxiety & depression rates rising, she emphasizes the need for more mental health professionals. Read ow.ly/MGIi50TVMEP #MentalHealthAwareness #StressAwarenessDay

Five Questions With: Christina Tortolani

A recent analysis of data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Anxiety and Depression Household Pulse” found that Rhode Island ranks as the fifth worst in the U.S. for mental...

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Marion Campbell@MarionKCampbell28 Oct 2024
A query that has come up a few times recently is whether a trial Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) should review trial data blind to allocation or not.  Some reflections … 1/7 #MethodologyMonday #102
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Just days after completing her postdoc at Brown, Dr. Sarah Merrill dove into a new role this fall as an assistant professor at @UMassLowell, where she’s leading a social epigenetics lab. Get a look at her exciting first day on the job: uml.edu/news/stories/2024/sa…

Behind the Scenes of a New Professor’s First-Class Experience | News

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Probability Fact@ProbFact27 Sep 2024
Var(aX + bY) = a² Var(X) + b² Var(Y) + 2ab Cov(X, Y)
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Leslie Brick@LeslieBrickPhD24 Sep 2024
Hey that’s us! If you’re attending @ISTSSnews come check out our Featured Session: Traumatic Stress and Epigenetic Aging on Thursday from 11am-12:15pm
ISTSS@ISTSSnews14 Sep 2024
Explore the link between stress, trauma, PTSD & epigenetic aging! Experts will discuss how DNA methylation affects aging & health. Featuring speakers from Brown, Yale, Emory & more. 📅 Sept 25-28, 2024, Boston 🔗 Register: istss.societyconference.com/… #ISTSS2024
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Priced Out of Publishing in Bioethics Journals : The Hastings Center for Bioethics

After several decades of being a prolific bioethicist, I am no longer sure I can afford to pay the open-access fees to publish in the field.

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Ancient meme format, evergreen message:
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Mark your calendars for Oct 15, 2024 to hear @sharon_inouye share insights and lessons learned as @JAMAInternalMed Editor in Chief. Be sure to bring questions to this @NIDUS_Delirium webinar! ->Learn more and register: tinyurl.com/2evrxbef #delirium
Join the Oct 15, 2024 NIDUS webinar to hear Dr. Sharon Inouye's insights and lessons learned as JAMA Internal Editor in Chief.

ALT Join the Oct 15, 2024 NIDUS webinar to hear Dr. Sharon Inouye's insights and lessons learned as JAMA Internal Editor in Chief.

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nytimes.com/2024/09/11/scien… via @NYTimes

The ‘Country Doctor’ Who Upended Our Understanding of Dementia (Published 2024)

Francisco Lopera defied rebels, cartels and vampire bats to become a pioneering researcher of Alzheimer’s disease.

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nytimes.com/2024/08/27/healt… via @NYTimes gOoD JoB public heath and Epidemiologists.

On the Covid ‘Off-Ramp’: No Tests, Isolation or Masks (Published 2024)

For many, Covid is increasingly regarded like the common cold. A scratchy throat and canceled plans bring a bewildering new critique from friends: You shouldn’t have tested.

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