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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Please share! 🙏 Outreach is difficult given current social media algorithms. 🥼🔬🧪🧑‍🔬 I am recruiting 2 or 3 postdocs in Alzheimer’s and Dementia, Epidemiology, and Translational Neuroscience! recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09486

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Postdoctoral Scholar – Clinical Neuroscience Research

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

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Postdoctoral Scholar – Clinical Neuroscience Research

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Can we predict who’s unlikely to decline in Alzheimer’s clinical trials ⁉️ In our new Neurology paper, we used machine learning to identify cognitively stable individuals in the placebo arm of EXPEDITION3—aiming to optimize trial design and boost power. 🔭 www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...

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A Machine Learning Approach to Predict Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer Disease Clinical Trials | Neurology

Background and ObjectivesAmong the participants of Alzheimer disease (AD) treatment trials, 40% do not show cognitive decline over 80 weeks of follow-up. Identifying and excluding these individuals ca...

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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Very insightful. I agree and add that imho: Data sharing is the achilles heel of academia.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Live footage of the average NIH-funding academic as we cycle between maybe no longer having a job and court rulings allow NIH to resume evaluating and funding grants. I do not recommend this life style, it sucks Most of us just want to do important science unpeturbed.

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an elderly woman is riding a roller coaster with her mouth open .

ALT: an elderly woman is riding a roller coaster with her mouth open .

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 08/02/2025

Trump & Musk are making massive cuts to the National Institutes of Health. I know there is a lot going on right now, but this is one of worst things they have done so far, will affect cancer research and trials, the search for cures, innovation and competitiveness, our universities. Your lives.

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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Except in academia, nowhere in the U.S. economy can you hire PhDs or MDs for a meager salary of less than $70,000 (as postdocs or scientists) and still call it an over-expenditure & then trying to kill this business model with the excuse of "efficiency". It's absolutely ridiculous.

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Daniel Colón-Ramos @dacolon.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I have not seen a crisis of this magnitude since yesterday

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025

The NIH overhead cut doesn't just hurt universities. It's deadly to the US economy. The US is a world leader in tech due to the ecosystem that NIH and NSF propel. It drives innovation for tech transfer, creates a highly-skilled sci/tech workforce, and fosters academic/industry crossfertilization.

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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Can someone tell us (Scientists) if we all need to search for a new job or what? Acadmec work is already impossible for physician scientists (& others). We don't need more hurdles. Universities are going to stop functioning with a shock of this magnitude. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD

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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I’m not sure which academics need to hear this, but kindness costs nothing—and it makes all the difference. The people I remember and want to collaborate with are the ones who lead with respect and empathy.

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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Kudos to all my fellow researchers working hard this week to finalize their abstracts for AAIC! Drop a comment below, and I'll make sure to attend your presentation in Toronto. Let's support each other!

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Most folks do not understand how far in advance the planning and logistics of NIH grants take. We prepare for months or years for these submissions for one of 3 cycles per year. This study section cancellation delays grants by at least 6 months when study sections are cancelled.

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Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

This is an excellent read. I agree that we're perhaps jumping the gun by labeling amyloid as the ultimate root cause of everything Alzheimer's.

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An Open Letter to Dennis J. Selkoe, M.D. | ALZFORUM

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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Literally everyone in Academia after Thanksgiving.

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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Help needed! Colleagues in Alzheimer's (or other clinical research), what are some of the resources that you use for teachings basics of biology and clinical aspects to new lab members who come from non-biological and non-medical fields? e.g. Someone from statistics or informatics background.

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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Ok, so how should we interpret impact scores for R01s? Isn't it a simple average of scores? So an impact score of 40 could be much better than a percentile score of 20 in theory?

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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It only took 14 months for us to publish this. Isn't it amazing? 😬

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kellenpetersen.bsky.social @kellenpetersen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I am happy see this paper get published this week. It was a fun project to work on with @ae-md.bsky.social and others. "MRI-guided clustering of patients with mild dementia due to Alzheimer's disease using self-organizing maps" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

One of the stranger things that I've seen in the "grant writing business" is that some people put a lot of time into one grant then after first failure they just give up or don't follow with another submission or resubmition. Basically valuing that 2-3 months effort they put in as none.

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Eduardo Zimmer @erzimmer.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

492 funding opportunities for ECRs! 👇👇👇👇👇

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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I have a couple of open postdoctoral position in my lab, in Epidemiology of Neurologic diseases, in Alzheimer's disease and also in Migraine. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF08741

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Postdoctoral Scholar– Ezzati Laboratory

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

It’s fantastic & a little surreal going to my newsfeed on @bsky.app and seeing posts from all the people I’ve followed for years on Twitter/X which have oddly been missing from my newsfeed on X for the past 18 months. This is going to be an amazing platform👏

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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Honestly I don't see in myself to find all the connections that I've found on X or linkedin anymore. This is just too taxing. Are there groups or lists for people active in certain area?

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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I have a couple of open postdoctoral position in my lab, in Epidemiology of Neurologic diseases, in Alzheimer's disease and also in Migraine. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF08741

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Postdoctoral Scholar– Ezzati Laboratory

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Ali Ezzati, MD @ae-md.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

I hope this place has less algorithmic bs on Timeline & more of people I like to follow. I mainly post on topics of science, clinical research and evidence based medicine.

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