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Jessica Bernard @bernardlcmnlab.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

An amazing opportunity! Check it out below.👇

Jessica Bernard @bernardlcmnlab.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

We're hiring! We have an open TT faculty position in lifespan neuroscience. I'm not on the committee but happy to answer questions about the department and TAMU more generally (I also co-chaired similar searches the last two years). Come join us, please share widely. apply.interfolio.com/172150

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

📣 We’re recruiting 1-2 postdocs to the incredible WBHI team to lead projects mapping brain & behav’l changes across major endocrine transitions—from adolesc to pregnancy to menopause. Expertise in MRI & human subjects necc. Please reach out to info@wbhi.ucsb.edu and learn more at wbhi.ucsb.edu 🌊

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

We’re hiring! Pls share widely: In conjunction w/ the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social, my team is recruiting a full-time clinical research coordinator to assist with research efforts at UC Santa Barbara. 1-2 yrs experience in MRI data collection preferred. Submit apps to: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause. Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974 Or help us spread the word 💫

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Jessica Bernard @bernardlcmnlab.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

So pubmed and eRA Commons seem to be down. The repository that brings federally funded science to the public is seemingly inaccessible. The site for tracking grants is down. And based on a quick search, the whole NIH website.

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Most of what we know about health and disease centers on the male body. This 2016 NIH policy was a huge win for those of us that want the scientific body of knowledge to serve, well, all bodies.

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Jessica Bernard @bernardlcmnlab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Timeline cleanse: while everything else has been scary and uncertain particularly with respect to research and research funding, the awesome team in my lab has been working hard on projects. I have a backlog to share as I held off in *these times*. But their work deserves to be celebrated & shared.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Dr. Natasha Rajah, Ph.D. @mnrajah.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Feeling like a bit of a rebel in these times Editing a new SI for Neurobiology of Aging - “Brain Resilience & DIVERSITY in Aging & Dementia” Please consider submitting your work & share broadly. This work is essential for supporting healthy aging for ALL. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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Jessica Bernard @bernardlcmnlab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This is devastating. Women are 50% of the population. Women's health work is necessary.

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Jessica Bernard @bernardlcmnlab.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I'm handling several papers where I've sent over 30 (!!) invitations to potential reviewers. I feel terribly for the authors. Is there a magic trick I'm missing to get reviewers?

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Anna J Finley, PhD @annajfinley.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Reminder that I am looking for a graduate student to start in Fall 2025! Deadline is Jan 15. Check out my lab website for more info about my research www.ndsu.edu/labs/spanh/ and learn about the PhD program here www.ndsu.edu/psychology/g... Margot can’t wait to help review your application!

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Jessica Bernard @bernardlcmnlab.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Old fashioned shortbread cookies (via NYT Cooking) and an old fashioned. Plus -- a new lab paper to share.

Two shortbread cookies studded with cherries and orange peel on a blue edged plate sitting on the counter. A glass has ice, bourbon, and an orange peel. There's a christmas tree with white lights is in the background, along with a chair and side table.

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Jessica Bernard @bernardlcmnlab.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

A hold over from this weekend: chocolate peppermint buche de Noel.

A log shaped cake covered in chocolate ganache sitting on a glass cake plate. It is sprinkled with powdered sugar and there are sugared cranberries and rosemary for garnish.

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Jessica Bernard @bernardlcmnlab.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

This is pretty much a baking account for the next two weeks.

A tray of round rainbow sprinkle cookies on white parchment paper.

Balls of cookie dough on a tray of sprinkles ready to be rolled

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Dr. Natasha Rajah, Ph.D. @mnrajah.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Disaggregating analyses by Sex & Gender may help too. We have found there are sex differences in the latent brain networks underlying episodic memory - even when there are no group differences in performance. #SGBA+

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Dr. Natasha Rajah, Ph.D. @mnrajah.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

“Women’s expressions of passion can also be perceived as overly emotional or even inappropriate, further diminishing their likelihood of being selected for high-potential programs.” Sigh. #AcademicChatter

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Dr. Natasha Rajah, Ph.D. @mnrajah.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

It is unfortunate how little we know about women’s brain and cognitive aging and the effects of menopause. Help us understand: 🧠 why some 🚺 experience memory difficulties during menopause 🧠 why 2/3 of Alzheimer’s cases are diagnosed in 🚺 Participate in the BHAMM study! Please share this post.

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Jessica Bernard @bernardlcmnlab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I should probably embroider this on a pillow or get it tattooed because this AI bot was not wrong. blueskyroast.com/roast/bernar...

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Jessica Bernard @bernardlcmnlab.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Pulled out of a committee I had agreed to co-chair. On the one hand, I feel absolutely awful doing so. But on the other, I hardly have time to focus on research (my first love) and I have grants apps that need attention, especially in this *ever uncertain* funding environment.

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Jessica Bernard @bernardlcmnlab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Heading into the Thanksgiving holiday later this week, and very excited that post-doc Ashwini Sansare had her first lab paper accepted to Neurobiology of Aging. And with a major assist from my other postdoc Thamires Magalhaes (an actual dream team!).

Block diagram representing moderated moderation analysis. Block X reprsents S1-M1 connectivity with an arrow to block Y, balance. Cognition (block W) is above the X-Y arrow. There is one final block (labelled Z) representing age. It is connected by an arrow to the arrow between block W and the X-Y arrow. This represents the moderated moderation

Two scatterplots. Left: the relationships between S1-M1 connectivity on the x-axis and balance on the y-axis. Right: Lobule VIIIa-M1 connectivity is on the x-axis. Each graph has green dots representing those with higher MOCA scores and red dots for those with lower MOCA scores, and trend lines for each. There is also a heavy black general fit line on each. Both graphs show positive correlations. In the graph on the left there is a clear distinction in the relationships for high and low cognition. The relationship for low cognition is a steeper more positive line.

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Jessica Bernard @bernardlcmnlab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Almost 20 participants into this new study and very excited to see our eventual results.

An adult male wearing a pink swim cap leans forward on a pillow while receiving cerebellar TMS.

An adult male in blue scrubs and a pink swim cap receives MRI guided TMS to the motor cortex. A female stands in the background looking at the MRI images

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Angelo Iulianella @aineurolab.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Purkinje cells are beautiful. They are highly branded & found in the cerebellum. They do important things for you, like help regulate locomotion, and sensory information in the brain. Here they are, all dressed in white. Red dots are another type of neuron called granule cells.

Image from the Iulianella lab depicting cerebellar Purkinje cells in white and granule cells in red.

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Jessica Bernard @bernardlcmnlab.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

Looking for a research assistant position? Want experience with TMS and neuroimaging before applying to grad school? Come join us! I am thrilled to have a new project using TMS and imaging to look at the cerebellum in cognitive decline. tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMU_E...

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Jessica Bernard @bernardlcmnlab.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

Congrats to doctoral student Ivan Herrejon on his first first-author manuscript now live on bioRxiv!

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