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Carol Wilkinson

@drcarolw.bsky.social
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Developmental Behavioral Pediatrician at Boston Children’s, Neuroscientist. Interested in cognition and language in the context of neurodevelopment. End goal - helping kids thrive.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
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
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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
So excited to hear about our lab’s research assistants (FOUR of them) getting into grad school!!!
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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
🎉 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
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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
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.
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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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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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.
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Paris Brain Institute - Institut du Cerveau @institutducerveau.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
📚 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...
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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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BehavEcolPapers @behavecolpapers.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Income insufficiency impacts early #brain development in infants facing increased psychosocial adversity: A network-based approach @PNAS.org
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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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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Powerful piece in STAT this morning from some NIH staff members who have resigned www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n... 1/3
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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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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Money stress may slow early brain development in babies: www.earth.com/news/money-s...
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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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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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
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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Really happy with this years lab gift! Feeling like this brain guy is going to bring joy throughout the year.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/11/2025
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/ 🧪
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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/
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I guess I am hitting a nerve, because they just put me on admin leave.
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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween from the Wilkinson Lab Library!
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Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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/...
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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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...
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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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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
NIH just posted a Notice with the new Terms and Conditions... grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-090: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Civil Rights Term and Condition of Award NOT-OD-25-090. NIH
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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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...
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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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!
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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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...
EEG-based brain age prediction in infants-toddlers: Implication for early detection of neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Beautiful gift from Megan Tsou - an amazing study coordinator in the lab. Love love love it!
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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
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.
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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Putting this years holiday lab gift to use - had to keep one for myself! #braincoaster #perlerbeads
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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Holiday Lab Yankee Swap! Not pictured - me and my new brain notebook!
Lab members sitting around a table smiling, showing the gifts they received.
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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 31/10/2024
Happy Halloween from my zoo- lab!
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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 10/07/2024
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
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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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