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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sounds amazing!! Wish I was there!

Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To me this just emphasizes how our system for sharing science is broken. How many important results take years before they are shared because of the time it takes to write, review, and revise before it is published. We need better models for sharing, evaluating, and crediting scientific discovery.

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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 · 29/04/2026

Speaking of log… curious about your thoughts on this interpretation of how log should be used in relative power calculations….

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I wish systems animal work focused more on developmental change because I think that is how we can better tease apart relevant similarities and differences in circuitry - especially as it relates to neurodevelopmental disorders.

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Coming from the animal world and now working in the human world, I’ve tried to focus on genetic disorders; resting state EEG; simple passive sensory tasks in the context of development. Recent collab w Mark Bear lab nicely brought mouse and human work together - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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A human electrophysiological signature of Fragile X pathophysiology is shared in V1 of Fmr1-/y mice - Nature Communications

Kornfeld-Sylla et al reveal how alpha brainwaves are altered in children and adults with Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) and find parallel changes in alpha-like rhythms in juvenile and adult FXS model mice, ...

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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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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Thanks to great collaboration with Chuck Nelson and Kathleen Conroy @bostonchildrens.bsky.social and with @htagerf.bsky.social at Boston University.

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

SNAP and WIC are important. Yes, I know we don’t show that directly and there is lots more work to be done. But when these services suddenly end, I now worry even more about long term impacts on children.

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

These findings underscore the potential importance of policies and supports that help families meet basic needs during this critical window of early brain development.

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

When we examined EEG periodic power spectra across the first year, striking differences in alpha and beta activity emerged based on income sufficiency. These are features known to track with age and cognitive functioning.

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Exploratory Graph Analysis revealed three interconnected domains—SES, stress, and brain activity—with income insufficiency acting as a central bridge.

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Findings are from 293 infants who completed 667 EEGs from 4 to 12 months old. 72% were publicly insured, 50% were living in single-parent households. 25% of parents reported “never” or “rarely” having sufficient income to meet their family’s needs. 40% reported moderate to high levels of stress.

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

In Baby Steps, we are collecting EEG during routine pediatric visits to explore how these overlapping factors relate to brain development and later outcomes, especially for children growing up in homes with limited resources. Bringing research into the clinic helped families participate.

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

We know early stress can shape brain development, but families rarely face just one challenge at a time. Income, education, and caregiver stress are deeply connected, which makes it hard to identify which factors matter most for early brain development.

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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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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Thanks for Graham H for helping make over 30 of these! They were a hit!

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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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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

As always - huge thanks to the many many families who participated and the research staff and students who collected data over the years. Excited about our next steps.

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

We tested this in toddlers with autism or Down syndrome and found significant reductions in brain age estimates compared to chronological age. Differences in Down syndrome were more striking across the age range. More work needed to determine the clinical utility of this method!

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Next we hypothesized that infants/toddlers with altered development would have increased prediction errors. This is described as a brain-age gap and could be used to identify children with altered brain development before they show delays.

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Winko used an innovative approach combining Shapley values and hierarchical clustering to assess feature importance which identified periodic alpha and beta band power as the strongest predictors of age.

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

We leveraged almost 1000s EEGs collected in infants with typical development ranging from 2-38 months old to develop age prediction models, with the best model predicting age within 92 days – not too shabby.

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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

Actually there was a #4! It’s also about fit. Apply to schools that align with your interests. Schools care about being able to successfully support your growth. So if they don’t think they can do that, they aren’t going to accept you. Good luck!

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

#3 Great! You are qualified and committed. There are lots of those applicants. What are you going to bring to this medical school that is going make a positive impact. How have you helped change things for the better in the work you have done or the people you work with.

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

#2 Becoming a doctor is a long, tough (and amazing) path. Do you know what the path entails, and why is it the right path for you. Can you explain what parts of medicine and the training path (beyond helping people and liking science) excite you? How have your experiences lead you to this path?

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

#1 whether you sink or swim is based on (a) academics - will you be able digest all the medschool material and pass the tests, and (b) your personal skills - can you build rapport with patients, communicate clearly, and work on a team. Lots of ways to show this, even with a bad orgo grade.

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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 · 11/12/2024

As an ESI, I have not submitted to eLife since the switch bc it’s not clear how pubs in eLife are considered by promotion committees or grant reviewers. Not sure if this solves that concern, but also agree it is an experiment - albeit one that ESIs are nervous to participate in…

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Carol Wilkinson @drcarolw.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Amazing and well deserved! Congratulations!

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