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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🚨New preprint! Does diffusion MRI detect neuroinflammation after mTBI? Yes — but it's complicated. Different dMRI metrics map onto distinct inflammatory pathways: some track vascular immune processes, others cellular remodeling, others resolution. medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.17.26358354v1

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

New preprint: 3+ years, 5,000+ initial sources -> 219 studies, 277 refs later our systematic review of rsfMRI after TBI is live. Turns out many of the "inconsistent" findings in this literature aren't noise, signal emerges when organized by population and acuity. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I love using Claude to make tools that make life easier, here's one I'm happy with - a CV tracking system: github.com/EmilyLars/en... My fave piece is email integration - forward emails from journals confirming submission/publication and it's automatically added! Sharing for anyone who needs this!

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GitHub - EmilyLars/enigma-cv-tools: PubMed-powered CV automation for academic researchers

PubMed-powered CV automation for academic researchers - EmilyLars/enigma-cv-tools

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Carrie Esopenko, PhD @cesopenko.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

🚨Hot off the press🚨 Transcranial Photobiomodulation Promotes Neurological Resilience in Current Collegiate American Football Players Exposed to Repetitive Head Acceleration Events journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Peggy McKee was the absolute best ❤️

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

🧠Update from ENIGMA-U! To manage costs I have migrated the entire course to Google Classroom. All videos are still on YouTube, but new course sign ups should use this form: forms.gle/AyzNsPLfXNss... Benefit is there's no enrollment cap and account creation is automatic!

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ENIGMA-U enrollment

Please complete this form to register for the ENIGMA-U course on google classroom. You will need a Google account to access the course. Once you complete the course you will receive a certificate that...

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

🆘 Request for help with ENIGMA-U videos! The course is nearly complete but 2 topics aren't covered yet - stress & the brain and making effective figures & tables. If you can help with either please DM me. Lectures should be short (10-20 min) and accessible to entry-level Uni student. Thx!!

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

🚨Multilingual neuroscientists!🚨We're translating all ENIGMA-U captions to 7 languages and could use help validating them. I know this process will take a lot of time but if you can help out even on just a few files please let me know!

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Fascinating figure about heterogeneity but notice anything missing? TBI. The heterogeneity of TBI blows the rest of these out of the water. Brain injury is underrepresented at #OHBM2025 as it has been in years past.

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Looking forward to this session on normative modeling chaired by Dr. Laura Han @enigmabrains.bsky.social

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Excited to talk about ENIGMA-U today at #OHBM2025 poster #585

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 21/06/2025

Your politics or marital status should never determine whether you get care. But at VA hospitals, that’s now allowed — thanks to Trump’s rollback of anti-discrimination rules. A gross betrayal of the very veterans who served this country. zurl.co/ljZDI #veterans #VA #StandUpForScience

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VA hospitals remove politics and marital status from guidelines protecting patients from discrimination

Department of Veterans Affairs says the changes come in response to a Trump executive order ‘defending women’

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Med. imaging experts - year 2 of the AIMS-TBI MICCAI challenge is live! Goal is better tools TBI lesion segmentation. We've got ~550 hand-traced (mostly 😅) training datasets. Deadline is 8.15.25, conf in Sept aims-tbi25.grand-challenge.org @enigmabrains.bsky.social @spyridonbakas.bsky.social

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Automated Identification of Mod-Sev TBI Lesions 2025 - Grand Challenge

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Fascinating work from @lsalminen.bsky.social and @enigmabrains.bsky.social colleagues at #SOBP2025 showing shifting associations between pollution and brain structure

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Excited to report our symptom harmonization paper is now published in J Neurotrauma! We used semantic textual similarity to calculate item similarity across 4 scales used for post-TBI symptoms. Code and conversion tool available online @enigmabrains.bsky.social www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/...

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Linking Symptom Inventories Using Semantic Textual Similarity | Journal of Neurotrauma

An extensive library of symptom inventories has been developed over time to measure clinical symptoms of traumatic brain injury (TBI), but this variety has led to several long-standing issues. Most no...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 15/04/2025

Tax Day - round 3 - NIH 🩻🧠🧬 🧬 The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $105/year to NIH, helping fund: • Cancer & rare disease breakthroughs • Pandemic preparedness • Children’s health • Medical tech innovation • Mental health science & more NIH powers the science behind the healthcare we rely on.

A serious medical scene shows a healthcare worker in surgical scrubs standing in a hospital corridor. Bold white text overlays the image, reading: “Curing cancer. Preventing pandemics. What’s it worth?”

A dark blue graphic with white text centered over a soft-focus medical background. The message reads: “Just $105 per year from the average taxpayer funds the national institute of health. That’s all it takes to help save lives improve care, and fight disease”

A clean, square infographic with a dark blue background and light blue accents. The header reads, “What does that money actually do? Your $105 helps fund:” followed by six icons and descriptions:
1. Mental Health Research – Depression, PTSD, addiction
2. Cancer & Rare Disease Studies – From early detection to lifesaving treatments
3. Pandemic Preparedness – Vaccines, virus tracking, prediction and prevention
4. Children’s Health – Brain development, neonatal and pediatric care
5. Medical Innovation – Imaging, prosthetics, diagnostics
6. Basic Biomedical Science – Foundational research for future cures

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 15/04/2025

Tax Day next up: NSF! 🛰️ $40 a year. That’s what the average U.S. taxpayer pays annually to fund the National Science Foundation. 💡 Science isn’t luxury - it’s infrastructure. From disaster prediction to cybersecurity to the tech in your phone, NSF powers the systems that keep society running.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 15/04/2025

HAPPY TAX DAY! How much would you spend on a year of tornado warnings? The average US taxpayer spends only $4 a year to help fund the NWS. It’s a smart investment—every $1 invested in NWS yields approx. $73 in social benefits. 🌪️❄️ Support science. Support the NWS. Stay tuned for more this #TaxDay

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Final 3 days! Giving “day” ends April 11th. Thank you to everyone who has donated!

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

It's Giving Day at U U Health and we have link to donate to ENIGMA-U! Our amazing donors have kept this alive for 2 years now ❤️, but $$ for student fees ($259/month total) is low again so if you are able to give, even a small amount, we would greatly appreciate it www.givecampus.com/schools/Univ...

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Closing out #IBIA2025 with an excellent presentation from Dr. Divya Jain on the interactions between early childhood adversity, PTSD, and post-TBI symptoms

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Higher odds of death by violence in individuals with greater blast exposure as measured by military occupation #IBIA2025 from MJ Pugh

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

40 videos for a total of 12.5 hrs of material are now live on YouTube! @enigmabrains.bsky.social @ptenigma.bsky.social

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

At long (long) last, the ENIGMA-U Neuroimaging module is launched!! My deepest gratitude to the lecturers - Luis Concha, Frank Hillary, Philipp Sämann, Hannah Lindsey, Ivan Kirov, Zhichao Xia, and Andrew Jahn for allowing us to repurpose his amazing content @enigmabrains.bsky.social

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I guess that 400+ page grant isn’t actually going in on Friday (1/3)

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Job posting, come to Utah!! Neuropsychologist position opening at the Univ of Utah, open rank utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/175...

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Department of Neurology, Division of Neuropsychology - seeking Neuropsychologist, Assistant Professor to Professor (faculty)

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Exciting ENIGMA-U update!! We have slowly been adding English captions and transcripts to all existing and new videos and ~50% are now done (25 hours of lectures!). We will hopefully finish this process in the spring to keep ENIGMA-U as accessible as possible medicine.utah.edu/neurology/ne...

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ENIGMA-U: A Free Online Neuroscience Resource for Increasing Representation from Historically Excluded Groups

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Esopenko Lab @esopenkolab.com · 06/12/2024

In case you missed it, @cesopenko.bsky.social delivered a wonderful keynote: "IPV and Brain Injury: The Current State of the Science" at the 2024 ENIGMA IPV & @pinkconcussions.bsky.social IPV-BI Conference! She highlighted current knowledge, emerging research areas & the importance of collaboration

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Secure geocoding from the ENIGMA Environment group, this could be used for so many research projects!

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

New methods coming from ENIGMA soon - moving beyond TBSS across sites

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Very excited to be at the ENIGMA Developmental WG leadership summit organized by @ptenigma.bsky.social in Amsterdam. Less than 3 hours in and I already have a ton of notes jotted down about potential new collabs

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Reminder of our TBI/concussion researcher starter park, comment if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/LjSDGQQ

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Carrie Esopenko, PhD @cesopenko.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Absolutely incredible!! Over 750 people registered for the 2024 ENIGMA IPV and @pinkconcussions.bsky.social conference: IPV & Brain Injury: Breaking Down Barriers & Building Understanding! A truly heartfelt thank you to all attendees, speakers, and the organizing committee!

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Testing out this starter pack thing - if you research #TBI, #concussion, or #subconcussive impacts and want to join the list let me know! go.bsky.app/LjSDGQQ

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Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Hi Bluesky! I'm a researcher using neuroimaging to study traumatic brain injury. Is there a starter pack already for TBI/concussion research? If not I can start one, let me know if you'd like to be included!

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