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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

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

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🚨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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Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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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 · 04/01/2026

Peggy McKee!! “And what did the Russian peasants do girls?” “Suffer and die!” Iron fist in a velvet glove, GGG…I often think of the partition of Poland cake I made, hard to come up with something dorkier 😆

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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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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...

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!!

Emily Dennis @dremily-d.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I would love your help!! I’ll email you

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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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I believe it was heterogeneity in neuroimaging markers

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~70M ppl/yr experience TBI globally, but most imaging tools don’t handle injured brains well. Let’s do better! If you develop a tool and want to see how it handles major structural deviations, reach out! The @enigmabrains.bsky.social TBI group has data and a strong desire to collaborate.

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The audience overlap between neurotrauma and neuroimaging meetings is quite low and this really holds back research. TBI is a fascinating lens through which to examine other factors like aging, sex, psychological disorders, and early life stress.

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

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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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...

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

Reposted by Emily Dennis

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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Support ENIGMA-U on U of U Giving Day 2025!

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

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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If you would like to support this entirely volunteer-driven, donor-funded effort, consider donating to cover our website fees ugive.app.utah.edu/designation/...

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ENIGMA-U is a free online school focused on neuroscience, neuroimaging, neuropsychology, and basic science literacy. It is geared towards advanced high school and entry-level college and university st...

And my sincere thanks to the members of my lab who helped add captions to every video and create the quizzes. And to the students for their enthusiasm and patience. Videos are now live on the official course website and are being uploaded today on YouTube (www.youtube.com/@enigma-u/)

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

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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Even more devastating is that it seems govt employees who have worked on ::banned topics:: are being doxxed. Self censoring feels like folding but above all you need to stay safe. Please consider removing banned terms from public profiles so no one can do a word search and link it to your picture

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

Devastating news given how much we all believe in this project, BUT (2/3)

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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

Please email Lindsay.Embree@hsc.utah.edu with your email address, and she’ll send details about the meet-up. It will probably Thursday afternoon around 2:30

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

There will be a little social/cocktail hour at INS to answer questions and give folks a chance to meet the faculty. We realize that a lot of job posting can seem generic, so we are happy to chat through all of the specifics to see if you might be a good fit and would be interested in applying.

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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 · 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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Lectures have been created by an astounding 69 volunteer lecturers from 41 institutions across 11 countries. And yes there are still opportunities to help if you want to be involved 😄 , just reach out! 💯💯💯💯💯 thank yous to everyone who has contributed so far

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Enrollment in the formal course is currently capped until we receive sustainable funding bc we pay a small fee per student, but I frequently clear out inactive accounts to make room for new ones. Fingers crossed 🤞 one of our next grants is funded so we can accommodate more students soon.

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The full course is ~75% complete with 53 hours of lectures finished (neuroimaging module launching very soon!). Students who complete the formal course will receive a completion certificate detailing lecture hours and quiz performance that could be included with a resume.

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The goal is to reach students who might otherwise struggle to find mentorship in these areas, particularly those from historically excluded groups. All videos are available on YouTube as well (still working on uploading all captioned videos!) for any casual viewers: www.youtube.com/@enigma-u

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This is my first Bluesky post about ENIGMA-U so a bit of background - ENIGMA-U is a free online course on neuroimaging 🧠 and neuropsychology geared toward advanced HS/entry-level college/uni students that provides a broad foundation to enable students to pursue addtl coursework and lab opportunities

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