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Jeremy Elman

@jaelman.bsky.social
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Alzheimer's & aging researcher at UC San Diego

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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I do like that an English lit major, an historian, and a statistician could each explain why he's a know-nothing dickhead for completely different reasons
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Rongxiang (Catherine) Tang @rongxiang.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Thrilled to share a null (yes null!) finding on the associations between neighborhood disadvantage and plasma biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease with @vetsa.bsky.social . www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/...
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Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations of Neighborhood Disadvantage and Plasma Biomarkers of Alzheimer Disease Pathophysiology | Neurology Open Access
Background and ObjectivesNeighborhood disadvantage is a recognized risk factor for Alzheimer disease and Alzheimer disease–related dementias (AD/ADRD) and is linked to AD/ADRD pathology at autopsy. Ho...
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Rongxiang (Catherine) Tang @rongxiang.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Happy to share another study with @vetsa.bsky.social examining how young adulthood urbanicity influences later-life cognition via midlife neighborhood disadvantage, which serves as a key pathway linking early-life residential context to cognitive aging. academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
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Young adult urbanicity, late midlife neighborhood disadvantage, and cognitive functioning in community-dwelling older men
AbstractObjectives. Early-life rural-urban residence has been linked to differences in later-life cognitive functioning and dementia risk. However, the con
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I can't count the number of times Google AI makes a statement of fact and the citation link just points to some random person's comment on a reddit thread.
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Excellent, thank you! I've found Claude to be very helpful for my coding tasks, so I'll stick with it. Any recs for writing tasks? I would mainly use to edit for clarity and conciseness, not generating new text whole cloth.
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Curious if you or others feel there is a substantial difference between the companies (e.g., are they better suited for different tasks), or is it more about choosing the right model within a given company's offerings?
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Annie G. Bryant @anniegbryant.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The extended version of my thesis procrastination project/subcortex visualization package is out now in both Python and R, now that I’ve graduated 🤠 This figure shows the 9 atlases included (and counting)! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Website: anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
Nine subcortical/cerebellar atlases included in the subcortex_visualization Python package (and subcortexVisualizationR package in R). The atlases are depicted in two-dimensional vector graphic format.
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
This was the post immediately after yours in my feed. bsky.app/profile/thet...
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Kaitlyn Hajdarovic, Ph.D @khajdarovic.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
The devastation I feel about this attack on science in particular is hard to cope with. It’s like watching my dad die all over again. I would do anything to spare someone a death via pancreatic cancer.
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Bernie Mulvey @berniejmulvey.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Got with the times + made a BSky to share our new, large-scale spatial RNAseq study of adult human #locuscoeruleus! Co-1st auth and cryostat wizard @heenadivecha.bsky.social squeezed 85 tissue sections into 43 Visium arrays. (1/8) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Impact of Alzheimer's disease risk factors and local neuromelanin content on the transcriptomic landscape of the human locus coeruleus
The locus coeruleus (LC) is a small noradrenergic nucleus in the dorsal pons that sends projections across the brain regulating sleep, arousal, attention, stress responses, and some forms of cognition...
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Seriously, thank you to all involved. Study sections and grant reviews are a ton of work in normal times, so the extra effort that is going into this round is MUCH appreciated.
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
This world series should have come with a health warning.
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I have a very clear memory of being a kid and seeing these at the county fair. My friend and I started giggling and the vendor yells at us, "What, you ain't never seen a mustard udder ya *explitive* *slur*!?" I had never seen one before or since, but I think of them often.
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
HAPPENING NOW: A MASSIVE crowd of protesters flood the streets of San Diego for a “No Kings Day” rally showing their love for America and standing up against the corrupt fascist Trump administration. look how huge it is
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Check out our data! Please reach out if you're interested, we're happy to provide more info and we may have useful datasets (e.g., with extra cleaning or composite variables) to address specific questions. Raw and derived MRI data also available upon request for ~1/2 the cohort.
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I need a little bit less praise from Claude and a little more self-flagellation
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two men are sitting next to each other and one of them says i 'm such an idiot !
ALT: two men are sitting next to each other and one of them says i 'm such an idiot !
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Matthew Panizzon @matthewpanizzon.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
New paper out from the lab, demonstrating a robust non-linear relationship between age at menopause and dementia risk. Fantastic work by post-doc Dr. Ursula Saelzler. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Age of menopause and dementia risk in 10,832 women from the Swedish Twin Registry
INTRODUCTION An earlier age of menopause (AOM) is hypothesized to increase vulnerability to the neuropathological processes of dementia, which begin in midlife. METHODS We tested this hypothesis i.....
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
If belief is trust in the absence of evidence, you could argue no team believes in their catchers more than the Padres
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Tyler Bell, PhD. @tylerbellphd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Excited to share my new study with the VETSA team (vetsa.bsky.social) with jaelman.bsky.social and matthewpanizzon.bsky.social published in #JINS showing that moderate-to-severe chronic pain and opioid use are independently related to risk of mild cognitive impairment. tinyurl.com/y88k5z4j
This figure shows a higher rate of mild cognitive impairment among people with moderate to severe chronic pain versus mild or no chronic pain.
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Tyler Bell, PhD. @tylerbellphd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Excited to share my new K01 work to understand chronic pain as an AD risk factor - a collaboration of the VETSA team (vetsa.bsky.social) with jaelman.bsky.social and matthewpanizzon.bsky.social and Rush Medical University using the ROSMAP data. academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
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Multisite chronic pain: association with cognitive decline and post-mortem Alzheimer’s biomarkers
Bell et al. report that multisite chronic pain in older adults is linked to faster cognitive decline and increased Alzheimer’s disease pathology, particula
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VETSA @vetsa.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Study from Nathan Gillespie testing causal associations of plasma amyloid on total tau using #VETSA twin data. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Testing the causal impact of plasma amyloid on total Tau using a genetically informative sample of adult male twins
The amyloid cascade hypothesis predicts that amyloid-beta (Aβ) aggregation drives tau tangle accumulation. We tested competing causal and non-causal h…
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VETSA @vetsa.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Study by Alex Posis finding that TBI is associated with altered microstructure of certain WM tracts that may persist at least 4 decades after the injury. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Associations of history of traumatic brain injury with markers of brain health among older men in the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is associated with increased risk of dementia, but it is unclear how earlier life TBI is related to brain health in older…
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Rongxiang (Catherine) Tang @rongxiang.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Happy to share a new published study link.springer.com/article/10.1... on subjective memory concern, negative affect, and cortical microstructure using @vetsa.bsky.social dataset and supported by a K01 grant from the NIA!
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Jake Vogel @jwvogel.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
‼️NEW PREPRINT‼️ What if you could take a normal 3T T1w MRI and make it look like it was acquired from a 7T scanner? That's exactly what we do using AI in our new preprint! Link: arxiv.org/abs/2507.13782 #neuroskyence #neurosky #compneuro #AI #datascience #neurology #mrisky #neuroimaging
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Jake Vogel @jwvogel.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Incredibly excited for this new work from our lab. We test the potential of AI-based neurodegenerative disease diagnostics using plasma proteomics data from n>17,000 people, led by the brilliant and indefatigable @anlijuncn.bsky.social Check it out!👇
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
It must be so hard for him in the tech world where, based on his griping, I assume he's usually the only white guy in the room.
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Tell me again how immigrants are to blame for lack of school funding www.kpbs.org/news/educati...
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Trump administration freezes $50 million in San Diego County public school funding
A federal education grant funding freeze is affecting many school districts across San Diego County. Millions of dollars of public school funding are in limbo.
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The onslaught of 2025 can be so isolating. Today was a really great reminder that we're a community, and a large one at that.
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
I'm so sorry Heidi, that is truly awful news. The work you and your colleagues do is necessary and important, and we are all worse off for this. If there is anything I can do, please reach out.
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Emilie Reas @etreas.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
New work from our postdoc Seraphina Solders shows patterns of blood-brain barrier leakage in cognitively normal APOE4 carriers. BBB breakdown correlated with microstructural brain injury only in groups with high Alzheimer's disease risk (APOE4+, amyloid+, women) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Blood-brain barrier permeability varies by brain region and APOE4 status and correlates with brain microstructure among high-AD risk groups
Although strong evidence exists for blood–brain barrier (BBB) disruption in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), substantial uncertainty remains regarding its ro…
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Everything about this was intended to provoke a response. They wouldn't have brought that show of force to that restaurant on that corner on a Friday evening if they didn't want to attract attention.
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
This is a popular neighborhood restaurant on a corner with a lot of foot traffic. Rolling in like this on a Friday evening could only have been meant to send a message. It was guaranteed to be packed with folks from the neighborhood, including kids. No wonder they cover their faces.
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Dr. Donna Wilcock @wilcocklab.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Thank you @60minutes.bsky.social for giving the NIH freezes, termination, and proposed budget cuts the attention they deserve. ALL Americans, regardless of party, will feel this impact to their health far beyond one administration. www.cbsnews.com/video/nih-cu...
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Federal cuts to National Institutes of Health could threaten medical progress
Former National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, who abruptly left his NIH research lab in February, fears aggressive downsizing could impact Americans’ health.
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Although I suppose he would also consider this to be the desired outcome...
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Is he unaware that, at least in schools of medicine, there has been a huge shift towards soft money positions? This is presumably the type of move he would support, even though we are seeing right now how this type of system leaves people vulnerable to the whims of the Executive branch.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
This Passover I’m thinking hard about the holiday’s history of resistance to tyrannical leaders, and the imperative for Jewish people to stand with all oppressed peoples of the world.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal. Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled. All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US. Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪 We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Special shout-out to Table 2 which reflects our discussions on model specification and ways to rule out alternate explanations related to cognitive resilience.
Table describing different model specifications, term of interest, and their interpretation.
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We explore common conceptual issues (i.e., differentiating resilience vs. low risk) and identify cortical regions that confer resilience against p-tau/cortical thinning 🧠
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
*Posted for McKenna Williams, not yet on BlueSky* Our new paper on cognitive resilience against Alzheimer’s pathology is out now! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Neuroimaging Predictors of Cognitive Resilience against Alzheimer's Disease Pathology
Objective Some individuals demonstrate greater cognitive resilience—the ability to maintain cognitive performance despite adverse brain-related changes—through as yet unknown mechanisms. We examined.....
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Daphne Odell @artistdo.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This has a twist. I promise it’s worth it
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
🚨RED ALERT for 🧪: The Trump NIH just gashed indirect costs. This is a direct attack on universities. “Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs.” 😮 Just a devastating Friday night news dump. #scicomm #academicaky
Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
Notice Number:
NOT-OD-25-068
Key Dates
Release Date:
February 7, 2025

Related Announcements
None

Issued by
Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health (OD)

Purpose
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Miriam Goldstein @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. 

Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.
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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.
list of banned keywords
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
NEW: Trump says he's letting "lifesaving" foreign aid continue, but sources tell WIRED that DOGE is still blocking HIV/AIDS relief. Musk brags he's "feeding USAID into the wood chipper." A USAID worker tell us: “At a minimum, 300 babies that wouldn’t have had HIV now do." By @knibbs.bsky.social
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Elon Musk's DOGE Is Still Blocking HIV/AIDS Relief Exempted From Foreign Aid Cuts
The Trump Administration claims it is allowing "lifesaving" foreign aid to continue, but in reality, DOGE is preventing vital work on HIV and AIDS from saving lives.
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Why is this not the first post of a thread describing actions you plan to take?
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Jeremy Elman @jaelman.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Happy to see this paper led by Caroline McGrouther and Adi Rangan published. Biclustering was used to identify a genetic subtype of bipolar disorder. Accounting for heterogeneity by leveraging bicluster information reduced noise in GWAS and improved risk prediction. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Heterogeneity analysis provides evidence for a genetically homogeneous subtype of bipolar-disorder
Background Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a complex disease. It is heterogeneous, both at the phenotypic and genetic level, although the extent and impact of this heterogeneity is not fully understood. One ...
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