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Laura Thi Germine

@lauragermine.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (as of Sept 2025). Director of TestMyBrain and the Many Brains Project. Views my own. she/her/hers

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Björn Siepe @bsiepe.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
We built the openESM database: ▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place ▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software ▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python Find out more: 🌐 openesmdata.org 📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Laura Thi Germine @lauragermine.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
In my new role, I'll be hiring both Program Manager and Staff Scientist positions to help me build this new division (hybrid positions, NYC). If you know any talented MA or PhD-level scientists with strong leadership skills and interest in neuropsychiatric disorders, have them get in touch! (thx!)
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Laura Thi Germine @lauragermine.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I'll be continuing my work developing and validating technologies to understand and improve cognitive health, with an emphasis on cognitive changes that occur prior to symptom onset in serious mental illness and preclinical dementia. I am excited to get to know my new colleagues at Einstein!
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Laura Thi Germine @lauragermine.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Some news! In September, I am starting a new role AND hiring for MA and PhD-level positions. After 10 years at McLean and HMS, I am delighted (but a little sad!) to announce I am joining the Albert Einstein College of Medicine as the Chief of the Division of Brain and Cognitive Health Technology.
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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I lack words to describe what happened today to NIH, CDC, FDA. It is a dark day in our history as a country, and I am frankly close to tears. But @booker.senate.gov, making history, has the words, below. America is a country by the people and for the people, and we will fight to protect it 👊 🇺🇸 🔥
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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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Laura Thi Germine @lauragermine.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Some really terrific resources in this thread for anyone doing EMA or other ambulatory assessment research
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Jeremy Wilmer @showmydata.org · 07/03/2025
Strong Boston showing for stand Up For Science rally. Lots of energy and passion.
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Laura Thi Germine @lauragermine.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
One quick question - and sorry if this was already in your post. Did you have to combine data across multiple task versions for this analysis? I'd be curious if you saw variability in the reliability distribution across the different versions. Happy to discuss further! (i'm coauthor on that paper)
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Laura Thi Germine @lauragermine.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Haven't had a chance to read your blogpost in depth (standing up for science today!) but just wanted to say this looks really interesting and thanks for taking the time to re-analyze those data using a different approach. 🥳
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Shachar Hochman @hochmanshachar.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
1/6 Hello Bluesky! 👋 Excited to join this community and share my new blog. First post: Using Bayesian hierarchical models to rescue "unreliable" cognitive tasks, with the dot-probe task as my case study. cogpsychreserve.netlify.app/posts/dotpro...
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The Dot-Probe Task is Probably Fine – CogPsych Reserve
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Dr. Becca @docbecca.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Great write up at @thetransmitter.bsky.social on the seeming erasure of SABV in the new era of NIH. Gotta say The Transmitter is killing it the last few weeks, first to report on the Federal Register block and now this. Leading the charge! 💪 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
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Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies
Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
My heart is just shattered for NIH as an institution. It represents what, in my view, is best about America: A group of committed people working hard and creatively with one another to achieve important goals to help people across the country and around the world. 12/n
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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Nelson Roque @nelsonroque.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🚀 Introducing tidypollute: an R package designed to simplify working with environmental data. It currently supports data extraction from EPA AirData flat files and the Atmotube Pro API. @atmotube.com 🔗 Explore the package: lnkd.in/eUgVAn-8
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Dr. S. Duke Han @sdukehan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I hope this is massive! #standupforscience2025
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Laura White @laurakwhite.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
🧵 The Fight Has Come to Them: Science, Institutions & The Indirects Cut I want to take a moment to talk about the perspective behind these slides I put together. I’ve framed them to be as nonpartisan as possible—but in a moment this polarized, there are limits here. 1/
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
How to get 146% return on investment? The NIH. That's just the economic benefit. Biomedical research promotes human health.
the yield on NIH research for economic activity
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Laura Thi Germine @lauragermine.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Let's hope it's as easy a fix as that...
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Laura Thi Germine @lauragermine.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Since MGB is a nonprofit, you can directly inspect its form 990 that is publicly available online. Revenue < Expenses
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
I’ve been seething and grieving since yesterday’s Friday Night Massacre of NIH overheads, a seeming bit of bureaucratic trivial that will in fact destroy the US university system if unchecked. But I want to get away from budgets and rate breakdowns and F&A percentages for a moment. Humor me?
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
ATTENTION If you are someone who had an F31-Diversity (or similar) application submitted this cycle, please DM me here, contact me on signal (jeremymberg.78), or email me at jeremymberg@gmail.com. I will keep all information confidential. 2/n
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Laura Thi Germine @lauragermine.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
1000x THIS!
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 03/02/2025
I hope you will all join me in expressing your thanks to the NIH and NSF staff who are working in an impossibly difficult and chaotic environment to keep science going in our country.
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Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces, PhD @lluaces.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
1/ This whole anti DEI thing IS racism. It’s not even that subtle. Consider when people say we should “go back to hiring based on merit.” People who say this have to know sociodemographic disparities in hiring, education, etc. When they are talking about “going back” and
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Nate @nateurneuro.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
They're scrubbing health disparities information. This isn't "gender ideology." This is public health data. We need to be outraged and demand the assault on public health stops.
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Laura Thi Germine @lauragermine.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Happy Lunar New Year BlueSky! Wishing all of my fellow Asian Americans - and our democracy - good fortune, health, and prosperity in the coming year.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/01/2025
NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
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Laura Thi Germine @lauragermine.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The rapid reporting of our Boston / New England earthquake just now made me feel like BlueSky is really working! (Also, mother nature really feeling the apocalyptic vibes this past week between snow in Florida and earthquakes in New England...)
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Democrats are calling on Trump officials to “restore full operations at NIH,” warning that it’s threatening medical research. “Without quick corrective action, the consequences of further disruption could be disastrous,” @raskin.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov and Sen. Alsobrooks write.
Three Maryland Democrats urged the Trump administration Monday to reverse a directive that has frozen some operations at the National Institutes of Health, saying they have “grave concerns” about the effect on the nearly $50 billion agency’s medical research and other operations.

“Without quick corrective action, the consequences of further disruption could be disastrous for both medical progress in America and our nation’s overall standing and competitiveness on the world stage,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, Sen. Chris Van Hollen and Sen. Angela Alsobrooks wrote in a letter sent to Dorothy Fink, the acting secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and shared with The Washington Post.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
This is happening to thousands of people fighting for their lives because in real life, government does a lot of good and important shit.
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Laura Thi Germine @lauragermine.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
My 13 year old would like to know if any of the pictures would ever be shared with other people who might post them on the internet. He doesn't want to "become a meme".
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
We should be clear that the language in the anti “DEI” executive order and the subsequent letter sent to federal employees to turn in colleagues who try to “disguise” DEI under other names means hires and promotions of Black and other POC will be deemed suspicious. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Ending Illegal Discrimination And Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1.  Purpose.
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I was interviewed by @msjpauly.bsky.social for @motherjones.com regarding that awful gamete size "sex" executive order. A bit of an explainer here of why the science is so bad, and why that's dangerous:
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Trump’s definitions of "male" and "female" are nonsense science with staggering ramifications
"How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology, and then legislate about it?"
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Tamar Gur MD PhD @tamargurmdphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
If you’re negatively impacted by these NIH developments find a congressperson here and let them know 👇spoiler alert you’re all impacted science.house.gov/committee-me... here’s a relevant senate committee too www.commerce.senate.gov/members
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Committee Members - House Committee on Science Space & Tech - Republicans
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you are ready to advocate to your representatives (or friends and families) about the economic value of NIH funded research, you can check your state at www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 22/01/2025
"Officials halted midstream a training workshop for junior scientists, called off a workshop on adolescent learning minutes before it was to begin, and canceled meetings of two advisory councils." It could've been telegraphed in advance. The fear, uncertainty, chaos, and disruption are the point.
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
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Laura Thi Germine @lauragermine.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Similar to Tom (and this being based on correlation vibes with no other information and assuming pretty good reliability), I'd say > 0.6 for plausible the-sameness.
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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
ICYMI a great #scicomm piece from @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social this week. It resonates - perhaps partly because I try to publicly communicate as if I'm talking to my grandma or high school friends. What do you all think?🛟🧪🩺 theunbiasedscipod.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...
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The Cost of Failed Science Communication: Lessons from Los Angeles
Expertise Without Connection Leaves Us Talking to Ourselves
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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · 25/03/2024
The amazing Vanessa Teckentrup has just posted a preprint labour of ❤️ on the use of digital questionnaire response times (DQRTs) to measure cognition passively in thousands of Neureka users. Read👓📖, discuss 💬and if you like 👍 & 🔁!
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Susanne Ahmari @ahmarilab.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Important to understand that there is diversity in terminology preferences among people in the autism spectrum. though a majority of people prefer identity-first language (eg ‘autistic’), a significant minority prefer person-first language (eg ‘has autism). So it’s good to ask! #ACNP2024
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 10/12/2024
On this day in 1981, a landmark paper in NEJM described four patients with evidence of immunodeficiency associated with PJP pneumonia, disseminated CMV, and Kaposi sarcoma. The disease would come to be known as HIV/AIDS. Revisit the paper: nej.md/41iekKD #MedSky #IDSky
Published on This Day in 1981.  
Pneumocystis carinii Pneumonia and Mucosal Candidiasis in Previously Healthy Homosexual Men — Evidence of a New Acquired Cellular Immunodeficiency  

An illustration showing the reproductive cycle of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and sites of action of the major classes of antiretroviral medications.  

The NEJM identity sits at the bottom.
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NPP-Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (DPN) @dpn-journal.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
We’re excited to join Bluesky, along with @acnporg.bsky.social & @npp-journal.bsky.social! Follow us for the latest on digital methodologies that advance the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and modeling of mental illness. And of course, we will be posting #ACNP2024 updates! #neuroskyence
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"In 2019, a study in Michigan found that a 'considerable proportion' of women undergoing hysterectomies did not understand which organs would be removed. Of 144 women who reported that they were having a partial hysterectomy, only 15 actually did; others actually had a total hysterectomy." 🎁 link:
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So You’ve Had a Hysterectomy. Do You Know What Was Removed? (Gift Article)
Patients often are in the dark about which organs remain and which were removed — particularly the ovaries, which profoundly influence lifelong health.
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Tiffany Green @tiffanylgreen.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Come work with us at the Reproductive Equity Action Lab! We’re taking applications for a postdoctoral research scholar for the 2025-26 school year, with the option to renew up two years in total (extended deadline January 3) 1/ real.smph.wisc.edu/get-involved/
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Get Involved
Students and Trainees At this time, we have no open positions for students. We announce opportunities on our LinkedIn, Instagram, and newsletter. Sign up for the newsletter here. If you are an undergr...
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Abbyyy @orbingpunk.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I’m bringing Horse Diabetes to Bluesky as the Diabetes Gods intended
A white coffee mug with the text “I’m as healthy as a horse if that horse has diabetes” and a cartoonish drawing of a horse, being held up for the camera by the left hand of a white woman
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Laura Thi Germine @lauragermine.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Wow - suicidal ideation VERY different across AAPI youth when you disaggregate by subgroup. (Almost as if Asians aren't a monolith, eh?) Ideation highest for multiracial AAPI youth.
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Kristy Townsend, PhD @neuroadipo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
The ARMy is here!! Academic research moms - take a look @tamargurmdphd.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...
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