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We're hiring! Full-time research assistant @ UT Dallas Join our team to work on a longitudinal neuroimaging study of midlife brain aging. Project integrates MRI, behavioral testing, real-world health/lifestyle measures. Strong opportunity for those interested in brain networks, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease risk. Application deadline May 6. Details: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/3… @CVLneuro @UT_Dallas

Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60% that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.

Here's a preliminary release of our calculator to explore sample size and scan time to maximize individual-level prediction accuracy: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcu… Let us know if anything is unclear or if there's bugs. Your feedback is welcome. If you find this calculator helpful for your grant application, etc, please also let us know!

Major academic publishers are getting sued for unlawfully appropriating billions of dollars. Prof. Lucina Qazi Uddin, a neuroscientist at UCLA, has sued these six academic publishers Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Sage, and Springer Nature. The lawsuit claims that these publishers violate antitrust laws on the following three grouds: 1. The publishers have colluded to fix the price of peer review at zero. 2. These publishers agree to not compete with each by making it obligatory for researchers to submit their work to only one journal at a time. 3. These publishers prohibit scholars from sharing scientific advancements while they are under peer review, which can take up to a year. Here's a comparison of the publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers Elsevier: $3.9 billion Springer Nature: $2 billion Wolters Kluwer: $1.6 billion Wiley: $1.8 billion Taylor & Francis: $800 million Sage: $500 million They pay: Authors: $0 Peer reviewers: $0

🚨Personal Update🚨: Next month, I’m moving back to my home town, and joining @PsychIllinois as an Assoc Prof, with my lab in @BeckmanIllinois I’m sad to leave the friends & great colleagues I've made @PsychologyFSU, but so thrilled to join the exciting 🧠community @UofIllinois!

⏱️Ready? Set? Go! 📅Mark you calendars for September 1, 2024 and take advantage of early bird registration prices through November 30. Want to know more? 👀Visit dacc.utdallas.edu/

Hey Postdocs - check out UTD's SOAR award - $1000 and $500 awards invited lecture @BBSutdallas for research that is underrepresented in the field. Apps due August 19. More info here: bbs.utdallas.edu/research/op…

After a high dose of psilocybin, the brain desynchronizes at a massive scale, causing loss of our sense of self, time, and space. This may drive the burst of plasticity caused by psychedelics. The next day, brain activity has largely returned to normal, but an echo remains – a reset of circuits critical to the sense of self. Our study is out today in @Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

👀 We're back at it! Mark your calendars for the Dallas Aging & Cognition Conference this coming February. Registration opens September 1, 2024. More details ➡️ dacc.utdallas.edu

Summer Vibes

Excited to read the book edited by Natalia Bechtereva with chapters by Delgado, Laitinen and other ‘greats’ of the ‘pre-DBS’ phased of deep brain stimulation.