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2026 AAAS Mass Media Fellow Neuro Ph.D Candidate @Northwestern NSF GRFP Fellow donnisaedmonds.com
I attended a press conference on e-bike & scooter health risks last week at
@uwhealth.bsky.social
. The tl:dr: e-device accidents are on the rise, especially in children. Intoxicated and helmet-less riding are causing serious injuries. Check out the full story:
www.jsonline.com/story/news/h...
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In 4 years, injuries from e-scooter crashes with cars up 240% in Wisconsin
Safety problems include: Surprising speed, inconsistent helmet use, texting while riding, inexperience and intoxication.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/health/2026/06/25/in-4-years-injuries-from-e-scooter-crashes-with-cars-up-240-in-wisconsin/90663011007/
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My first official news story with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel! Summer is festival season, and one of the reasons you may love the experience so much is because of how liveness and joint listening affects your brain 🧠
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Going to Summerfest? This is what happens in your brain during live music.
While you watch your favorite artist at Summerfest, your brain may be syncing with the music and the people around you.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2026/06/19/your-brain-makes-milwaukee-summerfest-a-pleasure-because-of-science/90508172007/
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Caterina Gratton
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How can we acquire new knowledge and skills on a daily basis while remaining the same person? I'm excited to share our new preprint led by
@hyejinjadelee.bsky.social
& Ally Dworetsky tackling this question, just in time for
#OHBM2026
:
doi.org/10.64898/202...
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#neuroskyence
#PsychSciSky
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Functional brain organization is stable within individuals across years
Brain regions exhibit dynamic yet highly coordinated activity patterns that form large-scale functional networks measurable through resting-state correlations. While their association with fluctuating...
https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.06.10.731401
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AAAS Mass Media Fellowship
25 days ago
Thank you
@npr.org
for a fantastic tour! Follow us to see all the stories the fellows will write and produce as they dive into the world of science journalism for the next 10 weeks. ✍️
#SciComm
@aaas.org
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AAAS Mass Media Fellowship
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🎉 Welcome to the 2026 class of
@aaas.org
#MassMediaFellows
! These 15 scientists will be sharpening their
#SciComm
skills with news outlets across the country this summer. We can’t wait to see the impact they’ll have! Learn more about 2026 class here:
www.aaas.org/news/aaas-ma...
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going through months of figure edits feels worth it when one ends up on a text book cover! thanks to
@bradpostle.bsky.social
and
@rodbraga.bsky.social
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A little late to share, but check the link below for an article I wrote about the important work being done through the seed bank at the Chicago Botanic Garden!
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Scientists at Chicago Botanic Garden save local plant species, one seed at a time - Medill Reports Chicago
By Donnisa Edmonds Medill Reports Amid rising global concern about climate change, scientists at the Chicago Botanic Garden are tackling conservation and extinction in a unique way — by seed banking. ...
https://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/scientists-at-chicago-botanic-garden-save-local-plant-species-one-seed-at-a-time/
8 months ago
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Rodrigo Braga
9 months ago
📣 New preprint from the Braga Lab! 📣 The ventral visual stream for reading converges on the transmodal language network Congrats to Dr. Joe Salvo for this epic set of results Big Q: What brain systems support the translation of writing to concepts and meaning? Thread 🧵 ⬇️
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Dr. Lucky Tran
10 months ago
PSA: If you haven’t yet, it may be a good idea to get your COVID shot this week. Reports suggest that CDC may further restrict COVID vaccine access to people aged 75 and up, unless you have an condition. The committee that advises the CDC on vaccines meets this Thursday.
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RFK Jr.’s CDC may limit COVID shots to 75 and up, claim they killed kids
A battle is brewing over mRNA vaccines, which could intensify backlash against Kennedy.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/covid-shot-access-could-tighten-rfk-jr-may-claim-they-cause-child-deaths/
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Rodrigo Braga
11 months ago
🚨 New Preprint 🚨 Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects By Cyr et al. *** Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES? A: Yes! 🧵:
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Rodrigo Braga
over 1 year ago
🚨 🧠 We have a new preprint out where we studied which brain networks are engaged during mental imagery and self-generated thought. We used a precision fMRI approach along with multidimensional experience sampling (mDES) to get trialwise self-reports from each participant about what they imagined.
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Rodrigo Braga
over 1 year ago
Excited to share that our symposium "Mapping of amygdala circuits in humans" was accepted for OHBM 2025 in Brisbane! 🇦🇺🦘
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social
Featuring:
@coryshain.bsky.social
@donnisa.bsky.social
@peterkaskan.bsky.social
Austin Brotman & Christina Zelano
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Rodrigo Braga
over 1 year ago
As if there wasn’t enough to worry about… It turns out the Salience (SAL) and Parietal Memory Networks (PMN) are the same thing! 😩😩😩 🧵
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Dr Ramesh Raghupathi
over 1 year ago
It was great to chat with
@taymccork.bsky.social
and Nishell Savory about their experiences.
#proudPI
. Any mentors/mentees want to participate- please contact me.
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Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹
over 1 year ago
Cutting off grants to academia, pausing clinical trials, etc., is key to this administration’s plan to kill higher education. Targeting intellectuals is textbook fascism.
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Diana Williams
over 1 year ago
James was a PhD student in neuroscience at FSU, and his recent death was devastating for those who knew and loved him. He was extremely bright, motivated, and a strong advocate for marginalized people in STEM. This fundraiser is for his mom, who must be in so much pain right now.
#neuroskyence
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Donate to Celebrating the Life of James S. Brown, organized by Trevon Hill
Celebrating the Life of James S. Brown (November 23, 1993 - January 3, 2025) It… Trevon Hill needs your support for Celebrating the Life of James S. Brown
https://gofund.me/ce58707c
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MaskTogetherAmerica
over 1 year ago
“Masking keeps friends and loved ones safe and is an important part of community care!” Dephanie Stiaz
@kickballcomics.bsky.social
posed for
@msjulieslam.bsky.social
to support
#MaskTogetherAmerica
at a mask-required event hosted by The Artistic Alphabet Mafia + Parallel Play Chicago
#CovidIsNotOver
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MaskTogetherAmerica
over 1 year ago
“I mask because it helps everyone!” Behind the white KF94 is Donnisa Edmonds
@donnisa.bsky.social
shining under the holiday lights. 🌟🍒✨Donnisa posed for
@msjulieslam.bsky.social
at a mask-required event in
#Chicago
.
#MaskTogetherAmerica
because Masking = Love + Community Care. 🤍😷
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Gabriela (Gaby) Lopez, PhD
over 1 year ago
As I board my flight home for the holidays, I wanted to share that a review I wrote with
@talialerner.bsky.social
just came out! It’s titled “How dopamine enables learning from aversion.” Super grateful for the opportunity - hope you can check it out! 😊😊🎄🎄
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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How dopamine enables learning from aversion
Dopamine is heavily studied for its role in reward learning, but it is becoming increasingly appreciated that dopamine can also enable learning from a…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235215462400127X
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⬇️ Check thread & preprint below for new work from my labmates Joseph Salvo and Nathan Anderson on the multimodal functions of the language network!
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over 1 year ago
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i fear the only thing that this app is missing from twitter is the bookmarks feature 😔 i keep seeing posts that i wanted to save and clicked on the "..." to bookmark them only to be surprised that its not an option 😭
over 1 year ago
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Neil Renic
over 1 year ago
Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no
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shout out to the rap girls (+ charli) for carrying me thru lab this year🙂↕️🫡 🩷
over 1 year ago
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Dr. Lucky Tran
over 1 year ago
10 INCREDIBLE ways to BOOST your immune system: The Measles vaccine The Mumps vaccine The Rubella vaccine The Tetanus vaccine The Diphtheria vaccine The Polio vaccine The HPV vaccine The Pneumonia vaccine The Hepatitis B vaccine The Covid-19 vaccine
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Rodrigo Braga
over 1 year ago
This work was led by brilliant grad student and NSF GRFP recipient Donnisa Edmonds
@donnisa.bsky.social
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Hi bluesky folks! As a quick intro, I'm Donnisa (she/her) and I'm a 4th year Ph.D Candidate @ Northwestern! I'm currently studying the organization of functional networks involved in social cognition and I'm also interested in science communication & accessibility ✨ 🧠👩🎓
over 1 year ago
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Vox
over 1 year ago
We’re thrilled to introduce the FUTURE PERFECT 50 class of 2024. 💥 This year's list arrives at a pivotal moment — and it's clear that we need clear-eyed optimists in these times.
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Lindsay🧠
over 1 year ago
Since it’s becoming clear that
#misinformation
is destroying our society, let me share the process I use to communicate really exciting and complicated ideas about my
#neuroscience
research in an accessible way:
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Black In Neuro
over 1 year ago
We have added over a dozen accounts since we first made this started pack! Please let us know if we missed you 🧠 Black In Neuro starter pack:
go.bsky.app/F8PpdPe
#Blackademics
#BlackInSTEM
#Neuroscience
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Black In Neuro
over 1 year ago
Putting a starter pack together for Black In Neuro! Let us know if you would like to be included 🤗
#Neuroscience
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Shematologist, MD
over 1 year ago
We found that almost 40%(!!) of females between 12 and 21 years of age are iron deficient! And yet there’s no recommended universal screening. Wonder how different things would be if it predominantly affected males?!
tinyurl.com/JAMAFe
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Prevalence of Iron Deficiency and Iron-Deficiency Anemia in US Females Aged 12-21 Years, 2003-2020
This study examines prevalence of iron deficiency among females aged 12 to 21 years to inform future screening strategies for iron deficiency and iron-deficiency anemia.
https://tinyurl.com/JAMAFe
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH
over 1 year ago
Bluesky, Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this
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James Howard
almost 2 years ago
Excited to share a new paper just out in
@currentbiology.bsky.social
. We show that patterns of prediction error signals in human midbrain carry reward identity information, with implications for the kinds of learning these error signals support. Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Distributed midbrain responses signal the content of positive identity prediction errors
Recent work across species has shown that midbrain dopamine neurons signal not only errors in the prediction of reward value but also in the predictio…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982224010765
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