And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas

good morning besties it’s game day

🚨New Deep Dive🚨 This episode covers a recent study by Vizer et al investigating if language features extracted from smartphones can be used as a proxy for posttraumatic symptom severity over time following a traumatic exposure. youtu.be/4i3QrdNy6to?...

Congratulations to Cristina Lau, PhD candidate in the Espinosa Lab, for receiving an NIH F31 grant for her project, "Deciphering Central Nervous System Autoimmunity in Down Syndrome." We look forward to seeing these exciting discoveries!

big fan of college football Saturdays

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it’s the mooost wonderful tiiiime of the year - college football is back!! 🏈✨🥳

I didn’t see any prairie dogs and that reflects how my day went lol

The prairie dog colony I drive past on my way to work is rapidly becoming my own version of Groundhog Day, where the number of prairie dogs I see correlates to the quality of my day

Great new paper out from our MD/PhD student @keithdodd.bsky.social on the cool fMRI denoising tool he developed! 🥳

Nice dissection of how the subjective effects & experiences elicited by different psychedelics may impact therapeutic outcomes. Perhaps the question isn't just if hallucinogenic effects are necessary for efficacy, rather how do the subjective effects impact healing & resilience?

a photo you took that brings you inner peace

Are hallucinogenic effects critical to the therapeutic benefits of psychedelics? 🆕 Primer by Dr. Albert Garcia-Romeu @jhpsychedelics.bsky.social breaks down what's known about the role of therapy & subjective effects in driving psychedelics' putative efficacy www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Does smartphone language use reflect depression risk in teens? This Deep Dive covers a study finding that adolescents with depression used more self-focused & negative emotion words, and fewer future-focused words. Brain activity was tied to these language patterns. youtu.be/2U7M40Hl_dw?...

Just learned that my @acnporg.bsky.social panel was accepted! With my colleagues Zoë Hughes, @jordanhamm.bsky.social, Bryan Baxter & Patricio O'Donnell, our #ACNP2026 panel will highlight cross-species approaches using functional brain-based biomarkers to address translational gaps in psychiatry

Definitely thought there was a lizard on my office plant at first glance today

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I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

i make a smooth $37k a year dawg

top of my reading list for sure!! 💯

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So happy to be on this team!!!

🚨We are now on #reddit!! Whether you're a frequent OP or a simple lurker, check out our user page here: www.reddit.com/user/dpn-jou...

It’s wild how much change is possible in this life. From relearning to talk post-TBI, to full blown heroin addiction, to a life beyond anything I could have imagined. Im very fortunate to not only be alive, but to have been selected to speak at 2025 TEDxBoulder!

Will AI revolutionize or undermine mental health care? Today's Deep Dive focuses on opportunities & risks of using large language models in psychiatric care & research. By @skhalsa.bsky.social, @pshrink.bsky.social, @royperlis.bsky.social, @mpwpaulus.bsky.social et al youtu.be/i8RfTa-dCU0?...

Remember to register for the @acnporg.bsky.social annual meeting so you can submit your poster abstract by Aug 28th!

Check it out! Our work on using automated speech and language features for longitudinal modeling of #psychosis symptoms is featured in this podcast-style summary from @dpn-journal.bsky.social !

Could speech patterns reveal the 'vital signs' of psychosis? The latest DPN Deep Dive summarizes recent work by @stanglab.bsky.social et al showing that automated speech analysis generated objective features predictive of thought disorder, negative, & positive symptoms. youtu.be/TR3s-CJ-cqE?...

Don't forget - submit your application to become the next @npp-journal.bsky.social Editorial Intern by next Wednesday, July 30th! 🤩

Looking for a postdoc or staff scientist with brain slice electrophysiology experience. If you or someone you know is interested in, message me.

Check us out on this lovely Friday! Perfect for your commute to work and/or mental health walk 🎉 any and all feedback welcome! 🤗

Announcing the DPN Deep Dive - our *new* AI generated podcast using Google’s NotebookLM to summarize DPN papers in an accessible format. Our first episode covers Aich et al on challenges with using large language models to simplify healthcare materials www.youtube.com/watc...

Cutest 5K paw-ticipant 🐾

My mom told her Facebook friends so I guess I can share now - so honored to be a part of the 2025 OSNAP cohort!!! 🥳 looking forward to meeting the other folks this fall!

Working the day before a holiday like

New publication from Dr. Carley Miller in a collab with Dr. Kevin Beier, and Chris Li (at UCI)! Acute stress triggers sex-specific changes in the ventral subiculum. They’re unexpectedly driven by distinct signaling pathways! Check it out 👉 tinyurl.com/3fvkumuy

🆕 perspective from @flanbrain.bsky.social et al on how machine learning algorithms such as AlphaFold, which predict 3D protein structures, can facilitate drug discovery in neuropsychopharmacology. Check it out!! www.nature.com/artic...

When scientists like Katie take the time to be involved in training ECRs, we should do everything we can to make this mentorship EASIER. Sincerely hoping that UNM hears back on the renewal soon - T32s are essential to trainee support & career progression.

Anyone out there willing to share their funded LRP? 🥺 👉🏻👈🏻

The anchor point for the window washing apparatus is set directly above our apartment, so here’s what Kirby looks like today

My run today kinda looked like a microscope. It really is the little things.

Nothing kicks a morning off quite like a grant rejection 💕💕💕

Meteorologist Nana was correct

If there is even a whisper of bad weather incoming to the greater Rocky Mountain region, you can bet my Nana will send me a text to let me know 🥹

So grateful to @rsaofficial.bsky.social for the 2025 Animal Research and Ethics Committee Award! Not often do we get recognized for things that we believe in deep within our cores, so this one is really special! Especially at a time when animal research is under attack across 🌎 #RSA_ISBRA2025

Reviewer 1: Great paper, thanks! I have some minor formatting asks. Reviewer 2: Is it hard? Being the dumbest person alive? Like, is that a struggle? Can you even dress yourself? Reviewer 3: I’m going to recommend rejection because you didn’t cite me enough ☹️

great end-of-year happy hour with the other T32 Developmental Psychobiology, Psychopathology, and Behavior fellows/friends 🤓🥳 @kellytcosgrove.bsky.social @annamzhou.bsky.social

Happy Friday! An all-time favorite throwback pic of Kirby to (hopefully) brighten your day ☀️

After ruling, with anger in his voice, Judge Young: "This represents racial discrimination. And discrimination against America's LGBTQ community. That's what this is. I would be blind not to call it out. My duty is to call it out. And I do so."

The Court has expressed "a very real concern about discrimination," which Judge Young "will have more to say about that" after a break. Judge: "there is more than a little evidence here of discrimination as to women's health." He's not going to make a finding on that issue right now.