A powerful DPN Perspective from @umarchatterjee.bsky.social, @mayaschumer.bsky.social, @deffinger.bsky.social, @viscidula.bsky.social, Noel Vest, Michael Cahill, Brandon Staglin, & @ericjnestler.bsky.social. DPN is grateful for the authors' dedication to writing this!

Researchers with lived experience of mental illness/SUDs bring vital insight to our field, yet remain underrepresented and face barriers to participation & leadership This Perspective calls for removing such barriers & proposes reforms to build inclusive environments www.nature.com/articles/s44...

This is profoundly sad. We lost a true pioneer in the field of psychiatry Sincere condolences to his family friends and collaborators

A eulogy for my friend Nolan Williams. open.substack.com/pub/thefront...

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

So excited for the first ever @onemindorg.bsky.social Summit on the Future of Mental Health Research! Led by brilliant CSO Dr. Tahilia Rebello to accelerate big ideas to impact 🧠💪🏼🧪

Tech check complete! 🎤 So excited for the @onemindorg.bsky.social Science and Music Festival keynote tomorrow! 🧠💗

This was truly one of my favorite A Chat with Uma episodes I’ve ever released!✨ I'm so grateful for how @theborislab.bsky.social shared not only his work, but his own story, with such honesty, generosity, + depth 🙌🏾🙏🏾 📖 Read below for full show notes + timestamps, and listen at the link above! ☝🏾

🤯TRIPPING IN YOUR SLEEP: Psychedelics, The Placebo Effect, & How Human Connection Heals the Brain with Dr. Boris Heifets @theborislab.bsky.social💭 Ep. 51 of A Chat with Uma out now! 🌟 This ep is truly a dream come true (no pun intended)-a MUST listen! 🙌🏾 Tune in📲 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

🤯TRIPPING IN YOUR SLEEP: Psychedelics, The Placebo Effect, & How Human Connection Heals the Brain with Dr. Boris Heifets @theborislab.bsky.social💭 Ep. 51 of A Chat with Uma out now! 🌟 This ep is truly a dream come true (no pun intended)-a MUST listen! 🙌🏾 Tune in📲 creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

2) I’m honored to be selected as a mentee for the @acnporg.bsky.social Near-Peer Mentorship Program! 🎉 I’m deeply grateful to everyone in our field who has supported me as a scientist with lived experience! I wouldn’t be here without your belief in me & you challenging the stigma! 🙏🏾 #ACNP2026

THRILLED to share @acnporg.bsky.social news x2! 1) Our study group “Centering Lived Experience in Psychiatric Neuroscience Research” @ericjnestler.bsky.social @mayaschumer.bsky.social @deffinger.bsky.social @viscidula.bsky.social @noelvest.bsky.social @cahill-lab.bsky.social=ACCEPTED! 🤩 #ACNP2026

So important to recognize the value and recognize the importance of lived experiences! Thank you to all the panelists for your courage and generosity!

FANTASTIC news Uma, you are perfect for leading this Study Group and will be a fantastic follow-up on the Luncheon discussion we had last year on Neurodiversity as a strength! Thank you for your continued work in this area! 😍

Heck yes!!! That is going to be one incredible panel!!

@acnporg.bsky.social brought @umarchatterjee.bsky.social @deffinger.bsky.social & me together last year: After finding each other on X-as we are all public/open about our lived experience -we met+discussed the ideas for this Study Group! Looking forward to doing this work together@ #ACNP2026💥🧠❤️

THRILLED to share @acnporg.bsky.social news x2! 1) Our study group “Centering Lived Experience in Psychiatric Neuroscience Research” @ericjnestler.bsky.social @mayaschumer.bsky.social @deffinger.bsky.social @viscidula.bsky.social @noelvest.bsky.social @cahill-lab.bsky.social=ACCEPTED! 🤩 #ACNP2026

Join us in Congratulating the 2025 ACNP Travel Award Class! 🙌🎉

Ecstatic to share my @ologies.bsky.social episode on #OCD! 🎉 SO grateful to (my fav human!) @alieward.bsky.social for having me on! This was such a rewarding + healing experience for me, fully sharing as a researcher INFORMED by my lived experience 🥺🫶🏾 TUNE IN 👉🏾 www.alieward.com/ologies/ocdb... 1/🧵

@umarchatterjee.bsky.social hey thank you so much for the podcast. i haven't been formally diagnosed yet but everything you said matches my experience and i am going to look into getting treatment

Ecstatic to share my @ologies.bsky.social episode on #OCD! 🎉 SO grateful to (my fav human!) @alieward.bsky.social for having me on! This was such a rewarding + healing experience for me, fully sharing as a researcher INFORMED by my lived experience 🥺🫶🏾 TUNE IN 👉🏾 www.alieward.com/ologies/ocdb... 1/🧵

A discussion of the use of animals in research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSvk... 1/n (Warning: Rant coming)

OCD Awareness🤝The NUMBER 1 science podcast in the WORLD! 🎉 @ologies.bsky.social w/ @alieward.bsky.social is covering #OCD with not one but TWO episodes this week! Pt. 1, with the legendary Dr. Wayne Goodman, out TODAY—part 2, with yours truly (!!!), comes next later this week! 🥹🫶🏾 Listen to pt. 1👇🏾

Seeing @ologies.bsky.social smack dab in the center of TIME’s hundred greatest podcasts is such a beautiful feeling. @alieward.bsky.social is a genius and I’m so grateful for my time working on the show, she makes the world a better place and inspires me every day: time.com/collections/...

OCD Awareness🤝The NUMBER 1 science podcast in the WORLD! 🎉 @ologies.bsky.social w/ @alieward.bsky.social is covering #OCD with not one but TWO episodes this week! Pt. 1, with the legendary Dr. Wayne Goodman, out TODAY—part 2, with yours truly (!!!), comes next later this week! 🥹🫶🏾 Listen to pt. 1👇🏾

And lastly, can't wait for the bonus episode with OCD advocate and fellow scientist @umarchatterjee.bsky.social, who I appreciate so much for being a voice at the intersection of science and lived experience!

One of my fave science pods @ologies.bsky.social has a new episode on OCD, a topic obviously very near & dear to my heart. I'm so used to its host making me care deeply about topics I know zero about, so I'm thrilled to listen when I do know a thing...or even 2 😄 www.alieward.com/ologies/ocdn...

WE HAVE OCD. A whole episode w/ ICON Dr. Wayne Goodman. Ruminations. Rituals. Checking. Suffering. Stigmas. Hope. Plus: origins, comorbidities, intrusive thoughts, deep brain stimulation, genetics, medications, finding a doc + the best therapy for it, ERP. www.alieward.com/ologies/ocdn...

DO NOT GIVE UP! Our advocacy is working. A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF. Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️

🎓 FROM FOSTER CARE TO HARVARD NEUROSCIENTIST: The Choice to Live, Maternal #Psychedelics, & Post-Viral Chronic Illnesses with Dr. Ya’el Courtney @scienceyael.bsky.social ☄️ Ep. 46 of A Chat with Uma is out everywhere now! Truly a MUST listen🌟👏🏾 🎙️Tune in here 👉🏾 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/uma... 1/

Since the US politics have decided to target DEI spaces, I’ve seen a huge drop of engagement in #DisabledInSTEM Disabled, disability and accessibility are part of the list of banned words for grants too really really highlights that these identities are being specifically targeted to be silenced.

My podcast, A Chat with Uma, has listeners in… 49 countries?! 🤯🌏 I can’t wrap my head around how far & wide our community lives. I lived in isolation & shame for SO long from severe #MentalIllness & unimaginably painful circumstances—where my truth was deeply uncomfortable+intolerable to most. 1/

🧠 MAPPING THE BIPOLAR BRAIN: Emerging Biomarkers, New Brain Regions, & Lived Experience in Research w/ Dr. @mayaschumer.bsky.social (pt. 2) ☯️ Ep. 41 of A Chat with Uma is out now! Listen here👉🏾 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/uma... #BipolarDisorder #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #Neuroscience #SciComm

Incredibly appreciative of @deisseroth.bsky.social pioneering vision & honored to work alongside the amazing Human Neural Circuitry (HNC) team. Excited to share our first HNC paper @science.org illuminating conserved brain-wide emergence of emotional response from sensory experience!

Grateful to work with amazing lead authors Isaac Kauvar, Ethan Richman, & Tony Liu, and brilliant faculty of our HNC program: Carolyn Rodriguez (@crodriguezmdphd.bsky.social‬), Paul Nuyujukian, & Vivek Buch, and many others spanning hospital and laboratory. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...

Congratulations to our Human Neural Circuitry team; bit.ly/4dEyX7Z publishes today in Science! This was the hardest challenge of my career, but one of the most rewarding, after years of rebuilding– & expanding my inpatient neuropsychiatry in the service of basic discovery bsky.app/profile/deis...

This is why science funding matters. We uncovered a hidden signaling system in the brain—one that responds to maternal environment, even to drugs like LSD during pregnancy. It took 5 years, a brilliant team, and public funding to get here. Out today in @NatureNeuro: 🧵👇

🧠 🍄 ⚡️🐭 Now published in @natneuro.nature.com Psilocybin enhances fear extinction by reshaping retrosplenial cortex ensembles—suppressing fear neurons, recruiting extinction neurons + boosting plasticity to enable behavioral flexibility nature.com/articles/s4159…

I recently—for the first time—spoke openly & honestly about my 11+year journey w/ #BipolarDisorder +chronic su!cidality on my friend @UmaRChatterjee podcast @AChatWithUma. Grateful to Uma for creating the opportunity for me to speak truth to stigma. Check out Part 1! (part 2 coming this week!)

🧠 WHY IS MY BRAIN TRYING TO K!LL ME?: Living With Bipolar 1 Disorder & Chronic S#icidality with Dr. @mayaschumer.bsky.social (pt. 1) ☯️ Ep. 40 of A Chat with Uma out now! Listen here 👉🏾 creators.spotify.com/pod/show/uma... #BipolarDisorder #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #Neuroscience #LivedExperience 1/

Congratulations @umarchatterjee.bsky.social they are lucky to have you!!!

Congrats Uma!!

Congratulations!!

Here’s some good news to brighten your day! @umarchatterjee.bsky.social + @onemindorg.bsky.social = amazing things for mental health! 💗💪🏼🧠

Oh my gosh congratulations!!!!! This is the BEST news! @onemindorg.bsky.social + @umarchatterjee.bsky.social = a magical combination!!! ✨✨✨

💗💗💗 Your post brought me to tears too! It made me so sad to think of a world without you in it, and I'm so very glad that you found treatments that work! The world is so much better because you are in it 🤗🤗🤗 (and I couldn't help using the word 'so' 3 times because it is true!😄)

Heartbroken to hear that the @hhmi.org Hanna Grey fellowship competition is being cancelled this year. I poured so much work and creativity into this app and am very grateful for everyone who helped me revise. It is such a difficult time to be a young scientist.

Thanks @sfn.org and @umarchatterjee.bsky.social for inviting me! It was awesome. In case you missed it, there will be a recording available within the next few days!

Register now on Neuronline. 🔗 bit.ly/4kJB5OI #NeuroSky

Success often requires community support. Discuss practical approaches to creating more accessible & inclusive research settings in this webinar w/ @umarchatterjee.bsky.social, Kimberly Fiock, PhD, Billie Goolsby, BA, @brittgratreak.bsky.social, & @dwwilliamslab.bsky.social. #NeuroSky