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...

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.

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 👊 🇺🇸 🔥

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.

Some really terrific resources in this thread for anyone doing EMA or other ambulatory assessment research

Strong Boston showing for stand Up For Science rally. Lots of energy and passion.

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...

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...

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

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

🚀 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

I hope this is massive! #standupforscience2025

🧵 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/

How to get 146% return on investment? The NIH. That's just the economic benefit. Biomedical research promotes human health.

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?

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 [email protected]. I will keep all information confidential. 2/n

1000x THIS!

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.

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

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.

Happy Lunar New Year BlueSky! Wishing all of my fellow Asian Americans - and our democracy - good fortune, health, and prosperity in the coming year.

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.

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...)

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.

This is happening to thousands of people fighting for their lives because in real life, government does a lot of good and important shit.

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...

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:

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

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-...

"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.

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

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...

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 👍 & 🔁!

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

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

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

"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:

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/

I’m bringing Horse Diabetes to Bluesky as the Diabetes Gods intended

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.

The ARMy is here!! Academic research moms - take a look @tamargurmdphd.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...

NEW PREPRINT from the fabulous Amira Parker (who is applying to PhD programs this cycle!) amirap123.bsky.social Who gets interrupted during ecological momentary assessment protocols? Data is from approx 500 participants who completed 21 days of EMA. (spoilers below) 1/x osf.io/preprints/os...

Straight from “The Source”, a health equity starter pack from Dr. Lisa Barnes (@beyoung40.bsky.social) herself! #brain #health #equity go.bsky.app/B19wWRe

Inspired by seeing @jhassenstab.bsky.social posting with apparent optimism, so FINE I WILL TRY AGAIN with this place. HELLO 👋 I am some sort of digital cognitive technology person with a lab at McLean / Harvard Med. Most interested in measuring stuff well, using accessible and scalable tools.

New study on type 1 diabetes! Momentary cognition is vulnerable to glucose fluctuations in T1D, and this effect is magnified in the context of diabetes-related health conditions. Led by the incredible Zoe Hawks, @lauragermine.bsky.social and Naomi Chaytor www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Illusory generalizability of clinical prediction models www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... - very important work showing poor generalizability of prediction models for schizophrenia

Let’s be clear: multiple things can be true—one can believe President Gay’s remarks at the hearing were imperfect, that claims of plagiarism are worthy of investigation, and acknowledge that the campaign against her has all the markings of misogynoir and straight up racism. I wish her all the best.

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

I finally decided to bite the bullet and commit to a Twitter alternative and the second I did (this morning) I hear a bunch of colleagues have gone over to Threads. 😭Anyway, hello BlueSky world!