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Britton Barbee
@brittonrae.bsky.social
Texas A&M • Emory MSP PhD • CU Anschutz T32 DPRG postdoc • DPN editorial intern 🐭🧠👩‍💻

interested in PI3K, SABV, (in)flexible behavior, K-12 science outreach, sci comm, and my dog 🐕 | she/her
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So excited to be part of this team! 🥳🥳🥳
We are excited to announce Dr. Britton Barbee
@brittonrae.bsky.social as DPN's Editorial Intern!

Dr. Barbee is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado Anschutz where she studies how genetic risk factors influence neurodevelopmental trajectories.

Welcome to the team, Britton🎉
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Here is Week #1 installment for @acnporg.bsky.social Travel Awardees of #ACNP2026

Dr. Mia Rough, Wake Forest University
Dr. Clara Zundel, Wayne State University
Dr. Ryann Tansey, University of Calgary
Dr. Alexander Herman, University of Minnesota

@clarazundel.bsky.social
@ryanntansey.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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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!
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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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...
Breaking barriers: centering researchers with lived experience in psychiatric neuroscience - NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Researchers who live with serious mental illness or substance use disorders bring unique insight to psychiatric neuroscience, yet they remain underrepresented in the field. This paper calls for recogn...
www.nature.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Submitting a rec letter on the same website I submitted my grad school applications on is a) a very full circle moment and b) bringing up some stressful memories lol
November 12, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Take a Deep Dive into a recent DPN article showing that negative symptoms of schizophrenia can be detected using speech spectrogram-based convolutional neural network analyses.

Work by Gleb Melshin, @lenapl.bsky.social, et al:

youtu.be/nEr7X-YuujQ?...
Everyday speech patterns hold medical clues that may help diagnose and track schizophrenia
YouTube video by NPP - Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (DPN)
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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If the sandwich don't split, you must acquit.
The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground.

"That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks.

"It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.
November 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Kicking this off with the Great Pumpkin 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Is it even a cool new technique if you don’t incorporate a catchy acronym?
October 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
testing antibodies = pretty pictures
October 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
After a couple of years going to the dentist every 3 months (boo), I am pleased to report that dental anxiety is now afraid of ME
September 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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The Michigan church shooter reportedly has a flag on his truck that said "F**k Biden". That means he was probably Pod Save America fan who was frustrated with Biden's decision to run for reelection.
September 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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And I would never want to get between Ted and a trip to Cancun when there’s an emergency in Texas
Ted Cruz: "I don't want to get between JB Pritzker and the Dominos Pizza line, but I'll tell you what I am willing to get between -- him and his open doors for every human trafficker ... "
September 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
good morning besties it’s game day
August 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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🚨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?...
Smartphone language features may help identify outcomes in trauma survivors
YouTube video by NPP - Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience (DPN)
youtu.be
August 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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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!
August 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
big fan of college football Saturdays
August 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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10/14
August 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
it’s the mooost wonderful tiiiime of the year - college football is back!! 🏈✨🥳
a football player wearing a texas a & m helmet is celebrating a touchdown
ALT: a football player wearing a texas a & m helmet is celebrating a touchdown
media.tenor.com
August 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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
August 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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
August 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Great new paper out from our MD/PhD student @keithdodd.bsky.social on the cool fMRI denoising tool he developed! 🥳
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Keith Dodd, Jason R. Tregellas, et al:

CICADA: An automated and flexible tool for comprehensive fMRI noise reduction

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
August 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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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?
August 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
a photo you took that brings you inner peace
August 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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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...
Deconstructing the trip treatment: are hallucinogenic effects critical to the therapeutic benefits of psychedelics? - NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience
NPP—Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience - Deconstructing the trip treatment: are hallucinogenic effects critical to the therapeutic benefits of psychedelics?
www.nature.com
August 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM