Laura Thi Germine
@lauragermine.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Neurology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (as of Sept 2025). Director of TestMyBrain and the Many Brains Project. Views my own. she/her/hers
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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...
▶️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...
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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...
▶️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.
June 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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.
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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 👊 🇺🇸 🔥
@booker.senate.gov :
"The power of the people is greater than the people in power"
"The power of the people is greater than the people in power"
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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 👊 🇺🇸 🔥
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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.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
kffhealthnews.org
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Some really terrific resources in this thread for anyone doing EMA or other ambulatory assessment research
Are you doing EMA research and wonder how to go about it? In recent work we've adressed some open questions and challenges, here is a brief summary of papers and materials.
🧵 #PsychSciSky 🧪 #StatsSky
🧵 #PsychSciSky 🧪 #StatsSky
March 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Some really terrific resources in this thread for anyone doing EMA or other ambulatory assessment research
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Strong Boston showing for stand Up For Science rally. Lots of energy and passion.
March 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Strong Boston showing for stand Up For Science rally. Lots of energy and passion.
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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...
The Dot-Probe Task is Probably Fine – CogPsych Reserve
cogpsychreserve.netlify.app
March 7, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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...
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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...
Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies
Such a shift would “put us back in the dark ages in terms of our science,” says neuroscientist Anne Murphy, who helped to formulate the original policy.
www.thetransmitter.org
February 25, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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...
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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.
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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
February 16, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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
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
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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
February 14, 2025 at 4:25 AM
One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!
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🚀 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
@atmotube.com
🔗 Explore the package: lnkd.in/eUgVAn-8
February 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
🚀 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
@atmotube.com
🔗 Explore the package: lnkd.in/eUgVAn-8
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I hope this is massive! #standupforscience2025
Get in dorks, we're going protesting!
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL
Because science is for everyone!
Find us at standupforscience2025.org
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 11, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I hope this is massive! #standupforscience2025
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🧵 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/
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/
Made some slides for scientists to talk about what's been happening & what we should do next. There are probably many people better qualified than me to talk about these issues. If that's you, please, please, please consider holding some virtual advocacy training sessions for researchers this week.
The War on Science (Feb 2025 teach-in draft)
The War on Science What’s happening? What can we do about it? An interactive teach-in for biomedical researchers Please share, modify, and repurpose this template presentation (with credit). Good luck...
docs.google.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🧵 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/
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/
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How to get 146% return on investment?
The NIH. That's just the economic benefit.
Biomedical research promotes human health.
The NIH. That's just the economic benefit.
Biomedical research promotes human health.
February 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
How to get 146% return on investment?
The NIH. That's just the economic benefit.
Biomedical research promotes human health.
The NIH. That's just the economic benefit.
Biomedical research promotes human health.
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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?
Humor me?
February 8, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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?
Humor me?
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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 jeremymberg@gmail.com.
I will keep all information confidential.
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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 jeremymberg@gmail.com.
I will keep all information confidential.
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February 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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 jeremymberg@gmail.com.
I will keep all information confidential.
2/n
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 jeremymberg@gmail.com.
I will keep all information confidential.
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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.
February 3, 2025 at 5:36 PM
1000x THIS!
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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.
February 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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.
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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
People who say this have to know sociodemographic disparities in hiring, education, etc. When they are talking about “going back” and
Safe to say we have reached the point when it is more responsible for journalists to say "racism" instead of "DEI" because we seek to clarify rather than purposely obscure facts.
J.D. Vance uses DEI to cover for a potentially white male pilot being at fault: "When you don't have the best standards in who you're hiring, it means, on the one hand, you're not getting the best people in government, but on the other hand, it puts stresses on the people who are already there."
January 31, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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
People who say this have to know sociodemographic disparities in hiring, education, etc. When they are talking about “going back” and
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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.
🚨CDC removes data on sexual orientation, gender identity from website. @theresagaff.bsky.social with the receipts. www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/c... via @statnews.com
CDC removes data on sexual orientation, gender identity from website
Data from an expansive federal survey on youth behavioral habits, including their sexual orientation and gender identity, have been removed from the website of the CDC.
www.statnews.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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.
January 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Happy Lunar New Year BlueSky! Wishing all of my fellow Asian Americans - and our democracy - good fortune, health, and prosperity in the coming year.
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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.
Illinois shut out of Medicaid after Trump administration halts federal grants and loans chicago.suntimes.com/politics/don...
Illinois shut out of Medicaid after Trump administration halts federal grants and loans
The Trump administration's federal freeze has shut Illinois out of Medicaid, according to Gov. JB. Pritzker's office. The government-funded health insurance program covered about 3.9 million people in...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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...)
January 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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...)
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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.
“Without quick corrective action, the consequences of further disruption could be disastrous,” @raskin.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov and Sen. Alsobrooks write.
January 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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.
“Without quick corrective action, the consequences of further disruption could be disastrous,” @raskin.house.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov and Sen. Alsobrooks write.
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This is happening to thousands of people fighting for their lives because in real life, government does a lot of good and important shit.
January 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is happening to thousands of people fighting for their lives because in real life, government does a lot of good and important shit.