Our next virtual student-led journal club is this Sunday, July 11th from 12-1pm ET!! Our two student presenters were mentored by Anthony Chesebro and will present about a neuroinflammatory mechanism linking Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's disease.

So excited to have this opportunity with these awesome folks at Symbiosis. Can't wait for next month!

Exciting opportunity to join the Alzheimer's Disease And PeT (ADAPT) imaging lab at Columbia University! Gain research experience with neuroimaging data collection and analysis. Apply here: opportunities.columbia.edu/en-us/job/5263…

Here are the six #ScienceNewWave films made over the 8 days of #Symbiosis Imagine Science Films competition presented by Science, Society & Culture @ SF. Experiments become cinema! Congrats to winner 'Interference Pattern' by Niccolò Bigagli + Ramey Newell labocine.com/spotlights/sym…

TOMORROW 2/23 at 6 PM ET/3 PM PT! APSA is hosting a Physician-scientist 101 pre-session for community college students! Join us before the Day in the Life of a Physician-Scientist session at 7 PM ET/5 PM PT! Register for both: tinyurl.com/02-23-2023 #communitycollege

Humans deserve easy-to-comprehend healthcare plans too! When we #PassNYHealth #MedicareForAll we'll have one plan that provides comprehensive care for all - everybody in, nobody out! Thank you Anthony for sharing your story! Share YOUR #MedStoryMonday: bit.ly/MedStoryMonday

Submissions Now Open for the Symbiosis competition presented by Science, Society & Culture @ SF! Scientists and filmmakers will be paired to produce new forms of science cinema during the 16th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival - 10/20-27 #ScienceNewWave Labocine imaginesciencefilms.org/symbiosis

Applications for the Physicians for a National Health Program 🍎NYMetro Universal Healthcare Legislative Advocacy Fellowship are now open! Designed for students & health care workers who are new to state-level advocacy, with a focus on the NY Health Act. To learn more: bit.ly/UHLAF

🚨Looking to recruit Integrative Neuroscience PhD students to join my new lab at SUNY Stony Brook University, Psychology Department.🧑‍🎓Please RT and share with anyone interested in cognitive aging, Alzheimer’s disease, and neuroimaging!🧠Deadline Dec 1st. Contact me if interested!

Are you a #premed or #mdphd applicant thinking about taking "gap" years? Come hear advice from APSA leaders including myself, Brian Thomas, Mizzou MD-PhD, and others Session recording will be posted to youtube next week! #PreMedTwitter #MedTwitter #MedEd #DoubleDocs #MDPhD

Apply to STAR U, a summer aging research program for undergraduates from diverse backgrounds Columbia University! Please RT/repost. neurology.columbia.edu/education/addi… @istaart The National Institute on Aging (NIA)

Read our recent work from APSA about the importance of diversifying the physician-scientist workforce in Nature Medicine! #DoubleDocs #DiverseDoubleDocs #MedEd @dcarrot2 Cynthia Tang, PhD Alex Serafini, PhD/MHA Carey Jansen, MD PhD Micaila Curtis Anthony Chesebro Alex Waldman, DPhil nature.com/articles/s4159…

🚨 New publication alert! The US Supreme Court decision on affirmative action will disrupt efforts to diversify the #PhysicianScientist workforce. ASPA's Nature Medicine commentary: rdcu.be/dxiJI. #DiversePhysicianScientists #DiverseDoubleDocs

Yesterday, JCI insight pubbed our study examining MD-PhD program acceptance & how it varies by demographics & research experience. 1st-gen, Black or reapplying applicants were less likely to be accepted, regardless of research experience & publications. insight.jci.org/articles/view/…

Time for #ThrowbackThursday! Our #PR team reps were working at the bench or on service during our trainee-driven portion of the APSA "Day in the Life" Webinar a few weeks ago (youtube.com/watch?v=UR8rGU…) The life of #DoubleDocs trainees, are we right? Our highlights below: (1/n)

Join us for a Healthcare Town Hall w/ NYS Sen. Shelley Mayer to discuss health & how we can #PassNYHealth to provide care for all NYers! RSVP: bit.ly/HealthTownHall… Sat April 27, 10am-12pm More speakers TBA Yonkers Public Library- Will Branch 1500 Central Park Ave, Yonkers NY

Today we hosted a lively Yonkers town hall on the #NYHealthAct. Many thanks to speakers NYS Sen. Shelley Mayer SD37 Judy Sheridan-Gonzalez, RN, Past President of NYSNA Richard Gottfried, Retired NY Assembly Health Committee Chair & bill author and Dr. Betsy Rosenthal, MD!

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Helena van Nieuwenhuizen, Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi, et al: Ketosis regulates K+ ion channels, strengthening brain-wide signaling disrupted by age doi.org/10.1162/imag_a…

🎉BIG NEWS! I'm joining NIH The National Institute on Aging (NIA) as an Earl Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator! Grateful for support from my mentors & network. I'm excited to continue the fight of addressing inequalities in brain aging thru mentorship & research #BHEunit #BlackBrainsMatter #BlackScientist

Scientists + Filmmakers - Apply today to this incredible 8-day experiment that brings to life new film works from the Science New Wave. Presented by Simons Foundation Science, Society & Culture @ SF Labocine - Deadline is fast approaching (07/15): imaginesciencefilms.org/symbiosis