Indulge me in a long thread with thoughts on the Piller bombshell in Science about the fraud surrounding the Lesné Aß*56 data. Bottom line: The scale of the fraud is horrifying but the significance to the #Alzheimer’s field is seriously exaggerated.

Meet Mark, the newest #epicat

Pitt Psychiatry Awarded $33.5M National Institute on Aging Health Program Project Grant Focused on the Pathological and Clinical Progression of Alzheimer’s Disease bit.ly/3BHrcfS #PittPsychiatry

Thank you Big Grande!

I'm so humbled to have won and SO grateful to get to work with Beth! Dr. Beth Shaaban

I mean, seriously, I feel like a contest winner with this co-author line up.

Anyone have tips for optimizing SAS on Parallels? Spent the morning cleaning data before Parallels froze, went black, and lost all of my code - not the first time this has happened. Have to imagine there are ways to improve user experience? #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

A card from my 7 year-old niece for my HumanAmyloidImaging podium presentation, the focal point being peanut butter (“Aunt Sarah’s favorite food”)

Congrats to Dr. Sarah Kolibash Royse for a fantastic talk HumanAmyloidImaging and doing a great job representing Pitt Psychiatry PittResearch University of Pittsburgh and the Pitt's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. You made us all so proud!!

Hip-hip-hooray for the HAI2023 Travel Scholarship recipients!

an incredible talk, couldn't take notes fast enough

I’ve been promoted to faculty in the Department of Radiology (PET Center) at University of Pittsburgh. Feeling very grateful: (1) for this opportunity and (2) to my mentors for training, trusting, and advocating for me.

Thinking about this tweet again; took the entire day to write one (1) paragraph of my dissertation

WOW from KBJ's dissent in the affirmative action cases:

We have an exciting new project at Current Affairs, a special booklet called "A Student's Guide to Resisting PragerU Propaganda," which teaches young people how propaganda works and how to see through it: currentaffairs.org/2023/09/how-we…

New paper in Alzheimer's & Dementia🚨 We: 1) introduce a new method for measuring in vivo #whitematterinjury, unhealthy white matter connectivity (UWMC) 2) quantify UWMC in brain regions affected by AB+tau 3) compare UWMC between racialized groups Link: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/al…

Was great to share a bit of my work at Pitt's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center OSCAR Symposium yesterday. Even more fun to meet with/learn from the many scientists doing interesting and meaningful Alzheimer's disease work here at Pitt

New publication in Neurobiology of Aging: We compare associations of #APOE4 and #APOE2 with brain #amyloid and #tau deposition between African American and non-Hispanic white populations. Link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…