There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
Our review (with the brilliant Conor McQuaid
@axelmontagne.bsky.social
) also just came out looking at glia-vascular interactions in neurodegenerative diseases - an exciting time for the field! Check it out: pharmrev.aspetjournals.org/article/S003... #glia #neurovascular #dementia #alzheimers
Work from my undergrad (over eight years ago now 🤣) officially out as a pre-print! Check it out here
Dysfunction of glial and vascular cells is increasingly recognized as a central feature
of neurodegenerative diseases. Growing evidence points to disruptions in glial-vascular
interactions, which are ...
Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.
good to see work that really cares about statistical rigor too in the field (something that is really lacking) - awesome job!
Very VERY proud to have been part of this incredible piece of work
Hundreds of paired and group interactions, exploring the double empathy problem in a large diverse sample.
You know you work in academia when you can brush off a desk rejection (that took almost a month for a paper of five years worth of work) back to back with a fellowship rejection. In less than half an hour…
Very excited to share a pre-print from my first postdoc, out today, exploring the impact of pericyte loss in the brain - It was a pleasure to work with former co-workers Dorota Štefančová, Audrey Chagnot, and Axel Montagne on this project.