Biostatistician @LIBR_Tulsa with applications in genetics, neuroimaging and neurodevelopment. Director of Biostatistics for ABCD and HBCD studies.

Los Angeles, CA
Joined March 2012
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An Attempt to Explain California
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JWST just dropped new photo of Sombrero Galaxy
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Wind blown dust in the desert created this beautiful sunrise (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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Thank goodness there is no fundamental problem of causal inference or some of these TV election commentator comments would be on shaky empirical ground.
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"Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows." - Werner Heisenberg (1901 - 1976)
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No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. - Karl Popper
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Can neuroimaging predictive models survive across diverse real-world data?🧠🌎We put models to the test across 3 large-scale unharmonized datasets with over 2,800 participants. See our new work in this special issue of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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I stole this from a tweet I saw a day or two ago, but now can’t find. Anyway, it’s on my office door now.
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Biological systems at the molecular level are impossibly advanced nanotech that we are hopelessly far from engineering ourselves from scratch.
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Best Halloween decoration so far. 😅
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The CAT Lab will be at ISDP this week in Chicago. Come see the lab members' great work! #ISDP2024 @devpsybio
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Terence Tao’s advice for when you are feeling lazy
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Call for Editorial Fellows at Developmental Psychology! *Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD) *Member of underrep community (e.g., minoritized, LGBTQ+, w/ disabilities, Global South, etc) or record of advocacy. *1-year term; $1,000 USD stipend @APA_Journals apa.org/pubs/journals/resour…
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Yesterday's sunset after the large thunderstorm moved on from the Fish Creek area was spectacular. Video of flooding and Split Mountain Road damage forthcoming @NWSSanDiego @SanDiegoWCMwx (Photo: Sicco Rood).
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My lab is hiring! We have TWO (!) RA positions available as part of the HBCD Consortium study. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en…
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10(!) 3yr post-doc/assistant prof jobs at the Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed, a Denmark-Oxford center led by @WrayNaomi. Develop new stat/comp tools & software for key questions in common complex diseases. Jobs in Aarhus, Copenhagen or Oxford. smartbiomed.dk/join-the-cent…
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GPT-6 will have an advice blog on how to switch from academia to industry
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Congratulations to Jennifer Pfeifer, PhD on receiving the Flux 2024 Linda Spears Mid-Career Award.
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Questions at academic conferences:
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📢 We're hiring! 📢 We have an immediate opening for a postdoc to work on neuroimaging-genetics at UCLA. Interested in linking large-scale MRI datasets with genomics and transcriptomics? Come work with us! Details 👉 hernandezlabucla.org/join RTs appreciated! 🔃
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