Donnisa (she/her)

going through months of figure edits feels worth it when one ends up on a text book cover! thanks to @bradpostle.bsky.social and @rodbraga.bsky.social

A little late to share, but check the link below for an article I wrote about the important work being done through the seed bank at the Chicago Botanic Garden!

📣 New preprint from the Braga Lab! 📣

The ventral visual stream for reading converges on the transmodal language network

Congrats to Dr. Joe Salvo for this epic set of results

Big Q: What brain systems support the translation of writing to concepts and meaning?

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RFK Jr.’s CDC may limit COVID shots to 75 and up, claim they killed kids A battle is brewing over mRNA vaccines, which could intensify backlash against Kennedy.

PSA: If you haven’t yet, it may be a good idea to get your COVID shot this week.

Reports suggest that CDC may further restrict COVID vaccine access to people aged 75 and up, unless you have an condition.

The committee that advises the CDC on vaccines meets this Thursday.

🚨 New Preprint 🚨

Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects

By Cyr et al.

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Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES?

A: Yes!

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We have a new preprint out where we studied which brain networks are engaged during mental imagery and self-generated thought.

We used a precision fMRI approach along with multidimensional experience sampling (mDES) to get trialwise self-reports from each participant about what they imagined.

Excited to share that our symposium "Mapping of amygdala circuits in humans" was accepted for OHBM 2025 in Brisbane!

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@ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Featuring:
@coryshain.bsky.social @donnisa.bsky.social @peterkaskan.bsky.social Austin Brotman & Christina Zelano

As if there wasn’t enough to worry about…

It turns out the Salience (SAL) and Parietal Memory Networks (PMN) are the same thing!

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It was great to chat with @taymccork.bsky.social and Nishell Savory about their experiences. #proudPI. Any mentors/mentees want to participate- please contact me.

Cutting off grants to academia, pausing clinical trials, etc., is key to this administration’s plan to kill higher education. Targeting intellectuals is textbook fascism.

Donate to Celebrating the Life of James S. Brown, organized by Trevon Hill Celebrating the Life of James S. Brown (November 23, 1993 - January 3, 2025) It… Trevon Hill needs your support for Celebrating the Life of James S. Brown

James was a PhD student in neuroscience at FSU, and his recent death was devastating for those who knew and loved him. He was extremely bright, motivated, and a strong advocate for marginalized people in STEM. This fundraiser is for his mom, who must be in so much pain right now. #neuroskyence

Dephanie Stiaz dressed up as the healing angel with golden wings and a KN95 respirator.

“Masking keeps friends and loved ones safe and is an important part of community care!” Dephanie Stiaz @kickballcomics.bsky.social posed for @msjulieslam.bsky.social to support #MaskTogetherAmerica at a mask-required event hosted by The Artistic Alphabet Mafia + Parallel Play Chicago
#CovidIsNotOver

Donnisa is wearing a white KF94, a white outfit and deer horns. Photography by Julie Lam, founder of MaskTogetherAmerica 💗

“I mask because it helps everyone!” Behind the white KF94 is Donnisa Edmonds @donnisa.bsky.social shining under the holiday lights. 🌟🍒✨Donnisa posed for @msjulieslam.bsky.social at a mask-required event in #Chicago.

#MaskTogetherAmerica because Masking = Love + Community Care. 🤍😷

How dopamine enables learning from aversion Dopamine is heavily studied for its role in reward learning, but it is becoming increasingly appreciated that dopamine can also enable learning from a…

As I board my flight home for the holidays, I wanted to share that a review I wrote with @talialerner.bsky.social just came out! It’s titled “How dopamine enables learning from aversion.” Super grateful for the opportunity - hope you can check it out! 😊😊🎄🎄
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

⬇️ Check thread & preprint below for new work from my labmates Joseph Salvo and Nathan Anderson on the multimodal functions of the language network!

i fear the only thing that this app is missing from twitter is the bookmarks feature 😔 i keep seeing posts that i wanted to save and clicked on the "..." to bookmark them only to be surprised that its not an option 😭

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

List of Donnisa’s top 5 artists from spotify wrapped 2024. Artists are numbered 1-5 with picture of the artist next to the number. 1 is Megan Thee Stallion, 2 is Beyonce, 3 is Flo Milli, 4 is Glorilla, 5 is Charli XCX

List of Donnisa’s top 5 songs from spotify wrapped 2024. Songs are numbered 1-5 with picture of the album art next to the number. 1 is Hiss by Megan Thee Stallion. 2 is Neva (feat. Monaleo) by Flo Milli. 3 is BOA by Megan Thee Stallion. 4 is Never Lose Me by Flo Milli. 5 is Not My Fault (with Megan Thee Stallion) by Reneé Rapp and Megan Thee Stallion.

shout out to the rap girls (+ charli) for carrying me thru lab this year🙂‍↕️🫡 🩷

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The HPV vaccine
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The Covid-19 vaccine

This work was led by brilliant grad student and NSF GRFP recipient Donnisa Edmonds @donnisa.bsky.social

Hi bluesky folks! As a quick intro, I'm Donnisa (she/her) and I'm a 4th year Ph.D Candidate @ Northwestern! I'm currently studying the organization of functional networks involved in social cognition and I'm also interested in science communication & accessibility ✨ 🧠👩‍🎓

We’re thrilled to introduce the FUTURE PERFECT 50 class of 2024. 💥

This year's list arrives at a pivotal moment — and it's clear that we need clear-eyed optimists in these times.

Since it’s becoming clear that #misinformation is destroying our society, let me share the process I use to communicate really exciting and complicated ideas about my #neuroscience research in an accessible way:

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Thanks sm for this! I would also love to be added✨

Putting a starter pack together for Black In Neuro! Let us know if you would like to be included 🤗 #Neuroscience 🧪

Prevalence of Iron Deficiency and Iron-Deficiency Anemia in US Females Aged 12-21 Years, 2003-2020 This study examines prevalence of iron deficiency among females aged 12 to 21 years to inform future screening strategies for iron deficiency and iron-deficiency anemia.

We found that almost 40%(!!) of females between 12 and 21 years of age are iron deficient!

And yet there’s no recommended universal screening.

Wonder how different things would be if it predominantly affected males?!

tinyurl.com/JAMAFe

Bluesky,

Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this

I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this

Distributed midbrain responses signal the content of positive identity prediction errors Recent work across species has shown that midbrain dopamine neurons signal not only errors in the prediction of reward value but also in the predictio…

Excited to share a new paper just out in
@currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that patterns of prediction error signals in human midbrain carry reward identity information, with implications for the kinds of learning these error signals support. Check it out!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...