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@LucinaUddin

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Edgy cognitive neuroscientist @ucla (she/her) 🇧🇩🧠🏀 Available for academic career advice. I never said it would be good advice.

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Joined November 2014
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
4 years
I'd like to announce that I've added a new section to my CV called 'Contributions to Diversity: Mentoring, Outreach, and Events Organized'. It's time we normalized getting credit for #DEI efforts.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
3 years
Just had a potential reviewer decline a request to review a manuscript for a journal, but can't be mad at the reason: "Sorry, have retired and now 82, am seeking new adventures, mostly outside of my traditional past life."
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
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What is the most polite way to let someone know that you would not be able to write a strong academic letter of recommendation for them based on your own personal experience working with them?
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
3 years
Your occasional reminder that if undergraduates contribute to research in your lab, you should include them as co-authors on resulting manuscripts. No one ever avoided reading a paper because it had too many authors.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
3 years
Russell Westbrook and I have something in common: We're both coming home to LA! That's right, BCCL is moving to @UCLASemel . I got my undergrad neuroscience degree from UCLA in 2001, and my PhD in psychology there in 2006. I am beyond thrilled to be returning as a professor 🧠!
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
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I applied for faculty positions at UCLA 8 different times before getting my current position. Sometimes the 9th time's the charm.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
6 years
I'm tired. Instead of making a To Do list, I made a To Not Do list. Do not agree to: 1. more than one paper review per week 2. more than one plane trip per month 3. organize more than one major conference per year 4. more than six international trips per year #AcademicTwitter
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
6 years
For those getting their grad school acceptance notices, congrats! For those who didn't get into the program of their choice, or any program, don't despair. I didn't get into any grad schools either on the first round. An academic career is not a track meet, it's a marathon.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
4 years
This is it: if we're truly committed to embracing diversity, we must reimagine evaluation criteria in academia to eliminate practices that perpetuate inequities. Those with decision-making power can dismantle systems of privilege @JCCAP_Editor @NatureNeuro
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
2 years
Today I was retroactively promoted to Full Professor starting one year ago, because that's how academic institutions work.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
2 years
When you go on vacation but everything reminds you of work 🧠
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
2 years
Tired of paying over $3000 to publish in Neuroimage? So are we! @OHBM @OHBM_Trainees
@ImagingNeurosci
Imaging Neuroscience EiC
2 years
All NeuroImage and NeuroImage:Reports editors have resigned over the high publication fee, and are starting a new non-profit journal This comes with great regret, and a huge amount of thought and discussion- please read announcement to get more details.
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Lucina Uddin
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Only an R21, but this is the best I've ever done at NIH - I'll take it (if I get it).
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
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I was this many days old when I realized that Head Start is a program providing free preschool to children from low-income families, and that when we were young my sister and I were in a Head Start program. Now she's a cardiologist and I'm a neuroscientist @PoulinaUddin .
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
6 years
academic rant: why is it that conference organizers seem to have such a hard time finding female speakers to invite, but when it comes to reviewing grants no one has trouble finding women to do it?
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
3 years
What would happen, hypothetically, if we all agreed to take the whole month of July off?
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Lucina Uddin
6 years
Coming out of grad interview weekend, I'm surprised at the strong preference some people have for more 'social' applicants. Seems to unfairly penalize the shy, introverted types. I for one would rather welcome a thoughtful, quiet scientist into the lab over a loudmouth any day.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
3 years
Have a meeting today that will determine the future of everything for me, wish me luck Twitter 🤞🏽.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
5 years
Here it is: our attempt to bridge cognitive and network neuroscience, task and rest fMRI, data and theory to propose a functional brain network taxonomy we can all use so that we’re speaking a common language. @bttyeo @Nathan_Spreng . What do you all think?
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
2 years
Just had a paper accepted that I'm pretty sure is going to make a splash.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
3 years
This one really means a lot. Grateful to be a part of a community that truly values, supports, and embraces diversity, equity, and inclusivity @OHBM 🧠
@OHBM_Trainees
OHBM Trainees
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Congratulations @LucinaUddin , @OHBM Diversity Award winner! We're incredibly fortunate to have you fighting for equity and justice in the scientific community. #OHBM2021 attendees can hear her talking on these critical issues at our @OHBM_Trainees symposium Wed at 7:10pm EDT!
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Lucina Uddin
2 years
Is it too late in my career to admit that I'm still not 100% sure what the difference is between a mediator and a moderator?
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
3 years
East coast academics: please remember that when you insist on an 8:30am start time for study section, that is 5:30am for your west coast colleagues. Thank you.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
6 years
Unsolicited advice for anyone going on the job market this year: apply for that position, even if it's not *exactly* your area of expertise. You never know what the search committee is really looking for. No harm in applying.
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Lucina Uddin
4 years
Editors be getting desperate for reviewers. The bar is low.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
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Getting closer!
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Lucina Uddin
4 years
Excited to be adding a little bit more color to the Biological Psychiatry Editorial Board! @SOBP @BiologicalPsyc1
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
3 years
I'm thinking of starting a mentoring/career development/networking group: South Asian Psychology and Neuroscience Association (SAPNA). Who's in? @uma_karma @manishsaggar @CharanRanganath @restingstate @Aman_Badhwar @mallarchkrvrty1 @AjayBSatpute @elvisha9 @karan_maira @P_sigar
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
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Thanks @SOBP !
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Lucina Uddin
2 years
@AcademicChatter Become friends with your cohort. No one else will understand your life like they do.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
3 years
Back in 1999 I was an undergrad at UCLA tracing cerebellar sulci in the building pictured here. Today, I moved into my office at @UCLASemel with a view of where it all began. I've always enjoyed working with undergrads and am looking forward to welcoming them to the lab! 🧠
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Lucina Uddin
1 year
To anyone out there feeling underwhelmed about their research productivity over the last few years: SAME. My lab hasn't published any new empirical results since 2021.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
4 years
I got a mentoring award! And now, I can retire happy🙂
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Lucina Uddin
3 years
My first fMRI paper in grad school (published in NeuroImage in 2005) had 10 subjects. Considering how drastically the standards for publication have changed since then, I'm in awe of students who manage to publish multiple neuroimaging papers before completing their PhD 🧠
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Lucina Uddin
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On this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, I look forward to the day when we're no longer referred to as "female scientists", but just "scientists".
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
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I was a postdoc for seven years.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
2 years
Finally had an R01 scored! Not fundable, but I'll consider a step up from the last three NDs as progress.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
2 years
I got more lab space today, and if you are an academic you can understand my shock and awe that my request was fulfilled.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
3 years
As an ECR, I never could have imagined what it would be like to finally reach the level of Full Professor. Now that I'm here, it's somewhat anticlimactic to find that the majority of my time apparently involves uploading letters of recommendation and tweaking my NIH biosketch.
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Lucina Uddin
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I didn't. I was rejected from all 7 PhD programs I applied to. Got only one interview (UCLA), was rejected. One professor there took a chance on me and somehow got me admitted into the program. You only have to convince one person, it turns out.
@doc_becca
Dr Becca, PhD 🐘
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Why do you think you got into grad school? Be honest, no 🤷🏻‍♂️.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
2 years
Here it is: Taylor Bolt used complex PCA to capture both standing and traveling wave structure in global BOLD fMRI signals. He found that a range of phenomena (FC gradients, global signal, QPPs, FC network structure) are all manifestations of three spatiotemporal patterns (1/2).
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Lucina Uddin
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Just had a paper accepted that I'm pretty sure is going to make a splash.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
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I officially started my research group (the Brain Connectivity and Cognition Lab) on Jan 1, 2014. That means that BCCL is now 10 years old! Here's a thread of my favorite papers from each year 🧠
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Lucina Uddin
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Finally, our first R21 notice of award at UCLA (after two ND R01s on the topic)! Ready to begin our pilot studies on the influence of bilingualism on executive function and brain organization in children with autism 🧠
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
2 years
So how is everyone planning to rest and recharge over the holidays? Wrong answers only.
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Lucina Uddin
3 years
Packing up seven years of BCCL in Miami. Next stop, @UCLASemel ! 🧠
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Lucina Uddin
4 years
Last week someone asked me to give a more interactive symposium so I did a ‘choose your own adventure’ where at different points along the talk I polled the audience about which topic they wanted to hear more about next, and now I might never go back to the old way.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
3 years
I don't care who you are. Where you're from. What you did. If you post a celebratory Tweet about something good that happened to you, I'm going to like it.
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Lucina Uddin
5 years
Controversial take, as promised! The global signal, often discarded as noise, contains information related to trait-level cognition and behavior. With @bttyeo , @danilobzdok , and @Nathan_Spreng .
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Lucina Uddin
2 years
Didn’t accomplish a lot in 2022, but totally nailed my to do list from 2017.
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Lucina Uddin
1 year
I just received this pen from Tiffany & Co, engraved with my initials, as a thank you for giving a keynote lecture, and will be accepting nothing less henceforth.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
3 years
Putting in another NIH grant this week. I heard that if you get four Not Discussed in a row the fifth one is free.
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Lucina Uddin
3 years
They say that consistency is the key to success. This past year was my most consistent yet, with three "Not Discussed" grants in a row!
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Lucina Uddin
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Today I had my pupils dilated at the eye doctor and I couldn't see enough to read the computer screen for four hours so I sat on the couch in my office listening to jazz and drinking tea and now I'm wondering why I don't go to see the eye doctor more often.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
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Since I'm following close to 5000 people, I now have to kick someone off each time I want to follow a new person. Just unfollowed Pitbull and Jennifer Lopez to make room for some neuroscientists, but really beginning to question my priorities.
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Lucina Uddin
4 years
Huge congrats to @DaniSBassett on a well-deserved early career investigator award! #OHBM2020
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Lucina Uddin
4 months
Ready for #OHBM2024 !!!
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Lucina Uddin
4 years
For anyone wondering why their paper has been under review for so long, here's a fairly typical example of how many reviewers I have to contact before getting 3 to agree to review. Pandemic fatigue is real...
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Lucina Uddin
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Recently found out that I've been elected the incoming chair of the @OHBM Diversity & Inclusivity Committee. Excited to continue the work with @AthinaTzovara , @Aman_Badhwar , @rosanna_olsen and the rest of the team🧠🏳️‍🌈✊🏽 @OHBM_Trainees . Tell us what you want to see at #OHBM2022 !
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Lucina Uddin
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It only took 3 years of monthly meetings of the @OHBM Best Practices group 'Workgroup for HArmonized Taxonomy of NETworks (WHATNET)' to come up with this: "Controversies and progress on standardization of large-scale brain network nomenclature" 🧠!
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Lucina Uddin
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They say that consistency is the key to success. This past year was my most consistent yet, with three "Not Discussed" grants in a row!
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Lucina Uddin
2 years
I keep thinking someday I'll reach a career stage when it's no longer acceptable to wear flip flops to work, but I'm a full professor now and no one has said anything about my footwear yet and that's why I love academia.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
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Google scholar tells me our 2010 network model of insula function has been cited nearly 4000 times 🧠. The lesson I take away from this: always strive to create figures that won't embarrass you ten years later...
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Imaging Neuroscience is born. The first articles:
@MITLibScholarly
ScholComm @ MIT Libraries
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Congratulations @ImagingNeurosci & @mitpress on publishing your first articles! #openaccess
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Lucina Uddin
1 year
Watching the recent consciousness debates as a neuroscientist with no skin in the game
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5 months
Wrote a review with my two former postdoctoral advisors! Learned from the best: Resting state functional brain connectivity in child and adolescent psychiatry: where are we now?
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
8 months
I did say those things 👇🏾
@QuantaMagazine
Quanta Magazine
8 months
The neuroscientist Lucina Uddin investigates how different brain networks interact. “It’s kind of silly to think that we’re ever going to be like, ‘This one brain region or one brain network does one thing. I don’t think that’s how it works.”
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Lucina Uddin
2 years
Huge congrats to @russpoldrack on the #OHBM2022 Open Science Award!
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Lucina Uddin
3 years
We suggest that established scientists can take a proactive role in mentoring ECRs from diverse backgrounds by signaling a willingness to provide casual mentorship: a low cost commitment to informally advise on academia's hidden curriculum @JCCAP_Editor
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1 year
Joint appointment with UCLA Developmental Psychology approved!
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
2 years
If you want to know what I really think about academia and everything 👇🏾
@cMadan
Dr Christopher Madan 🐘🧠💻 (he/him)
2 years
@siminevazire 22/23 Academic roles involve a lot more than just research. @LucinaUddin discusses how managing a lab is more like running a small business. She also shares her career journey, emphasises collaboration, and how to contribute to diversity initiatives.
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Lucina Uddin
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must admit that i first joined twitter because it's an easy way to share science/self-promote, but now i just follow anyone who tweets funny shit
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
6 years
My least favorite comment from grant reviewers: "It appears that the investigator has not received prior funding for his work..." For early career researchers, this means that you already have to have funding in order to get funding.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
8 years
Born in Bangladesh, grew up in SoCal, educated at UCLA, NYU, and Stanford, now professor at University of Miami #immigrantexcellence
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
4 years
Update: The Psychology Department at the University of Miami has elected to eliminate the GREs for consideration this application cycle.
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Lucina Uddin
4 years
Entering into discussions about whether our department should require GREs as part of the application to the Ph.D. program this year. What are your psych programs doing?
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Lucina Uddin
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So it turns out that global signal regression differentially impacts functional connectivity estimates in different age cohorts. Important implications for those doing lifespan network neuroscience research. With @danilobzdok @bttyeo @Nathan_Spreng 🧠
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Lucina Uddin
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Need help interpreting your new findings? The NCT lets you easily examine and report spatial correspondence between novel neuroimaging results and sixteen widely used functional brain atlases 🧠 #OHBM2024
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Lucina Uddin
3 years
Limiting sugar, alcohol and social media during the work week so now I'm only wired, drunk and depressed on the weekends.
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Lucina Uddin
3 years
I must say that it is nice to finally NOT be applying for faculty positions or thinking about moving for the first time since 2008. Going on the job market year after year wears you down.
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
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Neurodesk and make it possible to analyze neuroimaging data from anywhere! @naturemethods
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Lucina Uddin
2 years
That academic you know who always says yes to every last minute request and can be relied on to never miss a deadline? Maybe give them a break and starting asking others to pull their weight for once.
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Just me and ⁦ @bttyeo ⁩ doing a little pre-OHBM brainstorming 🧠 #OHBM2023 @OHBM
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Lucina Uddin
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Thanks @FluxSociety , see you in Santa Rosa! 🍷
@FluxSociety
Flux Society
1 year
Congratulations to Dr. Lucina Uddin, the 2023 Flux Linda Spear Mid-Career Award winner! This award recognizes outstanding contributions by scientists at the mid-level of their careers. ( @LucinaUddin )
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Lucina Uddin
3 years
I'm thrilled to announce this year's @OHBM diversity symposium topic: The Asian perspective on social, cultural, and language barriers to inclusivity at OHBM, featuring panelists Hiromasa Takemura, @Kangjoo_Lee_ , @mnrajah , and @restingstate ! 🧠 #OHBM2022
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SAPNA @OHBM , third edition. We’re growing! Working on a proposal for OHBM in South Asia in 2028, who’s in? 🧠 #OHBM2024
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Lucina Uddin
2 years
At this career stage all I do is fill out doodle polls, broken up with the occasional when2meet.
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Lucina Uddin
3 years
If machine learning is so good why do I as a journal editor still have to decide who to invite as a reviewer?
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Lucina Uddin
4 years
The resilience, flexibility, and fortitude of undergraduate and graduate students this past year continues to amaze me.
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2 years
I love academia. That's the tweet.
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Lucina Uddin
2 years
About to submit another R01 - fifth or sixth submission in the past two years, lost count. "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result".
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1 year
I will be out of the office July 7-27. Europeans, am I doing this right?
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Lucina Uddin
1 year
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it’s hard to make it in careers outside of academia, too.
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6 months
In Barcelona on mini-sabbatical with the one and only Gustavo Deco! What will we accomplish in one week? 🧠
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@LucinaUddin
Lucina Uddin
4 years
Here's how @ohbm has been embracing diversity and inclusivity. Looking forward to learning about similar initiatives at other societies @SfNtweets @CogNeuroNews @SOBP @SANS_news @fluxDCN . Thanks to @AthinaTzovara and @Aman_Badhwar for leading this effort!
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Lucina Uddin
5 years
Accept good people into the lab and set them free (aka delegate and don't micro-manage).
@CaitAnne
Caitlin Orsini
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If you could share one piece of advice on starting your own lab, what would it be? Please RT or reply with any helpful suggestions!
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Lucina Uddin
1 year
Official done with my role as an editor for Neuroimage. On to @ImagingNeurosci !
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"Inherent knowledge of the unwritten rules of academia is rarely available for minoritized scholars, and efforts must be made to both challenge and illuminate the hidden curriculum and cultural norms of academia"
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In which we argue for greater consideration of population diversity in human neuroimaging 🧠
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