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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

@lauraabusta

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⭐️On the academic job market⭐️ postdoc @WUSTL , PhD at @PrincetonNeuro cognitive control, motivation, #neurodivergent in computational psychiatry, cuban-american

St. Louis, MO

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Joined July 2011

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 months

Loving #cpconf2024 and wanted to share our new preprint 'Major depression symptom severity associations with willingness to exert effort and patch foraging strategy' AND that the Effort Foraging Task paper is open access! 🧵

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Effort Foraging Task reveals positive correlation between individual differences in the cost of...

Effort-based decisions, in which people weigh potential future rewards against effort costs required to achieve those rewards involve both cognitiv...

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

Allow me to reintroduce myself - my name is DR. Laura Ana Bustamante 👋🏽. Here I am being hooded by @nathanieldaw 🤙🏽😛🤙🏽. Today I’m coming at you with a fresh new website [] on the advocacy page you’ll find a statement I shared at my dissertation defense...

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

8 months

I'm elated to share my PhD keystone paper published @PNAS ! I've poured my heart & soul into this project since 2016 (8 yrs!) & I'm happy to introduce the Effort Foraging Task to the world #CognitivePsychology #Motivation #Effort #Foraging #DecisionMaking 🧵

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

11 months

Friends I’m on the #job market! My research aims to enhance #CognitiveControl by studying: 1) what mechanisms underlie willingness to exert cognitive effort? 2) how is willingness to exert effort affected in psychiatric #disability ? 3) how to increase willingness to exert effort?

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

10 months

had my first faculty job zoom interview today! it was actually fun ☺️ bellini the calico #cat was off to the side giving good vibes 😎 #AcademicChatter #disabledinSTEM #neuroscience #psychology #neurodiversity

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

3 years

I gave a ⁦ @PrincetonNeuro ⁩ dept seminar today! I’d seen so many A+ neuroscientists present there that I got wayy wrapped up preparing. My eureka was when I booked a #massage for the night before. I felt chill so the talk was easy breezy. Here’s me cheesin’ before #selfcare

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

Feeling so inspired about the future of #mentaleffort research after the 3rd @EffortMental workshop! Today I’m happy to share a piece of the puzzle in our new preprint with @amitaishenhav , jonathan d. cohen, & @nathanieldaw : 🧵

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

TY @LILBTHEBASEDGOD for the follow, throwback to 01/2020 when we met at Princeton #iloveschool

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

5 years

Behold, my first ever ~ #publication ~! [..in submission] Loads of fun working with @FalkLieder @smusslick @amitaishenhav and Jon Cohen on this project that was #years in the making: Learning to Overexert Cognitive Control in a Stroop Task via @OSFramework

Learning to Overexert Cognitive Control in a Stroop Task

How do people learn when to allocate how much cognitive control to which task? According to the Learned Value of Control (LVOC) model, people learn to predict the value of alternative control...

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

Absolutely loving Dublin 🇮🇪🍀and excited to present today at #cpc2023 on results from the Effort Foraging Task “Anxiety in Major Depression associated with increased willingness to exert cognitive, but not physical effort”, come say hello at poster 12! 👋

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

Last but not least, I’m on the market for professor jobs in #computationalpsychiatry this year, so please let me know of any opportunities within departments looking to grow in this outstanding field!! #cpconf2023

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

3 years

Underexerting cognitive control is ubiquitous, but can we also train people to overexert control? Find out in our paper Learning to Overexert Cognitive Control in a Stroop Task [] with @falklieder @smusslick @amitaishenhav & Jon Cohen

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Learning to Overexert Cognitive Control in a Stroop Task

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience - How do people learn when to allocate how much cognitive control to which task? According to the Learned Value of Control (LVOC) model, people...

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Ross Otto

3 years

Lord give me the strength to understand this passage

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

Headed home from #cpconf2023 feeling lucky 🍀 to have such incredible colleagues. Had a very engaging poster presenter session & discussions about cutting edge science including #neurodiversity / #disability perspectives at the heart of the science… 🧵

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

Happy #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek from your #neurodivergent #neuroscientist friend 👋 Here I am with my cousin/best friend who celebrates me as I am & is the pinnacle of #neuroinclusion for me! Grateful for this community & hopeful for an ever more #neuroinclusive future 🚀

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

4 years

bellini and I #catteningthecurve over homemade #brunch 😸

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

Back home from my first @SOBP #SOBP2023 meeting & buzzing with new insights and ideas, a highlight was running into my former @PrincetonNeuro summer mentee @ConnorLawhead & learning he got into grad school! Another was coming home to my apartment which I cleaned before I left 😂

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

Alright tweeps, teach me the hidden curriculum 📖, where should I go looking for professor jobs in psychology/neuroscience? 🤓 (bonus for computational psychiatry specific!) I’ve heard about the @chronicle of higher ed, what else do we got? 🙏🏽 @AcademicChatter #AcademicChatter

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

Now I’m on to my next mission 🚀as a postdoc in the @ccplab_wustl ; flipping the script on deficits-based framing in #computationalpsychiatry , and moving towards strength-based understanding of #neurodivergence . If this interests you I’d love to connect!

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

Visited the Motivation Brain Behavior group @InstitutCerveau in #Paris this week hosted by the venerable neurophysiologist Dr. Sebastien Bouret. Their group is outstanding in assembling a team of Principle Investigators w different expertise to seamlessly work on a shared goal.

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

4 years

^ evidence that there is a common representation of cognitive and physical effort in the brain #mentaleffort2020

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Brandon Carrillo

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4 years

Workshop day for #cogsci2020 done! I was lucky enough to catch all the amazing speakers from the #mentaleffort2020 session. I'd like to say I came away with an accurate image of how I think all the attendees' brains will look like over the next few days, but I'll let you decide

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

Grateful I could share my optimism and hopefulness for greater #neurodiversity inclusion in academia in an outstanding @princetonian article covering a workshop I co-organized with @sashankpisupati @CollegeInMind & @Mira_Nencheva 🧵

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Neurodiversity advocates push for greater recognition, inclusion

“Reflecting the “infinite variation in human minds,” neurodivergence can be considered a natural form of human diversity subject to similar social dynamics as race or gender, workshop organizer...

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

4 years

@thoughtsofaphd Heyo, I'm Laura ('loud-ah') I'm a cognitive neuroscientist soon to be PhD. I think the peeps of Twitter are BRAVE saying what's really up (esp. @thoughtsofaphd )! I'm #LatinXinSTEM & deeply care about #inclusivity . I love #snowboarding and this is me and my #ESA Bellini.

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

4 years

while talking to my 96yo abuela about current events, she bursts into song "hay que vivir el momento feliz, y hay que gozar lo que puedas gozar, porque sacando la cuenta en total, la vida es un sueño de felicidad". leave it to abuela isa to alleviate all my stress in 20 seconds!

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

Just wrapped up a fantastic keynote @srp_science by @DrNeblett on conceptualizing #racism and measuring effects on mental health! Learned about a method called Photovoice for participatory research and definitely want to learn and see more of that. Thanks @DrNeblett 👏🔥

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

11 months

As a lover of #science podcasts like @sciencevs @NPRinvisibilia , it’s very exciting to be featured on @mindsmatterpod ❣️I explain how I see integrating #neurodiversity & #disability perspectives into #psych / #neuro , how brain stimulation increases willingness to exert effort & more

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11 months

New ep ‼️ @lauraabusta speaks to us about #cognitiveeffort 🧠 Explaining her research on effort from its relation to #physicaleffort to #anxiety 💪 Dr. Bustamante gives an overview of computational psychiatry and how we can understand #mentalhealth

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

Thinking about this ‘branding’ idea being applied to people who are out & vocal about diagnoses/neurodivergence & it brought me back to part of my dissertation acknowledgments, written on the beach in Cyprus in the weeks leading up to publicly coming out as #neurodivergent 🧵

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

@BBCNews ‘Adherence to antidepressants is significantly associated with a corresponding decrease in the risk of mortality, controlling for relevant covariates.’ .

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Adherence to antidepressants is associated with lower mortality: a 4-year population-based cohort...

Adherence to antidepressants is significantly associated with a corresponding decrease in the risk of mortality, controlling for relevant covariates. Physicians from all disciplines should actively...

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

In it I came out as #neurodivergent and #disabledinSTEM to my @PrincetonNeuro community. Now I'm ready to show up as my authentic self in every facet of my life @DisabledAcadem @StemDisabled @DisInHigherEd . You can check out my thesis here: []

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

Being in community with #DisabilityTwitter has changed my life for the better, thanks to everyone speaking their truths and claiming their power, I love y’all! #DisabilityPride #DisabilityDay #neurodivergent @DisInHigherEd @DisabledInPsych @DisabledAcadem @DisabledStem

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

I made a github tutorial for Stan for the @EffortMental workshop, check it out!: Thanks for the shoutouts from @smusslick and @gaia_molinaro 🤓

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GitHub - laurabustamante/individual_differences_analysis_stan: This is a tutorial for the 2nd...

This is a tutorial for the 2nd Mental Effort Workshop (2021) on Individual Differences Data Analysis With STAN: A common approach to individual differences research is to collect two or more tasks ...

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Anne Collins

2 years

Looking for a recommendation for a good Stan tutorial for beginners in stan, who already have good understanding of the theory and good practice with model fitting. Major bonus if it's in python, but interested in R or Matlab too.

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

4 years

so hype for the #mentaleffort2020 workshop ~~tomorrow~~! we have a stellar lineup of talks and a gamified poster session that is sure to delight! catch me at poster board #3 join us! meeting info on our website []

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Sebastian Musslick

4 years

We can all feel exhausted after a day of work, even if we have spent it sitting at a desk. If you are curious why, tune into our virtual workshop about mental effort at #cogsci2020 on July 29th: #mentaleffort2020 (1/6)

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

11 months

This! And legally disability status for Americans w Disabilities Act is in reference to your untreated/unsupported state, even if you are well. You still deserve all the support to keep you well, and you can be disabled and thriving! These labels are all a personal choice ofc 🫶🏼

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if you can’t function without your medication you are disabled that includes mental health you are not “appropriating” a label or taking up space where you don’t belong

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

4 years

#HappyHalloween from queen #Bellini

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

Holla at ya girl at my @srp_science poster T56 tonight! Excited reconnect with people and hopefully meet some internet friends in person!

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

@blindandb0ujee I appreciate this post and agree disabled is preferable -- also bringing these services into the fold of disability rights... but.. when I talk to professionals who work with children they seem resistant to labeling children as disabled.. anyone have thoughts/responses to this?

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

In the acknowledgments I talk about my journey to being #PhDone including inspiration from #disability justice & philosopher #simoneweil . Theres also a fun story on how learning @johnlegend was a UPenn alum motivated me stay at my college, and magically was my graduation speaker

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

4 years

@Rachel_Bedder that’s my 2021 New Years res!! Let’s do this!! 💪💪

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

@justin_garson In the past I had a ‘psychiatric’ event that I avoided thinking about & felt fearful of. Recently my therapist helped me connect how it was grounded in my life experiences and what I was processing at the time. Fear was deflated & replaced w gratitude for the insights gleaned 🙏🏽

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

I had the pleasure of coming onto the podcast @UnstandardizedE to speak with @JPBGerald about cognitive effort motivation as related to neurodivergence. The conversation is a fun blend of research, lived experience, and advocacy, check it out!

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

@srp_science let’s reflect on the term ‘healthy controls’ in #clinical #psych research. What makes a person ‘ #healthy ’ versus ‘ #unhealthy ’? There are so many dimensions of health, many of which are socially constructed, and few of which are observed in our research…

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

3 years

In this colorful study we explored how people learn when it’s valuable to exert control and how they transfer what they've learned. Here’s a cartoon I made to explain an example of overexerting control due to maladaptive transfer learning!

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

Seeing DR. @szorowi1 dissertation talk blew me out of the water 🤯 so many contributions for one PhD, each approached w thoughtful clever interrogation of the topic of study. Keep an eye out for the publications 👀 and check out the open source tools Dr. Z has already released 👏

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

Love the solidarity 🫶🏼 coming through in this important piece by @aliciaandrz & in the comments! In the interview Alicia & I were brimming w shared experiences & ideas for the #accessible future of #HigherEd , I’m looking forward to continuing the conversation #AcademicChatter

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Alicia Andrzejewski, PhD, she/her

1 year

for @chronicle , I wrote about my experience with mental illness in the academy, alongside @RavynnKaMia , @MistressSnowPhD , @lauraabusta , @S_Mittermeier , @arielmaelambe & more. I hope we help others feel less alone: @AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

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@scientistswrite The automatic figure numbering and citation formatting of Latex/Overleaf can’t be replaced for me!

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

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@smitholiviam Remote work 👩‍💻

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

Interested in this task? Let's connect! Here I am with my advisor jon cohen, the @EffortMental co-organizers @smusslick @GrahekIvan (not pictured @wirzbergerm ) & our wonderful keynote speaker @kahneman_daniel whose noble prize winning research is foundational to our field!

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

@MarkLRuffalo my (limited) understanding of DBT is that a benefit was it was developed by Dr. Marsha Linehan who has lived experience, but it (and other behavioral therapites) are critiqued by disabled people for many reasons ()

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Trauma Survivors Speak Out Against Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)

DBT tells survivors that their normal responses to childhood trauma are problems.

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

Ready to present 💝

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

Great article with innovative suggestions! Sharing this helpful graphic from @sonnyjaneishere (livedexperienceeducator on IG) to highlight #neurodivergent groups not explicitly named (the article gestured to other groups but only named the top of the iceberg), & the list goes on!

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Despite significant strides in making psychology more open and accessible to all, one group seems to be left behind: Where are the neurodivergent scholars and research participants?

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

Bellini wishes you a happy Wednesday! 😻 #CatsOnTwitter

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

@drrodebaugh you might be interested in this theory work by @szorowi1 @criticalneuro & @nathanieldaw

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Anxiety, avoidance, and sequential evaluation - PubMed

Anxiety disorders are characterized by a range of aberrations in the processing of and response to threat, but there is little clarity what core pathogenesis might underlie these symptoms. Here we...

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

It’s #NeurodivergentPrideDay 🎆🤩😍 cheers to my fellow Neurodivergent peeps worldwide❣️ 🌏

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Sonny 🌈 (they/them)

1 year

I’m sick of people using neurodiversity and neurodivergent interchangeably so I’ve made a Neurodivergent Pride Day which you can learn more about here:

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

3 years

teaching my #cat bellini how to use her cat door. she’s still deciding what works best; laying down next to the flap, reaching for the door handle, or rubbing her face on the door… after 45 minutes she got it tho! #CatsOfTwitter

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

Practicing skills from the #SOBP223 social media workshop — the #LiveTweet ! 😝

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

@MattHaglerPhD @APA I think we could have more therapists to meet demand if they were much better paid, the therapists in my life go into debt for school and are paid very poorly considering their expertise and the deep emotional labor they gift

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

@amitaishenhav @ShenhavLab Amitai, your mentorship has meant so much to me. Since your postdoc I’ve long admired how you create community. You’ve cultivated a great lab culture and I love being an honorary member. I’m moved to hear this fantastic news! Sincerely, your *first* grad student (according to me)

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

@IndigoDaya Thanks for your tweet.. the push back is really interesting to me when everything you said is extremely well documented time and again all throughout history.. please if you can’t sit with this message read more psychiatric survivors.. we need non-carceral mental healthcare now!

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

😱The percentage of @NIH grant applicants with PIs reporting a disability significantly declined from 1.9% in 2008, to 1.2% in 2018 (p<0.001). Overall grant success rates differed by disability status (27.2% for those reporting disability vs 29.7% in those reporting no disability

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Bonnielin Swenor PhD

@BonnieSwenorPhD

2 years

This is a remarkable opportunity to begin to address the ableism and lack of accessibility in science and creates a roadmap for addressing the underrepresentation of disabled researchers, as <2% of funded NIH researchers report being disabled @meekslisa

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

✊ exciting news for #democracy from a lawsuit against the #CountyLine in #NJ . Pleased to share that @PrincetonGSG assembly voted to endorse the #BetterBallotsNJ resolution (1st student group to join lead by president @lauren__feld ). @PrincetonGrad students were compelled by

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Yael Niv

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pls forgive a small bleed-over of my political activism to science twitter: big news in NJ today! We may get our democracy back after all... through the hard work of so many grassroots groups. See and

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

@WalkerWitch94 @candidCarolyn @SusanRogersMH @nytimes @robwipond @Mad_In_America Consent is so fundamental! It should be the starting point & at the heart of all efforts to support mental well-being. Without consent we are left with toxic coercive control. 💔

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

@SusanRogersMH @nytimes @robwipond @Mad_In_America "With similar smokescreening, a VICE article reassuringly reported that “a representative for SAMHSA told VICE, ‘988 does not currently use geolocation.’” It wasn’t clarified that 988 call-attendants simply contact 911 to do the geolocating for them." yikes

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

Had a fantastic conference & learned so much at #SRP2023 ! Leaving this 🧵as a parting wish for our field 💝🙏🏽 ‘small’ changes in language go a long way towards #inclusion and #belonging for your colleagues with lived experience and the broader mental health disability community

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

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@srp_science let’s reflect on the term ‘healthy controls’ in #clinical #psych research. What makes a person ‘ #healthy ’ versus ‘ #unhealthy ’? There are so many dimensions of health, many of which are socially constructed, and few of which are observed in our research…

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

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I have come to understand that my #silence props up #ableism , and isolates me from others that I would benefit greatly to be in community with.” I wrote this before I broke my silence & a year later I’m so glad I did! I have connected with so many co-conspirators to work toward

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

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@EricNeumannPsy Francisco Franco named a successor Juan Carlos the King of Spain when he died and Carlos gave up his power to initiate a democracy with an election for a President of Spain.

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

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Thanks to ALL the organizers for making the magic happen 🪄 and the excellent speakers, especially @M_Moutoussis who shared work looking beyond the individual to interpersonal dynamics btwn clinical staff and clients…

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

Am Bellini (5f) my roomie (30f) controls all food in house. Every morning (5-8am) I get hungo and sit purring on her chest (polite!) she plays ded (rude!) then opens eyes & kicks me out! Must cry outside door for hours to eat brekkie @AITA_online fur letting roomie know I hungo?

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Elle Has Cats (and ADHD)

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Hi I am having a bad day please reply to this tweet with an AITA written from the perspective of your cat and also include a photo of said cat I would appreciate this very much

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

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You can hear me explain the high-level findings and some of cool applications of the Effort #Foraging Task in conversational style on @MindsMatterPod ... And now, for the tweet thread version of results!

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S3 Ep 5: Your Mind on Cognitive Effort

How do you decide to do your maths homework or play a video game? Does the maths homework feel like more effort than the video game? This week we speak with Dr. Laura Ana Bustamante about how...

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

8 months

If you want to read the paper but don't have access through your library you can find it on my website & it will be open access in April 2024!

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD - Research

Cognitive and Physical Effort Based Decision-Making, Individual differences, Goal-directed cognition

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

filling out expense reports is the hardest part of my job, ikyk #AcademicChatter 🤣

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

@BSuslovic @ElleLettMDPhD Wow 👏 this abstract really resonates w me, the weird feeling I get about resilience narratives, and also from my experience being a very happy go lucky ‘resilient’ child who papered over painful realities in my childhood, only to be burdened with processing them as an adult

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

@aliciaandrz Self-actualization selfie! 🤳 🏂

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

11 months

Y'all are the best 😊 @bethfisher_1 let me know the @mindsmatterpod our episode hit a record number of listens the first 2 days+downloads in the first week! ALSO @wendyzuk a host of @sciencevs liked my tweet.. *melting* If you haven't yet, have a listen!

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

4 years

translation: "you have to live happily in the moment, and you have to enjoy what you can enjoy, because taking into account the story overall, life is a dream of happiness."

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

@neuro_flora @ajshackman 🤙🏼😛🤙🏼 at min I have the steez 🏂 🫶🏼🫶🏼 @neuro_flora

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

3 years

@drdanielranson I love to walk with music on and look for things to photograph on my #iPhone . I don’t tend to use the photos but the activity helps me be mindful and find beauty in details of my surroundings that I wouldn’t notice if I were just walking.

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

#Neurodiversity tweeps, does anyone have resources about preferred language in the #OCD community? Would the community endorse calling symptoms maladaptive? Audience is #psych researchers discussing and framing OCD @WalkerSensei @DrRJChapman @AcademicChatter @Mad_In_America

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

my hope to “cultivate joy, self-actualization, self-determination, and acceptance for neurodivergent people. This begins with claiming these things for myself.” Instead of accusing people of ‘branding’ let’s celebrate people breaking their silence and challenging neuronorms! 🫶🏼

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

@DrStephCraig Another vote for ‘attention’ 😹

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

@DrOswaldoMoreno @tieebalu @1NLPA @AmplifyLatinx @joealey @carrasco_lab @DrDavidMarquez @JeremyBorjon @xrmasiso @javier_masis @_cgcorrea and my family 👋 @Bustamante_AS @EEB_PhD @lauraabusta

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

@CaraLisette I appreciate you bringing this up! There needs to be room for people to choose with *full informed consent* whether or not to take meds, whichever choice is right for the individual is valid should not be shamed. To me autonomy is key, it’s not about being pro or against meds

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

3 years

@gili_karni learned everything I know from @MeghanTesterman but @zotero is free if you store the files locally on your machine and it has references + pdfs, then @evernote , I’m also deeply into the @passion_planner which I use digital on iPad, but I’m sure there are more automated services

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

@CaraLisette I heard a seminar talk on this population study once which found ‘Adherence to antidepressants is significantly associated with a corresponding decrease in the risk of mortality, controlling for relevant covariates.’ .

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Adherence to antidepressants is associated with lower mortality: a 4-year population-based cohort...

Adherence to antidepressants is significantly associated with a corresponding decrease in the risk of mortality, controlling for relevant covariates. Physicians from all disciplines should actively...

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

11 months

If that’s of interest to you, reach out! I can join your department, we can collaborate, and empower people to reach their goals, all while crushing stigma and embracing #neurodiversity ! 🤩😎 @AcademicChatter #psych #neuro 🧠

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

are using this task to study clinical depression ( @GrahekIvan , @_AnnaKonova_ , @amitaishenhav , @BarchDbarch ), alcohol dependence ( @_AnnaKonova_ ), and the effects of transcranial direct stimulation ( @herrbobbenhof , @arossotto ) & during intracranial recording ( @AlexHermanMDPhD )

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

8 months

Huge thanks to my advisors @nathanieldaw , Jonathan D. Cohen, @amitaishenhav , and mentee collaborators Temitope Oshinowo, Jeremy Lee, Elizabeth Tong, and Allison Burton! Thanks also to my broader @PrincetonNeuro community who supported me on this dissertation journey!

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

4 years

@AnnaSchapiro @MichaelJArcaro aaaa love the combinatory last author name ;) congrats!

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

@scientistswrite #zotero because it saves annotated pdf's and interfaces with overleaf😍 thanks to a consult with the wonderful @PrincetonNeuro librarian @MeghanTesterman

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

8 months

Kicking off 2024 with #MadPride 🥳 love to see it 😍

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8 months

I'm taking a massive leap of faith into 2024! My account has always been anonymous. I wanted to protect myself from any repercussions from speaking up about my journey with mental illness. I was ashamed at times. BUT I am not ashamed any more! This is me and I have bipolar 👋

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

@ADHDdesigner So agreed especially if you get in a routine with buying similar items it becomes very efficient to make the cart. One thing I do to make it more affordable is the pickup option (rather than delivery).

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

@justin_garson @christophlane @PsychToday Yes! This gets at my current feeling about psychiatry which is that opt in/voluntary engagement is valuable but there needs to be real safe guarded means of opting out, I see disability rights/justice & neurodiversity frameworks as generating those alternative ways

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

@robwipond thanks for taking on such an important and under appreciated topic! As someone who’s been on the non-consenting side of things, it might be too difficult for me to read but I wish well-meaning ppl understood the choice they are making when they involuntarily hospitalize another

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

@LMWilliams_PhD @Stanford_PMHW @LeonardoTozzi1 @Rachel_Hilton1 @AlisaMOlmsted @DrMKorgaonkar Hi Dr. Williams, I saw your talk at @SOBP , very cool study! I was wondering if there is anything in your data that can disambiguate baseline individual differences in cognitive control from cognitive function *symptoms* (transient, caused by depression)?

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

@wendyluwrites @nytimes An interesting element for mental disabilities (speaking for myself at least, I think for many) is that stress is something I have to avoid for my health, but it’s difficult to make that problem concrete. I do think there are an abundance of solutions but certainly a challenge

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

4 years

@yael_niv @KordingLab hahaha love the teamwork going on here

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

This #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek I heard #neurodiverse individual alot, putting aside the inaccuracy, I wanted to shoutout the term #Neurodivergent for sounding so badass & cool😎 it combines the greatness of brains &the fly word divergent, much gratitude to @UVGKassi for it!

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

@ari_khoudary In my family we call the time when simulations run ‘Code-O-Clock’ and use it as time to do non-computer things ❤️😹

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

groundbreaking research by @JuliaSassRubin & advocacy by @yael_niv to speak out against the confusing and manipulative ballot design in @NJGov . This is a #bipartisan issue about #GoodGovernment , consider learning more and getting your groups to sign on!:

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Good Government Coalition of New Jersey

Fair elections with wide participation are the bedrock of democracy. Yet, NJ’s primary election ballots are uniquely and intentionally confusing, breaking all rules of good ballot design and …

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

I gave a 90 minute talk on the Effort Foraging Task applications in large online, depression & tCDS. Was met w many excellent questions & had an amazing time talking w their team including Drs. @marion_rouault , Mathias Pessiglione, Jean Daunizeau &Will Hopper about topics such as

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

8 months

Although the subjective experience of effort is ubiquitous, the processes underlying effort-based decision making are not fully understood, including the relationship between individual differences in willingness to exert cognitive and physical effort.

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

1 year

@catgyoung I wanted to be a neuroscientist since I was 18 and made most of my decisions around that, and now I am! Many of the details would be very surprising tho 😂

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Laura Ana Bustamante, PhD

2 years

We found that individual differences in cognitive and physical effort costs were positively correlated (r=0.55), suggesting that these are perceived and processed in common terms across different domains.

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