Holly Sullivan-Toole

Thrilled to see my F32 score today!!! and incredibly happy and grateful to have landed such a supportive mentor @OlinoTom and co-mentor @ingrids_brain and a whole bunch of wonderful colleagues @Temple_Psych!!! Here's the thank-you tour:

1/🧵 Research on ADHD neurobiology has made leaps, yet remains elusive. Dive into our latest paper in @NatRevNeurosci as we examine progress, tackle past hurdles & explore emerging frameworks to unlock ADHD’s complex neurobiological underpinnings. twtr.to/3gOgE

The long-term correlates of developmental stress on whole-brain functional connectivity during emotion regulation nature.com/articles/s4139…

Organoids, computational models, & real world observational data are powerful tools that each contribute to advancing treatments, but they can’t replace animal models for understanding the causes of disease when behavior, or multi-system interactions, play a key roles.

I’m tired & I still have work left to do tonight but I bet it wouldn’t take long to show with data that animal research leads to life-saving breakthroughs that “organoids, tissue chips, … computational models, & … real-world data” have not & cannot provide Y’all wanna try?

The demonstrated power of the NIH system is that projects are funded because individual scientists decide to pursue them, but also because sometimes they respond to top-down Program priorities and sometimes they follow the priorities set by Congress, aka the vote of the ppls reps

My brother tells me that one of his buddies from college left his wife for a transgenic mouse he met in a lab. They all thought he was crazy, but he swore she was a knockout.

🧵 1/ New study alert! We explored how childhood violence exposure shapes implicit social biases for novel groups and mental health in young adults. Does it matter who the perpetrator was? Turns out, yes. Let’s dive in! 🧵👇 (pre-print: osf.io/preprints/psya…)

It seems few people know what an “indirect cost” is or why it has to be 40-60%. The reason the government forced universities to raise their indirect costs up to (typically) 40-60% was to force a huge amount of regulations on the universities while also minimizing the…

"The link between trauma and physical health problems is becoming increasingly recognized, suggesting that early intervention and trauma-informed care could play a crucial role in preventing or mitigating these outcomes later in life." jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

Female and women are flagged words. Male and men are not. Let that sink in.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Then there is distinguishing between what happened, how it is interpreted by legal at your uni, and whether it has been overturned by a judge

My NIH-funded research shows the menstrual cycle worsens monthly suicidality for many patients—and hormone treatment can help. (Since these horms are off-patent/not of interest to pharma), I need more NIH funding to clarify who benefits and ensure long-term safety. 💙 #FundNIH

Awesome thread on how *seemingly silly* science led to real-world advances and ultimately saved taxpayers $$$ Thanks @neubadah!!!

Make sure to support the great @KoiralaSanju1 @graciegrimsrud Give it a read! 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

I would be grateful for the retweets. Open PhD position in my group to look at using cognitive computational Neuro approaches to understand motivation.

Very happy with how this one turned out! This started as a curiosity, that built into a side project, and eventually into a very cool paper! This was also super fun to work on with @ArielleKeller! Check out her thread below and the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

And what did the taxpayer get? Watching flies mate led to the sterile insect technique, eradicating the screwworm fly from North America, saving the livestock industry over $20 billion and reducing beef prices by 5%.

NIH funding generated $2.46 for every $1 funded in 2023. Important info for scientific advocacy in the years ahead- science is a quantifiable investment, not just a cost. H/t to @NicoleCRust for sharing! fiercebiotech.com/research/repor…