Lin et al.

Always curious. Sometimes, afraid of z-scores.

I study brains and patterns @UTAustin

[Lin et al. @Lin_Coelho]

starting a new thread with my failed R codes (ggplot edition)

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

~35 minutes of walking per day is associated with optimal antidepressant effects.

[Mario Tomic @mariotomich]

Just 8 minutes of walking increased creative output by 60%.

Stuck on a problem? Go for a walk.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Emotional suppression is associated with an increased risk of dementia.

[Katherine Aird @airdlab]

Our lab is expanding and hiring both a postdoc and staff scientist! We study how metabolism and cell cycle states drive tumor progression, therapy response, and immune interactions. Philly is a great place to live and do research! See more at: https://t.co/Qptg5QHh66.

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Taking notes by hand leads to better greater conceptual understanding and retention than typing.

[Dr. Filippo Cademartiri @FCademartiri]

This article should be mandatory reading for every medical student, PhD candidate, researcher—and honestly, for anyone who mistakes expertise for certainty.

“The importance of stupidity in scientific research” sounds provocative, almost offensive. But Martin Schwartz is not glorifying incompetence. He is describing the real operating system of discovery.

Science is not built on knowing.
Science is built on tolerating not knowing.
That distinction matters.

Most of education rewards correctness.
School teaches us to answer.
Exams reward speed, certainty, and precision.
You feel intelligent when you get things right.

Research is the opposite.
Real research begins exactly where competence ends—at the frontier where nobody knows the answer, including the people you thought must know.
That moment is psychologically brutal.
You ask the expert.
The expert shrugs.
You assume you’re missing something.
Then you realize: no—this is the work.

You are not failing.
You are standing at the actual boundary of knowledge.

That feeling—“I must be stupid”—is often not a sign of inadequacy.
It is often the first sign that you are finally asking an important question.

Medicine struggles with this.

We train doctors to avoid uncertainty, to fear being wrong, to perform confidence.
But the best clinicians and the best scientists know how to sit inside ambiguity without collapsing into fake certainty.
This is why AI in medicine also deserves caution.
Systems trained only to reproduce established answers may become extraordinarily good at passing exams while being terrible at discovering what matters next.
Guideline intelligence is not the same as scientific intelligence.
Discovery requires productive stupidity:
the willingness to stay with the uncomfortable,
to look ignorant,
to ask naïve questions,
to be wrong repeatedly without protecting your ego.

Most people want the authority of expertise.
Very few want the humiliation required to earn it.
But progress lives there.

Not in certainty.
Not in performance.
Not in sounding smart.
In the quiet discipline of saying:
“I don’t know… yet.”

And continuing anyway.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Your partner's cognitive function may contagiously influence yours over the years.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Things feel better in the morning.

Get some rest and don't dwell on it.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Addiction to short-form videos is associated with reduction of brain activity in the frontal lobe and weakened focus.

[Project SHORT @ProjectShort]

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Future Health & Science Leaders Award for Project SHORT mentees, a scholarship to alleviate the costs of graduate/medical schools! For more information and application details, check the link in our bio! Apps are due on July 31, 2026

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Mocking unconsciously repeats negativity and inadvertently shapes your identity.

You become what you repeat.

Neuroplasticity can't decipher between good and bad.

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

This is something I genuinely struggle with every day.

As doctors, we need to counsel on side effects, but telling a patient “this could cause X” makes it more likely.

Learning to inform in a balanced way is one of the hardest skills in medicine. No textbook teaches you this.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Sex-specific gene expression of the human brain, for >3,000 genes (of our ~20,000 total)
@ScienceMagazine
https://t.co/jQUFgARmuA

[Matt Burke @MattBurkeMD]

There is more robust data on placebo/nocebo responses than anything in the history medicine...yet somehow, we are barely taught about it🧐

Very grateful to lead this new two-part Lancet Psychiatry Collection "Reconceptualizing Placebo and Nocebo Effects"🧵https://t.co/vnTyXwLelN

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

The problem is not people being uneducated.

The problem is that people are educated just enough to believe what they have been taught, and not educated enough to question anything from what they have been taught.

—Professor Richard Feynman

[Dr. Banda Khalifa @dr_bandak]

A recent survey of 376 healthcare professionals revealed that 63% DID NOT understand the concept of a p-value.

Do you think you can pass the P-value explanation test❓

Are you part of the 63%?

Let's break it down in simpler terms…

[liminal @Liminal1988]

The Importance Of Updating

[Ash Paul @pash22]

The Paradox of Knowledge: Why Medical Students Know More But Understand Less
https://t.co/mwWJmNfhyB

[Brandon Luu, MD @BrandonLuuMD]

No matter how fit you are, even 1 to 2 drinks impairs the body’s cardiovascular recovery during sleep.

The less alcohol you drink, the better.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Decaf coffee has similar cognitive wake-up effects to caffeinated coffee in regular consumers.