Marco Pipoly

Postdoctoral Research Associate @CVLneuro in the lab of @GaganWig | Individual Differences, Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging, and Preclinical Risk for ADRD

[Marco Pipoly @Pipoly_Science]

@BrianGordon81 @SabrinaGClemens Excited to read this!!!

[Caterina Gratton @GrattonCaterina]

Very excited about this project, led by @zach_ladwig
We show that the individual lateral prefrontal cortex has reliable and highly detailed network organization missed in past group approaches.
Full🧵 coming soon!

[Marco Pipoly @Pipoly_Science]

Come join our awesome team 😎

[Gagan Wig @GaganWig]

We're hiring! Full-time research assistant @ UT Dallas

Join our team to work on a longitudinal neuroimaging study of midlife brain aging. Project integrates MRI, behavioral testing, real-world health/lifestyle measures.

Strong opportunity for those interested in brain networks, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease risk.

Application deadline May 6.

Details: https://t.co/HCu06YZ4BJ

@CVLneuro @UT_Dallas

[Gagan Wig @GaganWig]

We know aging reorganizes large-scale brain networks in humans, with real consequences for cognition and dementia risk. What we haven't had is an animal model of this phenomenon — one that could help us figure out why it happens and how to intervene.

We’ve now mapped brain network changes over a wide range of the mouse adult lifespan.

The changes mirror key features of human brain aging, but not entirely, and the differences are just as interesting as the similarities.

New paper in @PNASNews 🧵
https://t.co/NmvVtOLTfn

[Gagan Wig @GaganWig]

Attending SFN? The lab has new discoveries about brain aging that we'll be sharing in the upcoming days. Stop by to chat and learn about our work!

#Sfn2025 @SfNtweets
@UTDResearch @CVLneuro

[Doris Tsao @doristsao]

I, and every scientist I've talked to, believe the end result of this devastating cut will be that Universities will simply pass on the buck to investigators. Many of us fervently agree that university administrations & bureaucracy should be downsized and reformed. This maneuver is going to do nothing to actually instigate that change, it is simply going to result in a giant DIRECT cut to biomedical science in this country that is going to cripple science, lead to layoffs of hardworking students and postdocs with big dreams who are the country's future, and destroy this country's scientific pre-eminence. I personally find it hard to fathom how Elon Musk and pals, who clearly understand the value and beauty of science deeply, could not see this endgame and...hesitate. This is matricide. @shaunmmaguire @elonmusk

[Thomas Yeo @bttyeo]

Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies.

The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% accuracy.🧵

[Beyond Housing @BeyondHousing]

Dr. Hosea Covington may be the first in our college savings program to earn a medical degree. But he won’t be the last. Not as long as we recognize the good that exists in people everywhere and work to keep that good going: https://t.co/oj214B5bXv

[🥂𝔹𝕠𝕓 ℂ𝕠𝕩🧠 @AFNIman]

In several places I had to put calls to do-nothing functions to avoid compiler optimizations that messed things up. That’s in a code base of about 500K lines so I guess not so bad.

[Marco Pipoly @Pipoly_Science]

@_DCPerez_ I can’t wait to dive in!

[Diana C Perez @_DCPerez_]

I'm back with more exciting news! Our review article is now out on Neurobiology of Aging as part of a special issue on New Directions in Brain Connectivity in Aging 🧠 https://t.co/PL1sUaUp33

[Marco Pipoly @Pipoly_Science]

@eglerean @PLOSBiology @AnaM_Triana This looks cool! Excited to read 😎

[Marco Pipoly @Pipoly_Science]

@geerling_lab I saw an article on this a few days ago. Wild!

[Marco Pipoly @Pipoly_Science]

Something to watch 👀

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Major academic publishers are getting sued for unlawfully appropriating billions of dollars.

Prof. Lucina Qazi Uddin, a neuroscientist at UCLA, has sued these six academic publishers Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Sage, and Springer Nature.

The lawsuit claims that these publishers violate antitrust laws on the following three grouds:

1. The publishers have colluded to fix the price of peer review at zero.

2. These publishers agree to not compete with each by making it obligatory for researchers to submit their work to only one journal at a time.

3. These publishers prohibit scholars from sharing scientific advancements while they are under peer review, which can take up to a year.

Here's a comparison of the publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers

Elsevier: $3.9 billion
Springer Nature: $2 billion
Wolters Kluwer: $1.6 billion
Wiley: $1.8 billion
Taylor & Francis: $800 million
Sage: $500 million

They pay:
Authors: $0
Peer reviewers: $0

[Marco Pipoly @Pipoly_Science]

@_DCPerez_ Woah!!!! Incredible news!!!!! Congratulations!!

[Caterina Gratton @GrattonCaterina]

I'll be recruiting a PhD student through the Cog Neuro Program @PsychIllinois this year. If you're interested in brain organization, networks, and cognition, please consider applying. 🧠🧠🧠

[Psychology at The University of Iowa @PsychIowa]

We are excited to announce an open-area search for a transformational and visionary scientist at the rank of associate or full professor. Human experimental, clinical, theoretical, computational... Click below for more info.
https://t.co/Ufd52AXFES

[Marco Pipoly @Pipoly_Science]

@PsychIowa Do I qualify yet? Jk - will repost 😎

[Marco Pipoly @Pipoly_Science]

Just soaking up this great view from my office at @CVLneuro ready to do some great science with @GaganWig 😎

[Marco Pipoly @Pipoly_Science]

Wooo I am pumped!

[Center for Vital Longevity @CVLneuro]

⏱️Ready? Set? Go!

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