Zach Kunicki (He/Him)
Assistant professor at Brown University. Assistant director of Quant Science Program. Views my own, and will change as I learn. #cognitiveaging | #statistics | #dementia | #latentvariablemodeling
- Excited to share a new paper just published in Neuroepidemiology! We used 22 years of longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study to answer a surprisingly unsettled question: How fast does memory decline in older adults without dementia? 🧵👇
- We're very excited that our next AMPHIBIAN speaker will be Dr. Alessandro De Nadai, speaking about machine learning in mental health research and interventions on 12/3 at 12:30. Register here: brown.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @rnjma.bsky.social @gemmawallace.bsky.social
- Reposted by Zach Kunicki (He/Him)Looks like a great methods primer paper from Emma Nichols and Eleanor Hayes-Larson. @timead.bsky.social @g2aging.bsky.social "Common methodological issues in observational epidemiological studies of older adults" bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/...
- My first R01 goes to study section today, time to bust this out again to see what happens!
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- Reposted by Zach Kunicki (He/Him)I now have multiple sources that say at least one round of NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETINGS will now be announced in the Federal Register.
- Next week, QSP will be hosting Dr. Mashu Yang to talk about MNAR data in EMA designs! Come distract yourself for an hour and learn about this important topic for EMA researchers -- register here: bit.ly/3XPShbx
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- Reposted by Zach Kunicki (He/Him)On Friday, we Stand Up for Science in locations Nationwide (& internationally!) to support science as a public good that benefits everyone. Join us! Visit www.standupforscience2025.org for more information & other ways to get involved ☀️
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- Reposted by Zach Kunicki (He/Him)This is a five-alarm fire 🔥 for US science 🧪. (We keep saying that, but it keeps being true 😭.) Trump and Musk are blocking *ALL* NIH grants ‼️ by "exploiting a loophole in the process"—stopping study sections & council meetings. Every biomedical researcher in the country should be screaming. 1/
- NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal. Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled. All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- Reposted by Zach Kunicki (He/Him)I wish there was a way to quantify the collective amount of work lost due to stress and despair over the last few weeks, independent of barriers to funding.
- Reposted by Zach Kunicki (He/Him)Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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- Reposted by Zach Kunicki (He/Him)Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.
- Reposted by Zach Kunicki (He/Him)Here are some facts about "facilities and administrative" (F&A) costs, what we in the business call "indirects" and what Musk is calling "overhead" as he tries to convince Americans with being ok with cutting billions on dollars from medical and public health research at universities & hospitals 1/
- Reposted by Zach Kunicki (He/Him)This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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- Reposted by Zach Kunicki (He/Him)1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
- Reposted by Zach Kunicki (He/Him)Indirect Costs and Trump's Attack on Independent Voices. My latest post: buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...
- Reposted by Zach Kunicki (He/Him)“It’s important to see the big picture... [The cut in indirect costs] came directly from a Project 2025 proposal that was explicitly designed to “reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas.” This whole piece by @sbagen.bsky.social is excellent. 🧪
- Indirect Costs and Trump's Attack on Independent Voices. My latest post: buttondown.com/sbagen/archi...
- Reposted by Zach Kunicki (He/Him)🚨RED ALERT for 🧪: The Trump NIH just gashed indirect costs. This is a direct attack on universities. “Pursuant to this Supplemental Guidance, there will be a standard rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs.” 😮 Just a devastating Friday night news dump. #scicomm #academicaky
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- Feels weird celebrating in these times, but I submitted my first R01 today. Fingers crossed, I guess?
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- Reposted by Zach Kunicki (He/Him)It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives
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- Reposted by Zach Kunicki (He/Him)Hot off the press! 📣📣In this tutorial we illustrate available multiple imputation approaches for handling longitudinal data including when they are clustered within higher level clusters. A reproducible example with R and Stata code provided! #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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- Reposted by Zach Kunicki (He/Him)#MELODEM is accepting applications--by 1/27/25--to participate in this year's Annual In-Person Meeting! The meeting features: Jun 23-25: presentations w extensive discussion Jun 25-27: hands-on data workshop, involving a subset of participants See deets & apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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- Reposted by Zach Kunicki (He/Him)Let us start 2025 in a positive mood: here are 10 methods things researchers can worry *less* about in 2025
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