Hello, DCoP members! This is our quarterly topic where you all can share the work you’ve been doing, including papers or pre-prints you’ve written or been involved with, or talks you’ve given. Please use this thread to add links to any relevant articles that you have written recently, or to link to slides and/or recordings of your conference presentations.
Additionally, we encourage you to share what funding you are applying for and/or what grant programs you are aware of which will be opening/closing soon. Whether these programs are listed in @danieltds 's post “Grant providers for neurodegenerative disease research” or fall outside that list, other community members may find it helpful to hear how you and your colleagues are navigating the funding landscape.
We love hearing what you’re working on, and sharing your projects can be a great way to make connections or foster new collaborations.
Really looking forward to seeing your work and hearing your input!
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npj Dementia, one of the newer members of the nature family, is looking for editorial board members with a specific focus for non-US based people. I joined and have been really enjoying working with the team & editor Jen Yokoyama. She specifically asked to spread the word with hopes they can get more people outside of her bubble, so if you have any interest in cognition & dementia I highly recommend! it’s a good opportunity to learn about the backstage for publishing, put on your CV, and also start making changes in the field. we pushed for more waivers particularly from LMIC for instance, we get to dictate the topics with a focus on DEI and more representation from LMIC research, so it’s giving us the opportunity to fight for papers that are traditionally rejected from high impact journals because they “lack generalizability” for not being from North America/Europe centers… feel free to poke me for any further details, and please share with whoever you feel might be interested! (also, if you feel you’re not qualified, don’t jump to any conclusions, shut that imposter down! fill out the application and let them decide if you’re a good fit or not, you miss 100% of the opportunities you don’t take and you lose absolutely nothing by applying to this)
https://www.nature.com/npjdementia/
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Sharing information on a funding opportunity from The Neuro (McGill University). Applications are now open for the 2025 Neuro-Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes! These international prizes award up to $100,000 annually to individuals and teams advancing open science in neuroscience. Applications and reference letters are due by 12:00pm (EDT), Friday, August 15th .
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I’m so so so excited to share our systematic review on risk factors & predictors for Lewy body dementia (including both Parkinson’s disease dementia & dementia with Lewy bodies): Risk factors and predictors for Lewy body dementia: a systematic review | npj Dementia
This was a project we started for Ahalya & Celina to have a nice paper they can put on their CV for future med school/PhD applications and their first ever paper to work on. I mentored them while they were high school students and they kept in touch during undergrad, so I’m uber excited we got to officially create and publish this beauty. I was often advised not to start new authors on review papers as it might be too burdensome, but I think that really depends on the trainee. Ahalya & Celina were so capable and responsible that they stayed on top of things and asked questions whenever needed for clarification. I think it gave them a good overview of the current knowledge & gaps in the field to start creating their own ideas, and also what the papers would need for better interpretability and future use when they’re leading their own research papers. It was exhausting from my end for sure, but worth it. Hope you enjoy and find it useful!
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I got a rising star award this year from the Society for Equity Neuroscience (so spoiled!) and gave a talk on sex and gender differences in Lewy body dementia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJgXKvs6glg&ab_channel=SocietyforEquityNeuroscience(SEQUINS)
They invited me to write a paper based on this talk and it hit the internet land! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuros.2025.100009
The journal is new, led by a great editorial team and looking for submissions with a focus on equity. since they’re new, they also have waivers to cover open access so you can get free open access papers: Guide for authors - Equity Neuroscience - ISSN 3050-8401 | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
i had posted about the society before too, and highly recommending if you’re invested in equity and education: https://www.s-equi-ns.org/
So many links, ayayayay. I just had a lot to share 
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