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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Jul 19

📰 Weekend read
🧠 "Development of brain metastable dynamics during the equivalent of the third gestational trimester"🤰
🔗 Read the full paper published as part of the FITNG Special Issue: doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Jul 11

👉 Room sharing options available to help reduce costs: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

FIT'NG 2025 Room Sharing

Interested in finding fellow delegates to share hotel rooms with during FIT'NG 2025? If so, please fill out the form below! Once you complete your information, you will be sent an email with informat...

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · May 20

Join us in 🏙️ Dublin, Ireland for the Annual FIT’NG Conference, 🗓️ Sept 7–8, 2025!
🛜 Connect, 🤝 collaborate, and 👩‍🏫 learn the latest in early brain development 🧠📈
⏰ Early Bird Registration Deadline: July 2
🌐 fitng.org/registration/

#FITNG2025 #Neuroscience #BrainDevelopment

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King's Perinatal Functional Imaging Group, Tomoki Arichi @kingspfig.bsky.social · May 15

Interested in trying to understanding BOLD in the developing brain? Come listen to Jucha Willers Moore presenting her incredible 7T neonatal data in the mesoscale fMRI session at #ismrm #layerfmri

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King's Perinatal Functional Imaging Group, Tomoki Arichi @kingspfig.bsky.social · May 15

#ISMRM Antonia will be presenting our first experiences and exciting results with ultra highfield #layerfmri in the visual cortex of neonates in the "brain through development" session, room 316c now, come check it out

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King's Perinatal Functional Imaging Group, Tomoki Arichi @kingspfig.bsky.social · May 14

At #ismrm? Come see Alice Thomson's important work in the spectroscopy 1H and All session in powerpitch theatre 2, showing not Glx is equal... comparing measurements across 4 scanners, different ages, and edited Vs PRESS aquisitions

King's Perinatal Functional Imaging Group, Tomoki Arichi @kingspfig.bsky.social · May 8

Very excited about this important piece of work with @angelicaronald.bsky.social characterising gene associations with age of walking onset. We also show using dHCP data that these are related to volume in key brain motor regions (like the deep grey nuclei and cerebellum) even as a newborn infant

Angelica Ronald @angelicaronald.bsky.social · May 7

Our gene discovery project on age at onset of walking is out today! Find the paper here www.nature.com/articles/s41... Huge thanks to the cohorts, collaborators & coauthors, in particular first author Dr Anna Gui 1/n

Genome-wide association meta-analysis of age at onset of walking in over 70,000 infants of European ancestry - Nature Human Behaviour

A genome-wide association study of age at onset of walking in over 70,000 infants found 11 significant loci. Age at onset of walking showed SNP heritability of 24%, a reliable polygenic score and gene...

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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · Apr 28

The National Institutes of Health, the largest funder of biomedical research in the world, has fired 1,300 employees and cancelled more than $2 billion in federal research grants. https://cbsn.ws/4daiCrv

How cuts at the National Institutes of Health could impact Americans' health

Cuts and layoffs to the National Institutes of Health threaten medical research around the U.S., agency insiders warn.

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Apr 22

🚨 Want to help shape the field? 👶🧠
ℹ️ Fill out the form below to serve as a reviewer for #FITNG2025!
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FIT'NG 2025 Reviewer Sign-Up

Thank you for volunteering to be an abstract reviewer for FIT'NG 2025. Reviewers will be selected based on area of expertise and career stage. Reviewers will be asked to be available to review 5 - 10 ...

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King's Perinatal Functional Imaging Group, Tomoki Arichi @kingspfig.bsky.social · Apr 8

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King's Perinatal Functional Imaging Group, Tomoki Arichi @kingspfig.bsky.social · Apr 8

New work in @pnas.org led by Alexandra Bonthrone, exploring how the scaling laws relating cortical surface area, thickness and folding are affected in the infant brain by preterm birth (reduced folding) and congenital cardiac disease (reduced cortical growth) www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cortical scaling of the neonatal brain in typical and altered development | PNAS

Theoretically derived scaling laws capture the nonlinear relationships between rapidly expanding brain volume and cortical gyrification across mamm...

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Mar 24

‼️FIT’NG is excited to announce symposia will be held at the 2025 Annual Conference!
📂 Submissions for symposium proposals from the FIT’NG community are now open.
🗓️ Deadline: April 22, 2025
🌐 fitng.org/symposium-su...
#FITNG2025

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Mar 28

🚀 Exciting News! 🚀
🎙️ We’re bringing the best minds to the FIT’NG Annual Conference, Sep 7—8, 2025!
✨ Join us in Dublin, Ireland as our invited speakers share their groundbreaking research on early brain development 🧠
🔗 Read their full bios at: fitng.org/speakers/
#FITNG2025

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Mar 6

🥳 🥁 #FITNG2025 submission site is now open!

The deadline to submit abstracts is April 10, 2025.
Click here to get more info: fitng.org/submissions/

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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · Apr 2

Qi et al. reveal that the brain encodes complex movement sequences as series of temporal states, each corresponding to a small movement fragment, with motor cortex neurons dynamically altering their encoding across states.
https://www.nature.c...

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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · Mar 31

✨ Exciting News ✨The 2025 Schedule at a Glance is live! Stay updated by visiting our website often for more announcements in the coming weeks. 🔗in comments! Start planning your meeting experience today! #OHBM2025

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King's Perinatal Functional Imaging Group, Tomoki Arichi @kingspfig.bsky.social · Mar 28

Very pleased to share the fMRI pipeline paper from the fetal release or the developing human connectome project, a true labour of love and incredible work from Slava Karolis #dhcp #connectome #fmri direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

The developing Human Connectome Project fetal functional MRI release: Methods and data structures

Abstract. Recent advances in fetal fMRI present a new opportunity for neuroscience to study functional human brain connectivity at the time of its emergence. Progress in the field, however, has been h...

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ISMRM @ismrm.bsky.social · Mar 21

Join us in beautiful Hawai'i for the 2025 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition!
Learn more & register: ow.ly/eHFu50VlXoo

Early Registration Deadline: 10 April 2025

#FunFactFriday #ISMRT2025 #ISMRM #ISMRT #MR #MedicalImaging #MagneticResonance #MRI #MREducation #Radiology #Honolulu #Hawaii

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King's Perinatal Functional Imaging Group, Tomoki Arichi @kingspfig.bsky.social · Mar 18

New paper describing lovely work by Andrea Gondova using #dHCP data exploring the co-maturation of functional and structural #connectivity in the neonatal period published this week in Human Brain Mapping onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Early Development and Co‐Evolution of Microstructural and Functional Brain Connectomes: A Multi‐Modal MRI Study in Preterm and Full‐Term Infants

Our study reveals a significant relationship between functional connectivity and underlying microstructure during development that decreases with age and varies across connection types. Despite the p...

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · Feb 12

Don't miss our next FIT'NG Together Talk on February 25th at 11am EST!

Dr. Niall Bourke and Sharada Balaji will discuss UNITY (Ultra-low-field Neuroimaging In The Young), aimed to make neuroimaging more accessible worldwide.

Register for FREE at: tinyurl.com/4vf84ycm

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layerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · Dec 5

Mark you calendar for the exciting upcoming ISMRM workshop on UHF & fMRI. March 31st-April 2nd 2025, in Annapolis, MD, USA.
Website (being populated): www.ismrm.org/workshops/20...
Preliminary program in figure.

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Peter Bandettini @fmri-today.bsky.social · Dec 5

ISMRM Ultra-High Field / fMRI workshop in Annapolis, March 31'st to April 2'nd. The website is still being populated but so far looks exciting. Abstract deadline is January 10th. www.ismrm.org/workshops/20...

ISMRM 2025 Joint Study Group Workshop on Ultra-High Field MR & Brain Function Study Groups

The home page of the 2025 Joint Study Group Workshop on Ultra-High Field MR & Brain Function Study Groups, by the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.

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Enrico De Vita @edvjump.bsky.social · Nov 29

We CAN regrow a scientific community here?
Fyi, you can move all your posts to #Bluesky via eg #blueark https//www.busines... (NB paid for: few $) & your followed accounts via eg #sky-follower-bridge www.zdnet.com/article/how-... (free) github.com/kawamataryo/...
@ipemnews.bsky.social @ismrm.org

How to migrate from X to Bluesky without losing your followers

This extension lets you easily migrate your follows and block list from X (formerly Twitter) to Bluesky, but you need to act fast because its functionality may be short-lived. Here's why.

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