Steven Meisler
@stevenmeisler.com
NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow at Penn Medicine; Harvard/MIT PhD alum; Neuroimager; Jazz vibraphonist; Wannabe BBQ pit-master. stevenmeisler.com
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#PenNLINC is recruiting a clinical coordinator / lab manager!!! Looking for someone who is good with both people + code, wants to learn to acquire + analyze imaging data. Alumni in this role have written 1st author papers + gone to top grad programs.
Website: www.pennlinc.io
Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir
Website: www.pennlinc.io
Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir
neuroimaging | Satterthwaite Lab | UPenn
www.satterthwaitelab.com
Homepage for Satterthwaite lab
neuroimaging | neurodevelopment | adolescence | psychiatry | machine learning | network science
www.pennlinc.io
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
#PenNLINC is recruiting a clinical coordinator / lab manager!!! Looking for someone who is good with both people + code, wants to learn to acquire + analyze imaging data. Alumni in this role have written 1st author papers + gone to top grad programs.
Website: www.pennlinc.io
Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir
Website: www.pennlinc.io
Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir
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BIG news- applications for our hackathon are NOW OPEN🎉 Apply now to join us in Florida in January 2026! The deadline for applications is DECEMBER 1st🚨 so apply today! For more info & to apply, check out Hackathon.ABCD-ReproNim.org 🎊
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
BIG news- applications for our hackathon are NOW OPEN🎉 Apply now to join us in Florida in January 2026! The deadline for applications is DECEMBER 1st🚨 so apply today! For more info & to apply, check out Hackathon.ABCD-ReproNim.org 🎊
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Want to learn more about the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study?👀 Check out the ABCD-ReproNim course! The Fall 2025 course is going on NOW✨ Students may have the opportunity to participate in the 2026 hackathon in Miami🏝️ For more info: abcd-repronim.org 🎉
October 2, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Want to learn more about the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study?👀 Check out the ABCD-ReproNim course! The Fall 2025 course is going on NOW✨ Students may have the opportunity to participate in the 2026 hackathon in Miami🏝️ For more info: abcd-repronim.org 🎉
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🧠I am excited to announce that our manuscript introducing a new data resource – PennLEAD (Penn Longitudinal Executive functioning in Adolescent Development) – is now available on bioRxiv. Below are some details highlighting our data resource🧵funded by NIMH R01MH113550
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
🧠I am excited to announce that our manuscript introducing a new data resource – PennLEAD (Penn Longitudinal Executive functioning in Adolescent Development) – is now available on bioRxiv. Below are some details highlighting our data resource🧵funded by NIMH R01MH113550
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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After years of development and testing, we are happy to present our work in "Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications"! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread:
Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications
The landmark ongoing HEALthy Brain and Cognitive Development (HBCD) study will longitudinally chart brain development in a large sample (projected n=7,200) of infants through age 10 years with multimo...
www.biorxiv.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
After years of development and testing, we are happy to present our work in "Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications"! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread:
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🚨 New science alert! Our cross-species study, now in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates psychedelics distort how we should interpret functional brain imaging.
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nature.com/articles/s41...
#Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging
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nature.com/articles/s41...
#Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging
Psychedelic 5-HT2A receptor agonism alters neurovascular coupling and differentially affects neuronal and hemodynamic measures of brain function
Nature Neuroscience - Padawer-Curry et al. show that the hallucinogenic 5-HT2A receptor agonist DOI alters neurovascular coupling in mice, with implications for the interpretation of human fMRI...
nature.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🚨 New science alert! Our cross-species study, now in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates psychedelics distort how we should interpret functional brain imaging.
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nature.com/articles/s41...
#Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging
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nature.com/articles/s41...
#Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging
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Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉
📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io
📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io
(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health
Major mental disorders are increasingly understood as disorders of brain development. Large and heterogeneous samples are required to define generalizable links between brain development and psychopat...
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉
📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io
📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io
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New preprint from stellar IRTG PhD student Amelie Rauland + team on white matter bundle reconstruction! Shows that WM bundles can be reliably extracted from simple 32-direction dMRI & features predict cognition - huge potential for legacy and clinical data. Thread 👇
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
September 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
New preprint from stellar IRTG PhD student Amelie Rauland + team on white matter bundle reconstruction! Shows that WM bundles can be reliably extracted from simple 32-direction dMRI & features predict cognition - huge potential for legacy and clinical data. Thread 👇
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
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🍄 Our new living systematic review and meta-analysis on psilocybin for depression is out. Here's what we found and the open science infrastructure we built to support it 🧪🧵
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🍄 Our new living systematic review and meta-analysis on psilocybin for depression is out. Here's what we found and the open science infrastructure we built to support it 🧪🧵
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congrats @audreycluo.bsky.social!! Celebrating a wonderful dissertation defense that shed novel, fundamental, and convincing insights into white matter development.
CONGRATS TO DOCTOR @audreycluo.bsky.social !!! Last week, Dr. Luo knocked our collective socks off with a thesis defense for the ages. Her presentation on "Axes of Hierarchical Brain Development" was magnificent -- beautiful science, presented in an incredibly accessible and engaging way. WOO!!!!
August 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Congrats @audreycluo.bsky.social!! Celebrating a wonderful dissertation defense that shed novel, fundamental, and convincing insights into white matter development.
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Human thalamocortical connectivity matures along the cortex’s sensorimotor–association axis
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Human thalamocortical structural connectivity develops in line with a hierarchical axis of cortical plasticity - Nature Neuroscience
Sydnor et al. developed a new tractography atlas of thalamocortical structural connections and applied it to three youth samples. They uncovered coordinated development between thalamic connectivity a...
www.nature.com
July 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Human thalamocortical connectivity matures along the cortex’s sensorimotor–association axis
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
How does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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OK, It is not just the HBCD release...
docs.hbcdstudy.org
It’s the ABCD Release time too!
docs.abcdstudy.org
nbdc-datahub.org
That means the ABCC 3.0.0 is live!!!
The largest release yet from the ABCD-BIDS Community Collection.
This is going to be fun!!
👇 Let’s dig in.
docs.hbcdstudy.org
It’s the ABCD Release time too!
docs.abcdstudy.org
nbdc-datahub.org
That means the ABCC 3.0.0 is live!!!
The largest release yet from the ABCD-BIDS Community Collection.
This is going to be fun!!
👇 Let’s dig in.
Alert! ... for the child development world!
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
June 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
OK, It is not just the HBCD release...
docs.hbcdstudy.org
It’s the ABCD Release time too!
docs.abcdstudy.org
nbdc-datahub.org
That means the ABCC 3.0.0 is live!!!
The largest release yet from the ABCD-BIDS Community Collection.
This is going to be fun!!
👇 Let’s dig in.
docs.hbcdstudy.org
It’s the ABCD Release time too!
docs.abcdstudy.org
nbdc-datahub.org
That means the ABCC 3.0.0 is live!!!
The largest release yet from the ABCD-BIDS Community Collection.
This is going to be fun!!
👇 Let’s dig in.
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Alert! ... for the child development world!
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
June 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Alert! ... for the child development world!
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social
The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.
Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org
and here:
nbdc-datahub.org
Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼
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#OHBM2025 is here and the champs from @pennlinc.bsky.social have brought their freshest work express from Philly to Brisbane. Thread below . . .please reach out + come say hi -- always looking to talk science + make new friends!!!
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June 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
#OHBM2025 is here and the champs from @pennlinc.bsky.social have brought their freshest work express from Philly to Brisbane. Thread below . . .please reach out + come say hi -- always looking to talk science + make new friends!!!
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@stevenmeisler.com is presenting "A quality-rated, analysis-ready release of 26,174 dMRI sessions from the ABCD Study" Friday / Saturday 1810. Wooo!!!!
June 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
@stevenmeisler.com is presenting "A quality-rated, analysis-ready release of 26,174 dMRI sessions from the ABCD Study" Friday / Saturday 1810. Wooo!!!!
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The Baller Lab is thrilled to announce that @elenaccooper.bsky.social just had her first first-author publication! “Investigating mood and cognition in people with multiple sclerosis: a prospective cross-sectional study protocol” is now published on BMJ Open: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5/e094733! 🧠
Investigating mood and cognition in people with multiple sclerosis: a prospective cross-sectional study protocol
Introduction Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated neurological disorder that affects one million people in the USA. Up to 50% of patients with MS experience depression, yet the mechanisms of ...
bmjopen.bmj.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The Baller Lab is thrilled to announce that @elenaccooper.bsky.social just had her first first-author publication! “Investigating mood and cognition in people with multiple sclerosis: a prospective cross-sectional study protocol” is now published on BMJ Open: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5/e094733! 🧠
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Two Axes of White Matter Development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.19.644049v1
March 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Two Axes of White Matter Development https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.19.644049v1
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We think of white matter as the brain's highways—uniform conduits between cortices. But what if we study development along tracts? Turns out the journey matters as much as the cortical destination! We're thrilled to share “Two Axes of White Matter Development” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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March 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
We think of white matter as the brain's highways—uniform conduits between cortices. But what if we study development along tracts? Turns out the journey matters as much as the cortical destination! We're thrilled to share “Two Axes of White Matter Development” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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This paper is a huge one for me, taking years and years to get right. I can’t believe it’s finally out and I am so proud of the way it came together. Thank you to Dr Lebel for her unwavering support!
www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...
www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...
March 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
This paper is a huge one for me, taking years and years to get right. I can’t believe it’s finally out and I am so proud of the way it came together. Thank you to Dr Lebel for her unwavering support!
www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...
www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245...
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We're excited to announce version 1.2.0 of CuBIDS, a Python library for organizing BIDS datasets.
CuBIDS: Curation of BIDS — CuBIDS 1.2.0 documentation
cubids.readthedocs.io
February 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
We're excited to announce version 1.2.0 of CuBIDS, a Python library for organizing BIDS datasets.
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Psychedelic mental health research is booming—but how do we keep up with rapidly evolving evidence? 🌱 Our team proposes a living evidence synthesis approach to ensure clinicians, policymakers, and the public have access to the latest, most reliable data.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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An initiative for living evidence synthesis in clinical psychedelic research - Nature Mental Health
Renewed interest in psychedelics as treatments for mental disorders has recently emerged, but substantial challenges remain in obtaining evidence from available data to inform clinical decision-making...
www.nature.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Psychedelic mental health research is booming—but how do we keep up with rapidly evolving evidence? 🌱 Our team proposes a living evidence synthesis approach to ensure clinicians, policymakers, and the public have access to the latest, most reliable data.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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December 18, 2024 at 12:08 AM
🚨 Due to an ongoing technical issue with our payment processor, the submissions will be allowed to be finalized with a "Pay Later" option. Your submission will be considered on-time, and the abstract fee will be settled later. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Is anyone else submitting abstracts for #OHBM2025 getting persistent payment declines? I've tried 4 payment methods and two browsers. Nothing seems to be going through 🫠@ohbmofficial.bsky.social any official guidance? Thanks!
December 17, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Is anyone else submitting abstracts for #OHBM2025 getting persistent payment declines? I've tried 4 payment methods and two browsers. Nothing seems to be going through 🫠@ohbmofficial.bsky.social any official guidance? Thanks!
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We're excited to release new versions of our BIDS-Apps for processing and analyzing #dmri data, QSIPrep and QSIRecon! Our team has been working hard to prepare these pipelines to process infant data and bring them in line with the @nipreps.bsky.social ecosystem. #neuroimaging #nipreps #bids 1/10
November 22, 2024 at 2:39 PM
We're excited to release new versions of our BIDS-Apps for processing and analyzing #dmri data, QSIPrep and QSIRecon! Our team has been working hard to prepare these pipelines to process infant data and bring them in line with the @nipreps.bsky.social ecosystem. #neuroimaging #nipreps #bids 1/10