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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 2d

That is a legendary place. Enjoy!

Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks, @gangchen6.bsky.social for leading the charge on pointing out and detailing several really important things to think about at the heart of FMRI studies and interpretation.

Gang Chen @gangchen6.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks to Zhengchen Cai, @kordinglab.bsky.social, Tom Liu, Josh Faskowitz, @fmri-today.bsky.social, Bharat Biswal, and @afni-pt.bsky.social for fueling this ride and helping turn it into a commentary.

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · Sep 2

Well, scheduling change and *update* on dates: They will now be Sep 26, 29 and 30th, 2025. Hope that still works for those wanting to attend! Apologies for the confusion.

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · Sep 2

Announcing the next AFNI Bootcamp: Sep 23-25, 2025.

Free, open & virtual.

This "Part 1" will focus on basic visualization and single subject FMRI processing, including discussions of alignment, templates, regression, ROIs and quality control.

Details & registration: afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp

AFNI Bootcamp: Sep. 23-25, 2025 | afni.nimh.nih.gov

afni.nimh.nih.gov

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Susan Wardle @susanwardle.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you’d like to write a commentary to accompany our new article arguing for a rethinking of how we approach understanding visual function in occipitotemporal cortex, now is your chance!

J. Brendan Ritchie @jbrendanritchie.bsky.social · Aug 29

Our target discussion article out in Cognitive Neuroscience! It will be followed by peer commentary and our responses. If you would like to write a commentary, please reach out to the journal! 1/18 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @cibaker.bsky.social @susanwardle.bsky.social

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · Aug 5

InstaCorr for instant enlightenment! This is a very powerful implementation in Ida, esp. with how it behaves with hi-res data. Take it for a spin, today!

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · Jul 4

Cool work, and particularly after some recent discussions at OHBM, it is really nice to see all of transparent threshold, beta-weight overlay coloration and two-tailed tests used together in the results reporting. Helps me (and maybe others) see the whole picture clearly.

Elisa Baek @elisabaek.bsky.social · Jul 3

Excited to ✨share✨ that our paper on ✨sharing✨ is published! Across 3 studies that build on one another, we show that perceived alignment with one's peers increases the likelihood of information sharing.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Perceived community alignment increases information sharing - Nature Communications

Information sharing is a ubiquitous and consequential behavior. Here, the authors use neuroimaging and behavioral studies to show that people are driven to share information that they believe will be ...

www.nature.com

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · Jul 1

Indeed, so happy to see this elegant article by @misicbata.bsky.social . It resonate and persuades.

Ravi Menon, Ph.D. @northernthrux.bsky.social · Jun 30

This is what @afni-pt.bsky.social has been advocating for quite some time! And yes, they are splendid.

Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · Jun 30

The splendour of unthresholded brain maps apertureneuro.org/article/1406...

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Amanda Mejia @mandymejia.bsky.social · Jun 17

Looking forward to #OHBM2025 in Brisbane next week! My lab is recruiting a postdoc & neuroimaging analyst/developer to support our NIH funded work in fMRI-based Alzheimer's biomarker development (NIA R01AG083919). Email or DM if you want to meet up in Brisbane! www.statmindlab.com/join-us

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What can we do with functional MRI data? For many years, fMRI has been used to discover population-level patterns of brain function, organization and connectivity, and to understand differences in t...

www.statmindlab.com

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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · May 28

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging - Nature

This Review provides an overview of the history of resting-state functional MRI research, which has helped to reveal the spatiotemporal organization of the brain, and discusses how it can contribute f...

www.nature.com

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · May 22

**FMRI/neuroimaging folks**

Quick reminder @ the next AFNI Bootcamp: May 28-30, 2025. Learn through interactive data analysis!

Day 1-2: data viz, single subject analysis and QC.
Day 3: statistics, results reporting and group analysis.

Details, registration and schedule:
afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · May 7

We are pleased to announce the next AFNI Bootcamp, May 28-30, 2025.

First 2 days: data visualization, single subject analysis and QC. 3rd day: statistics, results reporting and group analysis.

Please see here for details, registration link and preliminary schedule:
afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp

AFNI Bootcamp: May 28-30, 2025 | afni.nimh.nih.gov

afni.nimh.nih.gov

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · May 3

Who knew that breathing was so important? Well, at least in FMRI it is... Nice work by @brightmg.bsky.social & Co!

Dr. Molly Bright @brightmg.bsky.social · May 3

Breath hold fMRI is great for measuring CVR... *except when your participant or patient doesn't quite perform the task the way you'd like. Let's see if we can fix that! (Spoiler, it looks like we can, using the respiratory belt data to predict or fill in missing PETCO2 data!)

Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Apr 15

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Rebecca G. Clements, Molly G. Bright, et al:

Quantitative mapping of cerebrovascular reactivity amplitude and delay with breath-hold BOLD fMRI when end-tidal CO2 quality is low

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · Apr 25

Nice work, @gangchen6.bsky.social !

SANS @sansmeeting.bsky.social · Apr 25

Should statistics respect
science more? Our third speaker Gang Chen (@gangchen6.bsky.social) argues that strict adherence to statistical conventions may obscure rather than clarify, and suggest ways in which rethink about how we model our data and report our results:

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Peter Sokol-Hessner @p1sh.bsky.social · Apr 25

"Highlight, don't hide" @gangchen6.bsky.social makes an impassioned argument that thresholding (reflective of a "binary" yes/no approach to analysis) holds back our science, making it less transparent and less reproducible.

Instead, be a facilitator - share uncertainty and evidence! #SANS2025