Ania Holubecki
@aniaholubecki.bsky.social
studying social cognition regions via iEEG, stimulation, and precision fMRI
PhD Candidate @NUIN | Formerly RC @ Braga Lab, #Fulbrighter @ Jagiellonian University, BA @ Northwestern | (she/her)
PhD Candidate @NUIN | Formerly RC @ Braga Lab, #Fulbrighter @ Jagiellonian University, BA @ Northwestern | (she/her)
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Ania Holubecki
@aniaholubecki.bsky.social
· Aug 12
High frequency broadband activity detected noninvasively in infants distinguishes wake from sleep states
High frequency broadband activity (HFB; 70-150 Hz) indexes local brain activity. It is predominantly studied using invasive measures due to signal drop off from skull attenuation. We hypothesized that...
doi.org
I’m very excited to share my FIRST first-author preprint - the result of my Northwestern graduate school lab rotation with Lisa Johnson!
We detected HFB in babies (1-4 months) noninvasively using scalp EEG, distinguishing wake from sleep states. 👶
Link: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
We detected HFB in babies (1-4 months) noninvasively using scalp EEG, distinguishing wake from sleep states. 👶
Link: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Reposted by Ania Holubecki
New paper that I helped with during my post-bacc at Northwestern!
Sparse, transient, internally generated brain states may drive successful episodic memory.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Sparse, transient, internally generated brain states may drive successful episodic memory.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Episodic memory involves transient and sparse connectivity aligned to both internal and external events
Episodic memory depends on the coordination of local processing with global organization. This study reveals that episodic memory relies on brief, sparsely connected brain states coordinated across me...
journals.plos.org
December 2, 2025 at 11:42 PM
New paper that I helped with during my post-bacc at Northwestern!
Sparse, transient, internally generated brain states may drive successful episodic memory.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Sparse, transient, internally generated brain states may drive successful episodic memory.
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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3) @dianacperez.bsky.social is presenting TUESDAY AM at LPB028
Diana used precision datasets of younger and older adults to individual brain network maps
▶️ she shows that variability increases across the lifespan, suggesting new models for the development of individual differences
Diana used precision datasets of younger and older adults to individual brain network maps
▶️ she shows that variability increases across the lifespan, suggesting new models for the development of individual differences
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
3) @dianacperez.bsky.social is presenting TUESDAY AM at LPB028
Diana used precision datasets of younger and older adults to individual brain network maps
▶️ she shows that variability increases across the lifespan, suggesting new models for the development of individual differences
Diana used precision datasets of younger and older adults to individual brain network maps
▶️ she shows that variability increases across the lifespan, suggesting new models for the development of individual differences
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1) @zachladwig.bsky.social will be available on SATURDAY PM at poster CC14
He’ll show his work using precision fMRI to identify new common network motifs in the PFC and investigate how network borders support executive function.
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
He’ll show his work using precision fMRI to identify new common network motifs in the PFC and investigate how network borders support executive function.
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 14, 2025 at 3:56 PM
1) @zachladwig.bsky.social will be available on SATURDAY PM at poster CC14
He’ll show his work using precision fMRI to identify new common network motifs in the PFC and investigate how network borders support executive function.
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
He’ll show his work using precision fMRI to identify new common network motifs in the PFC and investigate how network borders support executive function.
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Ania Holubecki
I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠
Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com
Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...
Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com
Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...
CATS Lab
Child & Adolescent Translational Science Lab at Northwestern University
nucatslab.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠
Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com
Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...
Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com
Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...
📣 New preprint from the Braga Lab! 📣
The ventral visual stream for reading converges on the transmodal language network
Congrats to Dr. Joe Salvo for this epic set of results
Big Q: What brain systems support the translation of writing to concepts and meaning?
Thread 🧵 ⬇️
The ventral visual stream for reading converges on the transmodal language network
Congrats to Dr. Joe Salvo for this epic set of results
Big Q: What brain systems support the translation of writing to concepts and meaning?
Thread 🧵 ⬇️
October 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Reposted by Ania Holubecki
Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner
Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner
Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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End of August means ECVP! This year, I am here (in beautiful Mainz) with a special mission - to find postdocs who will join us in (equally beautiful) Krakow, PL! Drop me a DM if you are interested!
@ecvp.bsky.social
@ecvp.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 10:49 AM
End of August means ECVP! This year, I am here (in beautiful Mainz) with a special mission - to find postdocs who will join us in (equally beautiful) Krakow, PL! Drop me a DM if you are interested!
@ecvp.bsky.social
@ecvp.bsky.social
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Are there good neuro/neuroimaging journals that still accept brief communications, i.e., short papers focused on 1-2 results? Interesting results but not "major impact".
#neuroskyence
#neuroskyence
August 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Are there good neuro/neuroimaging journals that still accept brief communications, i.e., short papers focused on 1-2 results? Interesting results but not "major impact".
#neuroskyence
#neuroskyence
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High frequency broadband activity detected noninvasively in infants distinguishes wake from sleep states https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.08.668962v1
August 12, 2025 at 3:15 PM
High frequency broadband activity detected noninvasively in infants distinguishes wake from sleep states https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.08.668962v1
I’m very excited to share my FIRST first-author preprint - the result of my Northwestern graduate school lab rotation with Lisa Johnson!
We detected HFB in babies (1-4 months) noninvasively using scalp EEG, distinguishing wake from sleep states. 👶
Link: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
We detected HFB in babies (1-4 months) noninvasively using scalp EEG, distinguishing wake from sleep states. 👶
Link: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
High frequency broadband activity detected noninvasively in infants distinguishes wake from sleep states
High frequency broadband activity (HFB; 70-150 Hz) indexes local brain activity. It is predominantly studied using invasive measures due to signal drop off from skull attenuation. We hypothesized that...
doi.org
August 12, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I’m very excited to share my FIRST first-author preprint - the result of my Northwestern graduate school lab rotation with Lisa Johnson!
We detected HFB in babies (1-4 months) noninvasively using scalp EEG, distinguishing wake from sleep states. 👶
Link: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
We detected HFB in babies (1-4 months) noninvasively using scalp EEG, distinguishing wake from sleep states. 👶
Link: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Reposted by Ania Holubecki
I still get chills
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
August 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I still get chills
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts
Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE
see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Congrats @josephsalvo.bsky.social and @rementurus.bsky.social !
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Joseph J. Salvo, Rodrigo M. Braga, et al:
Intrinsic functional connectivity delineates transmodal language functions
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Intrinsic functional connectivity delineates transmodal language functions
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
August 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Congrats @josephsalvo.bsky.social and @rementurus.bsky.social !
SO exciting to see the first results from this project, which we started when the lab first opened! Collecting this dataset was my main focus during my RCship, and we’re very grateful to the epilepsy patients who gave much of their time to make this happen. Congratulations, Chris! 🧠
🚨 New Preprint 🚨
Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects
By Cyr et al.
***
Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES?
A: Yes!
🧵:
Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects
By Cyr et al.
***
Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES?
A: Yes!
🧵:
August 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
SO exciting to see the first results from this project, which we started when the lab first opened! Collecting this dataset was my main focus during my RCship, and we’re very grateful to the epilepsy patients who gave much of their time to make this happen. Congratulations, Chris! 🧠
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I’m hiring a full-time lab tech for two years starting May/June. Strong coding skills required, ML a plus. Our research on the human brain uses fMRI, ANNs, intracranial recording, and behavior. A great stepping stone to grad school. Apply here:
careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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Technical Associate I, Kanwisher Lab
MIT - Technical Associate I, Kanwisher Lab - Cambridge MA 02139
careers.peopleclick.com
March 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I’m hiring a full-time lab tech for two years starting May/June. Strong coding skills required, ML a plus. Our research on the human brain uses fMRI, ANNs, intracranial recording, and behavior. A great stepping stone to grad school. Apply here:
careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
......
Congratulations Nate! BYU is lucky to have you. :)
This fall, I'll be starting as an assistant professor at Brigham Young University in the Psychology Department. My lab will study memory and mental imagery and the brain networks that support them. I'm excited to engage with BYU students and collaborate with new colleagues!
March 4, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Congratulations Nate! BYU is lucky to have you. :)
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The Saxe Lab @ MIT is hiring! We seek one lab manager to start in summer 2025. Research in our lab focuses on social cognition (learn more on saxelab.mit.edu).
Please apply at: tinyurl.com/saxe2025 (Job ID 31993).
Review of applications starts on March 24, 2025.
Sharing appreciated. Thank you!
Please apply at: tinyurl.com/saxe2025 (Job ID 31993).
Review of applications starts on March 24, 2025.
Sharing appreciated. Thank you!
Saxelab Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory at MIT |
saxelab.mit.edu
March 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The Saxe Lab @ MIT is hiring! We seek one lab manager to start in summer 2025. Research in our lab focuses on social cognition (learn more on saxelab.mit.edu).
Please apply at: tinyurl.com/saxe2025 (Job ID 31993).
Review of applications starts on March 24, 2025.
Sharing appreciated. Thank you!
Please apply at: tinyurl.com/saxe2025 (Job ID 31993).
Review of applications starts on March 24, 2025.
Sharing appreciated. Thank you!
“Imagine publishing a preprint” :) Congrats @rementurus.bsky.social!
🚨 🧠
We have a new preprint out where we studied which brain networks are engaged during mental imagery and self-generated thought.
We used a precision fMRI approach along with multidimensional experience sampling (mDES) to get trialwise self-reports from each participant about what they imagined.
We have a new preprint out where we studied which brain networks are engaged during mental imagery and self-generated thought.
We used a precision fMRI approach along with multidimensional experience sampling (mDES) to get trialwise self-reports from each participant about what they imagined.
February 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“Imagine publishing a preprint” :) Congrats @rementurus.bsky.social!
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February 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
📣 Want to DONATE to help us Stand Up for Science on March 7th? *NEW LINK!*
Make a tax-deductible donation using the QR code below!
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#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence #standupforscience2025
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#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence #standupforscience2025
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[PREPRINT❗️❗️] Very excited to share our latest work on precision mapping of brain networks exclusively using task data!🧠
With @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
(1/6)
With @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
(1/6)
Within-Individual Precision Mapping of Brain Networks Exclusively Using Task Data
Precision mapping of brain networks within individuals has become a widely used tool that prevailingly relies on functional connectivity analysis of resting-state data. Here we explored whether networ...
www.biorxiv.org
February 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
[PREPRINT❗️❗️] Very excited to share our latest work on precision mapping of brain networks exclusively using task data!🧠
With @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
(1/6)
With @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
(1/6)
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Hey #Chicago!
It's time to take a stand for #science. We are rallying on March 7 at noon at the Federal Plaza. Start making your signs!
Info
standupforscience2025.org/chicago-il/
RSVP (optional)
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#standupforscience #scienceforall
@standupforscience.bsky.social
It's time to take a stand for #science. We are rallying on March 7 at noon at the Federal Plaza. Start making your signs!
Info
standupforscience2025.org/chicago-il/
RSVP (optional)
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#standupforscience #scienceforall
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Chicago, IL
Location: Federal Plaza 211 S Clark St, Chicago, IL, United States Address: 211 S Clark St, Chicago, IL 60604 Time: 12-3 PM
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February 24, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Hey #Chicago!
It's time to take a stand for #science. We are rallying on March 7 at noon at the Federal Plaza. Start making your signs!
Info
standupforscience2025.org/chicago-il/
RSVP (optional)
www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
#standupforscience #scienceforall
@standupforscience.bsky.social
It's time to take a stand for #science. We are rallying on March 7 at noon at the Federal Plaza. Start making your signs!
Info
standupforscience2025.org/chicago-il/
RSVP (optional)
www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...
#standupforscience #scienceforall
@standupforscience.bsky.social
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☀️📣 Looking for a STATE LEAD and VOLUNTEERS to help us #standupforscience2025 in Illinois!
Know someone interested? Fill out this form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Know someone interested? Fill out this form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
☀️📣 Looking for a STATE LEAD and VOLUNTEERS to help us #standupforscience2025 in Illinois!
Know someone interested? Fill out this form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Know someone interested? Fill out this form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG...
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
February 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!
#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence
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If you are a neuroscientist, please use SFN's site to write to your reps about the importance of funding for science (they have letters ready to go, you can just use theirs or write/edit as you see fit): www.sfn.org/advocacy/adv...
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February 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
If you are a neuroscientist, please use SFN's site to write to your reps about the importance of funding for science (they have letters ready to go, you can just use theirs or write/edit as you see fit): www.sfn.org/advocacy/adv...
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Our language neuroscience lab (evlab.mit.edu) is looking for a new lab manager/FT RA to start in the summer. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3r346k66 We'll start reviewing apps in early Mar. (Unfortunately, MIT does not sponsor visas for these positions, but OPT works.)
EvLab
Our research aims to understand how the language system works and how it fits into the broader landscape of the human mind and brain.
evlab.mit.edu
February 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Our language neuroscience lab (evlab.mit.edu) is looking for a new lab manager/FT RA to start in the summer. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3r346k66 We'll start reviewing apps in early Mar. (Unfortunately, MIT does not sponsor visas for these positions, but OPT works.)