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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · 7d

Your brain is unique! 🧠 If you're curious to see more individual-level fMRI at #CNS2026, please consider voting for our symposium "Not Your Average Brain" by end of day today! 🍁

#neuroskyence #cogpsyc #cogsci #PsychSciSky #neuroimaging @cogneuronews.bsky.social

Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 8d

Are you a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member?
Consider voting for our symposium at #CNS2026:
Not Your Average Brain: Individual-Level fMRI as a Paradigm Shift for Cognitive Neuroscience
Led by @jingnandu.bsky.social & A Zamani w/ C Lynch
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March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster Latest from Twitter

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Jingnan Du @jingnandu.bsky.social · 8d

Thrilled to team up with @caterinagratton.bsky.social @ariellekeller.bsky.social and Chuck Lynch for a symposium at CNS 2026! Please consider voting for our session!

Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 8d

Are you a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member?
Consider voting for our symposium at #CNS2026:
Not Your Average Brain: Individual-Level fMRI as a Paradigm Shift for Cognitive Neuroscience
Led by @jingnandu.bsky.social & A Zamani w/ C Lynch
Vote: www.cogneurosociety.org/account-login/
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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · 8d

Excited to join you all-stars for this awesome symposium! :)

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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 8d

Are you a @cogneuronews.bsky.social member?
Consider voting for our symposium at #CNS2026:
Not Your Average Brain: Individual-Level fMRI as a Paradigm Shift for Cognitive Neuroscience
Led by @jingnandu.bsky.social & A Zamani w/ C Lynch
Vote: www.cogneurosociety.org/account-login/
By: 11:59pm Oct. 1

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Zach Rosenthal @zachrosenthal.bsky.social · 13d

Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology

Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature

Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.

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Sarah Yip @yiplab.bsky.social · 11d

New paper from @annierhcheng.bsky.social

using data from IMAGEN and ABCD she identifies distinct signatures of impulsivity and negative affect in youth that uniquely overlap with a neuromarker of risky alcohol use

#development #equifinality #abcd #connectome

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

Impulsivity and neuroticism share distinct functional connectivity signatures with alcohol-use risk in youth - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - Impulsivity and neuroticism share distinct functional connectivity signatures with alcohol-use risk in youth

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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 15d

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

Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · Feb 27

(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)

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...

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Sep 4

Amazing first day at #Flux2025 featuring an all-star team discussing the last 10 years (and future 10 years!) of ABCD & an inspiring conversation about bridging the lab and real life 🧠🤩

@lucinauddin.bsky.social @dbarch.bsky.social @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social @fluxsociety.bsky.social

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you're headed to #Flux2025 in Dublin, swing by Poster S63 on Saturday to chat with rockstar @heatherarobinson.bsky.social about this work! 🧠 🇮🇪 👩‍🔬

(and of course, catch me all conference long kvelling to any/everyone about how totally amazing my students are 🥰)

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky

Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 8

Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev

The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes

Neuropsychopharmacology - The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 21

Wow, so great! Love to see this narrative reframed so clearly and beautifully! 🧠🎉

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 21

Seems sensible to me!

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 21

I usually do 2 rounds of segment removal for that reason - one before (big problems) and one after ICA (little problems)

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 21

Good question! I think the main reason is that tools like ICA can only find a limited number of components (only as many speakers as you have microphones), so removing obviously terrible channels/segments (eg. participant sneezes) helps make better use of ICA for smaller amplitude artefacts 🤷‍♀️

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 19

✨ New paper ✨ in JAMA Pediatrics! We discuss how understanding the timing ⏰ of stressful events relative to neurodevelopment can help us better identify risk factors (looking backward) and predict future psychopathology (looking forward) at the individual level
#neuroskyence #devpsych #PsychSciSky

katesfdamme.bsky.social @katesfdamme.bsky.social · Aug 19

Timing and plasticity are critical to progress in research on stress and neurodevelopment

@ariellekeller.bsky.social
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Neurodevelopmental Timing Links Stress and Psychopathology

This Viewpoint discusses the importance of contextualizing stressful experiences and the neurodevelopmental trajectory to predict the risk of psychopathology.

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Parker Singleton @parkersingleton.bsky.social · Aug 18

🍄 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...

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 12

So cool!! Congrats Kiah!! 🎉

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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · Aug 12

#ThisWeekInNPP

This 🔃Review 🔃 discusses how 'exposomics' may advance our understanding of developmental 🧠 health & cognitive outcomes by investigating unique sets of physical/chemical exposures, psychosocial experiences, & sociocultural contexts / @ariellekeller.bsky.social

The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes - Neuropsychopharmacology

Neuropsychopharmacology - The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes

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Flux Society @fluxsociety.bsky.social · Aug 11

Don’t miss the Flux 2025 Diversity Inclusion & Belonging symposium “Supporting Science in Challenging Times”: Fri 3:15 Hyde Suite 1&2! We’ll provide historical context + future guidance on navigating authoritarian trends undermining science, safeguarding scientific credibility + supporting trainees.

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thank you Elvisha!! 🥰

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thanks Matt! 😊🐿️

Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 8

We are so grateful to our wonderful team of co-authors: our amazing collaborator Ran Barzilay & three outstanding ACORN Lab undergraduate students Niyati Dave, Anna Wagner, & Natalie Kells! I am SO proud of our small-but-mighty team & all the thoughtful conversations that went into this work. 🐿️ /10

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 8

The future is bright for this growing field! ☀️ Our review offers recommendations for future studies & points to some awesome open-source datasets that are well suited to exposomics, including those with biospecimen data, comprehensive measures of lived experience, and geocoding by home address. /9

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 8

The exposome approach has already proven to be beneficial for capturing these complex, co-occurring, and interacting features so that we can better understand each person’s environment comprehensively. It also lays crucial groundwork for studying the effects of developmental timing of exposures. /8

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 8

The broader context of our external environments also matters! Socioeconomic status & access to resources have huge effects on cognitive neurodevelopment. These environmental factors don’t happen in a vacuum. From exposures to experiences to external environments, they all co-occur and interact. /7

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 8

We find that physical/chemical exposures, like lead poisoning and air pollution, are linked to poorer cognition and altered brain development. Psychosocial experiences, like family/caregiver relationships, adversity, and racial discrimination also impact cognitive outcomes and brain development. /6

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