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Ariel Rokem
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Research Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Senior Data Science Fellow in the eScience Institute, University of Washington | https://arokem.org/ | https://neuroinformatics.uw.edu
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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 16d
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
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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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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · 22d
Very cool! Also works when written as 9/16/2025, but no longer has the elegance of 3^2/4^2/5^2
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · 27d
Making visualizations of brain blood vessels
A graphic of a brain with branching blood vessels rendered within it
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · 28d
Y'all set a very high bar in terms of the empathy you bring to your interactions with stakeholders (in the sense of being able to consider their viewpoint). The balance with "foundational contributions" really sets you apart in this ecosystem (and I'd hope gives you a "competitive edge"!)
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Chris Holdgraf @choldgraf.com · 28d
We've been experimenting and improving our practices in building healthy relationships with open source communities, here's our latest thinking on how we approach this important topic!
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2i2c @2i2c.org · 28d
How should an organization support open source? A key goal for 2i2c is to lead by example in contributing to a healthy open source ecosystem. We've learned a lot over the years - here's our framework for building healthy open source relationships.

👉 2i2c.org/blog/2025/go...
On being a good open source citizen: supporting a healthy ecosystem through directed and foundational contributions | 2i2c
Any organization building on open source faces a fundamental tension: how do you serve the needs of your organizational stakeholders while also acting as a responsible steward of the upstream…
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · Aug 27
Yes, but there are details. Maybe best discussed on an issue or on neurostars?
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · Aug 26
Yeah, the intonation is somehow a bit weird and the graphics are ... what they are. But it also looks like it mostly got the gist of it, and many correct details, so altogether not bad. Thanks for sharing!
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · Aug 26
Ha! I am curious, but:
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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · Aug 21
Excited to share that my TEDx talk is finally available online. I loved sharing what the science shows us: that it's time to reframe adolescence - from problem to ✨ potential ✨ 1/

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The surprising science of adolescent brains | Jennifer Pfeifer | TEDxPortland
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · Aug 20
None of this work would have been possible without the funding from NIH, the Essential Open Source Software program @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social, Moore & Sloan foundations, and other supporters. We are grateful for all this support.
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A question and answer forum for neuroscience researchers, infrastructure providers and software developers.
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · Aug 20
We are eager to interact with users of the software. Please post your questions to neurostars.org, where we'd be happy to answer them.
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A question and answer forum for neuroscience researchers, infrastructure providers and software developers.
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · Aug 20
The work never ends... We are already working on the next version of the software, which will include some substantial new features, and tighter compliance with @bidsstandard.bsky.social draft derivatives for diffusion MRI. Looking forward to update about that soon!
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · Aug 20
The ecosystem has since expanded with more collaborators and students putting in more pieces of the puzzle. We are really happy with the tools and we have used them (and still used them!) for studies that we are very proud of. We are also delighted that several other groups use the tools.
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · Aug 20
A multi-year, multi-group collaboration, which started with @jyeatman.bsky.social and me sitting and programming side by side at the @uwescience.bsky.social data science studio about 10 years ago, and really took off when John Kruper and Adam Richie-Halford joined us a couple of years later.
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · Aug 20
New paper alert! This paper describes the work that we have been doing in the last few years to create a software ecosystem for tractometry that is extensible, interoperable, and generally useful.
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eScience Institute @uwescience.bsky.social · Aug 19
New pub alert 📖
Our very own @arokem.org co-authored "A software ecosystem for brain tractometry processing, analysis, and insight" for PLoS Computational Biology.
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A software ecosystem for brain tractometry processing, analysis, and insight
Author summary The human brain is a highly inter-connected system. Information about the environment and about internal states is effectively distributed and integrated through neural pathways that ra...
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · Jul 29
NeuroHackademy 2025 started today! Our 10th summer school/hackathon in neuroimaging and data science @uwescience.bsky.social, the 8th supported by NIH/NIMH. You can follow along, with videos of lectures in this YouTube playlist, posted almost as soon as they happen: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
NeuroHackademy 2025 - YouTube
Neurohackademy is a summer school in neuroimaging and data science, held at the University of Washington eScience Institute. This year’s course will be held ...
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Le Neuro (Institut-Hôpital neurologique de Montréal) @theneuro.bsky.social · Jul 8
Are you leading an #OpenScience initiative advancing the field of #neuroscience? Don’t miss this opportunity to be recognized for your contributions. Submit your application for the Neuro-Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes today!
👉Apply now! -link in comments
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · Jun 27
Yes
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · Jun 27
What an amazing resource! Kudos to everyone who made this a reality, and thanks for diving into all the technical details in this paper.
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Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · Jun 27
In @ohbmossig.bsky.social's first Open Datasets Special Issue paper, Wearn et al. introduce the OHBM Time Machine, a freely accessible archive of Annual Meeting content on YouTube: doi.org/10.52294/001...

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Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · Jun 27
In @ohbmossig.bsky.social's first Open Datasets Special Issue paper, Wearn et al. introduce the OHBM Time Machine, a freely accessible archive of Annual Meeting content on YouTube: doi.org/10.52294/001...

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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · Jun 20
Excited to take part in this special issue! Read what I think human brain mapping should do about the impending Singularity
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Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · Jun 20
🧠 The State of the Brain Special Issue features insights from last year’s keynotes, award winners & committee leaders.

🔗 Explore major findings & themes from 2024: apertureneuro.org/issue/12560

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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · Jun 16
It was great to visit with you. Thanks for posting the video!
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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · May 12
Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause.

Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

Or help us spread the word 💫
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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · May 1
When are you swinging by Ballard for a vegan scoop?
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tal yarkoni @talyarkoni.com · Apr 15
if you're a PhD student or postdoc working at the interface of personality psychology and CS/ML (construed broadly on both sides), and are interested in doing a full-time, remote, 3 - 6 month internship/residency at MidJourney, please DM me some kind of resume or CV-like thing
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