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Jake Vogel @jwvogel.bsky.social · 10h

Really compelling evidence in humans for network propagation hypothesis of tau spread: individualized connectivity helps resolve individualized tau patterns.

#MedSky #neuroskyence #neurosky #alzsky #compneuro #ai #datascience #bioinformatics #neurology

Harry H Behjat @aitchbi.bsky.social · 1d

does brain connectivity drive spread of pathological proteins in Alzheimer’s disease?

✨ preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

if the question intrigues you, please read on 🧵⤵️

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Harry H Behjat @aitchbi.bsky.social · 1d

does brain connectivity drive spread of pathological proteins in Alzheimer’s disease?

✨ preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

if the question intrigues you, please read on 🧵⤵️

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 4d

When @laurapritschet.bsky.social & Pavel Shapturenka set out to build the 28&Me + 28&He datasets, I don't think any of us could've predicted the spectacularly creative ways the datasets would be used years later. That's the power of open science. 👇🏼

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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
Vote: www.cogneurosociety.org/account-login/
By: 11:59pm Oct. 1

CNS Account Login - Cognitive Neuroscience Society

March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster Latest from Twitter

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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 8d

www.thetransmitter.org/funding/nih-...

NIH awarded 37 percent fewer neuroscience-related grants in 2025 than in past years

But the agency has spent nearly its entire budget for this fiscal year, which ends tomorrow.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 7d

Kudos to everyone who shares their materials! I aspire to do this but have not done as well as I'd like. @laurelgd.bsky.social is inspirational in this regard. 👏

Laurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 7d

I continue to believe sharing example materials is useful in academia, so in that spirit, my tenure statements and CV are now available on our Resources for Researchers website (bottom of the New PI page: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...)

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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 7d

Great question - I’m not sure - @cogneuronews.bsky.social ?

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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 8d

With the great @ariellekeller.bsky.social too!
(apologies for the omission!)

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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 8d

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroimaging

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

CNS Account Login - Cognitive Neuroscience Society

March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster Latest from Twitter

www.cogneurosociety.org

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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

CNS Account Login - Cognitive Neuroscience Society

March 7 – 10, 2026 Submit a Symposium Submit a Poster Latest from Twitter

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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · 8d

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The elusive neural signature of emotion regulation capabilities: evidence from a large-scale consortium

Cognitive reappraisal is a fundamental emotion regulation strategy for mental and physical well-being, but how its neural mechanisms relate to individual differences remains poorly understood. In a co...

www.biorxiv.org

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Jingnan Du @jingnandu.bsky.social · 12d

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...

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 13d

I’m scheduled for surgery today on my Achilles tendon, followed by 2 weeks of no weight bearing.😵‍💫

So, like any good scientist, I got together 7 colleagues to study consequences of limb disuse.

Introducing the HEALING study

with @laurelgd.bsky.social @sneuroble.bsky.social @briemreid.bsky.social

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Jonathan Wosen @jonathanwosen.bsky.social · 28d

If you run a life science lab where research has either significantly slowed or shut down completely due to Trump administration policies, I’d like to hear your story. I'm a biotech and life sciences reporter for @statnews.com, and you can reach me at [email protected] #journorequest

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Terence Crofts @terencecrofts.bsky.social · 27d

🚨 New Crofts lab paper🚨

Functional metagenomic libraries let us study bacterial genes 🧫🧬 from microbiomes💩, even if they've never been annotated with a function before 📒. However, these libraries often require more metagenomic DNA than is available from some samples.

A screenshot of an mSystems paper titled "Preparation of functional metagenomic libraries from low biomass samples using METa assembly and their application to capture antibiotic resistance genes"

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · Sep 7

ANSWER: 0 (yes, ZERO!)

This is a result of an analysis done by a student in my grad seminar, using a large dataset (N=307,313).

What this result might mean: Nobody's personality is truly "average," and people's personality profiles (at least Big 5) might be more "jagged" than we think.

(🧵 1/5)

Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · Sep 6

Imagine you have Big 5 personality scores from over 300,000 people. You designate the scores in the "mean +/- 0.25 SDs" range for each trait (~20%) as the average range.

QUESTION: How many people in this >300K sample do you think fall in the average range for ALL 5 TRAITS?

What's your answer?

A figure from Simply Psychology illustrating Big Five personality traits: agreeableness, extraversion, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness to experience.

This figure comes from:
https://www.simplypsychology.org/big-five-personality.html

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Sep 5

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.

We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.

Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Sep 5

🔥ATTENTION!🔥

Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open!

Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns.

Details:
tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6

Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...

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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · Sep 5

Amazing news! Thanks to strong support from the community, we are able to reduce publication fees!

Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Sep 5

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.

We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.

Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Sep 3

I want to do a session on principles of designing scientific figures with my lab. Any recommendation for good online material? #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · Aug 29

Is precision functional brain imaging in babies possible? YES! We show this in not one but two new preprints out of WashU and @umn-midb.bsky.social! 1️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🐣👶🧠

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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · Aug 27

Oo- interesting question. We haven’t looked at that yet, but we should!

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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · Aug 18

It was a great pleasure to write this for NHB. Thank you for the opportunity! #neuroscience #consciousness #psychscisky

Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · Aug 11

This 'How to' Comment by Megan A. K. Peters discusses the creative process and practical recommendations for finding good research questions.

How to develop good research questions - Nature Human Behaviour

Designing good research questions goes well beyond the standard definitions of clarity, focus and tractability, and even beyond ‘novelty’ in the strictest sense. This Comment describes the iterative creative process for designing good research questions, and includes practical suggestions and ways to avoid common traps.

www.nature.com

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Nico Schuck @nicoschuck.bsky.social · Aug 22

Delighted to share our work on replay and successor representations! We find replay during very short task pauses in human visual cortex that is linked to learning SRs & happens when learning is implicit. Study led by @lnnrtwttkhn.bsky.social

#compneuro #neuroskyence

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Replay in the human visual cortex during brief task pauses is linked to implicit learning of successor representations | PNAS

Humans can implicitly learn about multistep sequential relationships between events in the environment from their statistical co-occurrence. Theore...

www.pnas.org

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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · Aug 21

And this work from @deannajgreene.bsky.social highlights both group maps and individual differences in them: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31836321/

Integrative and Network-Specific Connectivity of the Basal Ganglia and Thalamus Defined in Individuals - PubMed

The basal ganglia, thalamus, and cerebral cortex form an interconnected network implicated in many neurological and psychiatric illnesses. A better understanding of cortico-subcortical circuits in ind...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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