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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

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...

doi.org

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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · Sep 7

New preprint from stellar IRTG PhD student Amelie Rauland + team on white matter bundle reconstruction! Shows that WM bundles can be reliably extracted from simple 32-direction dMRI & features predict cognition - huge potential for legacy and clinical data. Thread 👇

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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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.

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.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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...

journals.plos.org

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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · Jul 30

Looking for @theabcdstudy.bsky.social fMRI timeseries data?It's all in the 6.0 data release, thanks to @drdamienfair.bsky.social and team at ABCC 🧠: docs.abcdstudy.org/latest/docum...

ABCD-BIDS community collection

docs.abcdstudy.org

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Microstructure & Connectivity Lab @mc-lab.bsky.social · Jul 27

(1/4) Our recent work shows DTI-ALPS is confounded by white matter geometry (crossing fibers, undulation, dispersion), ALPS-asymmetry signature (ALPS measures asymmetry of diffusion) occurs throughout all WM, and ALPS-WM is not always orthogonal to PVS onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/TPCABU...

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Matt Cieslak @cieslakmatt.bsky.social · Jul 8

SO COOL

Valerie Jill Sydnor @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social · Jul 8

How does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Jun 29

Alert! ... for the child development world!

@fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪

The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive.

Check here:
docs.hbcdstudy.org

and here:
nbdc-datahub.org

Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

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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...

doi.org

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Matt Cieslak @cieslakmatt.bsky.social · Jun 25

I'm a huge fan of this project

Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · Jun 25

Amelie Rauland (all star via IRTG student w/ @sbe.bsky.social ) will be presenting "Benchmarking Reconstruction Methods for Bundle Segmentation in Single-Shell dMRI" on Friday and Saturday, Poster #1283

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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · Jun 25

@kevin-y-sun.bsky.social‬ will be presenting his work on "Copy Number Variant Risk Scores Are Associated with Personalized Functional Brain Network Topography" Wed, June 25, 13:15 - 15:15 & Thus, June 26, 13:45 - 15:45

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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · Jun 25

@audreycluo.bsky.social will be presenting her fab work on "Two Axes of White Matter Development" on Wed, June 25, 13:15 -15:15 & Thurs, June 26, 13:45 -15:45; Poster #1010.

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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · Jun 25

@goliashf.bsky.social is ALSO presenting "Systematic dynamical profiling to discover and manipulate the dynamical regime of the primate brain" Thursday, Jun 26: 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM during the computational dynamics symposium in Room M2.

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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · Jun 25

@goliashf.bsky.social is presenting (via video, 🥲) "Reproducible Brain Charts: An Open Data Resource for Mapping the Developing Brain and Mental Health" on Friday, Jun 27: 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM. This talk is part the Neuroinformatics and Data Sharing session in Room M3 (Mezzanine Level).

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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · Jun 25

@stevenmeisler.com is presenting "A quality-rated, analysis-ready release of 26,174 dMRI sessions from the ABCD Study" Friday / Saturday 1810. Wooo!!!!

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Baller Lab @ballerlab.bsky.social · Jun 3

The Baller Lab is thrilled to announce that @elenaccooper.bsky.social just had her first first-author publication! “Investigating mood and cognition in people with multiple sclerosis: a prospective cross-sectional study protocol” is now published on BMJ Open: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/5/e094733! 🧠

Investigating mood and cognition in people with multiple sclerosis: a prospective cross-sectional study protocol

Introduction Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an immune-mediated neurological disorder that affects one million people in the USA. Up to 50% of patients with MS experience depression, yet the mechanisms of ...

bmjopen.bmj.com

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Matt Cieslak @cieslakmatt.bsky.social · May 6

Some very cool imaging sequences in this one

Juliette Brook @juliettebrook.bsky.social · May 6

Dreaming of a dataset that tracks mood, sleep & activity to better understand affective instability (AI)…AND paired with advanced MRI? 🤯
Check out our new bioRxiv preprint for a 13–23 y/o community sample (n=10 and growing!) with multi-echo fMRI, EMA & actigraphy: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Matt Cieslak @cieslakmatt.bsky.social · Mar 20

Audrey Luo @audreycluo.bsky.social · Mar 20

We think of white matter as the brain's highways—uniform conduits between cortices. But what if we study development along tracts? Turns out the journey matters as much as the cortical destination! We're thrilled to share “Two Axes of White Matter Development” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Mar 5

THRILLED to see this SI now out addressing the power and potential of focusing our lens on women. H/t to Tali for making space for these ideas to flourish and for a dream team of investigators to contribute!!

Advancing the science of women’s health | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Advancing the science of women’s health

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Matt Cieslak @cieslakmatt.bsky.social · Feb 28

Big update to CuBIDS! Now with even more precise descriptions of protocol variations in your BIDS data.

PennLINC @pennlinc.bsky.social · Feb 28

We're excited to announce version 1.2.0 of CuBIDS, a Python library for organizing BIDS datasets.

CuBIDS: Curation of BIDS — CuBIDS 1.2.0 documentation

cubids.readthedocs.io

Matt Cieslak @cieslakmatt.bsky.social · Feb 27

I've been involved with this project since the very beginning and am very happy with how it ultimately turned out. The curation and processing was absolutely painstaking. Congratulations @goliashf.bsky.social on an excellent paper!!

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...

doi.org

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Jayson Jeganathan @jaysonjeg.bsky.social · Feb 25

Do you work on surface MRI such as HCP data? Our paper is finally out in Imaging Neuroscience, showing biases in surface fMRI. The revised ms has many new insights!
TLDR: Vertices are much closer to each other in sulci, resulting in (fake) high spatial autocorrelation. (1/5)

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Matt Cieslak @cieslakmatt.bsky.social · Feb 13

It's hard to overstate what a big deal this paper is: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Head motion in dMRI is NOT like head motion in BOLD.

Head Motion in Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Quantification, Mitigation, and Structural Associations in Large, Cross‐Sectional Datasets Across the Lifespan

We characterized motion during diffusion MRI scans across 16,995 image sessions and find that (1) modern preprocessing pipelines effectively mitigate motion to the point where biases are not detectab....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Valerie Jill Sydnor @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social · Feb 7

Cortical maturation unfolds hierarchically, endowing the PFC with extended plasticity. But do timeframes of plasticity vary across PFC layers?

With 7T quantitative myelin imaging, EEG, and cognitive data, we uncover heterochronous laminar maturation in the PFC 1/n. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · Jan 10

Finally out in its polished form 🤩 New methodological avenues that help facilitate looking at individual brain functional organization in developmental populations 👶🧠

Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Jan 10

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Julia Moser, Damien A. Fair, et al:

Multi-echo acquisition and thermal denoising advances precision functional imaging

direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

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Ariel Rokem @arokem.org · Jan 10

The scipy conference is one of the most welcoming and most inspiring conferences I have ever attended. It's at the center of a network of collaborators that work together across many different disciplines and sectors to improve scientific computing openly and broadly.

scipyconf.bsky.social @scipyconf.bsky.social · Jan 8

📣 The #SciPy2025 Call For Proposals is OPEN! ✨

👉 Submit your talk, poster or tutorial in our website: https://buff.ly/3W5Lsl9

👀 Deadline for submission: February 26, 2025!

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