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Benjamin Kay @benjaminkay.bsky.social · 21h

Check out some compelling and timely work by @nasiametoki.bsky.social on sex vs gender differences in the developing adolescent brain!

nasiametoki.bsky.social @nasiametoki.bsky.social · 22h

Is resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC), cortical thickness (CT), or cortical volume more effective at capturing sex and gender differences in the brains of preadolescents?

Check out our new article (doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...) now out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

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Todd Constable @toddc.bsky.social · 1d

Strong work AJ and team - good to see this come together!

AJ Simon @ayejaysimon.bsky.social · 2d

New preprint alert!

We used connectome-based predictive modeling in a transdiagnostic sample to identify brain network correlates of wide array of behavioral measures. We also identify where networks supporting cognition overlap with those linked to diagnostically related clinical symptomatology.

Transdiagnostic connectome-based predictive modeling of many behavioral phenotypes reveals brain network mediators of clinical-cognitive relationships

Connectome-based predictive modeling (CPM) applied to functional MRI connectivity data can identify brain networks that vary with behavioral measures across subjects. The prediction strength also prov...

www.biorxiv.org

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AJ Simon @ayejaysimon.bsky.social · 2d

New preprint alert!

We used connectome-based predictive modeling in a transdiagnostic sample to identify brain network correlates of wide array of behavioral measures. We also identify where networks supporting cognition overlap with those linked to diagnostically related clinical symptomatology.

Transdiagnostic connectome-based predictive modeling of many behavioral phenotypes reveals brain network mediators of clinical-cognitive relationships

Connectome-based predictive modeling (CPM) applied to functional MRI connectivity data can identify brain networks that vary with behavioral measures across subjects. The prediction strength also prov...

www.biorxiv.org

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 5d

More NIH chaos.

NICHD, NIMHD and NIAID Directors are all dismissed.

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 5d

Jeanne Marrazzo, director of NIAID, claimed that the Trump Administration’s actions
endangered research subjects, defied court orders & undermined vaccine research.

Earlier, Kennedy fired Susan Monarez of the CDC.

Resisting unethical policies costs you.

🧪🎁🔗
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/h...

Kennedy Fires N.I.H. Scientist Who Filed Whistle-Blower Complaint

www.nytimes.com

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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus

Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)

Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social

docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Corey Horien @coreyhorien.bsky.social · 6d

Really proud to share this w/ @francimandi.bsky.social from the Lake lab: we applied fingerprinting in a simultaneous wide-field fluorescence Ca2+ imaging and BOLD-fMRI dataset in mice!

w/ @toddc.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @richardfbetzel.bsky.social et al.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Multimodal identification of the mouse brain using simultaneous Ca2+ imaging and fMRI - Communications Biology

Using simultaneously acquired wide-field fluorescence calcium imaging and BOLD-fMRI, subject-specific signatures are observable in the mouse connectome, with stronger individual specific patterns evident in the calcium data.

www.nature.com

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Mallar Chakravarty @mallarchak.bsky.social · 5d

Excited to share our new publication on the impact of #THC exposure during gestation on brain development. This stunning work, led by Lani Cupo, describes several years of datas collection and examines brain development and maturation using MRI and behaviour

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

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Impact of prenatal delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol exposure on mouse brain development: a fetal-to-adulthood magnetic resonance imaging study - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - Impact of prenatal delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol exposure on mouse brain development: a fetal-to-adulthood magnetic resonance imaging study

www.nature.com

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Zachary H. Gursky @zachary-gursky.bsky.social · Sep 4

🧵1/3 Excited for my recent 🧪research out at @jclinical-invest.bsky.social! At @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social Anesthesiology, we manipulated coupling between brain (cerebrospinal fluid🧠💧[CSF]) and cervical lymph vessels. We saw age-based drainage changes, ⬆️📈neuroinflammation and ⬇️📉brain homeostasis.

Journal of Clinical Investigation @jci.org · Sep 3

How does impaired lymphatic drainage affect cerebral homeostasis?

Helene Benveniste & team use dynamic CE-MRI and computational fluid dynamics in a rat model of mechanical stress to deep cervical lymph nodes, revealing the brain’s adaptive response.

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Corey Horien @coreyhorien.bsky.social · 6d

Really proud to share this w/ @francimandi.bsky.social from the Lake lab: we applied fingerprinting in a simultaneous wide-field fluorescence Ca2+ imaging and BOLD-fMRI dataset in mice!

w/ @toddc.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @richardfbetzel.bsky.social et al.

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Multimodal identification of the mouse brain using simultaneous Ca2+ imaging and fMRI - Communications Biology

Using simultaneously acquired wide-field fluorescence calcium imaging and BOLD-fMRI, subject-specific signatures are observable in the mouse connectome, with stronger individual specific patterns evident in the calcium data.

www.nature.com

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Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 6d

In this review, @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Hugh Garavan examine how task and resting-state fMRI can reveal brain-behavior relationships in youth, highlighting current controversies and challenges, outlining solutions, and proposing future directions in developmental neuroscience research.

Task and resting state fMRI modelling of brain-behavior relationships in developmental cohorts

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data are often used to inform individual differences in cognitive, behavioral, and psychiatric phenotypes. These so-called “brain-behavior” association stu...

www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com

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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

www.cogneurosociety.org

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 8d

From an NIH source:

"The fact that it’s 8am on the day of a likely shutdown, and NIH personnel have received not one word about it from our leaders, from HHS, or higher, is gobsmacking.

Normally we receive shutdown preparations emails starting days in advance. Absolute silence except at IC level."

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Benjamin Kay @benjaminkay.bsky.social · 7d

Ever wondered if your interesting brain-behavior correlation was over- or under-estimated due to head motion, but were afraid to ask? We’ve created a motion impact score for detecting spurious brain-behavior associations, now available in Nature Communications!
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 8d

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget.

“Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NIH races to spend its 2025 grant money — but fewer projects win funding

Despite political obstacles, officials are on track to disburse all of the research funds allocated to US biomedical behemoth.

www.nature.com

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Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 8d

Another wonderful paper from @annierhcheng.bsky.social and @yiplab.bsky.social! Impulsivity, negative affect, and risky alcohol use in youth.

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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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 8d

“It’s hard to know if I should close down my existing projects and/or redouble my efforts writing new grant applications,” Joshua Jacobs, associate professor of biomedical engineering at Columbia University, told @thetransmitter.bsky.social.

By Natalia Mesa

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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Corey Horien @coreyhorien.bsky.social · 9d

Awesome stuff here from @annierhcheng.bsky.social g.bsky.social and @yiplab.bsky.social using predictive modelling of fMRI connectivity data to find markers of impulsivity and negative affect in IMAGEN and ABCD

w/ @toddc.bsky.social, @baderchaarani.bsky.social et al.

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

www.nature.com

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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 9d

A neuroimaging database combining movie-watching, eye-tracking, sensorimotor mapping, and cognitive tasks | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 11d

Hearing from someone in NIH program:

“Our final Task Order for $6.2M went out today. Every obstacle DOGE put up to keep us from funding new TOs and extending others was overcome. My fired contract officers were rehired. It was a lot of work, but we did it.
For now.”

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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

www.nature.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12d

New article from the Washington Post

[Gift Link]

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NIH pulled off a ‘near miracle.’ Scientists say there’s still a problem.

The National Institutes of Health is on track to give away all of its grant money to labs, but research on cancer, aging and diabetes is still being left behind.

wapo.st

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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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Alex Shackman @ajshackman.bsky.social · 12d

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Within-individual precision mapping of brain networks exclusively using task data

Precision mapping of brain networks within individuals prevailingly relies on functional connectivity analysis of resting-state data. Here, we explore…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 12d

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Roza G. Bayrak, Catie Chang, et al:

DeepPhysioRecon: Tracing peripheral physiology in low frequency fMRI dynamics

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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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.

www.nature.com

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