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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jul 18

The Motion Sensitivity and Predictive Utility of Different Estimates of Inter-regional Functional Coupling in Resting-state Functional MRI. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.13.664614v1

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jul 18

Functional network architecture and dynamics of the somato-cognitive action network https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.16.660604v1

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Evan Gordon @gordonneuro.bsky.social · Jul 10

We have argued that the brain’s Action Mode Network controls functions required for goal-directed behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Now, in new work, we show that AMN contains distinct subnetworks for making decisions, implementing actions, and processing feedback. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Sam Schwarzkopf @sampendu.bsky.social · Jul 7

If you have 10-20 minutes (depends on how fast you are), would you please consider doing this online study on #mentalimagery? It contains a survey & an experiment where you look at pictures and you respond what you see:
#psychscisky #neuroskyence #visionscience

tstbl.co/820-917

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Dan Lurie @danjlurie.bsky.social · Jul 6

Had a dream last night where we were living in a fascist sci-fi future with flying cars and laser blasters, but you got a K Award if you were an effective enough member of the resistance against the secret police.

I feel like my sleeping brain needs to work on the subtlety of my dream metaphors.

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Dan Lurie @danjlurie.bsky.social · Jun 24

Hey NYC friends!

If you haven't yet voted in the Democratic mayoral primary:

1) Go vote today!

2) Remember not to rank Cuomo!

nypost.com/2025/06/21/u...

(Excellent Mermaid Parade costume made by a friend.)

Exclusive | New Yorker dresses as ‘washed up scum’ Andrew Cuomo in Mermaid Parade

“I’m trying to get reelected on Tuesday and I thought I’d bring my message to the voters,” the man who only called himself “washed up scum,” sarcastically told The Post.

nypost.com

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Takaki Komiyama @takakikomiyama.bsky.social · Jun 20

Our new paper is out in Science.

We identified a subgroup of cholinergic neurons that mediate sensory modality-specific attention. They change their funcitonal properties within secs of behavioral context change.

Congrats to Bin for the great thesis, and the team!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cholinergic feedback for modality- and context-specific modulation of sensory representations

The brain’s ability to prioritize sensory information is crucial for adaptive behavior, yet its mechanisms remain unclear. We investigated basal forebrain cholinergic neurons modulating olfactory bulb...

www.science.org

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Jun 21

Cholinergic modulation of dopamine release drives effortful behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.18.660394v1

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Dan Lurie @danjlurie.bsky.social · Jun 20

Is "salsa pattern" (which I assume means a three-class high/medium/low solution?) common terminology? I like it.

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Dan Lurie @danjlurie.bsky.social · Jun 19

The Open Science room is an important part of the OHBM meeting experience, and not just for people who identify as part of the open science community.

Unfortunately, the future of the Open Science room is at risk.

Read more here and sign the petition to @ohbmofficial.bsky.social leadership.

Sign the Petition

Preserve the Open Science Room at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting

www.change.org

Dan Lurie @danjlurie.bsky.social · Jun 19

Passed this the other day while out and about but didn't realize what it was. Awesome to see. More of this in my backyard, yes please.

Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com · Jun 19

New housing opens in Berkeley! Designed for formerly homeless residents, Step Up Housing includes on-site support staff, private studio apartments, and common spaces.
www.berkeleyside.org/2025/06/19/b...

Berkeley opens 39 units of supportive housing for formerly homeless residents

First approved in 2020, the building on University Avenue, near Acton Street, includes support staff on site 24/7.

www.berkeleyside.org

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Thomas Andrillon @thomasandrillon.bsky.social · Jun 19

We need your help!!! 🧠🧪💤

If you are human, you fall asleep at least once a day! What happens in your mind then?

Scientists know actually very little about this private moment.

We propose a 20-min survey to get as much data as possible!

Here is the link:
redcap.link/DriftingMinds

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Amanda Mejia @mandymejia.bsky.social · Jun 17

Looking forward to #OHBM2025 in Brisbane next week! My lab is recruiting a postdoc & neuroimaging analyst/developer to support our NIH funded work in fMRI-based Alzheimer's biomarker development (NIA R01AG083919). Email or DM if you want to meet up in Brisbane! www.statmindlab.com/join-us

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What can we do with functional MRI data? For many years, fMRI has been used to discover population-level patterns of brain function, organization and connectivity, and to understand differences in t...

www.statmindlab.com

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Jun 14

Extremists have eviscerated the National Institutes of Health, responsible for 80% of the *world’s* grant investment in biomedical research

The losses are incalculable, but here are several of them

Thank you @propublica.org for documenting this —>

Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding

The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...

projects.propublica.org

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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · Jun 6

An Analysis of 200 pairwise statistics for functional brain connectivity in tasks such as hub mapping, distance relationships, structure-function coupling and behavior prediction highlights their effectiveness for neurophysiological applications.

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

Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain - Nature Methods

In this Analysis, Liu et al. benchmark more than 200 pairwise statistics for functional brain connectivity in tasks such as hub mapping, distance relationships, structure–function coupling and behavio...

www.nature.com

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · Jun 7

I taught a graduate course on executive function (EF) in the spring. Before I forget, I thought I'd tell you about the readings students liked the best (at the end of the semester, I asked students to vote for their favorite papers, excl. any of mine). Here are the top vote getters. 🧵 (1/6)

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Dan Lurie @danjlurie.bsky.social · Jun 4

Thanks for the insights, Blaise! Always great to hear what an expert thinks.

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · Jun 1

The relationship between writing and thinking is a fundamental one and getting more attention given that we can (presumably) offload our writing to AI systems.
I often find that we don't really understand things sufficiently well if we can't write it in ways that others understand.

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · May 31

If you teach cognitive psychology or related topics & are willing to share your favorite teaching resources (e.g., demos, videos), please reply to/quote this post, tag me in a new post, or send me email. I'll compile them, share the list, & keep updating it this summer. Let's inspire each other!

Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · May 29

I teach an undergrad cognitive psychology class. I've been thinking about assembling useful teaching resources (demos, videos, etc.) from other cogpsy instructors & sharing them in a single place. If there's enough interest here, I'll make a separate post & ask you to share your favorite materials.

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SfN Journals @sfnjournals.bsky.social · Jun 1

#JNeurosci: Ponce-Alvarez uses publicly available human rs-fMRI and dMRI data to analyze the relationship between timescales, variances, and structural connectivity, while also exploring the underlying mechanisms through connectome-based whole-brain models.
vist.ly/3n5r9ct

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Eddie Lee @spintheory.bsky.social · May 31

Hey #complexity colleagues 🧪🦋

Can you imagine your next steps at Complexity Science Hub?

We'd like to ease a transition to #Europe across levels of seniority with our new extended, exploration visitor program.

csh.ac.at/engage/resea...
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Visit Us * Complexity Science Hub

CSH offers talented researchers at all career stages the opportunity to join us in Vienna for a scientific visit.

csh.ac.at

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · May 31

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · May 31

ASSIGNMENT: COMMENT ON SCHEDULE F

1 week left to comment about Schedule F, potentially making NIH institute and center director essentially political appointees.

www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP...

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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · May 31

Niceeeee www.nature.com/articles/s42... Leveraging multivariate information for community detection in functional brain networks | Communications Biology

Leveraging multivariate information for community detection in functional brain networks - Communications Biology

Modeling brain modular structure by accounting for higher-order interactions reveals a novel organization of the transmodal cortex and highlights brain areas with high and low topological specializati...

www.nature.com

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Carrisa V. Cocuzza, PhD (she/her) @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social · May 30

🚨Preprint!🚨 So excited to share my 1st major study as a postdoc at @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social!🤘

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

Using a transdiagnostic framework, we found that brain network dynamics were able to discriminate individualized psychiatric symptom profiles with high accuracy 🧵1/9👇

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