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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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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · 14d

Delighted to see the paper describing the Reproducible Brain Charts open data resource now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social. Paper + link to data below; huge congrats to @goliashf.bsky.social @milhammichael.bsky.social and the whole RBC team. Lots of people (>2,500 downloads) are already using RBC!

Cumulative RBC downloads over time. Lots of people are using RBC, with >2,500 downloads by time of RBC paper publication. Woo!!

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Parker Singleton @parkersingleton.bsky.social · 14d

Amazing stuff here from @goliashf.bsky.social and the RBC team! Harmonized and curated imaging and phenotype data from over 6,000 youth easily accessible without any DUA. Check it out.

Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 15d

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)

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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you Adam! Appreciate it :)

Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you! :)

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Carolina Makowski @cmakowski.bsky.social · 28d

The BRIDGE Lab has officially been launched! 🔗 bridgelab.ucsd.edu 👉 we Bridge Research in Imaging, Development, Genetics and Emerging mental health 🧠 🧬 🚸 🌉 please don't be shy to reach out if you are interested in learning more about our lab's research!

BRIDGE Lab

Welcome to the BRIDGE Lab (Bridging Research across Imaging, Development, Genetics, and Emerging Mental Health) within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego! Our resea...

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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 15d

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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Michael W. Cole @mwcole.bsky.social · 23d

Lab’s latest is out in Imaging Neuroscience, led by Kirsten Peterson: “Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding”, where we demonstrate a major improvement to standard fMRI functional connectivity (correlation) 1/n

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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 22d

Network spreading and local biological vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
doi.org/10.1038/s420...

How do brain network structure and local biological features shape the spatial patterning of atrophy in ALS? @asafarahani.bsky.social investigates ⤵️

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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 23d

netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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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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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Aug 17

Interested in Network hubs, cortical hierarchies, and gradients? Ever wonder where they come from? Check our latest review, where we cover different approaches to mapping hubs, models for their evolution, and mechanisms for how they develop:

osf.io/preprints/os...

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Parker Singleton @parkersingleton.bsky.social · Aug 18

All of this and more can be easily accessed through sypres.io

Team effort with co-first author (!!!) @bsevchik.bsky.social and the rest of the SYPRES and Metapsy team who made this happen!

SYPRES

The official website for the sypres initiative.

sypres.io

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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · Aug 18

Just delighted to see this out in the world !! This is the first installment of SYPRES -- our living meta-analysis + open data resource focused on psychedelics. Led by the incomparable @parkersingleton.bsky.social and @bsevchik.bsky.social. Check it out + and give us your feedback!!!

Parker Singleton @parkersingleton.bsky.social · Aug 18

🍄 Our new living systematic review and meta-analysis on psilocybin for depression is out. Here's what we found and the open science infrastructure we built to support it 🧪🧵
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Parker Singleton @parkersingleton.bsky.social · Aug 18

🍄 Our new living systematic review and meta-analysis on psilocybin for depression is out. Here's what we found and the open science infrastructure we built to support it 🧪🧵
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · Aug 14

CONGRATS TO DOCTOR @audreycluo.bsky.social !!! Last week, Dr. Luo knocked our collective socks off with a thesis defense for the ages. Her presentation on "Axes of Hierarchical Brain Development" was magnificent -- beautiful science, presented in an incredibly accessible and engaging way. WOO!!!!

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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · Aug 8

Mapping cerebral blood perfusion and its links to multi-scale brain organization across the human lifespan | doi.org/10.1371/jour...

How does blood perfusion map onto canonical features of brain structure and function? @asafarahani.bsky.social investigates @plosbiology.org ⤵️

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Carolina Makowski @cmakowski.bsky.social · Aug 7

Super happy to see our latest research on multivariate brain-behavior patterns in adolescent eating disorders out in Molecular Psychiatry!

🔗Link to paper: rdcu.be/ewxpg

🗣️Lay summary thread of our work: tinyurl.com/dscnhduf

Multivariate patterns linking brain microstructure to temperament and behavior in adolescent eating disorders

Molecular Psychiatry - Multivariate patterns linking brain microstructure to temperament and behavior in adolescent eating disorders

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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · Aug 4

Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Aug 2

Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our new preprint led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social where review the physics and physiology of cortical waves and their implications for psychological function:

osf.io/preprints/ps...

@nsb-lab.bsky.social

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Jake Vogel @jwvogel.bsky.social · Jul 22

‼️NEW PREPRINT‼️

What if you could take a normal 3T T1w MRI and make it look like it was acquired from a 7T scanner?

That's exactly what we do using AI in our new preprint!

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2507.13782

#neuroskyence #neurosky #compneuro #AI #datascience #neurology #mrisky #neuroimaging

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Jul 23

🧬🧠 Our latest study shows that individual brain dynamics are partly written in our genes. We found that heritable neurophysiological traits align with adult cortical gene expression and psychological function.

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

@theneuro.bsky.social @mcgill.ca

Genetic foundations of interindividual neurophysiological variability

Individual brain activity profiles are shaped by lifelong genetic influences.

www.science.org

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Jul 22

Fab new work from @kanepav.bsky.social with @jchrispang.bsky.social looking at how different measures of inter-regional FC are resistant to motion-related noise and how they can improve (or not) BWAS effect sizes. Peep the thread!

Kane @kanepav.bsky.social · Jul 21

New pre-print from @alexfornito.bsky.social, @jchrispang.bsky.social, and myself looking at the sensitivity of different methods used to estimate FC/EC in relation to residual motion artifacts and behavioural prediction
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Motion Sensitivity and Predictive Utility of Different Estimates of Inter-regional Functional Coupling in Resting-state Functional MRI.

Numerous methods exist for quantifying statistical dependencies, termed functional coupling (FC), between regional brain activity recorded with resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-...

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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · Jul 15

New paper!

We introduce an efficient set of statistical features for fMRI time series (calibrated on mouse manipulation experiments and tested on mouse and human data): catchaMouse16.

Paper: doi.org/10.52294/001...

Code (python/Matlab/C): github.com/DynamicsAndN...

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Kane @kanepav.bsky.social · Jul 14

New pre-print from @alexfornito.bsky.social , Toby Constable, Jeggan Tiego, and myself, looking at the psychometric properties of the CBCL in the baseline ABCD cohort. We show that the commonly used CBCL structures fail to meet standards for validity and reliability
osf.io/preprints/ps...

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