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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 2d

For all the knucklehead reviewers out there.
Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller
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#neuroscience

Principles for proper peer review

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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 1d

Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Dense longitudinal neuroimaging reveals individual brain change trajectories

Longitudinal measurements of brain structure and function are critical for understanding how humans change over time. Traditional longitudinal approaches sample sparsely across large windows of time t...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 5d

A study in Nature Mental Health uses data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development cohort study to evaluate the relationship between state-level income inequality, brain structure and function, and mental health in young people. go.nature.com/4872wyh 🧪

This is figure 3, which shows neural mediators of the link between income inequality and mental health problems 18 months later.

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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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Neuropsychopharmacology @npp-journal.bsky.social · 9d

This recent 🔥 Hot Topic 🔥 highlights how moving from 🧠 scans to clinically actionable biomarkers will require neurodevelopmental research to go beyond biology & integrate socio-cultural context

Integration of developmental and socio-cultural factors that confer risk for mental illness

Neuropsychopharmacology - Integration of developmental and socio-cultural factors that confer risk for mental illness

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Maria Perica @mariaperica.bsky.social · 10d

Lots of good suggestions here already but just jumping in
to add that your neighbor always has the option of joining a coworking space/working from a coffeeshop or library! Just throwing it out there that they have options on their end so hopefully you don’t feel too responsible.

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Maria Jalbrzikowski @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social · 14d

I’ll be at #SRP2025 if you’d like to chat about this position! Anyone graduating soon and interested in a stable, long term high level position (but doesn’t want to be a PI) would be purrrrfect for this position!!!!

Maria Jalbrzikowski @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social · Sep 3

NeRD lab has a new opening for a long-term position! Clinical Research Manager - need 5+ years of research experience and masters or PhD. Please repost! I'm so excited to find someone who can help me manage the day-to-day research activities in the lab! jobs.bostonchildrens.org/job/22350688...

Clinical Research Manager I

Careers at Boston Children’s Hospital will help you reach your goals – both in and out of the workplace.

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David Baranger @davidbaranger.bsky.social · 13d

Excited to share that I am officially recruiting a postdoc to study the neurobiology of addiction! Looking for someone who would be excited to lead current projects in the lab and develop new directions in related areas.
More info: bearlab.science/opportunities/

Opportunities

Interested in the neuroscience of addiction? We are recruiting at all levels!! Reach out to Dr. Baranger – [email protected] Postdoctoral fellows/Senior Scientists: Please send an email conta…

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Whitney Ringwald @whitneyringwald.bsky.social · 14d

✨✨ New paper out in JPSP! ✨✨

Despite rich theory on links between temperament and personality, they're rarely studied together. This has left major unaddressed questions.

We tackled these questions by looking at how temperament and personality develop together from ages 10-26.

Brief thread...

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Maria Perica @mariaperica.bsky.social · 15d

Damn, I used to intern for R!A back in the day. Thats super disappointing to hear.

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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...

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Maria Perica @mariaperica.bsky.social · 22d

Attention prospective grad students!! Go work with Jamie!! You won’t regret it :)

Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · 23d

🚨 GRADUATE PHD APPLICATIONS OPEN 🚨
I'm accepting students for the next psychology PhD admissions cycle! If you're passionate about developmental neuroscience and clinical psychology, this might be for you 👇
#GradSchool #Psychology #Research /1

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Janik Goltermann @janikgoltermann.bsky.social · 22d

🧠Out now @natcomms.nature.com !
Brain changes linked to childhood maltreatment are among the field's most published findings. Yet, we find extensive replication failure of gray matter correlates in three large cohorts (N=3225), consistent across subsamples, models and operationalizations🧵

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amar ojha @amarojha.bsky.social · 24d

How does human amygdala circuitry develop through adolescence to support affective and cognitive control processes? Excited to share recent work from my dissertation, now out in Cell Reports, that uses longitudinal, multimodal neuroimaging at 7 Tesla to answer this question! A 🧵 tinyurl.com/5aaf9fpv

Human amygdala nuclei show distinct developmental trajectories from adolescence to adulthood in functional integration with prefrontal circuitry

Ojha et al. use longitudinal 7 T neuroimaging to characterize distinct developmental trajectories of fronto-amygdala connectivity across nuclei through adolescence. They identify how age-related conne...

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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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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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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 Excited to share the latest preprint form the lab ➡️https://tinyurl.com/32d3be9f

Here we tackle a long-standing chicken-or-egg 🐣🥚question in #autism and developmental neuroscience

➡️ Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence" of #autism?

Check out what we found!
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Steve W. C. Chang @stevewcchang.bsky.social · 26d

Excited to share this super comprehensive review of psychedelic research in NHPs! W/ Alex Kwan. This work was by our grad student Jamie who is passionate about psychedelics. Her in-depth knowledge is impressive as reflected here.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Psychedelic studies in nonhuman primates: Past and future

Molecular Psychiatry - Psychedelic studies in nonhuman primates: Past and future

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MUSC Youth Collaborative @muscyouthcollab.bsky.social · 27d

Hi @bsky.app! 👋 We’re the MUSC Youth Collaborative. We study how substance use affects the developing brain and work to turn research into practical education and prevention programs for young people. Excited to share our work and connect with you here!
#Neuroscience #YouthResearch #ScienceEducation

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Posit @posit.co · Sep 4

🎉 We added a Virtual Day to posit::conf(2025)!

🗓️ Tues, Sept 16 = talks, trivia, & hangouts.
AMA with @richmeister.bsky.social & more.

Also? Discord is open to all! Come join us.

🔗 Event portal: pos.it/conf-event-p...
🔗 Virtual Day info: posit.co/blog/posit-c...

#positconf2025 #rstats #python

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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sad day for peope who still believe brain areas are the primary organizational units of function in the brain.

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

A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature

The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...

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Maria Jalbrzikowski @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Maria Jalbrzikowski @mjalbrzikowski.bsky.social · Sep 3

NeRD lab has a new opening for a long-term position! Clinical Research Manager - need 5+ years of research experience and masters or PhD. Please repost! I'm so excited to find someone who can help me manage the day-to-day research activities in the lab! jobs.bostonchildrens.org/job/22350688...

Clinical Research Manager I

Careers at Boston Children’s Hospital will help you reach your goals – both in and out of the workplace.

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · Sep 2

Announcing the next AFNI Bootcamp: Sep 23-25, 2025.

Free, open & virtual.

This "Part 1" will focus on basic visualization and single subject FMRI processing, including discussions of alignment, templates, regression, ROIs and quality control.

Details & registration: afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp

AFNI Bootcamp: Sep. 23-25, 2025 | afni.nimh.nih.gov

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · Aug 25

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life?

Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social)
Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients into Clear Quantities

Abstract
Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear models, but is more challenging for more complex models with, for example, categorical variables, interactions, non-linearities, and hierarchical structures. Here, we introduce an alternative approach to making sense of statistical models. The central idea is to abstract away from the mechanics of estimation, and to treat models as “counterfactual prediction machines,” which are subsequently queried to estimate quantities and conduct tests that matter substantively. This workflow is model-agnostic; it can be applied in a consistent fashion to draw causal or descriptive inference from a wide range of models. We illustrate how to implement this workflow with the marginaleffects package, which supports over 100 different classes of models in R and Python, and present two worked examples. These examples show how the workflow can be applied across designs (e.g., observational study, randomized experiment) to answer different research questions (e.g., associations, causal effects, effect heterogeneity) while facing various challenges (e.g., controlling for confounders in a flexible manner, modelling ordinal outcomes, and interpreting non-linear models).

Figure illustrating model predictions. On the X-axis the predictor, annual gross income in Euro. On the Y-axis the outcome, predicted life satisfaction. A solid line marks the curve of predictions on which individual data points are marked as model-implied outcomes at incomes of interest. Comparing two such predictions gives us a comparison. We can also fit a tangent to the line of predictions, which illustrates the slope at any given point of the curve.

A figure illustrating various ways to include age as a predictor in a model. On the x-axis age (predictor), on the y-axis the outcome (model-implied importance of friends, including confidence intervals).

Illustrated are
1. age as a categorical predictor, resultings in the predictions bouncing around a lot with wide confidence intervals
2. age as a linear predictor, which forces a straight line through the data points that has a very tight confidence band and
3. age splines, which lies somewhere in between as it smoothly follows the data but has more uncertainty than the straight line.

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Bertoglio lab (FMC/UFSC) @bertogliolab.bsky.social · Aug 20

Exploring the therapeutic potential of psychedelics in treating substance use disorders
doi.org/10.1038/s413...

Exploring the therapeutic potential of psychedelics in treating substance use disorders - Molecular Psychiatry

Molecular Psychiatry - Exploring the therapeutic potential of psychedelics in treating substance use disorders

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