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Pravesh Parekh @parekhpravesh.bsky.social · Jun 26

Motion Insensitive Resting-State Analysis (MIRA): meet me at poster 1595 at #OHBM2025 to discuss a new way of performing motion correction for resting state fMRI that effectively removes the confounding effect of motion on rsfMRI derived correlation matrices!

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Pravesh Parekh @parekhpravesh.bsky.social · Jun 24

Meet me at #OHBM2025 poster 689 today/tomorrow to discuss using Fast and Efficient Mixed-Effects Algorithm (FEMA) for mixed-effects modeling with unstructured covariance and splines, perform longitudinal GWAS, and discover time-dependent genetic effects!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Ali Rigby @neuromusicnerd.bsky.social · Jun 24

📅 Fri/Sat June 27th/28th
@parekhpravesh.bsky.social
🧠 “Motion Insensitive Resting-State Analysis (MIRA)”

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Ali Rigby @neuromusicnerd.bsky.social · Jun 24

Posters:
📅 W/Th June 25th/26th
@cmakowski.bsky.social
🧠 “Multivariate patterns linking brain microstructure to behavior in adolescent eating disorders”
@parekhpravesh.bsky.social
🧠 “Modeling time-varying covariance with FEMA for large-scale longitudinal imaging and omics data”

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Ali Rigby @neuromusicnerd.bsky.social · Jun 24

Don’t miss more exciting research and discussion from our team:

Roundtable Discussion:
@cmakowski.bsky.social & @parekhpravesh.bsky.social
📅 Thursday, June 26th | ⏰ 13:00 - 14:00
“Shaping the Future of the ABCD Study: A Roundtable Discussion”

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Ali Rigby @neuromusicnerd.bsky.social · Jun 24

Stoked to be attending #OHBM2025 this week with our UCSD / JCVI team! If you’re here, be sure to stop by my poster to see some cool work from our lab using GAMMs:
📅 W/Th June 25th/26th
🧠 "Nonlinear age trajectories of subcortical microstructural and morphometric changes in the ABCD study"

Brisbane cityscape with the Brisbane sign in the foreground

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christine liu @christineliu.art · May 29

We are also raising money to support undergrads at UCSF this summer!

Help me, @neuronush.bsky.social and @quexarce.bsky.social buy ice cream and pizza for our little community of undergraduate researchers!

20% of sales for the rest of the month will go towards our programs!!!

Ximena Garcia Arceo @quexarce.bsky.social · May 29

My friend @christineliu.art and fellow IRACDA scholar (oof rip) designs wonderful wearable messages! The enamel pins especially make nice gifts for recent grads 👀

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Two Photon Art

From fun science enamel pins and patches to colorful zines explaining scientific concepts, we like to explore a multitude of science communication avenues and make them worth coveting!

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Ali Rigby @neuromusicnerd.bsky.social · May 16

Check out our new preprint👇, work led by the incredible @parekhpravesh.bsky.social !!

Pravesh Parekh @parekhpravesh.bsky.social · May 16

Introducing FEMA-Long for high-dimensional large-scale mixed-effects modelling! Includes modelling unstructured covariance, non-linear effects using splines, time-dependent effects with spline interactions, and longitudinal GWAS with time-dependent genetic effects!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

FEMA-Long: Modeling unstructured covariances for discovery of time-dependent effects in large-scale longitudinal datasets

Linear mixed-effects (LME) models are commonly used for analyzing longitudinal data. However, most applications of LME models rely on random intercepts or simple, e.g., stationary, covariance. Here, w...

www.biorxiv.org

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Nancy Padilla-Coreano @drnancypadilla.bsky.social · May 16

This interview with the neuroscience legend Dr Eve Marder is absolutely worth your time.

Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · May 14

Check out our latest profile! Dr. Eve Marder studies the stability and flexibility of neural circuit function. Follow the link below to learn more!

www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

#StoriesofWiN #WomenInNeuroscience #WomenInNeuro

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Trinh Nguyen @trinhnguyen.bsky.social · May 8

Check out our new preprint on how infants respond to music over the first year of life! 👶🧠💃🎶
While neural responses are pretty much ready to go in the youngest, moving to music takes a bit longer, becoming more complex and potentially more dance-like by 12 months. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Development of Auditory and Spontaneous Movement Responses to Music over the First Year of Life

Humans across cultures not only share the ability to recognise music but also respond to it through movement. While the sensory encoding of music is well-studied, when and how infants naturally start ...

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · Apr 22

wild to see my entire peer network in neuroscience having their funding terminated (or about to be terminated)

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Mar 23

I'm organizing a "Data for Good Rapid Response Team", i.e. a set of people who can be mobilized to work on short data science projects to help various groups and organizations. Sign up here if this is of interest to you, and please share with others with data science skills.

Data-for-good rapid response team

I'm collecting people with data science skills who may want to hear about sporadic opportunities to use their skills for good on short projects. Project themes will center on topics I am connected wit...

docs.google.com

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · Mar 21

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.

If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.

Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

Cancelled NIH grant information submission form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Mar 18

If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations.

Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers.

Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

March 21, 2-3 pm ET: What to do when your federal grant has been stopped or terminated

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Sarah Hennessy @hennessysarah.bsky.social · Mar 14

Excited to share that dissertation work is published in Human Brain Mapping! Self-selected nostalgic music engaged the DMN, reward network, and MTL in younger and older adults. With @assalh.bsky.social, @jonaskaplan.bsky.social, Petr Janata, and Talia Ginsberg
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Music‐Evoked Nostalgia Activates Default Mode and Reward Networks Across the Lifespan

Music-evoked nostalgia activates the default mode network, reward network, medial temporal lobe, and supplementary motor regions of the brain more than non-nostalgic but familiar music that sounds mu....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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The Kavli Foundation @kavlifoundation.org · Mar 14

It’s #BrainAwarenessWeek! Today, we're highlighting songbirds as a key model organism in #neuroscience research. These vocal learners help scientists study how the brain processes speech, learning, and memory. #KavliNeuro #BAW

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Mar 14

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.

☎️: (202) 224-3121

Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.

The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.

Call retiring Senators too!

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Ali Rigby @neuromusicnerd.bsky.social · Mar 11

Super cool!!

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Ali Rigby @neuromusicnerd.bsky.social · Mar 8

Check out our review to learn about all things joint music making! 🎶

Giacomo Novembre @giacomonovembre.bsky.social · Mar 7

🎶 Everything you ever wanted to know about Joint Music Making—but were afraid to ask! 🎶

A comprehensive review by Sara Abalde, @neuromusicnerd.bsky.social , @perikeller.bsky.social rikeller.bsky.social & me, bridging behavioural findings, neural processes, and computational models (link below).

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Mar 1

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel

It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Ali Rigby @neuromusicnerd.bsky.social · Feb 24

Grad school applicants 👇

Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · Feb 24

If you're a good school applicant who has been impacted by the funding freezes, you can fill out this form to help publicize your story: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Ida Momennejad @neuroai.bsky.social · Feb 22

Principal researchers inside and outside academia: do you know groups self-organizing to protect academic science in the US? How can we connect and mobilize? Could you share your thoughts? 🧬🔬🔭🧪🧠🤖

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · Feb 9

F99/R00 AND K99/R00 DIVERSITY AWARD APPLICANTS

If you have applied for a F99/R00 or K99/R00 Diversity award and the study section for review is not listed on your eRA Commons page, please reach out to me.

DM me, email [email protected], Signal jeremymberg.78

THANK YOU

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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · Feb 8

New essay on NIH and indirect costs:
goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

Indirect Costs at NIH . . .

I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night:

goodscience.substack.com

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Mason Youngblood @masonyoungblood.bsky.social · Feb 6

Andy Whiten and I wrote a @science.org perspective about a cool new study from @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social et al! They found humpback whale song has language-like statistical structure, using methods inspired by infant language learning 🐋🎶 Links below ⬇️

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