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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · Aug 10

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Magdalena Martínez-García PhD @magdamartinezga.bsky.social · Aug 3

If you have expertise in MRI/behavioral data collection and are eager to break into the women's brain health/human neuroendocrinology field, this is an outstanding opportunity for you!
Plus you get to live in beautiful Santa Barbara ☀️ 🌊 🌴 ⛰️

Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 1

We’re hiring! Pls share widely:

In conjunction w/ the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social, my team is recruiting a full-time clinical research coordinator to assist with research efforts at UC Santa Barbara. 1-2 yrs experience in MRI data collection preferred.

Submit apps to: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

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Magdalena Martínez-García PhD @magdamartinezga.bsky.social · Aug 7

Excited to share I’ve been awarded a 2-year @bbrfoundation Young Investigator Grant! This will support my work on brain changes linked to perinatal depression, building on my research in human maternal brain. Grateful to be at @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social with Dr. @emilyjacobs.bsky.social !

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 8

Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev

The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes

Neuropsychopharmacology - The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes

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Meenakshi Asokan @meenakshiasokan.bsky.social · Aug 6

Excited to share this profile + interview with Dr. Emily Jacobs! Amazing work on human precision brain imaging across hormonal fluctuations, and such an inspiring story! I had such a great time interviewing her!

Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · Aug 6

Our latest profile just dropped! Dr. Emily Jacobs (‪@emilyjacobs.bsky.social‬) studies how hormonal fluctuations influence the brain. Follow the link below to listen to the full interview!

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

#WomenInNeuroscience #StoriesOfWiN

Dr. Emily Jacobs — Stories of WiN

studies how hormonal fluctuations influence the brain

www.storiesofwin.org

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Aug 1

We’re hiring! Pls share widely:

In conjunction w/ the @bowers-wbhi.bsky.social, my team is recruiting a full-time clinical research coordinator to assist with research efforts at UC Santa Barbara. 1-2 yrs experience in MRI data collection preferred.

Submit apps to: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

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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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Valerie Jill Sydnor @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social · Jul 8

How does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · May 12

Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause.

Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974

Or help us spread the word 💫

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Juliette Brook @juliettebrook.bsky.social · May 6

Dreaming of a dataset that tracks mood, sleep & activity to better understand affective instability (AI)…AND paired with advanced MRI? 🤯
Check out our new bioRxiv preprint for a 13–23 y/o community sample (n=10 and growing!) with multi-echo fMRI, EMA & actigraphy: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · May 3

Amazing opp!! 👇🏼👇🏼

Sheila Shanmugan @sheilashanmugan.bsky.social · Apr 28

We’re hiring a clinical research coordinator to lead a neuroimaging study on brain changes across pregnancy and perinatal depression.

wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

Please RT.

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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · May 2

Awesome opportunity to work on women’s brain health with an absolute star — pls repost

Sheila Shanmugan @sheilashanmugan.bsky.social · Apr 28

We’re hiring a clinical research coordinator to lead a neuroimaging study on brain changes across pregnancy and perinatal depression.

wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

Please RT.

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Sheila Shanmugan @sheilashanmugan.bsky.social · Apr 28

For more information on the background for this study, check out our recent article in Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Sheila Shanmugan @sheilashanmugan.bsky.social · Apr 28

We’re hiring a clinical research coordinator to lead a neuroimaging study on brain changes across pregnancy and perinatal depression.

wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

Please RT.

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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Apr 22

Excited to share that our paper is now in press at the British Journal of Psychiatry! Looking forward to presenting our work this Friday at #SOBP2025 in our symposium: "Does one size fit all? Subgroup Modeling of Brain-Behavior Relationships in Psychiatry" 🧠

#neuroskyence #neuroimaging #psychscisky

Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Oct 13

✨New Preprint!✨ Sex differences in psychiatric disorders often show up in adolescence as disparities in prevalence, symptoms, and treatment outcomes. We aimed to understand sex diffs in brain organization that might lead to these disparities!
t.ly/x6oxC
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#neuroskyence #psychscisky #Neuroimaging

Reproducible Sex Differences in Personalized Functional Network Topography in Youth

Background A key step towards understanding psychiatric disorders that disproportionately impact female mental health is delineating the emergence of sex-specific patterns of brain organization at the...

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Mar 5

THRILLED to see this SI now out addressing the power and potential of focusing our lens on women. H/t to Tali for making space for these ideas to flourish and for a dream team of investigators to contribute!!

Advancing the science of women’s health | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Advancing the science of women’s health

www.science.org

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Mar 5

Dropping 🔥🔥🔥 knowledge @susanacarmona.bsky.social @magdamartinezga.bsky.social @sheilashanmugan.bsky.social Laura Pritschet

Do not miss a slew of top notch papers on the maternal brain in this SI

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/h...

Women With Postpartum Depression Experienced Brain Changes During Pregnancy, Study Finds

The research constitutes some of the first evidence that the condition is associated with modifications in the brain before childbirth.

www.nytimes.com

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Valerie Jill Sydnor @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social · Feb 7

Cortical maturation unfolds hierarchically, endowing the PFC with extended plasticity. But do timeframes of plasticity vary across PFC layers?

With 7T quantitative myelin imaging, EEG, and cognitive data, we uncover heterochronous laminar maturation in the PFC 1/n. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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PennMedCSO @pennmedcso.bsky.social · Feb 11

Congratulations to Christian Kohler (@PennPsych) on his recent induction into the @pennmedicine.bsky.social Academy of Master Clinicians! Learn more about Dr. Kohler & his work here➡️ tinyurl.com/42bt2uc9 #PennMedicineAOMC

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Neuromaternal @neuromaternal.bsky.social · Dec 11

The early postdoctoral Juan de la Cierva call will be opening soon. If you're interested in studying the human maternal brain, please reach out to us. www.aei.gob.es/convocatoria...

Ayudas para contratos Juan de la Cierva 2024 | Agencia Estatal de InvestigaciónBuscar

Las ayudas Juan de la Cierva tienen como finalidad fomentar la incorporación de jóvenes, en posesión del grado de doctor, con objeto de que completen su formación investigadora postdoctoral en centros de I+D españoles.

www.aei.gob.es

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Taylor Salo @tsalo.bsky.social · Dec 3

Here's a starter pack of researchers studying the effects of hormones on the brain with #neuroimaging. Thanks to @sheilashanmugan.bsky.social @angielaird.bsky.social @62442katieb.bsky.social and Laura Pritschet for filling it in. If you want to be added, just reply to this post and I'll add you.

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Sheila Shanmugan @sheilashanmugan.bsky.social · Dec 3

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Dec 3

Our next speaker is the phenom @sheilashanmugan.bsky.social who pairs advanced imaging + reproductive psychiatry and is conducting what is hands down some of THE coolest work in neuro.

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · Dec 3

Hello Bluesky Fam! Come join the monthly Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative Seminar Series for the latest science pairing women’s health + data science. With a global audience of 500 registrants from 35+ countries it’s become an amazing watering hole for the exchange of ideas. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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PennLINC @pennlinc.bsky.social · Nov 22

We're excited to release new versions of our BIDS-Apps for processing and analyzing #dmri data, QSIPrep and QSIRecon! Our team has been working hard to prepare these pipelines to process infant data and bring them in line with the @nipreps.bsky.social ecosystem. #neuroimaging #nipreps #bids 1/10

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