Amazing work led by Jingnan! Pooling in task and rest data can give us a lot of discovery potential like discovering hard to find networks in the thalamus (bulk of my postdoc work with Randy). Task data can be used to define networks and activations from left out runs can be investigated. Cool work!

1/11 Very excited to say that our preprint, Precision functional mapping reveals less inter-individual variability in the child vs. adult human brain, is up on biorxiv!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thank you @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social for being an excellent first co-author!

2/2 - We also found that the larger the increase in connectivity between auditory and other WM networks, the better a person performed in the auditory WM task. But the same was not true for changes in connectivity with the visual network during the visual WM task.

TL;DR 1/2 - It's complicated! Although other explanations are possible, we suggest that auditory WM requires a larger degree of connectivity reorganization than visual WM because frontal auditory regions are not as well-connected to supramodal WM regions at rest.

My 1st first (co)author paper is up on BioRxiv!

How does functional connectivity in the human cortex differ during visual and auditory working memory (WM) tasks? Do those changes correlate with behavior? We take a stab at some answers:

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Finally published:
“Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures”
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations

Does anyone have a good go-to white matter tract atlas? I would love something analogous to Neurosynth but where you can input coordinates and get out white matter connectivity profiles/papers/etc.

Best I could find quickly so far is: dmri.mgh.harvard.edu/tract-atlas/

@mpascale.psyc.dev

Absolutely insane www.science.org/content/arti...

🚨 Dataset & Manuscript alert! 🚨 The Transdiagnostic Connectome Project (TCP) manuscript is now available @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Data! 🎉

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

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"We introduce PECANS (Preferred Evaluation of Cognitive And Neuropsychological Studies)" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40447861/ I love scientific acronyms

"Institution-led investigations (into academic misconduct) are fundamentally conflicted" - we need independent expert investigations for significant misconduct allegations pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40401705/

I just learned that there's a national graduate student crisis line - gradresources.org. Might be worth spreading the word as I'm pretty sure exactly *checks notes* zero grad students are doing well emotionally right now.

Excited to share this new preprint from the lab introducing a highly general spatiotemporal normalization modeling framework that handles continuous dynamic visual input. Beautiful work by Angus Chapman @afchapman.bsky.social Science continues!!

Excited to share our paper on the Connectome based predictive modeling in individuals with Autosomal Dominant AD with amazing collaborators @ytquiroz.bsky.social, David Somers, @joshfoxfuller.bsky.social and team!

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Are short-term memories just noisier versions of what we perceive? Are they fundamentally different? We (Chaipat Chunharas, @mjwolff.bsky.social, @meikehettwer.bsky.social and myself) delved into this in a paper out now in #elife: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre.... For a quick summary, a 🧵 below:

If, like me, you (a) oppose research funding cuts to US institutions and (b) are Jewish, please consider signing this open letter: forms.gle/prnRbq69a6YN...

If you are a neuroscientist, please use SFN's site to write to your reps about the importance of funding for science (they have letters ready to go, you can just use theirs or write/edit as you see fit): www.sfn.org/advocacy/adv...

👉 "We ... consider two requirements of group-to-individual generalizability ... and suggest that most processes in cognitive neuroscience do not meet these assumptions. Consequently, interindividual findings are inappropriate for intraindividual inferences"

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"Don’t hide the good stuff: Scientific advancement in task-based fMRI is slowed by not showing event-related BOLD (erBOLD) changes alongside anatomical patterns" (new[ish] on @jocnforum.bsky.social ] doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately.
There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event.
Join us!
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So glad this review paper on the possible use of Default Mode Network functional connectivity as a transdiagnostic biomarker was published in Biological Psychiatry: CNNI.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...