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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Sep 5

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.

We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.

Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Sep 5

🔥ATTENTION!🔥

Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open!

Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns.

Details:
tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6

Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...

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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · Jun 24

We're very excited to share this work and happy to hear your feedback! If you're attending #OHBM2025, @ahmadsamara.bsky.social will be presenting a poster on this project (poster #804, June 25 and 26)—be sure to stop by and chat with him about it!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.biorxiv.org

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OHBM Brain Art @ohbmbrainart.bsky.social · May 27

🚀📢 The call for submissions to our #BrainArt Competition is officially OPEN 🎉

📆 Submit your work by June 9 using this form! forms.gle/CFTyLK6LQwTC...

🖥️ For more info and details about how to participate, visit our website!!! ohbm-brainart.github.io/competition....

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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · Jun 4

New preprint from the Hasson Lab🪄Delineates coupling b/w regions within the language network AND shows the elements of language that connect them. Led by
@ahmadsamara.bsky.social; thanks @samnastase.bsky.social
Zaid Zada & Uri Hasson. 💥

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · Jun 3

Clean Coding - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...

Clean coding

Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 3, Part 2

open.substack.com

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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · Jun 3

We are seeking a scientific coordinator for my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig 😊🧠🌈

Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc!

Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?

Scientific Coordinator (m/f/d) Part-time (50%) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften

recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com

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Yuan Chang Leong @ycleong.bsky.social · May 7

@shangao.bsky.social developed a predictive model that maps prefrontal fNIRS activity to whole-brain fMRI during movie-watching! we now show that the model generalizes across samples and movies!

Shan Gao | 高珊 @shangao.bsky.social · May 7

Now out in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN)! academic.oup.com/scan/advance...

Predicting whole-brain neural dynamics from prefrontal cortex fNIRS signal during movie-watching

Abstract. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) offers a portable, cost-effective alternative to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for n

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Randy McIntosh @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social · Apr 10

By Attacking Science, Poilievre Takes a Page from Trump's Playbook via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

By Attacking Science, Poilievre Takes a Page from Trump’s Playbook | The Tyee

Professors find this chilling and warn of the costs.

thetyee.ca

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WinstanleyLab @unidentifieditem.bsky.social · Apr 10

Here's the link to the piece @liisagalea.bsky.social and I wrote for The Tyee on the threats to medical research funding buried in the Conservative party platform 😬

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · Apr 10

If elected, Poilievre’s government will “put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and federal funds for university research.”

The phrase is almost identical to wording used by the Trump administration.

Catharine Winstanley and @liisagalea.bsky.social write.

By Attacking Science, Poilievre Takes a Page from Trump’s Playbook | The Tyee

Professors find this chilling and warn of the costs.

thetyee.ca

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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · Apr 7

Grad student applicants from the US:
University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) has re-opened applications for Master's and PhD programs (e.g., biomed engineering, genetics). Info sessions Apr. 15th w/ current US students: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

Stable, awesome environment!!

US Applicant Week

www.grad.ubc.ca

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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · Mar 13

📢 The Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab is hiring! 📢

We're seeking a full-time Research Specialist/Lab Manager to study naturalistic conversation, social cognition, and spontaneous thought.

More info here: psnlab.princeton.edu/join-us

Please apply and share!

Join Us

Thanks for your interest in joining our lab! At the Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab, we believe that our science is better with a diverse team. We embrace and encourage our lab members’ differences ...

psnlab.princeton.edu

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · Mar 14

1/ Why are so many scientists silent on the climate crisis?

We interviewed neuroscientists @anne-urai.bsky.social & @clarekelly.bsky.social on their participatory workshops designed to stimulate scientists from awareness to activism.
buff.ly/SSf99Q2

Activism and Science: Anne Urai and Clare Kelly on responding to the climate and biodiversity crises

How an economic framework may inspire new ways to tackle the climate crisis.

elifesciences.org

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Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social · Jan 24

Interested in understanding what brain activity during movies means from the perspective of the viewer? Then you absolutely need check out this amazing study by @ravenwallace.bsky.social from THinC Lab out now in @elife.bsky.social

A thread 🧵

elifesciences.org/articles/97731

Mapping patterns of thought onto brain activity during movie-watching

Decoding brain activity using a novel paradigm unveils distinct neural signatures of subjective experiences during movie-watching.

elifesciences.org

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Amy Kuceyeski @amykooz.bsky.social · Jan 7

As co-director of AI at the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative, I want women in data science to flourish. We thus launch the #WiDSDatathon 2025 Global challenge - open to all levels - now on Kaggle! Entrants will predict ADHD via fMRI, with sex differences in mind. youtu.be/ESbiTbnlbdM

WiDS Datathon 2025: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Female Brain

YouTube video by Women in Data Science Worldwide

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Adam Steel @neurosteel.bsky.social · Jan 7

Have you wondered where scene perception and memory intersect in the brain?

Do you want to localize these areas?

In a preprint, @carolinerobertson.bsky.social, Deepa Prasad, Brenda Garcia, and I detail this topography and release these parcels and our localizer.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · Jan 4

I love it when a data-driven, methods-heavy paper ALSO starts with a Pissarro quote. This is great stuff, and likely of interest to many of us in the naturalistic space....Congrats @sciencebanshee.bsky.social !! 💥

Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Jan 2

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Sarah Faber, A.R. McIntosh, et al:

Mapping multi-modal dynamic network activity during naturalistic music listening

direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Jan 2

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Hallee Shearer, Tamara Vanderwal, et al:

Comparing reliability-based measures of functional connectivity between movie and rest: An ROI-based approach

direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · Jan 3

Great work by @halleeshearer.bsky.social in her first first-author paper. With 🎀 shiny app 🎀 to explore how FC reliability fares ACROSS DIFFERENT movies versus rest, region-by-region. Thanks @sneuroble.bsky.social @tingsterx.bsky.social @ninetlab.bsky.social for 👍 collab.

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

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Adam Turnbull @adamgturnbull.bsky.social · Dec 5

Exciting to see a result I found during my PhD in neurotypical undergraduates related to autistic traits conceptually replicating in autistic individuals!

Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social · Dec 4

Excited about this new paper using Multi-dimensional Experience Sampling to identify differences in thoughts between autistic and non-autistic individuals. This study was led by the awesome Will Strawson (not here yet)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Differences in ongoing thought between autistic and non-autistic adults - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Differences in ongoing thought between autistic and non-autistic adults

www.nature.com

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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · Nov 26

Working on new film project (INSCAPES 2!!). 💥. Does anyone have an audio recording of a modern, commonly used EPI sequence they could share? The composer builds her score around the types of sounds that occur inside the scanner, so I'm trying to get a few for her to listen to...🎵

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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · Oct 25

Check out this group of 6 speakers. 👀

"What's the Big Deal? Emerging themes in child psychiatric neuroimaging research" presented last week @ the American Academy of Child Psychiatry meeting.

Caitlin Taylor, Arielle Keller, Katharina Kircanski, me, Tiffany Ho, Adriana DiMartino. 🍎

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Todd Constable @toddc.bsky.social · Oct 1

Trainees looking for advice on career options should come here this panel! medicine.yale.edu/mrrc/about/s...

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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · Sep 18

🚨I am recruiting PhD students!🚨
(Please re-post this!)

If you are interested in #spatialNavigation, #fMRI, #aging, #virtualReality, #AlzheimersDisease and more, please consider applying to work with me!

IMPORTANT: Please email me prior to applying!

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Peter Molfese @dcneuroscientist.bsky.social · May 31

The NIMH FMRI Summer Course kicked off this week. Checkout the schedule and talks in near real-time online here:
fmrif.nimh.nih.gov/index.php/Su...

SummerCourse - FMRIF

fmrif.nimh.nih.gov

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