Thanks, @gangchen6.bsky.social for leading the charge on pointing out and detailing several really important things to think about at the heart of FMRI studies and interpretation.

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

If you’d like to write a commentary to accompany our new article arguing for a rethinking of how we approach understanding visual function in occipitotemporal cortex, now is your chance!

Cool work, and particularly after some recent discussions at OHBM, it is really nice to see all of transparent threshold, beta-weight overlay coloration and two-tailed tests used together in the results reporting. Helps me (and maybe others) see the whole picture clearly.

Indeed, so happy to see this elegant article by @misicbata.bsky.social . It resonate and persuades.

Looking forward to #OHBM2025 in Brisbane next week! My lab is recruiting a postdoc & neuroimaging analyst/developer to support our NIH funded work in fMRI-based Alzheimer's biomarker development (NIA R01AG083919). Email or DM if you want to meet up in Brisbane! www.statmindlab.com/join-us

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

**FMRI/neuroimaging folks** Quick reminder @ the next AFNI Bootcamp: May 28-30, 2025. Learn through interactive data analysis! Day 1-2: data viz, single subject analysis and QC. Day 3: statistics, results reporting and group analysis. Details, registration and schedule: afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp

We are pleased to announce the next AFNI Bootcamp, May 28-30, 2025. First 2 days: data visualization, single subject analysis and QC. 3rd day: statistics, results reporting and group analysis. Please see here for details, registration link and preliminary schedule: afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp

Who knew that breathing was so important? Well, at least in FMRI it is... Nice work by @brightmg.bsky.social & Co!

Nice work, @gangchen6.bsky.social !

"Highlight, don't hide" @gangchen6.bsky.social makes an impassioned argument that thresholding (reflective of a "binary" yes/no approach to analysis) holds back our science, making it less transparent and less reproducible. Instead, be a facilitator - share uncertainty and evidence! #SANS2025

The result of a large (42 authors!) collaboration: "Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation" arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824 TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.

Excellent folks to work with!

Likely hiring one postbac trainee for @fmri-today.bsky.social's Section on Functional Imaging Methods. Give the relatively later start time for the search, I'm not yet sure how quickly this search will happen. If you are interested, apply and reach out ASAP. fim.nimh.nih.gov

Do you like genes and estimating heritability? Then @gangchen6.bsky.social and D. Moraczewski have important news for you. Conventional estimation methods ignore measurement error, leading to a bias. Don't worry: hierarchical modeling to the rescue! www.frontiersin.org/journals/gen...

It's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help contextualize your neuroimaging findings 🧠

Pretty stunning!

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Catriona L. Scrivener and Edward H. Silson: Opponent visuospatial coding structures responses during memory recall and visual perception in medial parietal cortex doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Excited to announce the 500th paper published by Imaging Neuroscience ! @imagingneurosci.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social We've come a long way in a short time and are hugely grateful to the neuroimaging community for your support. Hope to see lots of you at OHBM @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

People from my lab did a wonderful job on Brain Week teaching about the problems with substance use. A major effort on their part.

If anyone wants a fun activity in DC over the next couple months, The Textile Museum (at GW) is celebrating its 100th anniversary with an amazing set of, well, textiles from around the globe. Incredible craftsmanship, science, skill & cultural heritages on display. (Museum is free! Open Tue-Sat.)

Today is amazing grad student Paul LaFosse's last lab meeting. Here's cool data he showed: Paul used 2p holographic optogenetics (laser stim) to select and stimulate this neuron in a working brain. This ability to change neural activity is key to understanding brains. To understanding #AI too. 🧪

New preprint from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This was led by former Bachelor student Débora Elizarrarás and postdoc César Carranza. Here we wanted to study structural brain changes in opiod self-administration. Specifically if there was a link between MRI volume and neuroinflamation.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... awesome new work out today! From the Lee lab in the intramural research program at NIMH!

Here are some cool animations I made a couple years ago for teaching DAG-based causal inference Confounding!

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Michael C. Freund, Todd S. Braver, et al: Complementary benefits of multivariate and hierarchical models for identifying individual differences in cognitive control doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Nice episode of @ohbmofficial.bsky.social Neurosalience podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/5vkr.... Funny when @fmri-today.bsky.social mentioned edge time series, Vesa said "ah, the CAPS", which in turn are rbetas www.frontiersin.org/journals/phy.... We can't help finding new names for the same stuff

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yuhui Chai, Bradley P. Sutton, et al: Blood nulling versus tissue suppression: Enhancing integrated VASO and perfusion (VAPER) contrast for laminar fMRI doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Maybe slightly odd timing, but we'd like to announce: A new AFNI Bootcamp for FMRI/MRI, Jan 29-31, 2025. This part will focus on group analysis, statistics, surface analyses, results reporting and more. This event will be virtual. Please see here: discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov/t/afni-bootc...

💰 Publish with Ease, Pay Less 💰 📚 At Aperture Neuro, we believe in making quality research accessible to everyone. That's why we keep our publishing costs low, without compromising on the peer review process. 📝 Submit your work today: apertureneuro.org/for-authors @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Other folks having website issues with OHBM abstract submission?

Cool project on fundamental imaging properties for neonates.

PLOS to move away from APC model. PLOS moves designed to make publishing equitable. plos.org/redefining-p... #ScientificPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

#MRITogether Day 2 (2/2) program is also full of excellent speakers, including my new supervisor @martinhebart.bsky.social 😆 Please join us in this free, fantastic event! Even if it is just to attend a session, make sure you register to access our webinar: mritogether.esmrmb.org/24m/registra...

The NIMH Office of Fellowship Training is launching the new NIMH Cohort Program for Advancing Scientific Excellence (CPASE) for prospective postbaccalaureate fellows! Apply between October 1, 2024 - January 13, 2025. Learn more and apply: go.nih.gov/c07YNAj

It's hard to sum up the amount of work that has gone into afni_proc.py since 2006, via Rick Reynolds, @bobcoxauthor.bsky.social , @gangchen6.bsky.social & many others. But its goal is simple: to help neuroimagers process+understand+check FMRI data. Hope these examples & descriptions are useful.

Have data with a bunch of covariates. Does it matter which you include? (Hint: yes!) How do you know what to include? @gangchen6.bsky.social and Zhengchen Cai lead us into the realm of causal inference modeling, with a handy guideline list. I hope this becomes a bigger topic in the field!

🧠 Come work with us! In addition to our postdoc position on modelling, our lab at @institutpasteur.bsky.social we also seek a postdoc to help us create the most complete open atlas of brain folding development! This is part of our ERC Synergy project Unfold (unfold-lab.github.io). Join us! (1/10)

We are looking for a postdoc to join our team! If you're interested in NHP, chemogenetics, and/or Parkinson's, we'd love to hear from you.

Hello new followers! We have positions available in my lab for one postdoc and 2-3 postbacs to start over the next year and lead studies on pain & emotion using high field MRI. Join us! www.nccih.nih.gov/about/jobs/p...

🚨 Call for Papers: Special Issue on Open Datasets 🚨 Aperture Neuro and Open Science SIG invite submissions in the form of original research, reviews, code, short communications, and more! 🖱️ Visit our website for more details: apertureneuro.org/pages/731-sp...

New layer-fMRI manuscript focusing on Fuzzy Ripple artifacts. Arguably the biggest challenge in layer-fMRI acquisition. Every layer-fMRI dataset has them, they limit resolution and TR, and we shows how to mitigate them. doi.org/10.1101/2024... #Layer_fMRI_Artifact_of_the_Week