🏔️ Announcing IST 2026 in the Canadian Rockies! The 2nd annual meeting of the International Society for Tractography is happening this fall. Following Bordeaux, we’re gathering researchers, clinicians & developers pushing tractography, diffusion MRI & brain connectivity forward.

I am thrilled to announce that our group has received a new grant from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation to study the neural dynamics of vocal learning in children! I am looking for a postdoc to join us in this effort, currently funded for 2 years. Please reach out with CV and letter of interest.

A first for me: a paper I didn't write was published in a supposedly peer-reviewed journal I've never heard of with me as the sole named author. It's a bibliometric analysis of a field that I have done some work in, so there's a plausible connection, but that's not me.

We think of white matter as the highways of the brain. But when we followed development along those highways, we were surprised. The journey is more complex than we thought. My final PhD paper, “Two Axes of White Matter Development”, is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! 🛣️🧠✨ 🔗 bit.ly/wm2axes

🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update. On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R 📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... #RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪

Applications for NeuroHackademy 2026 are now open! This is a two-week NIH-funded summer experience that combines neuroimaging and data science in a summer school / experiential hackathon: neurohackademy.org/apply/ @uwpsychology.bsky.social @uwescience.bsky.social

My first preprint is out! Thank you to my brilliant collaborators & mentors for making this possible @vmarchman.bsky.social @arokem.org @jyeatman.bsky.social, as well as everyone behind the awesome open source software that we use @pennlinc.bsky.social @cieslakmatt.bsky.social (& many not on bsky)

🚨 I'm searching for a full-time research coordinator to join my group & work on precision brain 🧠 network and cognitive control projects at both 3T and 7T. Please rt 🙌 Applications due: Feb. 26 Start date: flexible, as early as June More 👇 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

This is a fantastic interview in which a 300-page book is summarized into 15 minutes of (very fast!) talking. What I really came here to ask though is whether "asshole to appetite" is an existing idiom, or did CD make that up?

@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"

Join us for the #NeuroHackademy Neuroimaging and Data Science networking event at this year's @sfn.org meeting. Tues. Nov. 18th from 7–9pm at the Marriott Marquis, Grand Ballroom 4. The event is free; food and drink will be available for purchase from the hotel.

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉 📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH... 🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

We've been experimenting and improving our practices in building healthy relationships with open source communities, here's our latest thinking on how we approach this important topic!

Excited to share that my TEDx talk is finally available online. I loved sharing what the science shows us: that it's time to reframe adolescence - from problem to ✨ potential ✨ 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8V...

New paper alert! This paper describes the work that we have been doing in the last few years to create a software ecosystem for tractometry that is extensible, interoperable, and generally useful.

NeuroHackademy 2025 started today! Our 10th summer school/hackathon in neuroimaging and data science @uwescience.bsky.social, the 8th supported by NIH/NIMH. You can follow along, with videos of lectures in this YouTube playlist, posted almost as soon as they happen: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Are you leading an #OpenScience initiative advancing the field of #neuroscience? Don’t miss this opportunity to be recognized for your contributions. Submit your application for the Neuro-Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes today! 👉Apply now! -link in comments #neurology #datasharing

What an amazing resource! Kudos to everyone who made this a reality, and thanks for diving into all the technical details in this paper.

In @ohbmossig.bsky.social's first Open Datasets Special Issue paper, Wearn et al. introduce the OHBM Time Machine, a freely accessible archive of Annual Meeting content on YouTube: doi.org/10.52294/001... @alfiewearn.bsky.social @sitek.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social @stephforkel.bsky.social

Excited to take part in this special issue! Read what I think human brain mapping should do about the impending Singularity

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 💫

if you're a PhD student or postdoc working at the interface of personality psychology and CS/ML (construed broadly on both sides), and are interested in doing a full-time, remote, 3 - 6 month internship/residency at MidJourney, please DM me some kind of resume or CV-like thing

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

This work has really changed the way I think about this data and about brain development. I hope it will make us all think more about these kinds of details and links between different aspects of the brain. I am incredibly proud and grateful for this collaboration with Audrey et al.!

Learn more about our Neurohackademy, a data science and neuroimaging workshop, from this Flux podcast episode featuring our very own @arokem.org and Noah Benson. sensitiveperiods.buzzsprout.com/2024695/epis...

(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

We are building a strong AI in Medical Imaging (AIMI) research community at Cornell in NYC, and I’m pleased to share that we will soon be accepting applications for the Cornell NYC AIMI Fellowship—an independent postdoctoral position designed to support the next generation of researchers.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Maya Yablonski, Jason D. Yeatman, et al: Fast and reliable quantitative measures of white matter development with magnetic resonance fingerprinting doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Learn more and apply here: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i... Great lecturers for key skills: Hannah Bayer, Patrick Mineault, Yael Niv, Megan Peters, and your hosts Gunnar Blohm and Konrad Kording, and of course networking with an amazing group of 30 other professors.

Hi there, Bluesky! We are the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. We provide data science and AI resources as well as expertise to UW researchers from all fields of study. Follow us to hear more about our upcoming seminars, tutorials, and research collaborations!

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

The scipy conference is one of the most welcoming and most inspiring conferences I have ever attended. It's at the center of a network of collaborators that work together across many different disciplines and sectors to improve scientific computing openly and broadly.

📣 The #SciPy2025 Call For Proposals is OPEN! ✨ 👉 Submit your talk, poster or tutorial in our website: https://buff.ly/3W5Lsl9 👀 Deadline for submission: February 26, 2025!

Some years ago I wrote a simple R app to explore colors in HCL space. While it's clunky, it still is my preferred way of selecting colors, because it offers features other color selectors don't normally have. Today, thanks to shinylive, the app is available standalone. 🧵

My paper with @mikearcaro.bsky.social exploring the organization of pulvino-cortical connections in newborn human infants is now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Applications to SWDB 2025 are due February 1st! Tell all your grad student and postdoc friends to apply!

Human cortical pyramidal neurons are larger, with more elaborate branching, and distinct nonlinear biophysical properties compared to rat cortical pyramidal neurons. Are they more functionally complex? Could that boost the human brain’s computational power? and is that what makes us human? (1/11)

The ROAR team produced an introductory video intended for teachers and school administrators but we also hope it’s informative for the research community. Please DM me with any feedback or suggestions! youtu.be/mTyRmyBRHS0?...

1/ I’m thrilled to share our new MRI study by Shachar Moskovich! We propose a method to approximate quantitative MRI (qMRI) parameters (R1 & R2) using widely available clinical and large-scale datasets, leveraging weighted MRI images like T1w, T2w, & PDw. doi.org/10.1002/hbm....

I am so incredibly proud of my team! ROAR emerged from a decade of cognitive neuroscience research into the mechanisms of reading disabilities. Now, with over 30 contributors and a half dozen publications, ROAR has just been approved as a dyslexia screener for the state of CA! www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cl/

It was great to chat with @thekirbylab.bsky.social about @introtobn.bsky.social! Its a great open access educational tool developed by a group of diverse authors, reviewers and undegrads! #neuroskyence 🧠

I am trying to develop software in R, and figured out how to use what I consider to be a minimal viable development workflow, but it's still kinda clunky. How do y'all do it? #rstats arokem.github.io/rokem-resear...

I propose we switch from saying preprint / published paper to saying publish / reprint. "I published my paper on arxiv and I'm hoping to get it reprinted in Nature"

Grateful to the OHBM communications committee (curiously not yet here?) and particularly to @audreycluo.bsky.social for putting together this interview with yours truly: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi..., in which I had the opportunity to hold forth on my educational motivations and philosophy

Neuromatch is looking for a curriculum specialist for our #neuroAI course. Spread the word! acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...

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

Big announcement: Jupyter Book 2.0 has an alpha release 🎉 This is a major overhaul to use the @MystMarkdown engine under the hood. Lots of improvements and lots of changes. If you're willing to try bleeding edge tools, try it out and give feedback! blog.jupyterbook.org/posts/2024-1...

Using Generalized Additive Models in #rstats but unsure how to interpret them? The {marginaleffects} 📦 by @vincentab.bsky.social is your friend ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/interpr...

New preprint led by Kelly Chang! Using www.actagingresearch.org data we show that signal processing that accounts for free water in diffusion MRI of aging brains results in more reliable estimates of tissue properties in major brain pathways and more discriminability between clinical categories.

The Journal of Open Source Software is looking for new editors -- and, relevant to my community here, we're particularly looking for folks with a background in geographic data science, remote sensing, ecology, or urban science blog.joss.theoj.org/2024/10/call... #GISChat #geosky