Eline Brontsema (Dutch, b.1988) "Blue / Finckensteinallee Swimming Pool," 2024 Woodcut print 67.8 x 51 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Looking forward!

Undergraduate Attendee Awards were awarded to undergraduate students who are from underrepresented minority groups who are interested in research in the area of sex differences and would like to attend the meeting. Awardees from the 2026 OSSD Annual Meeting are Cierra Guinn from Michigan (1/2)

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

Do humans show sex differences in brain activation? If so, are these task-specific or general — and do they relate to sex differences in brain anatomy and behavior? We dove deep into these questions in a new paper just out in Nature Communications | tinyurl.com/3rdrb524

Hasui Kawase (Japanese, 1883 - 1957) "Summer Afternoon at Shimohonda-Cho Kanazawa," 1921 Full color woodblock #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

How does blood flow relate to brain activity? We discovered that it reflects two neural populations affected oppositely by arousal. Together, they explain neurovascular coupling in all brain regions and brain states! Out today in Nature: rdcu.be/fdC2A @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

Way to go @noemirubau.bsky.social and team! This study is going to yield such important and much-needed data! #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #neuroimaging

Happening Tuesday and Wednesday. Links for the online videocast can be found here: bit.ly/4bYlbxw

BREAKING NEWS: Otter receives some really good scritches.

Are you interested in detecting brain changes in individuals with higher precision over shorter intervals? Check out our new paper in Nature Communications. With Randy Buckner, @jingnandu.bsky.social, and others. Link - doi.org/10.1038/s414...

🚨🚨New work just out by the truly stellar Will Snyder - revealing rare and common genetic influences on complexity of human cortical folding !! 🚨🚨 👀 Will’s thread ⬇️ for deets, and to follow on @willsnyder.bsky.social Huge congrats to Will & thnx to fabulous collaborators who made this possible.

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

Louise Moillon (c. 1610–1696) French painter in the Baroque era. One of the best still life painters of her time, she was trained by her father as she was unable to attend academies as a woman- who were thought to lack the ability required for artists #WomensArt

The ggseg ecosystem finally has a proper home! 🧠 For those who don't know, ggseg is an R package ecosystem for visualizing brain atlas data. Think ggplot2, but for brains. #rstats #neuroimaging #openscience

Frances Featherstone (British Artist, born 1976) "A Portal to another World", 2025. Oil on Canvas, 75 × 60 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Statistical Machine Learning post doc positions, w/ Oxford BDI-Novartis Collaboration for AI in Medicine, working on building causal predictive models for MS using a massive clinical trials MRI dataset. Join us on this unique collaboration! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Georgia O’Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1922 #Womensart

Paper accepted! 😊 "Reframing the Free Will Debate: The Universe is Not Deterministic" will appear in Synthese. Final version available here: arxiv.org/abs/2503.19672 - with Henry Potter and George Ellis

So, gonadal type (testes vs. ovaries) and sex chromosome complement (XY vs. XX) represent two strong candidate drivers of phenotypic sex differences in mammals. But how well can these factors explain sex differences in the brain and how much does each contribute to a given difference? …

How do gonads and sex chromosomes contribute to regional sex differences in the brain? 🤔 Our new preprint summarizes >5 years of work on this question, combining structural neuroimaging and snRNAseq within a sample of >850 mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread below …

How do gonads and sex chromosomes contribute to regional sex differences in the brain? 🤔 Our new preprint summarizes >5 years of work on this question, combining structural neuroimaging and snRNAseq within a sample of >850 mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread below …

what's a great album that has predominantly ORANGE cover artwork?

Recorded in 1973 (up the road in Silver Spring, MD) with this plea in the liner notes … “In the interest of national security, please help us carry out our constitutional duty to overthrow the king”. Beautiful, powerful, rousing music.

📣 SAVE THE DATE Next X-inactivation meeting in Sapporo, Japan, 19-23 October 2026. Visit x-inactivation-meeting.org to join our mailing list. 🧬 speakers @dandergassen.bsky.social @marnieblewitt.bsky.social @heard65.bsky.social @crougeulle.bsky.social @sexchrlab.bsky.social @zhouqi1982.bsky.social

Advances in genomics are giving exciting new perspectives on biology of speech, language & reading. My latest peer-reviewed paper is a tutorial, guiding readers from different backgrounds through the history of the field, current state-of-the-art, & where we’re heading. A taster in this thread.🧪 1/n

I wonder if it’ll generalize outside the training dataset

And hats off to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for this fab program. Super important to celebrate and promote these awesome future leaders. Inspiring people, doing crucial work (and currently under some especially challenging circumstances)

So delighted to see @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social and her other glittering peers on this list! Huge congrats to you Val. SO(^zillion) well deserved!!! 🎉🤩💪🏽 www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Had forgotten the epic cavernous slam of this. Brilliant.

This was student initiated and led and I am so proud of what they have done

What a glorious album to loose yourself in. 🌊

New lab paper in DCN! 🧠 We conducted interviews with adolescents to better understand their perceptions of neuroscience research and barriers to participation, w/qualitative data that is shaping how we design lab studies & efforts to increase representation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sea and boat,1988 by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham #womensart

Some news …! 🤗 So excited to get started next year, and very grateful for the opportunity. Looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues - old and new. Watch this space for posting on fully funded positions as the new lab starts up !

This was a fantastic collaboration with lots of people including @hilarycmartin.bsky.social @jakobgrove.bsky.social, Experts by Experience, and several others who I can't seem to find on this app. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new Master's Programme in Brain Health and Disease within the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge. Applications are now open! @camneurodept.bsky.social www.clinical-neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/education/ta...

Check out this great thread on a fresh preprint by @hyolee.bsky.social ! 🤩 Hyo led a new study where we & our fab collaborators take a closer look at sex differences in human cortical volume …

This is an absolutely miraculous meeting! Can’t recommend it highly enough - sizzling science and great peeps … all in middle of paradise.

Adore this whole album, but check out the bowed double bass solo and Trane/Bags trading bars in this, its opening track. Utterly astounding music. The evolving variations as they trade bars - an improvised masterpiece unfolding in real time … youtu.be/jxK7uj2E7fU?...

Tight, hard, and silky smooth all at once. What pop masters of the perfectly placed they were … open.spotify.com/track/1MXwrI...

I have but now haply lighted upon this album, and I would commend it unto thee with all earnestness, that thou give it a hearing … (Get yer baroque on) open.spotify.com/album/3n76cQ...

Challenging Behavior Domains in Individuals With Neurodevelopmental Genetic Syndromes: The Role of Psychological Features - Ferguson - American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....