A week full of gratitude and cheer at the Integrative Neusocience & Technology (INT) Lab, IIT Gandhinagar — celebrating Rhilee’s birthday 🎂 and Teacher’s Day 🙏💫

So true. It's my fourth week of teaching here, I am still struggling before every class.

Glad to share that our study on the brain dynamics during rhythmic breath-based meditation is finally published in npj Mental Health Research. Here, we studied EEG on Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY) practice on 43 subjects. Paper Link: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

🚨 New Preprint 🚨 Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects By Cyr et al. *** Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES? A: Yes! 🧵:

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...

I usually don't get time to read books as much as I would like. Had the opportunity the read one while traveling last few days "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers", a fascinating read about one of the most productive and collaborative mathematicians ever, Paul Erdos!

Join the vibrant set of Neuroscience researchers at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. Great facilities, smart students, colleagues, and a peaceful campus! We are expanding to all areas of Neuroscience. Please apply if interested, share, and reach out if you need more information.

Lego art 🍳 😄

"Even when explicitly prompted for accuracy, most LLMs produced broader generalizations of scientific results than those in the original texts."

We're hiring 2 Postdoctoral Fellows at IIT Gandhinagar's INT Lab! Join us to advance research in NeuroAI or Precision Imaging. Apply by May 30, 2025. Details: tiny.cc/NeuroAI | tiny.cc/PrecisionIma... Apply: tiny.cc/pdf-2

Excited to share our new preprint called "Temporal Synchronization Analysis: A Model-Free Method for Detecting Robust and Nonlinear Brain Activation in fMRI Data". biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My picture of a Great Blue Heron catching a fish at Izaak Walton Nature Area in Longmont, Colorado, made the Audubon Society’s 2024 Photo Awards top 100 pictures. www.audubon.org/magazine/202...

It has been a month since I joined IIT Gandhinagar, so much goes behind Professoring that people don't usually see. Highlighting all the activities of the past month: - Interviewed about 50 candidates for the MSc program at Cognitive & Brain Sciences at IITGN

We are hiring PhD students through the IIT GN PhD program (the deadline is 26th March, 2025, 5 PM IST). If interested, please apply.

Our lab website is up and running. labs.iitgn.ac.in/int/ Our lab operates at the intersection of neuroimaging, neurophysiology, neuroanatomy, data science, and AI to explore the organization of the human brain.

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/...

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

Excited to share that I'm starting an Assistant Professor position at the Cognitive and Brain Sciences department at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. I am so glad to get an opportunity to get back to my country and contribute to the development of neuroscience research there!

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Intriguing work led by Jingnan! Task regressed functional connectivity is similar to resting state in defining individualized functional networks!

Exciting results! Seems counter intuitive but true that using multiple 1 minutes T1 scans gives a better estimation of hippocampal volume and degeneration than a standard 6-7 min T1.

When you use Google scholar as your personal reference manager 😅

Since I just had cause to consult this I thought it was useful to signal boost this spreadsheet @drmjcwarren.bsky.social initiated where people can *anonymously* report their advance/royalty rates from academic publishers. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

We need more conversations around the pros and cons of AI agents, I agree with the premise of not ceding control. I would not like my washing machine to order food for me 😅

🧪 If I were Canadian PM I would immediately: 1. Create a new $15B science fund 2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada 3. Immediate permanent residency 4. Citizenship after 2 years Overnight a science superpower

Very exciting work!

So cool! Convergences between human and CNN visual systems. Could this be a case on emergence?

I'm very sad that "I have a paper on this" continues Funding delays of > 30 days lead to, after 5 years: - 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force (effect concentrated among those born in the US) - 20% decrease in wages - Burden is born by postdocs, grad students, and staff

in retrospect I think it may have been a mistake to make the work machine and the procrastination machine be the same machine

Very exciting work!

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered a halt to Donald Trump's sweeping aid freeze, issuing a "brief administrative stay" to preserve the status quo for at least a few days while further litigation plays out.

Exactly this! It takes a funding freeze of 1-2 years to derail research projects if not kill entire research programs!

The final version of "ENIGMA-Meditation: Worldwide consortium for neuroscientific investigations of meditation practices" is now available online. 50 days' free access to the article at authors.elsevier.com/c/1kUbL8jVtv... . Congratulation again to Saampras Ganesan and Tony King who led this work.

These have been my thoughts for the last few months, we need to bring together modalities and understanding across scales! A lot of technical and method limitations but lots of interesting work to be done to make it reliable and robust!

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉) "Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social

This is so amazing! Color categories are not innate but learned!

Well he did spend 19 hours a day doing mathematics! Could be his humility to describe his intuition as a blessing.

Excited to share a new paper in Human Brain Mapping! Mindfulness is associated with better psychological health, and we were curious about its underlying brain mechanisms in the general population. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Love this definition! Simple and elegant!

New paper out in @pnas.org with @laurendinicola.bsky.social, Noam Saadon-Grosman, Mark Eldaief and Randy Buckner! We revisited the functional specialization of the human hippocampal long axis across two independent datasets, with some surprising results. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Exactly this, it is a process! I feel writing is such an integral part of thinking, it goes back and forth, if I am not able to write well, I can not think well and vice versa. Outsourcing writing to AI is outsourcing thinking to AI (which obviously it is not doing).

Neurons are cool, but astrocytes steal the show like no other cell type in the nervous system! Check the shape of a blood vessel in the middle of the image 🔬. The brain is the most beautiful organ in the body (says my brain)🧠

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...

Stats and ML

tech bros: we built a machine that can tell you stuff loudly and confidently! us: cool. is it right about stuff? tech bros: we cannot stress enough how loud and confident it is!

We're burning the planet for a technology that has so far mainly produced mediocre animation clips and terrible student essays

Very sneaky!