Researchers writing about their work frequently rely on clichés. Yet, little is known about how such clichés affect

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a powerful tool to study white matter maturation. In our new preprint, we process and distribute a new resource of >24,000 ABCD dMRI scans using open source tools! We then evaluate how methods shape inferences about development. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Diana C. Pacyga, Kyle S. Burger, et al: Sex-specific associations of gestational age at birth and birth size with early life within-network brain connectivity: An exploratory study doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Researchers + trainees: level up your neuroimaging work! HBHL is hosting a Knowledge Exchange event on integrating SDoH into imaging pipelines with real examples and new tools you can use immediately. @mcgill.ca 📅 May 18, @canacn.bsky.social Meeting | 🍽️ Lunch included Register: mcgill.ca/x/5xG

📢 Late-breaking poster submissions for FIT’NG 2026 are open. 👉 If you’re going to ICIS (@infantstudies.bsky.social), why not submit to FIT’NG, which begins the day after! 📝 Work presented at FIT’NG will reach our rich community of neuroscientists studying early brain development. #FITNG26 #ICIS26

🏔️ 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.

Curious about how brain and body communicate, or how circuit states are regulated over seconds to hours? Read our paper about neuropeptide systems and how they contribute to neural architecture and function #neuroskyence #compneuro #neuroscience

¿Qué es exactamente el envejecimiento? La pregunta parece remitir a una obviedad, pero quizá no lo sea. Una encuesta entre 103 expertos muestra que no hay un consenso

Congratulations to Madeson Todd on leading this paper through to the finish line! @catherinealebel.bsky.social @ucalgarymed.bsky.social www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

The idea of the need for a control group may have been radical at the time, but trust me it's now generally accepted. This is not some fringe believe by methodological hardliners; it's established practice. www.clinicaltrialsabundance.blog/p/clinical-t...

P.S. Pre-post differences are *not* valid treatment effect estimates. Why? Here's a post by @statsepi.bsky.social: statsepi.substack.com/p/one-simple..., here's a post by me: www.the100.ci/2025/01/22/r... >

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

The emergence of the language system in the toddler brain | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Leveraging Longitudinal Data to Improve BrainChart Calibration for Small Study Sample Sizes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

👀 A precise atlas of the human subcortex | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Human babies may be able to visually categorize different objects earlier than previously thought, even at two months of age, according to research in Nature #Neuroscience. go.nature.com/4tcQOu3#Neuroscience🧪

How many versions of the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) exist? And how much does this affect research using the IGT? More than you might think. 🧵

📢 FIT'NG is seeking volunteers to serve as abstract reviewers for the 2026 conference. Reviewers will be selected based on expertise and career stage and will review 5–7 abstracts during a two-week period in early March. Sign Up Now 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #FITNG2026

📣 2025 Leo and Rachel Hendlisz Award competition Congratulations to the recipients! Learn more here : douglas.research.mcgill.ca/news/2025-le... *** 📣 Concours du prix Leo et Rachel Hendlisz 2025 Félicitations aux récipiendaires! Plus d'informations: douglas.research.mcgill.ca/fr/news/conc...

One of my favourite places. So happy and proud to have the opportunity to work in this research hospital.

Don't miss next week's Neurogenesis faculty lecture! Join @tasmiahai.bsky.social & Delphine Raucher-Chéné to learn about their groundbreaking research and the latest advances in neuroscience at @mcgill.ca. 🧠 📅 Nov. 26, 2025 📍 @theneuro.bsky.social 🤝 Reception afterwards! Register: mcgill.ca/x/iHe

📣 Don't miss this special event! We are waiting for you! More informations : douglas.research.mcgill.ca/calendar/ent... *** 📣 Ne manquez pas cet évènement spécial! Nous vous attendons nombreux.ses! Plus d'informations sur notre site internet : douglas.research.mcgill.ca/fr/calendrie...

You won't want to miss this: Exciting talks by Roger Zemek, Benjamin Goldstein (@camhnews.bsky.social), Kris Noakes, @piawintermark.bsky.social (@rimuhc.bsky.social), Lesley Fellows (@healthsciences.mcgill.ca), Philip Jai Johnson & Georg Northoff (@uottawa.ca) 🧠🙌

Pssst... The Amazing Brain Science Talks are back tomorrow & it's going to be a full house! Join HBHL, @braincanada.bsky.social & @bhi-icc.bsky.social at @banq-officiel.bsky.social to hear from experts + learn about the brain, the heart & everything in between. See you soon 🧪🧠 www.amazingbrain.ca

Ecstatic about my science AND art being featured in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social CNNI's current issue with @northernthrux.bsky.social painting on the cover and our exciting @theabcdstudy.bsky.social article completed with @catherinealebel.bsky.social www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/current

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

We’ve just published another video on HiTOP that tries to flesh out a bit more how the framework can be helpful in research: youtu.be/q0jOi_Nl1yo We hope it’s useful, and are keen to hear any feedback Thanks again so much to @tashtc.bsky.social for all of her hard work creating this video series ✨

👀 Lifespan Trajectories of Asymmetry in White Matter Tracts | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...

Science is self correcting. Finally!

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

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 …

Brain Size: To Adjust or Not Adjust? It's Not a Matter of If, but How https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.21.25336298v1

this is wild - i was aware of Mary-Claire King's absurdly important discoveries on BRCA / inherited breast cancer but I had no idea that her first PhD paper (King & Wilson 1975, Science, not bad lol) is the "99% of protein coding shared btwn chimps and humans" result www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

💔 It is with great sadness that I report the passing of my Ph.D. supervisor, Dr. Peter Allen from Alzheimer’s. His trainees (and their trainees and their trainees and their trainees) are still making a mark in the world of in-vivo magnetic resonance. 🇨🇦 www.remembering.ca/obituary/pet...

Join us next July in Panama!! #FITNG2025 --> 2026 🌴🤓

New preprint from stellar IRTG PhD student Amelie Rauland + team on white matter bundle reconstruction! Shows that WM bundles can be reliably extracted from simple 32-direction dMRI & features predict cognition - huge potential for legacy and clinical data. Thread 👇 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

The Fourier transform is everywhere you look. It has helped scientists to study tides, detect gravitational waves, and develop radar and MRI technology. Here’s how it works.

Love Fourier Transforms! We use them a lot in our work. They are already such a huge part of our everyday lives. Our brains do Fourier Transforms! Nice piece here on some of the history of where they came from, how they work and applications. 🧪

Is precision functional brain imaging in babies possible? YES! We show this in not one but two new preprints out of WashU and @umn-midb.bsky.social! 1️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🐣👶🧠

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

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.

New evidence indicates the thalamus actively influences the timing and pattern of brain development, shaping plasticity in cortical regions throughout childhood and adolescence. doi.org/g9vd4x

Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev

Mapping cerebral blood perfusion and its links to multi-scale brain organization across the human lifespan journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

38 research teams analyzed the same fNIRS data...Really nice visualization of the variety of processing pipelines people use from Meryem Yücel, Rob Luke, et al.: "fNIRS reproducibility varies with data quality, analysis pipelines, and researcher experience" www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️

Hey #AAIC25 ! Today I'll be sharing our research on the mediating effect of WMH on spontaneous brain activity during aging! 🧠 Join me on poster 430! @ameliemetz.bsky.social @dadarmahsa.bsky.social @yasharneuro.bsky.social @roqamoqa.bsky.social

Dr. Mahsa Dadar receives the 2025 Principal’s Prize for Outstanding early-career Researchers! Learn more : douglas.research.mcgill.ca/dadar-2025-p... *** Dre Mahsa Dadar reçoit le Prix du recteur pour nouveaux chercheurs 2025! En savoir plus : douglas.research.mcgill.ca/fr/news/dre-...

Rapid 1 mm isotropic diffusion tensor imaging with denoising and improved parameter estimation for detecting focal hippocampal lesions in temporal lobe epilepsy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroscience #neuroimaging