For nearly two decades resting-state fMRI has ruled supreme. And resting-state is suprisingly powerful. But we can do so much better by using broad batteries of tasks with the right design. Here a double-punch delivered by two papers from @carobellum.bsky.social and @basselarafat.bsky.social!

Are you thinking about acquiring multi-task fMRI for your study but don’t know where to start? @bassel_arafat just published a toolbox to optimally select tasks and run them in the MRI scanner - with many commonly used tasks ready to go! Check out the preprint below 👇

This study looks great - this issue has finally been getting the attention it deserves - if network architecture is ‘intrinsic’ it should say something about connectivity across tasks …

Really great work demonstrating the importance of task-based responses in characterizing the functional organization of the brain. Congrats to @carobellum.bsky.social and the rest of the team!

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@carobellum.bsky.social really wanted to know how well resting-state correlations can predict which areas co-activate over a wide array of tasks. It turns out that you are better off running a short Multi-task battery, even if the tasks are completely different from the ones you want to predict!

Cool demonstration that using multiple tasks (diversity is important) may be more informative than resting state for uncovering individual functional connectivity patterns

Diversity matters. Multi-task, multisensory, crossmodal.

Task fMRI for the win! This is such great work, and a brilliant explainer thread too.

I love this idea! Have to give it a read

"Resting-state can be highly reliable. But reliability does not guarantee validity."

This looks awesome and I will now be having all subjects play WarioWare in the scanner

Diversity of tasks>>resting state for predictive power.

Check out our new preprint! We directly tested a common assumption in neuroimaging: Is resting-state the best estimate of intrinsic organization? Spoiler: Across datasets and brain systems, multi-task fMRI did better. 👇

🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8

Language areas in the cerebellar mapped by @coltoncasto.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/language/cer... Very consistent with @carobellum.bsky.social functional atlas, but providing deeper details. By now the "terra incognita" of the cerebellum isn't so "incognita" anymore!

The cerebellum supports high-level language?? Now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, we systematically examined language-responsive areas of the cerebellum using precision fMRI and identified a *cerebellar satellite* of the neocortical language network! authors.elsevier.com/a/1mUU83BtfH... 1/n 🧵👇

I don't know enough to have my own view on this paper or response, but to me this is science social media at its best: doing post publication peer review of papers that make big claims. Bravo @alexanderhuth.bsky.social

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Super important post for people in transcranial ultrasound neurostim - please read👇🏼

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Please repost. The Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping is looking for a Preclinical MRI physicist (9.4T and 15.2T Bruker Advance Neo). You will join a team of 14 dedicated staff in Canada's National Ultra-high field MRI platform who also operate 3T and 7T human scanners in the same facility.

We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations tinyurl.com/5dku4du9 @timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social please repost 🙏

Very happy to share my first preprint from @oxexppsy.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social ! We (me + co-first authors @lilweb.bsky.social @mirunarascu.bsky.social + PI @mkflugge.bsky.social + many others) used transcranial focused ultrasound stimulation (TUS/tFUS/LIFU) of the human amygdala ... (1/15)

Our paper is now out in Journal of Neuroscience!🥂 We show that motor training strengthens cortico-cerebellar connectivity in patients with cerebellar degeneration, especially in movement-related networks. Great collaboration with @unidue.bsky.social, made possible through @thinkglobal_rub 🧠

Are broad task batteries better than resting-state fMRI to learn something general about the human brain? If you are at #CCN2025 come by @basselarafat.bsky.social and @carobellum.bsky.social poster on Tuesday and Wednesday! @cogcompneuro.bsky.social

Heading to Amsterdam for #CCN2025? Come by our posters on Tuesday and Wednesday! 🧠🏘️🧀 Tuesday🗓️ Bassel Arafat & @DiedrichsenJorn 's posters on the Multi-task framework Wednesday🗓️ My poster on task vs. rest fMRI

Landed at the Cerebellum GRC in Switzerland, where the science is high-level and so are the altitudes. Very ready for this week's deep dives into cerebellar function, alongside some excellent bovine branding. 🐄🧠

Thank you! 🙏

Is it true you use only 10 bits / s of your brain? @andpru.bsky.social and I provide a motor systems perspective on a proposed speed limit for human information processing. Out today in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Planning to apply for #research #funding from the ERC? From the next application rounds, expect changes to the: • proposal structure • evaluation process • extra funding you can request • eligibility for Starting & Consolidator #Grants (from 2027) More 👇 europa.eu/!RPHWvv

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

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Thank you Ravi! Sad to leave this place, but at least I will take a piece of Western with me

Thanks so much! Super honoured to receive this award - definitely could not have done it without the amazing @westernuwin.bsky.social community and the fantastic @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social 🥳 Thanks also to co-authors Da Zhi, Ladan Shahshahani, @analupinho.bsky.social, Noam Grosman & Randy Buckner

Why is today the start of the new tax year? The answer is a surprising tale! It embraces the wonders of the universe, the gentle rhythm of days gone by and European religious and political history | Janice Heppenstall @sussexbylines.co.uk

Baclofen, a GABAB receptor agonist, impairs motor learning in healthy people and changes inhibitory dynamics in motor areas https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.27.645701v1

One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “Neural network retuning and neural predictors of learning success associated with cello training.” Explore the article here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... For more trending articles, visit ow.ly/Me2U50SkLRZ.

It was a pleasure speaking at Western's Neuroscience Research Day yesterday! I am so grateful to the Neuroscience community here for all their support these past three years. Thanks to the students for organizing this fantastic day! #NRD2025 @westernuwin.bsky.social @westernubrainscan.bsky.social

Don't say it if you don't mean it

When you're analyzing data but matplotlib insists you're decking the halls instead. 🎄📊 #PlotTwist #neuroskyence

Amazing idea

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Or just go to this starter pack - I will keep adding to this over the next little while. go.bsky.app/EjjWSUy Please spread the word & let me know if you'd like to be added or know of anyone I have forgotten!

We will start accepting applications for GRS Cerebellum from Dec 19 until all 70 spots fill up—so don’t wait too long! Who else is planning to join? Let’s dive into cerebellar science together! Apply here: www.grc.org/cerebellum-g... #CerebellumGRS @carobellum.bsky.social

Join us for the 2025 Cerebellum GRS! We will start accepting applications for GRS Cerebellum from Dec 19 until all 70 spots fill up - so don't wait too long. Remember you can change your abstract until March. Apply here: www.grc.org/cerebellum-g... @kimlinda.bsky.social #Cerebellum #neuroskyence

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Made a starter pack for researchers who are actively working on or have an interest in the cerebellum. DM me to be added or reply to this thread! 🧠🤏🏻 go.bsky.app/7X4ekSH #neuroscience #neuroskyence #cerebellum #neuroimaging #dbs #fmri

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