The FIT'NG Trainee Committee is excited to be recruiting new members! It’s a great way to: ✨ Build your network ✨ Gain leadership experience ✨ Shape programming for trainees across the society Interested? Fill out our form by September 23rd: tinyurl.com/TraineeCommi...

Hey #rstats friends! 👋 Only one week to go until my "Introduction to R Packages" tutorial at #WOMBAT2025! This is a gentle introduction to making R packages, going from initial code to `devtools::check()` Still plenty of spots available :) Sign up at: wombat2025.numbat.space

A single nuclei multiomic encyclopedia of the human pons provides a resource for normal development and disease vulnerability | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Geometric constraints on the architecture of mammalian cortical connectomes | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The Impact of Multiband and In-Plane Acceleration on White Matter Microstructure Analysis onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Integration of Genetic Information to Improve Brain Age Gap Estimation Models in the UK Biobank onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Revisiting the Role of Structural Connectivity-Based Parcellation in Thalamic Nuclei Segmentation: comparison with recent state-of-the-art methods | medRxiv www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Don't forget! Abstracts due Sept 22 📝 Don’t miss out!

Network spreading and local biological vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | doi.org/10.1038/s420... How do brain network structure and local biological features shape the spatial patterning of atrophy in ALS? @asafarahani.bsky.social investigates ⤵️

Analysis of performance bottlenecks in MRI preprocessing | GigaScience | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

🚨 GRADUATE PHD APPLICATIONS OPEN 🚨 I'm accepting students for the next psychology PhD admissions cycle! If you're passionate about developmental neuroscience and clinical psychology, this might be for you 👇 #GradSchool #Psychology #Research /1

Charting the Normal Development of Structural Brain Connectivity in Utero using Diffusion MRI | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Mechanics of the Spatiotemporal Evolution of Sulcal Pits in the Folding Brain onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

A phenotypic brain organoid atlas for neurodevelopmental disorders | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cross-biobank generalizability and accuracy of electronic health record-based predictors compared to polygenic scores | Nature Genetics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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It's this time of year again 🌟 Nominations are open to join BIDS steering group. This is a great position to have your say in and build with the beautiful 🧠BIDS community. I can only recommend the experience and am surely happy to answer any questions. Go go go! Apply now 😉 🙏

Inter-individual variability of neurotransmitter receptor and transporter density in the human brain | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

From mapping to explaining brain function: the generative theoretical ambition of SPM | Cerebral Cortex | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...

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

Every journal club

⏰ Don’t forget – The OHBM Australia Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting is coming up! 📍 Melbourne 📅 Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025 Abstract submissions close soon (September 15th 5pm)!!😮 📢 Register to secure your place today! ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...

Multimodal imaging of human fetal brain development at the mesoscopic scale using 11.7 T ex vivo MRI https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.08.669657v1

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Which AI model writes the best R code? - Posit posit.co/blog/r-llm-e...

Creating messy datasets for teaching purposes with {truffle} :: Ian Hussey 325e057b.isolation.zscaler.com/profile/42d2...

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date. We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400. Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

That’s a wrap! Thanks for a great #Flux2025 meeting, Dublin 🧠 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

The posters are underway! Go check them out #flux2025

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/...

Cross-species analysis of adult hippocampal neurogenesis reveals human-specific features | Nature Neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A Practical Guide to Identifying Robust Clusters in Neuroimaging Data onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🔥ATTENTION!🔥 Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open! Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns. Details: tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6 Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...

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📢 Back for #FLUX2025: The Career Perspectives Panel Session in Dublin! Researchers – if you're attending FLUX and want to share your journey, apply here by June 4. Trainees – tell us what YOU want to hear in the panel! 🔗 buff.ly/or2UIto #FLUXSociety #Neuroscience #STEMCareers #CareerPathways

Science of Learning symposium #flux2025 - sponsored by the Jacobs Foundation. First up: the LEVANTE research network which embraces open science principles to studying learning variability in children around the world. @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Huge congrats to Dr. Lucinda Sisk on receiving the Flux Dissertation Award! 🎉 @fluxsociety.bsky.social #Flux2025

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Pratik Jain, Anil K. Sao, and Bharat Biswal: Single scan, subject-specific component extraction in dynamic functional connectivity using dictionary learning doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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"It's not the end of the world, let's just send it to another journal"

Spacetop: A multimodal fMRI dataset unifying naturalistic processes with a rich array of experimental tasks | Scientific Data www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Post doc: "this is the worst rejection I ever got" PI:

Evaluation of Deep Learning Algorithms to Predict Multiple Dementia-Related Neuropathologies from Brain MRI, Clinical and Genetic Data | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Toward Robust Neuroanatomical Normative Models: Influence of Sample Size and Covariates Distributions | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Association between Brain Structure and Cognitive Ability during Adolescence: Insights from a Comprehensive Large-Scale Analysis of 9 to 15 Year-Olds | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...