I do have to cheer, to see reliable, repeatable networks from ICA analyses coming into their own these days. I'm still not sure what to do with BOLD signal in white matter areas, but it's there and repeatable. direct.mit.edu/netn/article...

This was a fun project to work on, and it is shocking when something you were arguing about almost theoretically is eventually cited by nearly everybody... 😆 www.nature.com/articles/sda...

Gotta admit, I did wonder for a minute if we weren't making it to ACNP next Monday... (small potatoes, in light of airstrikes etc., I know.) www.cnbc.com/2026/01/04/u...

::snicker:: Yeah, that's right. Take your vacation! 😁 (she says, sitting down to handle IRB modifications...) "This meta-analysis provides evidence that vacation is a more effective recovery opportunity for improving employee well-being ..." than prev'ly thought. psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

Here we go! I was too impatient--the tremendous work being done by ENIGMA efforts all over the world to answer the questions about the brain, 2025 recap... 😁 Always cool stuff in here! youtu.be/C0GJUc24v0g

I was hoping they had their "ENIGMA's year in review" slides up on Youtube, but not yet! If you want to know what international collaborations on neuroimaging are doing, the ENIGMA channel is a great place to start: www.youtube.com/@enigmaconso...

I love having been alive long enough to be able to see how what I learned 20 years ago as cutting-edge understanding of a disorder or brain function is now old hat, a given; the hypotheses are now different because we've gone SO MUCH FARTHER in our conceptualizations and data about it. 😁🧠

By the way, the Univ of Texas Rio Grande is looking for geneticists! Assist.Professor in Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics - Human Genetics - careers.utrgv.edu/postings/49462 Assist. Professor in Statistical Genetics and Neuroscience - Human Genetics - careers.utrgv.edu/postings/49464

At some point I need to see how well this has held up--now that I see it was 14 years ago! The arguments and back and forth we had over these interpretations... I imagine this should be or has been updated since then. 😁 direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

Looking up someone I met as a young assistant professor 15 years ago, and realizing their h-index in the intervening years has now shot past mine--For some reason, that makes me really happy to see. They totally deserve it, and that's always good to see in this field!!

Looking for a post-bac RA position focused on the brain bases of affective and psychotic illness? @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring! @cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.bsky.social)

The growth of the literature implicating serotonin dysfunction in the early early stages of what will become dementia is FASCINATING. This is super cool work (not mine!! But I like seeing the cross disciplinary connections...) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are learning a whopping lot about the cerebellum and its role (or not) in psychosis. Papers are forthcoming! (Well, pre-prints. Actual publications taken longer.) 🧠👍

so we're playing around with different posterior cingulate seeds in the same dataset and learning a heck of a lot about how the Default Mode Network will "change" depending on exactly where you put your seed. Fascinating to see, but I don't know what to DO with it! 🫥

ENIGMA SZ call in a few minutes! The clock-change season always messes people up as it changes arbitrarily first in one country then another... 😜 the challenges of international collaborations!

I think this one is still under review somewhere, but I wanted to highlight Kyle's work on it. Given reproducible ICA patterns from 100,000 resting state fMRI datasets, what do we call them all? That was a lot of work! And it's a really good functional atlas, too. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Doctoral student's first paper submission! The journal made the preprint, while under review--I like that. Cerebellar interactions with cortical and subcortical regions differ between schiz and bipolar disorder using a GIMME model. #science #neuroscience www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

Hee. The student newspaper did an article on us too! So sweet! the interviewer was so careful and so earnest. 😁 Now we really DO have to live up to everyone's expectations. www.thelantern.com/2025/10/nati...

OK first try at using Substack for course notes. You might like this if you're a lawyer/neuroscientist interested in math. I should have formatted it better but the animations are fun! aiandthebrain.substack.com/p/preserving...

Two papers submitted, a third in preparation, two honors theses underway, and SOBP abstracts being worked on. I ♥️ my lab. 😁

Btw, if you are in Ohio in 2027, look for this conference (every two years) -- biology, engineering, art history, philosophy--all in a short two-day set of presentations! It's so much fun. Long may it continue! www.artsci.uc.edu/iris/ignite/...

Why does the first time I get interviewed by the news have to be with 10 min notice, in an office with no lighting? 😆 But the nice thing is they covered the ARTEMIS project and it's picking up some steam! #science #WomenInSTEM local12.com/health/healt...

We got it!! "In the ARTEMIS project, we will address a critical clinical challenge - to develop novel strategies to identify who is at risk for making a suicide attempt, with enough time to potentially enact a life-saving intervention." (quoting my MPI) #WomenInSTEM news.osu.edu/nih-awards-1...

My department at Emory is a hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist! Anyone who's talked to me in the last 4 years knows I cannot say enough good things about my dept and the neuroscience community here. My colleagues are so wonderfully supportive. Postdocs, please apply! apply.interfolio.com/174371

When I can't keep track of which groups of co-authors need to see which manuscripts, it means the lab is being mighty productive! It's a good problem to have. 😁

Please RT 2 new positions in the lab as postdoc & PhD! Interested in stress, pain, or reward? This project has it all! We are a friendly but ambitious group. Oslo is a capital city on the fjord & bordered by forest, great urban & outdoors opportunities: 💃 ⛷️ 🚣 🎭 🎶 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Current projects in the lab include longitudinal neuroimaging of substance use at different time-scales, family-based studies of casual and genetic effects, and the development of new ML models for task fMRI. This is a funded position with up to 3 years of funding available.

Morals and integrity: Good stuff. Retractions happen.

Society of Biological Psychiatry abstracts for symposium proposals are due tomorrow! My symposium proposal is in (it's SO COOL! Wish us luck!); my post-doc's abstract for the symposium he'd be in is also done (and also SUPER COOL). 😁🧠 Symposia are really rare for me; but the findings are neat-o.

Writing a letter for a previous student can be such a kick! I spent some time reading through Dawn's (now Dr. Jensen!) pubs, and she's been combining methylation and neuroimaging in SO many ways--the latest is quite a set of findings! #science #WomenInStem 😁 www.frontiersin.org/journals/gen...

👏 Thank you all who joined and to our speakers @claramoreau9.bsky.social @lauraaberner.bsky.social and Dr Caitlin Lloyd for advancing the science and hope of eating disorders research. Studies also led by @StefanEhrlich3 and @EstherWalton18 also highlighted below 👇👇👇

Previous grad student getting an award for her paper! Always great to see!! #WomenInSTEM 😁 www.galifesciences.org/celebrating-...

Keeping the history alive... 😁 Well worth the read, to help understand how we got here.

Do you ever wish you could just use python to pull together the files and code for running FSL's randomise? Me too! I made this: github.com/jmumford/ran... It will even replace the numbers in the file outputs with contrast names of your choosing (and replace corrp with 1minusp).

this one took for freakin' ever to get done--we kept getting cut off from LLMs as they were updating and blowing their previous performances out of water! But with constraints and a guided approach, they can do amazingly well. (Caveat emptor, though!) www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

@jessicaturnerphd.bsky.social and I are #hiring ASAP multiple paid RAs for an NIMH study. Goal: develop new methods to identify who is at risk of suicide, and when. Great opportunity to gain research skills, solid professional mentorship, esp. for grad school! Please share. tinyurl.com/2yp2prhw

It does make me happy when a previous mentee still wants my advice on papers or grants. 😀 (There will come a time when that is no longer true, so I enjoy it while it's still happening.)

We have SOBP, SIRS, and OHBM abstract deadlines on the calendar already... I'm told we need to do SPR as well but that conference is going on, like, now--so we have to plan our abstracts for next year. 😄📝 But it's helpful to have everyone organize their projects with those timelines in mind!

Heh--I went back through Google scholar to see what the earliest paper they had for me was. And they did indeed have my first one! (And a bunch of papers not by me, that I cleaned up; luckily the H or I index values didn't change over papers from the 70's ...) psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-...

Preprint, but why not: Interesting new stuff! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40778165/