the plots for my next manuscript are so pretty I might drop them on OF before OSF.

🎉 I am thrilled to share that our convergence environment “#ContraMent – Hormonal contraceptives and mental health: A convergent, interdisciplinary approach”, spearheaded by Christian K Tamnes, received funding! www.uio.no/english/rese...

💥New preprint💥 Here, we related body mass index, waist circumference, blood pressure, resting heart rate, haemoglobin A1c, and high density lipoprotein cholesterol to global cortical thickness and surface area, and to white matter fractional anisotropy and mean diffusivity. ABCD 6.0.

Israel has violated ceasefire 47 times and killed 38 Palestinians, says Gaza media office

Something not captured by stats about grant application pressure is quality. If a competition has say 2x more applications than years past, it doesn’t have to mean 2x more *good* applications. I’m still in favour of a system that mostly awards by lottery to some top percentage of apps.

Success rates for Europe’s leading research grants are declining as a surge in applications far outweighs the funds available go.nature.com/479Sni6

Happy to announce that our article (my master’s thesis) is now published in PNAS. Here we investigated the link between pregnancy and birth and child brain structure 🧠🤰🏼👶🏻 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

@pnas.org: Small sex differences in brain aging, steeper decline in men in some regions. Does not explain why more women are diagnosed with AD. 12,638 longitudinal MRIs, 4,726 participants across 14 cohorts. Control for head-size, education, life-expectancy. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

@nature.com made a news piece on our new @pnas.org paper. Good job Anne Ravndal! Men’s brains shrink faster than women’s: what that means for Alzheimer’s. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well." An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

I must say I'm slightly consoled by Israel scoring two own goals already. The poetic justice is just 😘

Important work!

New lab paper in DCN! 🧠 We conducted interviews with adolescents to better understand their perceptions of neuroscience research and barriers to participation, w/qualitative data that is shaping how we design lab studies & efforts to increase representation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper in Nature Mental Health where we show that macroeconomic income inequality is associated with brain structure and function over and above individual-level SES and other state-level factors. These alterations may serve as pathways to mental health problems. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A must watch.

Timeline cleanser 🐈

In today's U.K., you are an "activist" for spreading hate and racism but a "supporter of terrorism" for protesting for Palestine.

Has anyone actually responded to article requests on research gate? When all my work is either open access or preprinted it feels like spam.

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...

Nice to see science news that is in fact real science news.

Went to the Mo Amer El Oso Palestino show last night and I can't tell you how beautiful it was to see so many Middle Eastern and North African Norwegians in one room. So many keffiyehs. Healing.

Trump pushed Kimmel into going full resistance lib for the biggest audience he will ever have. Another masterclass from the president.

🚀 Job Opportunity! Are you passionate about neuroscience, women’s health, and large-scale neuroimaging studies? I am hiring a 3-year Postdoc to join the @erc.europa.eu project #MappingPerimenopause! karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacan...

Post-information society/ascendent fascist fantasism society (now with state-mandated pseudoscience)

ChatGPT 😭😭😭

Oh she's from Iraq too. What a queen.

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"Women's rights organisations are rejecting your cynical weaponisation of our pain for your racist agenda"🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

About fucking time.

This is huge.

No matter what #Musk says or does, many on the left continue to post on and pay for X, a clear example of how progressive movements are beholden to the narrative that we don't have to change anything at all about our lives to achieve our political goals. I wrote about why that's bad in July ⬇️

Universities around the world cut ties with Israeli academia over Gaza war

Javier Bardem at the #Emmys: "Here I am today denouncing the genocide in Gaza... Free Palestine!" (via @Variety)

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

Two years of Genocide* by an apartheid state.

The West didn’t just drift right, it was engineered. Politicians and media scapegoated immigrants, while social media monetised outrage, turning fear into clicks, votes, and profit.

My feedback to flux. I'm not interested in anonymity. And this is my feedback to all institutions, all international conferences, and universities.

Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants: The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.

Really enjoyed speaking about adversity and the developing brain today at the final symposium session of #flux2025 So grateful to everyone that turned up. And of course to my fellow speakers and brilliant chair @abrieant.bsky.social

OMG I can't believe Taylor Swift and Beyonce are coming to our symposium at 3pm!!! Higgins Suite!! That's up the stairs from where all the other talks have been. Join us.

I've been inspired by a lot of talks this year at #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social We've discussed adversity, diversity, loneliness, disinformation, attacks on science, autocracy and right-wing populism, but one thing not mentioned, which is sown into all aforementioned topics is Palestine. 1/8

Margaret Sheridan inspires us all with reflections and insights at her Linda Spear mid-career award talk 👏 Reminding us of the incredible growth and value of our field! #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

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

We really do try to make poster sessions as noisy, compact, and difficult as possible for all parties involved.

If you're headed to #Flux2025 in Dublin, swing by Poster S63 on Saturday to chat with rockstar @heatherarobinson.bsky.social about this work! 🧠 🇮🇪 👩‍🔬 (and of course, catch me all conference long kvelling to any/everyone about how totally amazing my students are 🥰) #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky