Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵

Thrilled to share our new paper, out now in @natneuro.nature.com, uncovering how estradiol, the most potent estrogen, modulates reinforcement learning and reward prediction errors across biological levels. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #blueprint 1/7

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

Very well done story on 60 Minutes about the harms of grant terminations and freezes at Harvard with Joan Brugge, Don Engbar, David Liu, and a very compelling young cancer patient, now cured with Liu's technology. Transcript and video here www.cbsnews.com/news/researc...

Bullies gain power when their misconduct succeeds in causing righteous people to yield in the face of wrongdoing. That’s why voting for Trump's continuing resolution - without any protection against his health care cuts or his growing illegality - is a mistake. I voted NO.

Congratulations to Erica Baller (Psychiatry), recipient of the Leonard Berwick Memorial Teaching Award! Learn more Dr. Baller & her research interests here➡️ ericaballer.wixsite.com/baller-lab #PSOMAOE

First Asian American mayor of Cincinnati! Lots of firsts tonight. First Muslim woman as Lt. Gov. of VA First woman Governor of VA People are voting for the America they want. Powerfully. And it MEANS something. They’re voting against what they DON’T want. Take heart!

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

Preprint is now published: doi.org/10.1002/hbm.... Special thanks to co-authors @twktan.bsky.social @kimnganngt.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social

New from @haleyrwang.bsky.social: Multivariate Resting-State Functional Connectivity Features Linked to Transdiagnostic Psychopathology in Early Psychosis - Biological Psychiatry www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of study being slashed by the US government go.nature.com/47hn0n5

This is precisely what the kleptocrats wanted all along. Because whatever profits they could reap from future investments in research won't outweigh the costs of allowing the public to be informed.

Excited to see this one in print! Emerging methods for brain-based predictions in psychiatry. Led by @diawang.bsky.social and @yiplab.bsky.social w/ @bttyeo.bsky.social

The best share of one's research results I have seen inna long time. Congratulations, Francesca!

Excited to share this review in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social on using transfer learning to leverage large MRI datasets & enhance precision psychiatry!! www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000... Fun collab with rockstars @diawang.bsky.social @bttyeo.bsky.social @avramholmes.bsky.social

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefitted one child. Now reseachers plan to launch a clinical trial of the approach go.nature.com/3JctjPL

Take a look at our paper! Led by @francimandi.bsky.social in the Lake lab: "Longitudinal, simultaneous wide-field fluorescent Ca2+ imaging and fMRI in awake mice" !!!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Talking about spooky stuff…try to do awake mouse fMRI. Oh, you want it spookier? Try to add simultaneous Ca2+ imaging. Now, do it all again, longitudinally…. So proud to finally have this out!!! 🐭 🧠 🧲 Go read…if you dare!! 👻 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Well reported story on the PBS News Hour about science cuts and the ongoing and potential brain drain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO... Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out. Watch and share! 1/7

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

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Psychedelics disrupt the link between vascular and neuronal activity, which complicates interpretations of fMRI data. Adopting a more holistic view of what constitutes brain activity may help. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/psychedelics...

Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake go.nature.com/47zrzYZ

Acetaminophen (Tylenol) in pregnancy does not increase the risk of autism @jama.com @ki.se jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

American parents, please ignore Trump’s recent reiteration of nonsense about Tylenol and vaccines, as well as anything the man ever says about the health of your children. Please talk with your medical professionals.

New Paper in Nature Communications! We present exciting work on applying transfer learning on minimally invasive recordings to build scalable speech BCI for a more heterogeneous population. #iEEG #neuroskyence Check it out : www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

New preprint ↙️ Using 2 independent 7T fMRI datasets (HCP & our PNI dataset 🧲 💅 ), we found that intersubject synchronization 👯 during movies aligns closely with cortical gradients 🌈, especially along the visual-to-transmodal axis by Meaghan Smith & a terrific team ↙️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts. #NoKings

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Irene S. Plank, Christine M. Falter-Wagner, et al: Are prediction error modifications domain specific in autism but domain general in ADHD? doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

And now UVa rejects the compact.

If you are faculty, alumni, staff, student, or a student's parent at any of these places, you have an unusual chance to influence the future right now by communicating with your administration clearly about what's at stake.

Here's the newest piece in the @nytimes.com "Lost Science" series. @emilyanthes.bsky.social talks to a scientist who was learning about the minds of elephants--and how to use those insights to help the animals coexist with farmers. Gift link: nyti.ms/3KXVSAG

Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization? @rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print): go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky 🧵👇

Excited to share our new paper entitled Multisystem Environmental Factors Elucidate Shared and Distinct Associations With Brain and Behavior in Adolescents. Link: www.jaacap.org/article/S089.... @kavliatyale.bsky.social

Autistic traits modulate neural responses to social signals during natural vision https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.16.682799v1

"Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment" via The #DailyPenn: www.thedp.com/article/2025...

This is wonderful. Between these universities standing up to Trump and the press taking a stand on the pentagon issue, we are really starting to see some cracks.

Penn joins MIT and Brown in saying “no” to Trump extortion move.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Brandon Taraku, Katherine L. Narr, et al: Modulation of functional network co-activation pattern dynamics following ketamine treatment in major depression doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

🚨 New science alert! Our cross-species study, now in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates psychedelics distort how we should interpret functional brain imaging. 👇🧵 nature.com/articles/s41... #Neuroscience #Psychedelics #BrainImaging

Why do we remember emotional events so vividly? Our new paper @nathumbehav.nature.com suggests that emotional arousal enhances memory by strengthening integration across large-scale brain networks! Led by the amazing @jadynpark.bsky.social & @ycleong.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

OpenNeuro @openneuro.bsky.social just hit a huge milestone: 1500 datasets! Congrats to the team on making this project so successful over the last 7 years.

NIH Study Sections are on hold...again. drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/n...

Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... #neuroskyence

The age that autism is diagnosed may partly reflect underlying biological and developmental differences among individuals with autism, according to a study in Nature. go.nature.com/4gQ5gSV 🧬 🧪

Fustiliarian Friday: Trump/Kennedy/GOP use the shutdown as an excuse to destroy the CDC’s elite field epidemiology team and one of the most important epidemiology journals in the world. Gift link.

Page One in Boston. @bostonglobe.com

NIH cuts save $9-10B short-term, but they’re killing 202K jobs & $46B in red-state economies (TX, FL, OH). $8T healthcare disaster loom, no cancer/Alzheimer’s cures, pricier drugs. Scientists fleeing to China? Bad deal. Fight for NIH! www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh... #AmericaFirst