Excited to share new work with @hleemasson.bsky.social , Ericka Wodka, Stewart Mostofsky and @lisik.bsky.social! We investigated how simultaneous vision and language signals are combined in the brain using naturalistic+controlled fMRI. Read the paper here: osf.io/b5p4n 1/n

Delighted to see the paper describing the Reproducible Brain Charts open data resource now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social. Paper + link to data below; huge congrats to @goliashf.bsky.social @milhammichael.bsky.social and the whole RBC team. Lots of people (>2,500 downloads) are already using RBC!

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Marie E. Galteau, Joanes Grandjean, et al: Activation mapping in multi-center retrospective rat sensory-evoked functional MRI datasets using a unified pipeline doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉 📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH... 🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

2024 Swedish study on 2.5M people's data: "Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability... This suggests that associations observed in other models may have been attributable to confounding." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

Data only shows associations. Turning those into claims about mechanism or causation? That requires a Rosetta Stone of prior knowledge + theory. Resting-state fMRI is purely observational; correlation is its currency. From this, plenty of "theoretical toys" about brain function can be built...

Interested in the mechanisms shaping the extraordinary complexity of the connectome? Then check out our new preprint, lead by Francis Normand with a stellar team, showing how geometry constrains connectome architecture: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Full thread here: tinyurl.com/sfv3yf73

Neuron-to-cancer neurotransmission: lung cancer cells "can form functional synapses and receive synaptic transmission" from neurons pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40931078/ This is creepy

Common brain network dynamics capture attention fluctuations in tasks and movies https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.18.677177v1

Excited to see this work published in @natcomms.nature.com! 🧠📊 In-vivo evidence of E/I alterations underlying functional changes in individuals with autism in the large ABIDE1 dataset AND replication in the independent ABIDE2 dataset.

Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to -17 in our tracker, the worst of his second term www.economist.com/interactive/...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Mikkel Schöttner Sieler, Patric Hagmann, et al: Comparing and scaling fMRI features for brain-behavior prediction doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Lab’s latest is out in Imaging Neuroscience, led by Kirsten Peterson: “Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding”, where we demonstrate a major improvement to standard fMRI functional connectivity (correlation) 1/n

An apt comment from Harold Varmus in this piece: ‘Running a lab is not like running a clothing store, where if your sales are down you can bounce back. You are dealing with highly trained people and projects which, when stopped for a short time, are ruined.’

“It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives and is in one of its most productive moments, is under threat by the Trump administration.

Powerful new article in NYT Magazine on cancer research [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Another social cerebellar dream team effort: Cerebellar growth is associated with domain-specific cerebral maturation and socio-linguistic behavioural outcomes - thanks Katerina Manoli and co for wonderful work! Thanks also to @imprsconi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Compelling thread.

This recent 🔥 Hot Topic🔥 discusses how combining single-cell transcriptomics & connectomics can resolve neuronal subtypes involved in neuropsychiatric disorders & offer new insight into circuit-level mechanisms of psychiatric conditions 🧠

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

Universities must be bastions of open inquiry, not battlegrounds for partisan intimidation. Please sign & share.

🚨 Excited to share the latest preprint form the lab ➡️https://tinyurl.com/32d3be9f Here we tackle a long-standing chicken-or-egg 🐣🥚question in #autism and developmental neuroscience ➡️ Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence" of #autism? Check out what we found! 🧵1/n

Inspired by Fred Rogers, @nature.com asked readers to help us 'find the helpers' amid the crisis in American science. What emerged were inspiring stories of researchers, legal experts, data hounds and government scientists who are fighting the dismantling of the US research enterprise. 🧪🧵1/6

Excited to be featured in today’s @nature.com article about scientists standing up to Trump. I’ve never been one to sit on the sidelines, especially when something I believe so deeply in—science funding that saves lives—is under attack. Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

what happens in Texas never stays in Texas — this is a preview of what is coming for everyone

The people doing the non-glamorous government jobs right now are really putting in the work. thank you tireless NIH workers. 💕🫡

Our latest work is now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We examined the role of the basal forebrain and its influence on intrinsic brain networks in depressive and anxiety disorders. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... @psychunimelb.bsky.social, @mbciu.bsky.social, #UnimelbMDHS

Many brain imaging “biomarkers” for autism have been proposed. Most aim for balanced accuracy (matching sensivity/specificity) on datasets where cases and controls are split 50/50. 1/🧵

New preprint from the lab! 🧠 Led by Juliana Trach, w/ Sophia Ou Using fMRI, we discovered evidence for time-sensitive reward prediction errors (RPEs) in the human cerebellum. Builds on, and extends, recent work in both rodents and NHPs

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

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

There’s a ton of work by e.g. @bassemh.bsky.social and co exploring this interesting question. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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/...

Amazing first day at #Flux2025 featuring an all-star team discussing the last 10 years (and future 10 years!) of ABCD & an inspiring conversation about bridging the lab and real life 🧠🤩 @lucinauddin.bsky.social @dbarch.bsky.social @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social @fluxsociety.bsky.social

We previously reported that the number of people receiving treatment at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center - known as America's research hospital - declined from February-April. Since then, I obtained newer data through mid-August. And it's gotten worse. youtube.com/shorts/yT5Vc...

The NIH clinical center is struggling.

2026 Internships at CTRL Labs at Meta Reality Labs It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀 You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Amazing news! Thanks to strong support from the community, we are able to reduce publication fees!

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.

Judge Burroughs: “Now it is the job of the courts… to safeguard academic freedom and freedom of speech as required by the Constitution, and to ensure that important research is not improperly subjected to arbitrary and procedurally infirm grant terminations…” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

BOSTON (AP) — Judge reverses Trump administration's cuts of billions of dollars to Harvard University.

Yes!!! www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/03/b...

Host: There are new calls this morning for RFK Jr.'s resignation, and those calls coming from inside HHS itself. More than 1,000 current and former HHS workers are making this demand in a letter released this morning. They say his leadership has "put the health of all Americans at risk"

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

So, kudos to both #Democrats & #Republicans in the House for their draft mark-up for next year's #budget, which maintains funding for #NIH (just like the Senate). This is rare, true #bipartisanship and should be praised. But #RussellVought will not be stopped by an appropriations bill. Why? 1/

A show of bipartisan support for NIH. Basically flat except for ARPA-H. The President’s budget proposal basically ignored (as it should have been).

🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget! House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion. To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle. YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!