Our new study, led by the amazing @alex john asks how thalamic nuclei mature differently across childhood and adolescence, and how structural and functional development are linked. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Dr. Tianye Zhai’s careful and exhaustive new paper evaluating the effects of numerous fMRI denoising pipeline components, alone and in combination, just came out in HBM - check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Don't forget to submit a public comment about those OMB changes! Here's what's at stake, as well as my comments if you want to crib from me: 🧪 buttondown.com/KateClancy/a...

Happy to share that our work is finally published in @commsbio.nature.com! We identify molecular and cellular signatures of hemispheric specialization, linking language and attention to distinct neurotransmitter, mitochondrial, & cellular organization across the cortex 🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s420...

Excellent piece from @27unihted.bsky.social volunteers on how the current admin is affecting autism research, and harming people with autism. open.substack.com/pub/27unihte...

Headbutting goats self-inflict traumatic brain injury https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.26.734585v1

After learning two equally structured graphs, an abstract relational map of their shared structure emerges in mPFC — but only after a few days 🧠 Huge thanks to all collaborators, especially @alonbaram.bsky.social for leading this and @behrenstimb.bsky.social for making so much of it possible.

The comment period on the proposed OMB rule closes July 13. Your input can help protect merit-based science funding. Join fellow #NeuroAdvocates and submit a comment today: vist.ly/59mbt #neurosky #neuroskyence #scisky #medsky

NIH seems to think they will spend their full budget and fund more grants than last year. We can only hope. www.science.org/content/arti...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Colleen Hughes, Richard Betzel, et al: Individualized mapping of functional brain networks in older adulthood doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Steve Riley, Sarah W. Yip, et al: Is the whole more than the sum of its parts? Considering global and local features of the connectome improves prediction of individuals and phenotypes doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

We've hit the 3,000 mark in letters to Congress on the mad power-grab by Russell Vought at OMB to take over all federal grant making with a team of political commissars reporting to him. Let's get to 4,000 letters this week. Share. Share. Share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

Scientists, especially younger ones, are going to have to come to terms with the idea that “doing science” is no longer enough. We all have to fight for science: what it means, what are its values, and why it matters.

If you are near campus tomorrow, and interested in learning more about careers working in mental health, join us to hear from Penn Psychology's Director of Clinical Training. Open to all. July 1, 200 Goddard, 1 PM @sas.upenn.edu @upenn.edu @pennsp2.bsky.social @penngse.bsky.social

More from scientists on why the proposed OMB rule is a bad idea that will destroy the US research enterprise. www.newhavenindependent.org/2026/06/29/s...

"Federal research funding has produced exceptional returns precisely because decisions about what to fund have rested on merit and independent expert judgment, rather than political alignment." @webmz.bsky.social comments on OMB's proposal rule for @cos.io www.cos.io/blog/what-om...

Synaptic loss in schizophrenia isn't random. New PET imaging work from our group, led by @sidchop.bsky.social, shows it's left-lateralized, follows neurochemical gradients, and may propagate outward from inferior frontal cortex through axonal networks, independent of MRI grey matter changes

You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ

🧠 New work showing prominent and widespread 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘰 pre-synaptic terminal reductions in people with schizophrenia.🧠 nature.com/articles/s41... Strongest effects in left hemisphere, but synaptic loss didn't track with MRI grey matter alterations, but did align with..👇1/4

Opportunity to work with a total star!!!!

Interested in the principles shaping connectome architecture? See our latest in @cp-cell.bsky.social led by F Normand @nsb-lab.bsky.social A simple model using geometric eigenmodes captures cortical connectomes of different species. Paper: tinyurl.com/3r43spf5 Thread: tinyurl.com/vx74hp6u

From the bond market to biomedical researchers NO ONE thinks Russell Vought's mad power-grab to take over all federal grant making is a wise idea. Write, call your members of Congress. Submit a comment on the rule. Write an oped. STOP THIS NONSENSE. www.bondbuyer.com/news/moodys-...

In-scanner thoughts contribute to resting-state functional connectivity pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42365014/ I've long thought that this is the "elephant in the room" of resting state #fMRI esp. for comparing groups. If two groups think & feel differently in the scanner, of course rsfMRI will differ!

Let's finish the weekend with 5,000 letters to Congress on Russell Vought's mad power-grab to take over federal grant-making. It will take you two minutes to do this. Click on the link and it does it all for you. Share. Share. Share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

We are currently recruiting a data analyst and a postdoctoral fellow to lead projects related to perinatal neuroimaging and reproductive psychiatry. Apply at the links below!

NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

Scientists have mobilized against OMB's power grab, but we need to look beyond our own grants and make coalitions with neighbors whose hospitals, schools, broadband, roads and parks are at risk. Go out and talk to your town council and county commission! www.forbes.com/sites/judyst... 🧪

Having a greater tissue volume in some parts of the cerebellum is linked to higher scores on cognitive tests go.nature.com/4wh1b0F

Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Looks like groups outside the scientific community are commenting in higher numbers Day 18: 35,323 total comments, 17,458 mention science, 19,135 mention research

Scoop with @mercohn.bsky.social: Johns Hopkins University is laying off more than 100 employees in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Carey Business School and central administration. Hopkins is suffering "debilitating" decreases in federal research funding www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

Pumped to share our latest work! Here, we peeked under the hood of fMRI-based predictive models to ask whether models of sustained attention and autism symptoms rely on overlapping functional connections. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/2

Who needs sleep when you can just slow wave during wake? www.nature.com/articles/s41... #sleeppeeps

Is brain circuit targeted TMS better than standard clinical TMS for treating depression? New study led by Joe Taylor @braincircuits.bsky.social out today in @jamapsychiatry.com says yes! Connectivity- vs Scalp-Based Targeting of Accelerated TMS for Depression jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

5,843 terminated NIH grants. 110 canceled announcements. Courts ordering reinstatements. Political pre-issuance review in action. My take in MedPage Today. @medpagetoday.com www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

Longterm, meticulous science 1970s mutation identified 2000s lentiviral vectors made reliable 2012 CRISPR makes editing feasible 2017 first durable lentiviral cures 2020 first CRISPR‑edited SCD patients 2023–24 first approved gene‑addition & CRISPR cures pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I just submitted a comment on the proposed new OMB rule, which is very dangerous fo rUS science. I urge you to consider doing the same. You can do so very easily at this web page: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/164... A short comment is fine but write in your own words. More info follows..

Looking for a Tuesday read? Look no further!!! Excited to see this out!!!

Happy to share that our paper on objective quality assessment for "precision" fMRI is now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social A recap of what it does, what's new since the preprint, and code you can run on your own data. cell.com/neuron/fullt...

A human intracranial map of consciousness returning from anesthesia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.17.732807v1

Pumped to share our latest work! Here, we peeked under the hood of fMRI-based predictive models to ask whether models of sustained attention and autism symptoms rely on overlapping functional connections. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/2

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Josh Neudorf, Anthony R. McIntosh, et al: Young and old adult brains experience opposite effects of acute sleep restriction on the functional connectivity network doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Feature overlap in transdiagnostic connectome-based models of sustained attention and autism symptoms | medRxiv www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

"A cancer researcher named Rachael Sirianni recently told NPR that the odds of securing funding for her promising drug combination for children with brain tumors was almost zero." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/o...

Brutal grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0...

Currently recruiting for our study of #perimenopause! We want to model how the dynamic hormone shifts of this period impact brain circuitry and, potentially, put a subset of women at greater risk of #alzheimers disease. This project funded by @yalebiomedimaging.bsky.social @whryale.bsky.social.

Systematic Review: Greater exposure to adverse #SocialDeterminants was associated with #neurobiological abnormalities in #Schizophrenia spectrum conditions, linking SDOHs to clinical outcomes and supporting equity-oriented approaches. ja.ma/4aFiKyW

Mapping the neuronal building blocks of human language with language models | Nature www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's Thursday and Russell Vought is still trying to take over all federal grant making, put it under his thumb and political control. It's a mad power grab. We need to stop it. Click on this and write a letter to your members of Congress. And share, share, share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.