Our new paper on brain networks engaged during imagining is out now in Neuron! Here is a download link (free for 50 days): authors.elsevier.com/c/1msNE3BtfH... Congratulations to Nate Anderson for leading this work @rementurus.bsky.social 🧵

For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals. The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

tl;dr: NIH is running at about 60% of pre-Trump levels and NSF is running at about 20% of pre-Trump levels of funding-outlays (some directorates far below even that). Utterly catastrophic. An unforced disaster for U.S. society, and the world

9 months later, we are at the top of the to-fund pile but still no NOA and we're told NICHD has not awarded a single new R01. Sure would like to work on this project!

Excellent new update at Grant Witness that helps break down how science funding is being slowed down.

I mean I just can't even find words. The US defense secretary helping plan a massive, destabilizing surprise war - a war the US has immediately LOST - and then using his insider knowledge to make stock bets so he can personally get rich? Hard to think of worse corruption, anywhere, ever.

Why do schizophrenia GWAS signals look so flat across the genome? In our recent preprint, we explored why psychiatric disorders — and, more broadly, brain-related traits involving the central nervous system — appear to have unusual genetic architectures. 🧵1/n

Environmental context can shape how our brains function! 🌟New work🌟 led by all-stars @niaberrian.bsky.social and @monicarosenb.bsky.social shows that environmental exposures in youth are reflected in brain networks that keep our attention focused! 🧠🌲 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devpsy #neuroimaging

How do we define "good" fMRI data? Especially with resting state, there are circularity risks if we evaluate data quality as showing the networks we expect to see. Javier Gonzalez-Castillo (& me & others) developed pBOLD, a new metric that uses multi-echo info. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/8

Inspired by Edinburgh’s legacy of big ideas (e.g., Hume), on a train leaving the city, I crafted a proposal for a book about big ideas in network neuroscience—how brain activity flows generate representations that together compose our minds. The rest is history, and this new book: shorturl.at/3p100

"In immigration detention, he missed 4 out of 5 chemotherapy sessions scheduled in his fight against aggressive lymphoma. A scan last month showed the cancer had spread into his bone marrow. “I was in shock, seeing those little dots,” he said of the scan...” www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

The exposome and attention-related brain networks jointly predict attention problems in early adolescence | medRxiv www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Under Trump, NIH Funding Opportunity Notices Dropped From 787 To 84 Here's my coverage of this in @forbes.com 🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky #MedSky #episky🩺 #HiSciSky Public Health #science www.forbes.com/sites/brucel...

Precision reward/affect fMRI study out now in HBM! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @dvsmith.bsky.social @olinotom.bsky.social @coopersharp.bsky.social and @shenghanwang.bsky.social Intensively sampled task + rest fMRI data with behavioral manipulation openly available on OpenNeuro! (1/2)

Trump has denied most disaster aid requests from Democratic-led states.

Today's the day. America has no king. Come out and stand together in solidarity for freedom. #NoKings Find your event: www.nokings.org

⚠️⚠️ here we go again rollcall.com/2026/03/27/s...

Terrific work dissecting the neurobiological basis of the multiple ‘sensitive’ periods underlying language development across childhood, by @mellwoodlowe.bsky.social @apmackey.bsky.social @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social & colleagues 🧪🧠🗣️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Trump's war on science is unambiguous.

While the situation is grim at NIH, it's closer to catastrophic at NSF. They're just not able to move any money out the door. It appears OMB has them on lockdown. www.science.org/content/arti....

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Harmonizing brain rhythms: cortex-wide neuronal dynamics underpin quasi-periodic patterns in resting-state fMRI https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.26.713939v1

Do you censor high motion frames in fMRI? In two preprints by @twktan.bsky.social @mandymejia.bsky.social, we find that we may be censoring too much! doi.org/10.64898/202... arxiv.org/html/2603.07... Strict censoring leads to worse personalized TMS targets than no censoring, even with high motion!

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Neuroscientists have created a continuous atlas showing how patterns of functional connectivity between brain regions change from birth to old age go.nature.com/47rmMtk

Despite decades of research there are still no reliable biomarkers for any of the major psychiatric diagnoses. In this now published perspective in Molecular Psychiatry we consolidate evidence from genetics, exposome and neuroimaging research on the potential reasons underlying these failures.

Superb resource to study human brain development, out in @nature.com 🧪🧠 An atlas showing how patterns of functional connectivity between brain regions change from birth to old age “Functional hierarchy of the human neocortex across the lifespan” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our latest work looking at the neuroanatomical basis of impulsivity in youth is out now in Molecular Psychiatry!

The first preprint from the lab is up! Are structural MRI correlates of substance use shared across substances, or are there unique associations? And do these reflect predispositional risk and/or possibly the effects of substance exposure? www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #neuroskyence

out today, enjoyed writing this w/ @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social !

A right-hemispheric language network at single-neuron resolution https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.24.713937v1

New preprint "A cortical semantic space integrating fractions and integers" We used 7T fMRI during number comparison to map the adult cortical representation of small integers 0-5 and basic fractions. Those abstract symbolic concepts are mapped in parietal cortex. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Also out today - A quick intro piece on the role of the cerebellum in cognition. What does it do? How will we find out? This is what @actlab.bsky.social and I think the critical questions are right now. It was fun to write - especially the section on evolution.... journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

My close friend/colleague (Dr Pengfei Xu) has published an impressive 7-yr prospective study with nearly 400 young people, showing that functional brain dynamics in early childhood relate to adolescent anxiety and depression. www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000... #PsychSciSky

You have 10 minutes of task fMRI to map functional brain regions in an individual. Three decisions matter: How do you localize regions? Which tasks do you include? How do you arrange tasks in your experiment? Here, we tackle all three! Preprint👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

PANDORA is out 🧠⚡️ Run your high-res population (>80K) multimodal MRI study — now ▲ 98 mods ▲ speed/power/RAM wins 🚀 ▲ New supervoxels ▶ Super easy with your UKB var of choice preprint with @fmrib-steve.bsky.social et al.: medrxiv.org/content/10.6... start: open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/pandor...

A new analysis confirms what has long been suspected: grant cuts at NIH hit women and early-career researchers the hardest. As @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social told me, the findings here are unsurprising, but “documenting the damage from current policy is critical” 🧪

$2.45 billion NIH grant cuts and ~2300 terminated active research grants were DOGE'd in early 2025 Who were most affected? www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.... Early career and women researchers

Attention fluctuates over time and across contexts—how is this reflected in the brain?🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we show that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects changes in attention. Out in @natcomms.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And it’s well-known now too that research on-campus at NIH is being slowly choked to death. Scientists are leaving and not being replaced, lecture visits blocked, people are spending more and more time not on science but on fruitless paperwork seemingly created to stop progress.

Doctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other safe and routine care for babies.

This is a national disgrace and it should cost Bhattacharya his job at NIH. It should result in him being ostracized from academia for the rest of his career. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Notices of new funding opportunities (NOFOs) are down by 90%. As of March 3, the #NIH gave out 74% fewer new awards than the avg for the same period in 2021-2024. Only 2 grants have been awarded from the National Cancer Institute since Oct 2025. A pattern emerges. 🧪 archive.today/5hBFV

Nature research paper: Magnetic resonance control of spin-correlated radical pair dynamics in vivo go.nature.com/3NKm17W

Genetic susceptibility to schizophrenia begins to manifest in the brain in early adolescence, revealing dynamic neurodevelopmental changes that may serve as potential biomarkers for early detection of schizophrenia.

Congress gave NIH its money. But there's a lot more to science funding than a budget. I dug into it for @cenmag.bsky.social. cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

Great run through of where things stand at NIH and in the broader scientific community currently from @ldattaro.bsky.social cen.acs.org/policy/resea...

The CANDLab at Yale is hiring a new full-time research assistant! Excellent opportunity to gain post-bacc experience before applying to PhD programs in child and adolescent clinical psychology and neuroscience. 🧠 candlab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/YaleCANDLab_RA_2026.pdf

Our lab has an opening for a full-time research assistant, to work on human neuroimaging techniques and the neuroscience of sleep! To apply: massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MGBExt...