This report in Nature on the costs of competing for & administering scientific grants is shocking: "In other words, European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained." www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Preprint updated --> Key new results: we found a brain-behavior correlation between performance on an RL task (under short feedback delays) and short-delay RPE signals in the 'cognitive' cerebellum! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New story in STAT with data about Early Stage Investigators www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/n... 1/4

netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️

"The damages extend beyond the immediate year. Science cannot be turned on and off and on again; it requires continuity for experiments, personnel, and, in some cases, clinical trial participants — more than 74,000 of whom have been impacted by post-award terminations."

Toward Robust Neuroanatomical Normative Models: Influence of Sample Size and Covariates Distributions | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇

📢 PhD Opportunities at FIU Biomedical Engineering – Apply by Dec 31 (Priority Deadline) I’m thrilled to share that I will be joining the Dept of Biomedical Engineering at Florida International University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Jan 2026! 1/n

Patterns of brain-wide associations reflect socioeconomics | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New lab paper - will say more about this in a little while

Just provisionally accepted -- preprint updated | The dual interpretation of edge time series: Time-varying connectivity versus statistical interaction | www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Just in time for the holidays, today's HHS dump of terminated grants lists a bunch of child welfare projects funded by the Administration for Children and Families' Children's Bureau. Programs across KS, KY, MN, NY, OR, CA, MD, DC, and IA. taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...

Our paper is out now in J Neuroscience (currently in "accepted paper" form). We directly record single neurons in human insula, as well as primary auditory cortex, while participants passively listen to simple sounds. @sfnjournals.bsky.social www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... (1/5) 🧠📈🧵👇

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆? @lucinauddin.bsky.social explains many of the challenges and controversies! Great discussion too. Check out the latest Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon. youtu.be/pP5swFPR0Ns

1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Hecheng Jin, Ting Xu, et al: Is Pearson’s correlation coefficient enough for functional connectivity in fMRI? doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

“The only reason I don’t have this funding is because my last name is Rodriguez.” MOSAIC checked many of the boxes of the administration — but that didn't matter. It was terminated, and left grantees scrambling Next installment of American Science, Shattered: www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...

Current NIH policy under Bhattacharya (at the behest of Project2025 architect Russell Vought) is killing the next generation of researchers. If you value research, tell your members of Congress that the NIH needs more than funding. It needs sound leadership. www.statnews.com/2025/12/08/t...

As we chase whole-brain signatures of cognition with fMRI, this fascinating perspective argues that cognitive signals are broadly distributed...but far from everywhere! For those of us using whole-brain neuroimaging lots to think about.. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share that our new review, "Depression as a disease of white matter network disruption: Learning from Multiple Sclerosis," is out now in Biological Psychiatry! We propose MS as a powerful model for studying how white matter network changes contribute to depression.

Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them. Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded. “Make America Healthy Again.”

After slow-walking critical funding for lifesaving research, the Trump administration has sabotaged the NIH grantmaking process so that researchers get LESS money on average and LESS time to use it.   No one is asking to fund less cancer research, but that's what's happening.

Exciting new work from @lindenmp.bsky.social and friends! Inferring intrinsic neural timescales using optimal control theory www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The NIH grant cuts in 2025 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How does the brain integrate visual and somatosensory representations? A recent @nature.com paper presents a model that, when applied to ongoing co-activations during rest, results in detailed maps of body-part tuning that aligns with visual tuning 🧪 Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026. #SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us! Register here: sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

Attn MRI enthusiasts! 📣 Just in time for Thanksgiving, I’m thankful to share this opportunity to join us as MRI Center Director! ✨ Couldn’t speak more highly of my time here so far—such a supportive & collaborative place to build a lab—and I’m more than happy to share more with anyone interested

Can studying white matter network 🕸️ disruption in Multiple Sclerosis advance our understanding of depression's 😔 pathophysiology? Learn more here ⬇️

Linking White-Matter Development to Clinical Variation in Autism: Longitudinal Normative Modelling of FA in the EU-AIMS LEAP Cohort https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.25.690402v1

𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐋𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐔𝐬𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬. New from us, led by @sarahepaul.bsky.social. PheWAS in ABCD identifies many potentially modifiable substance use risk factors! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

The numbers vary from study to study but hundreds of thousands of people have died because of Elon Musk and Marco Rubio illegally disbanding USAID — a body count on par with the first eight years of the Syrian civil war — In just seven months. It’s mass death that is simply unfathomable in scale.

🧪PSA New notices of #NIH awards now have language allowing grants to be terminated if they no longer “align” with agency “priorities”. This will create uncertainty b/c we can’t count on funding if it can be arbitrarily terminated while a study is in progress. Via @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social on IG

#PenNLINC is recruiting a clinical coordinator / lab manager!!! Looking for someone who is good with both people + code, wants to learn to acquire + analyze imaging data. Alumni in this role have written 1st author papers + gone to top grad programs. Website: www.pennlinc.io Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir

We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team! More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join... Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...

Lots going on but don’t lose track of the Trump attacks on biomedical research and cancer cures. @jeremymberg.bsky.social posted a leaked #NIH memo today. I want to highlight a few scary parts. They’re about taking power from scientists and experts and giving it to the president’s hacks. 1/ 🧪

How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy

Important new analysis identifying the scope of clinical trials disrupted because of NIH shenanigans. > 74 thousand trial participants affected jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 1/4

JAMA study: NIH grant terminations disrupted 3.5% of active clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 patients and resulting in a $1.81 billion funding loss. More than 115 active cancer trials were disrupted. www.ajmc.com/view/nih-gra...

Multivariate environmental exposures are reflected in whole-brain functional connectivity and cognition in youth | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Amazing work Dr Keller!!!!!

Awesome work here from @ariellekeller.bsky.social er.bsky.social linking the exposome to the developing functional connectome—check it out!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/2

Happy New Preprint Friday!* Thrilled to share new results in collab with Sarah Lichenstein & @yiplab.bsky.social showing our brain's functional connections reflect the environments we grow up in! tinyurl.com/exposomeConnectivity #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #DevPsy #cognition *can this be a thing??

Superb work by the stellar @bsevchik.bsky.social — a new fully processed open data resource focused on exec fxn in psychosis and ADHD. ‼️Also‼️ Brooke is applying to PhD programs now— great time to recruit an absolute star ⭐️ + wonderful human.

👏 👏 👏 An Open, Fully-processed, Longitudinal Data Resource to Study Brain Development and Transdiagnostic Executive Function | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧠I am excited to announce that our manuscript introducing a new data resource – PennLEAD (Penn Longitudinal Executive functioning in Adolescent Development) – is now available on bioRxiv. Below are some details highlighting our data resource🧵funded by NIMH R01MH113550 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It’s officially out! Check out the manuscript for more on the effect size web app, led by the truly indefatigable @halleeshearer.bsky.social and featuring so many contributions from this team, esp MINDS Lab via @dscheinost.bsky.social

Excited to share our manuscript about BrainEffeX, a tool for exploring fMRI effect sizes. Includes why we made it, how to use it + contribute, and how we made it. @sneuroble.bsky.social @psychonetrics.bsky.social @alexkfischbach.bsky.social @nichols.bsky.social @dscheinost.bsky.social & MINDS Lab