🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨 We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes: ⚡ Neuropixels recordings ⚡ Opto/chemo ⚡ Behavior ⚡ Neural network modeling If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏 www.fens.org/careers/job-...

I'm officially recruiting grad students in FIU's Cognitive Neuroscience PhD program! 🧠✨ The @bottenlab.bsky.social uses precision and population approaches to study neurodevelopmental variability. Reach out if interested! (contact info on bottenlab.github.io) Apps due 12/1! cn.fiu.edu (pls share)

How does human amygdala circuitry develop through adolescence to support affective and cognitive control processes? Excited to share recent work from my dissertation, now out in Cell Reports, that uses longitudinal, multimodal neuroimaging at 7 Tesla to answer this question! A 🧵 tinyurl.com/5aaf9fpv

Interested in hippocampal dynamics and their interactions with cortical rhythms? Our physically constrained model of cortico-hippocampal interactions - complete with fast geometrically informed numerical simulation (available at embedded github repo) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Science that makes you love science from @gozziale.bsky.social and team. An intellectual and methodological tour de force!

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...

New layer-fMRI preprint looking at laminar response differences of across (very) early development in newborns. Exciting new directions in the field. By Moore et al. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We wrote a piece for @naturemedicine.bsky.social 🧠 Menstrual cycle irregularities can be both cause and consequence of wide-ranging health issues. Embracing this complexity could reveal novel brain–body interactions and advance neuroscience. Check out our commentary www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New evidence indicates the thalamus actively influences the timing and pattern of brain development, shaping plasticity in cortical regions throughout childhood and adolescence. doi.org/g9vd4x

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev

Review now out in @npp-journal.bsky.social! Epigenetic regulation of brain development, plasticity, and response to early life stress rdcu.be/ezzYq

Beautiful work from the Raimondo lab documenting the protracted maturation of human neurons (h/t @lancasterlab.bsky.social) For #neoteny fans 🧪🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

thrilled to share this project over a decade in the making out now in @pnas.org! We show that precocious GABA boosting in neonates by early sevoflurane/propofol anesthetic exposure accelerates visual cortical maturation in human infants www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🇩🇪 3-year universal basic income (UBI) study, in which n=120 received UBI, n=1500 did not. Website is pretty neat, check it out for core findings. www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en

NEW PAPER! Thrilled to share this piece on early career perspectives on the future of child and youth mental health research, envisioning a field that continues strides in embracing complexity, centring diverse voices, and facilitating sustainable environments and systems bit.ly/455VxCv

Thrilled to share that our latest work on marsupial heterochrony is now online at @cp-devcell.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @lab-turner.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk We used scRNAseq to understand the asynchronous progression of developmental programmes in marsupials www.cell.com/developmenta...

Alam et al. develop a canonical time-series feature set for characterizing biologically informative dynamical patterns in fMRI: doi.org/10.52294/001... @bendfulcher.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

This paper truly exemplifies what is possible in the modern era of neuroimaging data. A beautiful and extremely impressive piece of work from @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social that was a treat to contribute to. Check it out!

1000s of studies have been published mapping neuroanatomical changes in psychiatric disorders. Can we ever converge on robust disease phenotypes? Our latest PP led by Trang Cao in a huge collab effort investigates this question... @nsb-lab.bsky.social

Never have I ever...sent a paper out for review before a major holiday 😂 Poor timing aside, we are super happy to finally preprint this one: we dug deep into why prematurity increases risk for NDDs and it turns out-duh-bad PFC and inhibition

Human thalamocortical connectivity matures along the cortex’s sensorimotor–association axis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#OHBM2025 was a blast -- the perfect way to celebrate submitting my PhD thesis with y'all 🎉 It was an honor (and so fun!) to represent the Aussie imaging community alongside a fab panel in the LOC Symposium, sharing my final thesis work on homotopic connectivity: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It seems that only the science community is noticing that NIH and NSF budgets are cut 40% and 55% in the budget bill, respectively. If you live in Maine, West Va, Pennsylvania, Alabama, or Louisiana, CALL YOUR SENATOR as they could make a difference. See below. prospect.org/politics/202...

Alert!!!! “An Action Networks Model for Pain” We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it. 👉 thread below 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

@valeriejsydnor.bsky.social giving a killer talk on prefrontal myelin development at #OHBM2025

#OHBM2025 is here and the champs from @pennlinc.bsky.social have brought their freshest work express from Philly to Brisbane. Thread below . . .please reach out + come say hi -- always looking to talk science + make new friends!!!

Excited to connect with friends old and new at OHBM 🇦🇺! Find me at my poster on W/Th 🧠, chairing the Quantitative Imaging of Myelin Plasticity symposium (ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/Even...) Friday at 9 am 🪑, jogging at the group social run 👟, or being @pennlinc.bsky.social lab's permanent plus 1 👯

NetNeuroLab posters + talks at @ohbmofficial.bsky.social synapse types! neurotransmission connectomes! mouse maps! neuromorphic networks! generative models! neuropeptides! ⤵️

My lab is at @ohbmofficial.bsky.social in Brisbane! Find us at the @gradientsworkshop.bsky.social - great talks by @wanb.bsky.social Katerina Manoli (and others) Then we are at the educational sessions where @claraweber.bsky.social will present @amnsbr.bsky.social work on E/I balance.

🚨 New article with infographic! Kindly retweet! The full article is open-access and available here: doi.org/10.1037/amp0...

🚨BREAKING: 300+ NIH employees call out the harm of censorship & politicized science in scathing email to Bhattacharya, demanding an end to political interference, a lift on funding freezes, & rehiring of fired staff whose work saves lives. This is historic - insiders are blowing the whistle. 🧵(1/5)

Precon_all is finally citeable! I’m relieved, pleased, thrilled and all other superlatives to present to you our preprint describing the inner workings of the precon_all pipeline for semi-automated non-human cortical surface reconstruction! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/10

🧠⚖️📉 How does the cortical excitation-inhibition ratio mature during adolescence? We asked this in our new paper just out in #ScienceAdvances ✨ “Adolescent maturation of cortical excitation-inhibition ratio based on individualized biophysical network modeling” 📄 www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 🧵⤵️

🚨🚨🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨🚨🚨 Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!

New preprint with @stuartoldham.bsky.social

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out this new podcast that does interviews with scientists who had their funding cancelled:

A powerful piece by Daniel Malinsky on why scientists must resist Trump’s authoritarian agenda: “In these times … scientists have a duty to dissent.” We completely agree. Ready to act? Join the #SummerFightForScience now (1/2)➡️ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We're tracking the number of international students whose visas have been revoked by the State Department. We've confirmed over 300 so far and there are likely many more. Get in touch if you've got information you'd like to share with us www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

We showed that lifespan growth of regional connectivity is organized along a spatiotemporal cortical axis, transitioning from primary sensorimotor regions to higher-order association regions. (4/5)

Happy to share that our article “Human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome” is now published online at Nature Neuroscience @natureneuro.bsky.social ! Many thanks to all collaborators & data contributors, and the editor team & reviewers! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to share my last PhD work "Genetic, transcriptomic, metabolic, and neuropsychiatric underpinnings of cortical functional gradients". We used UKB, HCP, and QTAB to analyze the genetics of functional gradients. The results are so good, consistent, and inspiring! (1/3)

Compelling evidence that the activity-dependent gene expression program has changed between human and chimpanzee neurons (new preprint by @janetsong.bsky.social and collaborators) 🧪🧬🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today, I’m launching Save Our Schools – a campaign to bring people together and push back against Donald Trump's attacks on public education. We're fighting for an America where it's not just the kids of billionaires who get a good education, but every kid in every community.

Brain function fluctuates daily—but what drives these changes? direct.mit.edu/imag/article... super proud of Deniz Yilmaz and Bianca Serio and thankful for the open data of @emilyjacobs.bsky.social and Laura Pritschet 🌈👫 studying hormonal fluctuations in functional gradients ❤️‍🔥

Study human brain structure and function with our new open access 7T MRI dataset led by superstar scientist @donnagift.bsky.social ↙️

Head Start, which serves over 800K children and their families all over the country, was hit hard today by the HHS layoffs. <1% of HS’s annual funding is spent on federal staff. nhsa.org/press_releas...

New review from Jess Morrel & the @hertinglab.bsky.social exploring links between air pollution and the developing brain. tl;dr: this literature is growing, but there are still gaps in time (sensitive exposure windows, timing of exposure -> brain changes) and space (most data from US/Europe)