And every year I repost it when I see @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social’s post.

I would 1000% join Hayoung’s lab if I could

🎊New Lab Alert! I'll be starting at the 🧡University of Texas at Austin🧡 this August! More info to come. thesonglab.github.io I send my deep gratitude to my mentors, Monica @monicarosenb.bsky.social, YC @ycleong.bsky.social, ShiNung @shinung.bsky.social & Zach @zreagh.bsky.social, for everything.

Preprint alert! 🧠 Using movie-watching fMRI and NLP, we show that prior social impressions shape how new social information is processed and updated over time, while moments of sudden insight ("aha"!) accompany transient shifts in brain activity that predict impression updates. (1/10)

@vssmtg.bsky.social l | Distracted during talks? Maybe your brain has better things to do. 🌊☀️🍹🏖️ Sunday, May 17, 9:30am, Talk Room 1 — I’ll present our new goal-competition theory with @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social.

In collaboration with @monicarosenb.bsky.social , we showed that individual diffs in LTM encoding is uniquely predicted by inter-electrode correlations even controlling for working memory abilities. This suggests that WM & LTM encoding are separate abilities coded by different neural signatures! 1/n

Hot off the "reels"! The keynote talk by Peter Hagoort, as well as award talks by @theamygdaloid.bsky.social, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @actlab.bsky.social All up on our YouTube channel now! Check them out: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #CNS2026 #neuroscience

We dedicate this paper to Jonny Smallwood (1975-2025), who was instrumental in this project from inception to submission. Jonny thank you for your mentorship & you are dearly missed!

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

New preprint out! We show that the exposome and attention-related brain networks jointly predict attention problems in early adolescence—highlighting how environment and brain function have shared and unique associations with reported attention problems. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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...

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

Very happy that this paper from our lab is now out in @pnas.org! What happens when the *same* person experiences the *same* information with a *different* interpretation? Nearly the whole 🧠—well, at least nearly all association cortex—changes how it represents that information! tinyurl.com/p8chj2j7

Congratulations @monicarosenb.bsky.social on your Young Investigator Award! Join us now for her #CNS2026 award talk, about neural signatures of sustained attention, with intro by @hartleylabnyu.bsky.social

HUGE congratulations to all the brilliant winners & especially to @esfinn.bsky.social & @ycleong.bsky.social for leading absolutely transformational work & being all around good people & friends.

An exciting new Special Issue on Diffusion MRI at Imaging Neuroscience! direct.mit.edu/collection/7...

New Special Issue at @imagingneurosci.bsky.social! direct.mit.edu/collection/7... 🧲

I'm going to present our latest memory model that learns causal inference during narrative comprehension! Stop by the poster on Monday to chat about causality, memory, brain🧠, and AI🤖! #sfn2025 #sfn25

Interested in how the brain prepares for upcoming tasks? We trained a monkey on “6” different cognitive tasks and recorded prefrontal cortical activity. We examined the neural geometry and dynamics during task preparation. Come check out our poster on SUNDAY(Nov 16) from 1-5 PM!

Hidden Markov Models Speaking of HMMs, really enjoyed this paper on dynamics underlying resting state and other conditions. The idea of a baseline state from which excursions lead to more integrated states is really interesting. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... #neuroskyence

1/ To reduce distraction and boost focus, nothing works better than linking performance to rewards 💰 But what about focusing to avoid penalties? Turns out — it works too… just not as much as combining both! Check out our new preprint 👇 w/ Ed Vogel and @monicarosenb.bsky.social

🏆 #CNS2026 Young Investigator Award Winners 🏆 Congratulations to Monica Rosenberg and Samuel D. McDougle, recipients of the 2026 Young Investigator Award! 🎉 We look forward to their award lectures at the CNS 2026 Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada! 🇨🇦✨ @cogneuronews.bsky.social

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1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.

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.

How does the brain🧠 make causal inferences and use memories to understand narratives🎬? We built an RNN🤖 with key-value episodic memory that learns causal relationships between events and retrieves memories like humans do! Preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... w/ @qlu.bsky.social, Tan Nguyen &👇

Resting-state fMRI data predicts what people are thinking and how they're thinking it ⬇️

what happens during "resting state"? @jinke.bsky.social asked this question by (literally) asking what participants what they were thinking during rest, finding that ongoing thoughts are reflected in FC patterns and predict behavior/traits! excited to be part of this project!

New preprint! 🧠 Our mind wanders at rest. By periodically probing ongoing thoughts during resting-state fMRI, we show these thoughts are reflected in brain network dynamics and contribute to pervasive links between functional brain architecture and everyday behavior (1/10). doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Preprint⭐ Our attention changes over time and differs across contexts—which is reflected in the brain🧠 Fitting a dynamical systems model to fMRI data, we find that the geometry of neural dynamics along the attractor landscape reflects such changes in attention! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My first time presenting this line of work, linking environmental exposures, attention problems, and attention-related brain networks in the ABCD Study at the MSTP retreat! Thank you to my collaborators for your [email protected] @ariellekeller.bsky.social and others not on bluesky.

Searching for a postdoc to work on 2 newly NIH-funded projects using intracranial EEG with TMS and direct electrical stimulation to investigate hippocampal networks supporting episodic memory. Research Scientist could also work for post-post-doc candidates. Plz spread! cnoir.bsd.uchicago.edu/join/

A Temporal Hierarchy of Sustained Attention Dynamics journals.sagepub.com/share/YUQSMC...

Pharmacological manipulations offer unique, powerful & imo underutilized ways to test the sensitivity & specificity of brain-based biomarkers of behavior. New from an amazing team led by @lyulouisa.bsky.social & @annacorriveau.bsky.social

Now out in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN)! academic.oup.com/scan/advance...

To learn more about this dataset and the neural dynamics of narrative insight, check out our recent work (preprint below) led by the amazing @hayoungsong.bsky.social and chat with her on Saturday 1:50 PM - 3:00 PM! Poster ID: P3-B-30. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Curious how the human brain updates social impression in a naturalistic setting? We scanned participants watching This Is Us, and found that sudden neural pattern shifts at insight moments of comprehension reflect impression updating. Come and chat Friday 4:15–5:15pm at #SANS2025, Poster P2-G-69.

Now out in Plos Computational Biology! We identified a generalizable neural signature of emotional arousal across contexts and individuals during movie watching. work with the best team: @hayoungsong.bsky.social @Zihan Bai @monicarosenb.bsky.social @ycleong.bsky.social dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

We’re recruiting for a new study! Please consider participating in @jadynpark.bsky.social’s research if you’re in the Chicago area, and help us spread the word!

Attention here! We found ind. diff. & fMRI evidence that sustained attention is more closely related to long term memory than to attentional control. With the best team @monicarosenb.bsky.social @edvogel.bsky.social @annacorriveau.bsky.social @jinke.bsky.social

Excited to be part of this work led by @hayoungsong.bsky.social! We used scrambled narratives, fMRI, and free-form verbal responses to study how the brain arrives at insights!

If you are curious about the brain🧠 on causal inference, insight💡, memory retrieval, and narrative comprehension🎬, this will be the one. work by dream team @jinke.bsky.social Rhea Madhogarhia @ycleong.bsky.social @monicarosenb.bsky.social ⭐

Hi Bluesky! Happy to share my PhD work: Spatial information was consistently represented across tasks in a low-dimensional subspace of PFC activity, while task identity was encoded in an orthogonal subspace, providing a stable and independent representation of context. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Wonderful explainer on indirect costs by Dick Aslin open.substack.com/pub/dickasli...

Question for infant MRI researchers! Has anyone used pediatric respiratory bands/monitors to measure in-scanner breathing? I'm curious to hear how people do this & what works. Please RT

Out now in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social: We developed a generalizable brain network model predicting moment-to-moment surprise. This edge-fluctuation-based predictive model (EFPM) of surprise works across tasks, from adaptive learning to watching basketball games or cartoons! rdcu.be/d4y3g

This is awesome! Great work and happy to see this in press - had been waiting to see out for awhile now @monicarosenb.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New followers: Consider submitting to an Imaging Neuroscience Special Issue on Optical & Acoustic Neuroimaging or Imaging Genetics! It's a great way to share your impactful science & support this community-led, non-profit, open-access outlet direct.mit.edu/imag @imagingneurosci.bsky.social

New review with @hayoungsong.bsky.social & JeongJun Park!

Reminder that @imagingneurosci.bsky.social is accepting submissions to TWO special issues through early 2025: Imaging Genetics (direct.mit.edu/imag/pages/c...) & Optical & Acoustic Neuroimaging (direct.mit.edu/imag/pages/s...). Consider submitting & sharing!