Want to learn about FMRI visualization, processing and group analysis? Join us for the next AFNI Bootcamp (Jan. 27-29, 2026) for a fun few days of theory and interactive practicals. Details+registration for this virtual course: afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp

This paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!

Our latest study led by @purnimaqamar.bsky.social on avoidance in pediatric anxiety is out now in Mental Health Science 🎉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

** Recruiting a postdoc ** We are looking for a postdoc to work on emotion, mental health, and interoception, based in London at @ucl.ac.uk in my lab (Clinical and Affective Neuroscience). Part of a large Wellcome Grant (co-led with the brilliant @camillanord.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

Data only shows associations. Turning those into claims about mechanism or causation? That requires a Rosetta Stone of prior knowledge + theory. Resting-state fMRI is purely observational; correlation is its currency. From this, plenty of "theoretical toys" about brain function can be built...

Excited to share this new preprint on the Predictive Modelling of Depression Treatment Response using Individual Symptoms and Latent Factors with @clairegillan.bsky.social fresh up on @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our latest work is now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We examined the role of the basal forebrain and its influence on intrinsic brain networks in depressive and anxiety disorders. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... @psychunimelb.bsky.social, @mbciu.bsky.social, #UnimelbMDHS

The @cahbir.bsky.social and @rutgersbhi.bsky.social are hiring! Multiple open area and open rank faculty jobs, wonderful colleagues, amazing resources, and one of the largest communities of brain science research groups on the planet. Please apply and share widely. jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/209...

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.

Excited to share that our work is now published in Imaging Neuroscience! 🧠🥳 We show how aging reshapes the brain’s language and memory networks, revealing striking shifts in hemispheric specialization across the lifespan. Check it out @imagingneurosci.bsky.social

A great week of meetings and presenting in Melbourne, including a visit to @orygen.org.au hosted by @sidchop.bsky.social & Lianne Schmaal. Now off to Brisbane for #OHBM2025. I'll be presenting Tuesday and Wednesday, 9am in the Great Hall both days :)

Social anxiety may be related to physical avoidance of aversive stimuli in an interactive game. Our latest study, led by @purnimaqamar.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Check our latest work ‘Linking Subjective Experience of Anxiety to Brain Function using Natural Language Processing’. Our analyses link movie-evoked brain activity and subsequent interview recordings in a pediatric sample with and without anxiety disorders (doi.org/10.31234/osf...).

Check our latest work ‘Linking Subjective Experience of Anxiety to Brain Function using Natural Language Processing’. Our analyses link movie-evoked brain activity and subsequent interview recordings in a pediatric sample with and without anxiety disorders (doi.org/10.31234/osf...).

🚨 New #preprint: The molecular and cellular underpinnings of human brain lateralization 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🧠 We identify an acetylcholine-norepinephrine axis underlying functional lateralization, along with mitochondrial and cellular correlates. 🧵1/9👇 #neuroskyence

"To make a meaningful contribution to #neuroscience, #fMRI must break out of its silo." My latest attempt to convince you of the importance of multi-scale approaches for the study of the human brain.

Is interoceptive sensing unified across internal organs? 🫀🫁 Our high-powered psychophysical study (N=241) suggests not. Bayesian evidence indicates interoceptive processes are largely modality-specific—challenging the idea of a unitary interoceptive sense. 🔗 Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Our report on "The Relations Among Anxiety, Movie-Watching, and In-Scanner Motion" is out now in Human Brain Mapping. In short: even anxiety-evoking movies reduce pediatric in-scanner movement compared to 'rest', highlighting its benefit for developmental neuroimaging. doi.org/10.1002/hbm....

The Holmes Lab is #hiring a full-time research assistant/predoc! Our work focuses on functional brain networks-- how they change, how they are impacted in psychiatric illness, and much more! Unfortunately, we cannot sponsor visas for this position. Please rt and reach out if you're interested👀

Interested in #MRI and #psychiatry? Our lab is hiring a research assistant (@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social)! Please RT and share. @geneticssociety.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @sfnjournals.bsky.social @pgcgenetics.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @blackinneuro.bsky.social

🧠 📌 FINAL CALL FOR POST-DOC IN NEUROIMAGING 🧠 📌 Do you have (or will have soon) a PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience or Neuroimaging? Are you looking for a post-doc in neuroimaging? Do you want to join a friendly lab in a fab Psychology department? Do you wish to live in gorgeous Norwich?

Come join us at the ICN. Were looking for an Associate or Full Professor: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... (these jobs aren't advertised very often!)

Interested in understanding what brain activity during movies means from the perspective of the viewer? Then you absolutely need check out this amazing study by @ravenwallace.bsky.social from THinC Lab out now in @elife.bsky.social A thread 🧵 elifesciences.org/articles/97731

I am looking for a post-doc on neuroimaging analysis. Come & join my team at UEA (Norwich, UK). The post is for 32 months starting from April. Norwich is a wonderful & affordable city. ➡Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/13... ⏰Deadline: 13 February 2025 Questions: [email protected]

Stats and ML

Great work by @halleeshearer.bsky.social in her first first-author paper. With 🎀 shiny app 🎀 to explore how FC reliability fares ACROSS DIFFERENT movies versus rest, region-by-region. Thanks @sneuroble.bsky.social @tingsterx.bsky.social @ninetlab.bsky.social for 👍 collab. doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Back in London for my birthday and celebrating with Chole Bhatura at The Tamil Prince 😋

I thought this was the conclusion of the original BWAS paper? Either way it's both imaging pipelines (specifically driving features from population average atlases) and noisy target phenotypes

Happy to share our latest paper on 'using movies to study subjective, clinically meaningful experiences in neuroscience' 🎞️🧠. doi.org/10.1093/cerc...

#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀 Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to? Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)! Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9

Working on new film project (INSCAPES 2!!). 💥. Does anyone have an audio recording of a modern, commonly used EPI sequence they could share? The composer builds her score around the types of sounds that occur inside the scanner, so I'm trying to get a few for her to listen to...🎵

Starting a Human Neuroimaging pack, let me know if you’d like to be added! 🧠 go.bsky.app/8xs6oWw

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁/𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝘁𝘆 In a previous fMRI study we use a broad set of regions. Are there other studies that have good sets of ROIs? Are there some important regions missing from our set? Thanks. 🧠 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Happy to share our latest paper on 'using movies to study subjective, clinically meaningful experiences in neuroscience' 🎞️🧠. doi.org/10.1093/cerc...

Got a bad gut feeling 😖? In a new study, led by the brilliant @leahbanellis.bsky.social and Ignacio Rebollo, we combined fMRI & electrogastrographic (EGG) imaging in more than 200 participants to uncover links between the gastric-brain axis and mental health.  www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...  🧵👇

We are looking for a postdoc at the Translational Lab (translational-lab.com) at Emory! Pls 🔄 We focus on: * when & why decision-making goes awry in depression and anxiety * developing potent and scalable interventions A range of projects are possible w/in this scope. Informal inquiries welcome

Our lab is hiring a lab manager/RA to start in summer 2024! Learn cutting-edge behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging tools applied to big Qs in cog&social psych. Send qs my way, and apply through the official posting here: searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/727...

The MAClab at Texas A&M is looking for a post-doc! Details below. Please share! drive.google.com/file/d/1Gi1gmPY_HFXaL4cgAwIe6se6BWlBLZd1/view?usp=sharing

🚨My lab is searching for 1-2 full-time research coordinator(s) and a full-time research tech to contribute to our studies on 🧠 human brain networks🧠 Deadline: Feb. 28 for full consideration Start date: as early as this summer Additional info: pics below and 👇 Pls share/RT! 🙏

🔔New Postdoc Position 🔔 Do you love computational modelling and mental health? We're recruiting a postdoc on a Wellcome Trust-funded project to lead the development of a new open-source platform: Hypatia. w/ @alexandrapike.bsky.social, Lei Zhang and Catia Oliveira Read on 👇👇👇

𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗺𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗠𝗥𝗜? How can you detect brain states in an unsupervised manner? Come see our approach this morning at #SfN23 !

The special collection that I've been an editor for at Scientific Reports on "Underlying mechanisms of psychedelics and their use in therapy" is now live! Some great stuff there, and more to come soon! www.nature.com/collections/...

Update on our study into movie-evoked changes in brain-heart coherence: in addition to suspenseful vs non-suspenseful movie clips, we've now added a contrast to 'rest' which further supports the idea that anxiogenic movie-watching might reduce brain-heart coherence. osf.io/preprints/ps...

My very sweet fiancée got me a cake to celebrate reaching 100 citations

Hey everyone! I'm a postdoc at UCL (incoming NIH) studying the neurobiology of anxiety and depression using movie-watching paradigms 📽️🧠 Hoping to connect with the neuroscience and psychiatry communities here :)