That’s a wrap! Thanks for a great #Flux2025 meeting, Dublin 🧠 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Very happy to have gotten to work with @deannajgreene.bsky.social and Steve Petersen on this article in Neuropsychopharmacology: "Considerations for conducting dev neuroimaging research on mental health topics". Hopefully trainees and clinicians will find it useful! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The APC at @imagingneurosci.bsky.social is now only $1400! Keep the great submissions coming 🧠 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social

Margaret Sheridan inspires us all with reflections and insights at her Linda Spear mid-career award talk 👏 Reminding us of the incredible growth and value of our field! #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Great flash talk this morning Sarah! Check out her poster today. #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Well shit #flux2025

Here we go Fluxers! #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Eveline Crone gives thoughtful opening remarks at @fluxsociety.bsky.social - thanking all the organizers and also acknowledging our challenging times. Very excited for the next 3 days of developmental cognitive neuroscience in Dublin! #flux2025

α-Synuclein driven cell susceptibility in Parkinson's disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.670819v1

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...

Can we run a child version of the Midnight Scan Club? Not at midnight, of course, but turns out we can! We collected large amounts of resting-state fMRI data from individual kids, and show high reliability with increasing amounts of data and individual variability. Check it out!

1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415...

More on the Action Mode Network!

My lab is hiring a research coordinator/assistant! If you or someone you know is interested in developmental cognitive neuroscience, neuroimaging (MRI, EEG), clinical populations (specifically children with Tourette syndrome), and brain networks, check it out: employment.ucsd.edu/staff-resear...

For Tourette syndrome awareness month, think about your understanding of Tourette and tic disorders. Most people don't know much about these disorders even though they are quite prevalent. Learn more at tourette.org/about-touret... and tics.wustl.edu

It turns out the brain🧠is silently🤫working when your arm is in a cast. 🩼 🚧 Plastic changes occur, and revert again when the cast is removed … not just in cortex.

@samkrimmelneuro.bsky.social shows the utility of Precision Functional Mapping deep into the brainstem! The red nucleus turns out to be much more potentially interesting for cognitive neuroscience than anyone thought, including connectivity to the Somato-Cognitive Action Network.

I think this hasn't gotten as much attention as it should. Please look at this Executive Order, read what it says about grants, and think about what this means for scientific grants. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

It continues to get worse. We can’t breathe a sigh of relief because it isn’t MY grant. We all risk being on the chopping block. Not even to mention the severe detriment to science, society, etc. 😢 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is a straight ban on purchasing at #NIH — for cancer trials, treating patients, and developing cures. @chrislhayes.bsky.social Almost all purchases at NIH are made on govt credit cards. It’s clear what’s happening: Trump/Musk are blowing up the govt using devious… 1/ www.forbes.com/sites...

The Atlantic story on the situation at NIH is sobering. We are so screwed. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Predictably, it keeps getting worse www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Inspired by @juliedgolomb.bsky.social I spent 15 minutes explaining research budgets and indirect costs to my lab meeting today, here's how I did it (1/4)

A Direct Hit, by @holdenthorp.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/doi/full/10.... "This is a moment to unite."

No marshmallows for us

Great resource! What will be the cost to the country for all those unemployed as a result of these cuts

May the odds be ever in your favor 😡😩😵‍💫

Tell me how else to interpret this other than as an attack on universities. Cutting IDCs to 15% would be catastrophic. Many research costs can’t be charged directly to grants, and indirects help (but still don’t fully cover). @altnih4science.bsky.social grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Our language neuroscience lab (evlab.mit.edu) is looking for a new lab manager/FT RA to start in the summer. Apply here: tinyurl.com/3r346k66 We'll start reviewing apps in early Mar. (Unfortunately, MIT does not sponsor visas for these positions, but OPT works.)

OMFG www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/p...

“‘It’s very easy to assume that science is going to change organically towards equality — and what this study shows is that that’s not happening…It is an ‘important reminder for us that we need to stay vigilant in working towards equality in science’” @crsugimoto.bsky.social 🧪 #AcademicSky 👩🏽‍🔬

The brain’s action-mode network — a Perspective by Nico U. F. Dosenbach, Marcus E. Raichle & Evan M. Gordon @ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text. “In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Julia Moser, Damien A. Fair, et al: Multi-echo acquisition and thermal denoising advances precision functional imaging direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Wish I could go! Someday

The brain’s action-mode is created by a dedicated action-mode network (AMN) rdcu.be/d5odm. In the brain’s mode continuum, AMN sits opposite DMN’s default-mode, as yin-yang. AMN might be key in pain, apathy, Parkinson’s. New @natrevneurosci.bsky.social w/ Marc Raichle & @gordonneuro.bsky.social 🧵 ⬇️

Agree! this is a great program

I've been trying to build a #Tourette syndrome starter pack, but lots of folks I would want to add I haven't yet found on Bluesky. Please share and/or sign up. go.bsky.app/34YXoZG

IT'S OFFICIAL! From today, @plos.org and its journals are no longer posting on Twitter/X. If you want to carry on hearing about great science in our journal, follow @plosbiology.org on Bluesky here: bsky.app/profile/plos...

Is it critical to stimulate @ndosenbach.bsky.social's SCAN and CON networks for clinical improvements of Tourette's patients that undergo DBS? Carlos Baldermann says yes in a cool new paper out in @natureportfolio.bsky.social comms today! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@cerogers.bsky.social with my favorite comment of the day: "The benefit of aging- really, the only benefit– is that you care less what other people think of you" 👏👏👏 👵 #ACNP2024

Worst kept non-secret is out: YES THERE IS #KARAOKE TONIGHT! Monday after the #Intersectionality social (8pm) come to Brigetts brigetts.com Sing your heart out with all your pals at @acnporg.bsky.social for #ACNP2024 and bring your #BestVest Pls RT far & wide!

📅 New lab review article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social with allydworetsky.bsky.social, & @laboranathan.bsky.social Check it out here: go.illinois.edu/ticsReview #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Neuroimaging #neuroscience 🧵below...

Our Special Issue intro is out, remembering Eran Zaidel authors.elsevier.com/a/1i6Ee6TBF%...

Lab activity for the Fall! We have some secret (or not so secret) artists among us. #labfun #neuroskyence

I’m excited to share our new preprint – led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social & Derek Smith – where we applied precision approaches (i.e., extensive per-participant data collection) to behavioral measures of inhibitory control. osf.io/preprints/ps... Attempting my first bluesky 🧵 in the following....

3 articles, Oct 30 Women remain underrepresented in academia www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Toxic workplaces are main reason women leave academic jobs www.nature.com/articles/d41... Women faculty feel pushed from academia by poor workplace climate www.science.org/content/arti... #WomenInStem

The new NIH approach to grant review is a GO and will apply to submissions after Jan 25, 2025. One more year to work that reputational bias, friends. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...