So lovely to see everyone at the reception yesterday #OHBM2026 ☀️💃🏻 For more fun times, come hang with us at 👇🏽 (cheap repost from LI…) @halleeshearer.bsky.social @strfabs.bsky.social @alexkfischbach.bsky.social

So glad to finally share work years in the making! What started with fMRI effect size benchmarks ended up showing that conventional study planning detects ~half of expected brain effects, suggesting more distributed processes than the lit shows (+ new methods for mass univ effect/power estimation)

Want to sharpen your Python skills and build libraries like a pro? In the next workshop in our 2026 “How-To” series we welcome Ariel Rokem (@arokem.org; University of Washington): 🧠 Designing and implementing Python libraries 📅 19 May 2026 🔗 Register: forms.gle/qeoCoYMdVxGL...

OHBM trainees, let's get creative! 🎨 Together with Brain Art SIG we are launching the Sticker Design Competition. Design a sticker featuring the SP-SIG logo! 🏆 Winning design will be distributed at the OHBM 2026 meeting in Bordeaux. 📅 Deadline: May 1, 2026 👉Details and submission: bit.ly/4caXG3m

🚨Two weeks away!🚨 Reminder that our first workshop of the year will happen in two weeks featuring @russpoldrack.org. 🧠 Better Code, Better Science 📅22 April 2026 🔗Register: forms.gle/WRUdGQEpd5is... #OHBM #OpenScience

Useful piece on AI in academic training: “The instinct[…]comes from years of failing at exactly the kind of work that people keep calling grunt work. Making the models smarter doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem harder to see.” h/t @laurelgd.bsky.social ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

On our way to Vancouver #CNS2026! Catch us at ✨Su 8am @strfabs.bsky.social’s data blitz (4) on a power curve generation tool ✨Su 3pm @halleeshearer.bsky.social’s poster on inflation-corrected effect sizes in fMRI ✨T 8am @alexkfischbach.bsky.social’s poster on robustness of local CSF correction

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ALT: a man wearing glasses and an apron with the words the great canadian pottery throw down on the bottom

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Congratulations to my absolute rockstar of a lab mate and close friend @halleeshearer.bsky.social!! This paper is going to do huge things for the field and I’m so proud of you!!

Hallee Shearer@halleeshearer.bsky.social · 9mo ago

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

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

Aperture Neuro@apertureohbm.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Shearer et al. introduce an interactive web application for exploring fMRI effect maps: doi.org/10.52294/001... @halleeshearer.bsky.social @sneuroble.bsky.social @ohbmossig.bsky.social #OpenDatasets #SpecialIssue

I’m excited to share that I was elected to serve as the inaugural Virtual Events Coordinator for the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Student & Postdoc Special Interest Group! A huge thank you to the open-science community for trusting me to help shape this new and exciting position! 🧠 #OHBM

For our inaugural Precision Brain & Mental Health Hack, we had over ✨ NINETY FIVE ✨ researchers, scientists, students & faculty register!!! Feeling very proud and grateful for this amazing team and event!!

Stephanie Noble@sneuroble.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thanks again to our organizers & our sponsor (CBH), and a final extra special thank you to our main organizer, @alexkfischbach.bsky.social !! Truly the backbone of this event 🙌🏽 See you all next year!

And that’s a wrap on our first ever Boston Precision Brain & Mental Health Hack 🥳 organized with @psychonetrics.bsky.social @alexkfischbach.bsky.social @strfabs.bsky.social @halleeshearer.bsky.social, Shane Pracar, Sophie Engels, Fatemeh Doshvargar & the Institute for Cognitive & Brain Health

I am not a political pawn. I am a living, breathing human being who has dedicated her life to a scientific problem that I believe matters for human health. The article below tells our story; I hope you will read it and share it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer

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The NeuroPRISM Lab 🧠 is in the news! The article touches on the Effect Size Explorer, the Power Calculator, and my own Local CSF Correction Pipeline — a scalable preprocessing pipeline for correcting local physiological noise in the subcortex. news.northeastern.edu/2025/09/02/n...

Precise maps of the brain’s deepest corners are made possible through tools developed by these Northeastern researchers

Northeastern researchers have developed a set of tools that offer precise mapping of the brain’s deepest corners.

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These past two years have had no shortage of challenges as a new PI, but this team has been a constant inspiration. Glad to recognize their commitment to advancing rigor in research. @halleeshearer.bsky.social @alexkfischbach.bsky.social Fatemeh Doshvargar @strfabs.bsky.social Catherine Cahill

Alex Fischbach@alexkfischbach.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Excited to share that the NeuroPRISM Lab has been awarded the #NINDS Early-Career Rigor Champions Prize! A major accomplishment for the lab, but especially reflects the leadership of our PI, Dr. Stephanie Noble! 🧠 @sneuroble.bsky.social 🧠 @halleeshearer.bsky.social 💻 @strfabs.bsky.social

Excited to share that the NeuroPRISM Lab has been awarded the #NINDS Early-Career Rigor Champions Prize! A major accomplishment for the lab, but especially reflects the leadership of our PI, Dr. Stephanie Noble! 🧠 @sneuroble.bsky.social 🧠 @halleeshearer.bsky.social 💻 @strfabs.bsky.social

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers. My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers. We found 437 of them. Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Excited to share our tool for exploring fMRI effect sizes at OHBM on Friday at 11:30 in the Neuroinformatics and Data Sharing session! If you can’t catch the talk, I’ll also be at my poster on Friday and Saturday (#1822)

Spatial heterogeneity of CSF related-noise in fMRI: why it matters and what we can do about it. My work at #OHBM2025 provides evidence for taking a region-specific approach when isolating CSF artifact in the subcortex. Swing by #P1358 on Fri/Sat to discuss!

Had a great time presenting my work at #CNS2025. A huge thank you to my advisor @sneuroble.bsky.social for helping me bring this project to life. Incredibly excited to see how well received our poster was and I can't wait to share new developments at OHBM this June! #fMRI #CSF

@alexkfischbach.bsky.social & @halleeshearer.bsky.social in action 🙌🏽 And congrats to all the poster presenters today—great to see so all the neuroimaging methods represented at #CNS2025

Stephanie Noble@sneuroble.bsky.social · last yr.

Amidst continued chaos, the lab will be at #CNS2025! Please come say hi, and we can all talk about promoting progress in brain research Sat 10:30 AM (blitz), Mon 8 BrainEffeX @halleeshearer.bsky.social Mon 8 AM: Subctx artifact @alexkfischbach.bsky.social Tues 8 AM: NeuroPowerX @strfabs.bsky.social

Improving fMRI signal quality starts with better noise modeling. My project at #CNS2025 shows how localized region-specific CSF correction may better isolate neural activity and increase sensitivity in the subcortex. Come by my poster #D138 to learn more! (Mon. 8:00-10:00AM) 🧠

Amidst continued chaos, the lab will be at #CNS2025! Please come say hi, and we can all talk about promoting progress in brain research Sat 10:30 AM (blitz), Mon 8 BrainEffeX @halleeshearer.bsky.social Mon 8 AM: Subctx artifact @alexkfischbach.bsky.social Tues 8 AM: NeuroPowerX @strfabs.bsky.social

Really fantastic and innovative work led by my amazing NeuroPRISM lab colleague and good friend. Congrats @halleeshearer.bsky.social — what an incredible accomplishment 🧠🎉

Hallee Shearer@halleeshearer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Curious if movie-watching can improve the reliability of FC from a certain brain region? Check out our Shiny App vanderlab.shinyapps.io/movie_stuff/ to interactively explore the results from our ROI-based comparison of the test-retest reliability of FC between movie-watching and resting-state fMRI.

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...

What a blast at Brainhack NEU round 2! #brainhackglobal Thank you everyone for making year’s event so exciting. Looking forward to continuing our relentless expansion next year… maybe a true Boston-wide Brainhack next time?