Thrilled to share our new paper deriving an ”Exposome Network” of functional connectivity capturing multidimensional env. exposures in youth, now out in DCN! 🌟🧠 doi.org/10.1016/j.dc... Huge thank you Sarah Lichenstein, @yiplab.bsky.social & our amazing Connecticut Collab! ❤️ #devpsy #neuroimaging

Arielle Keller@ariellekeller.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Happy New Preprint Friday!* Thrilled to share new results in collab with Sarah Lichenstein & @yiplab.bsky.social showing our brain's functional connections reflect the environments we grow up in! tinyurl.com/exposomeConnectivity #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #DevPsy #cognition *can this be a thing??

Environmental enrichment has positive neurobehavioral effects in rodents, yet is vaguely operationalized & understudied in humans. In our @npp-journal.bsky.social Hot Topic, we outline how human enrichment research may translate into approaches to fostering psychiatric resilience rdcu.be/ftwpC

Check out our new paper, led brilliantly by Dr. Megan Brickner, in early view form at @natcomms.nature.com. We characterize BLA dopamine signaling in emotional learning - lots of insights into broad dopamine heterogeneity beyond classic value learning signals! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ben Saunders@bensaunders.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Check out our latest research drop! We show BLA dopamine signaling encodes the emotional weight of sensory transitions, but not the associative strength or value of stimuli. These signals dynamically rescale when the learning context changes: "this matters most!" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The evidence is clear: socioeconomic conditions play an *enormous* role in brain development Amazing work by @smarek0502.bsky.social &co doi.org/10.1126/science.aee6213 +perspective by @lucindasisk.bsky.social & @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social doi.org/10.1126/science.aei3393 #neuroskyence #PsychSky

Patterns of brain-wide associations reflect socioeconomics

Previous brain-wide association studies (BWAS) have linked specific environmental and behavioral variables to brain variability. In this work, we mapped 649 variables to children’s brains and compared...

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Excited to share a new commentary piece, now out in in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social: CNNI, discussing recent findings by Tsomokos et al. that examined how socioeconomic disadvantage relates to internalizing problems via pubertal effects on cortical thinning in adolescence!

SO PROUD of my amazing students representing team ACORN Lab @acornlab.bsky.social at #SOBP2026! I am the luckiest mentor! 🥰 Way to go Natalie, @caitiebaten.bsky.social and @heatherarobinson.bsky.social! 🎉

Arielle Keller@ariellekeller.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Come see the latest from ACORN Lab at #SOBP2026! 🐿️🧠🗽 Thread below! 👇

🚨Preprint Alert🚨 Our new preprint 'A Scalable fMRI Estimate of Basal Ganglia Brain Tissue Iron for Use in Developmental and Translational Neuroscience' is live!! lnkd.in/gpG9naba

How does puberty shape how brain connectivity relates to environmental stimuli? And might this inform sex differences in psychiatric risk during this period? Excited to share new work now out in @npp-journal.bsky.social @acnporg.bsky.social examining this! rdcu.be/e9ASG tinyurl.com/56dhse2t. A 🧵1/n

Mesocorticolimbic connectivity and motivational sensitivity: sex-specific effects of puberty in early adolescence

Neuropsychopharmacology - Mesocorticolimbic connectivity and motivational sensitivity: sex-specific effects of puberty in early adolescence

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Our paper on the ☀️ "summer slide" 🛝 is out now @pnas.org! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Summer slide is a replicable phenomenon across diverse datasets that's more than "forgetting" school material in vacation months, but effects of socioeconomic inequality are ➡️ 7x bigger! ⬅️ #PsychSciSky #DevPsy 🧵👇

Cognition varies across the calendar year in multiple large-scale datasets | PNAS

Children’s cognitive abilities vary across short and long timescales, from circadian fluctuations to year-by-year developmental changes. “Summer sl...

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Arielle Keller@ariellekeller.bsky.social · 2y ago

☀️ New preprint! ☀️ Cognitive tests from 23,000+ participants in 4 datasets show cyclical fluctuations across the calendar year, including a small but replicable “summer slide” where youth show worst performance after school vacation. t.ly/OMzgl #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci Thread /1

#PenNLINC is recruiting a clinical coordinator / lab manager!!! Looking for someone who is good with both people + code, wants to learn to acquire + analyze imaging data. Alumni in this role have written 1st author papers + gone to top grad programs. Website: www.pennlinc.io Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir

neuroimaging | Satterthwaite Lab | UPenn

www.satterthwaitelab.com Homepage for Satterthwaite lab neuroimaging | neurodevelopment | adolescence | psychiatry | machine learning | network science

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I'm recruiting PhD students for my lab at Northwestern! I'm reviewing applications for the Department of Psychology for the Cognitive Affective Neuroscience and Clinical areas, due 12/1. 🧠 Come join the CATS Lab: nucatslab.com Learn about our latest research: iamh.northwestern.edu/research/res...

Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

Timing and plasticity are critical to progress in research on stress and neurodevelopment @ariellekeller.bsky.social @jamapediatrics.com @utdallas.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Neurodevelopmental Timing Links Stress and Psychopathology

This Viewpoint discusses the importance of contextualizing stressful experiences and the neurodevelopmental trajectory to predict the risk of psychopathology.

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I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share: phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo

Research Coordinator, Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States

The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....

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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

Human amygdala nuclei show distinct developmental trajectories from adolescence to adulthood in functional integration with prefrontal circuitry

Ojha et al. use longitudinal 7 T neuroimaging to characterize distinct developmental trajectories of fronto-amygdala connectivity across nuclei through adolescence. They identify how age-related conne...

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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

The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes

Neuropsychopharmacology - The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes

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1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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...

We polled Nature readers to ask if they were thinking of leaving the US for jobs abroad. Three-quarters of them (who said they were US-based scientists) said yes. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

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(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health

Major mental disorders are increasingly understood as disorders of brain development. Large and heterogeneous samples are required to define generalizable links between brain development and psychopat...

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Cortical maturation unfolds hierarchically, endowing the PFC with extended plasticity. But do timeframes of plasticity vary across PFC layers? With 7T quantitative myelin imaging, EEG, and cognitive data, we uncover heterochronous laminar maturation in the PFC 1/n. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

SNAAP is an awesome resource for anyone interested in applying to PhD programs in neuro! They’re currently hosting mock interviews, info below👇 #neuroskyence @stanfordnapp.bsky.social

Stanford Neuro Application Assistance Program@stanfordnapp.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨: SNAAP Mock Interviews Office Hours are now OPEN! 🎉 Our office hours consist of mock interviews and advice sessions for those currently applying/interviewing for Neuroscience PhD programs (including Stanford)! Sign-up for a slot using our Calendly (link in bio)! #neuroscience #PhDSky

We're hiring a lab manager to start this summer in the @logicemotionlab.bsky.social! Submit CV, cover letter, and reference contact info by Feb 17th for priority review. Description of the lab's research focus, mission, and values are on our website! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/20420/r...

This is a fantastic tool if you’re looking for people with overlapping interests (as judged by networks) to follow: bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

Super excited to share our official ACORN Lab website!! 🍁🧠 appliedcognitionlab.psychology.uconn.edu We are recruiting new team members at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral levels - join us! #Neuroskyence #neuroimaging #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #ClinPsych #CogDev #devpsy #CogSci

NIH funding generated $2.46 for every $1 funded in 2023. Important info for scientific advocacy in the years ahead- science is a quantifiable investment, not just a cost. H/t to @nicolecrust.bsky.social for sharing! #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #NeuroSkyence www.fiercebiotech.com/research/rep...

Report: Every dollar of NIH research funding doubles in economic returns

Research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) generated $2.46 in economic activity for every $1 of funding in 2023, a total of $92.9 billion, according to an

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How do DA and 5HT drugs alter reinforcement learning? Join us next Wednesday for talks by @anahitm.bsky.social, Diego Pizzagalli, Michael Browning, Roshan Cools, Emma Robinson, Yael Niv, Cath Harmer, Isabel Berwian, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social and Anne Collins. Links etc: acplab.org/2024/11/15/r...

Grant-funded labs are incentivized to admit students who already know how to do research to serve as cheap labor. That puts students who’ve had the most access and resources at a major advantage. This shapes admissions practices more than people are willing to admit but yelling about testing is easy

Craig Rodriguez-Seijas, Ph.D. 🇹🇹🏳️‍🌈@craiganthonyrs.bsky.social · 3y ago

PhD Admissions Discourse: Go!