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??

Pumped to share our latest work! Here, we peeked under the hood of fMRI-based predictive models to ask whether models of sustained attention and autism symptoms rely on overlapping functional connections. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/2

Feature overlap in transdiagnostic connectome-based models of sustained attention and autism symptoms

Sustained attention is an important neurobiological process. Difficulties with attention play a key role in neurodevelopmental disorders, such as attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and au...

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Feature overlap in transdiagnostic connectome-based models of sustained attention and autism symptoms | medRxiv www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Want to counteract this problem? Here’s a reminder of this awesome tool from @dalezhou.bsky.social to promote citation diversity! github.com/dalejn/clean...

GitHub - dalejn/cleanBib: Probabilistically assign gender and race proportions of first/last authors pairs in bibliography entries

Probabilistically assign gender and race proportions of first/last authors pairs in bibliography entries - dalejn/cleanBib

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Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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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How can we acquire new knowledge and skills on a daily basis while remaining the same person? I'm excited to share our new preprint led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social & Ally Dworetsky tackling this question, just in time for #OHBM2026: doi.org/10.64898/202... 🧵👇 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Functional brain organization is stable within individuals across years

Brain regions exhibit dynamic yet highly coordinated activity patterns that form large-scale functional networks measurable through resting-state correlations. While their association with fluctuating...

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Thank you @crodriguezmdphd.bsky.social, @htagerf.bsky.social and co-chair Kale Edmiston for contributing your valuable insights in this important conversation!

Carolyn Rodriguez@crodriguezmdphd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Also big thank you to @ariellekeller.bsky.social for organizing an outstanding @sobp-org.bsky.social Fireside Chat and discussion on protecting scientific integrity including Dr. Kale Edmiston and Dr. Helen Tager-Flusberg! #SOBP2026 #OCD

Excited to share our latest paper from the lab now out in BP:CNNI! 🌟Superstar postdoc @amarojha.bsky.social and I discuss individual differences in neurodevelopmental trajectories, highlight new work & share ideas for where we might go next! #neuroskyence #neuroimaging #PsychSciSky #CogDev #DevPsy

amar ojha@amarojha.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In this article, @ariellekeller.bsky.social and I argue how the field is well positioned to leverage recent advances in exposomics and personalized neuroscience to inform public policy and precision psychiatric medicine: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The exposome is reflected in white matter structure! 🌲🧠 Outstanding new work led by @briana-mac.bsky.social shows that environmental context gets reflected in the structure of kids brains. #neuroskyence #neuroimaging #devpsy #PsychSciSky thread below 👇

How much does the childhood environment shape the brain? In our new preprint, we study the exposome (300+ environmental exposures) and link it to white matter structure in 8,000+ kids. 🧠✨ 🔗 Read the preprint: bit.ly/4wfsybZ 🧵 Thread below

Way to go @nataliells.bsky.social!! 🎉

Natalie Kells@nataliells.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I had an amazing time attending SOBP 2026 in NYC! You can listen to a short recording of my poster presentation in the SOBP poster gallery if you search "V99"!

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! 👇

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

🔥Fireside Chat: Protecting Scientific Integrity and Preventing Misinformation 🕗Fri, May 1: 11:30AM-12:30PM 📖Join speakers Dr. Carolyn Rodriguez, Dr. Kale Edmiston, Dr. Helen Tager-Flusberg for discussion moderated by Dr. Arielle Keller.

any other neuroscientists out there writing about Brian all the time or is that just me? 🧠 (highly recommend reading up on traumatic brian injury and all the brian regions of the human brian on pubmed sometime)

Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 3mo ago

What word is your spelling nemesis? This is a safe space.

So cool!!! And so clearly explained. Individual-level parcellations really matter for seeing just how beautiful brain organization is!

Evan Gordon@gordonneuro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Amazing work @carinaheller.bsky.social!! 🎉🎉 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #neuroimaging

Carina Heller, Ph.D.@carinaheller.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨Preprint Alert 🧠 Our new preprint „Menarche onset is an inflection point for mental health and brain development“ is now online! 👉 Preprint available here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Amazing new resource of white matter #neuroimaging in ABCD! 🧠 Congratulations @stevenmeisler.com on this total tour de force!

Steven Meisler@stevenmeisler.com · 4mo ago

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a powerful tool to study white matter maturation. In our new preprint, we process and distribute a new resource of >24,000 ABCD dMRI scans using open source tools! We then evaluate how methods shape inferences about development. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Way to go @noemirubau.bsky.social and team! This study is going to yield such important and much-needed data! #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #neuroimaging

Noemí Rubau@noemirubau.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Imagine we could characterize neurobiological vulnerability to perinatal mood disorders (PMADs)…even before conception🤯? At the TReNDS Lab, we’re building a multimodal dataset following individuals at elevated risk for PMADs from preconception through postpartum.🧠🤰Check out our preprint! 🧵👇

#TWiNPP Last but not least, from Ojha et al., findings show that puberty-related changes in mesocorticolimbic functional connectivity are associated with reward and punishment sensitivity differently in male and female early adolescents @cdladouceur.bsky.social @amarojha.bsky.social

amar ojha (@amarojha.bsky.social)

neuroscientist interested in brain development, affective + cognitive control, and precision psychiatry

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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

Nia B. @niaberrian.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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/...

Check out this @nature.com paper on how the brain’s functional hierarchy evolves from birth to 100. Infants' gradient architecture is anchored by sensory systems, differentiates along association and control axes during childhood/adolescence & dedifferentiates in aging www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Functional hierarchy of the human neocortex across the lifespan - Nature

fMRI data from individuals of a wide range of ages (from a few days to 100 years old) are used to map the key organizational axes of functional connectivity in the human cortex throughout the lifespan...

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Do you censor high motion frames in fMRI? In two preprints by @twktan.bsky.social @mandymejia.bsky.social, we find that we may be censoring too much! doi.org/10.64898/202... arxiv.org/html/2603.07... Strict censoring leads to worse personalized TMS targets than no censoring, even with high motion!

Such a fun symposium! Thank you Andre and @jingnandu.bsky.social for bringing us together for a great #CNS2026! 🧠🍁

Rodrigo Braga@rodbraga.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Wonderful time at the #CNS2026 Individual-level precision fMRI symposium yesterday with this lovely lineup. See you at the next one!

We think of white matter as the highways of the brain. But when we followed development along those highways, we were surprised. The journey is more complex than we thought. My final PhD paper, “Two Axes of White Matter Development”, is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! 🛣️🧠✨ 🔗 bit.ly/wm2axes

I want to start by saying thank you, truly, to my friends, family, and so many good people who have reached out to check on me during this hard moment in Minnesota. I love you all. I am okay. See thread....

Wow, this is just so cool!! 🤩🧠

Edvard I Moser@edvardmoser.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The hippocampal map has its own attentional control signal! Our new study reveals that theta #sweeps can be instantly biased towards behaviourally relevant locations. See 📹 in post 4/6 and preprint here 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵(1/6)

Finding it tough to get back in the swing of things after vacation? You're not alone! Our study found that U.S. adults show lowest performance on cognitive tasks like executive functioning after winter break Thanks @uconn.bsky.social for this highlight! tinyurl.com/4dmssj5m #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky

Study: Long Breaks Tied to Dip in Cognitive Test Performance - UConn Today

A joint UConn - University of Minnesota research study concludes that there may be some reality to the "summer slide" of dips in test scores follo ...

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