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Caterina Gratton@caterinagratton.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨Job Search announcement 🚨 @psychillinois.bsky.social is searching for an assistant prof in cognitive neuroscience. Come join us! Pls RT 🙏 Full ad: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #neuroimaging

🚨Job Search announcement 🚨 @psychillinois.bsky.social is searching for an assistant prof in cognitive neuroscience. Come join us! Pls RT 🙏 Full ad: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #neuroimaging

🚨Job Search announcement 🚨 @psychillinois.bsky.social is searching for an assistant prof in cognitive neuroscience. Come join us! Pls RT 🙏 Full ad: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #neuroimaging

🎉 Exciting news, our newest paper is officially out in #ApplEnvironMicrobiol #AEM🔬! We investigated how an Acinetobacter gene found in goose feces 💩🦆 can contribute to colistin #AntibioticResistance in E. coli. #microsky croftsmicrolab.org 👇 Read the paper: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

A functionally selected Acinetobacter sp. phosphoethanolamine transferase gene from the goose fecal microbiome confers colistin resistance in E. coli | Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Colistin is an important antibiotic of last resort, and increasing resistance to this drug via mobile phosphoethanolamine transferase genes, such as mcr-1, threatens its clinical utility. Given the discovery of mcr-1 in pigs, the ability of animals to act as vectors in the spread of colistin resistance is alarming. We show here that functionally selected Acinetobacter phosphoethanolamine transferase genes from the goose microbiome have the ability to confer clinical levels of colistin resistance when transferred into E. coli. While the genes are annotated as eptA homologs, closer study of these genes suggests that they may be mobilized within the Acinetobacter genus, suggesting that they may be mcr genes of concern instead.

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Now out in @natcomms.nature.com w/ @evfedorenko.bsky.social: across many people (>1k) and tasks (>300), the the brain's language network reliably shows up in the functional connectome (correlated activity in fMRI). 1/

A special highlight of our work on precision fMRI of the prefrontal cortex

WCIA 3 News@wcia3news.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Out of the 30 million MRIs performed in the United States every year, data shows about 22% of those are on the brain. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois are mapping out ways to see the results at a more detailed level.

We are hiring an Associate or Full Professor to lead the neuroimaging research program at Northwestern's Center for Translational Imaging in the Department of Radiology careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/...

Y'all this tool from FASEB for responding to the OMB rule is spectacular! It makes it easy to figure out how the rule will impact you (spoiler: a lot!), gives you the relevant section names, and if you want, it helps you write it yourself! Please, use it now! www.faseb.org/science-poli...

Applications are now open for our fall science reporting internship! This is an excellent opportunity for a beginning science journalist to report and write about the fast-moving field of neuroscience. Apply now: simonsfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/simonsfounda... #neuroskyence

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

Working on your schedule for #OHBM2026? Save some energy for the last day to discuss the latest in precision imaging of the infant brain with @reznikdaniel.bsky.social, Jucha Willers Moore from @kingspfig.bsky.social and @camerontellis.bsky.social!

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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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)

New preprint as my first post! "Monosynaptic connections link functionally similar regions in human cortex." We use electrical stimulation + fMRI in epilepsy patients to map whole-brain monosynaptic connectivity at 42 cortical sites. doi.org/10.64898/202... 1/n

Thanks to @beckmanillinois.bsky.social for a nice write up on our work: beckman.illinois.edu/news/article...

Beckman researchers map prefrontal cortex in individuals, reveal fine-scale structure with precision fMRI

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Caterina Gratton@caterinagratton.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Very excited about this project, led by @zachladwig.bsky.social We show that an individual’s lateral prefrontal cortex has reliable and highly detailed network organization missed in past group approaches. Full🧵 coming soon!

(1/5) Our paper is out now in Neuron! bsky.app/profile/cp-n... The LPFC has fine-scale organization that gets missed in group-averaged data because of inter-individual variability. It is visible in individuals in both resting-state and task data.

Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Very excited about this project, led by @zachladwig.bsky.social We show that an individual’s lateral prefrontal cortex has reliable and highly detailed network organization missed in past group approaches. Full🧵 coming soon!

Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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 · 5mo 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...

We're hiring! FT research assistant @ UT Dallas Join our team to work on a longitudinal neuroimaging study of midlife brain aging. Strong opportunity for those interested in brain networks, aging, and Alzheimer’s disease risk. App. deadline May 6. Details: jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31680

The White House’s April 3 budget proposal would reduce NSF & NIH funding significantly. Our analysis shows that the U.S. stands to lose $35 billion in economic activity and 150,000 jobs nationwide. See impacts on your local community: scienceimpacts.org #SCIMaP #NIH #NSF #SciencePolicy

Evidence for repeating chains of function in cortex, especially PFC! ⛓️⛓️🧠

Evan Gordon@gordonneuro.bsky.social · 6mo 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...

We've posted a new group-based lexical-semantic brain viewer! You can now inspect cortical conceptual maps at the group level (24 participants), vertex-by-vertex. Check it out! gallantlab.org/viewer-stori...

White matter pathways mediating dorsolateral prefrontal TMS therapy for depression New @natneuro.nature.com paper led by Caio Seguin, Robin Cash, and Andrew Zalesky. We map (indirect) pathways from DLPFC to SGC and link individual variation with response efficacy. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really excited about our new work on aphasia! Even in fairly profound aphasia, we can recover semantic maps through visual stimuli and use them to decode language. This is a big step! Language BCIs in aphasia might be possible!

@jerrytang.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We're excited to share our new study on decoding brain activity in participants with post-stroke aphasia! We think this is an important step towards cognitive brain-computer interfaces for patients with language disorders www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/8

We develop a new TMS targeting algorithm and test it in an open label trial in a treatment-resistant depression population with high comorbidities. Preprints by @rubykong92.bsky.social Phern-Chern Tor 1. doi.org/10.1101/2025... 2. doi.org/10.64898/202... Our new approach ...

🔥 We're very pleased to release our latest study 🧠: "Temporal structure of the language hierarchy within small cortical patches" Paper → arxiv.org/abs/2604.03021 🧵 Summary thread below: 1/7

Our new paper on brain networks engaged during imagining is out now in Neuron! Here is a download link (free for 50 days): authors.elsevier.com/c/1msNE3BtfH... Congratulations to Nate Anderson for leading this work @rementurus.bsky.social 🧵

Rodrigo Braga@rodbraga.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 🧠 We have a new preprint out where we studied which brain networks are engaged during mental imagery and self-generated thought. We used a precision fMRI approach along with multidimensional experience sampling (mDES) to get trialwise self-reports from each participant about what they imagined.

Big turnout at #NoKings in Urbana, IL.

Precision reward/affect fMRI study out now in HBM! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @dvsmith.bsky.social @olinotom.bsky.social @coopersharp.bsky.social and @shenghanwang.bsky.social Intensively sampled task + rest fMRI data with behavioral manipulation openly available on OpenNeuro! (1/2)

Precision Imaging for Intraindividual Investigation of the Reward Response

We present open data for an intensively sampled precision imaging study including multiple reward-related tasks and a behavioral mood manipulation. Our initial analysis found low test–retest reliabil....

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Matt Mattoni@mattmattoni.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨🚨New precision imaging study and open dataset 🚨🚨 Featuring almost 200 functional runs acquired in 3-4d intervals and behavioral manipulations focused on intraindividual study of the reward response - The Night Owls Scan Club (NOSC) With @dvsmith.bsky.social and @olinotom.bsky.social!