New work out by the stellar @sharareimer.bsky.social (congrats Shara!!) on predicting neuropsychiatric outcomes in genetic high risk groups from family data (here applied to XXY and XYY syndrome - but with generalizable insights). Check out Shara’s thread below …

Shara Reimer@sharareimer.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm excited to share that my first first-author paper "Appraising familial prediction of proband outcomes in neurogenetic disorders" has been published in the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Eline Brontsema (Dutch, b.1988) "Blue / Finckensteinallee Swimming Pool," 2024 Woodcut print 67.8 x 51 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Looking forward!

The Organization for Human Brain Mapping@ohbmofficial.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🔦 Speaker Spotlight: Rogier B. Mars, Ph.D., FLS, FRSB 🎤 Cross-species neuroimaging: From comparative to clinical 🧠 Dr. Mars develops computational approaches to compare brain organization across species, advancing human brain research and translational neuroscience. 🔗 tinyurl.com/ynzhsxvy

Undergraduate Attendee Awards were awarded to undergraduate students who are from underrepresented minority groups who are interested in research in the area of sex differences and would like to attend the meeting. Awardees from the 2026 OSSD Annual Meeting are Cierra Guinn from Michigan (1/2)

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Do humans show sex differences in brain activation? If so, are these task-specific or general — and do they relate to sex differences in brain anatomy and behavior? We dove deep into these questions in a new paper just out in Nature Communications | tinyurl.com/3rdrb524

Hasui Kawase (Japanese, 1883 - 1957) "Summer Afternoon at Shimohonda-Cho Kanazawa," 1921 Full color woodblock #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

How does blood flow relate to brain activity? We discovered that it reflects two neural populations affected oppositely by arousal. Together, they explain neurovascular coupling in all brain regions and brain states! Out today in Nature: rdcu.be/fdC2A @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

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 · 6mo 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! 🧵👇

Happening Tuesday and Wednesday. Links for the online videocast can be found here: bit.ly/4bYlbxw

Chris Baker@cibaker.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIH is hosting a two-day symposium on 'Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience' in honor of Dr. Alex Martin, to be held at NIH (with online videocast) on April 7th-8th, 2026. Register to attend online or in-person at: bit.ly/4bYlbxw

BREAKING NEWS: Otter receives some really good scritches.

Are you interested in detecting brain changes in individuals with higher precision over shorter intervals? Check out our new paper in Nature Communications. With Randy Buckner, @jingnandu.bsky.social, and others. Link - doi.org/10.1038/s414...

🚨🚨New work just out by the truly stellar Will Snyder - revealing rare and common genetic influences on complexity of human cortical folding !! 🚨🚨 👀 Will’s thread ⬇️ for deets, and to follow on @willsnyder.bsky.social Huge congrats to Will & thnx to fabulous collaborators who made this possible.

Will Snyder@willsnyder.bsky.social · 7mo ago

How may rare vs. common genetic variation separately influence how our brains – and their complex folding patterns – take shape? 🧬 🧠 Check out our new preprint (and final work from my PhD!) out now! ( + thread below) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

Louise Moillon (c. 1610–1696) French painter in the Baroque era. One of the best still life painters of her time, she was trained by her father as she was unable to attend academies as a woman- who were thought to lack the ability required for artists #WomensArt

The ggseg ecosystem finally has a proper home! 🧠 For those who don't know, ggseg is an R package ecosystem for visualizing brain atlas data. Think ggplot2, but for brains. #rstats #neuroimaging #openscience

Frances Featherstone (British Artist, born 1976) "A Portal to another World", 2025. Oil on Canvas, 75 × 60 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Statistical Machine Learning post doc positions, w/ Oxford BDI-Novartis Collaboration for AI in Medicine, working on building causal predictive models for MS using a massive clinical trials MRI dataset. Join us on this unique collaboration! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Georgia O’Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1922 #Womensart

Paper accepted! 😊 "Reframing the Free Will Debate: The Universe is Not Deterministic" will appear in Synthese. Final version available here: arxiv.org/abs/2503.19672 - with Henry Potter and George Ellis

So, gonadal type (testes vs. ovaries) and sex chromosome complement (XY vs. XX) represent two strong candidate drivers of phenotypic sex differences in mammals. But how well can these factors explain sex differences in the brain and how much does each contribute to a given difference? …

How do gonads and sex chromosomes contribute to regional sex differences in the brain? 🤔 Our new preprint summarizes >5 years of work on this question, combining structural neuroimaging and snRNAseq within a sample of >850 mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread below …

Gonadal and sex chromosomal contributions to sex differences in mammalian brain organization

Sex differences in brain development may contribute to well-known sex differences in behavior and neuropsychiatric risk - making it important to comprehensively map and mechanistically annotate normat...

biorxiv.org

How do gonads and sex chromosomes contribute to regional sex differences in the brain? 🤔 Our new preprint summarizes >5 years of work on this question, combining structural neuroimaging and snRNAseq within a sample of >850 mice. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thread below …

Gonadal and sex chromosomal contributions to sex differences in mammalian brain organization

Sex differences in brain development may contribute to well-known sex differences in behavior and neuropsychiatric risk - making it important to comprehensively map and mechanistically annotate normat...

biorxiv.org

what's a great album that has predominantly ORANGE cover artwork?

Jessica Tollkuhn@tollkuhn.bsky.social · 9mo ago

what's a great album that has predominantly ORANGE cover artwork?

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As rates of ASD and ADHD rise, genetic contributions fall: Evidence for widening diagnostic criteria

Importance The incidence of ADHD and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has increased markedly over recent decades, raising concerns about the emergence of new risk factors. Current literature typically a...

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Recorded in 1973 (up the road in Silver Spring, MD) with this plea in the liner notes … “In the interest of national security, please help us carry out our constitutional duty to overthrow the king”. Beautiful, powerful, rousing music.

📣 SAVE THE DATE Next X-inactivation meeting in Sapporo, Japan, 19-23 October 2026. Visit x-inactivation-meeting.org to join our mailing list. 🧬 speakers @dandergassen.bsky.social @marnieblewitt.bsky.social @heard65.bsky.social @crougeulle.bsky.social @sexchrlab.bsky.social @zhouqi1982.bsky.social

Advances in genomics are giving exciting new perspectives on biology of speech, language & reading. My latest peer-reviewed paper is a tutorial, guiding readers from different backgrounds through the history of the field, current state-of-the-art, & where we’re heading. A taster in this thread.🧪 1/n

Genomic Investigations of Spoken and Written Language Abilities: A Guide to Advances in Approaches, Technologies, and Discovery

Purpose: The aim of this tutorial is to show how the rise of molecular technologies and analytical methods in human genetics yields exciting new ...

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I wonder if it’ll generalize outside the training dataset

a mcdonald 's clown is crying with the words " my heart is mcbreaking "

ALT: a mcdonald 's clown is crying with the words " my heart is mcbreaking "

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More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Researchers are now saying that AI can find correlations between facial characteristics and success on the job. The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.