Check it out all!! the NBDC Sandbox lets researchers securely analyze ABCD/HBCD brain data (tabular + file-based) in the cloud, no downloads needed. Free to use!! Story: aws.amazon.com/blogs/public...

The NBDC sandbox: How the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain built a secure cloud environment to accelerate brain development research with AWS | Amazon Web Services

The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) and HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) studies, the largest longitudinal brain development studies in U.S. history, are producing transformati...

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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!

Heading to #OHBM2026 in Bordeaux this week? Looking for fellow developmental neuroscientists? Come to the FIT'NG social at 6.15pm on Tuesday, June 16th at Les Planches Ephemeres Bordeaux!

Looking forward to a Sunday full of multi-echo!

Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 2mo ago

About to start my travel to #OHBM2026 Excited to help organize a full day ed course on multi-echo fMRI. Schedule is here: me-ica.github.io/ohbm-2026-mu... @enekourunuela.com @drjuliamoser.bsky.social @dowdlelt.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

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 · 3mo ago

The Transmitter writes about @clionaod.bsky.social's work with @ainedineen.bsky.social, @annatruzzi.bsky.social, Graham King, @lorinanaci.bsky.social, Keelin Harrison, Enna-Louise D'Arcy, Jessica White, @chiarac.bsky.social, Tamrin Holloway, Anna Kravchenko, @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social!

Infant brain categorizes common objects by two months of age

Brain activity patterns in the ventral visual cortex appear to distinguish images across 12 categories, including birds and trees, fMRI scans suggest.

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We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team! More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join... Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...

First one out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🎉 Can’t wait to read the full @fitngin.bsky.social special issue!

Precision functional neuroimaging reveals individually specific auditory responses in infants

Adaptively responding to salient stimuli in the environment is a fundamental feature of cognitive development in early life, which is enabled by the d…

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Julia Moser@drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Is precision functional brain imaging in babies possible? YES! We show this in not one but two new preprints out of WashU and @umn-midb.bsky.social! 1️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🐣👶🧠

If you are at #SfN25 and curious about infant 7T research, reach out to chat!

Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain@umn-midb.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This work, a collaborative effort between MIDB and the University of Minnesota's Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, provides a first glance on what we can achieve with 7T MRI in infants and highlights its role as a promising new avenue for developmental cognitive neuroscience 🧠

After years of development and testing, we are happy to present our work in "Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications"! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... A thread:

Diffusion MRI Processing in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study: Innovations and Applications

The landmark ongoing HEALthy Brain and Cognitive Development (HBCD) study will longitudinally chart brain development in a large sample (projected n=7,200) of infants through age 10 years with multimo...

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🚨 New preprint on the first infant 7T MRI project in North America! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.

📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈 Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣 Please get in touch to hear more!

🚀 Big news: With a $3.3M NIH grant, MIDB members Meghan Swanson, PhD, and Mark Schleiss, MD, are leading a first-of-its-kind study of infants born with congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV). Learn more ➡️ med.umn.edu/news/univers...

Margaret Sheridan inspires us all with reflections and insights at her Linda Spear mid-career award talk 👏 Reminding us of the incredible growth and value of our field! #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

Is precision functional brain imaging in babies possible? YES! We show this in not one but two new preprints out of WashU and @umn-midb.bsky.social! 1️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🐣👶🧠

New layer-fMRI preprint looking at laminar response differences of across (very) early development in newborns. Exciting new directions in the field. By Moore et al. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

What an amazing demonstration of why Precision Functional Mapping matters 🧠It’s been an honor to support the team in this huge endeavor!

Damien Fair@drdamienfair.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Congratulations @agreco.bsky.social ! 🎉

Hertie-Institut für klinische Hirnforschung (HIH)@hih-tuebingen.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 Congrats to Dr. Antonino Greco for winning the “HIH Paper of the Year Award” during yesterday's Neuroscience Campus Get Together for his publication “Predictive learning shapes the representational geometry of the human brain” in Nature Communications. Well done! 🙌 More info: tinyurl.com/mw3kkc36

This is your last chance to submit your abstract 👶🧠 ! We have an outstanding scientific program, join us in beautiful Dublin 🇮🇪 for your annual dose of neonatal brain science (and beer 🍻😉)

Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG@fitngin.bsky.social · last yr.

🔊 Final Call for Late Breaking Abstracts ▶️ Due to the extenuating circumstances of the current uncertainties surrounding travel and funding this year, FIT’NG is offering a final extension for abstract submissions. 🗓️ Submission deadline: July 24 fitng.org/late-breakin...

Alert! ... for the child development world! @fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪ The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive. Check here: docs.hbcdstudy.org and here: nbdc-datahub.org Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

Alert!!!! “An Action Networks Model for Pain” We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it. 👉 thread below 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Hello all fMRIPrep users! What if you could use the same pipeline for processing MRI data from all ages? 👶👩‍🦱👩‍🦳 Check out fMRIPrep Lifespan! Our workflow optimized for data from the first years of life and further upstream enhancements to the entire NiPreps suite www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If you are interested in the multi-echo users meeting, or future users meetings, please take this survey. We are planning the agenda in a couple of days and more feedback would really help with planning.

Multi-echo fMRI users meeting

We have scheduled our second multi-echo fMRI users meeting for Tuesday, May 27 at 8:00 PDT, 11:00 EDT, 15:00 UTC, 17:00CEST, 0:00 (Wednesday) KST, 1:00 (Wednesday) AEST. Check your time here. The goal...

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⏰ 5 DAYS LEFT!!! 🗓️ Abstract and symposium submissions close on April, 22. Hurry up, submit now!! 🔗 fitng.org/poster-oral-... 🔗 fitng.org/symposium-su... #FITNG2025

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Big opportunity! 🎉 🏅The best abstracts & posters from the FIT’NG Annual Conference will be invited to submit a paper to a special issue in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Showcase your best research—submit your abstracts to #FITNG2025! 📄✨ 🌐https://fitng.org/submissions/

Do you work with multi-echo fMRI data? Or are you planning to? Say no more! Join us at the online multi-echo fMRI users meeting on March 14th. We have a prepared a super interesting agenda for you! Here are the important details you need to know 👇

To better understand how oral contraceptives affect the brain, neuroscientist Carina Heller volunteered herself as a subject. She plans to make her data—from her many brain scans, blood tests and more—openly available. www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin... #neuroskyence #neuroscience

Dose, scan, repeat: Tracking the neurological effects of oral contraceptives

We know little about how the brain responds to oral contraceptives, despite their widespread use. I am committed to changing that: I scanned my brain 75 times over the course of a year and plan to…

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New layer-fMRI manuscript featuring the potential of 10.5T fMRI for high resolutions. By Vizioli et al., doi.org/10.1101/2024...

"The human brain is not designed for this kind of non–stop engagement," neurologist Cytowic writes. "We need moments of pause not only to regain composure but also to let our brains function at their best."

How to Embrace Silence

Silence is an essential nutrient in an increasingly noisy world, writes Richard Cytowic.

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Finally out in its polished form 🤩 New methodological avenues that help facilitate looking at individual brain functional organization in developmental populations 👶🧠

Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 2y ago

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Julia Moser, Damien A. Fair, et al: Multi-echo acquisition and thermal denoising advances precision functional imaging direct.mit.edu/imag/article...