imagine getting dunked on by Playboy for being weird about women’s bodies

Playboy@playboy.com · 6d ago

What are the incel men up to over on X? Focussing on a quirk of women’s bodies most of us have never even thought about before now. Our take? "Making women mad and getting likes from fellow incels is all they have going for them." Read now: www.playboy.com/read/sex/the...

Psychology paper studying undergraduates: “We need to confront the fact that our subjects are WEIRD and results may not generalize” Systems Neuroscience paper studying one inbred mouse strain: “Here is how the mammalian brain works.”

Lack of NIST compliance got you down, unsure of how best to analyze ABCD/HBCD? Check this out👇👇👇

Damien Fair@drdamienfair.bsky.social · last wk.

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...

Thank you to my wonderful team for their help on this - Chase Antonacci, @greyes.bsky.social, @eugiampetruzzi.bsky.social, @jivr.bsky.social, Gracie Grimsrud, @mellwoodlowe.bsky.social, and @russpoldrack.org!

Russ Poldrack@russpoldrack.org · 2w ago

In this new preprint, @jocelynricard.bsky.social argues for a more intentional and principled approach to the measurement of neighborhood-level effects on brain development. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

What's your favourite technique for trying to understand big numbers? I like turning them into time! In my newsletter this week I look at ways to wrap our heads around large values. What did I miss? www.not-ship.com/large-numbers/

Excited for the first day of the annual Computational Psychiatry Conference, this year held at Yale www.cpconf.org! We have a rockstar list of keynote speakers including @danisbassett.bsky.social @adredish.bsky.social and many more! #CPC2026

Computational Psychiatry Conference

New Haven, USA (July 14-16, 2026)

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Finally out, collaborative work with @brainstorm12.bsky.social and joint thesis student Sophia who did a lot of work within the AURORA dataset demonstrating that ambient air pollutants are associated with posttraumatic neurobiology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Associations between residential segregation, ambient air pollution, and hippocampal features in recent trauma survivors - Translational Psychiatry

Translational Psychiatry - Associations between residential segregation, ambient air pollution, and hippocampal features in recent trauma survivors

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The 2026 fMRI Summer Course with @fmri-today.bsky.social has begun and the recordings and slides are shared here: fmrif.nimh.nih.gov/SummerCourse

Is the whole more than the sum of its parts? Considering global and local features of the connectome improves prediction of individuals and phenotypes direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Is the whole more than the sum of its parts? Considering global and local features of the connectome improves prediction of individuals and phenotypes

Abstract. Popular methods for analyzing the brain’s functional connectome examine statistical associations between pairs of atlas-defined brain regions, viewing the strength of these links as independ...

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🚨Applications are now open for our S.P.i.N.E.S. Postdoc Seminar Series 2026/2027! Deadline August 15th. Find all info and link to the application here: med.nyu.edu/departments-...

wild story from Lizzy — FDA gave compassionate use access to a 79 year old through senior NIH clinician, @muniyappar.bsky.social, could it be President Trump? Read more from Lizzy on what she found out, and what ethicists had to say about it

Lizzy Lawrence@lizzylawrence.bsky.social · last mo.

EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...

New paper led by @phoebethomson.bsky.social showing that childhood cognitive ability predicts multimodal brain development during adolescence. Now out in DCN @fluxsociety.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @kingsioppn.bsky.social

Please RT - We are looking for someone who wants to establish and lead a cutting-edge neuroimaging center at Northwestern, working closely with multiple labs, including my own, in neuroscience research broadly construed. If you are curious, dm me and I'm happy to answer questions

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

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/...

When data disappear, we lose our ability to challenge false claims, and we lose our foundation for building new discoveries, writes @elvisha.bsky.social. Without data, science itself is at risk. www.thetransmitter.org/open-neurosc...

Deleting data or stopping its collection will erase years of valuable brain research

An explosion in open-neuroscience datasets has created a new generation of researchers with expertise in data science. But new federal restrictions in the United States put their research programs in…

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This week, @thetransmitter.bsky.social will be at the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social conference. In light of our participation at the conference, here's a roundup of coverage highlighting a range of topics, from open-source tools to brain imaging. #OHBM2026 #neuroskyence

🧠‼️ Socioeconomic variables show the strongest associations with the brain out of 649 measures—surpassing cognition and mental health. Grateful for the chance to write a perspective with @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social about @smarek0502.bsky.social and team's important findings! tinyurl.com/bdhk6bc8

Childhood environments shape the brain

Socioeconomic factors top the list of influences on children’s brain structure and function

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Scott Marek@smarek0502.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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 Trump admin is poised to revive a proposal that has been floated several times — most recently in 2017 — to cap the number of grants an investigator can receive Some see in the promise, others aren't sure now is the moment given ... everything going on www.statnews.com/2026/06/11/n...

Scientists see promise in NIH proposal to cap number of grants they receive

Without easy access to leaders within a field or top-of-the-line lab equipment, principal investigators outside top universities often struggle to compete for grants from the NIH.

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If you are attending @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social come by and check out our poster on how excessive censoring hurts parcellation and personalized TMS target accuracy. Poster number 2399 Presenting on Wednesday, June 17 (12:45-13:45) and Thursday, June 18 (13:45-14:45)

Thomas Yeo@bttyeo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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!

For those attending @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social , come check out our poster finding that functional MRI brain foundation models do not outperform ridge regression. Poster number 2269 Presenting on Wednesday, June 17 | 12:45-13:45 and Thursday, June 18 | 13:45-14:45

Our TMS algorithm is now published in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... If you are coming to @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social, come check out our poster about our open label trial. Poster number 1152 Monday, Jun 15 | 14:45-15:45 Tuesday, Jun 16 | 13:30-14:30

Thomas Yeo@bttyeo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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 ...

Openly shared implementation of TMS targeting is still rare, so we are pleased to make ours freely available for research use: github.com/ThomasYeoLab... Let us know if you have any issue running it!

Thomas Yeo@bttyeo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our TMS algorithm is now published in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... If you are coming to @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social, come check out our poster about our open label trial. Poster number 1152 Monday, Jun 15 | 14:45-15:45 Tuesday, Jun 16 | 13:30-14:30

This is one of the most socially important scientific findings I've ever been a part of. SES has a larger cross-sectional effect on brain function than any other variable. Prediction of IQ from brain data is actually mostly just predicting SES. Mind blowing.

Scott Marek@smarek0502.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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/...

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/...

We are currently recruiting a data analyst and a postdoctoral fellow to lead projects related to perinatal neuroimaging and reproductive psychiatry. Apply at the links below!

DGS: Apply Now & Register

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✨ The State of the Brain 2025 features leading voices from last year's Annual Meeting, highlighting major advances in brain imaging research 🔗 apertureneuro.org/issue/13963-... @lucinauddin.bsky.social @elvisha.bsky.social @sharnajamadar.bsky.social @gozziale.bsky.social @adeelrazi.bsky.social

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

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

We present the LARGEST normative model of the brain’s white matter microstructure: 54,583 subjects, 4-91 yrs, 19 datasets. We derived lifespan centile curves for DTI FA, MD, RD, AD, detecting anomalies for dementia, and Mild Cognitive Impairment: doi.org/10.1038/s414... ⤵️

For those who are attending @ohbmofficial.bsky.social brainhack, I will be giving a short presentation of this work at the neuroimaging statistics workshop, co-hosted with brainhack: sites.google.com/view/nsw2026

NeuroStats2026

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Thomas Yeo@bttyeo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In a meta-analysis of 210 biomedical AI studies that statistically compared models under cross-validation, 97% used invalid statistical tests. Here's our new preprint doi.org/10.64898/202... led by @tianchu.bsky.social @hetuli.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social @nichols.bsky.social 1/N

Here's bonus slides on cross-validation tests, separate from our preprint. Covering: 1. paired (sign-flip) permutation test 2. label-swap permutation test 3. sample-level vs fold-averaged stats 4. a common misapplication of the corrected t-test 5. three bootstrap variants 1/N

Thomas Yeo@bttyeo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

In a meta-analysis of 210 biomedical AI studies that statistically compared models under cross-validation, 97% used invalid statistical tests. Here's our new preprint doi.org/10.64898/202... led by @tianchu.bsky.social @hetuli.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social @nichols.bsky.social 1/N