Jesse Brown
@jesseab.bsky.social
Neuro + data scientist, building radiata.ai - better brain biomarkers.
Do longer scans really improve prediction and reduce costs in BWAS? Explore the commentary series: • Breakspear: doi.org/10.52294/001... • Bijsterbosch: doi.org/10.52294/001... • McIntosh: doi.org/10.52294/001... @drbreaky.bsky.social @janinebijsterbosch.bsky.social @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social
Aging reorganizes human large-scale brain networks, with consequences for cognition & dementia risk. We’ve now mapped brain network changes over a wide range of the mouse lifespan. The changes mirror key features of human aging, but not entirely New @pnas.org paper🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We are hiring a postdoctoral fellow as part of a recently funded R01 on memory and dementia. Please circulate widely: arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Postdoctoral Research Associate I (Psychology)
Duties and Responsibilities: Lead the MRI component of the project, including neuroimaging data collection, preprocessing, and analysis.Integrate...
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A new data-sharing policy proposed by the NIH would result in “substantial harm to scientific progress,” a neuroimaging consortium says. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/data-sharing...
Neuroscientists challenge NIH’s proposed data-access policy
The changes would restrict the sharing of human neuroimaging, transcriptomic and genetic data.
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When a brain researcher solved a logistical problem by going rogue, the idea proved remarkably infectious. By @lyrebard.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...
A brief history of precision self-scanning
When a researcher solved a logistical problem by going rogue, the idea proved remarkably infectious.
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Been pondering the lesion network mapping study all day. Here's my $0.02 [🧵]:
The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 7mo agoMore than 200 published studies and at least seven ongoing clinical trials rely on potentially faulty brain network maps, according to a study published yesterday. By @avaskham.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...
More than 200 published studies and at least seven ongoing clinical trials rely on potentially faulty brain network maps, according to a study published yesterday. By @avaskham.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...
Methodological flaw may upend network mapping tool
The lesion network mapping method, used to identify disease-specific brain networks for clinical stimulation, produces a nearly identical network map for any given condition, according to a new study.
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I am recruiting a Postdoc to join my lab at UMN. If you or someone you know is interested in studying individual differences in brain and cognitive aging, check out the listing and my website in my bio and apply! I appreciate RTs to help get the word out as well :)
Excited to share our new work in @natcomms.nature.com: Functional network collapse in neurodegenerative disease How does functional connectivity change across dementia types and stages? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Functional network collapse in neurodegenerative disease - Nature Communications
This study demonstrates that brain functional network imbalance appears linked to progressive brain atrophy and cognitive decline across the dementia spectrum.
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❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026. #SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us! Register here: sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...
fMRI Course
Instructors
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A couple of computational neuroscience positions at UT Dallas. This is an emerging program with great collaboration potential. jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/30394
Open Rank faculty positions in Computational Neuroscience
Position Description The Department of Neuroscience at The University of Texas at Dallas seeks to hire up to two tenure-system faculty members (open rank) with expertise in neural coding, neural compu...
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Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization? @rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print): go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky 🧵👇
Dense Phenotyping of Human Brain Network Organization Using Precision fMRI
The advent of noninvasive imaging methods like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) transformed cognitive neuroscience, providing insights into large-scale brain networks and their link to cog...
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Network spreading and local biological vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | doi.org/10.1038/s420... How do brain network structure and local biological features shape the spatial patterning of atrophy in ALS? @asafarahani.bsky.social investigates ⤵️
Stimulating the LGN with ultrasound and real-time fMRI, this is cool. Ultrasound system for precise neuromodulation of human deep brain circuits. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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Would be perfectly happy if cool new mechanistic brain function studies like this one omitted the individual trait prediction. Don't think every new finding needs a cognitive correlation to have merit. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Large-scale cortical functional networks are organized in structured cycles - Nature Neuroscience
The human brain cycles through a repertoire of brain networks on a 1-second timescale during rest and tasks. This cycling appears to allow periodic engagement of essential cognitive functions, with th...
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Sad day for peope who still believe brain areas are the primary organizational units of function in the brain. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour - Nature
The International Brain Laboratory presents a brain-wide electrophysiological map obtained from pooling data from 12 laboratories that performed the same standardized perceptual decision-making task i...
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Doing a deep dive on TMS. Kinda crazy how much of this field is built on DLPFC-sgACC anticorrelation. One little edge.
When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The history and future of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging - Nature
This Review provides an overview of the history of resting-state functional MRI research, which has helped to reveal the spatiotemporal organization of the brain, and discusses how it can contribute f...
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Using the advances in the science of aging to prevent the major age-related diseases (no reversal of aging required) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... @theguardian.com
‘Get rid of the pseudoscience’: top doctor’s plan to improve America’s health
Eric Topol says we can prevent age-related disease and live fuller lives – but only if we reject anti-science ‘malarkey’
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🔴 Our `Brain and AI` team at Meta has a new Research Engineer position in Paris to work on infrastructure and scale deep learning experimentations: www.metacareers.com/jobs/1769841... We'll favor industry experience or Github track record.
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The scientific community needs to develop processes to support, hire and retain researchers whose work sits between traditional fields of study, writes @avramholmes.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...
fMRI must break out of its silo
We need to develop research programs that link phenomena across levels, from genes and molecules to cells, circuits, networks and behavior.
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Most people haven’t heard of this test, which is available in the US. It accurately predicts Alzheimer’s (not just if there’s a risk, but when). It is modulated by exercise and likely other lifestyle factors. Here’s (almost) everything we know about it erictopol.substack.com/p/the-breakt...
It's shocking how little is known about the brainstem red nucleus. In our new paper “The human brainstem’s red nucleus was upgraded to support goal-directed action” out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social we show that current thinking on the red nucleus is in need of a serious upgrade. rdcu.be/ehbOy
Happy to share that our article “Human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome” is now published online at Nature Neuroscience @natureneuro.bsky.social ! Many thanks to all collaborators & data contributors, and the editor team & reviewers! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome - Nature Neuroscience
Sun et al. report human lifespan changes in the brain’s functional connectome in 33,250 individuals, which highlights critical growth milestones and distinct maturation patterns and offers a normative...
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We are HIRING!! Postdoc for multimodal imaging lab at Yale. If you get excited about preclinical and prodromal states, atypical Alzheimer’s, graph theory, predictive modeling, and/or baked goods at lab meetings, come join us: postdocs.yale.edu/postdoctoral... Please share with your circles!
Proxies aren't the thing, the thing is the thing. Just don't forget what the "thing" is.
Is generalized epilepsy a seizure of the whole brain or a specific brain network? In our new paper out now in @naturecomms.bsky.social, we investigate this by combining brain abnormalities and DBS with the human connectome. Paper: nature.com/articles/s41... A 🧵 below:
A generalized epilepsy network derived from brain abnormalities and deep brain stimulation - Nature Communications
Ji et al. identify an idiopathic generalised epilepsy network that links heterogeneously distributed brain abnormalities to a common brain network and deep brain stimulation sites which reduce general...
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