So lucky to be part of an amazing lab!! 🧠

Catherine Lebel@catherinealebel.bsky.social · 2w ago

Happy #PostdocAppreciationWeek to the best postdocs a PI could possibly ask for! @qililan.bsky.social @courtneygilchrist.bsky.social @mervsingh.bsky.social Mo, Xinyuan, Nina, & Jordan

Excited to share that my first postdoc paper is out now in Cerebral Cortex! 🧠 academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... Using fixel-based analysis, we investigated within-tract patterns of white matter development in a sample of young children aged 4-8 years.

Spatiotemporal white-matter development across early childhood

Abstract. Early childhood development is scaffolded by rapid maturation of brain white matter structure, believed to support the emergence of cognitive and

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Steven Meisler@stevenmeisler.com · 6mo ago

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a powerful tool to study white matter maturation. In our new preprint, we process and distribute a new resource of >24,000 ABCD dMRI scans using open source tools! We then evaluate how methods shape inferences about development. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The International Society for Tractography is looking forward to welcoming you to Banff, Canada! 🚶‍♀️ 🚶‍♂️ 🧠 🏔 🌲 Abstract submission is open now ⏬️

International Society for Tractography@tractography.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 Abstract submissions are now open for IST 2026 in beautiful Banff, Canada 🇨🇦🏔️ Submit your single-page abstract by May 27, 2026: event.fourwaves.com/ist2026 We look forward to another exciting edition of the International Society for Tractography! #IST2026 #CallForAbstracts #tractography

A wonderful opportunity to join an amazing lab and contribute to the success of @pregnancystudy.bsky.social! 🧠

Catherine Lebel@catherinealebel.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are looking for a research assistant in Calgary to help oversee the @pregnancystudy.bsky.social study! Job will include collecting MRI scans and short behavioural assessments on children, managing data, and working with a great team across Canada. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1764177...

🚨Preprint Alert🚨 Our new preprint 'A Scalable fMRI Estimate of Basal Ganglia Brain Tissue Iron for Use in Developmental and Translational Neuroscience' is live!! lnkd.in/gpG9naba

Online Now: Adaptive habits: understanding executive function and its development

Adaptive habits: understanding executive function and its development

Executive functions (EFs) develop dramatically across childhood and predict important outcomes, including academic achievement. These links are often attributed to individual differences in EF capacities. However, individual difference accounts underemphasize contextual influences on EF. We propose a complementary perspective, the adaptive habits framework, which emphasizes how contextual factors support or hinder EF engagement in children. Contexts that support repeated EF engagement establish habits for engaging EF in similar contexts and in similar ways. Such habits, in turn, reduce the effort associated with engaging EF and thus increase the likelihood of deciding to engage EF in the future. We interpret empirical findings through the lens of adaptive habits, discuss the implications of this framework, and propose novel research approaches and interventions to support EF in children.

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1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders - Nature

Genomic analyses applied to 14 childhood- and adult-onset psychiatric disorders identifies five underlying genomic factors that explain the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders...

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@thetransmitter.bsky.social presents a portrait of the state of neuroscience in 2025 through four lenses: its focus, its output, its people and its funding. Each view features analyses of major trends and more. Explore the end of year report: bit.ly/4oNeTVC #neuroskyence #StateofNeuro

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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Just a regular day in the @catherinealebel.bsky.social lab… postdoc edition 🎃🕸️ @mervsingh.bsky.social @qililan.bsky.social

Calling all FASD caregivers and families! We're hosting live FASD Success Show events in Calgary and Edmonton, Oct 4 & 5 - register here: www.fasdsuccess.com/thefasdsucce... #FASD

This is truly impressive and important work!

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

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...

‼️NEW PREPRINT‼️ What if you could take a normal 3T T1w MRI and make it look like it was acquired from a 7T scanner? That's exactly what we do using AI in our new preprint! Link: arxiv.org/abs/2507.13782 #neuroskyence #neurosky #compneuro #AI #datascience #neurology #mrisky #neuroimaging

A Transdiagnostic fMRI Dataset With 300+ Deeply Phenotyped Subjects Across Resting and Task States | medRxiv www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

This cures my FOMO about missing #OHBM2025 ... somewhat 🧠

Thomas Nichols@nichols.bsky.social · last yr.

Almost recovered from #OHBM2025... has anyone else found the E-posters nearly imposible to find. They are here, discoverable through the app and the browser-link-out button ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/inde...

ICYMI: In this essay for our Future of fMRI series, Laurentius Huber @layerfmri.bsky.social explains how new advances in functional MRI could help to connect cells and brain areas at the mesoscopic scale. #neuroskyence #OHBM2025 www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...

Imaging cortical layers to understand brain as network organ

This spatial scale, bridging cells and brain areas, has been overlooked in human brain research. But advances in fMRI technology are changing that.

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Research assistant job posting is live! Come join us in Calgary and be part of a supportive, interdisciplinary team. careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1631661...

Research Assistant, Radiology in Calgary, AB, Ca...

Research Assistant, Radiology in Calgary, AB, Ca...

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Catherine Lebel@catherinealebel.bsky.social · last yr.

We will soon be hiring a research assistant in Calgary to work on projects related to brain imaging, prenatal alcohol exposure, and mental health. Please reach out if you're interested, and I will share the posting once it's live. @ucalgary.bsky.social @mathisoncentre.bsky.social

We will soon be hiring a research assistant in Calgary to work on projects related to brain imaging, prenatal alcohol exposure, and mental health. Please reach out if you're interested, and I will share the posting once it's live. @ucalgary.bsky.social @mathisoncentre.bsky.social

New website up & running! (with an up-to-date team section) www.developmentalneuroimaginglab.ca @courtneygilchrist.bsky.social @bryce-g.bsky.social @kathrynmanning.bsky.social @xiangyuloong.bsky.social @mervsingh.bsky.social

It’s been a busy spring, so excited to speak tomorrow @ PMH at 1pm room 7-605 - see you there! @uoft.bsky.social @uoftmedicine.bsky.social @uoftmedicalimaging.bsky.social @sickkidsto.bsky.social

We have the best lab in the world. So grateful to work with these amazing people! @catherinealebel.bsky.social @mervsingh.bsky.social @canacn.bsky.social

Taking full advantage of new advances in brain imaging technology will require more collaboration between engineers and neuroscientists, writes @lauradata.bsky.social in the latest for our human neurotechnology series. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/human-neurot...

fMRI can do more than you think

Advances in brain imaging technology provide new and different information about the brain.

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It's hard to overstate what a big deal this paper is: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Head motion in dMRI is NOT like head motion in BOLD.

Head Motion in Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Quantification, Mitigation, and Structural Associations in Large, Cross‐Sectional Datasets Across the Lifespan

We characterized motion during diffusion MRI scans across 16,995 image sessions and find that (1) modern preprocessing pipelines effectively mitigate motion to the point where biases are not detectab....

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A Review in Nature Reviews Neurology provides an overview of the prevalence and impact of various sleep disturbances in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. https://go.nature.com/4aV4mBu 🔒

Recent executive orders targeting marginalized communities underscore the urgent need for inclusive biomedical research. Our latest work, now out in print, explores how interconnected social identities impact brain biology and mental health, providing a roadmap for more equitable research.

Considering the interconnected nature of social identities in neuroimaging research - Nature Neuroscience

Individual variability in behavior is influenced by social identities. Here, Dhamala et al. discuss the need to incorporate social identities in neuroimaging studies of behavior and explore how to fos...

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Transdiagnostic thinking could accelerate autism science | The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/to-...

Transdiagnostic thinking could accelerate autism science

Our tendency to focus on one condition at a time likely silos expertise and services—and obscures critical connections across diagnostic categories.

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What is the brain? 🧠 New from Taylor Bolt: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“The Brain is…”: A Survey of the Brain’s Many Definitions - Neuroinformatics

A reader of the peer-reviewed neuroscience literature will often encounter expressions like the following: ‘the brain is a dynamic system’, ‘the brain is a complex network’, or ‘the brain is a highly ...

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Great work by @halleeshearer.bsky.social in her first first-author paper. With 🎀 shiny app 🎀 to explore how FC reliability fares ACROSS DIFFERENT movies versus rest, region-by-region. Thanks @sneuroble.bsky.social @tingsterx.bsky.social @ninetlab.bsky.social for 👍 collab. doi.org/10.1162/imag...