calling all researchers who collect data from humans 🧠🧪 we are running a very brief survey (<1 min) about jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection. if you use jsPsych, or if you collect data with any other software, please fill it out at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census!

Have y'all heard about the OMB proposed rule? Basically, it's 400+ pages of very bad proposed legislation by Project 2025 folks and Russel Vought-- it would, among other things, make any grant able to be terminated at any time for political reasons. Comment here: www.faseb.org/science-poli...

Dr. Tianye Zhai’s careful and exhaustive new paper evaluating the effects of numerous fMRI denoising pipeline components, alone and in combination, just came out in HBM - check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Benchmarking fMRI Denoising Pipelines

This paper benchmarked fMRI denoising pipelines on task- and resting-state, single- and multi-echo fMRI datasets, in a modern 1-step regression framework, with pre-whitening and time-shifted physiolo...

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I just submitted a comment on the proposed new OMB rule, which is very dangerous fo rUS science. I urge you to consider doing the same. You can do so very easily at this web page: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/164... A short comment is fine but write in your own words. More info follows..

Stand up for Science

Stand up for Science

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Megathread resources now compiled in a Google doc. Send it to your friends. Share with your departments and trainees. And share with non-scientists! I also have a template for non-scientist comments, because this is an all-taxpayer, all medical service user issue. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Submit an OMB Comment!

SAVE AMERICAN SCIENCE (Please! 💜 Annika @annikabarber.bsky.social) What are the proposed changes to scientific grant review and award? Read the Federal Register directly here: Regulation for Federal...

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Annika Barber@annikabarber.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Megathread about responding to new OMB grant funding rules (feel free to add/link more!) I was collecting these for me, but figured I'd round 'em up for everyone 🧪 What's the problem? arstechnica.com/science/2026... elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Opposing BOLD signals and oxygen metabolism largely arise from statistical uncertainty in metabolic estimates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.21.719913v1

"A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project

Results from massive, ‘eagerly awaited’ initiative reinforce concerns about the credibility of science — but raise hope for solutions.

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My first first co-author paper! Big thank you to @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social, Joe McGuire, and @profsomers.bsky.social. Cool to take a deeper look at how different WM networks interact at resting state and during WM tasks, and learned a lot of new analysis techniques along the way.

Communications Biology@commsbio.nature.com · 5mo ago

🧠🔊👁️ Visual and auditory working memories (WM) utilize a shared supramodal brain network. rs-fMRI reveals stronger supramodal connectivity with visual than auditory networks at rest. Auditory WM overcomes this asymmetry, strongly altering task connectivity. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🧠🔊👁️ Visual and auditory working memories (WM) utilize a shared supramodal brain network. rs-fMRI reveals stronger supramodal connectivity with visual than auditory networks at rest. Auditory WM overcomes this asymmetry, strongly altering task connectivity. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Interactions between sensory-biased and supramodal working memory networks in the human cerebral cortex - Communications Biology

Visual and auditory working memories (WM) utilize a shared supramodal brain network. rs-fMRI reveals stronger supramodal connectivity with visual than auditory networks at rest. Auditory WM overcomes ...

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"You see what you look for, and you look for what you know." We are proud to release FOCUS: a 100 μm deformable human subcortical atlas precisely registered to MNI space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share our new preprint! A massive (~400k trials) multi-site effort to test "subjective inflation," the influential but under-tested idea that subjective experience in the unattended periphery can be inflated beyond what objective performance would suggest www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

There's been much talk about the "Just a Job" piece in Nature Human Behavior — absent an ability of many to read it. The author is here, @laraffington.bsky.social. In the post below, she shares a link available to all.

Laurel Raffington@laraffington.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Open access via SharedIt rdcu.be/eThTl & Table 1 Suggestions to fostering a lower stress academic workplace for individuals, groups, and institutions >> osf.io/p6yut/files/...

Presenting a poster on the interactions between sensory-biased and supramodal working memory networks the frontal cortex at #SfN this Saturday. Come by and learn about how content-specific and domain-general frontal networks connect up at rest and during WM tasks! 11/15 from 1-5pm session PSTR041

My lab at Boston University has open positions for a postdoc and PhD students. We study visual perception, attention, and decision making with a focus on temporal dynamics. Check out our recent work here sites.bu.edu/denisonlab/ and email me if you're interested in learning more

Amazing work led by Jingnan! Pooling in task and rest data can give us a lot of discovery potential like discovering hard to find networks in the thalamus (bulk of my postdoc work with Randy). Task data can be used to define networks and activations from left out runs can be investigated. Cool work!

Jingnan Du@jingnandu.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

1/11 Very excited to say that our preprint, Precision functional mapping reveals less inter-individual variability in the child vs. adult human brain, is up on biorxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Precision functional mapping reveals less inter-individual variability in the child vs. adult human brain

Human brain organization shares a common underlying structure, though recent studies have shown that features of this organization also differ significantly across individual adults. Understanding the...

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My 1st first (co)author paper is up on BioRxiv! How does functional connectivity in the human cortex differ during visual and auditory working memory (WM) tasks? Do those changes correlate with behavior? We take a stab at some answers: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Dynamic task-based reorganization of sensory-biased and supramodal working memory networks in the human cerebral cortex

Sensory working memory is supported by a distributed set of brain regions. Visual working memory and auditory working memory recruit different networks, which include posterior sensory cortices and mu...

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Finally published: “Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures” www.nature.com/articles/s41... Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations

Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

As scientists, we want solid answers, but we also want to answer questions that matter. Yet, the brain’s complexity forces trade-offs between these desiderata, bringing about two distinct research app...

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Does anyone have a good go-to white matter tract atlas? I would love something analogous to Neurosynth but where you can input coordinates and get out white matter connectivity profiles/papers/etc. Best I could find quickly so far is: dmri.mgh.harvard.edu/tract-atlas/ @mpascale.psyc.dev

Absolutely insane www.science.org/content/arti...

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels

“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

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🚨 Dataset & Manuscript alert! 🚨 The Transdiagnostic Connectome Project (TCP) manuscript is now available @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Data! 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵1👇

The Transdiagnostic Connectome Project: an open dataset for studying brain-behavior relationships in psychiatry - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The Transdiagnostic Connectome Project: an open dataset for studying brain-behavior relationships in psychiatry

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"We introduce PECANS (Preferred Evaluation of Cognitive And Neuropsychological Studies)" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40447861/ I love scientific acronyms

"Institution-led investigations (into academic misconduct) are fundamentally conflicted" - we need independent expert investigations for significant misconduct allegations pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40401705/

I just learned that there's a national graduate student crisis line - gradresources.org. Might be worth spreading the word as I'm pretty sure exactly *checks notes* zero grad students are doing well emotionally right now.

Grad Resources

Encouraging and equipping graduate students for impact.

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Excited to share this new preprint from the lab introducing a highly general spatiotemporal normalization modeling framework that handles continuous dynamic visual input. Beautiful work by Angus Chapman @afchapman.bsky.social Science continues!!

Angus Chapman@afchapman.bsky.social · last yr.

recently posted a new preprint (the first of my postdoc 🎉) where we implemented normalization across space *and* time, allowing us to capture several neural and behavioral findings! I'll be presenting this work at VSS in a couple of months too for those attending www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our paper on the Connectome based predictive modeling in individuals with Autosomal Dominant AD with amazing collaborators @ytquiroz.bsky.social, David Somers, @joshfoxfuller.bsky.social and team! alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Connectome‐based predictive modeling of brain pathology and cognition in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease

INTRODUCTION Autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease (ADAD) through genetic mutations can result in near complete expression of the disease. Tracking AD pathology development in an ADAD cohort of Pre...

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Are short-term memories just noisier versions of what we perceive? Are they fundamentally different? We (Chaipat Chunharas, @mjwolff.bsky.social, @meikehettwer.bsky.social and myself) delved into this in a paper out now in #elife: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre.... For a quick summary, a 🧵 below:

a black and white image of the inside of a human brain

ALT: a black and white image of the inside of a human brain

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If, like me, you (a) oppose research funding cuts to US institutions and (b) are Jewish, please consider signing this open letter: forms.gle/prnRbq69a6YN...

Open letter in response to federal funding cuts at Columbia

On March 7th, the Trump administration announced the immediate cancellation of approximately $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University. This includes funding from the Departm...

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Jeremy Manning@jeremyrmanning.bsky.social · last yr.

The $400M cuts to @columbiauniversity.bsky.social fit squarely into Trump's ongoing attacks on science and the academy. I don't believe that he is protecting Jews or has *anyone's* (except his own) best interests at heart. Everything about him screams Nazi and fascist. www.npr.org/2025/03/07/n...

If you are a neuroscientist, please use SFN's site to write to your reps about the importance of funding for science (they have letters ready to go, you can just use theirs or write/edit as you see fit): www.sfn.org/advocacy/adv...