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Paul Taylor

@afni-pt.bsky.social
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Brain imaging methods at SSCC/NIMH/NIH, working in C/Python/tcsh, some astrophysics in world line, programming/processing lecturer at AIMS. All views my own.

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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Next AFNI Bootcamp: Oct 20-22, 2026! Classes cover: FMRI visualization, full subject-level processing, alignment, regression modeling, and quality control. Registration is free & open to both NIH and non-NIH researchers. Registration+details: afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp Please share widely.
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AFNI Bootcamp: October 20th - 22nd, 2026 | afni.nimh.nih.gov
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗽𝘀? It seems like a boring visualization change but quite important! fMRI maps have been thresholded for 3+ decades so as to emphasize peaks of activation. This paper argues for a different approach. rdcu.be/B4tikBETdQZa
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Have you ever felt like something was missing from your #fmri results? Have you been worried about potential reproducibility issues? Well, this new @natmethods.nature.com article with 40+ coauthors shows how the simple change to transparent thresholding helps both. Go Figure! rdcu.be/B4tikBETdQZa
A comparison of old and new thresholding approaches for fMRI data. The newer, transparent thresholding allows for interpreting context, more complete modeling, a reduction of biases and an increase in meaningful content. This all leads to more accurate interpretations and improved reproducibility evaluations.
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Jefferson Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute @mossresearch.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
We are hiring for a tenure track faculty position! Our Institute, part of Jefferson Moss-Magee Rehabilitation and Thomas Jefferson University, is seeking applicants with experience conducting research in human translational neuroscience & neurorehabilitation. ow.ly/KRzP50ZiKqh
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Newest contribution to the AFNI Codex (Code Examples), linking papers and scripts/cmds that were used. Thanks to the amazing @storrisi.bsky.social & LL Chao for this latest work. We hope this and others help users with ideas and examples for their own projects: afni.nimh.nih.gov/pub/dist/doc...
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14.2. FMRI Codex — AFNI, SUMA and FATCAT: v25.2.00
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Job ad (2/2): data scientist in the AFNI group (SSCC, NIMH, NIH, USA). FMRI/MRI methods dev, software design, statistics, analysis, data viz, quality control, machine learning and more! Please see: discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov/t/job-ad-dat... I am happy to chat at OHBM+Brainhack. Please share!
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Job ad (1/2): Postdoc fellowship in the AFNI group (SSCC, NIMH, NIH, USA). FMRI/MRI methods dev, software design, statistics, analysis, data viz, quality control, machine learning and more! Please see: discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov/t/job-ad-pos... I am happy to chat at OHBM+Brainhack. Please share!
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
22 years is just about half a lifetime for some. Congratulations to Arsenal fans everywhere---happy times in North London and radiating outward. Now we turn our attention to May 30. #COYG
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Looking forward to this!
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Thanks very much @mossresearch.bsky.social and Andrew Persichetti there for hosting @gangchen6.bsky.social , Justin Rajendra and myself for an AFNI Bootcamp last week! Awesome group of attendees. We had a great few days of FMRI details, concepts, practice and discussions.
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
@ohbmossig.bsky.social : do you have any updates on this?
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Does anyone know the registration cost for the Brainhack event at OHBM-2026? I can't find any details for it on the website.
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Does anyone know the registration cost for the Brainhack event at OHBM-2026? I can't find any details for it on the website.
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Want to learn about FMRI visualization, processing and group analysis? Join us for the next AFNI Bootcamp (Jan. 27-29, 2026) for a fun few days of theory and interactive practicals. Details+registration for this virtual course: afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp
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storrisi.bsky.social @storrisi.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
delta-diy-mri.github.io
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DIY-MRI | 16-18 September 2026
3-day workshop to learn, build and scan on a low-field MRI from sratch
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
This is a really nice way forward for #fmri and other neuroimaging analyses, now at the voxelwise level! Great ideas, math and implementation by @gangchen6.bsky.social, Yuan Zhong and Jian Kang. Oh, and it even has a fun acronym, too: SIMBA -> Scalable Image Modeling using a Bayesian Approach
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
New AFNI Academy playlist! This tutorial presents afni_proc.py's quality control HTML for single subject FMRI. The APQC HTML has systematic views of data and useful derived quantities. Users can instantly rate, comment and query the fully processed subject data. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD9z...
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Thanks, @gangchen6.bsky.social for leading the charge on pointing out and detailing several really important things to think about at the heart of FMRI studies and interpretation.
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Announcing the next AFNI Bootcamp: Sep 23-25, 2025. Free, open & virtual. This "Part 1" will focus on basic visualization and single subject FMRI processing, including discussions of alignment, templates, regression, ROIs and quality control. Details & registration: afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp
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AFNI Bootcamp: Sep. 23-25, 2025 | afni.nimh.nih.gov
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Susan Wardle @susanwardle.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
If you’d like to write a commentary to accompany our new article arguing for a rethinking of how we approach understanding visual function in occipitotemporal cortex, now is your chance!
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Cool work, and particularly after some recent discussions at OHBM, it is really nice to see all of transparent threshold, beta-weight overlay coloration and two-tailed tests used together in the results reporting. Helps me (and maybe others) see the whole picture clearly.
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Indeed, so happy to see this elegant article by @misicbata.bsky.social . It resonate and persuades.
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Amanda Mejia @mandymejia.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Looking forward to #OHBM2025 in Brisbane next week! My lab is recruiting a postdoc & neuroimaging analyst/developer to support our NIH funded work in fMRI-based Alzheimer's biomarker development (NIA R01AG083919). Email or DM if you want to meet up in Brisbane! www.statmindlab.com/join-us
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What can we do with functional MRI data? For many years, fMRI has been used to discover population-level patterns of brain function, organization and connectivity, and to understand differences in t...
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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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...
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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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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
**FMRI/neuroimaging folks** Quick reminder @ the next AFNI Bootcamp: May 28-30, 2025. Learn through interactive data analysis! Day 1-2: data viz, single subject analysis and QC. Day 3: statistics, results reporting and group analysis. Details, registration and schedule: afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
We are pleased to announce the next AFNI Bootcamp, May 28-30, 2025. First 2 days: data visualization, single subject analysis and QC. 3rd day: statistics, results reporting and group analysis. Please see here for details, registration link and preliminary schedule: afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp
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AFNI Bootcamp: May 28-30, 2025 | afni.nimh.nih.gov
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Who knew that breathing was so important? Well, at least in FMRI it is... Nice work by @brightmg.bsky.social & Co!
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Nice work, @gangchen6.bsky.social !
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Peter Sokol-Hessner @p1sh.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
"Highlight, don't hide" @gangchen6.bsky.social makes an impassioned argument that thresholding (reflective of a "binary" yes/no approach to analysis) holds back our science, making it less transparent and less reproducible. Instead, be a facilitator - share uncertainty and evidence! #SANS2025
Slide from Gang Chen describing how he feels people should approach brain analysis in ways that increase transparency & reproducibility, focusing on encouraging people to share results with the uncertainty that accompanies our inferences.
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The result of a large (42 authors!) collaboration: "Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation" arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824 TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Excellent folks to work with!
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Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Likely hiring one postbac trainee for @fmri-today.bsky.social's Section on Functional Imaging Methods. Give the relatively later start time for the search, I'm not yet sure how quickly this search will happen. If you are interested, apply and reach out ASAP. fim.nimh.nih.gov
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Section on Functional Imaging Methods
This is the webpage for the Section on Functional Imaging Methods at the National Institute of Mental Health.
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Do you like genes and estimating heritability? Then @gangchen6.bsky.social and D. Moraczewski have important news for you. Conventional estimation methods ignore measurement error, leading to a bias. Don't worry: hierarchical modeling to the rescue! www.frontiersin.org/journals/gen...
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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help contextualize your neuroimaging findings 🧠
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A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results - Nature Communications
Here, the authors present the Network Correspondence Toolbox, which enables researchers to examine and report spatial correspondence between their neuroimaging results and widely used brain atlases.
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Pretty stunning!
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Catriona L. Scrivener and Edward H. Silson: Opponent visuospatial coding structures responses during memory recall and visual perception in medial parietal cortex doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Excited to announce the 500th paper published by Imaging Neuroscience ! @imagingneurosci.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social We've come a long way in a short time and are hugely grateful to the neuroimaging community for your support. Hope to see lots of you at OHBM @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
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Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
People from my lab did a wonderful job on Brain Week teaching about the problems with substance use. A major effort on their part.
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
If anyone wants a fun activity in DC over the next couple months, The Textile Museum (at GW) is celebrating its 100th anniversary with an amazing set of, well, textiles from around the globe. Incredible craftsmanship, science, skill & cultural heritages on display. (Museum is free! Open Tue-Sat.)
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 05/03/2025
Today is amazing grad student Paul LaFosse's last lab meeting. Here's cool data he showed: Paul used 2p holographic optogenetics (laser stim) to select and stimulate this neuron in a working brain. This ability to change neural activity is key to understanding brains. To understanding #AI too. 🧪
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Eduardo Garza-Villarreal @egarza.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
New preprint from the lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... This was led by former Bachelor student Débora Elizarrarás and postdoc César Carranza. Here we wanted to study structural brain changes in opiod self-administration. Specifically if there was a link between MRI volume and neuroinflamation.
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Morphine self-administration induces region-specific brain volume changes and microglial phenotypic alterations without affecting neuronal density in male Wistar rats
Addiction to opioids, including morphine, is a major public health crisis in the U.S. It has been associated with brain volume changes in reward-related regions, neuronal death, and neuroinflammation....
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Eli Merriam @elimerriam.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41... awesome new work out today! From the Lee lab in the intramural research program at NIMH!
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Brain-wide presynaptic networks of functionally distinct cortical neurons - Nature
Behavioural-state-dependent pyramidal neurons have a distinct pattern of long-range glutamatergic inputs, with a larger proportion of thalamic versus motor cortex inputs compared with non-behavio...
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20/02/2025
Here are some cool animations I made a couple years ago for teaching DAG-based causal inference Confounding!
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Michael C. Freund, Todd S. Braver, et al: Complementary benefits of multivariate and hierarchical models for identifying individual differences in cognitive control doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Nice episode of @ohbmofficial.bsky.social Neurosalience podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/5vkr.... Funny when @fmri-today.bsky.social mentioned edge time series, Vesa said "ah, the CAPS", which in turn are rbetas www.frontiersin.org/journals/phy.... We can't help finding new names for the same stuff
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Neurosalience #S5E6 with Vesa Kiviniemi - Pulsations Matter: Imaging Glymphatic System using MREG
OHBM Neurosalience · Episode
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yuhui Chai, Bradley P. Sutton, et al: Blood nulling versus tissue suppression: Enhancing integrated VASO and perfusion (VAPER) contrast for laminar fMRI doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Maybe slightly odd timing, but we'd like to announce: A new AFNI Bootcamp for FMRI/MRI, Jan 29-31, 2025. This part will focus on group analysis, statistics, surface analyses, results reporting and more. This event will be virtual. Please see here: discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov/t/afni-bootc...
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AFNI Bootcamp, Part 2: Jan 29-31, 2025 (Virtual)
We are pleased to announce a new AFNI Bootcamp, taking place Jan 29-31, 2025. Registration is free and open to both NIH and non-NIH researchers. The course is aimed at people who have some familiarit...
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Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
💰 Publish with Ease, Pay Less 💰 📚 At Aperture Neuro, we believe in making quality research accessible to everyone. That's why we keep our publishing costs low, without compromising on the peer review process. 📝 Submit your work today: apertureneuro.org/for-authors @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Other folks having website issues with OHBM abstract submission?
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Cool project on fundamental imaging properties for neonates.
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