Sign in

Avram Holmes

@avramholmes.bsky.social
674 followers 243 following 472 posts

Lab website: holmeslab.rutgers.edu

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Rutgers Brain Health Institute @rutgersbhi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Registration is open for the 12th Annual Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI) Symposium! 🗓️ Wednesday, December 2, 2026 📍 College Avenue Student Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey 🔗 Register here: brainhealthinstitute.rutgers.edu/2026/09/30/2...
122
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Anthony Ramnauth @philoneurosci.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
😮 Whole- #transcriptome -scale isoform-resolved spatial imaging of single #cells in tissues: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
cell.com
Whole-transcriptome-scale isoform-resolved spatial imaging of single cells in tissues
RT&T-AMP-MERFISH enables whole-transcriptome-scale, isoform-resolved spatial imaging of single cells in intact tissues and reveals how gene programs and transcript isoform usage vary across cell types...
083
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@rodbraga.bsky.social! Love it!
021
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
US academics preparing to submit another round of grants.
000
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Spatial organization of AQP4 water channel expression in the human brain | doi.org/10.1126/scia... Aquaporins are a key component of the glymphatic system. How are they distributed + how do they relate to brain function and dysfunction? ⤵️
doi.org
Spatial organization of AQP4 water channel expression in the human brain
Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) water channels support the glymphatic system, a brain-wide pathway that clears cerebral waste products. Here, we use AQP4 gene expression to reconstruct a whole-brain glymphatic-rel...
12919
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Something I learned too late as a manager.
000
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AI when asked to generate a paper figure.
static.klipy.com
Pennywise from It: Want a Balloon?
ALT: Pennywise from It: Want a Balloon?
010
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Reza Shadmehr @rezashadmehr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Faculty position opening in computational neuroscience at Duke University. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32697
03732
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Ashley Watts @ashleylwatts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🌟 Vanderbilt Psychology has an open rank position available in our clinical area! Job ad here: apply.interfolio.com/194049 (Note that this position is separate from our other psych department's asst prof search: apply.interfolio.com/194058) RTs appreciated!!
01818
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Hyejung Won @hyejungwon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1/ I’m excited to share our new work, now out in @natneuro.nature.com! This was a wonderful collaboration with my long-term collaborator @steinlab.bsky.social, led by two fantastic trainees, @nanamatoba.bsky.social and Jessica McAfee. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Massively parallel assessment of gene regulatory activity at human cortical-structure-associated variants - Nature Neuroscience
A large-scale functional screen identified noncoding variants that regulate gene activity during human brain development, providing insights into the molecular mechanisms that shape differences in hum...
2186
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I mean yes, but then again it's always been unreliable, full of compliance issues, and entire fields of studies should not have been based on it solely for convenience.
010
Reposted by Avram Holmes
PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻’𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴-𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘀 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀? We find evidence of both smooth and sharp transitions; latter sharply altered brain dynamics in as few as 1 time step. Link below -->
25116
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Glad I used all those paper straws.
001
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Jorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 18/09/2026
The Psychology & Neuroscience Department at Duke is looking to hire a Full Professor in clinical psychology (Distinguished Chair, endowed). Specific research area is open, but preference will be given to applicants employing human neuroscience to advance and improve mental health. Deadline Nov. 15.
academicjobsonline.org
Duke University, Psychology and Neuroscience
Job #AJO32753, Professor (tenured), Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
096
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
meanwhile, this is me on study section.
static.klipy.com
The Simpsons Grampa Struggles to Read Newspaper
ALT: The Simpsons Grampa Struggles to Read Newspaper
011
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
To be fair, you’ve successfully simulated how most study section reviewers operate.
010
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
010
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@valeriejsydnor.bsky.social is on the job market — w an R00!! Once in a lifetime opportunity to recruit a generational talent in human brain development. Impossible to endorse strongly enough.
1183
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 03/09/2026
We are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. Please apply or forward to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
facultypositions.stanford.edu
Assistant Professor, Psychology - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Psychology at Stanford University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. In addition ...
08678
Reposted by Avram Holmes
aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is hiring! Focus on social cognition, broadly construed. Come be my colleague :) I am not on the search committee but happy to talk about the campus, environment, careers, etc any time. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10411
recruit.ap.uci.edu
Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
15863
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New paper from former @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social post-doc @sidchop.bsky.social. In first-episode psychosis, antipsychotic-naive patients on placebo showed widespread cortical thinning over 12mo. However, patients on antipsychotics did not. Thinning appears to be illness- not drug-driven.
043
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When your colleague wins the award you self nominated for.
020
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Ahmad Beyh @ahmadbeyh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
⚠️ Preprint alert ⚠️ How does the brain's fixed anatomy support flexible function? We explore this using recurrent neural networks with increasing levels of brain-like constraints, comparing them to empirical fMRI activity. (1/8) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
biorxiv.org
Geometric constraints and cognitive inputs jointly shape emergent brain dynamics and topology
How the brain's physical geometry gives rise to its flexible functional repertoire remains a central question in neuroscience. Here, we trained three classes of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) on a w...
14721
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I can't imagine why the broader culture has lost respect for academics?
010
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Let all these JFs know. You gotta earn the right to sleep through faculty meetings. 
011
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Death by comparison. If everybody keeps getting better than you never do. 
000
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Rutgers Brain Health Institute @rutgersbhi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A second pregnancy changes women's brains in the same way as a first pregnancy, but in a different way than the first time, according to a study published in Nature Communications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
The effects of a second pregnancy on women’s brain structure and function - Nature Communications
Extending their previous findings of brain changes in a first pregnancy, the authors show that a second pregnancy uniquely alters women’s brains, involving both a further fine-tuning of first-pregnanc...
132
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Congratulations! This is amazing news.
010
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Rutgers Brain Health Institute @rutgersbhi.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Rutgers Brain Health Institute is hiring a Director of Development. Join BHI at an important stage of growth and help connect pioneering brain research with the philanthropic support that can move discovery forward. Learn more and apply: brainhealthinstitute.rutgers.edu/join-bhi/dir...
054
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
My snarky read is that this seems like the authors ran a large set of models on a small, low-response-rate, sample. They then found a scattering of marginal, subgroup-specific, effects, and wrote a paper that oversold the conclusions to fit a trendy narrative.
120
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The primary headline is built around a marginal effect, likely there is a confound correlated with citation performance drive these subtle relationships, they ignore stable features that may drive both citation accumulation and academic misery, there is massive sample dropout, etc...
100
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m thrilled to share that our search for a tenure-track colleague in my *truly wonderful and collegial* Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development Division in the MCB Department at Berkeley @berkeleymcb.bsky.social is live! Please share this broad search widely: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
Assistant Professor -Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development - Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
0183232
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'm just waiting for this moment to finally come: "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
010
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Not sure of the way forward, but this is the field right now.
131
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Angela Andersen @angelaandersen.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Kudos to @science.org for this self-analysis of the peer review process. These kind of data are never shared and don't have to be. Wildly refreshing to see it out in the open. Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
science.org
Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals
Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.
29044
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My friend and BJJ coach Thiago Brito was picked up by ICE on the way to coach our kid's team at their biggest tournament of the year and needs our help. 30 years in education/coaching, built an amazing community through discipline, compassion, and love. Please share/donate gofund.me/58fcfb35e
gofund.me
Donate to Help Thiago Fight for His Future, organized by Jeffrey Jones
Many of you know Thiago—not just as an incredible Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor, but… Jeffrey Jones needs your support for Help Thiago Fight for His Future
020
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Welcome to your first shark tank.
static.klipy.com
John Cena Jumped by Nexus in Wrestling Ring
ALT: John Cena Jumped by Nexus in Wrestling Ring
010
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Carrisa V. Cocuzza, PhD (she/her) @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
So excited to share that our study is out now in @natcomms.nature.com! 🧠🚨 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big shout out to coauthors @sidchop.bsky.social @ashleasegal.bsky.social @loiclabache.bsky.social Rowena Chin Kaley Joss & @avramholmes.bsky.social
nature.com
Brain network dynamics reflect psychiatric illness status and transdiagnostic symptom profiles across health and disease - Nature Communications
Cocuzza et al. show that brain network dynamics are less flexible in psychiatric illness, and these patterns predict individual symptom profiles better than diagnoses, highlighting brain dynamics as a...
12612
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Carrisa V. Cocuzza, PhD (she/her) @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Thank you so much @rutgersbhi.bsky.social for the thoughtful write up of our study that's out now in @natcomms.nature.com!! 🧠
031
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Nice write up of @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social's latest work using brain dynamics to study transdiagnostic symptom profiles. @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social, @rutgersbhi.bsky.social, and @rutgersu.bsky.social. Likely of interest to @hitop-system.bsky.social oriented folks.
0103
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Just one? How about every state that doesn’t touch an ocean.
010
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Rutgers Health article on @sidchop.bsky.social and @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social's latest work.
021
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
If you want to list references great. Can we just do phone calls?
000
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Jennifer Tackett @jnfrltackett.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
For one of my final editorial projects before rotating off Clinical Psychological Science, I wanted to come full circle and end with the same focus I started with - celebrating the importance of multidisciplinary psychological research journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XEP2G...
journals.sagepub.com
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
1329
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Rodrigo Braga @rodbraga.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Now published in Journal of Neurophysiology: journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...
1216
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"We are number one. All others are number two, or lower."
000
Reposted by Avram Holmes
Sarah Yip @yiplab.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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...
direct.mit.edu
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...
1157
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
No new followers need apply.
030
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I see dead scientific paradigms. They don't see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don't know they're dead. ... All the time. They're everywhere.
000
Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Reviewer 2: 'This is just rebranding of [term you've never heard]... see 40 years of literature.' Me: I searched. I searched so many words. Just not that one.
010