Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Great postdoc opportunity with Peter Bandettini @fmri-today.bsky.social (and me).jobs.humanbrainmapping.orgPostdoctoral Researcher in fMRI methods Job Opening in Bethesda, Maryland - Organization for Human Brain MappingA new Postdoctoral Researcher in fMRI methods job is available in Bethesda, Maryland. Check it out on Organization for Human Brain Mapping. 077
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Looking forward to seeing who is lucky enough to hire @joetzel.bsky.social 031
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I heard an interview with Ariely about dentists. The results seemed surprising. I couldn't find a published study & then read follow-ups from the data source saying he didn't even have access to the data he claimed to have. The only thing that mildly shocks me is the lack of consequences for decadeswbur.orgShould You Be Suspicious Of Your Dentist Or NPR's Source?NPR ran a story about peoples' irrational attachment to their dentist -- but it also included information that was bound to make one suspicious of his or her dentist. NPR relied on tenured professor w... 120
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Shawn Burgess @burgesslab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Excellent opportunity for early stage clinician-scientists. You do some research at the NIH and leave with funding for 5 years after, like a K99/R00 for MD's but you get to do research at the largest research-only hospital in the world. IMO better if you love zebrafish 😘 www.nih.gov/research-tra...nih.govLasker Clinical Research ScholarsThe Lasker Clinical Research Scholars Program is an historic “intramural-extramural” partnership to nurture the next generation of clinical researchers. 088
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Substantial improvements in research interpretability & reproducibility are often hard. Sometimes the improvements are easy. (The underlying idea is older & easy, but convincing people is sometimes the hard part) I'm happy to have contributed to this easy and now widely accessible improvement. 073
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications... 7244128
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I have been meaning to write a post about a preprint that I'm pretty excited about: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... In neuroscience we often assume that we can learn something general about “the brain” using different species. But is this true? Do monkeys even see the world the way we do? 36022
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 14/08/2026dear #neuroskyence -- as some of you know i write a column over at @thetransmitter.bsky.social called "how to teach" which breaks down ~recent but seminal neuro papers for educators and self-guided learners and i'd love your input on what papers to cover! www.thetransmitter.org/how-to-teach...thetransmitter.orgHow to teach this paperThis column by Ashley Juavinett guides educators and self-learners through recent seminal neuroscience papers. 13711
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I skew towards keeping mistakes in the scientific literature because identifying & correcting mistakes is part of healthy scientific discourse, but a core finding that rests on clearly wrong data (papers that had references, but were logged as not having references) feels retraction-worthy. 1113
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This part is sadly not surprising, but worth highlighting, "OSF’s high SEO... & low barrier to share [made it attractive to spammers], & not just fake science spammers. Spammers set up thousands of accounts... for sharing pirated movies, advertising health supplements, & anything & everything else." 020
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Susan Wardle @susanwardle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026 Recruiting grad students for Fall 2027! 033
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Great interview of @emilyjacobs.bsky.social & @laurapritschet.bsky.social. Masterclass of science communication. Instead of a clean story of cognitive+hormone relationships (to highlight their own work) they push a narrative & share their excitement about how much we don't know & could still learn.radiolab.orgThis is Your Brain on HormonesWe don’t have hormones, hormones have us. 183
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026The 2026 fMRI Summer Course with @fmri-today.bsky.social has begun and the recordings and slides are shared here: fmrif.nimh.nih.gov/SummerCoursefmrif.nimh.nih.govFMRIF Summer Course 02415
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 05/07/2026A love letter from a child refugee to the country that welcomed himyoutu.beIrving Berlin "God Bless America" on The Ed Sullivan ShowYouTube video by The Ed Sullivan Show 110
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Rodrigo Braga @rodbraga.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Please RT - We are looking for someone who wants to establish and lead a cutting-edge neuroimaging center at Northwestern, working closely with multiple labs, including my own, in neuroscience research broadly construed. If you are curious, dm me and I'm happy to answer questions 01312
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026So much interesting work at #OHBM2026. With simultaneous sessions on "within person studies" & another full of within person studies on the menstrual cycle, it would be fun to have a follow-up round table where the two groups talk to each other. 071
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Newest 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...afni.nimh.nih.gov14.2. FMRI Codex — AFNI, SUMA and FATCAT: v25.2.00 021
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Some issues will online Q&A at #OHBM2026. At ed course we figured out moderators only have access on laptops, not phones. And only some browsers work. Chrome works. Firefox doesn't. @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 010
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 11/06/2026About to start my travel to #OHBM2026 Excited to help organize a full day ed course on multi-echo fMRI. Schedule is here: me-ica.github.io/ohbm-2026-mu... @enekourunuela.com @drjuliamoser.bsky.social @dowdlelt.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.socialme-ica.github.io 192
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Postdoc and data scientist openings with an amazing team. 030
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 05/06/2026@enekourunuela.com just put together a simple and fast search of #OHBM2026 content at me-ica.github.io/ohbm-2026-mu... (Select "All posters" for more than just multi-echo). 1/2me-ica.github.ioOHBM 2026 abstractsAn unofficial community index of OHBM 2026 posters — focused on multi-echo fMRI, but searchable across the whole meeting. Filter by day and method, browse every poster, and read abstracts in place. 1154
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Wonderful news! Journal of Research on Research is launched. "if you are a researcher who researches any aspect of research, then this is the journal and community for you." Worth reading the whole editorial for a transparent and thoughtful account of this amazing community-driven effort. 111042
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 04/06/2026May his memory be for a blessing.jweekly.comStuart Kelman, founding rabbi of Berkeley’s Netivot Shalom, dies at 84Rabbi Stuart Kelman, the founding spiritual leader of Berkeley’s Congregation Netivot Shalom, dies at 84. 100
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Dorig et al. showcase NeurodeskEDU, an emerging learning resource built on Neurodesk that enables fully reproducible neuroimaging workflows through interactive Jupyter Notebooks: doi.org/10.52294/001... @neurodesk.org @sbollmann.bsky.social #FutureofPublishing #SpecialIssue 0125
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I realize I sound like old man yelling at clouds but... ...in my day WE READ ALL THE CITATIONS BEFORE WE CITED THEM. That's how you GAIN THE KNOWLEDGE TO CITE THEM IN THE FIRST PLACE. Signed: Someone who literally read two whole books on the color blue just to write a single 1000 word article. 371189246
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 12/05/2026This gives a bunch of problems that boil down to AI is swamping peer review because people are fraudulently passing off AI text as their own scientific output. For all the weaknesses of peer review, a solution that pushes for more AI without addressing AI-facilitated fraud is fundamentally unserious 000
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Just heard a term to complement p-hacking: RGB-hacking. p-hacking tweaks analyses to get results below a desired thresh & RBG-hacking tweaks the colormap & scale. + vals pop more with this colormap. Not calling out the source because I could easily find another & this can be done without ill intent. 030
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026tedana, multi-echo fMRI denoising software, newsletter includes tedana v26.0.3 updates and details of multi-echo fMRI ed course at OHBM 2026. groups.google.com/g/tedana-new...groups.google.comMulti-echo fMRI course at OHBM 2026 and tedana v26.0.3 094
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 06/04/2026This makes me think of "Franchise" by Isaac Asimov, which felt like an extreme thought experiment when I first read it and now seems a bit closer to real events. www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/HON3... 100
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 30/03/2026How do we define "good" fMRI data? Especially with resting state, there are circularity risks if we evaluate data quality as showing the networks we expect to see. Javier Gonzalez-Castillo (& me & others) developed pBOLD, a new metric that uses multi-echo info. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/8biorxiv.org 13419
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Chris Baker @cibaker.bsky.social · 24/03/2026The Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at NIH is hosting a two-day symposium on 'Foundations and Frontiers in Cognitive Neuroscience' in honor of Dr. Alex Martin, to be held at NIH (with online videocast) on April 7th-8th, 2026. Register to attend online or in-person at: bit.ly/4bYlbxw 16229
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Elizabeth Weber Handwerker @elizwebhand.bsky.social · 10/03/2026I've been reading a great deal about current and potential impacts of AI on labor markets. Just published: a 2-page overview of frameworks for thinking about this: www.congress.gov/crs-product/...congress.gov 1236
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 23/02/2026I was sure the illusion would break at some length: can't keep grow forever, right? Wrong. My brain hurts. 15813
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026True story: it took me years to get a passport in my late 20s - at the time I did not have a single piece of identification with my name spelled correctly. All different misspellings. I eventually found a sympathetic clerk who was like 'I can see what happened here'. 84636
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Postdoc position to work on neuroimaging methods with @fmri-today.bsky.social (and me) fim.nimh.nih.gov/positions-av...fim.nimh.nih.govPositions AvailableThis is the webpage for the Section on Functional Imaging Methods at the National Institute of Mental Health. 057
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Over the years, I have written a few Jupyter/Rmd/Matlab notebooks that attempt to teach some statistical concepts, particularly in neuroimaging. You can find them here: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.h..., though I will say a bit more about each one in a number of posts over next few days.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.ukPeople 66927
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Max Elliott @maxwellelliott.bsky.social · 09/01/2026I 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 :) 11516
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Sam Gershman @gershbrain.bsky.social · 09/01/2026With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world: gershmanlab.com/textbook.html It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class. My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback. 16590237
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Elizabeth Weber Handwerker @elizwebhand.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Five years ago, I had a very sick child and referrals to several pediatric medical specialists and tests in a building a few blocks from the US Capitol. The kid got a diagnosis. Treatment worked. But for me, January 6, 2020 means memories of rescheduling medical appointments for a very sick child. 151
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Alexander Huth @alexanderhuth.bsky.social · 05/01/2026So I made a little simulation where there is no actual discordance, i.e. the underlying values from which the CBF, CBV, BOLD, and T2* are measured all move in lockstep. With zero noise this gives you zero discordant voxels (nice little diagonal line). 1111
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 02/01/2026nihrecord.nih.gov/2026/01/02/n...nihrecord.nih.govNIH Lays Groundwork for Advances in Brain ImagingData is now emerging from the Connectome 2 - an ultra-high-resolution brain imaging system installed at Mass General Hospital - revealing the power and potential of this technology. The imaging techni... 050
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 15/12/2025The #NIH IRP Summer (paid!) Internship Program for 2026 has opened its application portal. This opportunity is open to US Citizens who are college students (including rising first-years), postbaccalaureate, and graduate students, including medical and dental. The deadline is 2026/02/18!dceg.cancer.govBecome a Summer Intern in DCEGDCEG offers a summer research internship in cancer epidemiology, biostatistics, or genetics fo college, postbaccalaureate masters-level students, and graduate students, including medical and dental st... 01920
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Daeyeol Lee @ungteoriz.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins is inviting applications for 3 open-rank tenured/tenure-track positions in (1) Behavioral Neuroscience, (2) Cognitive Neuroscience, and (3) Cognitive Psychology. pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/pbs.jhu.eduJobs | Psychological & Brain SciencesTenured/Tenure-track position in Cognitive Psychology Open Date Dec 01, 2025 Salary Range or Pay Grade The expected academic base salary range for this position is $110,000- $144,500 (Assistant Profes... 06958
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025New 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... 0126
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 16/11/2025I'm not able to attend #SfN25 this year but I'm enjoying all the posts giving me a hint of all the great science being shared there. 160
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 06/11/2025I've enjoyed how Jason Chen, my brother-in-law and Melrose, MA city council member-elect, worked to clearly communicate what city governments do & how they function (while showing off a bit of his art and drafting skills) youtu.be/RehrElsji7w?... youtu.be/UQ8Ohc1six0?... youtu.be/ofTRdLS9zP4?...youtu.beA $107.5M pallet of cash! Let's see where our revenue comes from in our Melrose FY26 city budgetYouTube video by Jason Chen for Melrose City Councilor-at-Large 010
Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Everyone in my family has received our annual flu and covid vaccinations. 030
Reposted by Dan Handwerker Eneko Uruñuela @enekourunuela.com · 16/10/2025🎤 Calling Multi-Echo fMRI Researchers 🎤 Preparing for OHBM? Get expert feedback before the deadline! 🌟 Tedana devs will possibly host a multi-echo meeting on Dec 8th to make sure your abstract is perfect for submission. Interested? DM me or other tedana devs! #neuroskyence #neuroimaging 067
