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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Congratulations Val!! So well deserved!

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The HBCD Study Data Release 2.1 is here 👇🏾 3,500+ children followed from pregnancy through early childhood: MRI, dMRI, resting-state fMRI, EEG, biospecimens incl. genetics, wearables, and rich behavioral + environmental data. New in 2.1: Olink inflammation markers + the ERICA assessment.

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Working on your schedule for #OHBM2026? Save some energy for the last day to discuss the latest in precision imaging of the infant brain with @reznikdaniel.bsky.social, Jucha Willers Moore from @kingspfig.bsky.social and @camerontellis.bsky.social!

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Heading to #OHBM2026 in Bordeaux this week? Looking for fellow developmental neuroscientists? Come to the FIT'NG social at 6.15pm on Tuesday, June 16th at Les Planches Ephemeres Bordeaux!

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Looking forward to a Sunday full of multi-echo!

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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Very excited about this project, led by @zachladwig.bsky.social We show that an individual’s lateral prefrontal cortex has reliable and highly detailed network organization missed in past group approaches. Full🧵 coming soon!

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Cameron Ellis @camerontellis.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

We are recruiting a lab manager/research assistant to start in early 2026! The successful candidate will conduct awake infant fMRI, meet cute babies, and join a fun team! More details (e.g. responsibilities): soc.stanford.edu/people/#join... Apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/social-...

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People – Scaffolding of Cognition Team

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

If you are at #SfN25 and curious about infant 7T research, reach out to chat!

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Matt Cieslak @cieslakmatt.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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:

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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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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

A particular shoutout to Essa Yacoub, @drdamienfair.bsky.social, Alireza Sadeghi-Tarakameh, Jed Elison, @benediktramirez.bsky.social, @smnelson.bsky.social and many more for their important contributions!!

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Our work, which was a huge collaborative effort between UMN CMRR and @umn-midb.bsky.social provides a first glance on what we can achieve with 7T MRI in infants and highlights its role as a promising new avenue for developmental cognitive neuroscience.

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Leveraging this high-resolution data we were able to identify the Somato-Cognitive Action Network in a five week old infant, the earliest this network has been shown thus far, questioning the degree of ‘maturation’ we assign to infant networks.

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Our 7T data showed an increase in spatial precision using a spatial resolution more appropriately matched to infants' small head sizes and improvements in reliability compared to 3T, reducing the need for long data acquisitions.

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

We implemented a subject specific safety assessment to ensure safe scanning within SAR limits on the Siemens Terra system using a commercially available head coil.

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

🚨 New preprint on the first infant 7T MRI project in North America! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We showcase that by leveraging 7T for infants, we can improve data quality and thereby facilitate precision functional mapping in early development.

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Sarang Dalal @sarangnemo.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

📈🧠 We're looking for brains! 🧠📈 Postdoc + PhD positions are available to help pioneer fetal MEG with optically pumped magnetometers, measuring prenatal responses to sound and light to understand how we start making sense of the world even before we're born. 🐣 Please get in touch to hear more!

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Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain @umn-midb.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

🚀 Big news: With a $3.3M NIH grant, MIDB members Meghan Swanson, PhD, and Mark Schleiss, MD, are leading a first-of-its-kind study of infants born with congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV). Learn more ➡️ med.umn.edu/news/univers...

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Dr. Jennifer Pfeifer @jenndsn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Margaret Sheridan inspires us all with reflections and insights at her Linda Spear mid-career award talk 👏 Reminding us of the incredible growth and value of our field! #flux2025 @fluxsociety.bsky.social

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Precision functional imaging in early development will allow us to uncover individual brain developmental trajectories and help tailor personalized interventions.

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

For these studies we acquired up to 154 min of low motion resting state fMRI data in neonates and up to 153 min with auditory oddball paradigm in 8 week old infants.

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

And that babies show individual specific nuances in their BOLD response patterns towards salient stimuli.

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Using both resting state and task fMRI, we show that babies brain functional architecture can be divided into cortical areas that are individual specific and distinct from other babies.

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Is precision functional brain imaging in babies possible? YES! We show this in not one but two new preprints out of WashU and @umn-midb.bsky.social! 1️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🐣👶🧠

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layerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

New layer-fMRI preprint looking at laminar response differences of across (very) early development in newborns. Exciting new directions in the field. By Moore et al. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

What an amazing demonstration of why Precision Functional Mapping matters 🧠It’s been an honor to support the team in this huge endeavor!

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Nadege Roche-Labarbe @nadegeroche.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This is your last chance to submit your abstract 👶🧠 ! We have an outstanding scientific program, join us in beautiful Dublin 🇮🇪 for your annual dose of neonatal brain science (and beer 🍻😉)

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Alert! ... for the child development world! @fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪ The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive. Check here: docs.hbcdstudy.org and here: nbdc-datahub.org Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Alert!!!! “An Action Networks Model for Pain” We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it. 👉 thread below 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Our paper additionally describes age independent upstream enhancements to the entire NiPreps suite like the implementation of a ‘fit’ and ‘transform’ model and convergence of processing with other popular workflows (ABCD-BIDS, HCP Pipelines). So check out fMRIPrep versions 23.2.1 and later!

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

fMRIPrep Lifespan produces high quality outputs for structural and functional images in a wide age range which we showed in a random sample of children from 1-43 months. The scalable, modular infrastructure of fMRIPrep Lifespan will ensure adaptability to data from birth to old age.

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Hello all fMRIPrep users! What if you could use the same pipeline for processing MRI data from all ages? 👶👩‍🦱👩‍🦳 Check out fMRIPrep Lifespan! Our workflow optimized for data from the first years of life and further upstream enhancements to the entire NiPreps suite www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

If you are interested in the multi-echo users meeting, or future users meetings, please take this survey. We are planning the agenda in a couple of days and more feedback would really help with planning.

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Multi-echo fMRI users meeting

We have scheduled our second multi-echo fMRI users meeting for Tuesday, May 27 at 8:00 PDT, 11:00 EDT, 15:00 UTC, 17:00CEST, 0:00 (Wednesday) KST, 1:00 (Wednesday) AEST. Check your time here. The goal...

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

⏰ 5 DAYS LEFT!!! 🗓️ Abstract and symposium submissions close on April, 22. Hurry up, submit now!! 🔗 fitng.org/poster-oral-... 🔗 fitng.org/symposium-su... #FITNG2025

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Fetal, Infant, & Toddler Neuroimaging Group—FIT’NG @fitngin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Big opportunity! 🎉 🏅The best abstracts & posters from the FIT’NG Annual Conference will be invited to submit a paper to a special issue in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. Showcase your best research—submit your abstracts to #FITNG2025! 📄✨ 🌐https://fitng.org/submissions/

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Eneko Uruñuela @enekourunuela.com · 28/02/2025

Do you work with multi-echo fMRI data? Or are you planning to? Say no more! Join us at the online multi-echo fMRI users meeting on March 14th. We have a prepared a super interesting agenda for you! Here are the important details you need to know 👇

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Awesome list! I would love to join

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

To better understand how oral contraceptives affect the brain, neuroscientist Carina Heller volunteered herself as a subject. She plans to make her data—from her many brain scans, blood tests and more—openly available. www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin... #neuroskyence #neuroscience

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Dose, scan, repeat: Tracking the neurological effects of oral contraceptives

We know little about how the brain responds to oral contraceptives, despite their widespread use. I am committed to changing that: I scanned my brain 75 times over the course of a year and plan to…

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layerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

New layer-fMRI manuscript featuring the potential of 10.5T fMRI for high resolutions. By Vizioli et al., doi.org/10.1101/2024...

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

"The human brain is not designed for this kind of non–stop engagement," neurologist Cytowic writes. "We need moments of pause not only to regain composure but also to let our brains function at their best."

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How to Embrace Silence

Silence is an essential nutrient in an increasingly noisy world, writes Richard Cytowic.

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Thank you Martin! Yes of course I would be interested

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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

ME acquisitions allow to capture developmental changes in T2* relaxation times, which are slower and more variable in newborns. This trend makes it hard to find an optimal echo time to acquire data in young populations, which can be solved by optimally combining data from different echoes of ME data

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