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Jessica Royer

@jroyer.bsky.social
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Banting Postdoctoral Fellow @ MPI CBS, Leipzig 🇩🇪 The Neuro / McGill University grad & Montreal lover 💞 Brains, open science, metal & running are my jam 🧠 Co-founder: new-epilepsy.com ⚡ Co-organizer: gradients-workshop.github.io 🌈

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Qiongling Li @qionglingli.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
1/Excited to share our new paper: Spatiotemporal dynamics of the human cortical functional hierarchy across the lifespan t.co/nCR62ldB50 @MingruiXia @YongHe @ShuyuLi @debinz.bsky.social @TengdaZhao......
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Jessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Correlating brain maps across datasets is everywhere in neuroimaging. Here we ask: when you contextualize a brain map against genes, metabolism, or connectivity... What can you really conclude? How can we do better? We explore these questions here: tinyurl.com/2dudkevc
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Opportunities and pitfalls of data contextualization in neuroimaging - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Despite rapid exploitation of the opportunities that contextualization of brain maps affords, potential limitations have received little attention. In this Roadmap, Royer et al. provide practical guid...
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handle.invalid @handle.invalid · 23/03/2026
You have 10 minutes of task fMRI to map functional brain regions in an individual. Three decisions matter: How do you localize regions? Which tasks do you include? How do you arrange tasks in your experiment? Here, we tackle all three! Preprint👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Jessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Very happy to see this last thesis paper in press @natcomms.nature.com! We combine intracranial EEG with multimodal MRI to study how interregional similarity in neurophysiology relates to different network scales ⚡ 🧠 Full story 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🚨 New paper in Nature Methods: HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG) Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉 📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH... 🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io
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Alex Ngo @alexngo.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Epilepsy imaging-genetics paper is fresh off the press!
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Courtois Project on Neuronal Modelling @cneuromod.ca · 07/08/2025
In 2019, the CNeuroMod team and 6 participants began a massive data collection journey: twice-weekly MRI scans for most of 5 years. Data collection is now complete! 1/🧵
Poster titled "Neuromod: The Courtois Project on Neuronal Modelling" with logos from Université de Montréal and the Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal.

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6 BRAINS – 987H-fMRI – 18 TASKS
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Naturalistic & Controlled – Multimodal / Perception + Action
Each letter in "18 TASKS" contains thumbnails from various visual tasks.

The central table summarizes 32 datasets grouped by primary domain (Vision, Audition, Language, Memory, Action, Other). For each dataset, the table indicates which stimulus modalities were used (Vision, Speech, Audio, Motion), what responses were collected (Physiology, Eye tracking, Explanations, Actions), and how many sessions and subjects were scanned. The overall visual style is playful and bold, with rainbow colors for modality types and rich iconography indicating data types.
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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Brain Surfaces of 70 primate species
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Jason da Silva Castanheira @jasondasilvac.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Very proud to share this one🥹! We show that personalized signatures of brain activity are heritable and relate to the expression of specific genes. That means my brain-fingerprint is very similar to my twin brother's! #ResearchIsMeSearch🧠 🧬 ♊️
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Genetic foundations of interindividual neurophysiological variability
Individual brain activity profiles are shaped by lifelong genetic influences.
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Valerie Jill Sydnor @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
How does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Jessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A full day to talk gradients 🌈 join us!! 🚀
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gradientsworkshop.bsky.social @gradientsworkshop.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The gradients workshop is happening soon! Please join us on June 23rd in Brisbane for a full day of gradient fun! 🌈 ✅ Amazing speaker line up ✅ Poster presentation ✅ Flash talks for selected abstracts Deets on program, abstract submission, and registration 👉 gradients-workshop.github.io
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Gradients of Brain Organisation, Brisbane 2025
GRADIENTS WORKSHOP
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Jessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
open, multimodal, 7T MRI dataset led by @donnagift.bsky.social 🌟
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Jessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Happening Thursday! 👇
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Jessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Mark your calendars 📅 ✍️ for NEW's next webinar! 🕙 Feb 20th, 2025, 10AM-11:30AM EST 🌟 Three speakers sharing their recent work on neuroimaging of epilepsy 🤝 Panel and audience discussion 💻 Happening here: zoom.us/j/95048511341 🗣️ Please spread the word and share!
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Jessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Amazing stuff led by superstar @alexngo.bsky.social ! 👇
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Jessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
New year, new preprint (+ last thesis paper!) Macroscale gradients of intracranial EEG power spectra follow familiar axes: sensory-motor and unimodal-transmodal 🕵️‍♀️ Gradients show overall stronger association to distance, but multimodal information was best in transmodal areas 🧠 tinyurl.com/ykacndd5
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Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
"exhaust fumes" made it into the official abstract! hence completing the journey from an epiphenomenal shitpost blog to a full-blown review paper. all thanks to this cast of co-authors (esp. Sander), our TICS editor Lindsey Drayton, and two very engaged reviewers (@danielemarinazzo.bsky.social)
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Jessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Coming to #AES2024? Why spend the last conference day sleeping in when you could come to the Neuroimaging SIG? See you at 7am Dec 10 if you're curious about applications of brain gradients in TLE to understand cognitive and clinical phenotypes! 🌈 🌅
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Konrad Wagstyl @konradwagstyl.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Just in time for #AES2024, let's grow this list of epilepsy imagers! go.bsky.app/HnaoTqF
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Jessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Very happy to see this one out in the world 😁 a joint endeavour with Val Kebets 🌟 We used PLS to identify components linking symptoms of psychopathology with multimodal imaging markers in the ABCD dataset Get all the deets 👉 elifesciences.org/articles/87992
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Jessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · 20/02/2024
New preprint! We discuss how gradients synergize domain expertise in neuroscience and more computational skillsets to improve our understanding of brain organization 🌈 🧠 ✨ 👇👇👇 arxiv.org/abs/2402.11055 & stay tuned for gradient workshop registration, opening soon! gradients-workshop.github.io
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Adam Steel @neurosteel.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
New paper out in Nature Neuro, wherein we ask: How do perceptual and mnemonic brain networks share information? www.nature.com/articles/s41... Massive work with Ed Silson, Brenda Garcia, and @carolinerobertson.bsky.social
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A retinotopic code structures the interaction between perception and memory systems - Nature Neurosc...
The authors show that functionally paired visual and memory brain areas share a common neural code, which structures their communication. This code is visual in nature and uses a push–pull dynamic t...
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Alex Barnett @alexbarnett.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Hippocampal-cortical interactions during event boundaries support retention of complex narrative events Officially out in Neuron with @charan-neuro.bsky.social Brendan Cohn-Sheehy, Mitchell Nguyen, Reesha Yadav, and James Spargo!: authors.elsevier.com/a/1i3703BtfH...
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Jessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
SaraTheRiver strikes again... Structural connectivity gradients 🌈 and temporal lobe epilepsy ⚡
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