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Jack Gallant @gallantlab.org · 24/09/2026

Dr. Tianjiao Zhang's landmark study of naturalistic navigation has been accepted in Nature Neuroscience! Encoding models fit 28,134 features to fMRI from a virtual taxi-driving task, revealing 11 distinct cortical regions that transform perception into action. Read the preprint. gallantlab.org

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Tom Possidente (He/Him) @tom-poss.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Are there hard boundaries or soft gradients of function between sensory and #working-memory activation in frontal cortex? We show evidence for meso-scale (~1cm) cortical gradients in several frontal ROIs in this bioRxiv preprint. Thread 1/6 #neuroscience #neuroskyence doi.org/10.64898/202...

Process diagram for individual subject ROI gradient vs. boundary model comparison. A) Individual subject p-value map of all visual conditions (WM and SMC) against fixation. The black outline represents the
probabilistic search space for the preSMA ROI while the white outline represents the p<.01 ROI inside the search space for this subject. B) The ROI from A is flattened and the difference of the unsmoothed T-statistics for the WM against SMC and SMC against fixation contrasts are projected. The X-axis is aligned with the axis of greatest change. Gray horizontal gridlines form slices that are 2.2mm in height. C) Data from a single slice is collapsed into 1D, then gradient and boundary models are fit to the data. This is repeated for each slice.

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Gradients of function between sensory drive and working memory in human frontal cortex www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

What dashboard-based research means for author responsibility and accountability retractionwatch.com/2026/08/25/g... A great piece on the emerging problem of researchers not having full access to the data they work with.

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Guest post: The uncomfortable truth an explosion of papers reveals about authors’ access to data

wildpixel/iStock The involvement of independent academic researchers in examining data and conducting analyses is central to producing trustworthy research. Because of this, many journals require a…

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 16/07/2026

calling all researchers who collect data from humans 🧠🧪 we are running a very brief survey (<1 min) about jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection. if you use jsPsych, or if you collect data with any other software, please fill it out at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census!

I am writing on behalf of the leadership of jsPsych, the software ecosystem for browser-based data collection used in experiments and surveys from many labs worldwide.

It has been difficult for us to figure out how widespread jsPsych usage is, because the software is freely available online and we do not collect any information about downloads, users, experiments posted online, etc. While the software has been cited in thousands of articles, jsPsych usage is likely more widespread than those citations imply, because not every project using jsPsych leads to a citation, and because there are also often substantial delays between actual jsPsych usage and a publication. As such, we are conducting a very brief census of jsPsych users.

If you collect data from humans using jsPsych or any other type of software, we would appreciate your filling out a very brief survey (<1 min) at tinyurl.com/jspsych-census. This will help us to understand how many people, labs, and institutions are current or former users of jsPsych, information that will help support the long-term sustainability of the jsPsych ecosystem.

We would also appreciate it if you could circulate this message to your lab, your department listserv, and your collaborators, to help ensure that it reaches as many members of the research community as possible. The survey is being distributed by Josh de Leeuw, Melissa Kline Struhl, and myself. Please contact me (sam@auckland.ac.nz) off-list if you have any questions about it.

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Kristina Visscher @visscherlab.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Have y'all heard about the OMB proposed rule? Basically, it's 400+ pages of very bad proposed legislation by Project 2025 folks and Russel Vought-- it would, among other things, make any grant able to be terminated at any time for political reasons. Comment here: www.faseb.org/science-poli...

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We advance health and well-being by promoting research and education in biological and biomedical sciences through collaborative advocacy and service to our societies and their members.

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Blaise Frederick @blaisefrederick.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Dr. Tianye Zhai’s careful and exhaustive new paper evaluating the effects of numerous fMRI denoising pipeline components, alone and in combination, just came out in HBM - check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Benchmarking fMRI Denoising Pipelines

This paper benchmarked fMRI denoising pipelines on task- and resting-state, single- and multi-echo fMRI datasets, in a modern 1-step regression framework, with pre-whitening and time-shifted physiolo...

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I just submitted a comment on the proposed new OMB rule, which is very dangerous fo rUS science. I urge you to consider doing the same. You can do so very easily at this web page: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/164... A short comment is fine but write in your own words. More info follows..

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Annika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Megathread resources now compiled in a Google doc. Send it to your friends. Share with your departments and trainees. And share with non-scientists! I also have a template for non-scientist comments, because this is an all-taxpayer, all medical service user issue. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Submit an OMB Comment!

SAVE AMERICAN SCIENCE (Please! 💜 Annika @annikabarber.bsky.social) What are the proposed changes to scientific grant review and award? Read the Federal Register directly here: Regulation for Federal...

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Opposing BOLD signals and oxygen metabolism largely arise from statistical uncertainty in metabolic estimates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…

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Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"A massive seven-year project exploring 3,900 social-science papers has ended with a disturbing finding: researchers could replicate the results of only half of the studies that they tested" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project

Results from massive, ‘eagerly awaited’ initiative reinforce concerns about the credibility of science — but raise hope for solutions.

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Tom Possidente (He/Him) @tom-poss.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

My first first co-author paper! Big thank you to @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social, Joe McGuire, and @profsomers.bsky.social. Cool to take a deeper look at how different WM networks interact at resting state and during WM tasks, and learned a lot of new analysis techniques along the way.

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Communications Biology @commsbio.nature.com · 19/03/2026

🧠🔊👁️ Visual and auditory working memories (WM) utilize a shared supramodal brain network. rs-fMRI reveals stronger supramodal connectivity with visual than auditory networks at rest. Auditory WM overcomes this asymmetry, strongly altering task connectivity. www.nature.com/articles/s42...

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Interactions between sensory-biased and supramodal working memory networks in the human cerebral cortex - Communications Biology

Visual and auditory working memories (WM) utilize a shared supramodal brain network. rs-fMRI reveals stronger supramodal connectivity with visual than auditory networks at rest. Auditory WM overcomes ...

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Andreas Horn @andreashorn.org · 20/02/2026

"You see what you look for, and you look for what you know." We are proud to release FOCUS: a 100 μm deformable human subcortical atlas precisely registered to MNI space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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racheldenison.bsky.social @racheldenison.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Excited to share our new preprint! A massive (~400k trials) multi-site effort to test "subjective inflation," the influential but under-tested idea that subjective experience in the unattended periphery can be inflated beyond what objective performance would suggest www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

There's been much talk about the "Just a Job" piece in Nature Human Behavior — absent an ability of many to read it. The author is here, @laraffington.bsky.social. In the post below, she shares a link available to all.

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Tom Possidente (He/Him) @tom-poss.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Presenting a poster on the interactions between sensory-biased and supramodal working memory networks the frontal cortex at #SfN this Saturday. Come by and learn about how content-specific and domain-general frontal networks connect up at rest and during WM tasks! 11/15 from 1-5pm session PSTR041

QR code for https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.17.665351v1

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racheldenison.bsky.social @racheldenison.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

My lab at Boston University has open positions for a postdoc and PhD students. We study visual perception, attention, and decision making with a focus on temporal dynamics. Check out our recent work here sites.bu.edu/denisonlab/ and email me if you're interested in learning more

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Amazing work led by Jingnan! Pooling in task and rest data can give us a lot of discovery potential like discovering hard to find networks in the thalamus (bulk of my postdoc work with Randy). Task data can be used to define networks and activations from left out runs can be investigated. Cool work!

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Tom Possidente (He/Him) @tom-poss.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

My 1st first (co)author paper is up on BioRxiv! How does functional connectivity in the human cortex differ during visual and auditory working memory (WM) tasks? Do those changes correlate with behavior? We take a stab at some answers: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Dynamic task-based reorganization of sensory-biased and supramodal working memory networks in the human cerebral cortex

Sensory working memory is supported by a distributed set of brain regions. Visual working memory and auditory working memory recruit different networks, which include posterior sensory cortices and mu...

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Fernando Rosas @frosas.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Finally published: “Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures” www.nature.com/articles/s41... Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations

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Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

As scientists, we want solid answers, but we also want to answer questions that matter. Yet, the brain’s complexity forces trade-offs between these desiderata, bringing about two distinct research app...

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Tom Possidente (He/Him) @tom-poss.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Does anyone have a good go-to white matter tract atlas? I would love something analogous to Neurosynth but where you can input coordinates and get out white matter connectivity profiles/papers/etc. Best I could find quickly so far is: dmri.mgh.harvard.edu/tract-atlas/ @mpascale.psyc.dev

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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

"We introduce PECANS (Preferred Evaluation of Cognitive And Neuropsychological Studies)" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40447861/ I love scientific acronyms

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Neuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

"Institution-led investigations (into academic misconduct) are fundamentally conflicted" - we need independent expert investigations for significant misconduct allegations pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40401705/

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Nora Bradford @norabradford.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I just learned that there's a national graduate student crisis line - gradresources.org. Might be worth spreading the word as I'm pretty sure exactly *checks notes* zero grad students are doing well emotionally right now.

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Grad Resources

Encouraging and equipping graduate students for impact.

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racheldenison.bsky.social @racheldenison.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Excited to share this new preprint from the lab introducing a highly general spatiotemporal normalization modeling framework that handles continuous dynamic visual input. Beautiful work by Angus Chapman @afchapman.bsky.social Science continues!!

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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Are short-term memories just noisier versions of what we perceive? Are they fundamentally different? We (Chaipat Chunharas, @mjwolff.bsky.social, @meikehettwer.bsky.social and myself) delved into this in a paper out now in #elife: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre.... For a quick summary, a 🧵 below:

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a black and white image of the inside of a human brain

ALT: a black and white image of the inside of a human brain

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

If you are a neuroscientist, please use SFN's site to write to your reps about the importance of funding for science (they have letters ready to go, you can just use theirs or write/edit as you see fit): www.sfn.org/advocacy/adv...

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Evan Gordon @gordonneuro.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

👉 "We ... consider two requirements of group-to-individual generalizability ... and suggest that most processes in cognitive neuroscience do not meet these assumptions. Consequently, interindividual findings are inappropriate for intraindividual inferences" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Group-to-individual generalizability and individual-level inferences in cognitive neuroscience

Much of cognitive neuroscience research is focused on group-averages and interindividual brain-behavior associations. However, many theories core to t…

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

"Don’t hide the good stuff: Scientific advancement in task-based fMRI is slowed by not showing event-related BOLD (erBOLD) changes alongside anatomical patterns" (new[ish] on @jocnforum.bsky.social ] doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

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Join researchers across the country in fighting restrictions on the NIH

Please click the link to complete this form.

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

So glad this review paper on the possible use of Default Mode Network functional connectivity as a transdiagnostic biomarker was published in Biological Psychiatry: CNNI. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Default mode network functional connectivity as a transdiagnostic biomarker of cognitive function

The default mode network (DMN) is intricately linked with processes such as self-referential thinking, episodic memory recall, goal-directed cognition…

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