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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ever wonder about Spatiotemporal Brain Patterns Elicited during Pain Perception in fMRI? Here you go! osf.io/preprints/ps... The *stars of the show* are the *Pain Matrix* (increased activation with high pain level) and *Re-Evaluation* (increased activation for down-regulation of high pain).

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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

When we have very specific and detailed hypotheses that can't be preregistered in the regular way, we pre-publish them before downloading the data: osf.io/preprints/ps... This is an fMRI study of somatic pain stimulation versus vicarious pain observation . Stay tuned!

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Carien van Reekum @carien.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I’m pleased with our findings reported here showing that brain networks involved in “Multiple Demand” and “Re-evaluation” support reappraisal. Let us know your thoughts! with @evalab.bsky.social @twoodward.bsky.social #neuroskyence #affectsci #fMRI-CPCA

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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Anyone interested in task-based fMRI I'd love to meet you at poster #1808 today! Cognitive Modes Detectable with Task-Based fMRI Or, just read the book 😀: osf.io/preprints/ps... #OHBM2025 #fMRI

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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

After many (many) years of work with Dr. Chantal Percival we have open-science published an "edited book" Cognitive Modes Detectable with Task-Based fMRI. Results on a total of 28 tasks are reported. Percival C. M., & Woodward, T. S. (Eds.) (2025). osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

we aspire to provide that "one place" at jocnf.pubpub.org, which is explicitly set up to host threaded discussions. It's taking rather longer than we had hoped to really catch on, but it's ready when you are!

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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Western University is seeking applications for Canada Excellence Research Chairs. Please reach out if you are interested in Theme 2: Neuroscience. Western has extraordinary strengths in cognitive, molecular and systems neuroscience across species (rodents, NHPs, humans) uwo.ca/research/cer...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 06/05/2025

"These guidelines were written by almost-retired professors who never could have met these standards back in the 1980s, when all you needed for tenure was 1.5 publications and a bottle of scotch in your desk." buff.ly/TOh3MUc

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Introducing Our University’s New, Totally Reasonable Criteria for Promotion and Tenure

Since the founding of our august institution, we have awarded promotion and tenure based on how many pages of your research we could read before fa...

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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

When you get booted out of your lab space .. U-Haul is there for you. They can take away the space but they can't take away the science! Thanks to UBC Psychiatry for accommodating our EEG/tACS neuromod equipment that was downsized(?) out of our hospital site.

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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Another cognitive mode uploaded! This time, focus on Visual Feature (FoVF). Chantal Percival the lead author. Meet the Stay Puff and Old Blue Eyes pattern. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Default Mode A vs B! Delighted to pre-publish a detailed anatomical and functional description of DMA in tasks with incoming grad student Solana Redway leading the way. DMA appears to be reciprocally related to the language mode. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Wyeth Wasserman @wywywa.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Bioinformatics Job Opportunity Research Associate / Staff Scientist Vancouver Canada Join the Silent Genomes Project to provide an outstanding genetic variation database for Indigenous peoples of Canada to improve rare disease diagnosis tinyurl.com/bm4ptux3 Priority to Canadians Please repost

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Academic Job Category Faculty Non Bargaining Job Title Research Associate Department Wasserman Laboratory | Department of Medical Genetics | Faculty of Medicine (Wyeth Wasserman) Posting End Date Febr...

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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/y8oc1w2v... “Indeed, for most of these companies, the science is an afterthought - get the product to market first and worry about the science later. Compounding the problem is the fact that public trust in science - and that includes cognitive neuroscience - is at “

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The Stakes Are High: Scientific Responsibility in the Age of Digital Diagnostics

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Eva Feredoes @evalab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Highly recommended reading for those conducting fMRI to investigate behaviour, if I do say so myself :) We are ready to take your calls (via the JoCN Forum) for any feedback, ideas, debate, praise, and so on.

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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Thank you so much!! I'm very honored

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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Using tACS? So many decisions to make (stimulation frequency/montage), but the task matters too, and could help direct tACS effects to specific brain areas. Trainee Dr. Abhijit Chinchani's excellent work is now available in pre-print form: osf.io/preprints/ps... @abhijitchinchani.bsky.social

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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Cognitive Modes Detectable by fMRI: A series of manuscripts from the Woodward Lab at the University of British Columbia, which detail the anatomy and function of cognitive modes detectable by fMRI. www.theurlist.com/woodward-lab...

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The Urlist - Share the internet

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Gordon Pennycook @gordpennycook.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Oh and look at this: 4(!) clinical psych positions at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon (where I did undergrad): universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Don't hide the good stuff! We welcome comments on our JoCN Forum post on how focus on spatial information in task-based fMRI has slowed cognitive neuroscience, and that advancement would have been accelerated by including task-induced BOLD signal changes. jocnf.pubpub.org/pub/wck63qhg...

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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

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JoCNForum @jocnforum.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

New post by @abhijitchinchani.bsky.social, @evalab.bsky.social, and @twoodward.bsky.social: "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" doi.org/10.21428/8e6...

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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

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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Delighted to share another cognitive mode detectable by task-based fMRI: Initiation (INIT). Anatomical patterns and how its BOLD changes are affected by 5 experiments: osf.io/preprints/ps... #fMRI @danjlurie.bsky.social @hritz.bsky.social @evalab.bsky.social

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Peter Bandettini @fmri-today.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Dr. Seiji Ogawa discovered and coined "Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent" BOLD contrast - used in almost all fMRI today. It was my great honor to interview him over two days on the very beginnings of fMRI, and so much more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gBK...

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Neurosalience #S5E7 with Seiji Ogawa - The discoverer of the BOLD contrast and fMRI

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Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

What with the new regime taking over today it's a confusing time. #revolution #make_academia_great_again But the #good_news is I have a new release coming out Friday with the Natural Philosophers with Attitude. If you are on Spotify you can pre-save the tracks here 👇 distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

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Aegisphilosophos by Natural-Philosophers With Attitude

Stream and Pre-save Aegisphilosophos - Distributed by DistroKid

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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

If you use BOLD based fMRI in your research, take a moment to wish Seiji Ogawa a happy 91st birthday on Sunday, Jan 19th. His research launched thousands of careers and provided an invaluable to look inside our brains.

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Our thoughts are with our @ohbmofficial.bsky.social colleagues in Los Angeles facing devastating fires. As for all members suffering around the globe, #OHBM stands with you, offering support and solidarity. Wishing everyone safety and strength in the New Year. humanbrainmapping.org/files/ChairL...

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Peter Bandettini @fmri-today.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I had a great discussion with Vesa Kiviniemi, from Oulu University. He described his latest work using high speed whole brain acquisition (MREG) to characterize brain pulsations - and perhaps hints of the glymphatic system. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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Neurosalience #S5E6 with Vesa Kiviniemi - Pulsations Matter: Imaging Glymphatic System using MREG

Podcast Episode · OHBM Neurosalience · 01/08/2025 · 1h 31m

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 15/01/2025

Unintended bias in the pursuit of collinearity solutions in fMRI analysis - Amazing work by @jeanette-mumford.bsky.social and @demidenko.bsky.social and many thanks to all of our collaborators! If you are using the monetary incentive delay (MID) task you should definitely read this.

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Unintended bias in the pursuit of collinearity solutions in fMRI analysis

In task functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), collinearity between task regressors in a design matrix may impact power. Researchers often optimize task designs by assessing collinearity betwee...

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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

in press 💫 Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Perturbs the Brain‐Wide Excitation‐Inhibition Balance: Associations w/ Microcircuits, Clinical Parameters, and Cognitive Dysfunction ↙️ paper ↙️ advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... multisite & multiscale ↙️ by @kexie.bsky.social & a dream team 💫

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Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Perturbs the Brain‐Wide Excitation‐Inhibition Balance: Associations with Microcircuit Organization, Clinical Parameters, and Cognitive Dysfunction

Xie and colleagues apply advanced signal modeling and biophysical simulations to multimodal neuroimaging data in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and healthy controls. They demonstrate robust inc...

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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Had a wonderful chat with Andy Jahn on Andy's BrainCast! Andy, you were such a gracious host. We went over cognitive modes detectable by fMRI, interpretation, reverse inference, task vs. rest fMRI, how to emphasize anatomical patterns, etc. It's here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDSG...

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Constrained PCA and the Future of Task-Based fMRI | Todd Woodward (Andy's BrainCast #004)

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

You cannot decode perceived basic emotions categories using fMRI MVPA in just the amygdala... We've tried it, you've tried it, everyone's tried it, no one's talked about it... It doesn't work. The amygdala doesn't work like that. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Changing Better by Sharing Abandoned Work (Relevant May Not Be Enough) - Gavin M. Schwarz, 2025

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Peter Molfese @dcneuroscientist.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Neuroimaging Resource Alert: The NIH fMRI Summer Course has recorded talks available on YouTube from 2024, 2019, and 2018: fmrif.nimh.nih.gov/index.php/Su... And we're actively working on uploading talks from 2014-2017! #fmri #neuroimaging

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SummerCourse - FMRIF

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ERROR @error.reviews · 08/01/2025

We are excited to announce the review of Lades et al. (2020) "Daily emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic". Based on the review by Joop Adema, we find Moderate Errors which do not affect the core conclusions. We recommend the authors seek a correction error.reviews/reviews/lade...

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ERROR is a bug bounty program for science to systematically detect and report errors in academic publications

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

To mark the completion of my textbook, The Neuroscience of Language, I'll be posting some tidbits from my book over the coming months. Some will be languagey and some will be little rabbit holes that distracted me along the way. Enjoy! #neuroscienceoflanguage jonathanpeelle.net/the-neurosci...

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The Neuroscience of Language — Jonathan Peelle

An authoritative and accessible textbook on the neuroscience of language intended for people new to the field, including undergraduate and graduate students in psychology, neuroscience, speech and hea...

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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

First read this paragraph from Smolin's The Trouble With Physics during my master's in philosophy of science and carried it with me when I moved to experimental science myself. Neuroscience has a set of troubles of its own, but the message about individual courage resonates with all spheres of life.

"Although tenure protects people who are intellectually independent, it does not produce them. I've heard many colleagues say they are working on what is trendy in order to get tenure, after which they will do what they really want. But it doesn't seem ever to turn out that way. I know of only one case where that happened. In the others, it seems that if these people did not have enough courage and independence to work on what they wanted when they were worried about tenure, they did not suddenly gain courage and independence when contemplating what the panel reviewing their grant would decide. It does not help to have a system that protects tenured professors' intellectual independence if the same system makes it unlikely that people with that independence will ever get tenure."

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I was today years old when I found out that famous labs average multiple trials/blocks of fMRI data before running multiple linear regression/GLM 🤯 This breaks so many principles of statistics that one could write an entire book...

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Amazing collective problem solving in ants:

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Markus Meister @mameister4.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The unbearable slowness of being: Humans still clock in at just 10 bits/s. Even after peer review :) Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kHVa3BtfH.... ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗲𝘂𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 If you are a statistician, teach statistics, or even just use statistics, this is a highly recommended read. What a horror story which probably most of us know little about. nautil.us/how-eugenics...

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How Eugenics Shaped Statistics

Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.

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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Another cognitive mode detectable by task-based fMRI: Auditory Perception (AUD). Anatomical patterns and how its BOLD changes are affected by three different types of speech perception experiments: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

A bit late posting, but I invite you to check out the OHBM neurosalience podcast when I had the honour of being interviewed by the inspirational and always welcoming and engaging Peter Bandettini @fmri-today.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=chKG...

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Neurosalience #S4E16 with Todd Woodward - Pulling out network subtleties with CPCA in Schizophrenia

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Harrison Ritz @hritz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I’m never forgetting these names, 10/10

Bain maps called crab claw, peanut, and two triangles

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Colinhawco @colinhawco.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I really enjoy how you guys are interrogating this a different sub-processes across task. It's such a great approach! I wish I could find more time to read all these papers. It's so hard to keep up with all the cool stuff happening. You guys should write a nice review :)

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Dan Lurie @danjlurie.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Starting a petition to require that all new papers containing fMRI task activation maps must report their results using the same kind of delightful descriptions found in this series of preprints form @twoodward.bsky.social's group www.theurlist.com/wcmpapers

Figures containing slice views of fMRI task activation maps. The activation patterns are labeled with delightfully descriptive names, including "Happy 28th Birthday Long Face", "Right-Handed Crab Claw", "Found a Peanut", and "Ape Nostrils"

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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Pleasant surprise in my email this morning (for once)

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Miriam Klein-Flügge 🧠 @mkflugge.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Or just go to this starter pack - I will keep adding to this over the next little while. go.bsky.app/EjjWSUy Please spread the word & let me know if you'd like to be added or know of anyone I have forgotten!

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Todd Woodward @twoodward.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Another cognitive mode detectable by task-based fMRI: Maintaining Internal Attention (MAIN). Anatomical patterns and how its BOLD changes are affected by autobiographical event simulation, working memory, task switching, self-reference and semantic association are here: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mj52a

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