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Tamara Vanderwal

@vanderlab.bsky.social
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Child psychiatrist, neuroscientist, she/her. Using movies to study functional brain organization at University of British Columbia, Canada, @UBC and @BCCHresearch

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🔥🔥Exciting news!!!🔥🔥 The invited speaker schedule for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop has been finalised! Commuter registrations are still available, but close Feb 1. 3 more weeks to get in!!! Register here: www.monash.edu/turner-insti...
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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Controversial? Classic? What if rest is not best? 🤔 Congrats to @halleeshearer.bsky.social for this thoughtful commentary, and thanks to @ninetlab.bsky.social for the 🎬 movie x rTMS 🧲 collaboration. doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Considering brain state for individualized functional connectivity-based rTMS
Abstract. Recent endeavors to optimize the efficacy of repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) treatment have focused on locating individualized stimulation targets using functional connec...
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Egor Levchenko @egorlevchenko.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
🆕 New open neuroimaging dataset released! I’m happy to share that our Naturalistic Neuroimaging Database (NNDb3T+) is now publicly available! NNDb3T+ captures rich, multimodal brain activity in a naturalistic setting with 40 participants and over 160 hours of scanning!
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date. We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400. Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
🔥ATTENTION!🔥 Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open! Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns. Details: tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6 Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...
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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
We're very excited to share this work and happy to hear your feedback! If you're attending #OHBM2025, @ahmadsamara.bsky.social will be presenting a poster on this project (poster #804, June 25 and 26)—be sure to stop by and chat with him about it! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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OHBM Brain Art @ohbmbrainart.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
🚀📢 The call for submissions to our #BrainArt Competition is officially OPEN 🎉 📆 Submit your work by June 9 using this form! forms.gle/CFTyLK6LQwTC... 🖥️ For more info and details about how to participate, visit our website!!! ohbm-brainart.github.io/competition....
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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
New preprint from the Hasson Lab🪄Delineates coupling b/w regions within the language network AND shows the elements of language that connect them. Led by @ahmadsamara.bsky.social; thanks @samnastase.bsky.social Zaid Zada & Uri Hasson. 💥 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 03/06/2025
Clean Coding - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
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Clean coding
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 3, Part 2
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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
We are seeking a scientific coordinator for my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig 😊🧠🌈 Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc! Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?
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Scientific Coordinator (m/f/d) Part-time (50%) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
Scientific Coordinator (m/f/d) Part-time (50%) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
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Yuan Chang Leong @ycleong.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
@shangao.bsky.social developed a predictive model that maps prefrontal fNIRS activity to whole-brain fMRI during movie-watching! we now show that the model generalizes across samples and movies!
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Randy McIntosh @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
By Attacking Science, Poilievre Takes a Page from Trump's Playbook via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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By Attacking Science, Poilievre Takes a Page from Trump’s Playbook | The Tyee
Professors find this chilling and warn of the costs.
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WinstanleyLab @unidentifieditem.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Here's the link to the piece @liisagalea.bsky.social and I wrote for The Tyee on the threats to medical research funding buried in the Conservative party platform 😬
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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Grad student applicants from the US: University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) has re-opened applications for Master's and PhD programs (e.g., biomed engineering, genetics). Info sessions Apr. 15th w/ current US students: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... Stable, awesome environment!!
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US Applicant Week
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Diana Tamir @dianatamir.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
📢 The Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab is hiring! 📢 We're seeking a full-time Research Specialist/Lab Manager to study naturalistic conversation, social cognition, and spontaneous thought. More info here: psnlab.princeton.edu/join-us Please apply and share!
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Join Us
Thanks for your interest in joining our lab! At the Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab, we believe that our science is better with a diverse team. We embrace and encourage our lab members’ differences ...
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eLife @elife.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
1/ Why are so many scientists silent on the climate crisis? We interviewed neuroscientists @anne-urai.bsky.social & @clarekelly.bsky.social on their participatory workshops designed to stimulate scientists from awareness to activism. buff.ly/SSf99Q2
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Activism and Science: Anne Urai and Clare Kelly on responding to the climate and biodiversity crises
How an economic framework may inspire new ways to tackle the climate crisis.
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Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Interested in understanding what brain activity during movies means from the perspective of the viewer? Then you absolutely need check out this amazing study by @ravenwallace.bsky.social from THinC Lab out now in @elife.bsky.social A thread 🧵 elifesciences.org/articles/97731
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Mapping patterns of thought onto brain activity during movie-watching
Decoding brain activity using a novel paradigm unveils distinct neural signatures of subjective experiences during movie-watching.
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Amy Kuceyeski @amykooz.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
As co-director of AI at the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative, I want women in data science to flourish. We thus launch the #WiDSDatathon 2025 Global challenge - open to all levels - now on Kaggle! Entrants will predict ADHD via fMRI, with sex differences in mind. youtu.be/ESbiTbnlbdM
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WiDS Datathon 2025: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Female Brain
YouTube video by Women in Data Science Worldwide
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Adam Steel @neurosteel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Have you wondered where scene perception and memory intersect in the brain? Do you want to localize these areas? In a preprint, @carolinerobertson.bsky.social, Deepa Prasad, Brenda Garcia, and I detail this topography and release these parcels and our localizer. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I love it when a data-driven, methods-heavy paper ALSO starts with a Pissarro quote. This is great stuff, and likely of interest to many of us in the naturalistic space....Congrats @sciencebanshee.bsky.social !! 💥
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Hallee Shearer, Tamara Vanderwal, et al: Comparing reliability-based measures of functional connectivity between movie and rest: An ROI-based approach direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Great work by @halleeshearer.bsky.social in her first first-author paper. With 🎀 shiny app 🎀 to explore how FC reliability fares ACROSS DIFFERENT movies versus rest, region-by-region. Thanks @sneuroble.bsky.social @tingsterx.bsky.social @ninetlab.bsky.social for 👍 collab. doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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Adam Turnbull @adamgturnbull.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Exciting to see a result I found during my PhD in neurotypical undergraduates related to autistic traits conceptually replicating in autistic individuals!
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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Working on new film project (INSCAPES 2!!). 💥. Does anyone have an audio recording of a modern, commonly used EPI sequence they could share? The composer builds her score around the types of sounds that occur inside the scanner, so I'm trying to get a few for her to listen to...🎵
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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Check out this group of 6 speakers. 👀 "What's the Big Deal? Emerging themes in child psychiatric neuroimaging research" presented last week @ the American Academy of Child Psychiatry meeting. Caitlin Taylor, Arielle Keller, Katharina Kircanski, me, Tiffany Ho, Adriana DiMartino. 🍎
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Todd Constable @toddc.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Trainees looking for advice on career options should come here this panel! medicine.yale.edu/mrrc/about/s...
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Steven Weisberg @stevenmweisberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
🚨I am recruiting PhD students!🚨 (Please re-post this!) If you are interested in #spatialNavigation, #fMRI, #aging, #virtualReality, #AlzheimersDisease and more, please consider applying to work with me! IMPORTANT: Please email me prior to applying!
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Peter Molfese @dcneuroscientist.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
The NIMH FMRI Summer Course kicked off this week. Checkout the schedule and talks in near real-time online here: fmrif.nimh.nih.gov/index.php/Su...
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SummerCourse - FMRIF
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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
Latest Neurosalience podcast by @fmri-today.bsky.social is live! Featuring @twoodward.bsky.social and his lifelong love of CPCA!! Congrats, Todd! podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ohb...
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Neurosalience #S4E16 with Todd Woodward - Pulling out network subtleties with CPCA in Schizophrenia by OHBM Neurosalience
Today we zoom in on Vancouver British Columbia to interview Dr. Todd Woodward, who is a professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of British Columbia and director of the UBC Brain Dy...
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Lucas C Parra @parralab.org · 10/04/2024
While you listen to stories, body and mind interact. There are a bunch of strange effects, in both directions: The story modulates eye movements Heart rate precedes pupil size, and brain activity Breathing modulates pupil size Rhythmic saccades entrain heart beats www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Bidirectional brain-body interactions during natural story listening
When we listen to a story, our body is integrally involved in the experience. Madsen and Parra provide evidence for a bidirectional link between body and brain by analyzing electroencephalography, pup...
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Tamara Vanderwal @vanderlab.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
For anyone feeling helpless about events in Gaza, this may be a way to be helpful. I personally know the people organizing this...The story is legit, the family needs help, and lots of people are involved trying to make this happen. www.gofundme.com/f/from-gaza-...
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