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MIDB was recently represented on Capitol Hill! 🏛️ Drs. Jessica Simecek and Damien Fair shared updates on their Department of Defense-funded project focused on improving telehealth access for children and families with behavioral health needs. Learn more about the study ➡️ z.umn.edu/MIDBDoDStudy

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New paper‼️ Interested in the protective impacts of parenthood on brain dynamics? 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦🧠 Read Edwina Orchard & @sidchop.bsky.social's new paper, out now in PNAS @pnas.org ! With collaborators L. Ooi, P. Chen, L. An @bttyeo.bsky.social, and more! 🔗https://tinyurl.com/parentalbrain

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We've updated our mouse connectome-based ID paper using simultaneous Ca2+ imaging and fMRI connectivity data--check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Shoutout to all! @francimandi.bsky.social, @toddc.bsky.social, @mallarchak.bsky.social, @richardfbetzel.bsky.social, and many others! 1/2

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A research team led by Christine Conelea, PhD, a member of #MIDB, recently received a 3-year, $1.2 million grant from the NIH to study the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) as a treatment for youth with Tourette syndrome and other tic disorders. Read more ➡️ med.umn.edu/news/u-m-med...

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A SMARTTR workflow for multi-ensemble atlas mapping and brain-wide network analysis | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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The "Podcast" ECoG dataset for modeling neural activity during natural language comprehension https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.14.638352v1

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🚀 We’re officially on Bluesky! 💙 The Women in Network Science (WiNS) Society connects and supports network scientists who identify as underrepresented genders in the field. Follow us for updates on events, opportunities, and exciting research from our community! #NetworkScience #WiNS

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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

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So much research focusses on using brain connectivity to predict an individual's cognition, IQ, disease status, etc. BUT what about the inverse problem? Can personal data be used to build an individual's whole connectome? YES - with AI: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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It's hard to overstate what a big deal this paper is: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... Head motion in dMRI is NOT like head motion in BOLD.

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TMS is delivered to the DLPFC in depression to modulate SGC activity But axons linking DLPFC and SGC are absent. How then does TMS stimulation delivered to the DLPFC modulate SGC activity? Check out Caio's work on how stimulation effects propagate in the absence of direct anatomical paths

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Caio is having a good day. Another preprint on which he's first author -- this time, describing pathways through the connectome for indirectly stimulating subgenual cingulate cortex in the context of depression. Neuroanatomical pathways of TMS therapy for depression www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Connectome architecture favours within-module diffusion and between-module routing. Really cool multi-species work from Caio Seguin on module-defined communication policies in connectomes! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Many in biotech/private sector are boasting about their ways of funding and doing science But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed

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A thalamic hub-and-spoke network enables visual perception during action by coordinating visuomotor dynamics 🧪🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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You can support local farmers. Here is a national list of Black farmers across the country. You can find someone close to you and support them. BTW, the first on the list in Alabama is one of my sister's classmates. blackfarmersindex.com

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MINNESOTA NIH AWARDS FUNDING: $718 M JOBS SUPPORTED: 7,992 ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED: $1.74 B

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Cortical maturation unfolds hierarchically, endowing the PFC with extended plasticity. But do timeframes of plasticity vary across PFC layers? With 7T quantitative myelin imaging, EEG, and cognitive data, we uncover heterochronous laminar maturation in the PFC 1/n. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Exciting news! The first batch of baseline data from the Acute to Chronic Pain Signatures (A2CPS) program is now available on the NIMH Data Archive (NDA) (project #5121). This includes neuroimaging data on nearly 600 participants!

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Hey network scientists! WINS Society has a half-day satellite at #netsci2025 and is soliciting talks from ECR and students, esp on work that's still "in progress." Please consider submitting! [satellite info] sites.google.com/view/womenin... [submission form] forms.gle/UCduyTBpfVZw...

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insanely excited about this 👇 (and wildly humbled to even be mentioned in the same breath as the other speakers)

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How do spatiotemporal patterns of brain activity evolve from childhood to adulthood? 🧠✨ Find in the latest from @tingsterx.bsky.social and ⭐coauthors 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

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A multimodal dataset linking wide-field calcium imaging to behavior changes in mice during an operant lever-pull task https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.03.631599v1

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Also! The symposium on higher-order interactions, chaired by @manishsaggar.bsky.social and @lordgrilo.bsky.social, was accepted. Absolute must-attend if you're at OHBM 2025, with talks from: @popeme.bsky.social, @andreasantoro.bsky.social, and @novelli-leo.bsky.social! @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

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Our symposium on network controllability and neurostimulation was accepted for OHBM 2025 in Brisbane! Proud to be co-chairing with @lindenmp.bsky.social. Talks coming from: @amykooz.bsky.social, Caio Seguin, Marilyn Gatica, and Linden, himself. Should be a lot of fun! @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

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Stimulating the brain with Damien Fair | The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives www.thetransmitter.org/synaptic/sti...

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Remember when Hillary got pilloried for using a private email server because it compromised gov't info? Musk's team is allegedly moving sensitive data onto their own servers. We need Dem Congress people on TV shouting about this and we need rallies & protests all over this country!

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Flexibility of intrinsic neural timescales during distinct behavioral states www.nature.com/articles/s42... #neuroscience

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grant submitted ("if a tree falls in a forest...") and paper accepted. decent way to end the week, all things considered.

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follow up: university just okayed the 15.1 update. god willing i'll be able to use my new mouse today.

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Out in @natureneuro.bsky.social today 🥂 Cytoarchitecture, wiring and signal flow of the human default mode network Combining 3D histology, 7T MRI, and connectomics to explore DMN structure-function associations Led by Casey Paquola, @themindwanders.bsky.social & a terrific team of colleagues 🙏

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I’m looking for a new PhD student with a curious and interdisciplinary mindset to work on integrating multimodal data to better understand trajectories of mental and brain health disorders! Deadline of applications: Feb 16! Please spread the word. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO680/f...

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Response from a Pennsylvania GOP congress member I emailed urging the continued funding of the NIH.

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Sarah A. Cutts, Olaf Sporns, et al: Temporal variability of brain–behavior relationships in fine-scale dynamics of edge time series doi.org/10.1162/imag...

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New from Manish Saggar: A data-driven latent variable approach to validating the research domain criteria framework www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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what's your favorite study that uses structural/functional connectivity data for pre-operative planning or to guide neurostimulation?

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Dimensionality reduction beyond neural subspaces with slice tensor component analysis www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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So excited to share this preprint, led by Sophie Dvali and Andy Leifer, along with Caio Seguin and myself. Diverging network architecture of the C. elegans connectome and signaling network. arxiv.org/abs/2412.14498

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Setting up an fMRI model and getting hit with collinearity errors? Been there! 😢 Try removing regressors? Orthogonal regressors? Other tricks to resolve collinearity errors? Guess what—those fixes might make things worse. We explore why and propose recommendations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Started my career with human connectomes (and don’t plan on full pivot or anything)… but man, it’s hard to not fall in love with the fly. If nothing else, it makes for some pretty pictures.

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Previous work showed that in controlled simulated settings, the spin test does not perfectly control for false positives. In my recent pre-print, we explored why this is the case! As always, the code to reproduce results + figures is available here: github.com/netneurolab/...

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What if… spontaneous neural activity 🧠 reflects the baseline rumblings of a brainwide dynamical system initialized for learning? We find that the rumblings have macroscopic properties like those emerging from linear symmetric, critical systems 🧵 #neuroscience #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Finally out in its polished form 🤩 New methodological avenues that help facilitate looking at individual brain functional organization in developmental populations 👶🧠

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