We think of white matter as the highways of the brain. But when we followed development along those highways, we were surprised. The journey is more complex than we thought. My final PhD paper, “Two Axes of White Matter Development”, is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! 🛣️🧠✨
🔗 bit.ly/wm2axes
🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update.
On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R
📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K...
#RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪
Applications for NeuroHackademy 2026 are now open! This is a two-week NIH-funded summer experience that combines neuroimaging and data science in a summer school / experiential hackathon: neurohackademy.org/apply/
@uwpsychology.bsky.social @uwescience.bsky.social
My first preprint is out! Thank you to my brilliant collaborators & mentors for making this possible @vmarchman.bsky.social @arokem.org @jyeatman.bsky.social, as well as everyone behind the awesome open source software that we use @pennlinc.bsky.social @cieslakmatt.bsky.social (& many not on bsky)
🚨 I'm searching for a full-time research coordinator to join my group & work on precision brain 🧠 network and cognitive control projects at both 3T and 7T. Please rt 🙌
Applications due: Feb. 26
Start date: flexible, as early as June
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#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
Where was this published? I believe it's an editorial at a Nature/Springer journal based on the font/layout, but which one? Do you have a link to the original?
This is a fantastic interview in which a 300-page book is summarized into 15 minutes of (very fast!) talking. What I really came here to ask though is whether "asshole to appetite" is an existing idiom, or did CD make that up?
The brown m&m of scientific communication
One of my graduate school mentors said that they would never review an article in more than one journal, because the authors deserve to hear someone else's opinion
Someone repurposed a church in my neighborhood as a private dwelling and I would love an invite for dinner to see what they did in there. maps.app.goo.gl/7TucHe7SPt4u...
@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"
Join us for the #NeuroHackademy Neuroimaging and Data Science networking event at this year's @sfn.org meeting. Tues. Nov. 18th from 7–9pm at the Marriott Marquis, Grand Ballroom 4. The event is free; food and drink will be available for purchase from the hotel.
"you do you" should be on the syllabus to every college course
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
Very cool! Also works when written as 9/16/2025, but no longer has the elegance of 3^2/4^2/5^2
A graphic of a brain with branching blood vessels rendered within it
Making visualizations of brain blood vessels
Y'all set a very high bar in terms of the empathy you bring to your interactions with stakeholders (in the sense of being able to consider their viewpoint). The balance with "foundational contributions" really sets you apart in this ecosystem (and I'd hope gives you a "competitive edge"!)
We've been experimenting and improving our practices in building healthy relationships with open source communities, here's our latest thinking on how we approach this important topic!
Yes, but there are details. Maybe best discussed on an issue or on neurostars?
Yeah, the intonation is somehow a bit weird and the graphics are ... what they are. But it also looks like it mostly got the gist of it, and many correct details, so altogether not bad. Thanks for sharing!
Ha! I am curious, but:
Excited to share that my TEDx talk is finally available online. I loved sharing what the science shows us: that it's time to reframe adolescence - from problem to ✨ potential ✨ 1/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8V...
None of this work would have been possible without the funding from NIH, the Essential Open Source Software program @chanzuckerberg.bsky.social, Moore & Sloan foundations, and other supporters. We are grateful for all this support.
We are eager to interact with users of the software. Please post your questions to neurostars.org, where we'd be happy to answer them.
The work never ends... We are already working on the next version of the software, which will include some substantial new features, and tighter compliance with @bidsstandard.bsky.social draft derivatives for diffusion MRI. Looking forward to update about that soon!
The ecosystem has since expanded with more collaborators and students putting in more pieces of the puzzle. We are really happy with the tools and we have used them (and still used them!) for studies that we are very proud of. We are also delighted that several other groups use the tools.
A multi-year, multi-group collaboration, which started with @jyeatman.bsky.social and me sitting and programming side by side at the @uwescience.bsky.social data science studio about 10 years ago, and really took off when John Kruper and Adam Richie-Halford joined us a couple of years later.
New paper alert! This paper describes the work that we have been doing in the last few years to create a software ecosystem for tractometry that is extensible, interoperable, and generally useful.
NeuroHackademy 2025 started today! Our 10th summer school/hackathon in neuroimaging and data science @uwescience.bsky.social, the 8th supported by NIH/NIMH. You can follow along, with videos of lectures in this YouTube playlist, posted almost as soon as they happen: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Are you leading an #OpenScience initiative advancing the field of #neuroscience? Don’t miss this opportunity to be recognized for your contributions. Submit your application for the Neuro-Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes today!
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