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Tamara Vanderwal

@vanderlab.bsky.social

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

600 Followers  |  358 Following  |  9 Posts  |  Joined: 17.11.2023  |  1.499

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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)β€”be sure to stop by and chat with him about it!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

24.06.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸš€πŸ“’ The call for submissions to our #BrainArt Competition is officially OPEN πŸŽ‰

πŸ“† Submit your work by June 9 using this form! forms.gle/CFTyLK6LQwTC...

πŸ–₯️ For more info and details about how to participate, visit our website!!! ohbm-brainart.github.io/competition....

27.05.2025 09:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

New preprint from the Hasson LabπŸͺ„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. πŸ’₯

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

04.06.2025 00:30 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Clean coding Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 3, Part 2

Clean Coding - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...

03.06.2025 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1
Scientific Coordinator (m/f/d) Part-time (50%) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut fΓΌr Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften Scientific Coordinator (m/f/d) Part-time (50%) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut fΓΌr Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften

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...?

03.06.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@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!

07.05.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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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.

By Attacking Science, Poilievre Takes a Page from Trump's Playbook via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

10.04.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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 😬

10.04.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
US Applicant Week

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!!

07.04.2025 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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 ...

πŸ“’ The Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab is hiring! πŸ“’

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!

13.03.2025 15:13 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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.

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

14.03.2025 14:59 β€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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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.

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

24.01.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 84    πŸ” 33    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
WiDS Datathon 2025: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Female Brain
YouTube video by Women in Data Science Worldwide WiDS Datathon 2025: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Female Brain

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

07.01.2025 21:11 β€” πŸ‘ 40    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
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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...

07.01.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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 !! πŸ’₯

04.01.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

02.01.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Great work by @halleeshearer.bsky.social in her first first-author paper. With πŸŽ€ shiny app πŸŽ€ 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 πŸ‘ collab.

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

03.01.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Exciting to see a result I found during my PhD in neurotypical undergraduates related to autistic traits conceptually replicating in autistic individuals!

05.12.2024 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Working on new film project (INSCAPES 2!!). πŸ’₯. 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...🎡

26.11.2024 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Check out this group of 6 speakers. πŸ‘€

"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. 🍎

25.10.2024 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trainees looking for advice on career options should come here this panel! medicine.yale.edu/mrrc/about/s...

01.10.2024 10:52 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨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!

18.09.2024 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
SummerCourse - FMRIF

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...

31.05.2024 18:07 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing news! Such a huge health issue. Please fix it! (-:

23.06.2024 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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...

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...

08.05.2024 22:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

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...

10.04.2024 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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-...

05.03.2024 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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