Tamara Vanderwal

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.

🔥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...

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...

🚀📢 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....

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...

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...

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...?

@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!

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...

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 😬

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!!

📢 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!

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

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

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

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...

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 !! 💥

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...

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...

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

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...🎵

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. 🍎

Trainees looking for advice on career options should come here this panel! medicine.yale.edu/mrrc/about/s...

🚨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!

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...

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

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...

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...

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-...