Ali Rigby

Motion Insensitive Resting-State Analysis (MIRA): meet me at poster 1595 at #OHBM2025 to discuss a new way of performing motion correction for resting state fMRI that effectively removes the confounding effect of motion on rsfMRI derived correlation matrices!

Meet me at #OHBM2025 poster 689 today/tomorrow to discuss using Fast and Efficient Mixed-Effects Algorithm (FEMA) for mixed-effects modeling with unstructured covariance and splines, perform longitudinal GWAS, and discover time-dependent genetic effects!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📅 Fri/Sat June 27th/28th
@parekhpravesh.bsky.social
🧠 “Motion Insensitive Resting-State Analysis (MIRA)”

Posters:
📅 W/Th June 25th/26th
@cmakowski.bsky.social
🧠 “Multivariate patterns linking brain microstructure to behavior in adolescent eating disorders”
@parekhpravesh.bsky.social
🧠 “Modeling time-varying covariance with FEMA for large-scale longitudinal imaging and omics data”

Don’t miss more exciting research and discussion from our team:

Roundtable Discussion:
@cmakowski.bsky.social & @parekhpravesh.bsky.social
📅 Thursday, June 26th | ⏰ 13:00 - 14:00
“Shaping the Future of the ABCD Study: A Roundtable Discussion”

Brisbane cityscape with the Brisbane sign in the foreground

Stoked to be attending #OHBM2025 this week with our UCSD / JCVI team! If you’re here, be sure to stop by my poster to see some cool work from our lab using GAMMs:
📅 W/Th June 25th/26th
🧠 "Nonlinear age trajectories of subcortical microstructural and morphometric changes in the ABCD study"

We are also raising money to support undergrads at UCSF this summer!

Help me, @neuronush.bsky.social and @quexarce.bsky.social buy ice cream and pizza for our little community of undergraduate researchers!

20% of sales for the rest of the month will go towards our programs!!!

Check out our new preprint👇, work led by the incredible @parekhpravesh.bsky.social !!

This interview with the neuroscience legend Dr Eve Marder is absolutely worth your time.

Development of Auditory and Spontaneous Movement Responses to Music over the First Year of Life Humans across cultures not only share the ability to recognise music but also respond to it through movement. While the sensory encoding of music is well-studied, when and how infants naturally start ...

Check out our new preprint on how infants respond to music over the first year of life! 👶🧠💃🎶
While neural responses are pretty much ready to go in the youngest, moving to music takes a bit longer, becoming more complex and potentially more dance-like by 12 months. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

wild to see my entire peer network in neuroscience having their funding terminated (or about to be terminated)

Data-for-good rapid response team I'm collecting people with data science skills who may want to hear about sporadic opportunities to use their skills for good on short projects. Project themes will center on topics I am connected wit...

I'm organizing a "Data for Good Rapid Response Team", i.e. a set of people who can be mobilized to work on short data science projects to help various groups and organizations. Sign up here if this is of interest to you, and please share with others with data science skills.

Cancelled NIH grant information submission form Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.

If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.

Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

March 21, 2-3 pm ET: What to do when your federal grant has been stopped or terminated

If you have a federal grant, I *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar on responding to grant terminations.

Lisa Brown, former general counsel at Dept of Ed, will present along with other lawyers.

Friday, March 21, 2-3 pm. More info & register here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/regist...

Music‐Evoked Nostalgia Activates Default Mode and Reward Networks Across the Lifespan Music-evoked nostalgia activates the default mode network, reward network, medial temporal lobe, and supplementary motor regions of the brain more than non-nostalgic but familiar music that sounds mu....

Excited to share that dissertation work is published in Human Brain Mapping! Self-selected nostalgic music engaged the DMN, reward network, and MTL in younger and older adults. With @assalh.bsky.social, @jonaskaplan.bsky.social, Petr Janata, and Talia Ginsberg
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

It’s #BrainAwarenessWeek! Today, we're highlighting songbirds as a key model organism in #neuroscience research. These vocal learners help scientists study how the brain processes speech, learning, and memory. #KavliNeuro #BAW

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.

☎️: (202) 224-3121

Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.

The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.

Call retiring Senators too!

Super cool!!

Check out our review to learn about all things joint music making! 🎶

CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

Grad school applicants 👇

Principal researchers inside and outside academia: do you know groups self-organizing to protect academic science in the US? How can we connect and mobilize? Could you share your thoughts? 🧬🔬🔭🧪🧠🤖

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F99/R00 AND K99/R00 DIVERSITY AWARD APPLICANTS

If you have applied for a F99/R00 or K99/R00 Diversity award and the study section for review is not listed on your eRA Commons page, please reach out to me.

DM me, email berg.grants.2029@gmail.com, Signal jeremymberg.78

THANK YOU

Indirect Costs at NIH . . . I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night:

New essay on NIH and indirect costs:
goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...

Andy Whiten and I wrote a @science.org perspective about a cool new study from @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social et al! They found humpback whale song has language-like statistical structure, using methods inspired by infant language learning 🐋🎶 Links below ⬇️

You can read our new paper on modelling multiple data streams with varying dimensionality (alternately titled "What am I going to do with all these dimensions?!") if you want to.

It's not even a little bit illegal.

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I don't know how to prepare for the next challenging chapter of doing science in this country.

I do know that supporting students is necessary. It's been the most meaningful part of my job, especially in times like these.

But to do so, we need your help. crowdsurf.ucsd.edu/campaigns/su...

Very happy for my first BlueSky post to highlight our preprint! It's a great collab w @bnmorillon.bsky.social, @luc-arnal.bsky.social, Mathieu Pham Van Cang, Paul Robert. An RNN to make parallel predictions in polyphonic music shows parallelization is key for neural encoding of musical predictions.