Dr. Molly Bright

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Oooo yes please! Raw data too, if it's easy

Ahhh, more videos for every educational fMRI talk I give 😁

Travel freeze here at Northwestern 😭 I'm missing everyone at OHBM so much! Please say hi to folks for me 👋

We appreciate you, a lot, and all other excellent and generous reviewers!

I was nervous about the hooding part... There is minimal guidance given to uninitiated faculty! Happy to report no major mishaps 💪🥳

Today was a very good day, and a rather big milestone for me as an academic scientist. I couldn't be more proud of my first three doctoral students, who have taught me so much, and who have such bright futures ahead of them. Congratulations Drs Hemmerling, Reddy, and Zvolanek!

A simple proposal: journals, can you please adopt the concept of "business days"? Getting automatic review reminders on the Saturday AND Monday of a holiday weekend really irks me 🤨

Congrats to Becca Clements on her first first author paper from her PhD! Also, she convinced me that maybe deep learning CAN become part of our lab toolbox 🫣

Breath hold fMRI is great for measuring CVR... *except when your participant or patient doesn't quite perform the task the way you'd like. Let's see if we can fix that! (Spoiler, it looks like we can, using the respiratory belt data to predict or fill in missing PETCO2 data!)

Thanks @drkenweber.bsky.social and @robert-l-barry.bsky.social for all your contributions to our lab's fledgling foray into the cervical cord, and supporting Kim's development and independence!

Huge congratulations to @kjhemm.bsky.social , now officially DOCTOR Hemmerling after a successful powerhouse of a thesis defense! Kim has taken all the stuff I know and love about imaging function and physiology of the human brain, and Made It Work in the cervical spinal cord. Brava, and thank you!

Screenshot of the original tweet announcing our move, with 5K likes and 2M views.

On this day 2y ago we announced our move away from the huge profits that NeuroImage makes for Elsevier.

Things at Imaging Neuroscience have progressed fantastically thanks to the support for this move by the brain imaging community and @mitpress.bsky.social. 565 papers published already!

Opinion | Trump is killing one of our strongest exports The president wants to balance U.S. trade deficits? He can’t do it without this industry he hates.

Now there's a memorable stat!

"Colleges and universities are among America’s most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined."

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Opaque thresholding hides information: context around statistically significant clusters is removed, treats subthreshold regions as having no activity. Transparent thresholding shows information: context around significant clusters is displayed, can observe relative importance of subthreshold regions.

Transparency matters when reporting results in neuroimaging! arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824 This could be a landmark in setting publishing standards for interpretability/reproducibility. Stellar work by @afni-pt.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social @brightmg.bsky.social @gangchen6.bsky.social et al.

We tell our trainees to really LOOK at their data, every step of the way. This paper takes that wisdom even further, so future external readers really see our neuroimaging results in all their complex glory 👏 Thanks @afni-pt.bsky.social for spearheading this amazing team effort!

Graduate Student Appreciation Week (GSAW) 2025: The Graduate School - Northwestern University Graduate Student Appreciation Week (GSAW) 2025 is a nationally recognized celebration that will take place from Monday, April 7 – Friday, April 11 (with some bonus events on Saturday, April 12). It is...

With the world the way it is, I'm extra appreciative of the clever, dedicated, curious trainees I get the privilege to work with and mentor. 👏 Happy Graduate Student Appreciation Week! 👏 www.tgs.northwestern.edu/services-sup... Northwestern students, make sure you get some goodies on offer 😁

Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

Northwestern (along with Cornell) appear now also targeted. I don't know what outcome to realistically hope for. I will hug my family extra tight tonight, reach out to my amazing trainees tomorrow, and try to do whatever good research I can do for as long as possible. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Likely hiring one postbac trainee for @fmri-today.bsky.social's Section on Functional Imaging Methods. Give the relatively later start time for the search, I'm not yet sure how quickly this search will happen. If you are interested, apply and reach out ASAP. fim.nimh.nih.gov

Can you post a bit throughout? I can't make it and I'm so curious what's happening!

I'm actively trying to post about science despite the world being on fire. It feels odd. Thinking of all my intramural friends.

some days I look longingly at those resting state studies.... But I rally quickly 😁

PhD student in a lab adjusting an MRI compatible device for motor tasks in the scanner

Some days, our lab's motto feels like it should be "how could we make fMRI harder?!" 😆 Then I remember that's another way of saying "how could we make fMRI more useful & interpretable?"

Here's Michelle, an excellent PhD student translating proximal (e.g. shoulder) motor tasks into chronic stroke 💪

Excited to visit University of Delaware next week - hope to see a few familiar faces and meet new potential collaborators!

Great speakers, great turnout, great signs, and a much needed outlet to unite and speak up. Thank you organizers #standupforscience2025 in Chicago.

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I am an extremely proud PI: Huge congratulations to Dr. Kristina Zvolanek and Dr. Neha Reddy, who both successfully defended their doctoral thesis research at Northwestern! They have been central to my lab's creation, defining our collaborative culture and setting high standards. I'm so grateful 🥹

This needs more visibility! While the general public is belatedly getting some sense of the catastrophe caused by not reviewing or funding external grants, DOGE is also completely wiping out the NIH intramural programs, which is just as bad, but is flying under the radar because NIH is gagged.

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025!

Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide!

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence