Alfie Wearn

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In @ohbmossig.bsky.social's first Open Datasets Special Issue paper, Wearn et al. introduce the OHBM Time Machine, a freely accessible archive of Annual Meeting content on YouTube: doi.org/10.52294/001...

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#OHBM2025 !

Let's chat about how noradrenergic system health influences brain network segregation.

Poster #0916 today and tomorrow (Wed-Thurs)

See you there this afternoon!

Last chance to sign up to a Communications Competition at #OHBM2025!

Choose from:
📊 A Best Figure Competition
🗣️ 3-Minute Chalk Talk Competition

⭐ See here for more details, or to sign up for one or both competitions:
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My laboratory at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada, is looking for a postdoc to study how neuromodulatory systems impact cortical processing during foraging behavior. This fully-funded position offers a collaborative environment in a great city. More info👇

can-acn.org/postdoctoral...

All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

Going to #OHBM2025 in Brisbane?

We're accepting entries for *two in-person science communication competitions* at the annual meeting:
📊 A Best Figure Competition
🗣️ 3-Minute Chalk Talk Competition

⭐ See here for more details, or to sign up for one or both competitions:
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I have an opening for a graduate student at @carleton.ca (Carleton University) in the Department of Cognitive Science for fall 2025. Project is a multimodal MRI study examining how Hearing Loss affects cognition in older adults - contact me with a CV if you’re interested & have relevant expertise!

There's a stream of excellent papers in @apertureohbm.bsky.social being published!

Check them out: apertureneuro.org

Submit your own
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Quick turnaround, a devoted ed board, and lowest APC around.

And you'll support @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

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There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵

Sex and APOE4-specific links between cardiometabolic risk factors and white matter alterations in individuals with a family history of Alzheimer's disease Early detection of pathological changes in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has garnered significant attention in the last few decades as interventions aiming…

I was privileged to collaborate with the brilliant Stéfanie Tremblay on her project, just published in Neurobiology of Aging:

Sex and APOE4-specific links between cardiometabolic risk factors and white matter alterations in individuals with a family history of Alzheimer's disease

bit.ly/3Rb3QWW

The statistical error that just keeps on coming | Ben Goldacre Ben Goldacre: The same statistical errors – namely, ignoring the "difference in differences" – are appearing throughout the most prestigious journals in neuroscience

Anyone know if neuroscientists stopped doing this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

YouTube video by Organization for Human Brain Mapping Neurosalience #S5E10 with Simon Eickhoff - From Big Data to Biomarkers

A new #Neurosalience episode is out! 🧠

From Big Data to Biomarkers
with Peter Bandettini @fmri-today.bsky.social and Simon Eickhoff @sbe.bsky.social

youtu.be/z91SiENsgF8

..and another one! 🤩 Join us for a great webinar in cooperation with the @istaart.bsky.social NSS PIA on studying neuromodulatory subcortical nuclei with multimodal MRI!
📅Date: April 9 - 10:00 am CT
💻Register here: alz-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The network of Alzheimer's Disease Research Centers is one of the most amazing NIH projects of all time: 33 sites collaborating to fight Alzheimer's in the lab and in the clinic at the same time. All of it in turmoil because the new funding is blocked.

Okay, nerds, buckle in!
It's time for some SCIENCE.

Back in the late 1960s, a scientist got some government funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Atomic Energy Commission to look for interesting bacteria living in extreme environments.

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Inside the Collapse at NIH Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.

By @katherinejwu.com

"The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,”

The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!

EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

Interview with Dr. Rosanna Olsen, 2024 Winner of the Diversity & Inclusivity Champion Award — OHBM Communications Author: Ashley Tyrer Editor: Simon R. Steinkamp

New blogpost from our OHBM 2024 award winner series! 🧠

Dr. Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social, winner of the 2024 Diversity and Inclusivity Champion Award, reflects on her vision for a more inclusive scientific community.

Read here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/55ubbep...

NIH and Its Agencies Are Being Smothered In recent days I have been inundated by reports out of HHS...

NIH and Its Agencies Are Being Smothered talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/nih-a...

Now over 900 signatures. Please keep signing and sharing to send a clear message to the Royal Society that we want them to stand up for values that we all hold dear: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

YouTube video by Organization for Human Brain Mapping Neurosalience #S5E8 with Mac Shine - Focusing on the nexus of subcortex-cortex interactions

A new #Neurosalience episode is out!

Focusing on the nexus of subcortex-cortex interactions
with @fmri-today.bsky.social and Mac Shine (@macshine.bsky.social)

youtu.be/73X8bld4jB8

To help you expand your brain mapping network here on Bluesky, we have initialized an OHBM Neurosalience Podcast starter pack! 🧠🦋 Please feel free to comment if we've missed you or others out.

Listen to the Neurosalience podcast here: open.spotify.com/show/1d5umtP...

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⁉️Does an MRI scanner always need to be so powerful? To kick off the year 2025, we at Brain Bites share the work of @asorby_adams and @NeuroSpin_91 With Low-field MRI and High-field MRI www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites 🧠 #OHBM #BrainBites

Our thoughts are with our @ohbmofficial.bsky.social colleagues in Los Angeles facing devastating fires. As for all members suffering around the globe, #OHBM stands with you, offering support and solidarity.
Wishing everyone safety and strength in the New Year.
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Rather than a typical neurosalience Podcast, we decided to post a talk I gave at OHBM on my perspective on podcasting and Neurosalience - and how I prepare for each. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/ohb...

🚨 Due to an ongoing technical issue with our payment processor, the submissions will be allowed to be finalized with a "Pay Later" option. Your submission will be considered on-time, and the abstract fee will be settled later. We apologize for the inconvenience.

See here, you should be able to submit now with the pay later option: bsky.app/profile/alfi...

Message from #OHBM Executive Office for anyone struggling to submit abstract, there should now be a Pay Later option, so you can submit and pay once the system is fixed.

No doubt. They have assured me too that they are on the case and that all trying to submit will be reviewed