Amber Howell

A new call for artists, scientists, and creators!

We are thrilled to announce our #BrainArt 🧠🎨 exhibition theme for 2026.

📆 Submit your proposal by March 15, 2026 using this form: forms.gle/9DNEPxNXwjU3WyAn7

For more information: tinyurl.com/2026-Brain-A...

Thanks to the Allen Institute for the write-up of our recent work! 👏

Paper is here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 PhD Opportunities at FIU Biomedical Engineering – Apply by Dec 31 (Priority Deadline)

I’m thrilled to share that I will be joining the Dept of Biomedical Engineering at Florida International University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Jan 2026!

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Woohoo! So good to see @ahmadbeyh.bsky.social winning the Best Poster Award at this year's Rutgers BHI Symposium! 🤘🔥👏

Check out our latest paper, led by Jason Kim, out now in Nature Communications‼️🧠

The brain computes by processing information over time through interactions between connectivity and dynamics that are hard to model. Here we infer these interactions from data and find they better predict cognitive performance! www.nature.com/articles/s41... w/ @lindenmp.bsky.social

Flyer to join Holmes Lab

The Holmes Lab is #hiring a full-time research assistant/predoc! Our work focuses on functional brain networks-- how they change, how they are impacted in psychiatric illness, and much more!
Please rt and reach out if you’re interested 👀
Find out more holmeslab.rutgers.edu

Looking for a post-bac RA position focused on the brain bases of affective and psychotic illness?
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring!
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Holmes Lab + Parkes Lab had a great fall social a few weeks back!! Pottery painting (including an awesome brain-art mug by @ambrains.bsky.social 🧠). Thank you to our awesome mentors @avramholmes.bsky.social and @lindenmp.bsky.social for encouraging these great lab events! 💫

TransBrain: A computational framework for translating brain-wide phenotypes between humans and mice Despite remarkable advances in whole-brain imaging technologies, the lack of quantitative approaches to bridge rodent preclinical and human studies remains a critical challenge. Here we present TransB...

Interesting approach that aligns mouse and human brain-wide data using transcriptomics and structural connectivity. I'm curious if anyone here has tried using it yet? #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... transbrain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

the climate's probably just changing for attention

Resting-State fMRI and the Risk of Overinterpretation: Noise, Mechanisms, and a Missing Rosetta Stone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676611v1

Interested in the mechanisms shaping the extraordinary complexity of the connectome?

Then check out our new preprint, lead by
Francis Normand with a stellar team, showing how geometry constrains connectome architecture:

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Full thread here:
tinyurl.com/sfv3yf73

I still get chills

Meet Mike
*30+ years severe depression
*first hospitalized @ 13y
*20 meds
*3 rounds of ECT
*2 near-fatal suicide attempts

Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE

see videos, read paper, follow thread
doi.org/10.31234/osf...

The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes Neuropsychopharmacology - The effect of the “exposome” on developmental brain health and cognitive outcomes

Absolutely thrilled to share the 🌟 FIRST PAPER 🌟 from ACORN Lab! 🐿️ I’m beyond proud of all-star grad student @heatherarobinson.bsky.social for this review of “exposome” effects on neurodevelopment & cognition! Paper here rdcu.be/ezUqx & thread below 👇 /1

#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #devsky #cogdev

🚨Preprint!🚨 So excited to share my 1st major study as a postdoc at @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social!🤘

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

Using a transdiagnostic framework, we found that brain network dynamics were able to discriminate individualized psychiatric symptom profiles with high accuracy 🧵1/9👇

High–resolution laminar recordings reveal structure–function relationships in monkey V1 The relationship between the structural properties of diverse neuronal populations in the monkey primary visual cortex (V1) and their functional visual processing in vivo remains a critical knowledge ...

On behalf of Nicole Carr: new preprint from the Chand/Moore labs! High-resolution laminar recordings reveal structure-function relationships in monkey V1.

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

Info theory offers powerful measures for capturing complexity & interaction among elements of a complex system, like the brain! 🧠 Here's our new unified reference for key info-theoretic time series measures ft. 📊 visuals, ➗equations, & 💬descriptions:

arxiv.org/abs/2505.13080

🧠💊New preprint differentiating antipsychotic medication vs. illness effects on cortical thickness in people w/ psychosis.

Finding: People receiving placebo show prominent cortical thinning over 1st year of illness, whereas those receiving antipsychotics do not. 1/3

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out our new special issue on cognitive flexibility @coolscontrol.bsky.social: authors.elsevier.com/a/1l4vl8MqMi...

Inferring macroscopic intrinsic neural timescales using optimal control theory The temporal evolution of brain activity relies on complex interactions within and between brain regions that are mediated by neurobiology and connectivity. To understand these interactions, many larg...

🧠 Check out the new preprint from Dr. Linden Parkes, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Core member of Rutgers Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research (CAHBIR) and BHI! @lindenmp.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

a man applauds with the words so proud of my team above him ALT: a man applauds with the words so proud of my team above him

Excited to share the first major piece of work and preprint from my lab! Led by Jason Kim! 🥳🎉🤘

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

fMRI must break out of its silo We need to develop research programs that link phenomena across levels, from genes and molecules to cells, circuits, networks and behavior.

The scientific community needs to develop processes to support, hire and retain researchers whose work sits between traditional fields of study, writes @avramholmes.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...

fMRI must break out of its silo We need to develop research programs that link phenomena across levels, from genes and molecules to cells, circuits, networks and behavior.

Future of #fMRI:

To make a meaningful contribution to neuroscience, fMRI must break out of its silo

www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...

#neuropsychology #cognition

The molecular and cellular underpinnings of human brain lateralization Hemispheric specialization is a fundamental characteristic of human brain organization, where most individuals exhibit left-hemisphere dominance for language and right-hemisphere dominance for visuosp...

🚨 New #preprint: The molecular and cellular underpinnings of human brain lateralization

🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🧠 We identify an acetylcholine-norepinephrine axis underlying functional lateralization, along with mitochondrial and cellular correlates. 🧵1/9👇

#neuroskyence

The molecular and cellular basis of human brain lateralization. Latest paper from @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social led by @loiclabache.bsky.social. @rutgersbhi.bsky.social, @cahbir.bsky.social

The molecular and cellular underpinnings of human brain lateralization Hemispheric specialization is a fundamental characteristic of human brain organization, where most individuals exhibit left-hemisphere dominance for language and right-hemisphere dominance for visuosp...

Excellent preprint by a great team @loiclabache.bsky.social @sidchop.bsky.social @xi-hanzhang.bsky.social @avramholmes.bsky.social on the underpinnings of human brain lateralization: an Acetylcholine-Norepinephrine axis for functional lateralization + mitochondrial substrates & cellular correlates🧪

"To make a meaningful contribution to #neuroscience, #fMRI must break out of its silo."

My latest attempt to convince you of the importance of multi-scale approaches for the study of the human brain.

fMRI must break out of its silo We need to develop research programs that link phenomena across levels, from genes and molecules to cells, circuits, networks and behavior.

Until recently, in-vivo brain imaging has largely been absent from… integrative efforts, limiting the opportunities to contribute our discoveries, theories or vision toward a comprehensive view of brain function, writes @avramholmes.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...

fMRI must break out of its silo We need to develop research programs that link phenomena across levels, from genes and molecules to cells, circuits, networks and behavior.

🧠 Featured Insights! Dr. @avramholmes.bsky.social, Associate Prof of Psychiatry at RWJMS and Core Member of BHI & CAHBIR, shares insights on #fMRI and the need for integration across #neuroscience disciplines in @thetransmitter.bsky.social
www.thetransmitter.org/future-of-fm...
#neuroimaging