Excited to share my first-author paper now out in @natcomms.nature.com (www.nature.com/articles/s41...)! Here, we asked whether verbal narratives about social interactions activate the same brain areas as audiovisual presentations, and whether they overlap with theory of mind (ToM). (1/11)

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣 We’re currently reviewing applications for this postdoctoral position. Next review date: Jan 26. Feel free to reach out with any questions! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03027

Is the “standard workflow” holding back fMRI analysis?

Mass-univariate analysis is still the bread-and-butter: intuitive, fast… and chronically overfitted. Add harsh multiple-comparison penalties, and we patch the workflow with statistical band-aids. No wonder the stringency debates never die.

🎓Recruiting Ph.D. students for Fall 2026!🎓
The Feilong Lab @sc.edu studies commonalities & differences across brains, and how they relate to cognition, language, & disorders.
We develop brain templates, improve hyperalignment, and compare human brains with monkey brains & DNNs.
feilonglab.github.io

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Jingyuan E. Chen, Jonathan R. Polimeni, et al:

Differentiating BOLD and non-BOLD signals in fMRI time series using cross-cortical depth delay patterns

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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WE ARE HIRING!!

Official posting coming soon for a tenure track assistant professor job in Psychology at George Mason University. Focus on Computational Cognitive Neuroscience and AI.

I’m chairing the search committee, so DMs and emails welcome.

Feilong Ma - Individual differences in fine-grained brain functional architecture YouTube video by Dartmouth

It was such a great pleasure to be back at Dartmouth and share our research on modeling individual differences in fine-grained brain functional organization using hyperalignment: youtu.be/fgkRwfNpaCw

Thanks Mark for the effort! This is super helpful for us junior researcher. Hope This year the stats won't go too bad

In advance of next year's (likely dire) job market, here are the 2024-2025 numbers from the psych job wiki: the overall number of tenure-track job listings in psychology and neuroscience fell slightly, from 860 to 822 (this doesn't include canceled searches, which are often not properly reported).

Wonderful! Congrats!

I’m honored to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure @ucsb.

To mark this, our lab, the Yu Emotion Science (YES) lab releases its official logo (credit: @avamadesousa.bsky.social )

Brains minimize energy consumption while maximizing computation. In humans, this trade-off is reconciled towards complex behaviors & hence relatively high energy use

Review & synthesis with @sharnajamadar.bsky.social @annabhlr.bsky.social & Hamish Deery

tinyurl.com/47c9n65w
osf.io/preprints/os...

Examining the impacts of acute aerobic exercise on cognition, mood, and related biomarkers: A systematic review osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thanks Alex! I'm super interested in this topic and I'm planning to be on the job market this year.

Keynote series Dr. Lucina Uddin - Mapping the Brain: Why Standardization Matters — OHBM Communications The Network Correspondence Toolbox (NCT) helps neuroscientists compare brain imaging data across different atlases, addressing inconsistencies in how brain networks are labeled. Developed by Dr. Lucin...

Thanks for the great write up @ohbm-com.com! More to come #OHBM2025 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 🧠 loom.ly/rNZb504

A real pleasure to be interviewed for this story! Quanta does great work, and it seems there is a growing interest in brain metabolism!

Conserved brain-wide emergence of emotional response from sensory experience in humans and mice Emotional responses to sensory experience are central to the human condition in health and disease. We hypothesized that principles governing the emergence of emotion from sensation might be discovera...

This! This the type of work that makes me so optimistic that the next 3 decades of brain research will be more impactful that the last for understanding/treating mental conditions. We finally have the right measurement tools & analyses (eg for emotion).

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The brain bases of emotion generation and emotion regulation Emotion generation and emotion regulation are widely seen as functionally distinct. This distinction has inspired efforts to define separable brain bases of each, with emotion generation thought to in...

Excited to share co–first-authored paper with
Jinxiao Zhang and teamwork with
@torwager.bsky.social er.bsky.social and @JamesGross @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social ! Emerging findings and a potential framework of neural overlap between emotion generation and regulation at www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲

Looks like an interesting paper about brain-wide processes.
Sure to generate discussion.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#neuroscience #neuroskyence

Factorial Clinical Trial Designs This JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods article discusses clinical trials using factorial designs in which participants receive several randomized interventions simultaneously to allow efficient eva...

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

so, so excited to share our new theory which endeavours to answer why depression and poor metabolic health go hand-in-hand: "An interoceptive model of energy allostasis linking metabolic and mental health" 💪🧠🔋 @saramehrhof.bsky.social
@hugofleming.bsky.social

osf.io/preprints/ps...

@npp-journal.bsky.social @uwpsych.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social @cnsmtg.bsky.social @avramholmes.bsky.social @jnfrltackett.bsky.social @aidangcw.bsky.social @vijayamittal.bsky.social @kevinmking.bsky.social @torwager.bsky.social @pkragel.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social

Top-down influences on the perception of emotional stimuli

Review by Aprajita Mohanty, Jonathan Freeman & Jingwen Jin

Web: go.nature.com/4cWj3p4
PDF: rdcu.be/ejIct

#psychscisky #psychology

Thanks Alex! Too bad I can’t be at SOBP to see your talk due to visa issues — it sounds like a really interesting one!

We are strong together💪 Chinese students and scholars at SANS2025 #SANS2025 @sansmeeting.bsky.social

Slide from Gang Chen describing how he feels people should approach brain analysis in ways that increase transparency & reproducibility, focusing on encouraging people to share results with the uncertainty that accompanies our inferences.

"Highlight, don't hide" @gangchen6.bsky.social makes an impassioned argument that thresholding (reflective of a "binary" yes/no approach to analysis) holds back our science, making it less transparent and less reproducible.

Instead, be a facilitator - share uncertainty and evidence! #SANS2025