Hi! A group of people, especially @neurozorro.bsky.social and team, are developing new versions…check out compose.neurosynth.org. Neurostore, nimare

And neuroquery @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social

Neurosynth.org is static since Tal stopped maintaining it. Still useful though imo

🎓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

All code and data are publicly available. Maps in Figures 5-6 are available at neurovault.org/collections/.... The public fMRI dataset includes this narrative task plus five other tasks and resting-state scans, detailed in www.nature.com/articles/s41..., led by @jungheejung.bsky.social. (10/11)

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)

Study Coordinator: Full-time Paid Postbaccalaureate Research Assistant University of Maryland, College Park, MD Candidates are being considered for a NIMH/NIAAA-funded post-baccalaureate Study Coordinator position in the laboratory of Dr. Alex Shackman in the Departme…

Shackman Lab is Hiring - shackmanlab.org/study-coordi...

Postdoc Position: Affective Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging | Radboud University Do you want to work as a Postdoc at the Faculty of Social Sciences? Check our vacancy!

Join us for a postdoc @ the Donders Institute; application deadline March 24.
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

We combined data across 8 heat pain studies (>550 participant) that varied in experimental design, stimulus parameters, & rating scales. Skin conductance was processed w/ 5 pipelines (minimal, manual, ledalab, pspm, & classifier from @torwager.bsky.social lab) leading to 18 scr metrics per subject.

Preprint on PANDORA by Aslan Abivardi:

A massive archive of UK Biobank brain imaging from 82K subjects. For each of 98 sub-modalities (e.g., FA from dMRI), the images are collated into a convenient subjectsXvoxels HDF5 file.

pages.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/pandora/web/

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

PANDORA is out 🧠⚡️
Run your high-res population (>80K) multimodal MRI study — now

▲ 98 mods
▲ speed/power/RAM wins 🚀
▲ New supervoxels

▶ Super easy with your UKB var of choice

preprint with @fmrib-steve.bsky.social et al.: medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

start: open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/pandor...

Preprint: Vicarious Trauma Primes Innate Immunity and Reconfigures Human Brain Networks @torwager.bsky.social @byeolkimlux.bsky.social
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social

Thank you Nicole!

🚨 Welcome to our new member of the Executive Committee 🚨

Professor Tor Wager’s @torwager.bsky.social research centers on the neurophysiology of affective processes— #pain, #emotion, #stress, and #empathy—and how they are shaped by cognitive and social influences.

Learn more canlab.science

Genetic overlap of chronic pain, musculoskeletal‐specific pain, substance use disorders and substance use consumption: Common addiction and substance‐specific effects Background and aims Chronic pain and substance use disorders frequently co-occur and may share general addiction-related and substance-specific genetic pathways. Additionally, substance consumption ...

New article published in Addiction and lead by IBG postdoc @lydiarader.bsky.social identifies transdiagnostic genetic overlap between general chronic pain and addiction risk, along with substance-specific pathways. doi.org/10.1111/add....

Check out our new paper!

We found general chronic pain is genetically linked to broad addiction liability, while musculoskeletal pain shows more substance-specific genetic associations, particularly with tobacco and alcohol use.

Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

Chemokine-defined macrophage niches establish spatial organization of tumor immunity Nature Immunology - Jakubzick and colleagues show that the tumor microenvironment is shaped by opposing programs in tissue-resident CD206hi and CD206lo interstitial macrophages and Ly6c2+Fn1+Vcan+...

Excited to share our work @springernature.com Building on our work defining TRMacs heterogeneity, we show that distinct chemokine+ IM subsets and recruited TAM niches shape pro- and anti-tumor immunity within to the TME, while Ag+ moDCs trafficking to LNs dampen DC-based neoAg vaccine

rdcu.be/e9uZu

Macrophage lineage and spatial compartmentalization govern tumor immunity @natimmunol.nature.com @claudjak.bsky.social @xinli0419.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NIH is requesting comments on a new draft policy that may require human brain imaging data (and other data) from nih-funded research to only be shared via controlled access, & only with certain countries. I suggest neuroimagers read closely & submit comments by 3/18.

osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form...

fMRI Course Instructors

❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026.

#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.

We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!

Register here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

Thanks for the likes and reposts! For those of you who have taken the course or reviewed the syllabus, we would love to hear: What new ideas would you love to see covered? Reply or DM.

Brain, Vision, Memory: Tales in the History of Neuroscience In these engaging tales describing the growth of knowledge about the brain—from the early Egyptians and Greeks to the Dark Ages and the Renaissance to the

Another of Charlie Gross’s passions was history of neuroscience. He wrote excellent books. This gave him a wide-angle view. He taught us that dogma exists to be challenged, we haven’t figured things out, and being a stepping stone is inevitable and perfectly fine.
direct.mit.edu/books/book/2...

fMRI Course Instructors

❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026.

#SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl.

We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us!

Register here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

Emotion research has a communication conundrum In 2025, the words we use to describe emotions matter, but their definitions are controversial. Here, I unpack the different positions in this space and the rationales behind them—and I invite 13…

My new essay for @thetransmitter.bsky.social. Why is understanding emotion so challenging? The debates around what counts as an "emotion" shed insight.

These disputes are multidimensional, principled and fascinating. Here, I unpack them.

www.thetransmitter.org/the-big-pict...

The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

Digital Well-Being Training With Health Care Professionals This randomized clinical trial examines whether a 13- week digital well-being training could improve well-being and reduce stress among health care professionals in Mexico.

Burnout in health care providers is a big issue. It reduces wellbeing and the ability to be effective. (Be kind to your provider!) Encouraging news: In a study of >2,000 providers, the Healthy Minds Program app reduced distress and improved wellbeing 9 mos later. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!

N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!

🧵below

Spatiotemporal integration of contextual and sensory information within the cortical hierarchy in human pain experience When we experience pain, the sensory input is modulated by contextual information. This neuroimaging study shows how expectation and sensory input are integrated in the human brain during pain percept...

The final version (after proof) is now finally out. It provides a detailed spatio-temporal profile of brain mediation of the cue-stimulus integration in the pain context. We interpreted the results in terms of cortical hierarchy. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Brown CS @BrownCSDept @BrownCSDept faculty members Ellie Pavlick and Suresh Venkatasubramanian ( @geomblog ) have just received a $20M @NSF grant to found ARIA, a national institute to develop intuitive, trustworthy AI assistants. Learn more at Brown CS News: https://cs.brown.edu/news/2025/07/2

"Brown CS faculty members Ellie Pavlick and Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social have just received a $20M NSF grant to found ARIA, a national institute to develop intuitive, trustworthy AI assistants."

Great news and congrats!
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Comparing the neural bases of self- and social-reappraisal Abstract. To manage life’s stressors, we can self-regulate our emotions or seek social regulatory support. One such strategy is reappraisal, where individu

A fascinating new #fmri study from Jo He with Kevin Ochsner and co. on social reappraisal. Giving advice to a friend changes our brain responses and helps regulate emotion. Fictive processes (imagination!) can have real consequences in the brain & life.

academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...

Health is more than the absence of disease, and depends on harmony across multiple brain-body systems. We need more research on whole-person health! The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) @thenccih.bsky.social funds vital whole-person research. RP and #KEEP_NCCIH!

FY 2026 R&D Appropriations Dashboard | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

This dashboard on U.S. research spending is one to watch for researchers applying for #NIH, #NSF, #DOD grants and other research grants. Thanks to @alesszimm.bsky.social and @aaas.org
www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...