To accompany my textbook (Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience) and the class I taught this semester, I'm open-sourcing my lectures slides:
gershmanlab.com/lectures.html
I'll continue to update these as I improve them.
Thanks to the author team! Brendan Adkinson Matthew Rosenblatt Javid Dadashkarimi Huili Sun Link Tejavibulya Corey Horien Maggie Westwater Raimundo Rodriguez Stephanie Noble @dscheinost.bsky.social #neuroimaging #connectomics #machinelearning
Posting on behalf of Brendan:
Common feature selection practices may capture only the “tip of the iceberg” of distributed brain–behavior relationships
Specifically, typically discarded features can predict behavior just as well as top-ranked ones, yet produce diverging interpretations
The Obleser lab will be hiring soon!
New postdoc (fully funded) and
new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded).
Spread the word. Start in Sept/Oct.
Watch out for official announcements!
Please be in touch.
auditorycognition.com
obleserlab.com
hoerhanse.de
lemmi.uni-luebeck.de
In Boston Mid-May? Come hang out with us and learn what we’re doing to move Cognitive & Brain Health forward, from exercise to methods to the arts! 🤸🏽♂️🎭 (+ pick up some SWAG along the way.)
Open to everyone, and we do mean everyone—the more the merrier 🙌🏽
Awful and unacceptable
Precision reward/affect fMRI study out now in HBM! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
@dvsmith.bsky.social @olinotom.bsky.social @coopersharp.bsky.social and @shenghanwang.bsky.social
Intensively sampled task + rest fMRI data with behavioral manipulation openly available on OpenNeuro!
(1/2)
Speechless.
Widely considered the MIT of Iran, Sharif has given the US some of its best engineers, and some of my most talented (and kind, and thoughtful) colleagues—some of whom who have chosen the US as their home.
Useful piece on AI in academic training:
“The instinct[…]comes from years of failing at exactly the kind of work that people keep calling grunt work. Making the models smarter doesn't solve the problem. It makes the problem harder to see.”
h/t @laurelgd.bsky.social
ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...
📢 Late-breaking poster submissions for FIT’NG 2026 are open.
👉 If you’re going to ICIS (@infantstudies.bsky.social), why not submit to FIT’NG, which begins the day after!
📝 Work presented at FIT’NG will reach our rich community of neuroscientists studying early brain development.
#FITNG26 #ICIS26
Food for thought regarding the tradeoff in reducing structured vs. unstructured noise when we’re dealing with subtle signals
⭐️ Congratulations to the newest class of APS Rising Stars ⭐️
www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awar...
Meant to tag @alexkfischbach.bsky.social @halleeshearer.bsky.social @strfabs.bsky.social 🙌
A bit belated, but it was such a pleasure seeing the lab showcase all their excellent hard work at #CNS2026! Go team!! 🚀
(+ guest appearance from @psycheloui.bsky.social ‘s awesome lab)
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...
Stand up for Science Rally is TODAY in Boston Common 12-3 pm
fight2win.standupforscience.net/Boston-March/?
Correction: data blitz is at 10:30 AM 🙃
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
Heading to @cogneuronews.bsky.social ? I vibe-coded this tool to help you find relevant talks/posters, build a schedule, and export it to your calendar. Enter your research interests and it does the matching.
No personal data is stored. #CNS2026
On our way to Vancouver #CNS2026! Catch us at
✨Su 8am
@strfabs.bsky.social’s data blitz (4) on a power curve generation tool
✨Su 3pm
@halleeshearer.bsky.social’s poster on inflation-corrected effect sizes in fMRI
✨T 8am
@alexkfischbach.bsky.social’s poster on robustness of local CSF correction
🎉 PINE Lab is hiring a postbacc Research Coordinator! Projects include cohort studies examining brain mechanisms linking adversity to cognition/language & RCTs of early interventions on neurodevelopment.
apply: forms.gle/Dyay39x2XEMn...
more info: www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/join-us
A good day to appreciate those who support women scientists too 💪🏽
🚨Thrilled to share I am able to hire someone (PhD preferred) with coding expertise to work on our HAPPE software for EEG! Knowledge of Matlab, Python, and EEG signal processing required. Enthusiasm for teaching/mentoring, collaboration, and developmental science preferred!
The act of writing is fundamental to science, because the process is what makes people think. You cannot fully evaluate your idea until you are forced to write it down and defend it to yourself, and to the readers in your head. There is no shortcut for that. There is no way to make science easy.
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Open science is a critical part of our community—please sign this petition to keep the OSSIG at OHBM going strong!
Holy cow. This will be super useful for accelerating the development of all kinds of projects and methods from UKB—huge kudos to everyone in this team that made it happen (and the broader UKB team too)!
tfw you forgot to register the domain name, and someone else snatched it.
Some really good tips here. Wish I had learned number 3 earlier, or ever for that matter 🥲
www.reddit.com/r/GradSchool...
Attn MRI enthusiasts! 📣
Just in time for Thanksgiving, I’m thankful to share this opportunity to join us as MRI Center Director! ✨ Couldn’t speak more highly of my time here so far—such a supportive & collaborative place to build a lab—and I’m more than happy to share more with anyone interested