Open science award$ - please share and apply (deadline may 16) ⤵️

Anyone feeling helpless re: events in Gaza, this is maybe a way to be helpful. I know the people who have put this together and it is legit. gofundme.com/f/from-gaza-to…

Our lab (mica-mni.github.io) The Neuro is looking for students & postdocs with strong programming skills ( #python , #bash , #git , #docker , ...) and interest/experience in neuroinformatics , open science, and clinical applications. Please RT, and DM/email for details.

really happy to share our extensive MEG naturalistic listening dataset! official publication now out: nature.com/articles/s4159…

delighted to see research teams already using the data to answer really interesting and varied questions! 🧠👂🗣️

I’m at #SfN23 with some *brand new* infant movie-watching fMRI data! We ask: Does the developing visual system “prefer” more realistic stimuli, or simplified/exaggerated information? How does this impact decoding of (lion) faces? Come by SS9 tomorrow (Tuesday) from 1-5pm! 🦁👑

Congrats to Ahmad Samara and all of these exceptional trainees! And kudos/thanks to Brain Canada for such a great, practical funding mechanism at an important career stage.

Any psychiatrists interested in serving patients in rural/remote locations (w/ research and infrastructure support, and med students/residents via UBC), there is a tenure-track opportunity in Prince George, BC, Canada...…ychiatry-sandbox2019.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2022/11/… It's pretty amazing country!

Our big language fMRI dataset is now officially published!

📰 The paper: nature.com/articles/s4159… (free pdf: nature.com/articles/s4159…)

🧰 Code to download data & build models: github.com/HuthLab/deep-f…

💾 The dataset: openneuro.org/datasets/ds003…

Thoughts on the use of naturalistic conditions to study social development? Sam Wass, Chiara Bulgarelli, Tessa George, Ahmad Samara do! Hear about them in the Flux 2023 symposium led by Chiara Bulgarelli.

Congrats to Hallee Shearer (far right in pic) for successfully defending her Master's thesis on movie-fMRI for FC-based precision psychiatry....Top marks, no revisions, and a great reason for a lab lunch in Vancouver. (-:

Postdoc position as part of a new multisite cohort team! With Catherine Lebel at UCalgary and Anne Wheeler Conrod Venture Lab -- meet us at #flux2023 brayneuroimaginglab.ca/join-us

Check out Lisa Musz's paper on the effect of early visual experience in shaping brain development out in Neuopsychologia! Fantastic to collaborate with Marina Bedny and the team. Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College (TCIN) Trinity College Dublin Johns Hopkins University

Poster 1919 investigates emotion experience, inter-subject variability and prediction of individual differences using functional gradients.

Movie gradients in kids = poster 351
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I genuinely believe that Canada could pay any randomly selected 19-year-old $100 one-time fee to update the CCV web form and it would massively improve all our lives.

Upcoming work driven by Enning Yang + Jakub Kopal !

We show that #NLP can be used on 2-hour movie video/audio to link moment-level #semantic #structure to dynamic neural activity responses

Thanks for the great collabo: Emily Finn Bratislav Misic @milisav Avram Holmes Avram Holmes !!

Please share widely 👇👇👇to help us make some more inclusive research tools to understand experiences of suicide!

1/5 - Officially out on Nature Methods! Reliability eXplorer (ReX), an integrative toolbox for examination of individual variation and reliability. ReX allows you to compare and identify the most efficient direction for optimizing reliability! nature.com/articles/s4159…

Multimodal transformers make it possible to transfer fMRI encoding models between language and vision! (though mostly from L->V and not V->L 🤔) New paper from Jerry Tang Meng Du Vy Vo vasudevlal arxiv.org/abs/2305.12248

The west coast-east coast movie gradient is fully operational! Thanks to Hasson Lab and Sam Nastase for the support, and well-deserved congrats to Ahmad Samara. Can't wait to see what this yields...