Congratulations to Ahmad Samara for receiving a Dr. Hubert van Tol Travel Fellowship! Ahmad used the fellowship to attend the FLUX Congress 2023 in California, USA.  #RisingStarTuesday #RiseandShine

I enjoyed being a part of this Parliamentary Health Research Caucus event held by Research Canada . Extraordinary & creative work being done across Canada (e.g., robots, apps, movie-fMRI, fancy headphones, poetry😀), targeting areas of health that need new tech and new knowledge.

Latest Neurosalience podcast by Peter Bandettini is live! Featuring Todd Woodward and his lifelong love of CPCA!! Congrats, Todd! podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ohbm/…

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Peter A. Kirk and Oliver J. Robinson:

Preliminary evidence for altered brain-heart coherence during anxiogenic movies

doi.org/10.1162/imag_a…

Who's got MR technical skills - come join us - lots of positions - lots of roles! Get on it!

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.