If you are just starting out or considering a career in neuroscience, learn to code! Honestly, pick any language and just learn to do the basics: loops, indexing, conditionals. You don't need much more than that for 90% of workflows.

Two years ago, I asked hundreds of neuroscientists (including many of you!) at various levels about their skills and career trajectories. Now, I can finally share some of those insights in my first senior author preprint, with Saloni Shah! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Russ Poldrack This seems to implicitly assume that the only valuable outcome from a mentoring relationship is a research track career for the mentee. Perhaps a better metric is the c-index: the number of mentees willing to have a coffee with the mentor after 5 years ;)

This is genius! Thanks Stephen McAdoo

👀 Beyond Bar and Box Plots z3tt.github.io/beyond-bar-and…

Today begins a new The ECG collaboration with @Marc_M_Andersen and colleagues from Recreational Fear Lab - we'll be measuring cardiac interoception just before participants enter a real life haunted house! Can't wait to see if ecological fear relates to interoception. 🎃👻🫀

Excited to have put together live-virtual conference on #psychedelics for 11/6/21. Wanted to include many more talks but grateful to be able to do the first event like this at MGH, & more to come: bit.ly/3igBoSq MassGeneral Medicine Brian Barnett H MAPS Rick Doblin, Ph.D., of MAPS

BRAIN Trust your gut: vagal nerve stimulation in humans improves reinforcement learning academic.oup.com/braincomms/art…

Thrilled to announce we’ve received ethics approval for the world’s first trial investigating psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy to treat Generalised Anxiety Disorder! (1/n)

Do you like #MRI? And do you like holiday music? Mass General talks to the Center's Mike Datko about his "funktional MRI" project - making music from samples of MRI sounds - and debuts a new MRI-based holiday recording! bit.ly/3plrzXE @MGH_RI MassGeneral News

Our article on a neural circuit for #spirituality and #religiosity is the current cover story for Biological Psychiatry (Biological Psychiatry)! biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com Twitter summary of our findings in RT that follows ⤵️ #brain #mind #science #medicine #psychiatry #neurology

Ah, yes. A productive day.

These authors looked at the effects of combined respiratory-gated auricular vagal afferent nerve stimulation and mindfulness meditation for chronic low back pain. ow.ly/ACMq50HVMcv

Delighted to share our new paper in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews: "Resting-state fMRI functional connectivity and mindfulness in clinical and non-clinical contexts: A review and synthesis" Co-authored with Idil Sezer and Diego A. Pizzagalli, PhD 🧠🧘‍♀️🔬

Our band "The TIM Trio" performed its first gig at the MGH Martinos Center Center last night as part of the inaugural "Martinos Center's Got Talent" show! Marco Loggia on Keys, Mike Datko on Drums, with special guest vocalist Jennifer Murphy! @MGH_RI Mass General Imaging #physicslife

On January 11, @MGHmartinos staged its first-ever talent show, aptly titled: “The Martinos Center’s Got Talent!” The event showcased the talents of folks across the center, Fortunately, many of the performances were recorded, and you can catch them here: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

#OHBM2023 off to a great start!