Have data with a bunch of covariates. Does it matter which you include? (Hint: yes!) How do you know what to include? Gang Chen and Zhengchen Cai lead us into the realm of causal inference modeling, with a handy guideline list. I hope this becomes a bigger topic in the field!

Brainhack Global Toronto registration is now live 👩‍💻 Join us from Dec 11 - 13 at SickKids Foundation: brainhackto.github.io/global-toronto… Come help us share ideas, models, code, and data about the brain 🧠 All levels are welcome! Brain Hack Toronto Brainhack #BrainHackTO

❗️Come share your research with the next generation of Brain Mappers! 🧠 Applications are now open for the 2025 Brain Mappers of Tomorrow in-person sessions during the OHBM 2025 Annual Meeting in Brisbane, Australia! 🇦🇺⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/10cXu3…

Attention 🧠 mappers! All proposed content (abstracts, symposia, and education courses) for #OHBM2015 must be submitted by December 17, 2024. No extensions will be granted this year so please get your submissions in ASAP! 🙏🫡🗓️

⚠️URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT: Please review the email linked in the comments regarding the importance of submitting your content by Dec. 17, 2024 at 11:59 pm EST, USA. #OHBM will not be accepting any late submissions, nor will the deadline be extended. Thank you for your cooperation!

A new call for artists, scientists, and creators! Our #BrainArt 🧠🎨 exhibition theme for #OHBM2025 is “Flavors of Reality”. We invite proposals that reflect on the dynamic nature of reality with any art form. 📆 Submit by Feb 8, 2025 using this form: forms.gle/PSa5Yd9nEfp6d5…

🚨 Due to an ongoing technical issue with our payment processor, the submissions will be allowed to be finalized with a "Pay Later" option. Your submission will be considered on-time, and the abstract fee will be settled later. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Maybe slightly odd timing, but we'd like to announce: A new AFNI Bootcamp for FMRI/MRI, Jan 29-31, 2025. This part will focus on group analysis, statistics, surface analyses, results reporting and more. This event will be virtual. Please see here: discuss.afni.nimh.nih.gov/t/afni-bootcam…

I am pleased to announce the publication of our special issue on scientific histories of hippocampal research in the journal Hippocampus! This special issue contains articles by many influential contributors to our field. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.100…

Our paper on MTL network connectivity in aging & AD is finally out in Brain! with Robin de Flores Chetelat's Lab Neuropresage

Join us on March 27 for speaker, PennPSC Christos Davatzikos, part of our "AI & Aging" initiative. To learn more about "AI & Aging" and read a Q & A with Davatzikos: 🔗uoft.me/biq

Thrilled to see this paper in Nature Human Behaviour after years of work by Drs. Nick Diamond and Stephanie Simpson with Drs. Stuart Fogel, Daniel Baena, and Brian J Murray. Baycrest Rotman Research

On my way! 🚇 Can't wait!! ☺️

To all my fellow ISTAART members: I‘m hoping to continue to be a part of the Neuroimaging PIA committee again next year to contribute to their work organising educational material, the Alzheimer‘s Imaging Consortium, and much more. I would be very grateful for your vote!

Last chance!! Submit your artwork during tomorrow!

Thrilled to be in Brisbane for #OHBM2025! It’s gonna be a busy one all about ultra-high res fMRI: poster 838, a symposium at 9 am on Thursday and if you’re still not sick of me by then, an oral poster talk also on Thursday (not all the same, I promise!). DM me to catch up 🙂🧠🇦🇺

MINC will not go quietly into the night! Announcing bids2mnc, a pipeline built with libBIDS.sh which produces a "BIDS-compliant" derivative output containing MINC files, with BIDS metadata embedded in the files. github.com/CoBrALab/bids2…

Wonderful Talairach lecture at OHBM 2025 by Paul Thompson Paul Thompson...already online! youtube.com/watch?v=nPH-3D…

I've always wanted to explore fMRI time series as a smooth, real-time movie. Now I can with LayNii IDA. Plus, with voxel-wise correlations on the fly. Fast, intuitive, and surprisingly insightful. 40 ms TR fMRI data from Ben Inglis (thanks!). layerfMRI Paul Taylor

LAST CALL! Help us make #OHBM2026 even better! Take the #OHBM2025 feedback survey by today, July 16! We can't wait to hear from you! surveymonkey.com/r/OHBM2025