Tamara Vanderwal
@vanderlab.bsky.social
Child psychiatrist, neuroscientist, she/her. Using movies to study functional brain organization at University of British Columbia, Canada, @UBC and @BCCHresearch
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🆕 New open neuroimaging dataset released!
I’m happy to share that our Naturalistic Neuroimaging Database (NNDb3T+) is now publicly available! NNDb3T+ captures rich, multimodal brain activity in a naturalistic setting with 40 participants and over 160 hours of scanning!
I’m happy to share that our Naturalistic Neuroimaging Database (NNDb3T+) is now publicly available! NNDb3T+ captures rich, multimodal brain activity in a naturalistic setting with 40 participants and over 160 hours of scanning!
October 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
🆕 New open neuroimaging dataset released!
I’m happy to share that our Naturalistic Neuroimaging Database (NNDb3T+) is now publicly available! NNDb3T+ captures rich, multimodal brain activity in a naturalistic setting with 40 participants and over 160 hours of scanning!
I’m happy to share that our Naturalistic Neuroimaging Database (NNDb3T+) is now publicly available! NNDb3T+ captures rich, multimodal brain activity in a naturalistic setting with 40 participants and over 160 hours of scanning!
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Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
September 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.
Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.
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🔥ATTENTION!🔥
Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open!
Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns.
Details:
tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6
Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...
Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open!
Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns.
Details:
tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6
Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...
September 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
🔥ATTENTION!🔥
Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open!
Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns.
Details:
tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6
Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...
Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open!
Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns.
Details:
tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6
Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...
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We're very excited to share this work and happy to hear your feedback! If you're attending #OHBM2025, @ahmadsamara.bsky.social will be presenting a poster on this project (poster #804, June 25 and 26)—be sure to stop by and chat with him about it!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
June 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
We're very excited to share this work and happy to hear your feedback! If you're attending #OHBM2025, @ahmadsamara.bsky.social will be presenting a poster on this project (poster #804, June 25 and 26)—be sure to stop by and chat with him about it!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🚀📢 The call for submissions to our #BrainArt Competition is officially OPEN 🎉
📆 Submit your work by June 9 using this form! forms.gle/CFTyLK6LQwTC...
🖥️ For more info and details about how to participate, visit our website!!! ohbm-brainart.github.io/competition....
📆 Submit your work by June 9 using this form! forms.gle/CFTyLK6LQwTC...
🖥️ For more info and details about how to participate, visit our website!!! ohbm-brainart.github.io/competition....
May 27, 2025 at 9:53 AM
🚀📢 The call for submissions to our #BrainArt Competition is officially OPEN 🎉
📆 Submit your work by June 9 using this form! forms.gle/CFTyLK6LQwTC...
🖥️ For more info and details about how to participate, visit our website!!! ohbm-brainart.github.io/competition....
📆 Submit your work by June 9 using this form! forms.gle/CFTyLK6LQwTC...
🖥️ For more info and details about how to participate, visit our website!!! ohbm-brainart.github.io/competition....
New preprint from the Hasson Lab🪄Delineates coupling b/w regions within the language network AND shows the elements of language that connect them. Led by
@ahmadsamara.bsky.social; thanks @samnastase.bsky.social
Zaid Zada & Uri Hasson. 💥
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@ahmadsamara.bsky.social; thanks @samnastase.bsky.social
Zaid Zada & Uri Hasson. 💥
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
June 4, 2025 at 12:30 AM
New preprint from the Hasson Lab🪄Delineates coupling b/w regions within the language network AND shows the elements of language that connect them. Led by
@ahmadsamara.bsky.social; thanks @samnastase.bsky.social
Zaid Zada & Uri Hasson. 💥
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@ahmadsamara.bsky.social; thanks @samnastase.bsky.social
Zaid Zada & Uri Hasson. 💥
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Clean Coding - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
Clean coding
Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 3, Part 2
open.substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Clean Coding - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series open.substack.com/pub/russpold...
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We are seeking a scientific coordinator for my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig 😊🧠🌈
Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc!
Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?
Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc!
Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?
Scientific Coordinator (m/f/d) Part-time (50%) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
Scientific Coordinator (m/f/d) Part-time (50%) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We are seeking a scientific coordinator for my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig 😊🧠🌈
Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc!
Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?
Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc!
Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?
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@shangao.bsky.social developed a predictive model that maps prefrontal fNIRS activity to whole-brain fMRI during movie-watching! we now show that the model generalizes across samples and movies!
Now out in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (SCAN)! academic.oup.com/scan/advance...
Predicting whole-brain neural dynamics from prefrontal cortex fNIRS signal during movie-watching
Abstract. Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) offers a portable, cost-effective alternative to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) for n
academic.oup.com
May 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
@shangao.bsky.social developed a predictive model that maps prefrontal fNIRS activity to whole-brain fMRI during movie-watching! we now show that the model generalizes across samples and movies!
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By Attacking Science, Poilievre Takes a Page from Trump's Playbook via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
By Attacking Science, Poilievre Takes a Page from Trump’s Playbook | The Tyee
Professors find this chilling and warn of the costs.
thetyee.ca
April 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
By Attacking Science, Poilievre Takes a Page from Trump's Playbook via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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Here's the link to the piece @liisagalea.bsky.social and I wrote for The Tyee on the threats to medical research funding buried in the Conservative party platform 😬
If elected, Poilievre’s government will “put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and federal funds for university research.”
The phrase is almost identical to wording used by the Trump administration.
Catharine Winstanley and @liisagalea.bsky.social write.
The phrase is almost identical to wording used by the Trump administration.
Catharine Winstanley and @liisagalea.bsky.social write.
By Attacking Science, Poilievre Takes a Page from Trump’s Playbook | The Tyee
Professors find this chilling and warn of the costs.
thetyee.ca
April 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Here's the link to the piece @liisagalea.bsky.social and I wrote for The Tyee on the threats to medical research funding buried in the Conservative party platform 😬
Grad student applicants from the US:
University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) has re-opened applications for Master's and PhD programs (e.g., biomed engineering, genetics). Info sessions Apr. 15th w/ current US students: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
Stable, awesome environment!!
University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) has re-opened applications for Master's and PhD programs (e.g., biomed engineering, genetics). Info sessions Apr. 15th w/ current US students: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
Stable, awesome environment!!
US Applicant Week
www.grad.ubc.ca
April 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Grad student applicants from the US:
University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) has re-opened applications for Master's and PhD programs (e.g., biomed engineering, genetics). Info sessions Apr. 15th w/ current US students: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
Stable, awesome environment!!
University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) has re-opened applications for Master's and PhD programs (e.g., biomed engineering, genetics). Info sessions Apr. 15th w/ current US students: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...
Stable, awesome environment!!
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📢 The Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab is hiring! 📢
We're seeking a full-time Research Specialist/Lab Manager to study naturalistic conversation, social cognition, and spontaneous thought.
More info here: psnlab.princeton.edu/join-us
Please apply and share!
We're seeking a full-time Research Specialist/Lab Manager to study naturalistic conversation, social cognition, and spontaneous thought.
More info here: psnlab.princeton.edu/join-us
Please apply and share!
Join Us
Thanks for your interest in joining our lab! At the Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab, we believe that our science is better with a diverse team. We embrace and encourage our lab members’ differences ...
psnlab.princeton.edu
March 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
📢 The Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab is hiring! 📢
We're seeking a full-time Research Specialist/Lab Manager to study naturalistic conversation, social cognition, and spontaneous thought.
More info here: psnlab.princeton.edu/join-us
Please apply and share!
We're seeking a full-time Research Specialist/Lab Manager to study naturalistic conversation, social cognition, and spontaneous thought.
More info here: psnlab.princeton.edu/join-us
Please apply and share!
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1/ Why are so many scientists silent on the climate crisis?
We interviewed neuroscientists @anne-urai.bsky.social & @clarekelly.bsky.social on their participatory workshops designed to stimulate scientists from awareness to activism.
buff.ly/SSf99Q2
We interviewed neuroscientists @anne-urai.bsky.social & @clarekelly.bsky.social on their participatory workshops designed to stimulate scientists from awareness to activism.
buff.ly/SSf99Q2
Activism and Science: Anne Urai and Clare Kelly on responding to the climate and biodiversity crises
How an economic framework may inspire new ways to tackle the climate crisis.
elifesciences.org
March 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
1/ Why are so many scientists silent on the climate crisis?
We interviewed neuroscientists @anne-urai.bsky.social & @clarekelly.bsky.social on their participatory workshops designed to stimulate scientists from awareness to activism.
buff.ly/SSf99Q2
We interviewed neuroscientists @anne-urai.bsky.social & @clarekelly.bsky.social on their participatory workshops designed to stimulate scientists from awareness to activism.
buff.ly/SSf99Q2
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Interested in understanding what brain activity during movies means from the perspective of the viewer? Then you absolutely need check out this amazing study by @ravenwallace.bsky.social from THinC Lab out now in @elife.bsky.social
A thread 🧵
elifesciences.org/articles/97731
A thread 🧵
elifesciences.org/articles/97731
Mapping patterns of thought onto brain activity during movie-watching
Decoding brain activity using a novel paradigm unveils distinct neural signatures of subjective experiences during movie-watching.
elifesciences.org
January 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Interested in understanding what brain activity during movies means from the perspective of the viewer? Then you absolutely need check out this amazing study by @ravenwallace.bsky.social from THinC Lab out now in @elife.bsky.social
A thread 🧵
elifesciences.org/articles/97731
A thread 🧵
elifesciences.org/articles/97731
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As co-director of AI at the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative, I want women in data science to flourish. We thus launch the #WiDSDatathon 2025 Global challenge - open to all levels - now on Kaggle! Entrants will predict ADHD via fMRI, with sex differences in mind. youtu.be/ESbiTbnlbdM
WiDS Datathon 2025: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Female Brain
YouTube video by Women in Data Science Worldwide
youtu.be
January 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
As co-director of AI at the Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative, I want women in data science to flourish. We thus launch the #WiDSDatathon 2025 Global challenge - open to all levels - now on Kaggle! Entrants will predict ADHD via fMRI, with sex differences in mind. youtu.be/ESbiTbnlbdM
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Have you wondered where scene perception and memory intersect in the brain?
Do you want to localize these areas?
In a preprint, @carolinerobertson.bsky.social, Deepa Prasad, Brenda Garcia, and I detail this topography and release these parcels and our localizer.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Do you want to localize these areas?
In a preprint, @carolinerobertson.bsky.social, Deepa Prasad, Brenda Garcia, and I detail this topography and release these parcels and our localizer.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
January 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Have you wondered where scene perception and memory intersect in the brain?
Do you want to localize these areas?
In a preprint, @carolinerobertson.bsky.social, Deepa Prasad, Brenda Garcia, and I detail this topography and release these parcels and our localizer.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Do you want to localize these areas?
In a preprint, @carolinerobertson.bsky.social, Deepa Prasad, Brenda Garcia, and I detail this topography and release these parcels and our localizer.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I love it when a data-driven, methods-heavy paper ALSO starts with a Pissarro quote. This is great stuff, and likely of interest to many of us in the naturalistic space....Congrats @sciencebanshee.bsky.social !! 💥
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Sarah Faber, A.R. McIntosh, et al:
Mapping multi-modal dynamic network activity during naturalistic music listening
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Mapping multi-modal dynamic network activity during naturalistic music listening
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
January 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I love it when a data-driven, methods-heavy paper ALSO starts with a Pissarro quote. This is great stuff, and likely of interest to many of us in the naturalistic space....Congrats @sciencebanshee.bsky.social !! 💥
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Hallee Shearer, Tamara Vanderwal, et al:
Comparing reliability-based measures of functional connectivity between movie and rest: An ROI-based approach
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Comparing reliability-based measures of functional connectivity between movie and rest: An ROI-based approach
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
January 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Hallee Shearer, Tamara Vanderwal, et al:
Comparing reliability-based measures of functional connectivity between movie and rest: An ROI-based approach
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Comparing reliability-based measures of functional connectivity between movie and rest: An ROI-based approach
direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Great work by @halleeshearer.bsky.social in her first first-author paper. With 🎀 shiny app 🎀 to explore how FC reliability fares ACROSS DIFFERENT movies versus rest, region-by-region. Thanks @sneuroble.bsky.social @tingsterx.bsky.social @ninetlab.bsky.social for 👍 collab.
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
January 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Great work by @halleeshearer.bsky.social in her first first-author paper. With 🎀 shiny app 🎀 to explore how FC reliability fares ACROSS DIFFERENT movies versus rest, region-by-region. Thanks @sneuroble.bsky.social @tingsterx.bsky.social @ninetlab.bsky.social for 👍 collab.
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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Exciting to see a result I found during my PhD in neurotypical undergraduates related to autistic traits conceptually replicating in autistic individuals!
Excited about this new paper using Multi-dimensional Experience Sampling to identify differences in thoughts between autistic and non-autistic individuals. This study was led by the awesome Will Strawson (not here yet)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Differences in ongoing thought between autistic and non-autistic adults - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Differences in ongoing thought between autistic and non-autistic adults
www.nature.com
December 5, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Exciting to see a result I found during my PhD in neurotypical undergraduates related to autistic traits conceptually replicating in autistic individuals!
Working on new film project (INSCAPES 2!!). 💥. Does anyone have an audio recording of a modern, commonly used EPI sequence they could share? The composer builds her score around the types of sounds that occur inside the scanner, so I'm trying to get a few for her to listen to...🎵
November 26, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Working on new film project (INSCAPES 2!!). 💥. Does anyone have an audio recording of a modern, commonly used EPI sequence they could share? The composer builds her score around the types of sounds that occur inside the scanner, so I'm trying to get a few for her to listen to...🎵
Check out this group of 6 speakers. 👀
"What's the Big Deal? Emerging themes in child psychiatric neuroimaging research" presented last week @ the American Academy of Child Psychiatry meeting.
Caitlin Taylor, Arielle Keller, Katharina Kircanski, me, Tiffany Ho, Adriana DiMartino. 🍎
"What's the Big Deal? Emerging themes in child psychiatric neuroimaging research" presented last week @ the American Academy of Child Psychiatry meeting.
Caitlin Taylor, Arielle Keller, Katharina Kircanski, me, Tiffany Ho, Adriana DiMartino. 🍎
October 25, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Check out this group of 6 speakers. 👀
"What's the Big Deal? Emerging themes in child psychiatric neuroimaging research" presented last week @ the American Academy of Child Psychiatry meeting.
Caitlin Taylor, Arielle Keller, Katharina Kircanski, me, Tiffany Ho, Adriana DiMartino. 🍎
"What's the Big Deal? Emerging themes in child psychiatric neuroimaging research" presented last week @ the American Academy of Child Psychiatry meeting.
Caitlin Taylor, Arielle Keller, Katharina Kircanski, me, Tiffany Ho, Adriana DiMartino. 🍎
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Trainees looking for advice on career options should come here this panel! medicine.yale.edu/mrrc/about/s...
October 1, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Trainees looking for advice on career options should come here this panel! medicine.yale.edu/mrrc/about/s...
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🚨I am recruiting PhD students!🚨
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If you are interested in #spatialNavigation, #fMRI, #aging, #virtualReality, #AlzheimersDisease and more, please consider applying to work with me!
IMPORTANT: Please email me prior to applying!
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If you are interested in #spatialNavigation, #fMRI, #aging, #virtualReality, #AlzheimersDisease and more, please consider applying to work with me!
IMPORTANT: Please email me prior to applying!
September 18, 2024 at 8:11 PM
🚨I am recruiting PhD students!🚨
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If you are interested in #spatialNavigation, #fMRI, #aging, #virtualReality, #AlzheimersDisease and more, please consider applying to work with me!
IMPORTANT: Please email me prior to applying!
(Please re-post this!)
If you are interested in #spatialNavigation, #fMRI, #aging, #virtualReality, #AlzheimersDisease and more, please consider applying to work with me!
IMPORTANT: Please email me prior to applying!