Ariel Rokem

Excited that this paper, "Highly replicable multisite patterns of adolescent white matter maturation", has now been published in Neuron! It may be found at cell.com/neuron/fullt.... To freely access the paper for the next 50 days, please use this link: authors.elsevier.com/c/1nxdd3BtfH...

The standard graduate application process has a sequencing problem. You apply, pay the fee, and hope a lab has space. The Vector Graduate Student Program flips this to put research fit first. 🧵

Two weeks left to register for #IST2026! Join us in beautiful Banff for tractography validation, methods, clinical & research applications. event.fourwaves.com/ist2026 @tractography.bsky.social

BIDS Community, it’s time to nominate 🏆and elect 🗳️two new Steering Group members! The nomination period opened on September 15th and will close on Friday, October 2nd at 11:59pm (Anywhere on Earth; UTC-12). 👉Nominate yourself here: forms.gle/xMjkqGfiTgCW... #BIDS

Are you interested in building open tools for biomedical science in the @jupyter.org ecosystem? Infrastructure, front end, AI workflows, product design - we are recruiting for multiple positions at @ucbids.bsky.social and would love to hear from you! bids.berkeley.edu/news/join-us...

🚨 Excited to share our new paper out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience! We developed white matter neonatal brain-age models to study brain maturation in full-term and high-risk preterm infants. 🧠👶 Does global brain maturity reveal the toll of clinical complications? Thread 👇 (1/6)

A new FSLeyes is out (v1.20.0) with support for .trx tractography files (thanks @arokem.org !) and MRtrix3 .mif files. Full details at open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/fsl/fs...

*Jumanji drumbeats in the distance* Psychology of Software Teams is ALMOST HERE www.drcathicks.com#book

New major version of pyAFQ has dropped: neurostars.org/t/we-are-exc...

Want to sharpen your Python skills and build libraries like a pro? In the next workshop in our 2026 “How-To” series we welcome Ariel Rokem (@arokem.org; University of Washington): 🧠 Designing and implementing Python libraries 📅 19 May 2026 🔗 Register: forms.gle/qeoCoYMdVxGL...

Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a powerful tool to study white matter maturation. In our new preprint, we process and distribute a new resource of >24,000 ABCD dMRI scans using open source tools! We then evaluate how methods shape inferences about development. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thanks to the amazing work by @uwescience.bsky.social's Noah Benson, NeuroHackademy now has a beautiful new website, with an emphasis on improved accessibility: neurohackademy.org

🏔️ Announcing IST 2026 in the Canadian Rockies! The 2nd annual meeting of the International Society for Tractography is happening this fall. Following Bordeaux, we’re gathering researchers, clinicians & developers pushing tractography, diffusion MRI & brain connectivity forward.

I am thrilled to announce that our group has received a new grant from the Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation to study the neural dynamics of vocal learning in children! I am looking for a postdoc to join us in this effort, currently funded for 2 years. Please reach out with CV and letter of interest.

A first for me: a paper I didn't write was published in a supposedly peer-reviewed journal I've never heard of with me as the sole named author. It's a bibliometric analysis of a field that I have done some work in, so there's a plausible connection, but that's not me.

We think of white matter as the highways of the brain. But when we followed development along those highways, we were surprised. The journey is more complex than we thought. My final PhD paper, “Two Axes of White Matter Development”, is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! 🛣️🧠✨ 🔗 bit.ly/wm2axes

🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update. On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R 📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... #RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪

Applications for NeuroHackademy 2026 are now open! This is a two-week NIH-funded summer experience that combines neuroimaging and data science in a summer school / experiential hackathon: neurohackademy.org/apply/ @uwpsychology.bsky.social @uwescience.bsky.social

My first preprint is out! Thank you to my brilliant collaborators & mentors for making this possible @vmarchman.bsky.social @arokem.org @jyeatman.bsky.social, as well as everyone behind the awesome open source software that we use @pennlinc.bsky.social @cieslakmatt.bsky.social (& many not on bsky)

🚨 I'm searching for a full-time research coordinator to join my group & work on precision brain 🧠 network and cognitive control projects at both 3T and 7T. Please rt 🙌 Applications due: Feb. 26 Start date: flexible, as early as June More 👇 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

This is a fantastic interview in which a 300-page book is summarized into 15 minutes of (very fast!) talking. What I really came here to ask though is whether "asshole to appetite" is an existing idiom, or did CD make that up?

Join us for the #NeuroHackademy Neuroimaging and Data Science networking event at this year's @sfn.org meeting. Tues. Nov. 18th from 7–9pm at the Marriott Marquis, Grand Ballroom 4. The event is free; food and drink will be available for purchase from the hotel.

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉 📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH... 🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

We've been experimenting and improving our practices in building healthy relationships with open source communities, here's our latest thinking on how we approach this important topic!

Excited to share that my TEDx talk is finally available online. I loved sharing what the science shows us: that it's time to reframe adolescence - from problem to ✨ potential ✨ 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr8V...

NeuroHackademy 2025 started today! Our 10th summer school/hackathon in neuroimaging and data science @uwescience.bsky.social, the 8th supported by NIH/NIMH. You can follow along, with videos of lectures in this YouTube playlist, posted almost as soon as they happen: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Are you leading an #OpenScience initiative advancing the field of #neuroscience? Don’t miss this opportunity to be recognized for your contributions. Submit your application for the Neuro-Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes today! 👉Apply now! -link in comments #neurology #datasharing

What an amazing resource! Kudos to everyone who made this a reality, and thanks for diving into all the technical details in this paper.

In @ohbmossig.bsky.social's first Open Datasets Special Issue paper, Wearn et al. introduce the OHBM Time Machine, a freely accessible archive of Annual Meeting content on YouTube: doi.org/10.52294/001... @alfiewearn.bsky.social @sitek.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social @stephforkel.bsky.social

Excited to take part in this special issue! Read what I think human brain mapping should do about the impending Singularity

Join us in beautiful Santa Barbara! We're hiring a full-time junior specialist/research technician to play a central role in data collection & analysis of brain imaging studies of pregnancy & menopause. Learn more & apply at: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02974 Or help us spread the word 💫

if you're a PhD student or postdoc working at the interface of personality psychology and CS/ML (construed broadly on both sides), and are interested in doing a full-time, remote, 3 - 6 month internship/residency at MidJourney, please DM me some kind of resume or CV-like thing

Likely hiring one postbac trainee for @fmri-today.bsky.social's Section on Functional Imaging Methods. Give the relatively later start time for the search, I'm not yet sure how quickly this search will happen. If you are interested, apply and reach out ASAP. fim.nimh.nih.gov

Learn more about our Neurohackademy, a data science and neuroimaging workshop, from this Flux podcast episode featuring our very own @arokem.org and Noah Benson. sensitiveperiods.buzzsprout.com/2024695/epis...

(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Maya Yablonski, Jason D. Yeatman, et al: Fast and reliable quantitative measures of white matter development with magnetic resonance fingerprinting doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Learn more and apply here: compneurosci.com/Neuro4Pros/i... Great lecturers for key skills: Hannah Bayer, Patrick Mineault, Yael Niv, Megan Peters, and your hosts Gunnar Blohm and Konrad Kording, and of course networking with an amazing group of 30 other professors.

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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