Jessica Royer
Banting Postdoctoral Fellow @ MPI CBS, Leipzig 🇩🇪
The Neuro / McGill University grad & Montreal lover 💞
Brains, open science, metal & running are my jam 🧠
Co-founder: https://new-epilepsy.com ⚡
Co-organizer: gradients-workshop.github.io 🌈
- Very happy to see this last thesis paper in press @natcomms.nature.com! We combine intracranial EEG with multimodal MRI to study how interregional similarity in neurophysiology relates to different network scales ⚡ 🧠 Full story 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- big thanks to all participants making this work possible with open sharing of their data, and shout out to all co-authors: @alexngo.bsky.social @ellasahlas.bsky.social @drchifa.bsky.social @leechbrain.bsky.social @themindwanders.bsky.social @borismontreal.bsky.social + non-bluesky-users
- Reposted by Jessica Royer🚨 New paper in Nature Methods: HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG) Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
- Reposted by Jessica RoyerExcited 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
- (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)
- Reposted by Jessica RoyerEpilepsy imaging-genetics paper is fresh off the press!
- News from ENIGMA-Epilepsy! 🧠 Our latest study links polygenic risk for TLE-HS to cortical thinning in kids—mirroring patterns in adult patients. Early imaging-genetics insights could reveal interplay of epilepsy risk and phenotypes before symptoms emerge. Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai...
- Reposted by Jessica RoyerIn 2019, the CNeuroMod team and 6 participants began a massive data collection journey: twice-weekly MRI scans for most of 5 years. Data collection is now complete! 1/🧵
- Reposted by Jessica Royer1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Reposted by Jessica RoyerVery proud to share this one🥹! We show that personalized signatures of brain activity are heritable and relate to the expression of specific genes. That means my brain-fingerprint is very similar to my twin brother's! #ResearchIsMeSearch🧠 🧬 ♊️
- Reposted by Jessica RoyerHow does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- A full day to talk gradients 🌈 join us!! 🚀
- The Gradients workshop is ONE MONTH AWAY and there's still time to register! 🤩 ⏰ June 23rd, 8:30AM 📍 QUT Gardens Point Campus 📣 Abstract submission deadline is still open! Submit your abstract by May 30th to be considered for one of the three selected flash talks gradients-workshop.github.io
- Reposted by Jessica RoyerThe gradients workshop is happening soon! Please join us on June 23rd in Brisbane for a full day of gradient fun! 🌈 ✅ Amazing speaker line up ✅ Poster presentation ✅ Flash talks for selected abstracts Deets on program, abstract submission, and registration 👉 gradients-workshop.github.io
- open, multimodal, 7T MRI dataset led by @donnagift.bsky.social 🌟
- Our open-source multimodal precision MRI dataset is officially out! 🧲🧠🧲 www.nature.com/articles/s41... osf.io/mhq3f/ @borismontreal.bsky.social @jroyer.bsky.social @themindwanders.bsky.social @jordandekraker.bsky.social
- Happening Thursday! 👇
- Mark your calendars 📅 ✍️ for NEW's next webinar! 🕙 Feb 20th, 2025, 10AM-11:30AM EST 🌟 Three speakers sharing their recent work on neuroimaging of epilepsy 🤝 Panel and audience discussion 💻 Happening here: zoom.us/j/95048511341 🗣️ Please spread the word and share!
- Mark your calendars 📅 ✍️ for NEW's next webinar! 🕙 Feb 20th, 2025, 10AM-11:30AM EST 🌟 Three speakers sharing their recent work on neuroimaging of epilepsy 🤝 Panel and audience discussion 💻 Happening here: zoom.us/j/95048511341 🗣️ Please spread the word and share!
- Amazing stuff led by superstar @alexngo.bsky.social ! 👇
- New year, new preprint (+ last thesis paper!) Macroscale gradients of intracranial EEG power spectra follow familiar axes: sensory-motor and unimodal-transmodal 🕵️♀️ Gradients show overall stronger association to distance, but multimodal information was best in transmodal areas 🧠 tinyurl.com/ykacndd5
- Reposted by Jessica Royer"exhaust fumes" made it into the official abstract! hence completing the journey from an epiphenomenal shitpost blog to a full-blown review paper. all thanks to this cast of co-authors (esp. Sander), our TICS editor Lindsey Drayton, and two very engaged reviewers (@danielemarinazzo.bsky.social)
- Our review on the theoretical status of oscillations and field potentials is out! What are their effects, and what can electrophysiology signals reveal about how the brain works? w/ @dlevenstein.bsky.social @prokraustinator.bsky.social Bradley Voytek @rdgao.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
- Coming to #AES2024? Why spend the last conference day sleeping in when you could come to the Neuroimaging SIG? See you at 7am Dec 10 if you're curious about applications of brain gradients in TLE to understand cognitive and clinical phenotypes! 🌈 🌅
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- Very happy to see this one out in the world 😁 a joint endeavour with Val Kebets 🌟 We used PLS to identify components linking symptoms of psychopathology with multimodal imaging markers in the ABCD dataset Get all the deets 👉 elifesciences.org/articles/87992
- New preprint! We discuss how gradients synergize domain expertise in neuroscience and more computational skillsets to improve our understanding of brain organization 🌈 🧠 ✨ 👇👇👇 arxiv.org/abs/2402.11055 & stay tuned for gradient workshop registration, opening soon! gradients-workshop.github.io
- Reposted by Jessica RoyerNew paper out in Nature Neuro, wherein we ask: How do perceptual and mnemonic brain networks share information? www.nature.com/articles/s41... Massive work with Ed Silson, Brenda Garcia, and @carolinerobertson.bsky.social
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