Jenna Merenstein
@jmerenstein.bsky.social
lover of dogs, music, mountains, and studying the aging human brain using MRI.
🌴 PhD @ UCR LANI Lab
🧠 NIA F32 postdoc @duke-university.bsky.social
🏔️ current asst prof @utah.edu
✨ views are my own
www.uclimb-lab.com
🌴 PhD @ UCR LANI Lab
🧠 NIA F32 postdoc @duke-university.bsky.social
🏔️ current asst prof @utah.edu
✨ views are my own
www.uclimb-lab.com
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Jenna Merenstein
@jmerenstein.bsky.social
· Oct 16
Sharing our new paper in Brain Communications ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/brai...
We show that structural connectivity, as measured by high-resolution diffusion-weighted MRI, improved the ability to predict age-related alterations in brain function and cognition, relative to standard spatial resolution.
We show that structural connectivity, as measured by high-resolution diffusion-weighted MRI, improved the ability to predict age-related alterations in brain function and cognition, relative to standard spatial resolution.
Reposted by Jenna Merenstein
Very cool new work from the Iglesias group at MGH: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation (also available at OpenNeuro - openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...) : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation - Nature
NextBrain is an open source, probabilistic atlas of the entire human brain, assembled using artificial-intelligence-enabled registration and segmentation methods to reconstruct the multimodal serial h...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Very cool new work from the Iglesias group at MGH: A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation (also available at OpenNeuro - openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...) : www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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No more paylines at the NIH
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Implementing a Unified NIH Funding Strategy to Guide Consistent and Clearer Award Decisions | Grants & Funding
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November 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
No more paylines at the NIH
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
grants.nih.gov/news-events/...
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Adam Kimbler & Craig E.L. Stark:
Advanced diffusion imaging in grey matter reflects individual differences in cognitive ability in older adults
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Advanced diffusion imaging in grey matter reflects individual differences in cognitive ability in older adults
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
November 21, 2025 at 3:57 AM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Adam Kimbler & Craig E.L. Stark:
Advanced diffusion imaging in grey matter reflects individual differences in cognitive ability in older adults
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Advanced diffusion imaging in grey matter reflects individual differences in cognitive ability in older adults
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Merenstein et al show structural brain connectivity, measured by high-resolution diffusion-weighted MRI, improved predictions of age-related alterations in brain function and cognitive performance, relative to standard spatial resolution buff.ly/0IOgtRX @jmerenstein.bsky.social @nba-eic.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Merenstein et al show structural brain connectivity, measured by high-resolution diffusion-weighted MRI, improved predictions of age-related alterations in brain function and cognitive performance, relative to standard spatial resolution buff.ly/0IOgtRX @jmerenstein.bsky.social @nba-eic.bsky.social
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Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows
Summer Undergraduate Research Experience | HHMI
The Cech Fellows Program is a paid, nine-week summer research experience empowering the next generation of scientific leaders.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Calling all rising juniors & seniors: Interested in biological or biomedical research? Applications for our ’26 Summer Undergraduate Research Experience Program are now open! Nine weeks, hands-on research, & mentorship from some of the nation’s top scientists — learn more: bit.ly/CechFellows
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Diffusion MRI Microstructure Markers of Changes in the Human Brain Across the Lifespan Using Constrained Spherical Deconvolution and Fixel-Based Techniques
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Diffusion MRI Microstructure Markers of Changes in the Human Brain Across the Lifespan Using Constrained Spherical Deconvolution and Fixel‐Based Techniques
Diffusion microstructure compartment and subject age across the lifespan. Whole brain tissue has the highest proportion of ICI signal fraction early in the lifespan; as development occurs the ICA sig...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Diffusion MRI Microstructure Markers of Changes in the Human Brain Across the Lifespan Using Constrained Spherical Deconvolution and Fixel-Based Techniques
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Multivariate environmental exposures are reflected in whole-brain functional connectivity and cognition in youth | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Multivariate environmental exposures are reflected in whole-brain functional connectivity and cognition in youth | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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We just published a paper in PNAS, showing microstructural changes to the hippocampus in aging and presymptomatic Alzheimer's disease - in humans, in vivo.
We continue to show the value of structural MRI beyond simply measuring large-scale atrophy!
Read here: ow.ly/1NvV50XkXnX
We continue to show the value of structural MRI beyond simply measuring large-scale atrophy!
Read here: ow.ly/1NvV50XkXnX
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We just published a paper in PNAS, showing microstructural changes to the hippocampus in aging and presymptomatic Alzheimer's disease - in humans, in vivo.
We continue to show the value of structural MRI beyond simply measuring large-scale atrophy!
Read here: ow.ly/1NvV50XkXnX
We continue to show the value of structural MRI beyond simply measuring large-scale atrophy!
Read here: ow.ly/1NvV50XkXnX
I am so excited to be a faculty mentor for the University of Utah's Summer Program for Undergraduate Research 2026! This is a nationally competitive, 10-week program providing undergraduates with an intensive paid research experience. Apps are due 01/25/2026! utah.infoready4.com#undergraduate
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I am so excited to be a faculty mentor for the University of Utah's Summer Program for Undergraduate Research 2026! This is a nationally competitive, 10-week program providing undergraduates with an intensive paid research experience. Apps are due 01/25/2026! utah.infoready4.com#undergraduate
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skiftiTools: An R package for reading, writing, analysing, and visualising, tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) derived diffusion MR images | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
skiftiTools: An R package for reading, writing, analysing, and visualising, tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) derived diffusion MR images | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🚨 We are seeking a Digital Presence Coordinator!
Open to psych/neuro grad students, postdocs & faculty who are passionate about improving fairness in peer review.
Job details:
💻 Managing website, socials, newsletters
🕒 4–8 hrs/month | 💵 $500 honorarium | 📅 1-year term
Apply 👉 go.iu.edu/8vxh
Open to psych/neuro grad students, postdocs & faculty who are passionate about improving fairness in peer review.
Job details:
💻 Managing website, socials, newsletters
🕒 4–8 hrs/month | 💵 $500 honorarium | 📅 1-year term
Apply 👉 go.iu.edu/8vxh
go.iu.edu
October 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🚨 We are seeking a Digital Presence Coordinator!
Open to psych/neuro grad students, postdocs & faculty who are passionate about improving fairness in peer review.
Job details:
💻 Managing website, socials, newsletters
🕒 4–8 hrs/month | 💵 $500 honorarium | 📅 1-year term
Apply 👉 go.iu.edu/8vxh
Open to psych/neuro grad students, postdocs & faculty who are passionate about improving fairness in peer review.
Job details:
💻 Managing website, socials, newsletters
🕒 4–8 hrs/month | 💵 $500 honorarium | 📅 1-year term
Apply 👉 go.iu.edu/8vxh
One last reminder that I’m recruiting a graduate student through the Cognition & Neural Science area @utah.edu this Fall! The lab uses MRI to study healthy cognitive aging across the adult lifespan and will start assessing factors that moderate cognitive aging (air pollution, cardiovascular health).
Yay, thanks so much for sharing this! 🥳 I am excited to be starting my new lab this Fall! I’ll be reviewing applications this cycle for 1-2 graduate students to start in Fall 2026. More information about applications can be found here: psych.utah.edu/graduate/
October 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
One last reminder that I’m recruiting a graduate student through the Cognition & Neural Science area @utah.edu this Fall! The lab uses MRI to study healthy cognitive aging across the adult lifespan and will start assessing factors that moderate cognitive aging (air pollution, cardiovascular health).
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⭐ My lab is recruiting a grad student for fall 2026! ⭐
🧠 If you are interested in semantic learning & memory, and want to use fMRI + computational models to ask these questions, I'll be excited to hear from you. Come join us in Bing!
🔗 sites.google.com/view/spinslab
🧠 If you are interested in semantic learning & memory, and want to use fMRI + computational models to ask these questions, I'll be excited to hear from you. Come join us in Bing!
🔗 sites.google.com/view/spinslab
October 27, 2025 at 4:37 PM
⭐ My lab is recruiting a grad student for fall 2026! ⭐
🧠 If you are interested in semantic learning & memory, and want to use fMRI + computational models to ask these questions, I'll be excited to hear from you. Come join us in Bing!
🔗 sites.google.com/view/spinslab
🧠 If you are interested in semantic learning & memory, and want to use fMRI + computational models to ask these questions, I'll be excited to hear from you. Come join us in Bing!
🔗 sites.google.com/view/spinslab
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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!
Sharing our new paper in Brain Communications ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/brai...
We show that structural connectivity, as measured by high-resolution diffusion-weighted MRI, improved the ability to predict age-related alterations in brain function and cognition, relative to standard spatial resolution.
We show that structural connectivity, as measured by high-resolution diffusion-weighted MRI, improved the ability to predict age-related alterations in brain function and cognition, relative to standard spatial resolution.
October 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Sharing our new paper in Brain Communications ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/brai...
We show that structural connectivity, as measured by high-resolution diffusion-weighted MRI, improved the ability to predict age-related alterations in brain function and cognition, relative to standard spatial resolution.
We show that structural connectivity, as measured by high-resolution diffusion-weighted MRI, improved the ability to predict age-related alterations in brain function and cognition, relative to standard spatial resolution.
TWO more tenure-track positions posted @utah.edu 🙌
1) Assistant/Associate Professor Workforce Development and AI Literacy ➡️ utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/190...
2) Assistant/Associate Professor AI and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Learning ➡️ utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/189...
1) Assistant/Associate Professor Workforce Development and AI Literacy ➡️ utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/190...
2) Assistant/Associate Professor AI and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Learning ➡️ utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/189...
Assistant/Associate Professor Workforce Development and AI Literacy
utah.peopleadmin.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
TWO more tenure-track positions posted @utah.edu 🙌
1) Assistant/Associate Professor Workforce Development and AI Literacy ➡️ utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/190...
2) Assistant/Associate Professor AI and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Learning ➡️ utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/189...
1) Assistant/Associate Professor Workforce Development and AI Literacy ➡️ utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/190...
2) Assistant/Associate Professor AI and Emerging Technologies in Teaching and Learning ➡️ utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/189...
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@pnas.org: Small sex differences in brain aging, steeper decline in men in some regions. Does not explain why more women are diagnosed with AD. 12,638 longitudinal MRIs, 4,726 participants across 14 cohorts. Control for head-size, education, life-expectancy. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sex differences in healthy brain aging are unlikely to explain higher Alzheimer’s disease prevalence in women | PNAS
As Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is diagnosed more frequently in women, understanding the
role of sex has become a key priority in AD research. However,...
www.pnas.org
October 14, 2025 at 6:05 AM
@pnas.org: Small sex differences in brain aging, steeper decline in men in some regions. Does not explain why more women are diagnosed with AD. 12,638 longitudinal MRIs, 4,726 participants across 14 cohorts. Control for head-size, education, life-expectancy. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We applied graph theoretic analyses to fMRI data of participants watching movies/listening to stories. Integration across large-scale functional networks mediates arousal-dependent enhancement of narrative memories. Open access link: rdcu.be/eKKAw
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Out now in @nathumbehav.nature.com! We applied graph theoretic analyses to fMRI data of participants watching movies/listening to stories. Integration across large-scale functional networks mediates arousal-dependent enhancement of narrative memories. Open access link: rdcu.be/eKKAw
Reposted by Jenna Merenstein
An open, longitudinal resource for mapping interindividual variation in the aging connectome https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.10.25337774v1
October 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
An open, longitudinal resource for mapping interindividual variation in the aging connectome https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.10.25337774v1
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OpenNeuro @openneuro.bsky.social just hit a huge milestone: 1500 datasets! Congrats to the team on making this project so successful over the last 7 years.
October 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
OpenNeuro @openneuro.bsky.social just hit a huge milestone: 1500 datasets! Congrats to the team on making this project so successful over the last 7 years.
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Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA. Assistant Professor in School of Neuroscience seeks computational or systems neuroscientist to teach and build funded lab. Closing date: 7th November
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/assistan...
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/assistan...
Assistant Professor: Neuroscience - DEMENTIA RESEARCHER
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA. Assistant Professor in School of Neuroscience seeks computational or systems neuroscientist to teach and build funded lab.
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA. Assistant Professor in School of Neuroscience seeks computational or systems neuroscientist to teach and build funded lab. Closing date: 7th November
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/assistan...
www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/job/assistan...
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I have a full course on R for Psychology and Neuroscience, which includes sample programs and lecture videos. Also has some recommended books on R programming. Perfect for beginners!
rworkshop.missouri.edu
rworkshop.missouri.edu
October 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I have a full course on R for Psychology and Neuroscience, which includes sample programs and lecture videos. Also has some recommended books on R programming. Perfect for beginners!
rworkshop.missouri.edu
rworkshop.missouri.edu
Come join me as a colleague in the Department of Psychology @utah.edu
We are located in beautiful Salt Lake City! ⛰️ And currently hiring an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Clinical Psychology. The job ad can be found here --> utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/187...
We are located in beautiful Salt Lake City! ⛰️ And currently hiring an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Clinical Psychology. The job ad can be found here --> utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/187...
Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Clinical Psychology
utah.peopleadmin.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Come join me as a colleague in the Department of Psychology @utah.edu
We are located in beautiful Salt Lake City! ⛰️ And currently hiring an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Clinical Psychology. The job ad can be found here --> utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/187...
We are located in beautiful Salt Lake City! ⛰️ And currently hiring an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Clinical Psychology. The job ad can be found here --> utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/187...
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Exciting news from the TRIAD cohort! 🎉We’re celebrating another graduate from our clinical trial study! 🐶🎓
Want to help dogs live longer, healthier lives?
🐾 Discover if your doggo is eligible for TRIAD: dogagingproject.org/triad
#TRIAD #DogGrad #Dogs
Want to help dogs live longer, healthier lives?
🐾 Discover if your doggo is eligible for TRIAD: dogagingproject.org/triad
#TRIAD #DogGrad #Dogs
September 30, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Exciting news from the TRIAD cohort! 🎉We’re celebrating another graduate from our clinical trial study! 🐶🎓
Want to help dogs live longer, healthier lives?
🐾 Discover if your doggo is eligible for TRIAD: dogagingproject.org/triad
#TRIAD #DogGrad #Dogs
Want to help dogs live longer, healthier lives?
🐾 Discover if your doggo is eligible for TRIAD: dogagingproject.org/triad
#TRIAD #DogGrad #Dogs
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Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:
A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!
psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...
A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!
psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...
psychiatry.ucsd.edu
September 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Posting on behalf of Tamar Gollan, who is not on Bluesky:
A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!
psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...
A postdoc position is open and available immediately in Dr. Tamar Gollan’s Laboratory of Aging Bilingualism at the University of California, San Diego, funded by NIH & NSF. See link for details!
psychiatry.ucsd.edu/about/LAB_Go...