Many of you asked how we create those pretty whole-brain plots with the cortical outline. We just made it available as a Python package: pni-lab.github.io/quickbrain/

I'm incredibly proud of the work my team has done to shape the present and future of biomedical imaging at SFU 👏 🧠 This new branding for our Centre reflects the comprehensive research ecosystem that we have developed for our partners in academia, industry, and healthcare. Stay tuned for updates!

SFU’s ImageTech Lab is now the Centre for Advanced Imaging, a name that better reflects the Centre’s leading-edge imaging infrastructure, full-service model, and collaborative research partnerships. Discover more below.

ArXiV has a new LLM policy (Screenshots with alt text so you don’t have to click through to the other place and see all the stupid responses)

NEW PAPER🚨👀 in Science Advances with a wonderful transatlantic team. (incl @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social @katduecker.bsky.social) Using human MEG, we found lower-order and higher-order neural processes that underlie illusory transitions in conscious visual perception. 🧵👇

New Paper out! 🎉 doi.org/10.1038/s415... We used simultaneous MEG & LFP recordings to show that cortical networks provide temporal windows into subthalamic nucleus (STN) activity states in Parkinson's disease — with potential implications for diagnosis and therapy.

Out today in @science.org: with the amazing Haochuan Cui, Yiling Lin, & @lingfeiwu.bsky.social, we analyzed 3.6 million scientists publishing 1960–2020. The findings reshape a century-old debate about age and scientific creativity.

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

Des résultats FRQS solides à tous les niveaux (J1, J2, sénior) au @crchum.bsky.social: bravo aux 13 lauréats & lauréates de bourses salariales (65% de succès)! @santepublique-udem.bsky.social @facmed-umontreal.bsky.social @umontreal.ca

Neuromatch has been denied our Office of Foreign Assets Control "Iran license" renewal. We had renewed successfully before, but now our request is “inconsistent with current U.S. foreign policy.” I am absolutely gutted by this denial.

How does chemoarchitecture influence brain signaling as we age? 🧠⚛️🧓 Our new study suggests that high-frequency connectivity is orchestrated by neurochemical similarity with a ++ role of slow neuromodulators which 📈 and preserves cognition as we age doi.org/10.64898/202... #neuroskyence

Now with a more sensible closing date of Tuesday May 26th, so you now have a month to apply 🎉

Opposing BOLD signals and oxygen metabolism largely arise from statistical uncertainty in metabolic estimates https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.21.719913v1

Using time-resolved EEG/MEG decoding?🧠 Here’s a new approach! No feature engineering (decode from raw signals), but capturing info that standard decoding often misses (oscillatory/aperiodic activity, connectivity). Lightweight, INTERPRETABLE, and easy to use. (1/6) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Brain anatomy and molecular signaling predict neurophysiological dynamics across the lifespan www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Happy to share work dissecting the contribution & relative importance of cortical features explaining regional variation in MEG markers using multiv prediction #neuroskyence

1 more week to register for NOWCAM. visit. nowcam.org for details.

A huge milestone for the NANo Lab @sfu.ca - our first pre-print is now out in the wild! 🥳 Driven by rising star Sean Kriwokon, we find that changes in energetically-expensive brain signaling in folks with AD may be due to energetic limitations imposed by mitochondrial dysfunction 📃🔗👇

This is bad for medicine too www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Superb resource to study human brain development, out in @nature.com 🧪🧠 An atlas showing how patterns of functional connectivity between brain regions change from birth to old age “Functional hierarchy of the human neocortex across the lifespan” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

ICYMI at #CNS2026, we have a new mentorship program! Learn more and sign up NOW to be a mentee or mentor: www.cogneurosociety.org/new-cns-ment... #neuroscience

***Please forward to interested colleagues*** The call for symposia (deadline 15 April) and abstracts (deadline 1 May) for Biomag 2026 in Beijing (23-25 Aug) is now open: biomag2026.scimeeting.cn

Cortical rhythmic dynamics for feed forward and feedback signaling. Beta was associated with feedback, consistent with it role in top-down control. Hierarchical Flows of Human Cortical Activity doi.org/10.64898/202... #neuroscience

🚨Our new preprint, driven by @xiaoboliu.bsky.social and @alexwiesman.bsky.social. @theneuro.bsky.social @crchum.bsky.social

You have 10 minutes of task fMRI to map functional brain regions in an individual. Three decisions matter: How do you localize regions? Which tasks do you include? How do you arrange tasks in your experiment? Here, we tackle all three! Preprint👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hierarchical Flows of Human Cortical Activity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.19.712872v1

The program is coming together well for the Brain Connectivity Workshop www.bcw2026.org/program. This will be our 25th year! Consider coming just before the #OHBM annual meeting. #Neuroscience

Check this 👇🏽 out if you’re interested in brain resilience & aging. #cns2026 @cogneuronews.bsky.social

I couldn't find a tool to plot different #neuroimaging data in one consistent style, so I made one! Meet yabplot (yet another brain plot) - a #Python package for (sub)cortex & tracts.🧠 - Simple API - Built-in atlases - Custom atlas support 🔗 github.com/teanijarv/ya... (drop a ⭐️!)

neuromapr 0.2.1 has been accepted and published on CRAN! Very excited to get this out to users in the simplest way possible, and hope the #rstats #neuroimaging community finds it useful! lcbc-uio.github.io/neuromapr/

@francescafardo.bsky.social, Camilla E. Krænge & colleagues on evidence accumulation in temperature perception. Distinct roles for spatial summation and lateral inhibition. Really nice work, great collab: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New preprint 📣 Do you use the @alleninstitute.org mouse brain connectome? In work led by Vikram Nathan we found issues with existing connectome representations, fixed them, showed the impact on connectome measures. Do you wonder what they are? Do you wonder what they do? tinyurl.com/5y9mft4e

It's important to note that when discussing brain structure-function relationships across scales, that the definition of function changes with scale. Keep it straight! @sbe.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

1) participants' metadata, in particular demographics, are a bigger risk for privacy 2) we have created a new metric k-global that gives you the relative importance of each variable for anonymity and 3) BIDS compliant little python package to help everyone with data curation.

"You see what you look for, and you look for what you know." We are proud to release FOCUS: a 100 μm deformable human subcortical atlas precisely registered to MNI space. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Here is the link to our "The Brain Resilience Study protocol," an ongoing project through the @sfuneuro.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Inter-individual variability of neurotransmitter receptor and transporter density in the human brain | doi.org/10.1007/s004... How do neuroreceptor distributions vary across people?

Ever wondered how the Dalmatian Dog effect works? The human brain can quickly learn from a single experience and generalize it to related experiences — an impressive feat so far not matched by AI. Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com reveals how this works. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Now in press one of my last PhD projects! We traced the neurobiological profile of fMRI BOLD signal variability, a measure that has been related to age, behaviour, disease status, but had not yet been fully contextualised within the brain's multiscale architecture. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Preventing data leakage in neural decoding - "for autocorrelated neural time series, standard k-fold cross-validation can dramatically overstate performance." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Preprint alert!!! We recorded directly from the human ventral tegmental area (VTA), the principal source of cortical dopaminergic innervation, while patients performed an instrumental learning task. 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

If you're looking for a PhD and you're interested in the cerebellum, predictions, language, and MEG, please apply by 1st March! We have two open positions. More details here: benediktzoefel.wixsite.com/home/phd

PhD students: Do you have experience with structural or fMRI data analysis? Are you interested in data harmonization, open science, and cognitive aging? 🧠📊 💻 If yes, this post-doc position in my lab is perfect for you! Please share with your networks! jobs-ca.silkroad.com/Baycrest/Car...

The extended version of my thesis procrastination project/subcortex visualization package is out now in both Python and R, now that I’ve graduated 🤠 This figure shows the 9 atlases included (and counting)! Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Website: anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...

Very pleased to see our review published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience today! Here’s the link: trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/...

The complaint “argues that GPT-4o is a ‘defective’ and ‘inherently dangerous’ product, and that OpenAI failed to warn users of foreseeable risks to their emotional and psychological health.”

Interpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap. dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D... Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...

New paper! 📜🚨 Our collaboration @sfu.ca @yaleschoolofmed.bsky.social @wakeforest.bsky.social UCSF and UTSW 🗝️ finding: aperiodic slowing indexes concussion and symptom severity in football players Now published in open access @cp-iscience.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful... #neuroskyence

Thank you to @aaas.org for the opportunity to lead a new editorial pod at Science Advances on Systems, Computational, Neuro-AI & Neurotechnology (SCANN). Top opportunity to highlight outstanding work at the intersection of neuroscience, computation, and emerging technologies. Send your papers now!

The Virtual Brain Node | CNS 2026 Satellite Event March 6, 2026| Vancouver, BC| 9:00 AM–5:00 PM One-day hands-on workshop with INN at CNS 2026. Learn resting-state modelling, nonlinear dynamics, and TVB architecture. Open to all | Limited spots Register: tvbnode-cns2026.eventbrite.ca