Wrapping up 2025 with the lab. Proud moments (including some I once thought impossible) and so many failures, living side by side, as science does. We stuck with it together. Grateful for the shared effort, trust, and fun that shaped this year. Wishing everyone a peaceful holiday break!

Just provisionally accepted -- preprint updated | The dual interpretation of edge time series: Time-varying connectivity versus statistical interaction | www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀, 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆? @lucinauddin.bsky.social explains many of the challenges and controversies! Great discussion too. Check out the latest Neuroscience & Philosophy Salon. youtu.be/pP5swFPR0Ns

Cognitive cartography of mammalian brains using meta-analysis of AI experts https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.01.691701v1

Dr Andrea Luppi is one of 25 early-career researchers recognised for their outstanding scientific contributions and commitment to mentoring and community-building in neuroscience. @thetransmitter.bsky.social @stjohnscollege.bsky.social www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-andr...

Come and join our team! We are looking for a Research Officer to help with recruitment and assessment on a large-scale human brain imaging study: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

🧠 Excited to share our latest preprint: Automated Brain Mapping with AI Experts!🤖 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Ever wanted to summarise the cognitive/systems neuroscience literature beyond MRI and PET? Ever wished we could do the same for macaque 🐒 and mouse 🐭 ? Read on! 🧵👇

As we chase whole-brain signatures of cognition with fMRI, this fascinating perspective argues that cognitive signals are broadly distributed...but far from everywhere! For those of us using whole-brain neuroimaging lots to think about.. 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Each year we have the pleasure of interviewing the OHBM Award Winners 🏆 First up is Prof Mac Shine, winner of the 2025 Early Career Investigator Award! 🌟 @macshine.bsky.social Watch the interview here: www.ohbm-com.com/blog/intervi...

Exciting new work from @lindenmp.bsky.social and friends! Inferring intrinsic neural timescales using optimal control theory www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Please repost: another kind of Black-Friday deal!

"The inevitability and superfluousness of cell types in spatial cognition". Intuitive cell types are found in random artificial networks using the same selection criteria neuroscientists use with actual data. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 1/2

#PenNLINC is recruiting a clinical coordinator / lab manager!!! Looking for someone who is good with both people + code, wants to learn to acquire + analyze imaging data. Alumni in this role have written 1st author papers + gone to top grad programs. Website: www.pennlinc.io Job: bit.ly/4ojvCir

Mind over matter, matter over mind? Check out our fine mini-special (mini by our standards) special issue on how #brain and #body interact. 🧠🕺 www.cell.com/current-biol...

1/6 Excited to share our new Nature Protocols article led by Tatiana Shnitko: “Measurement of electrochemical brain activity with fast-scan cyclic voltammetry during fMRI”, a step-by-step guide for simultaneous FSCV + fMRI. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

New paper with @statsepi.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social in which we show there's really no evidence for a link between the gut microbiome and autism www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

🚨New review paper ! Lovely to reconnect with Sheraz Khan around what we think is a timely review of the state of knowledge about brain electrophysiological markers of early/late Alzheimer’s disease pathophysiology, and what's left to discover. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6 It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N

Understanding consciousness is one of the greatest scientific challenges of the 21st century, made urgent by rapid advances in AI. Join this #FrontiersForum webinar to explore our Frontiers in Science article on a new phase of consciousness science ➡️ fro.ntiers.in/x64CgqQpPXb

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Chirag Mehra, Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh, et al: Zero-phase-delay synchrony between interacting neural populations: implications for functional connectivity-derived biomarkers doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Connectome datasets alone are generally not sufficient to predict neural activity. However, pairing connectivity information with neural recordings can produce accurate predictions of activity in unrecorded neurons www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ICYMI @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 2025 keynotes are now online! Here's mine: "Towards a universal taxonomy of functional brain networks" 🧠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW9J...

Great coverage by @thetransmissions.bsky.social of our latest preprint: adding new evidence (and a hint of controversy 🙂) to the E/I imbalance debate in autism 👇👇 www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/ram...

Our School is recruiting! Come and join a great team @MonashUni careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

Preprint is now published: doi.org/10.1002/hbm.... Special thanks to co-authors @twktan.bsky.social @kimnganngt.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social

Europe's MSCA postdoctoral fellowships are now attracting many researchers who would have gone to the US. So the payline has dropped below 10% (~1,600 fellowships to 17k applicants). Super tough situation. One more reason to double the next Horizon budget, as proposed by the EU Commission.

Talking about spooky stuff…try to do awake mouse fMRI. Oh, you want it spookier? Try to add simultaneous Ca2+ imaging. Now, do it all again, longitudinally…. So proud to finally have this out!!! 🐭 🧠 🧲 Go read…if you dare!! 👻 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🆕 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!

New paper from the lab: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A brief thread (1/10)

Join the School 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐌𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡🧠👇 Fantastic lineup of speakers: @clbockting.bsky.social, Eero Castrén, @francescacirulli.bsky.social, Ashley Cooper, Marilyn Gatica, Agustin Ibanez, @satupalva.bsky.social, @pessoabrain.bsky.social, @ribeirocarlitos.bsky.social, Marten Scheffer‪

🔥🔥 NOOSA Brain Workshop 2026 🔥🔥 Less than 3 weeks left to secure register with accomodation for the Noosa Brain Workshop Feb 23-26, 2026. Places are filling fast - sign up before November 10! Details: tinyurl.com/5capskbj

Is science getting too competitive? Grant applications are skyrocketing and funding rates are decreasing. Yet the article in Nature fails to mention the potential role that AI/LLMs in driving up grant applications. It's becoming a lottery. www.nature.com/articles/d41...).

Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization? @rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print): go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky 🧵👇

Colombo et al., Plos Biology, "Hemispherotomy leads to persistent sleep-like slow waves in the isolated cortex of awake humans" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT📣: I haven’t been this excited to be part of something new in 15 years… Thrilled to reveal the passion project I’ve been working on for the past year and a half!🙀🥳 (thread 👇)

Delighted to see this out in @NeuroCellPress!!! Together with Isabel Beerman (& many other friends) we identify disease-associated radial glia-like cells (#DARGs) that fuel #inflammation and #neurodegeneration in #progressiveMS www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Ever wondered if your interesting brain-behavior correlation was over- or under-estimated due to head motion, but were afraid to ask? We’ve created a motion impact score for detecting spurious brain-behavior associations, now available in Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Some news …! 🤗 So excited to get started next year, and very grateful for the opportunity. Looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues - old and new. Watch this space for posting on fully funded positions as the new lab starts up !

Check out this great summary of our recent paper on the impact of exposure to #THC during gestation. Thanks @douglasresearch.bsky.social !! Orig paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It is now clear that more people are being diagnosed as autistic in their teens and as adults than in childhood. A prevailing theory is that those diagnosed later have "milder" form of autism, and later diagnosis entirely due to social factors.

Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The brain is incredibly densely connected. Human cerebral cortex may have as many as *one trillion* connections. Most of those cortical connections are recurrent, inside each area. What do they do? New paper from me in Annual Reviews: 🧪 🧠📈 1/ www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Science is self correcting. Finally!

random neuroimaging question: does anyone in bluesky-land have access to the loadings for neurosynth topics in schaefer 400 (yeo7) space? #neuroskyence @misicbata.bsky.social @richardfbetzel.bsky.social @borismontreal.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social

The Biological Psychiatry family of journals is now officially on Bluesky! Follow us for the latest research in psychiatric neuroscience, cognitive neuroimaging, and global open science from our three leading journals.

Global brain activity (indexed by Ca2+ in the cortex) can be described by a latent arousal manifold — reliably tracked by pupil dynamics 🤯🤯 ▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Many brain imaging “biomarkers” for autism have been proposed. Most aim for balanced accuracy (matching sensivity/specificity) on datasets where cases and controls are split 50/50. 1/🧵

Well, well, well. After a long wait, the big day is here! @kevinh-phd.bsky.social and I finally get to share with you the book we've worked so long and hard on I wrote a little substack about the question that powered every chapter of Food Intelligence juliabelluz.substack.com/p/the-big-da...

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