netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️

Cortical expansion and genetic risk for PD. Led by Houman Azizi and Nooshin Abbasi. With @ptenigma.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social @yasharneuro.bsky.social @ndrewvo.bsky.social and many others www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

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! 🧵👇

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...

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

Please repost: another kind of Black-Friday deal!

🔥🔥The Program for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now Available!!! 🔥🔥 We have an incredible line up of confirmed speakers! Commuter registrations are still available, but places are limited. Check the website for details: www.monash.edu/turner-insti...

Truly honored to be recognized among @thetransmitter.bsky.social's Rising Stars of Neuroscience for 2025 next to trailblazers like @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social, @lindenmp.bsky.social, @elimuller.bsky.social & more!🌟🧠Check out everyone's full contributions at www.thetransmitter.org/early-career...

Excited to share new (unpublished and collaborative) drosophila connectome work at SfN next week! 🪰 #sfn2025

Our lab is hiring! We're lookgin for an MSc trainee and a PhD trainee to investigate the neural underpinnings of pain. If you are interested in pain and brain imaging, please reach out! Informal enquiries are encouraged.

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

Truly heroic work by the stellar @cieslakmatt.bsky.social + the HBCD dMRI working group team. Refactored QSIPrep + QSIRecon is the result of nearly 3y of concerted development + testing. It will be a total workhorse for HBCD -- and almost any other dMRI scan. Check it out for your data!!!

Looking for a post-bac RA position focused on the brain bases of affective and psychotic illness? @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social is hiring! @cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social @sobp-org.bsky.social @hitop-system.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

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

Excited that this is finally out! Appreciate our amazing team and collaborators so much for the support on this project @zhenqi.bsky.social @katiekarlsgodt.bsky.social @carriebearden.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social

does brain connectivity drive spread of pathological proteins in Alzheimer’s disease? ✨ preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... if the question intrigues you, please read on 🧵⤵️

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new Master's Programme in Brain Health and Disease within the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge. Applications are now open! @camneurodept.bsky.social www.clinical-neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/education/ta...

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

Interested in the mechanisms shaping the extraordinary complexity of the connectome? Then check out our new preprint, lead by Francis Normand with a stellar team, showing how geometry constrains connectome architecture: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Full thread here: tinyurl.com/sfv3yf73

Neuromorphic hierarchical modular reservoirs | doi.org/10.1101/2025... How does hierarchical modularity shape computational function? ⤵️

Neuromorphic hierarchical modular reservoirs | doi.org/10.1101/2025... How does hierarchical modularity shape computational function? ⤵️

Network spreading and local biological vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | doi.org/10.1038/s420... How do brain network structure and local biological features shape the spatial patterning of atrophy in ALS? @asafarahani.bsky.social investigates ⤵️

🚨 Excited to share the latest preprint form the lab ➡️https://tinyurl.com/32d3be9f Here we tackle a long-standing chicken-or-egg 🐣🥚question in #autism and developmental neuroscience ➡️ Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence" of #autism? Check out what we found! 🧵1/n

Our recent work on spin tests is now published in Imaging Neuroscience🎉 As always, the code to reproduce our results and figures is available on github: github.com/netneurolab/...

The effect of spherical projections on spin tests for brain maps | doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... Spin tests are the de facto null model for map-to-map comparisons in brain imaging. Why don't they perfectly control false positives? @vincebaz.bsky.social explores ⤵️

New preprint from stellar IRTG PhD student Amelie Rauland + team on white matter bundle reconstruction! Shows that WM bundles can be reliably extracted from simple 32-direction dMRI & features predict cognition - huge potential for legacy and clinical data. Thread 👇 www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

🔥ATTENTION!🔥 Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open! Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns. Details: tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6 Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...

🔥🧠Excited to announce that I am recruiting PhD students this fall. Our lab uses neuroimaging (MRI) and computational modeling to study the mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders, bridging genetic factor, brain circuitry, early life stress, and psychopathology. Please feel free to DM me.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Vincent Bazinet, Zhen-Qi Liu and Bratislav Misic: The effect of spherical projection on spin tests for brain maps doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

🚨 New preprint out! 🚨 “Translating the Transcriptome: A Connectomics Approach for Gene-Network Mapping and Clinical Application” 🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...  🧵 A short thread:

Please repost. The Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping is looking for a Preclinical MRI physicist (9.4T and 15.2T Bruker Advance Neo). You will join a team of 14 dedicated staff in Canada's National Ultra-high field MRI platform who also operate 3T and 7T human scanners in the same facility.

Interested in Network hubs, cortical hierarchies, and gradients? Ever wonder where they come from? Check our latest review, where we cover different approaches to mapping hubs, models for their evolution, and mechanisms for how they develop: osf.io/preprints/os...

Are you interested in our work on complex physical systems and applications (to neural systems)? Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘 We have two open positions: 1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA... 2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

💥🧠🧬Finally out!! Our new paper on the overlapping genetic basis of brain structures and psychiatric disorders has been published in Nature Mental Health. The full list of shared genetic loci is also available online. Thank you so much, Aaron and all co-authors. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Mapping cerebral blood perfusion and its links to multi-scale brain organization across the human lifespan | doi.org/10.1371/jour... How does blood perfusion map onto canonical features of brain structure and function? @asafarahani.bsky.social investigates @plosbiology.org ⤵️

Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our new preprint led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social where review the physics and physiology of cortical waves and their implications for psychological function: osf.io/preprints/ps... @nsb-lab.bsky.social

Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️

🧬🧠 Our latest study shows that individual brain dynamics are partly written in our genes. We found that heritable neurophysiological traits align with adult cortical gene expression and psychological function. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @theneuro.bsky.social @mcgill.ca

Really excited to share this new preprint on the dynamics of alpha-synuclein spreading by Dr. Stephanie Tullo in our group. This was a long term labour of love spanning the pandemic, experimental work, and in silico modelling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... See more below ⬇️

Fab new work from @kanepav.bsky.social with @jchrispang.bsky.social looking at how different measures of inter-regional FC are resistant to motion-related noise and how they can improve (or not) BWAS effect sizes. Peep the thread!

1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415...

New paper! We introduce an efficient set of statistical features for fMRI time series (calibrated on mouse manipulation experiments and tested on mouse and human data): catchaMouse16. Paper: doi.org/10.52294/001... Code (python/Matlab/C): github.com/DynamicsAndN...

1000s of studies have been published mapping neuroanatomical changes in psychiatric disorders. Can we ever converge on robust disease phenotypes? Our latest PP led by Trang Cao in a huge collab effort investigates this question... @nsb-lab.bsky.social

Check out this stellar work from the one-and-only @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social w/ team at @pennlinc.bsky.social + (many!) friends -- providing new evidence that thalamo-cortical connectivity coordinates the hierarchical progression of cortical plasticity in development. Out in @natneuro.nature.com.

How 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...

The splendour of unthresholded brain maps apertureneuro.org/article/1406...

#OHBM2025 was a blast -- the perfect way to celebrate submitting my PhD thesis with y'all 🎉 It was an honor (and so fun!) to represent the Aussie imaging community alongside a fab panel in the LOC Symposium, sharing my final thesis work on homotopic connectivity: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧠 Want to understand how different higher-order methods compare in brain connectivity analysis? Check out our new preprint — a fantastic collab with past & present NPL members @lordgrilo.bsky.social : 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A thread🧵

Join us today at 3:45 in P3 for our symposium on network controllability: connecting theory with empirical observations #ohbm2025 with talks from @marilyngatica.bsky.social @lindenmp.bsky.social and caio seguin with Louisa Schilling filling in for @amykooz.bsky.social. hope to see you there!