New preprint ↙️ Using 2 independent 7T fMRI datasets (HCP & our PNI dataset 🧲 💅 ), we found that intersubject synchronization 👯 during movies aligns closely with cortical gradients 🌈, especially along the visual-to-transmodal axis by Meaghan Smith & a terrific team ↙️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

For researchers in Canada and the USA 👇 Online info session about ERC research grants, on Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 at 12:00 noon ET (9:00 AM PT, 6:00 PM CEST). The meeting is free but advance registration is required. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/no...

HippoMaps: an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @jordandekraker.bsky.social @borismontreal.bsky.social @jclauneuro.bsky.social @neuroak.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social @donnagift.bsky.social

🚨 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...

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

There is increasing interest in using AI tools not only to listen in on animal speech, but also to potentially talk back go.nature.com/4pqGYCP

The peer review process: 3 strangers yelling “more cowbell” at your life's work

Interested in hippocampal dynamics and their interactions with cortical rhythms? Our physically constrained model of cortico-hippocampal interactions - complete with fast geometrically informed numerical simulation (available at embedded github repo) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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 ⤵️

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

🚨 𝗔̲𝗯̲𝘀̲𝘁̲𝗿̲𝗮̲𝗰̲𝘁̲ ̲𝗗̲𝗲̲𝗮̲𝗱̲𝗹̲𝗶̲𝗻̲𝗲̲ ̲𝗔̲𝗽𝗽𝗿̲𝗼̲𝗮̲𝗰̲𝗵̲𝗶̲𝗻̲𝗴!̲ 🚨 The Neuroimaging of Epilepsy Worldwide (NEW) is hosting, for the second year in a row, a networking and talk session at the Annual Meeting of the CLAE/LCCE in Calgary 🐎. 1/3

🔥🧠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.

🔥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...

New paper🥳 🧠 In TLE, brain changes go beyond the temporal lobe & beyond normal aging. Our ENIGMA study (769 patients, 18 sites) found widespread gray & white matter decline, especially after 55. By Judy Chen and a terrific intl' team Time for earlier diagnosis & deeper research bit.ly/3HRYeQt

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...

🎉 New paper in press at @epilepsiajournal.bsky.social "MRI-negative epilepsy: A systematic review and meta-analysis" led by Ravnoor Gill et al. We highlight ambiguities in the term "MRI-negative" & stress better imaging and analysis to improve epilepsy care 👉 doi.org/10.1111/epi....

Epilepsy 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...

We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

1 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...

Hot Summer Nights the new album by the Natural Philosophers is out now. If you would like to help: Stream it a few times Post reply mentioning a track you like by name. Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52... Apple Music music.apple.com/us/album/hot... Soundcloud soundcloud.com/npwa/sets/ho...

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...

My hot take on Jeff Bezos' wedding: That $50 million price tag is double what the US government was spending annually on food and medicine for 5 million AIDS orphans before the Trump administration canceled it. We are literally letting orphans die rather than make this guy pay taxes.

Nature Communications A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Karolinska is looking for 20 (!!) assistant professors and offering 6 year appointments with ~1M USD startup packages. ki.se/en/about-ki/...

🌈🌈🌈 Gradients 2025 happening today in beautiful brisbane QUT Gardens Point Campus room GP-P-514 maps.app.goo.gl/ZhX7YuGwh36f... 🌈🌈🌈

The Neuro (aka MNI) is looking for a new director Key priorities for this exciting/challenging position are to sustain & enhance excellence in: 🧠 neurosciences research & teaching; 🧠 clinical care; 🧠 & to boost provincial, national, and international profile More info & apply here: bit.ly/3SZvnvx

New preprint & OA dataset from the lab 🥳 An open dataset of cerebral tau deposition in young healthy adults based on [18F]MK6240 positron emission tomography by Jack Lam and a terrific team of colleagues at the Neuro, Douglas and UCL ▶️ pdf doi.org/10.1101/2025... ▶️ bids osf.io/znt9d

📢 Paper out! Focal Cortical Dysplasia-linked epilepsy is more complex than expected - somatic mTOR-activating mutations affect multiple cell lineages, yet only a fraction become cytomegalic. Dysmorphic neurons show mitochondrial dysfunction. #Epilepsy #BrainMosaicism #Neurodevelopment

⭐ new paper Maturation of cortical excitation-inhibition (EI) in adolescence now in Science Advances 💥 A true tour de force of multimodal MRI, connectomics & GPU-powered 🤖!! biophysical modelling by hiball superheroes 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️ @amnsbr.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social @sbe.bsky.social

We are seeking a scientific coordinator for my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig 😊🧠🌈 Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc! Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?

🚨🚨🚨PREPRINT ALERT🚨🚨🚨 Neural dynamics across cortical layers are key to brain computations - but non-invasively, we’ve been limited to rough "deep vs. superficial" distinctions. What if we told you that it is possible to achieve full (TRUE!) laminar (I, II, III, IV, V, VI) precision with MEG!

💫 no research this time, but check out my new mix below 💫 soundcloud.com/beschallert/... 🙏 @johnalexandra.bsky.social for awesome mentorship 🎧

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

The 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

⭐ preprint ⭐ In-vivo evidence for increased tau deposition in temporal lobe epilepsy ➡️ Using [¹⁸F]MK-6240 PET, we show increased tau in young and middle aged TLE ➡️ Tau aggregation potential mechanism of disease progression & cognitive decline ➡️ pdf bit.ly/4mmlTYH by Raul Cruces & a super team

Preprint 🥳 "A unified imaging-histology framework for superficial white matter architecture studies in the human brain" 🧠 SMW key for brain structure-function links 🤔 understudied because of its complexity 💡 SMW mapping for histology & MRI 🌟 OA 📖 lnkd.in/ef8bGGrF by Youngeun Hwang et al

Come join us at @westernuresearch.bsky.social as a Canada Excellence Research Chair! DM me with questions/interest about theme 2! Be a part of a strong and well-equipped (e.g., imaging, behaviour) neuroscience community! uwo.ca/research/cer... @westernuwin.bsky.social @westernubrainscan.bsky.social

🎓 My lab has 2 PhD positions with @cimecunitrento.bsky.social 1️⃣ 🧠 Watch the 🐭 brain in motion, with functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI) 2️⃣🧪 Mess with the 🐭 brain (experimentally) via causal perturbations + imaging 🔬 Neuro/physics/bioengeneering backgrounds welcome 👉Info ▶️https://lnkd.in/dDeTTDj2

✨ What makes the brain's functional organization different in each #TLE patient? 🧠 ✨ We used a large sample (298 healthy adults, 282 TLE, 45 disease controls) + normative modeling to capture individualized functional disruptions. 🔎 #epilepsy #neuroimaging #precisionmedicine doi.org/10.1101/2025...

in press @natcomms.nature.com 🌟 "Multimodal gradients unify local and global cortical organization" 7T MRI + cytoarchitectonics reveal a sensory-paralimbic axis of areal specialization & integration led by superstar Yezhou Wang & a terrific team of friends & colleagues ▶️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...

TODAY 🤖 #AI and #Epilepsy "Using AI/ML to Revolutionize Management & Prognosis of Epilepsy" ft. Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht of @emorydeptofmed.bsky.social ⌛TODAY, April 17 at 4 PM 📍 @theneuro.bsky.social Info 👉 www.mcgill.ca/neuro/channe... Hosted by #ACAR's @borismontreal.bsky.social

While the world burns, we cook up a new preprint! doi.org/10.1101/2025... Biophysical modeling is a key tool to derive mechanistic insights into the brain. These models are governed by biologically meaningful parameters (unlike artificial neural networks), but the dirty secret ... 1/N

Really looking forward to the next epilepsy lecture on April 17 with @egleich.bsky.social 🦾

Bringing #AI to @theneuro.bsky.social for our next #Epilepsy Lecture 🤖 "Using AI/ML to Revolutionize Management & Prognosis of Epilepsy" ft. Ezequiel Gleichgerrcht of @emorydeptofmed.bsky.social ⌛Thurs, April 17 at 4 PM Info 👉 www.mcgill.ca/neuro/channe... Hosted by @borismontreal.bsky.social

We are hiring! We're looking for a Research Office to help out with recruitment & assessment on a large-scale study looking at the relationship between brain imaging measures and psychopathology. Please forward this link to anyone who might be interested: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/ci/en/jo...