Grateful for the mentorship of @andreashorn.org and Garance Meyer, and for an incredible group of collaborators behind this work!

What is the status of DBS for epilepsy? Find out in our new review/metaanalysis spearheaded by @laurenahart.bsky.social & Garance Meyer in JNNP: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40666371/ A 🧵 — please RT for reach! 🙏

Finally some good news 🧀

Merry Christmas from the Network Stimulation Institute in Cologne. And yes, these are DBS electrodes hanging at our Christmas tree.

See you in Geneva! We have such an incredible line up of speakers this year! #optoDBS2026 – registration now open at www.optodbs.ch As last time, we are expanding scope way beyond just DBS and optogenetics – for instance including TMS and LIFU applications this year!

Deep brain stimulation can improve Parkinson’s disease symptoms, but selecting the optimal stimulation contact still relies on laborious trial-and-error.

I've been trying to build a #Tourette syndrome starter pack, but lots of folks I would want to add I haven't yet found on Bluesky. Please share and/or sign up. go.bsky.app/34YXoZG

I'll sleep in bedroom 4.

If you have never listened to the Deftones (& I'm fairly certain many of you have, so you'll agree!) then please listen to this track from their latest album ❤️😭 Give me this over Ed Sheeran any day 'i think about you all the time' Private Music, #Deftones open.spotify.com/track/0M5NH2...

New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.

Is good science, trust. 👇👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A small but significant step: Dutch national broadcaster NOS is leaving X. “The volume of hateful comments and disinformation on X is enormous and flows freely. This also applies under our own posts, meaning we unintentionally contribute to their spread” over.nos.nl/nieuws/nos-p...

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

I take on average 10,000 stills and a half hour of video every week. Most I'll never think about again. This I'll hold onto until I grow old. 4 hours ago. Zero edits. No recoloring. No cropping. Nothing. Just straight up reality. 🦑

Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall

For the first time in my career, I can’t tell people to trust what the CDC website says. And that is an incredibly sad and devastating place for this country to be.

The field is buzzing about work on brain-computer interfaces for speech, the mechanism of psychedelics, a broader definition of hippocampal representations and more. www.thetransmitter.org/community/th... #neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience

The collection features work from: @andreashorn.org, @barbarahollunder.bsky.social, @emilyjacobs.bsky.social, @mayags.bsky.social, @deisseroth.bsky.social, Tim Behrens, @melgaby.bsky.social, Sven Dorkenwald, Steve Flavell, Mala Murthy, H. Sebastian Seung and many more neuroscientists

In Buzzy Papers we set out to compile some of the most exciting neuroscience papers published in the past two years! A panel of 10 neuroscientists selected the papers from a preliminary list our editorial team assembled by considering publications in top neuroscience journals

Cave with such statements, PFC. Hypothalamus would protest. And if you mess with hypothalamus, you die.

Congratulations to @barbarahollunder.bsky.social for her @natneuro.nature.com paper to be listed in @thetransmitter.bsky.social's 2025 special report on the state of neuroscience among “The buzziest neuroscience papers of 2023, 2024” www.thetransmitter.org/community/th...

❤️ Bluesky fMRI people! 3-day #fMRI course live online Jan 7-9, 2026. #SPM, #ICA, GLM, connectivity, mediation, MRI physics, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Come join us! Register here: sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

“data show an increase of 10% in submissions & 23% in funded projects from female applicants with the lottery-first approach compared to a previously used procedure. Additionally, the lottery-first approach was estimated to have 68% lower economic costs compared to single-stage peer review approach”

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe! We are uniting two research powerhouses. For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more. Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

The one thing I missed most while living in the US. edition.cnn.com/travel/germa...

“Speaking in English, and reaching a US audience directly, the pope reiterated the Catholic belief that every Christian will ultimately be judged on how they welcomed "the foreigner". (Luke 10:25-37)

Blown away after visiting INM-1 led by Katrin Amunts this Monday – Markus Axer and her showed us their setup of acquiring whole-brain slices (e.g. 7,000 of them to make up Bigbrain 1) – and the mesmerizing effects of polarized light on cryosectioned (raw) brain sections as can be seen in the video.

Super happy to have one of the official iconic BigBrain trophies on my desk after giving a keynote at the recent HIBALL summit. Even though it was a nuisance and led to lots of issues in the BigBrain 1 space, this uniquely skewed brain shape is now iconic and went into the annals of neuroscience.

This is 🤯 All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool. #neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...

Nice case report led by Ben Shofty's team adding prospective evidence for tract based reprogramming in deep brain stimulation for obsessive compulsive disorder out in @biologicalpsych.bsky.social: www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000... 🧵

Exciting Sievers lecture by Kamil Uludag ar the HIBALL symposium: what is needed to enable single subject fmri? W shoutout to main developments w LNM @foxmdphd.bsky.social, functional fingerprinting and digital twins.

Truly awe-inspiring updates around BigBrain given by Katrin Amunts at the HIBALL closing symposium in Berlin today.

"At this moment in time, of course, the release of the TRUMPSTEIN Files is really the public's main priority."

What... ...and I say this with all sincerity... ...the fuck

This photo. @sfstandard.com #SFO sfstandard.com/2025/10/23/b...

Suzanne Haber was just elected to the National Academy of Medicine! Her work on the organization of the cortex and basal ganglia has had a huge impact. Please take the opportunity to congratulate her the next time you see her. www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/u...

For Twitter refugees: A science and an #NIH starter pack. First, my neuro starter pack. 1/

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.

Congratulations to Philippe Aghion on receiving the Nobel Prize in economics. A proud moment for Europe and a strong reminder that innovation and openness are the foundations of our shared prosperity. Philippe’s contributions helped shape Mario Draghi’s vision for European competitiveness.

“CDC will have lost its ability to detect outbreaks and respond to them. It will no longer be able to track diseases, in America and around the globe. That includes infectious threats like flu, foodborne illnesses, and Ebola, as well as chronic diseases and injuries.” time.com/7325192/cdc-...

Asking homeowners for permission would kill the burglary industry

The current environment is making it near impossible to run clinical trials in the UK. One key issue discussed in @brain1878.bsky.social is the duplication - or worse - of regulatory oversight at NHS hospitals & universities. My views on how to change the system academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

A big thanks to our speakers: Jonathan Downar @andreashorn.org Joe Taylor, Joshua Brown, Roel Mocking and Joris van Neijenhof for making this a great succes (evaluated at a 9.4/10)! Also thanks to Deymed Diagnostic and MagVenture for support!

What a great TMS Masterclass we just had, great engaging group of attendees and speakers from across the globe and learnt a lot on the latest in TMS and Brain Stimulation.

Ghostwriting of the finest sense.

Lancet: Offline: Those one should not forgive (Makary and Bhattacharya) by Richard Horton bit.ly/3IPC0PD

Fantastic talk by Joe Taylor on the „philosophers scan“ and how imaging can help neuromodulation at the Brainclinics TMS Masterclass in Nijmegen!

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.