Okay, this is tough for me. The em dash has long been one of my writing ticks! (Drives my editors bonkers.) I'm not a robot. Honest. With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...

I’m about halfway through this update (first 11 tutorials are done). I think they’re a lot better. Using a consistent @easystats.github.io workflow throughout will - I think - massively reduce the cognitive load for students. Looking forward to road testing in autumn term.

One reason I developed LayNii IDA was to more easily explore my 0.35 mm multi echo human brain data. Here I’m observing blood motion artifacts across echos. The arterial signal *appear* to move across several millimeters. Best captured in short readout windows (e.g. ~3 ms readout windows in GRE).

Introducing our new favorite stimulus. A few minutes are enough to map the visual preferences of thousands of neurons. Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and @kenneth-harris.bsky.social

🧠✨ Excited to share that our literature review on retinotopic mapping in the human visual cortex is now published! tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b Amazing collab with Noah Benson and Alex Puckett! We hope this will be a helpful resource for pRF modellers and visual neuroscientists!

Thanks @fmri-today.bsky.social for the interview! I really enjoyed sharing my work on your podcast.

MAYBE DON’T EMAIL ME AT THE WEEKEND, THEN.

The thing I find mind boggling is that most people believe the shocking lying propaganda that gas stoves are better than induction cooktops. The audacity of this propaganda in face of the facts that the superiority of induction is obvious to anybody that has ever seen a decent one.

Huge China auction delivers another stunning fall in battery storage prices. It is being hailed as a potential tipping point for “round the clock” renewables.

Australia’s decision makers are letting off carbon bombs, dressing up as Elvis and are not even bothered to ratify a crucial high seas treaty. What hope do we have?

This 💯 Challenging the status quo: A guide to open and reproducible neuroimaging for early career researchers | Imaging Neuroscience | MIT Press direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025

This is your quarterly reminder that the hippocampus is a cortical (not subcortical) structure! Nicola Palomero-Gallagher underscored this point during our #OHBM2025 educational course!

Retinotopic mapping Fans Just finished my poster for OHBM. The results blow the discussion about V2 & V3 layout wide open. We find hemispheric asymmetry! Fantastic work by my student Ruby Barahona, collaboration with the also fantastic @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social and Noah Benson.

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

#OHBM2025 is around the corner, and I will be there to share the latest development on deepRetinotopy, our toolkit for predicting retinotopic maps from brain anatomy! Please come by poster #1531 on Friday and Saturday!

Retinotopic mapping Fans Just finished my poster for OHBM. The results blow the discussion about V2 & V3 layout wide open. We find hemispheric asymmetry! Fantastic work by my student Ruby Barahona, collaboration with the also fantastic @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social and Noah Benson.

Are you attending #OHBM2025 in Brisbane? I will be presenting in an educational session organized by Hiromasa Takemura and Nicola Palomero-Gallagher. Tuesday, Jun 24, 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM, Room M4 For details of our course please visit the following URL: ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/Even...

Ozge Karakale talking about visual attention to facial expressions by individuals with high and low autistic traits #ecp2025 @expsyanz.bsky.social

Will wind and solar kill industry? Not in South Australia, where dozens of industries are queueing to plug into the country’s most advanced renewable grid..

That's a pretty neat one. Not just the apparent jittering/moving effect, but more broadly...

“This is the TACO theory: Trump Always Chickens Out.” ~ Robert Armstrong, the Financial Times. 🐥

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There you go. Much more credible than this preprint... 😏 (Also: We are all doomed...)

Very neat presentation, awesome work @ofgulban.bsky.social . A true joy to watch.

Putin accusing the west getting emotional about Russia killing people.

Harmonized Protocol for Subfield Segmentation in the Hippocampal Body on High-Resolution in vivo MRI from the Hippocampal Subfields Group (HSG) | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very positive, lets get sharing the good news!

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...

Australia is generating more solar energy per capita than any other country according to latest data from Ember. And it’s in 4th place for combined solar and wind

"Misrepresenting facts", the new euphemism for lying.

Don’t you wish for the time when we were arguing about one space or double spaces after the period? (It should be one space btw)

We are recruiting for 5 permanent staff positions (Prof, Senior-, Lecturer) including for 7T-MRI. Please have a look and share widely. (Closing date: May 12) www.nature.com/naturecareer...

FLEXIBILITY FOR ALL: Since Apr 1 2025, all distribution network operators in Germany are required to offer variable grid fees for controllable consumers (think heat pumps, EVs, batteries). Animation illustrates this for a typical day. Red: high tariffs Blue: low tariffs 🧵

You probably won't believe how desperate Starliner's flight to the space station got last summer ... arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

The #electrification of Australian homes and vehicles is no longer trade-off between climate action and cost, but a guaranteed way to drive down the #cost-of-living

Seriously? "Loss of green space?" Their footprint is less than a square meter. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Hui Wang, Emi Takahashi, et al: Imaging of developing human brains with ex vivo PSOCT and dMRI doi.org/10.1162/imag...

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey

Today we interrupted @peterduttonmpposts.bsky.social's dribble to call out his dangerous nuclear distraction. At the Sydney HQ of the Lowy Institute, Zack and Nigel held a banner: “NUCLEAR LIES COST US ALL”, and asked “why are you lying to the Australian people about the cost of nuclear?” #auspol

“The ALP needs to learn that you can’t arrest your way out of the climate crisis” - instant classic line from Alexa Stuart You can support @risingtideaus.bsky.social legal fund here: chuffed.org/project/supp...

Kill the bird. Save the world.

Why did @abcnews fail to disclose that Parnell Palme McGuinness sits on the advisory board of a coal-funded, right-wing campaign group, now bankrolling attack billboards in teal electorates? She was given free rein to push Dutton’s pro-coal ‘nuclear’ plan with zero disclosure.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

Fossil fuel producers want to keep gas in Australian homes and they're fighting a global campaign to stop a phaseout. Me in @reneweconomy.com.au this morning.

In case it wasn’t clear before, the U.S. is officially aligned with Russia

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