*New Paper* How genes for IQ shape brain organisation. Amazing work led by Alicja Monaghan @mrccbu.bsky.social reveals 2 ways. First, they’re associated w/ the ‘costs’ of network formation. Second, they define ‘high value’ areas within the network. How she did it…🧵 doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

*New Paper* How genes for IQ shape brain organisation. Amazing work led by Alicja Monaghan @mrccbu.bsky.social reveals 2 ways. First, they’re associated w/ the ‘costs’ of network formation. Second, they define ‘high value’ areas within the network. How she did it…🧵 doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Deadline for this funded PhD to work with me and @duncanastle.bsky.social is soon! 26 July. The student must be a woman (because it’s based at Newnham College) and eligible for UK home fees.

Alert! ... for the child development world! @fluxsociety.bsky.social @fitngin.bsky.social ‪ The Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study has released its first data wave - it’s massive. Check here: docs.hbcdstudy.org and here: nbdc-datahub.org Here’s why it matters 🧠🍼

Absolute honour to chair this panel of superstars @royalsociety.org yesterday, including @duncanastle.bsky.social & @tamsinford.bsky.social

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Alicja Monaghan, Danyal Akarca, and Duncan E. Astle: Brain wiring economics, network organisation and population-level genomics doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

PhD studentship at Cambridge! Closing date for applications: 26/07/25 You need to be a woman and eligible for UK home fees. And interested in doing a PhD in developmental cognitive neuroscience and education, based in Cambridge, UK (not hybrid/remote)

🧠⚖️📉 How does the cortical excitation-inhibition ratio mature during adolescence? We asked this in our new paper just out in #ScienceAdvances ✨ “Adolescent maturation of cortical excitation-inhibition ratio based on individualized biophysical network modeling” 📄 www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 🧵⤵️

Opportunity to do a PhD in developmental science alongside some absolutely fantastic scientists!! Share widely!

Amazing funded phd opportunity with great supervisors👇👇👇👇👇

Do you like brain network hubs?🧠🌐✳️Do you like genes?🧬What about neurodevelopment?👶What if I told you the latest work by @garedaba.bsky.social and myself combined all of these?🤯🤯🤯 See Gareth's thread for a primer of our findings, then read the paper for the details! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This is a really cool project! Please repost to anyone interested at the intersection between developmental cognitive neuroscience and education!

PhD studentship available in developmental cognitive neuroscience, in Cambridge - please publicise. Open to women candidates, as the student will be based at Newnham College.

Funded PhD opportunity with @sjblakemore.bsky.social and I, at Cambridge. We are looking for someone interested in developmental science, to start in the coming academic year. Please share it with anyone you think might be interested (see details attached 😁). drive.google.com/file/d/1RIvg...

New study out now (doi.org/10.1111/ejn....)! Modelling MEG dynamics with RNNs reveals how reduced inhibition may shape neural signatures in ZDHHC9-linked neurodivergence!🧠🧬 Thanks to all co-authors! @achterbrain.bsky.social @danakarca.bsky.social @kbgenesbrains.bsky.social @duncanastle.bsky.social

We are hiring! We're looking for a great project manager to help with a large-scale Wellcome funded study. If you know of anyone that this might appeal to, please share. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49880/

We are hiring! We're looking for a great project manager to help with a large-scale Wellcome funded study. If you know of anyone that this might appeal to, please share. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49880/

New year, a new chapter 🎇. I am super excited to begin my postdoctoral fellowship at the @mrccbu.bsky.social with @duncanastle.bsky.social 's incredible 4D group, where I'll continue studying aspects of how the social environment affects brain networks and health 🧠 🧑‍🔬🧪 #posdoc #Cambridge_Uni

Incredible visit to Wimpole Hall Christmas lights. Genuinely magical. @nationaltrust.bsky.social

Fish and chip shop called... "FRYING NEMO" You're welcome.

**We are recruiting** Seeking a postdoc to work on a Wellcome-funded cohort study focusing on social-cognitive processing in typically developing children and adolescents (aged 8-18 years) and children and adolescents with 22q11.1 deletion syndrome. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49291/

*standing applause* I agree with the sentiment in this blog. The Royal Society and by extension its members are tacitly endorsing Elon Musk by him being a fellow, and will be associated with him by the public too. FRS is the fourth word of his Wikipedia entry.

Dorothy Bishop explains why Elon Musk’s membership in the Royal Society devalues the entire organization.

When principles trump prestige. Thank you @deevybee.bsky.social.

I feel at this point, we've surely got to admit we're in some kind of parody... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Barbara sends her best regards to the good people of bluesky...

I just set up @jcogneurosci.bsky.social ; at some point it will post papers as they publish, if folks want to friend that account. thx

Reposting this because: (1) The linked paper is a super interesting perspective piece on theory of computation (2) Discussion on modularity in the thread this post is attached to! #compneuro #neuroAI

We’re halfway to happy birthday! 6 months ago we launched Belonging in School, a free, school-level resource for educators who want to develop more inclusive policies. Haven’t seen it yet? Download the content and watch our introductory webinar here! inclusion.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk

Two research-focussed lectureships in Psychology available @UEAPsychology - come and join our fabulous department at Uni of East Anglia in beautiful Norfolk vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/79...

Babs to the max.

Barbara is ready to take on 2024. Primed and ready.

Two postdoc positions and a PhD studentship now open in my team, based in @singmolsci.bsky.social. If you know any keen candidates who are interested in working on a cardiovascular project funded by NSW Health (Australia), please share broadly 🧪 1/ lab.signalling-nanodomains.org/Join/

Oh no we didn't!* *we actually did...

We've just advertised a four year lectureship in Development/environmental #geography at Cardiff. Lovely bunch of friendly and super-interesting colleagues. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEP518/l...

Great way to finish a really busy term - the lab away day at Madingley Hall. Chance to reflect, share big ideas, plan for the year ahead, and have a lot of fun!

Two years ago @danakarca.bsky.social & I wondered: Could the features we observe in brains across species be caused by shared functional, structural & energetic constraints?🧠⚡️   With our spatially embedded RNN we show this is true!   www.nature.com/articles/s42... 🧵 #neuroscience #compneuro #NeuroAI

We have x4 Postdoc positions @ Cambridge, @ the fantastic MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, working on exciting comp neuro, imaging and NeuroAI projects… w/ @duncanastle.bsky.social, Petra Vertes + others! Link here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43796/ If you have any questions, hmu! (Do plz share!)

**POSTDOC KLAXON** We are have *FOUR* postdoc positions. Come and work with myself, @danakarca.bsky.social , Petra Vertes and a host of great scientists. We'll be working on computational models of network formation, learning how early environments shape development. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43796/

**POSTDOC KLAXON** We are have *FOUR* postdoc positions. Come and work with myself, @danakarca.bsky.social , Petra Vertes and a host of great scientists. We'll be working on computational models of network formation, learning how early environments shape development. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/43796/

Babs...

Babs sends her best regards

Very proud to have published this important paper in @journalautism.bsky.social

New paper doi.org/10.1111/desc... We (@duncanastle.bsky.social @MarevaSilvana) examined if parental socioeconomic status predicts specific cognitive skills after controlling for general cognitive ability. We compiled data from three large-scale cohorts, over 14,000 pps. #DevSci #DevPsy #CogSci

Multiple assistant and associate professor positions at the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. Ample opportunity to develop research at the Centre for Human Brain Health (@TheCHBH). www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDJ767/a... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDJ765/a...

Barbara has every sympathy for those caught in the rain on their commute home.

Hopefully dropping a new preprint next week by the amazing @akulsatish.bsky.social. Using MEG to reveal the oscillatory dynamics involved in spatial learning, building on our previous fMRI experiment by @samberens.bsky.social: direct.mit.edu/jocn/article... #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #Cognition

This looks fantastic. Can't wait to dive into this paper.

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #compneurosky

*New paper* W/ Sofia Carozza (not a twit) & @danakarca.bsky.social, in PNAS The adaptive stochasticity hypothesis shorturl.at/clz02 Bottom line: heightened stochasticity makes brains robust to random/targeted attacks, but more often results in non-normative phenotypes Mini thread below!