New paper from the lab in which we test whether DDM and confidence distributions can be used to distinguish between perceptual and decisional effects. We show that putative signatures of perceptual effects emerge in a purely cognitive task. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

I couldn't find a tool to plot different #neuroimaging data in one consistent style, so I made one! Meet yabplot (yet another brain plot) - a #Python package for (sub)cortex & tracts.🧠 - Simple API - Built-in atlases - Custom atlas support 🔗 github.com/teanijarv/ya... (drop a ⭐️!)

This is what’s happening. I’m terrified and so, very tired.

Great new paper led by @bringmannlaura.bsky.social, highlight the need to collect qualitative data in ESM / EMA research. #PsychSciSky 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

How dynamics arise from the structure is my biggest interest. In this study, we started with a small step and asked how structure constrains dynamics. Spoiler: would that it were so simple… (1/6)

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Leon von Haugwitz, Edmund Wascher, and Mauro F. Larra: Cardiac phase modulates behavior and response related lateralization in visual spatial conflicts during change detection doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Today I am excited to introduce respyra - an open-source Python toolbox for respiratory tracking experiments in interoception research! Now on PyPI (pip install respyra) with a preprint on PsyArXiv: osf.io/preprints/ps... GitHub: github.com/embodied-com...

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀? Interesting paper tackling this difficult question. Answer (in part): it's complicated! The same fixed system can be interpreted as implementing many (even infinitely many) computations depending on the chosen decoding map. doi.org/10.1088/2632...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Yingzhe Li, Romy Lorenz, and Guang Ouyang: Behavioral variability and neural cross-frequency coupling distinguish working memory maintenance from manipulation doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

🚨 New paper from @apodschun.bsky.social (with Sebastian Markett, Urs Braun, and myself) Exploring the Role of the Rich Club in Network Control of Neurocognitive States onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Episode #38 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On extracting spiking network models from experiments - with Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn38 How to fit spiking network models to experimental data when there is no unique parameter set giving the best fit.

This is what’s happening. I’m terrified and so, very tired.

Aaaand it's out! After the past couple of months I'm really excited to show what I've made on and off, and hope you enjoy it too. I'll be working on making this a full game while I study, but, admittedly, have no idea when that'll be! Follow me here to keep up <3 octopily.itch.io/nautilus-dre...

New on the arxiv: “Graphs are maximally expressive for higher-order interactions” arxiv.org/abs/2602.16937 We clarify central misconceptions in the recent literature on "higher-order networks". w/ @piratepeel.bsky.social , @manlius.bsky.social, and @thilogross.bsky.social Explainer 🧵: 1/N

I like to think about brain areas as well behaved (b/c they do what you tell them too, like V1) vs naughty (b/c 🤷, like PFC). I'm delighted to learn that midbrain dopamine neurons are well behaved machines that convert objective value into subjective value. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

underappreciated concept 🙂 for more dipoles: neighboring dipoles have different orientations & can have different stimulus preferences. so even though topographies look similar, subtle differences remain. maybe that's why it is possible to decode information from relatively few sensors?

Future @ohbmofficial.bsky.social meeting dates just annouced: * 2027 - Toronto, Canada * 2028 - Yokohama, Japan www.ohbm-com.com/blog/futurem...

👀 A precise atlas of the human subcortex | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 "Cortical traveling waves in time and space: Physics, physiology, and psychology" is going to the top of the list! doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #neuroskyence

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ting Gong and Anastasia Yendiki: Microstructure.jl: A Julia package for probabilistic microstructure model fitting with diffusion MRI doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

At @elife.bsky.social you can now include explainer videos with every figure. Like going to a seminar while you engage with the paper. First example here elifesciences.org/articles/106... Click the arrows next to each figure to get a video of @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social explaining it for you!

Here’s a thought that might make you tilt your head in curiosity: With every movement of your eyes, head, or body, the visual input to your eyes shifts! Nevertheless, it doesn't feel like the world does suddenly tilts sideways whenever you tilt your head. How can this be? TWEEPRINT ALERT! 🚨🧵 1/n

The best part though: Working with amazing graduate student *Maria Servetnik* from our lab, who did all the heavy lifting. Not to mention lots of inspiration & input from @mjwolff.bsky.social. I'm am one very lucky PI 😊 n/n

Thanks to The Transmitter for reaching out to me for comments on this methodological challenge to lesion network mapping. Scientific debate is critical to methodological advancement - so let the debate begin! www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...

More than 200 published studies and at least seven ongoing clinical trials rely on potentially faulty brain network maps, according to a study published yesterday. By @avaskham.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...

It won't actually exist for another month or so, but because it now 'exists' on amazon, I'll humbly observe that, after working through this book, your student/trainee would be able to read and understand all but two or three papers in this week's J. Neurosci. Check it out:

This one! Fascinating in its own right and the back story also. bsky.app/profile/nico...

I've been fascinated for a few month about a paper showing a method to synthetize an anonymized dataset from an original dataset. This could really motivate teams to share more freely their data with the public but I have no idea why it hasn't caught on. Maybe just bad COVID timing?

What do we actually mean when we say “generative model” in neuroimaging? The term is everywhere, in neuroscience and AI, but its meaning is often assumed rather than stated. In a new bioRxiv perspective, we asked how researchers really use and understand it. 🧵

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Bradley G. Karat, Jelle Veraart, et al: Revisiting the interpretation of axon diameter mapping using higher-order signal representations doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

For 15(!) years I’ve been teaching introductory #MRI to grad students, and struggled to find a textbook for a wide variety of backgrounds. I'm happy to share an online textbook I created, fully open source (including code for generating figures and plots shown): larsonlab.github.io/MRI-educatio...

TransBrain translates brain phenotypes between mouse and human via homology mapping. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new MRI protocol can scan the human brain and its venous network in under 7 minutes at 0.35 mm iso. resolution, marking it as a potential tool for diagnosing cerebrovascular diseases and monitoring neurodegeneration. scim.ag/3LkRfRY

Renauld et al. present scilpy, an open-source #Python library for diffusion magnetic resonance imaging and tractography: doi.org/10.52294/001... @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

I'm very excited to finally see this one out in @natneuro.nature.com ! It has been an incredible journey alongside extremely talented people! Thanks to everyone involved and enjoy the reading! 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

WE ARE HIRING! The Smyth Lab at Monash University is looking for a postdoc to join our team! Come join us if you are excited about neuroimmunology and the meninges. 📍 Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺 Apply now: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... #Neuroimmunology #Meninges #PostdocJobs

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

Interested in the biophysics of organoids? We just published a review in Dev Cell—take a look! dlvr.it/TPyTb8 #Organoids #Biophysics

If you are planning to go to OHBM 2026 this year, consider attending the pre-conf Brain Connectivity Workshop, celebrating our 25th year! @ohbmofficial.bsky.social www.bcw2026.org

The best of ‘this paper changed my life’ in 2025 www.thetransmitter.org/this-paper-c... #neuroscience

Thread highlights new work from @nikhil-mishra.bsky.social & @heisenbergcplab.bsky.social 🐟 Link to open-access article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The most recognisable feature of the human brain is its folds. So why do other animals’ brains look so different?

for years, I've said my favorite conspiracy theory about the brain is that "neurons are a front, glial cells do all the real work", mostly (but not completely) as a joke. Welp... "Astrocyte ensembles are sufficient and necessary for recall" 👀👀👀 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You've graduated with your bachelor's...now what 😳 Check out our year-long, postbacc internships! Get on-job-experience and mentorship that will help you pursue your educational and career goals. 🔗 https://alleninstitute.org/careers/internships/

Blog post: Just quit Quitting projects in science is hard, but we should be doing a lot more of it. open.substack.com/pub/arjunraj...

As you contemplate your 2026 New Year's resolutions, here's a challenge: 1) Go to reddit. 2) Search for something you study or otherwise know about. 3) Draw inspiration from misunderstandings. 4) Do something in 2026 to shift the needle toward better understanding, if even just a little bit!

"My New Year's Resolution is to find a principled way to think about all those cell types in the brain" Why friend, you are in luck, because @rgast.bsky.social has just the perspective for you: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just published my review of neuroscience in 2025, on The Spike. The 10th of these, would you believe? This year we have foundation models, breakthroughs in using light to understand the brain, a gene therapy, and more Enjoy! medium.com/the-spike/20...

With all the excitement about AI giving us answers, we often forget that the real trick is to figure out what is the question.

About 10 years ago I came across 'fractal dimensionality' as a measure of brain structure. Studying it's utility with healthy aging, clinical populations, and across species has led to 19 papers since then. The most recent paper is now online at Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41...