My wife is in Alzheimer's research. It turns out that the same bogus "quantile regression" methods that have been used to exaggerate genomic findings (bsky.app/profile/ent3...) are also being used to promote marginally effective AD treatments.

🔦 Speaker Spotlight: Angela Laird, Ph.D. 🎤 Reliability Across the Eras: From Early Discoveries to Population Neuroscience 🧠 Pioneer in neuroimaging meta-analysis (ALE, NiMARE, Neurosynth), shaping how we synthesize brain data at scale. 🔗 www.humanbrainmapping.org/2026-feature...

the creatures in Elysium really love a sunny day

Have you ever looked close-up at the "boring, white" blossoms of a horse chestnut tree? They are amazing!

today's new arrivals

Many congratulations to Betina Ip, Nima Khalighinejad, and Will Clarke, who have all been deservingly awarded the title of Associate Professor!

Register now for the next in-person FSL Course 2026 in Bordeaux, France! 🗓️ June 22-26, 2026 🧠 Covering: lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis 🔗 More info: open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...

Apply now for OxCIN Global Scholars! 🎯For early-career MRI researchers in the Global South 💻Remote 1-year affiliation with OxCIN 🧠Training in MRI physics & analysis, inc FSL 🌎Build global connections 🗓️Apply by 28 June 2026 🔗https://www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/training/global-scholars Please repost!

Oxford University’s Proctors have raised concerns about insufficient expenditure on buildings and staff. They also described the introduction of OpenAI as “startling” and “problematic” and questioned whether it would undermine the integrity of online admissions. gazette.web.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

springy sunny sunday

Updated PANDORA preprint now available www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

When we acquire multimodal MRI data, they give us complementary views on the same tissue. How can we combine this rich information to improve the specificity of tissue modelling in MRI?

Register now for the in-person FSL Course 2026 in Bordeaux, France! 🗓️ June 22-26, 2026 🧠 Covering: lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis 🔗 open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...

Registration is now open for the 2026 FSL Course. 22-26 June, in Bordeaux (the week after OHBM). open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...

Finally signs of spring! Last night, first sighting of Great Crested Newts - 6 large adults heading down to the pond (iphone photo not great, but you can see the male's white tail stripe and the crest flopped down along the back), and today the geese arrived for the summer.

✅ The UK Government has today granted access to half a million UK Biobank participants' coded GP data for health research. This change will dramatically increase the power of UK Biobank's dataset to advance the diagnosis, treatment and management of conditions handled by GPs.

Save the date! FSL Course 2026 is provisionally planned in-person​ for June 22nd - 26th in Bordeaux, France. More details and the registration link will be posted on the FSL Course website soon. open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...

three owl species that we saw near Chambal, India

One lovely day in the middle of a cold, grey, wet week. Pond is semi-frozen, sun is shining on the pollarded willows who are growing back red. A few bullrushes are starting to go to seed.

My new gig is PI of the CANN group at Trinity College Dublin and University of Oxford (50/50). Funded by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, we'll be recruiting postdocs, PhDs and an RA in Dublin and Oxford soon. So exciting! @oxcin.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @tcdscss.bsky.social

Hey Siri, can you remove the scaffolding. But seriously, even with bits of scaffolding, this is the most beautiful building I've seen.

Just got back from India - amazing wonderful country. Some pictures from the "Baby Taj" in Agra.

Preprint on PANDORA by Aslan Abivardi: A massive archive of UK Biobank brain imaging from 82K subjects. For each of 98 sub-modalities (e.g., FA from dMRI), the images are collated into a convenient subjectsXvoxels HDF5 file. pages.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/pandora/web/ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

For people using the @ukbiobank.bsky.social UKB RAP cloud system for brain imaging analyses: In order to make RAP much easier to use, we have created a Docker which is easy to install and gives you a graphical desktop, FSLeyes and the HCP wb_view. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

(with apologies to non-UK folks) - we just discovered this *amazing* cheese - semi-hard, with a taste that is a confusingly incredible combination of being both subtle and yet rich and complex. parkfarm.co.uk/products/mer...

I often think about the fact that all the universities in 🇨🇦 together did not produce 11 Nobel Prizes in that period (or since). Not from a lack of brilliance, but from a lack of steady funding and the insistence on significant teaching loads and mind-numbing committee memberships for all faculty.

Latest processing of UK Biobank brain imaging data - now with 82,000 usable first-scan datasets. Correlating brain IDPs with 13,000 non-imaging variables gives a rich manhattan-stye plot. 324,000 Bonferroni-significant associations.

Many UK universities likely to walk away from journal agreements after publishers put forward proposals with “year-on-year price rises” rather than cheaper deals demanded by national negotiators, @davidprosser.bsky.social tells @jgro-the.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/busines...

Where is the money going? In the case of for-profit publishers it's very clear: Your open access fees fund corporate profit margins. Profit margins for large academic publishers can far exceed those of household names like Amazon and Apple. chart source: bit.ly/4leULKi #scipub #academicsky

Congratulations to Holly Schofield and @curlyryes.bsky.social for being chosen from over 350 papers that were published by @imagingneurosci.bsky.social in 2024. Holly accepted the award at OHBM in Brisbane and Ryan celebrated the win from Dublin! www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/scienti...

It's Pride Month. On the weekend, we were delighted to have a Pride breakfast celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer members of the University of Oxford. And then proceeded to join the Oxford Pride parade. The weather was wet -- but that didn't dampen spirits

🧪 Scientists are pushing back against the gutting of US research funding. Now scientists outside of the NIH and members of the public can sign on in support of the Bethesda declaration: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec... More about the Bethesda declaration: apnews.com/article/nih-...

I guess the main difference between social media and the BBC is that you won't see "popcorn" on any BBC pages today?

Indeed - and Oxford Labour just as bad, concreting over every bit of green they can, destroying the countryside for future generations. @cllrsbrown.bsky.social @maryoxford.bsky.social @annarailton.bsky.social

🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride Month from OxCIN! 🏳️‍🌈 If you're in Oxford, come and say hi at our inclusive research-themed stall at the Pride festival in South Park this Saturday!

Happy to see my first first-author paper in Imaging Neuroscience (along with @fmrib-karla.bsky.social and @nichols.bsky.social): Characterising ongoing brain aging and baseline effects from cross-sectional data doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

sunny spring day yesterday - time for some macro pics in the garden

Not *always* so cute!

First trip to The Mainland

Geese exploring Beckmann Island

Gosling Birth Day! Best part of May.

Registration Open! FSL Course 2025 will be held fully online, 15th – 26th September. Details & registration info here: open.win.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou... The course covers lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis.

Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social & @wmatchin.bsky.social for organizing this, for giving me the opportunity to present on behalf of @imagingneurosci.bsky.social, and for this excellent write-up of the session 🙏🏻 Next up: #ISMRM2025 🏝 diffusion study group, where I'll make a cameo to talk about this!

We're excited to announce that WIN is now the Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging: OxCIN! Our mission: developing and deploying neuroimaging and related technology to solve big challenges in basic neuroscience and brain health. oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/vision

As well as a new name, OxCIN also has a brand new Director: Karla Miller! @fmrib-karla.bsky.social We are grateful for 10 years of superb leadership by Heidi Johansen-Berg @heidijoberg.bsky.social and excited to see the new ideas Karla will bring. More about Karla: oxcin.ox.ac.uk/people/karla...

And Early Purple Orchids also near Oxford - who knew some orchids come out so early!

University Arboretum on a sunny weekend. Best bluebell woods :-)

There is ONE WEEK left to vote in the OHBM Council Election. 🔗 in comments! #OHBMCouncil #Elections #VoteToday