Theta-gamma phase amplitude coupling serves as a marker of social cognition and visual working memory deficits in individuals with elevated autistic traits www.nature.com/articles/s44... #neuroscience

I wonder how long conferences will still be in existence. Less grant income and less (or no) department slush funds mean that it's practically impossible to attend, let alone fund a whole lab. It's a real shame.

When I was a PhD student, OHBM was my favorite conference. This year, it is in France, and I thought about going again. However, the rates are crazy high if you are not a student member, also compared to other conferences. I don't think this is still worth it.

Happy to share that our #Python implementation of GEDAI (Generalized Eigenvalue De-Artifacting Instrument) is now available 🐍 💻 🧠 neurotuning.github.io/gedai/dev/in...

🧠 #ScienceSnack: The human brain must be able to link memories to their circumstances. Bonn Researchers have discovered two different neuron groups our brain uses to store content and context separately. Findings have been published in @nature.com. www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/004-... © UKB/A. Winkler

What is the computational role of dendritic excitations? Byung Hun Lee and team mapped voltage dynamics throughout the dendritic trees of CA1 pyramidal neurons in mice navigating in virtual reality. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Attenuated heartbeat-evoked potentials in functional neurological disorder Stoffel, Mouthon, Yang, von der Weid, Concetti, Blanke, Aybek Brain Communications, Published: 03 January 2026 doi.org/10.1093/brai...

Aoki et al: PyCaret machine learning library with three preprocessing steps after eLORETA source estimation predicts Alzheimer's disease. NeuroImage: Reports. Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2026, 100317 doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...

🚨 New preprint! Why do some insights from spikes translate to field potentials while others don't? In this paper we compare visual memory representations in spikes and LFPs to propose a general framework that answers this question. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵 (1/10) 🧠🟦 🧠💻

Can’t forget this excellent follow-up post too

Reports of widespread protests at universities and beyond across Iran. Thinking of students and scholars there, and wishing them safety and a brighter future.

Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, important and downright strange discoveries about how the human brain, one of the most complex objects in the known universe, works, and 2025 didn’t disappoint. Here are 10 of the most fascinating brain discoveries of this year: #Neuroscience #Neuroskyence

"40 percent of MRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"; "Since tens of thousands of fMRI studies worldwide are based on this assumption, our results could lead to opposite interpretations in many of them.” www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

🎊📜 NEW PAPER 📜🎊 Can we seriously build synthetic consciousness? And if so, where do we start? I’m super excited to present recent publication in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews where @jaanaru.bsky.social and I confront this challenge head on. 1/n

Aperiodic activity reflects pathological waveforms in epilepsy (and not necessarily hyper-excitability or altered E/I-balance). The 1/f slope goes up *or* down as function of waveforms during seizures. New work by Laura Heidiri and Frank van Schalkwijk from the lab: www.jneurosci.org/content/45/5...

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes. rdcu.be/eUPO8 funds @erc.europa.eu #neuroskyence 🧵:

🚨New paper out! We show that Deep sleep in the TPJ is linked to implicit racial bias! 💤 ➡ Our results suggest that local aspects of sleep may account for inter-individual differences in social cognition. 🧠 To the paper 👉🏼 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited our pilot study is out! In MRI-negative epilepsy, deciding where to place stereo-EEG electrodes is challenging. We show how combining MRI morphometry with electric/magnetic source imaging guides electrode placement. www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu... #epilepsy #SEEG #neuroimaging

A hippocampal ‘sharp-wave sleep’ state that is dissociable from cortical sleep www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The idea that we want to prevent AI from finding cures for cancer because it would deprive scientists of the joy of discovery is, imo, absurd & selfish. The idea that human agency is paramount & thus humans should always be in the loop of scientific discovery is fine & good. These are separate ideas

Ah, sorry! Post character limits🙃 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Dimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Textbooks said neurons don’t burn fatty acids for energy🤔. Our study delivers the first in vivo demonstration that fatty acid oxidation in defined memory neurons fuels memory formation. Closing chapter of my PhD 🥳, out today in Nature Metabolism💥 @natmetabolism.nature.com

anyone got any advice on the following situation? I wrote and did a big chunk of the admin for a large MRC grant which also also awarded. I am named in the Staff breakdown on the grant as "researcher co-lead" with 100%FTE, and I am mentioned by name as "postdoctoral researcher Maria Niedernhuber"

in my experience, phase efects for sensorimotor mu-alpha rhythms can come out very clear. but for visual alpha there are definitely less consistent results... taking individual variability into account seems like a step in the right direction to me.

The key to understanding alpha phase and perception Individual differences! Our Neurobehavioral Link Function (NBLF) models how each person's alpha phase uniquely modulates multisensory perception and proves causality. 📄 biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #CognitiveNeuroscience #Multisensory

A multilayer of time Kenza Bennis investigated daily reconfigurations of EEG functional networks in older adults and highlighted their associations with the presence of AD biomarkers, and longitudinal cognitive trajectories over seven years! A great collaborative work ! doi.org/10.1007/s113...

New Correspondence with @davidpoeppel.bsky.social in Nat Rev Neurosci. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Here, we critique a recent paper by Rosas et al. We argue that "Bottom-up" and "Top-down" neuroscience have various meanings in the literature. PDF: rdcu.be/eSKYI

Longitudinal Changes in Cortical Response Dynamics with Deep Brain Stimulation to the Subcallosal Cingulate for Treatment-Resistant Depression https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.26.690543v1

Chen, Xie, Zhao, Xu, Li, Yi, Yao, Zhang, Li, & Xu 2025: Prioritizing flexible working memory representations relies on the involvement of the parahippocampal-insula network during memory reactivation. Communications Biology, 8(1), p.1648. DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-09029-0 1/n: abstract

Laser-engineered PRIME fiber for panoramic reconfigurable control of neural activity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our team just released a comprehensive and accessible review of Signed Networks — two years in the making! Theory, methods, applications, all in one place. Feedback welcome. arxiv.org/abs/2511.17247

Boosting hemianopia recovery: the power of interareal cross-frequency brain stimulation url: academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Tracking EEG Thalamic and Cortical Focal Brain Activity using Standardized Kalman Filtering with Kinematics Modeling: Veikka Piispa, Dilshanie Prasikala, Joonas Lahtinen, Alexandra Koulouri, Sampsa Pursiainen. arXiv:2511.10877 doi.org/10.48550/arX... 14 Nov 2025

New preprint: "Identifying statistical indicators of temporal asymmetry using a data-driven approach" arxiv.org/abs/2511.15991 _Can we statistically distinguish the forward- versus reverse-time dynamics of a system from a finite time series?_

🚨New publication! I am extremely happy to share this new review article in elife on #Traveling_Waves! @erc.europa.eu @upcite.bsky.social elifesciences.org/articles/106...

Anxious vision: Trait-like visual cortical hyperactivity in trait anxiety Zhaohan Wu, Yuqi You, Joshua A. Brown, Raymond J Dolan, Wen Li bioRxiv 2025.11.17.688929; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025... #EEG #Neuroscience #Neuroimaging

New putative biomarkers for depression. Describing ephaptic effects.

Ephaptic coupling and power fluctuations in depression Dimitrios Pinotsis, Sankaraleengam Alagapan, Parisa Sarikhani, Tanya Nauvel, Christopher Rozell, Helen Mayberg bioRxiv 2025.11.15.688471; doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms — a Perspective by György Buzsáki #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Connectome datasets alone are generally not sufficient to predict neural activity. However, pairing connectivity information with neural recordings can produce accurate predictions of activity in unrecorded neurons www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This NeurIPS workshop claims that LLMs "provide an important foundation for exploring human cognition, emotion, and social interaction" This is flawed logic, as @lmesseri.bsky.social and I argue here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣New paper alert!📣 Ever wonder how to model the temporal generalization task? Interested in cross-modal comparisons? Our paper (w/ the magnificent Nir Ofir!) is for you! @timingresforum.bsky.social this could make for a solid post-conference decompression read link.springer.com/article/10.3...

ICYMI @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 2025 keynotes are now online! Here's mine: "Towards a universal taxonomy of functional brain networks" 🧠 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW9J...

Neural Encoding through Hierarchical Amplitude Modulation Giulio Ruffini bioRxiv 2025.11.03.686310 doi.org/10.1101/2025... Its log-uniform distribution yields a 1/f global spectral profile and 1/f^α sideband "aperiodic" component, with the slope determined by modulation depth and band ratio.

More on the link brain-heart axis and sensorimotor function, relevant for BCI research 🤖: Different bodily rhythms are coupled with cortical regions at rest. Here we show that motor imagery triggers a decoupling of cardiac dynamics with motor cortex functional connectivity 🧠🫀 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Nature suggests you use their "Manuscript Adviser" bot to get advice before submitting I uploaded the classic Watson & Crick paper about DNA structure, and the Adviser had this to say about one of the greatest paper endings of the century:

Combo of two papers on partial information rate decomposition now out! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... journals.aps.org/pre/abstract... Mini thread below 👇

That merely being “under review” by a Nature family journal is offered as a quality proxy for a paper is a tragic illustration of the extent to which academia is addicted to brands and outsources evaluation