Just saw Mario turned 40 this week and so, once again, I present to you: the first level of Super Mario but all the sound effects are farts.

I wouldn't normally link to an AI paper but the DeepSeek paper in Nature has one astonishing stat in the supplementary. The cost to train on top of the base LLM was below $300k. I think the cost of the original model was only 10x more. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

You can tell SPM is uncomfortable about turning 30, it’s spent all year telling everyone it’s 25!

Laurent is fantastic to work with and never short of inspiring ideas. Please apply or spread the word!

We've got a very jet-lagged niece staying with us for a fortnight, so this will be me for the forseeable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhdC...

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

What a first six seconds for the Eagles, an injury and a sending off!

Its a complex feeling to receive two papers in the same week for comments, both including authors who sadly passed away too soon in 2025. Hopefully these papers in small part help their names echo though the ages that little longer.

I've got 99 problems and they are all related to how FreeSurfer stores mesh data.

One thing I wasn't expecting to have regularly to look up is what the Americans call paracetamol.

Pleased to see this paper finally published. We investigated which conductive models are appropriate for source analysis of spine electrophysiology. Turns out modelling the bone is quite important! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pleased to see this paper finally published. We investigated which conductive models are appropriate for source analysis of spine electrophysiology. Turns out modelling the bone is quite important! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Standing perfectly still so I don't accidentally spend money

This years @meguki2025.bsky.social is the first I’ve not attended since 2012. The fear of missing out is real!

Just written what cnly be descriped as a response to reviewers... to the property disputing issues found with the flat I vacated last month. Less hoping for paper acceptance and more hoping I get some deposit back!

WHY DOES MY MOUSE SOFTWARE INCLUDE ACCESS TO AN LLM, IN WHAT WORLD IS THAT EVEN A USEFUL IDEA?

I once tried to offer Toby Jones some ear defenders when he was clearly having a bad time with the screeching of the Victoria Line.

A funded PhD position focused on spinal OPM recordings. Please share www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...

Spurs’ trophy drought entirely explained by my time academia (Sept 2008 - May 2025). Turns out I was the invisible hand of failure the entire time!

Well that's it. Today was my last day at @ucl.ac.uk and my last day in academia. I just want to thank everyone from @uclnpp.bsky.social and @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social for making feel at home for the past (almost) 6 years. Its been the gift which kept on giving.

Apropos of the fact the pope might be on tumblr, Papal Mirror Selfie would have made a great name for a song or band in 2009.

An important commentary on the state of M/EEG software and the perverse fact we all rely on something which there is little reward in writing and maintaining. This needs to change. That, or we never allow these authors to ever get on a plane together.

Drumroll please... 🥁 Abstract submission for MEG-UKI 2025 is now open!!! All the details can be found meguk.ac.uk/meg-uki-2025/ We are looking forward to welcoming you to London!

Want to feel old? The time between Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love and the Futureheads’ cover (19 years) is less than between the Futureheads’ version and now (21 years).

My PI is hiring a new postdoc! if you are interested in memory, navigation, or just curious about the hippocampus, come join a lab processing data from human single cell recordings up to whole brain MEG! (Deadline 28th May) www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

My PI is hiring a new postdoc! if you are interested in memory, navigation, or just curious about the hippocampus, come join a lab processing data from human single cell recordings up to whole brain MEG! (Deadline 28th May) www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

The 2025 edition of MEG UKI will be hosted by UCL 16-18th July. This year we include a multimodal day on naturalistic neuroscience! Abstract submission is also now open. meguk.ac.uk/meg-uki-2025/

Thought experiment. You discover from neuroimaging data you can classify eg. sex/gender to a high accuracy, and the result generalises. In the current climate, what would you do? I think the correct answer is “no you didn’t”.

There's an opening for a postdoc who is interested in using OP-MEG to image spinal cord function at UCL! Apply below! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Want to feel old? The time between Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love and the Futureheads’ cover (19 years) is less than between the Futureheads’ version and now (21 years).

We are delighted to announce the first OPM-FLUX toolkit to be held 9th-12th June 2025 at St. Catherine's College at University of Oxford: neuosc.com/fluxtoolkit2...

Google seems to think it’s World Quantum Day, so I’m refusing to observe it incase I collapse it.

I know these metrics can be spurious, but to see my paper is currently top of the "Most Read" section of @imagingneurosci.bsky.social is kinda wild.

PSA: never review a paper for MDPI journals, even if its relevent to you. They spam you with papers in fields completely unrelated to you in perpetuity. In the past 10 days I've been requested to review genetics and pharmacology papers. No thanks.

The @brailleinstitute.bsky.social have updated their excellent Atkinson Hyperlegible typeface. Supports extra widths, extra languages and even has a monospace version for coders. I've used it for papers, posters and presenations for years. You should too! www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/

Bloody hell, Elsevier are shunting generative AI summarisers into existing published papers. This example is from a 2021 NeuroImage paper doi.org/10.1016/j.ne.... We need to strenghten the barrier between carefully controlled, peer-reviwed work and spruious bullshit generators, not break it down!

Bloody hell, Elsevier are shunting generative AI summarisers into existing published papers. This example is from a 2021 NeuroImage paper doi.org/10.1016/j.ne.... We need to strenghten the barrier between carefully controlled, peer-reviwed work and spruious bullshit generators, not break it down!

I can’t wait for a day when I get to have my own office. Sharing an office with three people you’ve ended up supervising is stressful!

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Pierre Corvilain, Julie Bertels, et al: Pushing the boundaries of MEG based on optically pumped magnetometers towards early human life doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Went to the Tate Modern on my last day off, and even in art all I can see is work related things. The matrix is clearly rank deficient!

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by George C. O’Neill, Gareth R. Barnes, et al: Combining video telemetry and wearable MEG for naturalistic imaging doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Been dabbling in non-visible spectrum photography. After much trial and error I’ve finally managed to get the shot I’ve been going for.

🚨 New lab paper!🚨 A dream study of mine for nearly 20 yrs not possible until now thanks to NIH 🧠 funding & 1st-author lead @seeber.bsky.social We tracked hippocampal activity as people walked memory-guided paths & imagined them again. Did brain patterns reappear?🧵👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Genuinely concerned how many of my wedding guests have requested Mr Brightside.

The kind of person who would agree to review a paper, but then use an LLM because they can’t be bothered to do it properly, is not a person you trust.

Sure, whatever. One WOOLY MOUSE please.

The last time I was at the Royal Society, someone quite aggressively tried to explain to me how it was possible to fire microwaves into the brain to activate super soldiers. So I don’t think it’s quite the bastion of objective thought that we commonly believe it to be.

No chises for von Mises

Currently reading somone's Masters thesis to find some documentation for an open source software package. 👌