***Please forward to interested colleagues*** The call for symposia (deadline 15 April) and abstracts (deadline 1 May) for Biomag 2026 in Beijing (23-25 Aug) is now open: biomag2026.scimeeting.cn

Perfect

This feels like an @actualnames.bsky.social prank that’s got out of hand

We are pleased to announce that the SPM for MEG/EEG course hosted by University College London will take place from Monday, May 18th to Thursday, May 21st, 2026! Registration is now open via the UCL Online Store:

Life's too short, listen to something weird. hengemusic.bandcamp.com/album/alpha-...

I built a bluesky labeler for neuroscience methods. 1️⃣ follow/subscribe to: @neuromethods.bsky.social 2️⃣ like the post with your favorite method ➡️ get a shiny methods label in your profile/posts. 🌟

It’s weird what makes you homesick, would not have bet on a BBC Sport montage being one of them.

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS FULL COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS

That’s two Superbowls on the bounce where a Drake has been humiliated in public.

Watching the Winter Olympic luge heats and they’ve now got drones chasing the riders down the track. Proper WipEout vibes.

Look, we've all been overlooked for positions at the University of Nottingham, but you don't see me becoming an ethno-nationalist in response.

Yeah the Bears clearly have the big man on speed dial.

Locked out of my work's Google services as I didn't respond to the email sent at 11.40 pm on New Years Eve to enroll in something before New Years Day. Love it. 🙃

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.

Berghain by Roaslía is screaming for someone to make an ABBA version of it.

Happy 55th Anniversary of the time in Oregon they tried to use dynamite to dispose a beached whale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...

SCORIGAMI!

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

That Broncos game has aged me considerably.

Saw my first lenticular clouds in person today. The lamination!

I think I’ve spent too long looking at linear algebra that I thought this donut shop was celebrating the pseudo-inverse of 90 years.

Well don't I feel stupid

Do it for the job security, or the mountain view. I’m not judging!

a big hamburger

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).