✨The kind of emails that make your day.✨ This is the second big paper from my lab this year and resumes TMS targets across 4’283 patients w Schizophrenia, upcoming in Molecular Psychiatry 🧲🧠 Great work led by Lorina Sinanaj&Kostas Pallis at Synapsy Center Neuroscience and Mental Health Research🤩

#SOBP25 was great fun and easily one of the best conferences in the last years - so happy to catch up with friends and colleagues and speak also on my favorite brain region: the cerebellum! 🩵

Our new paper is out. We point out that large brained (and often smart) mammals and birds have evolved very different distribution of neurons numbers in the brain. This means that similar cognitive abilities have evolved in very different brains. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I have two papers under review since forever. It’s really not cool.😒 #scientificventing

🚀🚀🔥🔥 we got this!

It’s really heart breaking to realize just how much our short horizon, outcome focused funding cycles hurt science. We could do so much more if we could invest in people long term. Staff scientist positions and an ecosystem to support them are direly needed.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas @fcbg-neuro.bsky.social ! ❄️🎄

I will be also talking at #SIRS2025 in Chicago - Little Brain World Tour! 🍾

Happy to present at #SOBP2025 in Toronto in the midst of a highly distinguished crowd - if you’re attending, let’s meet! #latergram #catchingupwithbluesky

Let’s run the government like a business, drive the car like a bicycle, and play the guitar like a piano

Fantastic talk by @indrit_begue making the case that we should look at the cerebellum to treat schizophrenia using neuromodulation! #optodbs2024

One of my most intricate and painfully made pieces. This is the "Purkinje bear", composed of the 37 neurons individually, and manually cut in different woods. #neuroscience #brain #cerebellum #sciart

I too really enjoyed grad school 🤓👩‍💻 - I LOVED scientific conversations with coffee, discussing experiments and hypotheses. Honestly, few things beat analysing freshly acquired data on a newly designed experiment 🧠

Accelerated cerebellar TMS for negative symptoms of schizophrenia in a triple blind RCT ‘ATHENA’ - here with my fantastic lab!

How does one find cerebellum people in the good place? 😇

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🔎 May 1: new psilocybin for depression meta analysis in The BMJ finds in-credible (literally) effect sizes (>4) 🔎 May 3: post-publication peer-review identifies severe issues 🔎 May 4: BMJ publishes expression of concern www.bmj.com/content/385/... #PsychSciSky 🧪

Yay Gifs!

Another One Bites the Dust. No correlation between sleep spindles and memory in humans www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #PsychSciSky #metasci #StatsSky #sleepscience #sleepresearch #neuroskyence

i plan to move to Korea later this year, & will soon hire at all levels (students, postdocs, staff scientists, junior PIs) - docs.google.com/document/d/1... my lab in Japan will run till at least 2025. my job has been nothing but the dream job. but hopefully the above explains it. #neuroscience

How many people do you need to scan to get robust estimates for multivariate methods such as CCA and PLS? The sobering answer is: likely several thousand (there is a calculator now) Helmer et al. Commun Biol #neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s42...

These Purkinje cell look like trees are awesome.

“Ainsi périrent les ennemis de la République!” #GenevaTradition 🍫

I am looking for a postdoc to work with me! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/37... #neuroskyence #academicsky

New Nature Methods paper describing the Next Generation 7T scanner (aka Feinbergatron). A scanner that is specifically designed for layer-fMRI and provides exquisite resolution. By Feinberg et al. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency - An important editorial in Brain academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

If you only had to read one review on precision brain stimulation 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...

In case anyone is interested, here is what I came up with:

« And then, I did some resting state analyses that outlined cerebellar circuitry just like what we see in old anatomy books »

Bravo super intéressant

1/12 New paper on psychedelics as treatments for mental health problems is out! We discuss 10 challenges which limit conclusions that can be drawn about safety/efficacy of psychedelic therapy. We share a checklist for journalists, policymakers & others to assess quality of studies. Brief thread:

Aand we close the circle of who causes what, now is global signal that affects motion estimates!

Differences in effort based motivation transdiagnostically; deficits seem pronounced in schizophrenia but not mood disorders | academic.oup.com/schizophreni...

Now available at Nature Communications! When do adolescents reach adult levels of executive function? We used FOUR independent datasets (N>10,000), behavioral data from 17 distinct EF tasks, and nonlinear modeling to address this and related questions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unfortunately, we need institutional accounts to move here to succeed. Everyone take an invite and convince your local outreach officer, institution, center, or organization to come join the blue sky party.

Very stoked to announce my appointment as tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Uni. of Geneva, Switzerland! Will be hiring soon so if you're interested in RCTs, neuroimag. & noninvasive brain stim, dm me! #HiSciSky, #neuroscience, #neuroskyence, #PsychSciSky, #Psychology, #PsychSci, #MedSky

Very glad to join the blue skies of #HiSciSky, #neuroscience, #neuroskyence, #PsychSciSky, #Psychology, #PsychSci, #MedSky. My lab works on the neural dynamics of brain systems, how they issue contextual predictions from internal representations and perceptual signals, in health & disease. ⚡🧠⚡

Somehow it seems that computational models were immune to the current sample-size worries in #neuroimaging Turns out they are not 😱 DCM models and connections need 100+ subjects to give stable results New work by Alexander Silchenko & Felix Hoffstaedter: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Interesting work www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Majority of cerebellum is NOT doing movement and balance. 🤝🤷🏼‍♀️

Full presentation here: poldrack.github.io/talks-Future...

Reminder that the first rule of blue sky is bad vibes = block without hesitation.

Yay!!

I am looking for an enthusiastic Research Assistant in my lab. 🔬: Development of the Cerebellum in Health and Disease 📍: Roanoke, Virginia 📆: Starting in January '24 Job posting: tinyurl.com/HeijdenLabJob More info: vanderheijdenlab.com #neuroskyence #neurojobs #womeninstem

Subtilités transatlantiques 🤝

Finally out 🎉 - our meta-analysis of 403 neuroimaging studies on language (3/3) Quite some functional specialization in subcortical areas, too. This and many more details can be found here: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... Paper is open access !!

we did it guys, this is twitter now

I am looking for a short (~ 10 mins) and sweet measure of cognitive flexibility to be used in a longitudinal design for stable patients with psychosis. #neuroskyence #psychskyence. Here’s a no filter photo of the Boston sky from our apartment for attention 😅

#HiSciSky 👋🏻 I am a social neuroscientist studying the neurobiological basis of human relationships, #attachment and caregiving. I mainly use #fNIRS hyperscanning and structural & functional MRI. I work and teach at the Department of Psychology, University of Essex in Colchester 🇬🇧.