🎉New paper out today in Nature Reviews Psychology🎉 with @mjdahl.bsky.social, @mariamaly.bsky.social, and @thiasmittner.bsky.social. We've been working on a unified framework for attentional states and the dynamics of transitions between them. 🧵

🚨 First paper from my PhD, out in @imagingneurosci.bsky.social! We propose that the anterior temporal lobe forms a shared representational basis for both semantic memory and semantic composition. See quote post for a thread 🧵👇 📖 Read the paper open access: doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Need an expert collaborator for your neuroimaging project? OHBM Matchmaker makes it easy to: ✅ Showcase your expertise ✅ Discover collaborators by skill ✅ Draft outreach messages instantly 🔗 Try it here: ohbmatchmaker.org

How do we keep track of what different people are like and use that knowledge in the moment? 🧠🤓 Read our latest #BrainBites Based on work by @markthornton.bsky.social www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites/...

Come meet our friends Cortical Labs (corticallabs.com), a biotechnology company pushing the boundaries of biological computing by combining living neurons with digital systems, at OHBM BrainHack and main conference! More info below 👇

🧠📖 New EEG handbook launch at OHBM! 🗣️🤝 Meet the authors + guest speakers! Courtesy of our friends at #BrainProducts. "The Handbook of EEG: From Principles to Practice” is a new comprehensive resource built on 25+ years of expertise from #BrainProducts and leading EEG scientists. More info below 👇

Remember when 70 teams analyzed the same fMRI dataset and got 70 different answers? Yeah, us too. That's why we're launching the 2026-2027 OHBM OSSIG Reproducibility Challenge: ohbm.github.io/reprochallen... (More info below 👇)

🎧 S6, Ep 11 is out now! Host Peter Bandettini talks with Dr. Alessandro Gozzi to explore what fMRI connectivity really reflects. Are hyperconnected brain regions actually less active? And what can mouse brains tell us about autism? Spotify: tinyurl.com/398z3ren YouTube: youtu.be/s8UxpF-bxlo

🎓 New #BrainProductsAcademy webinar on May 12 & 13!🧠 Strengthen the transparency & reproducibility of your #EEG research with standardization & data-sharing insights from open‑science leaders Dr. Robert Oostenveld & Dr. Cyril Pernet.✨ 🔗 Register today: register.gotowebinar.com/register/313...

This looks like a significant discovery from Doris Tao's lab: Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex @nature.com "..our findings indicate that there is a previously unknown mechanism for neural representation:.." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

Today, the SCORE program releases its primary results! 865 researchers examined research credibility across the social and behavioral sciences, publishing three papers in Nature + five preprints. 📑 Explore the papers: www.nature.com/colle... ℹ️ Read more about SCORE: www.cos.io/score

Clarifying the conceptual dimensions of representation in neuroscience — a Perspective by Stephan Pohl, Edgar Y. Walker, David L. Barack, Jennifer Lee, Rachel N. Denison, Ned Block, Florent Meyniel & Wei Ji Ma www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The first paper from the Cortex Special Issue on Conceptual Knowledge is out! 🧠 In this perspective piece, David Kemmerer and Guy Dove propose that what’s truly “default” about the Default Mode Network is its role in representing language-specific, culturally diverse concepts. 1/🧵

Save the date 👆🧵 Neuroimaging Statistics Workshop, 12-13 June, @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 2026 satellite meeting, w/ @ohbmossig.bsky.social's BrainHack. Keith Worsley lecture by Sir. John Aston, + great work at Neuro/Stats/ML/AI interface. Registration opens soon! sites.google.com/view/nsw2026

Call for Papers for a new Special Issue of Cortex on Concept Knowledge The editors, Penny Pexman, Richard Binney, Veronica Diveica, and Emiko Muraki welcome original empirical research articles, as well as reviews and perspectives. The last date for submissions will be March 10th 2026.

New paper w/ @ryskin.bsky.social in Open Mind! Words change: “broadcast” once meant scattering seeds; “tweet” was just a bird sound. Do older adults keep earlier meanings, or update as language evolves? Our new paper investigates how semantic representations differ across age groups. 🧵👇

Major new study isolating the amodal language network from non-linguistic domains 🧠 📐 💭 Languages of the brain: fMRI dissection of the amodal networks for language, mathematics, and social knowledge www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It has been a while since @flavioazevedo.bsky.social asked me to take over the Reversals project at @forrt.bsky.social... It has since evolved beyond my wildest dreams, mostly thanks to @aufdroeseler.bsky.social & @lukaswallrich.bsky.social. We are very proud of the Replication Hub & Database ♥️

We just published a paper in PNAS, showing microstructural changes to the hippocampus in aging and presymptomatic Alzheimer's disease - in humans, in vivo. We continue to show the value of structural MRI beyond simply measuring large-scale atrophy! Read here: ow.ly/1NvV50XkXnX

Very excited to share @landrybulls.bsky.social's 1st lead-author preprint in my lab! Using datasets from MySocialBrain.org we measured people's beliefs about how mental states change in intensity over time, the dimensional structure of those beliefs, and their correlates: osf.io/preprints/ps... 🧵👇

🧠 Interested in how the brain constructs and uses meaning? 
In my Journal Club piece for @natrevpsychol.nature.com, I summarize the Controlled Semantic Cognition Framework by Lambon Ralph et al. — a leading model of how the brain represents and flexibly applies semantic knowledge. 👉🏼 rdcu.be/eE31i

Some scientists haven't yet internalized the "why" behind science writing for the public - not just as a service, but for themselves. (I didn't always get it). In this piece for @natrevneuro.nature.com, I draw on the neuroscience of curiosity & decision making to unpack its value. rdcu.be/eCGr7

This was a fun paper to write, and one that fits nicely with some recent work I've been doing on the role of counterfactual simulation in memory encoding. link.springer.com/article/10.3...

The OHBM Open Science SIG is looking for new leadership! Self-nominations are now open! If you're passionate about open science in neuroimaging, get involved. Multiple roles are available, with nominations reviewed in rolling rounds through October. ossig.netlify.app/elections/

✨️Excited to share my first paper is out in Behavior Research Methods with @rjbinney.bsky.social and @pennypexman.bsky.social! We quantified the association of a word's meaning with reward, showing that it is a dimension relevant to semantic processing. 📄🔗Link: rdcu.be/eyqvn

Finally published: “Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience: overcoming the clash of research cultures” www.nature.com/articles/s41... Looking for ways to better understand different neuroscientific perspectives and enable productive collaborations

🧠 Just out with @pennypexman.bsky.social “Simulation in the ‘Blind’ Mind”. We found that even without conscious imagery (aphantasia), people still simulate sensorimotor info when processing language. 💭🔤

Tired of mismatched brain maps? 🧠 The Network Correspondence Toolbox (NCT) brings consistency to neuroimaging by aligning findings across atlases. A big leap toward reproducible brain science! @lucinauddin.bsky.social www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites/... #OHBM2025 #BrainBites #neuroscience

Proud to be an alumnus of the Bangor Imaging Unit 🎓 The knowledge and skills I gained over four years there shaped my career and how I approach 🧠 research. Amazing to see the work the team has been doing since I graduated in 2023—still raising the bar for neuroimaging in Wales and beyond! 🚀

🚨 Apply NOW for the 2025 Neuro–Irv & Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes! Rewarding #OpenScience in neuroscience - the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute 💡 $80K Main Prize 🎓 $10K Intl. Trainee Prize 🍁 $5K Canadian Trainee Prize 🔗 www.mcgill.ca/neuro/open-s...) 🗓️ Aug 15

Had a fantastic time presenting our work on the shared neural substrate of autobiographical, semantic, and social cognition at #OHBM2025 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 🧠🫂 Check out the poster below 📈

Come by my poster on network controllability in aging and MCI! Poster #1228 today and tomorrow #OHBM2025

🚨📄 New paper! Abstract words are hard to acquire: Does social relevance help? We tested if social experience helps children learn words—analyzing >4,000 words by socialness, valence, and concreteness. 👬 More social words were learned earlier 💭 Socialness particularly helped abstract words, but…

Excited to announce a call for papers for a new virtual special issue in Cortex on Concept Knowledge. Our opening editorial, plus further information and guidance for authors can be found here: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

OHBM Lunch with Mentors will be happening in Brisbane! Fill out the registration form below to enter a lottery draw. Registration closes May 25th 12pm AEST. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1vuF... Information on this year's Mentors is available here: www.ohbmtrainees.com/lunch-with-m...

Sign up now for one of *two in-person science communication competitions* at the #OHBM2025 annual meeting: 📊 A Best Figure Competition 🗣️ 3-Minute Chalk Talk Competition ⭐ See here for more details, or to sign up for one or both competitions: https://forms.gle/iDHGmWzgN5rPBY2R8

🧠 Join us at Brainhack 2025 in Brisbane! We’re running a Neurodesk workshop on reproducible, portable neuroimaging workflows. 📅 21 June 🌐 Learn, hack, and contribute! 💻🌏 🔗 ohbm.github.io/hackathon202... #Neurodesk #Brainhack2025 #Neuroimaging #OpenScience

Here's a 🧵 on a new pre-print with @amyqixx.bsky.social giving fMRI evidence that retrieving a concept leaves a unique neural fingerprint: Semantic memories carry a trace of how they were last accessed, detectable during later recognition. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

When I first started working with resting state fMRI as a postdoc, there was a lot of skepticism about what we could learn from it. 20 years later, it's hard to imagine where the field of neuroscience would be without it. Here's a summary 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I’m extremely excited that this work of 3 years is finally published in @braistimjournal.bsky.social. Using condition-and-perturb TMS with e-field-based optimized targeting and dosing, we provide causal evidence for hybrid theories of semantic cognition: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

The first of many papers from the Memory and Forgiveness project is now out at the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Led by the indefatigable Gabriela Fernández Miranda, and with Matt Stanley, Sam Murray, and Leonard Faul, we systematically explored differences (1/n)

I’m thrilled to share my new paper on impression formation & updating in @natrevpsychol.nature.com! In it, I argue that impression formation is fundamentally a learning process. And as such, theories of impression formation should be based on mechanisms of learning and memory. Some key take-aways:

Going to #OHBM2025 in Brisbane? We're accepting entries for *two in-person science communication competitions* at the annual meeting: 📊 A Best Figure Competition 🗣️ 3-Minute Chalk Talk Competition ⭐ See here for more details, or to sign up for one or both competitions: forms.gle/1X9ccz2vpsRQ...

🧠✨How do we rebuild our memories? In our new study, we show that hippocampal ripples kickstart a coordinated expansion of cortical activity that helps reconstruct past experiences. We recorded iEEG from patients during memory retrieval... and found something really cool 👇(thread)

🚨 New paper out in Human Brain Mapping! 🚨 with @pennypexman.bsky.social and @rjbinney.bsky.social 🧠 We show that the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) semantic hub supports abstract verb processing—with distinct activity patterns for: • Emotional verbs • Mental verbs • Non-embodied verbs

🧠 How do semantic and executive control dissociate in the frontal lobe? Applying TMS to IFG and pre-SMA, we find: ⚡ Specialization ▸ IFG = semantic (and executive) control ▸ pre-SMA = executive functions 🔄 Compensation between both regions during single-site disruption! Read more: shorturl.at/UVtRk

New meta-analysis on reading in the brain by @sabrinaturker.bsky.social, Beatrice Fumagalli, @gesahartwigsen.bsky.social and myself. We looked for consistent activations across multiple levels - from letters to words to sentences to and text reading. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New preprint ✨ w/ @olafhauk.bsky.social and Matt Lambon Ralph @mrccbu.bsky.social @cambridgeuni.bsky.social @gatescambridge.bsky.social The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) seems crucial for both semantic memory and semantic composition. How to make sense of this neuroanatomical alignment? 🧠 🧵

Chuffed and excited to announce a new journal section in Cortex: *Methods and Assumptions* is open for submissions starting today! Read the opening editorial here (OA): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/