U-Miami has a postdoctoral mentored research training program in Alzheimer's / neurodegeneration, with 2 years of funding for fellows. If you're interested in my lab and applying cognitive neuroscience and precision neuroimaging methods to studying AD, please reach out! mbi-umiami.org/training/

#Hemispherotomy is a surgical treatment for #epilepsy by disconnecting a portion of the #cortex. Michele Colombo, Jacopo Favaro, @anilseth.bsky.social, Marcello Massimini &co show that the isolated cortex has #EEG patterns resembling deep #sleep or #anesthesia @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3J9ci8X

Why do brain networks vary? Do these differences shape behavior? If every 🧠 is unique, how can we detect common features of brain organization? @rodbraga.bsky.social and I dig in, in @annualreviews.bsky.social (ahead of print): go.illinois.edu/Gratton2025-... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #MedSky 🧵👇

New in draft with Susan Schneider, David Sahner, Robert Lawrence Kuhn & Mark Bailey - a primer on central ideas and concepts in the AI consciousness debate. If you're looking for a toehold in the sea of jargon, this might help. philpapers.org/rec/SCHIAC-22

The Motion Sensitivity and Predictive Utility of Different Estimates of Inter-regional Functional Coupling in Resting-state Functional MRI. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.13.664614v1

Functional network architecture and dynamics of the somato-cognitive action network https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.16.660604v1

We have argued that the brain’s Action Mode Network controls functions required for goal-directed behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Now, in new work, we show that AMN contains distinct subnetworks for making decisions, implementing actions, and processing feedback. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

If you have 10-20 minutes (depends on how fast you are), would you please consider doing this online study on #mentalimagery? It contains a survey & an experiment where you look at pictures and you respond what you see: #psychscisky #neuroskyence #visionscience tstbl.co/820-917

Had a dream last night where we were living in a fascist sci-fi future with flying cars and laser blasters, but you got a K Award if you were an effective enough member of the resistance against the secret police. I feel like my sleeping brain needs to work on the subtlety of my dream metaphors.

Hey NYC friends! If you haven't yet voted in the Democratic mayoral primary: 1) Go vote today! 2) Remember not to rank Cuomo! nypost.com/2025/06/21/u... (Excellent Mermaid Parade costume made by a friend.)

Our new paper is out in Science. We identified a subgroup of cholinergic neurons that mediate sensory modality-specific attention. They change their funcitonal properties within secs of behavioral context change. Congrats to Bin for the great thesis, and the team! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cholinergic modulation of dopamine release drives effortful behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.18.660394v1

The Open Science room is an important part of the OHBM meeting experience, and not just for people who identify as part of the open science community. Unfortunately, the future of the Open Science room is at risk. Read more here and sign the petition to @ohbmofficial.bsky.social leadership.

Passed this the other day while out and about but didn't realize what it was. Awesome to see. More of this in my backyard, yes please.

We need your help!!! 🧠🧪💤 If you are human, you fall asleep at least once a day! What happens in your mind then? Scientists know actually very little about this private moment. We propose a 20-min survey to get as much data as possible! Here is the link: redcap.link/DriftingMinds

Looking forward to #OHBM2025 in Brisbane next week! My lab is recruiting a postdoc & neuroimaging analyst/developer to support our NIH funded work in fMRI-based Alzheimer's biomarker development (NIA R01AG083919). Email or DM if you want to meet up in Brisbane! www.statmindlab.com/join-us

Extremists have eviscerated the National Institutes of Health, responsible for 80% of the *world’s* grant investment in biomedical research The losses are incalculable, but here are several of them Thank you @propublica.org for documenting this —>

An Analysis of 200 pairwise statistics for functional brain connectivity in tasks such as hub mapping, distance relationships, structure-function coupling and behavior prediction highlights their effectiveness for neurophysiological applications. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I taught a graduate course on executive function (EF) in the spring. Before I forget, I thought I'd tell you about the readings students liked the best (at the end of the semester, I asked students to vote for their favorite papers, excl. any of mine). Here are the top vote getters. 🧵 (1/6)

The relationship between writing and thinking is a fundamental one and getting more attention given that we can (presumably) offload our writing to AI systems. I often find that we don't really understand things sufficiently well if we can't write it in ways that others understand.

If you teach cognitive psychology or related topics & are willing to share your favorite teaching resources (e.g., demos, videos), please reply to/quote this post, tag me in a new post, or send me email. I'll compile them, share the list, & keep updating it this summer. Let's inspire each other!

#JNeurosci: Ponce-Alvarez uses publicly available human rs-fMRI and dMRI data to analyze the relationship between timescales, variances, and structural connectivity, while also exploring the underlying mechanisms through connectome-based whole-brain models. vist.ly/3n5r9ct

Hey #complexity colleagues 🧪🦋 Can you imagine your next steps at Complexity Science Hub? We'd like to ease a transition to #Europe across levels of seniority with our new extended, exploration visitor program. csh.ac.at/engage/resea... 1/3

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

ASSIGNMENT: COMMENT ON SCHEDULE F 1 week left to comment about Schedule F, potentially making NIH institute and center director essentially political appointees. www.regulations.gov/commenton/OP... 1/n

Niceeeee www.nature.com/articles/s42... Leveraging multivariate information for community detection in functional brain networks | Communications Biology

🚨Preprint!🚨 So excited to share my 1st major study as a postdoc at @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social!🤘 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Using a transdiagnostic framework, we found that brain network dynamics were able to discriminate individualized psychiatric symptom profiles with high accuracy 🧵1/9👇

I can't believe it's taken me almost 37 years of life to realize that muffins are just tiny breakfast cake.

It's peak season for Hippie Christmas in Berkeley right now as students move out. Lots of free stuff available, see calmoveout.com for info!

This is a neat idea that I hope more conferences experiment with. Maybe next year, @ohbmofficial.bsky.social?

Excited to announce that our paper (led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social & Derek Smith) is out in @nathumbehav.nature.com go.illinois.edu/Lee2025_NHB We use 36 days of testing in 4 inhibitory control tasks to examine the precision of inhibitory control measures in *individuals* and how they vary 🧵👇

Hot takes on using AI to learn how to code? Personally I don’t use it but I told my new undergrads to try out coding by using AI to build something then go back to figure out what each line of code does… They’ve been able to sort through the data remarkably fast! But is this a good way to learn?

How does the brain reorganize in the context of age and AD? Are functional changes in age and AD similar? Are these changes dynamic across the age/AD spectrum? We unpack these questions in a sample of N=973 with AD biomarkers Preprint: tinyurl.com/ymv8s7h8 ⬇️🧵 1/

Together with @macshine.bsky.social & @elimuller.bsky.social we have a cool interdisciplinary project on compositional cognition, and we’re looking for a PhD student. More details here www.findaphd.com/phds/project... DM or email any questions Please RT or pass on to interested students. Thanks!

Info theory offers powerful measures for capturing complexity & interaction among elements of a complex system, like the brain! 🧠 Here's our new unified reference for key info-theoretic time series measures ft. 📊 visuals, ➗equations, & 💬descriptions: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13080

1/ Great perspective by @pallabg.bsky.social on the prospects for 'conscious AI' - featuring @davidchalmers.bsky.social, Murray Shanahan, @lenoreblum.bsky.social Manuel Blum, Brett Kagan, & me among others. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m looking for a postdoc and RA for an ERC-funded project “SLEEPAWAY: Forgetting unwanted memories in sleep”. You’ll use MEG/EEG and fMRI to understand how the sleeping brain remembers and forgets. PLEASE REPOST 😊 Postdoc: tinyurl.com/vr5thp7s RA: tinyurl.com/ycyzkatc

Folks at Princeton have put together an aggregator to highlight example of how federally funded research has directly impacted people's lives. They are looking for more studies to highlight, so send along suggestions and help make the benefits of science more visible! publicusaresearchbenefits.com

Today's blog post: Ten Purportedly Essential Features of Consciousness -- and why we can't know that they are actually universal. schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/05/ten-...

I realize posting this here is preaching to the choir. But after the Grok White Genocide thing & Ye essentially launching an exclusive Neo Nazi single on the platform... I felt motivated to write about X and how bizarre it is that so many people (news outlets, celebrities, politicians) use it

This is a very interesting study, and there is some great discussion going on in the replies to Benjamin's thread.

What do you call a mathematical reconstruction of a collection of x-ray images of a Japanese egg? ... ... ... ... Computerized tomago-raphy. 🥚

High-Dimensional Dynamics in Low-Dimensional Networks. New preprint with a former undergrad, Yue Wan. I'm not totally sure how to talk about these results. They're counterintuitive on the surface, seem somewhat obvious in hindsight, but then there's more to them when you dig deeper.

Some useful tips for figure-making in matplotlib. I should try to do a thread on my own collection of little helper functions.

“the wheels on the bus-like feature go round and round, round and round,” my children sing as they take their autonomous prison vehicle to the AI worship shrine

🎨🧑‍🎨 Looking for a tool to visualize subcortical/thalamic data in 2D? Check out this python-based package I put together (subcortex-visualization on PyPI), plus a guide for creating your own custom atlas meshes and vector graphics! All feedback/tips welcome 😊 anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...

For my first blueksy post I’m excited to share that my review article is out now on JNP! It covers mechanisms of neurovascular coupling, spontaneous cortical network dynamics and what we’ve learned from the rodent brain. 🐭🧠🧲 journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

Far from being a passive neighbor to the locus coeruleus, the pericoeruleus appears to act as a kind of micromanager of arousal, selectively inhibiting different subgroups of locus coeruleus neurons, writes @macshine.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/attention/th...

First post on an exciting new manuscript online today @natneuro.nature.com - in collab with @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Catie Chang. We take a fresh look at the physiological dynamics associated with the global signal 🧠 ... www.nature.com/articles/s41... Read here: rdcu.be/ek01F

Very happy to see this paper out in @pnas.org! 🧠This project was a result of collaboration with Charles de Dampierre, now CEO at Bunka.ai, and Catherine Tallon-Baudry, my PhD co-supervisor at @lsp-ens.bsky.social and LNC (ENS Paris). doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence