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🇧🇷 🇦🇺 Marie Curie Fellow at JLU Giessen 🇩🇪 | Vision | Neuroscience | Deep learning Views are my own.
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Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that!
tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy
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RoordaLab
14 days ago
Most vision scientists would bet that single-cone receptive fields exist in primate fovea, but it was not proven until now. It took years of sweat and $ to combine
#AOSLO
and electrophysiology. Congrats to PhD student Keaton Ramsey and his mentor Lawrence Sincich.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Physiological basis of resolution acuity in vision - Nature Communications
Neural mechanisms underlying high visual acuity are not fully understood. Here the authors show that high resolution visual information is transmitted from the retina to the brain by neurons in t...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68851-0
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Finally out in eLife!! "Early foveal cortex predicts the features of saccade targets through feedback from higher cortical areas."
elifesciences.org/articles/107...
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Kaiser Lab
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10 PhD positions at JLU Giessen in the new Research Training Group "PIMON"! We will explore how humans perceive and interact with materials and objects in natural environments. More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here:
www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
Please share!
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Susan Ajith
about 2 months ago
🧨 Preprint alert Is it easier to find a ball than a shoe? The answer lies in how variable we think these objects are in the real-world.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
w/ the amazing
@dkaiserlab.bsky.social
&
@luchunyeh.bsky.social
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.02.702780v1
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Kate Storrs
about 2 months ago
Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence:
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Non-paywalled version:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786
Tweet thread below from first author
@genetang.bsky.social
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Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests - Nature Machine Intelligence
Tangtartharakul and Storrs use standardized neuropsychological tests to compare human visual abilities with those of visual language models (VLMs). They report that while VLMs excel in high-level obje...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-026-01179-y
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Adeel Razi
about 2 months ago
📢Maths in the Brain Workshop 2026 in Melbourne. We will bring together researchers across Australia with a shared interest in understanding the brain from a quantitative perspective. This year's keynote is delivered by Professor James Cole, University College London. 1/4🧵
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Giacomo Aldegheri
2 months ago
🚨 New paper out in Science Advances 🚨 With
@suryagayet.bsky.social
and
@peelen.bsky.social
, in two fMRI studies we investigate mental object rotations that are driven by the scene context, rather than purely by cognitive operations. 🧵
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group
2 months ago
The OHBM OSSIG has been operating since 2016, hosting and promoting open science education for the OHBM community and beyond. SIGs must be renewed every 5 years. Please sign the following petition by Mon, Jan 26 to help us continue operating. Thank you!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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List of members who support the SIG renewal
List of members who support the SIG renewal Please provide the list of at least 12 OHBM members in good standing who support the SIG renewal and are willing to engage in the SIG activity. Name Email...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bHVy8dOzS4YRZ3P_b3Ya47AH6vO5JkwhKnnmHKPkaG0/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.kgu6vflz90a6
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ARC Tracker
3 months ago
The ARC’s processes are back to being farcical,
@jasonclaremp.bsky.social
You advocated for a streamlined, efficient, faster ARC, but all that progress has been undone. How can they claim to fund “innovation” with more than a year between initial proposal & outcomes? It should be 6 months, not 16!
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Aperture Neuro
3 months ago
Renauld et al. present scilpy, an open-source
#Python
library for diffusion magnetic resonance imaging and tractography:
doi.org/10.52294/001...
@ohbmofficial.bsky.social
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Benjamin Kay
3 months ago
This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in
@cellpress.bsky.social
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doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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Maxime Chamberland
3 months ago
🧠New preprint! What if cortical geometry alone already encodes much of white-matter organization? We introduce a subject-specific, reversible cortical folding model that unfolds and refolds the brain from a single T1w MRI; no diffusion, no ML.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Valentin Riedl
3 months ago
fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.” In our
@natneuro.nature.com
paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes.
rdcu.be/eUPO8
funds
@erc.europa.eu
#neuroskyence
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Alex Fornito
4 months ago
Exciting announcement! Our Institute is calling for applications for a EMCR 2-year fellowship . Come and join a great team @turnerinstitute! Details here:
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/ci/en/jo...
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https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/ci/en/job/687062/turner-impact-research-fellow-level-a-or-level-b-psychology
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Nina Miolane
4 months ago
Thanks
@insidehighered.com
for publishing our OpEd w Annie K. Lamar
#publicvoices
of The Oped Project
@ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
! 🤖Open source software & infra accelerates scientific discoveries by removing financial & technical barriers. It's about time we start treating it as a public good👇
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Sander van Bree
4 months ago
New preprint w/ Malin Styrnal &
@martinhebart.bsky.social
Have you ever computed noise ceilings to understand how well a model performs? We wrote a clarifying note on a subtle and common misapplication that can make models appear quite a lot better than they are.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/gjk45
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Sander van Bree
4 months ago
New Correspondence with
@davidpoeppel.bsky.social
in Nat Rev Neurosci.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here, we critique a recent paper by Rosas et al. We argue that "Bottom-up" and "Top-down" neuroscience have various meanings in the literature. PDF:
rdcu.be/eSKYI
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Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience as collections of practices - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Top-down and bottom-up neuroscience as collections of practices
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-025-01004-2
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Martin Hebart
4 months ago
Really excited to see this preprint out! Fernanda did an amazing job at demonstrating how you can accurately predict retinotopy from T1w scans alone. This is important for several reasons: 1/4
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Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that!
tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy
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Really amazing work 🤩
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Why science cannot be this fun always? 😂 ‘These results speak for themselves. However, in this digital age many scientists cannot believe results without inferential statistics. We therefore compared for each of the six stimulus locations …’ love that 😂
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Sam Schwarzkopf
4 months ago
In this preprint, we concurrently fit the HRF alongside pRF parameters
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- HRF varies between visual areas - HRF also varies with pRF stimulus designs (due to nonlinearities?) - Esp. when fitting complex models this can skew results a lot!
#visionscience
#neuroskyence
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3wombats
4 months ago
Please sign. This stupid decision needs reversing
actionnetwork.org/petitions/cs...
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CSIRO needs urgent support
CSIRO is under attack. Sign the petition calling on the Albanese Government to act now to secure the future of CSIRO’s world-leading science and research.
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/csiro-needs-urgent-support?source=direct_link&
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ARC Tracker
4 months ago
“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.” Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
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CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-18/csiro-cuts-350-research-jobs/106024498
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Very happy to see this work from Thuy and the Neurodesk team published! We provide 4 example use cases to highlight the versatility of Neurodesk for open, reproducible, and scalable workflows 🙌🏽
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6 months ago
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Pascal Mamassian
6 months ago
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
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To wake up with such great news! Wow, as a Brazilian it was hard to see justice coming, but there is hope for true accountability!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years for plotting military coup in Brazil
Former president sought to ‘annihilate’ country’s democracy after losing 2022 election
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/brazil-supreme-court-bolsonaro-guilty-coup?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
7 months ago
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ESMRMB
7 months ago
🌟🚀 Want to boost your MRI Together 2025 experience? Join our Mentor Matching Session! Submit your poster idea by Sept 15 and connect with experts worldwide. 🌍✨
#MRITogether2025
#MentorMatching
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Kate Storrs
8 months ago
If anyone fancies moving to NZ, the
@universityofotago.bsky.social
are advertising for up to SIX faculty positions in their School of Psychology 👀
www.seek.co.nz/psychology-j...
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Psychology Jobs in All Otago, Job Vacancies - Aug 2025 | SEEK
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https://www.seek.co.nz/psychology-jobs/in-All-Otago?jobId=85709111&type=standard
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katja heuer
8 months ago
1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with
@r3rt0.bsky.social
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doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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🧠✨ Excited to share that our literature review on retinotopic mapping in the human visual cortex is now published!
tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b
Amazing collab with Noah Benson and Alex Puckett! We hope this will be a helpful resource for pRF modellers and visual neuroscientists!
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Human retinotopic mapping: From empirical to computational models of retinotopy | JOV | ARVO Journals
https://tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b
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Tim Kietzmann
9 months ago
Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions. Work with
@zejinlu.bsky.social
@sushrutthorat.bsky.social
and Radek Cichy
arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168
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Sam Schwarzkopf
9 months ago
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
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I think I have a logo for deepRetinotopy! Little eyes are the cutest thing and were my husband's idea xD
9 months ago
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SciComm done right 🤣
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Today we had the first “First Nations People in Neuroimaging Research” at OHBM and it was beautiful to see and hear of the pioneering work from New Zealand and Australia
#OHBM2025
9 months ago
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Good to be back home with great people 😍🥰
#OHBM2025
9 months ago
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Martin Hebart
9 months ago
What makes humans similar or different to AI? In a paper out in
@natmachintell.nature.com
led by
@florianmahner.bsky.social
&
@lukasmut.bsky.social
, w/ Umut Güclü, we took a deep look at the factors underlying their representational alignment, with surprising results.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Dimensions underlying the representational alignment of deep neural networks with humans - Nature Machine Intelligence
An interpretability framework that compares how humans and deep neural networks process images has been presented. Their findings reveal that, unlike humans, deep neural networks focus more on visual ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-025-01041-7
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Lenny van Dyck
10 months ago
How is high-level visual cortex organized? In a new preprint with
@martinhebart.bsky.social
&
@kathadobs.bsky.social
, we show that category-selective areas encode a rich, multidimensional feature space 🌈
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.17.659578v1
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@neurodesk.org
workshop at BrainHack
#OHBM2025
is about to start 🙌🏽
9 months ago
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Mark Schira
9 months ago
Retinotopic mapping Fans Just finished my poster for OHBM. The results blow the discussion about V2 & V3 layout wide open. We find hemispheric asymmetry! Fantastic work by my student Ruby Barahona, collaboration with the also fantastic
@felenitaribeiro.bsky.social
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is around the corner, and I will be there to share the latest development on deepRetinotopy, our toolkit for predicting retinotopic maps from brain anatomy! Please come by poster #1531 on Friday and Saturday!
9 months ago
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OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group
10 months ago
🧠 Did you know Neurodesk can run a full neuroimaging workflow in your browser — no installs, no setup? Just open, click, and compute. Join us at Brainhack 2025 to learn how!
#Neurodesk
#OpenScience
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OHBM Open Science Special Interest Group
10 months ago
🧠 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
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Faruk Gulban
10 months ago
In this blog post I am exploring the strange tension between rigor, reach, and recognition in modern science. What we gain (and lose) by just publishing the PDFs:
thingsonthings.org/just-publish...
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Grace Lindsay
10 months ago
Please read this and share widely, especially with people outside of science. Things are BAD in American bioscience right now and everyone needs to know just how bad - and dangerous - it is.
apnews.com/article/nih-...
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NIH scientists publish declaration criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research
Scores of National Institutes of Health researchers and staffers have come forward to send their Trump-appointed leader a letter challenging policies they say undermine the NIH mission.
https://apnews.com/article/nih-letter-bethesda-declaration-bhattacharya-89724aee201f3e99fc1159adcbf9ac94
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Tomas Knapen
11 months ago
Hey everyone at
@vssmtg.bsky.social
! If you’re interested in pRF fitting, go visit Garikoitz Lerma-Usabiaga’s poster on pRF fitting methods! For our development of these tools, we’re very interested to hear you want in these tools. Please fill out our questionnaire:
forms.gle/fx5UMs1362jv...
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pRF fitting toolbox wish list
With this form we are taking stock of the field's wishes when it comes to pRF fitting software implementations. We will be presenting the results from this form in our kick-off meeting, and will use t...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9fR0eyXZEGb6Cm6al3_rEeGhb-7MTxW9WgqkGC4yer9hd7A/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=111790625762767591568
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Martin Hebart
11 months ago
Our lab is present at
#VSS2025
, so let me highlight some of the things we have been up to with a talk and three posters. Would love to see you around! 🧵
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Borjan (Boki) Milinković
11 months ago
🎉 FINALLY PUBLISHED! 🎉 We outline how to capture the
#emergent
dynamical structure in
#biophysical
neural models. coauthored with a team dear to my heart;
@thomasandrillon.bsky.social
,
@anilseth.bsky.social
, Lionel Barnett, and Olivia Carter.
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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🚨 New Open Dataset Alert! 👅 We've just published a data descriptor in Scientific Data introducing the first open, annotated MRI dataset of tongue musculature, including T1- and T2-weighted images from 47 non-neurodegenerative "healthy" participants across 3 studies! 📄 Check it out:
rdcu.be/el0hW
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An Annotated Multi-Site and Multi-Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Dataset for the study of the Human Tongue Musculature
Scientific Data - An Annotated Multi-Site and Multi-Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Dataset for the study of the Human Tongue Musculature
https://rdcu.be/el0hW
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