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...

Finally out in eLife!! "Early foveal cortex predicts the features of saccade targets through feedback from higher cortical areas." elifesciences.org/articles/107...

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!

🧨 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 🦄 🧵1/8

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...

📢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🧵

🚨 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/...

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...

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!

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

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. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

🧠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...

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 🧵:

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...

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👇

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...

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

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

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

Really amazing work 🤩

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 😂

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

Please sign. This stupid decision needs reversing actionnetwork.org/petitions/cs...

“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. 😡

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 🙌🏽

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...

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...

🌟🚀 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

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...

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 , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

🧠✨ 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!

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

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

I think I have a logo for deepRetinotopy! Little eyes are the cutest thing and were my husband's idea xD

SciComm done right 🤣

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

Good to be back home with great people 😍🥰 #OHBM2025

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...

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 🧵 1/n

@neurodesk.org workshop at BrainHack #OHBM2025 is about to start 🙌🏽

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 and Noah Benson.

#OHBM2025 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!

🧠 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

🧠 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

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...

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-...

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...

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! 🧵

🎉 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...

🚨 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