This is awful news. Jonny was one of my Masters thesis advisors at York. I remember that summer fondly, full of theoretical chats with Beth and Jonny and frequent trips to the pub! Jonny was an immensely supportive, calm and trusting mentor. I will miss him too.

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

In this new research, we found that truth beliefs can be successfully conditioned: Statements - true and false - are rated as more true after their pairing with positive than negative pictures. This effect bridges research on evaluative conditioning and misinformation. osf.io/preprints/ps...

I worked with Jonny for 5 years during my formative years as a scientist. He influenced how I see life deeply. Although I won't hear him explain things to me again, his words and kindness will live through those whom he inspired. We were so lucky to have him in our lives. We miss you a lot, Jonny.

Wow, what a huge loss. I was lucky enough to interview Smallwood for multiple pieces over the years- he was always generous with his time and clever with his words. He struck me as one of those rare scientists who wasn’t afraid to go against the grain and try something completely new.

I was so lucky to have Jonny as my PhD supervisor. He was a one-of-a-kind scientist and person. He continues to be an inspiration to me and I will always be guided by the way he thought about science and life. He built an amazing network of wonderful people and we all miss you, Jonny.

So happy this paper is now out in @plosbiology.org! We investigated whether fluctuations in MEPs can be explained by phasic influences from internal bodily rhythms, and whether this might happen independently per organ system. #interoception #neuroskyence

The few days I met Jonny Smallwood in person were some of my favourite in science. I would accidentally spend hours in his company, which was so warm and interesting. He made academia friendlier and life more interesting. Ní bheidh a leithéid ann arís

Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...

Excited to share our cross-disorder GWAS analysis of neurological and psychiatric disorders (~1 M cases), now out in @natneuro.nature.com! We show more extensive genetic pleiotropy than previously recognized, supporting a more unified view of these disorders rdcu.be/ePmwD

Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.

New review on neural manifold and population activity in the brain- www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New preprint: Neural manifolds that orchestrate walking and stopping Here we develop a new theory for neural generation of walking and how it can stop- Next we test the theory using Neuropixels probes in the lumber spinal cord of freely moving rats. See more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Do you like RSA analysis, M/EEG and Bayes? Then you'll love Variational RSA for M/EEG, by recently completed PhD student @alexlepauvre.bsky.social from Lucia Melloni's group. It's a method and SPM toolbox for multivariate analysis of M/EEG data. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01784 . 🧵 [1/4]

Would You Agree If N Is Three? On Statistical Inference for Small N -- Psarou et al JoCN 2025 direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...

BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.

This is 🤯 All publicly available. Looks like an amazing new histology-based human probabilistic atlas and parcellation tool. #neuroskyence #mri #brainmapping A probabilistic histological atlas of the human brain for MRI segmentation | Nature share.google/5AD0iW7pxgb4...

New preprint with amazing work from @nchalas.bsky.social: How does respiration influence (un-)predictable near-threshold perception? MEG, arousal modulation, excitability states, respiration phase-resolved connectivity changes - it's all there :) #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Undoubtedly the most massive group effort I was ever lucky to be involved in. Led by the ever-unwavering @annekeitel.bsky.social, this preprint synthesizes the status quo of what we (don't) know about neural oscillations. Grateful to be part of the @scone-neuro.bsky.social network. #neuroskyence

We’ve come to accept the 45-minute data dump: a PI sprinting through dozens of studies to prove how much they’ve done. I’d rather hear one clear question followed to its end than a career retrospective pretending to be a talk.

Had to share this from twitter just because

Brace yourself: neural and computational insights into the experience of mental effort! Now out in @cerebralcortex.bsky.social Led by Gaia Corlazzoli. Paper: desenderlab.com/wp-content/u.... Thread ↓↓↓

Implementing an entire MUD engine from the ground up is no joke. Having a lot of fun though.

New from @haleyrwang.bsky.social: Multivariate Resting-State Functional Connectivity Features Linked to Transdiagnostic Psychopathology in Early Psychosis - Biological Psychiatry www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Introducing CorText: a framework that fuses brain data directly into a large language model, allowing for interactive neural readout using natural language. tl;dr: you can now chat with a brain scan 🧠💬 1/n

This is why you should pair code in an IDE and implement modular unit tests as you go. Asking the AI to dream up an entire pipeline will result in disaster. @russpoldrack.org has a great new book on how to do this well.

New #neurojob #psychiatryjob #jobalert. www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/current-vaca.... Focus is on clinical trials for mood disorders, with close links to @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social @uclqsion.bsky.social and @mpc-comppsych.bsky.social

Headed with the lab to Copenhagen for the @naddenmark.bsky.social annual meeting!

The starter packs curated by @micahgallen.com were a good starting point for me! bsky.app/profile/mica...

It was a blast ‪@standehaene.bsky.social‬, with one fantastic talk after another, thank you so much for inviting me! And OMG the roof deck of the College de France!

there have been big questions raised about the quality and reliability of the research suggesting that small nudges (like moving an entry field or asking people to tick a box) meaningfully affect behaviour

Decided to build my own modem MUD. Now I can kick wumpies again!

Obesity, low-grade inflammation, and inflammatory response to immune challenge modulate willingness to expend effort for reward: https://osf.io/xtkw7

There still seems to be a lot of confusion about significance testing in psych. No, p-values *don’t* become useless at large N. This flawed point also used to be framed as "too much power". But power isn't the problem – it's 1) unbalanced error rates and 2) the (lack of a) SESOI. 1/ >

(4) Trump and the Republicans don't have an advantage over Democrats because they *better understand heartland Americans.* They have an advantage over Democrats because they created their own universe of propaganda outlets, and then went out and bought all the mainstream outlets. Duh.

[email protected] CRC in Sensorimotor Neuroscience and @schulichmeddent.bsky.social professor and his collaborators recently published in Nature on how our brains not only plan out our actions, but they actually anticipate unexpected disturbances. Learn more: news.westernu.ca/2025/10/sens...

this is why I come here - excellent, thoughtful commentary on the widely misreported Gates climate memo.

It's like he's spent time on Reddit or social media or talking to academics.

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Imaging-based models are being used to assess #BrainAge, but can they predict #NeurologicalDisease? @ritterkerstin.bsky.social &co show that simpler models, with lower age prediction accuracy, are paradoxically more sensitive to disease-related brain changes @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/47NcIew

Funders must recognise that great discoveries often come from studies that seeks to advance knowledge for its own sake go.nature.com/47zrzYZ

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

New release of PowerLMM.js! Browser-based power analysis for longitudinal models with dropout. Now includes: - Power analysis summary report - Reproducible & shareable configs (URL/JSON) - Calculations validated against R - Hypothesis region visualization powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com

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Congratulations to Dr. @lucinauddin.bsky.social, Associate Director of the #ABCDStudy Coordinating Center, on her keynote lecture at this year's @ohbmofficial.bsky.social Conference! 🧠 #OHBM2025

📣 Excited to share that my first paper is now published! 📄"Metabolic state shapes cortisol reactivity to acute stress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of metabolic and hormonal modulators" You can find the full paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.yn...

Our systematic review and meta-analysis is now published in Neurobiology of Stress 🍾 Main takeaway: glucose increases cortisol stress reactivity (robust, small effect), but effects of progesterone and estradiol are weak and rather inconsistent. Read more about it here 👇🏻