Exciting news from the chairs of Biomag 2026, Prof. Jiahong Gao and Prof. Huan Luo — the conference website is now live: biomag2026.scimeeting.cn The meetings take place in Beijing, 23–25 August 2026. Save the date and start thinking about ideas for posters and symposia! Please share with colleagues

CogNeuroLanguage: new by @lauragwilliams.bsky.social & @jeanremiking.bsky.social (w Alec Marantz & me) shows how the brain maintains-updates continuously unfolding lang hierarchy during comprehension, anchoring ling theories to biological implementation www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #neuroskyence

Decoding performance (MVPA) better for OPM-MEG than SQUID-MEG 😎. The improved spatial specificity of OPM-MEG due to the reduced brain-sensor distance is key. And more sensors (beyond 40) don't improve decoding. Preprint from our recent @thechbh.bsky.social study: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ever wonder how you read so fast? Your brain gets a head start—processing the next word before your eyes move. Our MEG + eye tracking study out in Nature Communications study from @thechbh.bsky.social reveals orthographic & semantic previews predicting reading speed www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our new study - pseudoneglect is partly explained by structural hemispheric asymmetries in putamen 👇👇👇

In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In an EEG study spearheaded by Marlena Baldauf, we show that 8-month-old babies’ visual systems resonate at 4Hz (theta rhythm) — unlike adults, who resonate around 10Hz (alpha). 👶🧠 echoes at 4Hz 👩‍🦰🧠 echoes at ~10Hz Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Important findings from @katduecker.bsky.social : faster visual search for a target among distractors predicted by stronger alpha; ie a case where alpha benefits visual processing

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans. Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

Join our team! We're looking for a Research Assistant to support OPM-MEG research on reading in children and adults at the Oxford Centre for Human Activity in the Neuronal Oscillations group (www.neuosc.com). Deadline 22nd July. For details see lnkd.in/e2qvCP9b

In our new MEG/RIFT study from @thechbh.bsky.social by @katduecker.bsky.social , we show that feature-guidance in visual search alters neuronal excitability in early visual cortex —supporting a priority-map-based attentional mechanism. rdcu.be/eqFX7

Day 2 of the OPM-FLUX (www.neuosc.com/fluxtoolkit2...) toolkit at University of Oxford hosted at St Catz. We have 32 bright participants from 7 countries learning how to apply OPM-MEG in cognitive and clinical neuroscience

Our latest study on reading using MEG, eyetracking and Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging headed by Yali Pan from @thechbh.bsky.social : Parallel and dynamic attention allocation during natural reading www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

During saccades, visual objects are first processed in the parafovea, then in the fovea upon fixation. Does this repeated exposure cause repetition suppression or information accumulation? MEG work by Syanah Wynn suggests both as a consequence of neural sharpening. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us! PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... (please share widely)

📣cog neuro postdoc opportunity! Interested in studying attention & exploration w/ cutting edge M/EEG? 🧠care about making vision science a bit more naturalistic? 🌱LandauLab is hiring! We seek resourceful, curious and creative researchers who can join the newly forming London-based [email protected]! ...

Hands-on training at University of Oxford using OPM in cognitive and clinical neuroscience. Deadline 23/05/2025

Oscar Ferrante from @thechbh.bsky.social and his colleagues Rony Hirschhorn and Alex Lepauvre on Brain Inspired, reflecting on the Cogitate collaboration and the recent Nature paper.

And a wonderful podcast on Brain Inspired by the excellent postdocs/PhDs from the COGITATE team (@arc-cogitate.bsky.social) reflecting on their experience of being part of the adversarial collaboration on consciousness braininspired.co/podcast/211/

Interesting and timely editorial in Nature on the importance of adversarial collaborations www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The 2025 edition of MEG UKI will be hosted by UCL 16-18th July. This year we include a multimodal day on naturalistic neuroscience! Abstract submission is also now open. meguk.ac.uk/meg-uki-2025/

Researchers in France are working on creating a french network of researchers to organize interaction, communication and training in #Computational_Neuroscience. If you are a CompNeuro working in France, consider joining, and registering to our mailing list: listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/subscrib...

Our @nature.com paper is out! Bringing together 2 major theories of consciousness - Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT) - in an unprecedented collaboration. Here’s the story of how we advanced theory testing in neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I'm so happy for the friends I made working on this project, and proud of the work we have put together

I lost count of how many times I said, “I’ll believe it when I see it", and here we are. It's been a privilege to be part of @arc-cogitate.bsky.social and to learn from such brilliant people (especially grateful to @liadmudrik.bsky.social for the opportunity to join this massive project)

The 1st major study from @arc-cogitate.bsky.social is out today in @nature.com—a landmark collaboration testing theories of consciousness through rigorous, preregistered science. Data & tools shared openly. Contributed from @mcgillumedia.bsky.social @theneuro.bsky.social nature.com/articles/s41...

We’re grateful for the ongoing support from @anilkseth - in particular for his generous and nuanced recent article in @nautil.us : “Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness” nautil.us/inside-the-b...

What is consciousness? A global team of researchers, including Chair of Translation Cognitive Neuroscience Professor Ole Jensen, put two top theories to the test. Find out how they fared: buff.ly/5IU1BH0

Consciousness remains a profound scientific challenge. But progress requires not just defending theories — it requires testing them boldly. We hope this collaboration inspires others to embrace the spirit of open, critical, shared theory development.. 🧠🚀 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Quite a moment! HUGE thanks to all the outstanding Cogitate people who have been working on this so intensely for the last seven (!!) years. And a very big thanks also to the consciousness community; we couldn’t have done it without the support - and the criticism - we received. >>

"Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness." Some cogitations on the #COGITATE adversarial collaboration, the first results from which appeared yesterday in @nature.com nautil.us/inside-the-b...

#consciousness #neuroscience #IIT #GNWT #CogitateConsortium One of my favorite subjects to cogitate on. "Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one explanation..."

We are proud to have contributed to the Cogitate Consortium - thanks to all the great colleagues involved

Reminder on the OPM-FLUX course at Oxford 9-12 June: theory and hands-on training on OPM data analysis for cognitive neuroscience. Deadline 16 May, but sign up before the course gets oversubscribed.

We are delighted to announce the first OPM-FLUX toolkit to be held 9th-12th June 2025 at St. Catherine's College at University of Oxford: neuosc.com/fluxtoolkit2...

Associate Professorship of Social Psychology at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Our review out in TiCS spearheaded by Mathilde Bonnefond on the latest ideas on the functional role of alpha oscillations and distractor inhibition - e.g. we highlight that alpha increases might reflect perceptual target load rather than distractor anticipation authors.elsevier.com/a/1kFXN_V1r-...

Aperiodic and oscillatory systems underpinning human domain-general cognition www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroscience

Interesting work from Ayelet Landau's group on the temporal structure of prosodic units compared across forty languages

Join us for an immersive learning experience using the FLUX pipeline for MEG data analysis at @TheCHBH, University of Birmingham from June 11th to 14th, 2024. For program details, registration, and to meet our amazing teaching team, please visit neuosc.com/flux-toolkit

Most standard MEG systems have gradiometers rather than magnetometers to suppress distant noise sources. Our team @TheCHBH therefore developed an Optically Pumped Magnetic Gradiometer measuring human brain activity while suppressing e.g. lift artefacts arxiv.org/abs/2402.10113

We are proud to share the 2023 annual report from the Centre for Human Brain Health (@TheCHBH) at @unibirmingham highlighting the research work and activities of our amazing colleagues

Our team @TheCHBH is proud to contribute to the @ArcCogitate project on the neuronal basis of consciousness - an adversarial collaboration just highlighted in Nature as a science event to watch for in 2024 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Feeling very proud that Katharina Duecker has passed her viva with flying colours. She has shown tremendous resilience while navigating through difficult times including the global pandemic and yet produced an excellent and insightful thesis. Happy birthday!!! 🥳🥳🥳

Join our online workshop: Neuro(AI) for Developmental Research (Friday Dec 8 at 2:45 GMT)!!! www.eventbrite.com/e/neuroai-fo... Keynote: @JeanRemiKing Speakers: Jianbo Jiao @vayzenberg90 @EvansonLinnea Organizers:@AnaPesquita @B_Pomiechowska @OleJensenCHBH @BBabylab @TheCHBH @UoB_CDS

The University of Birmingham is turning 125 years old - and has made 125 job openings from fellow to chair level. Apply to develop your research e.g. at the Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH): fellowsandchairs.birmingham.ac.uk

Exciting PhD opportunity with excellent advisors

Exciting opportunity for a permanent research position in the Computation, Cognition and Neurophysiology team led by the excellent Mathilde Bonnefond and Jérémie Mattout at the CRNL (INSERM/CNRS) in Lyon

PhD opportunity to work on exciting project with excellent PIs @TheCHBH