I uploaded the lecture I gave on hidden multivariate pattern methods in M/EEG at the #practicalMEEG2025 conference (wonderfully organized by @cuttingeeg.bsky.social). youtu.be/MgrqA7jMSBw It's just an introduction but maybe some will find it useful :)

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

🚨Paper Out! Systematic Review & Meta-analysis of ALS Fluid Biomarkers 🧵Key findings: • NfL leads for both diagnosis (AUC 0.81–0.92) & prognosis (HR 2.8–4.3) • CSF chitinases, p-tau/t-tau: moderate values • Marked heterogeneity onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We just advertised the Hooke Fellowships for exceptional researchers (typically after their first post-doc). You are completely free to set up your own research agenda for three years. RT please my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Quantifying the compressibility of the human brain | arxiv.org/abs/2510.16327

The illusion of illusions One of the oldest myths in human history is that the Parthenon was cleverly built with curves so that it looks straight, to correct some visual illusions In this paper I demonstrate that there are NO optical corrections in the Parthenon arxiv.org/abs/2510.16831. [1/n]

🧠 Why do some brains age faster than others? 🧬 Our new Nature Aging study of over 56,000 participants explores the genetics of the “brain age gap” — the difference between your brain’s biological and chronological age. nature.com/articles/s43587-025-00962-7 Thread below 👇

Is resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC), cortical thickness (CT), or cortical volume more effective at capturing sex and gender differences in the brains of preadolescents? Check out our new article (doi.org/10.1016/j.dc...) now out in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience.

1000s of studies have been published mapping neuroanatomical changes in psychiatric disorders. Can we ever converge on robust disease phenotypes? Our latest PP led by Trang Cao in a huge collab effort investigates this question... @nsb-lab.bsky.social

Excited to share my first preprint investigating the feasibility and reliability of using precision RSFC in people with Parkinson’s disease! 🧠👇 📄: go.illinois.edu/PDfeasibility 🧵 Thread ⬇️ 1/12

Ever wondered if your interesting brain-behavior correlation was over- or under-estimated due to head motion, but were afraid to ask? We’ve created a motion impact score for detecting spurious brain-behavior associations, now available in Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s414...

🚨 Excited to share the latest preprint form the lab ➡️https://tinyurl.com/32d3be9f Here we tackle a long-standing chicken-or-egg 🐣🥚question in #autism and developmental neuroscience ➡️ Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence" of #autism? Check out what we found! 🧵1/n

🔥Recent advances in #neuroimaging of #Alzheimers disease 🧠✨ dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.... ➡️ Valuable resource for both researchers & clinicians! ➡️ ATNIV biomarkers, staging, connectomics & more ➡️ Plus: how are sex & country represented in first/last authorship? @istaart.bsky.social Neuroimaging PIA

does brain connectivity drive spread of pathological proteins in Alzheimer’s disease? ✨ preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... if the question intrigues you, please read on 🧵⤵️

Patient-specific functional brain architecture explains cortical patterns of tau PET in Alzheimer's disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.02.679969v1

Quantum-like dynamics in the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.02.680057v1

🚨 New paper in Nature Methods: HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG) Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Interested in the mechanisms shaping the extraordinary complexity of the connectome? Then check out our new preprint, lead by Francis Normand with a stellar team, showing how geometry constrains connectome architecture: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Full thread here: tinyurl.com/sfv3yf73

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉 📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH... 🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

Interested in hippocampal dynamics and their interactions with cortical rhythms? Our physically constrained model of cortico-hippocampal interactions - complete with fast geometrically informed numerical simulation (available at embedded github repo) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm thrilled that our paper "Personalised regional modelling predicts tau progression in the human brain" is finally published in PLoS Biology! Here's a short thread about the main findings of the paper...

Latest work at #EUSIPCO25!🚀 We bring Topological Signal Processing to the brain 🧠 — showing that edge-based approaches outperform classical GSP in task decoding. Great collab with M.Nurisso & @lordgrilo.bsky.social 🙌 Paper 👉 eusipco2025.org/wp-content/u... #Neuroimaging #SignalProcessing #TSP

Assistant professor position at Linköping University, Sweden, with great startup package Machine learning and AI for precision medicine and diagnostics www.scilifelab.se/career/assis...

This is a major milestone for @sylviavilleneuve.bsky.social & PREVENT-AD. Their vision & dedication have led to a series of impactful studies & high-profile publications, and the future promises insights as this unique dataset continues to grow. alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Let me know if you're interested in becoming an assistant professor at Linköping University in Sweden www.vr.se/english/just...

Network spreading and local biological vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis | doi.org/10.1038/s420... How do brain network structure and local biological features shape the spatial patterning of atrophy in ALS? @asafarahani.bsky.social investigates ⤵️

The effect of spherical projections on spin tests for brain maps | doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... Spin tests are the de facto null model for map-to-map comparisons in brain imaging. Why don't they perfectly control false positives? @vincebaz.bsky.social explores ⤵️

🚨New paper alert! Our study led by @teanijarv.bsky.social investigated why some individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) develop hemispheric asymmetry in tau pathology and what drives this phenomenon. Out now in Nature Communications! 🔗Full article: doi.org/10.1038/s414... A thread🧵👇

‼️NEW PREPRINT‼️ What if you could take a normal 3T T1w MRI and make it look like it was acquired from a 7T scanner? That's exactly what we do using AI in our new preprint! Link: arxiv.org/abs/2507.13782 #neuroskyence #neurosky #compneuro #AI #datascience #neurology #mrisky #neuroimaging

🎉 Heron is finally out @elife.bsky.social! Led by George Dimitriadis, with Ella Svahn & @macaskillaf.bsky.social 🧪 🧠 🐭 🤖 If you wonder why yet another tool for experimental pipelines, read the 🧵 below: #neuroscience #neuroskyence #OpenSource 1/ elifesciences.org/articles/91915

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience, Generation of surrogate brain maps preserving spatial autocorrelation through random rotation of geometric eigenmodes direct.mit.edu/imag/article... Produces surrogates for null hypothesis testing of nonlinear effects within and correlations between brain maps

Can AI reveal risk & co-pathology of multiple neurodegenerative diseases from a single blood sample? We explored AI-based diagnostic power on high rank plasma proteomics (N=17,170). www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroskyence #neurosky #Alzheimer #compneuro #AI #datascience #neurology

New manuscript alert! Are plasma biomarkers🩸 predictive of Alzheimer’s disease progression in Down Syndrome (DS)? Our new study in collaboration with the ABC-DS consortium has now been published in @thelancetneuro.bsky.social: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🧠 Want to understand how different higher-order methods compare in brain connectivity analysis? Check out our new preprint — a fantastic collab with past & present NPL members @lordgrilo.bsky.social : 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A thread🧵

Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at #OHBM2025. Try the beta for yourself at github.com/spm/spm-python [2/7]

A Biological-Systems-Based Analyses Using Proteomic and Metabolic Network Inference Reveals Mechanistic Insights into Hepatic Lipid Accumulation: An IMI-DIRECT Study https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.02.25328773v1

Have recent changes led to uncertainty in your future scientific career? Wonder it's like in Australia? Good news! Monash's is seeking to hire talented EMCRs from other countries. Come join a wonderful community of brain mappers & modellers! www.monash.edu/research/eme...

Do you like brain network hubs?🧠🌐✳️Do you like genes?🧬What about neurodevelopment?👶What if I told you the latest work by @garedaba.bsky.social and myself combined all of these?🤯🤯🤯 See Gareth's thread for a primer of our findings, then read the paper for the details! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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/

Longitudinal functional connectivity during rest and task is differentially related to Alzheimer's pathology and episodic memory in older adults https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.16.654628v1

🧵Training binary or spiking neural networks is hard. Gradients vanish, surrogates are noisy, batchnorm is brittle. We propose a Bayesian approach based on KL divergence minimization—and it works. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17962 Work by James Walker & Moein Khajehnejad @neuro-ai.bsky.social 1/6

Please join us for our upcoming webinar: "Navigating Academia and Parenthood" Hosted by our incoming Chair @drerynnchristensen.bsky.social Register today: forms.gle/BmiznE6bzL3Y... Speakers: @kevinaquino.bsky.social @saadjbabdi.bsky.social Dr. Michele Veldsman Dr. Isabella Breukelaar

⚠️ We are hiring a research assistant in Neuroimaging & Computational Neuroscience 🧠 Come work with me in the vibrant city of Toronto! 🌇 Exciting projects related to Alzheimer’s disease, vascular brain injury, & neuromodulation 👩🏻‍🔬🔬 @sunnybrookhsc.bsky.social Apply: tinyurl.com/Jobsatsri

🧵 (1/7) Excited to share our new work on EEG-based small-world scale-free brain graphs with @aitchbi.bsky.social, @andreasantoro.bsky.social, Vahid Abootalebi, & Hamid Saeedi-Sourck. 📄 Paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧠 #brainGSP 👇

🧠 networks from EEG —excellent work by David! ✨ Please check out his thread/preprint for details👇 #EEG #neuroskyence

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we've extended the deadline to apply for our Systems and Comp Neuro postdoc position by a week (new deadline: May 25)! 🥳 If you have experience in modelling brain dynamics &/or analysing (s, d, f)MRI, we want you! Please help spread the word 👇

‼️New preprint! We are happy to share our latest work led by @teanijarv.bsky.social investigating why tau pathology in AD often accumulates more in one hemisphere of the brain than the other. Check out 🔗https://biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.15.648728v1 or dive into the details below👇

I am so very proud announce my lab's first preprint!! @xiaoyucaly.bsky.social delves into the mechanisms driving tau distribution: * Tau sequence driven by connectivity dynamics * Tau load driven by local factors Check out her thread below

🧠New preprint! What drives tau, the pathological protein in AD, to spread? We found that WHERE tau appears and HOW MUCH accumulates are governed by different mechanisms. Check it out:
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 #MedSky #neuroskyence #neurosky #alzsky #compneuro #MRI #neuroimaging #neurology