Save the date 👆🧵 Neuroimaging Statistics Workshop, 12-13 June, @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 2026 satellite meeting, w/ @ohbmossig.bsky.social's BrainHack. Keith Worsley lecture by Sir. John Aston, + great work at Neuro/Stats/ML/AI interface. Registration opens soon! sites.google.com/view/nsw2026

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How are energy #metabolism pathways distributed across the #cortex? @alaindagher.bsky.social &co map five pathways in the human #brain, linking metabolic organization with brain structural & functional properties, as well as developmental dynamics @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4c1JVp8

Nature's Impact Factor is in the Epstein Files. Really.

"[S]ociological graduate students are required routinely to hand in [...] new discoveries equalling Gregor Mendel's" 😭 I think in sociology this has stopped, but psych is unfortunately still going strong bsky.app/profile/cele...

The Shingles vaccine has outperformed all expectations. Why? erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...

Our lab, located at the University of Alberta (Canada), is hiring a postdoctoral scholar and/or PhD student to work on the contribution of genetic mutations to neurological disorder mechanisms and response to treatments. Please share widely! can-acn.org/postdoctoral...

Everyone: academic publishing is broken. Also everyone ( on a search committee): candidate has a cell paper and a nature neuroscience paper.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising?

If you're (1) into nhp neurophysiology and/or biological motor control, (2) a foreign big shot and (3) interested in moving here, please reach out -- this new program looks extremely attractive (min. $8M over 8y)! www.uwo.ca/research/can...

Most published personality profiles are super similar! @kerliilv.bsky.social clustered 162 NEO PI personality-phenotype profiles. 70% of profiles belong to just 3 clusters , and 89% belong to just 5 😱! Check out the thread for more! 👇 @alaindagher.bsky.social @renemottus.bsky.social

Brain size links neurodevelopment to neurodegeneration in Parkinson's disease https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.09.25341901v1

Cortical expansion and genetic risk for PD. Led by Houman Azizi and Nooshin Abbasi. With @ptenigma.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social @yasharneuro.bsky.social @ndrewvo.bsky.social and many others www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Conceptual and methodological flaws undermine claims of a link between the gut microbiome and autism: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

lol. No one who has done time in Canadian Academia has any illusion that it’s a meritocracy.

I asked nano banana in Gemini 3.0 to make a diagram explaining two-sample MR with an arrow indicating pleiotropy. This is what it came up with. Not great - and what on earth is "pleizorotty"?

Why does your brain shrink in Parkinson’s? Word shrink in this case refers to measurable loss of brain tissue (atrophy), which reflects thinning of cortex/loss of volume in key brain regions. New paper shows widespread atrophy following brain’s wiring diagram and local biological vulnerabilities.

Should called it the Siesta Bowl. www.nfl.com/games/comman...

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...

New paper with @statsepi.bsky.social and @deevybee.bsky.social in which we show there's really no evidence for a link between the gut microbiome and autism www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ying-Qiu Zheng, Saad Jbabdi, et al: An image quality transfer approach for localising deep brain stimulation targets doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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 🧵

When they came after young women wearing a hijab, Lionel Carmant said nothing because his daughter does not wear a hijab. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

🚨New in Lancet Neurology: Autopsy study of aducanumab in #Alzheimer’s shows superficial cortical Aβ cleared, but deeper persists. ARIA showed inflammation+ microinfarcts in leptomeningeal/penetrating vessels. Some path is PET-invisible. @drneurochic.bsky.social authors.elsevier.com/a/1lxn85FFzL...

I have really enjoyed this book.

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

Francois Legault and Simon Jolin-Barrette are vying to become the Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin of Quebec. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I hate this place.

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

📅 Save the Date: Oxford 2026 Glymphatic Research Symposium! • Dates: March 30th, March 31st, April 1st 2026. • Keynote speakers: Maiken Nedergaard & Jonathan Kipnis. • Venue: Keble College, Oxford, UK. • Registration link to follow Looking forward to seeing you there! 🧠

How can one volunteer? www.montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...

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 ⤵️

Huge thanks to Sanjay Kalra and the CALSNIC team, J Hansen, @vincebaz.bsky.social @goliashf.bsky.social L Collins @dadarmahsa.bsky.social @alaindagher.bsky.social !! code: github.com/netneurolab/...

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 in Imaging Neuroscience by Malte R. Güth, Travis E. Baker, et al: Right posterior theta reflects human parahippocampal phase resetting by salient cues during goal-directed navigation doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

This important new study in Movement Disorders looked at folks w/ REM sleep behavior disorder, a common early sign of Parkinson’s. The results suggest that fMRI may reveal changes in brain networks long before symptoms of PD or dementia w/ Lewy bodies fully emerge. @parkinsondotorg.bsky.social

Companies charging and people paying up to $500,000 to select embryos with high IQ potential, even though that isn't possible. No less ethical. "Current models explain about 5% to 10% of the differences in cognitive ability between people" Front page WSJ today www.wsj.com/us-news/sili...

2. When I give seminars about this, I ask my (professional scientist) audience "How many of you believe that anthropogenic climate change is real?" Almost all hands raise. I then ask "How many of you have read the IPCC report or equivalent" Fewer than 25% of hands raise.

Yesterday I decided to become a Samsung phone user. Today I am a separatist. Never say never! 😀 globalnews.ca/news/1132233...

How does cerebral #BloodPerfusion map onto micro-, meso- & macro-scale brain structure? @asafarahani.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social &co characterize blood perfusion in the #HumanBrain, revealing how it changes with age & in #NeurodegenerativeDisease @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/46AEURS

Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️

"The Quebec government has served the school with fines totalling almost $30 million for violating the province’s language law by admitting too many students to its English-taught continuing-education programs over the last two years." Read more at: www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

In collab with @alaindagher.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social and Shady Rahayel, we used the SIR model to computationally model neurodegenration as a function of the structural connectome and gene expression. SIR cpatures the dynamics better than axonal connectivity (very bad!) and gene expression!

On the root cause of global obesity www.pnas.org/doi/suppl/10... www.science.org/content/arti... www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

Excited to announce my new book FOOD INTELLIGENCE coauthored with brilliant journalist @juliabelluz.bsky.social‬! Cutting through the confusion about diet & health, #FoodIntelligence describes the fascinating science of how food both nourishes & harms us. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/671334...

Hi everyone! Blue Sky seems alright! Check out our massive new review on Coenzyme Q that earned the cover 😉.

ENIGMA is a tremendous achievement ! Congratulations @ptenigma.bsky.social

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Stephen M. Smith, Karla L. Miller, and Thomas E. Nichols: Characterising ongoing brain aging and baseline effects from cross-sectional data doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Does the carbon footprint calculation include travel to hackathons?