I didn't think I would hear Fred Andermann mentioned in an old episode of Car Talk! The show opened with a story about uncontrollable laughter (aka gelastic seizures) as a symptom of hypothalamic tumour, which Ray suggested might explain Tom's behaviour. Then cited Dr Andermann.

Beautifully outlined, how reviewer comments and curiosity should usually be suggestions not commandments.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Sebastian Dresbach, Renzo Huber, et al: Laminar CBV and BOLD response characteristics over time and space in the human primary somatosensory cortex at 7T doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

It’s really quite shocking Wellcome didn’t have internal policy/feedback systems that prevent burning considerable resources on pseudo-science…

Charting the human brain’s lifelong functional organization www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Maria Hakonen, Jyrki Ahveninen, et al: Function of the auditory cortex characterized by its intrinsic dynamic coactivation patterns estimated in individuals doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Nikhil V. Lakhani, Joseph W. Kable, et al: A meta-analysis of neural systems underlying delay discounting: Implications for transdiagnostic research doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Timothy Lawn and Mitul A. Mehta: Towards molecular selectivity in pharmacoimaging: Comment on van den Bosch and Cools doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Organization of neuropeptide systems in the human brain | doi.org/10.1038/s415... Neuropeptides are functionally diverse signaling molecules in the brain and body. @cebric.bsky.social curates an atlas of neuropeptide receptors and relates it to brain function @natneuro.nature.com 🧩 🧠 ⤵️

Hyperface: a naturalistic fMRI dataset for investigating human face processing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.11.711073v1

Spatial organization of AQP4 channels in the human brain: links with perfusion, edema, and disease vulnerability | doi.org/10.64898/202... Aquaporins are a key component of the brain’s glymphatic system. How are they distributed and how do they relate to healthy brain function and dysfunction? ⤵️

Synaptome architecture shapes regional dynamics in the mouse brain | doi.org/10.1371/jour... How do diverse synapses relate to the spatial patterning of whole-brain dynamics? Justine Hansen explores @plosbiology.org ⤵️

Here we gooo! Will fMRI become obsolete for measuring striatal reward signals? Probably not anytime soon… Still, in our latest paper, we use AI to take a step toward decoding striatal reward signals from EEG — maybe nudging the fMRI monopoly just a little :) direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Group picture including Steven "Epstein? I barely knew him" Pinker. www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

New @nature.com The brains of Super Agers produce more neurons than people some 50 years younger, a neurogenesis resilient signature linked to exceptional cognitive health and memory skills nature.com/articles/s41...

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! 🧠