📢 OHBM Australia 2025 Updates! 🖼️ Poster abstract submissions open until Oct 20 👉 Submit here: ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a... 🏆 Award nominations are now open! 🎖️ Early Career Researcher Award 🌟 Emerging Leadership Award 🗓️ Due by Oct 20 👉 ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/call-f...

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 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

Don't forget! Abstracts due Sept 22 📝 Don’t miss out!

⏰ Don’t forget – The OHBM Australia Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting is coming up! 📍 Melbourne 📅 Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025 Abstract submissions close soon (September 15th 5pm)!!😮 📢 Register to secure your place today! ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...

🔥ATTENTION!🔥 Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open! Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns. Details: tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6 Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...

Hands down, this video is **the best educational video** I’ve ever seen on YouTube. Content and animations aside, the sound design by itself is a piece of art 🤯 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGLN...

🚨🚨🚨 Don't forget our annual meeting is coming up! Registration and abstract submission is open!🚨🚨🚨

New findings help to explain why it has been so challenging to predict brain signaling from the connectome alone. By Holly Barker #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/w...

Excellent new review by @claireocallaghan.bsky.social on how noradrenaline drives learning across multiple scales of neurobiological organization - from cells to networks www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Excited to share the latest preprint from the lab: Rethinking scale in network neuroscience: Contributions and opportunities at the nanoscale We argue that there’s a natural compatibility of network neuroscience tools with synapse-resolved connectomes. arxiv.org/abs/2508.16760

New paper🥳 🧠 In TLE, brain changes go beyond the temporal lobe & beyond normal aging. Our ENIGMA study (769 patients, 18 sites) found widespread gray & white matter decline, especially after 55. By Judy Chen and a terrific intl' team Time for earlier diagnosis & deeper research bit.ly/3HRYeQt

✨✨ We are excited to announce the OHBM Australian Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting! 🧠🇦🇺 📢 Abstract submissions & registration now OPEN (abstract submission closes September 15th at 5pm) 📍 Melbourne 🏙️☕ 📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025 ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a... We hope to see you there! 🤩

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Vincent Bazinet, Zhen-Qi Liu and Bratislav Misic: The effect of spherical projection on spin tests for brain maps doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

✨ New paper ✨ in JAMA Pediatrics! We discuss how understanding the timing ⏰ of stressful events relative to neurodevelopment can help us better identify risk factors (looking backward) and predict future psychopathology (looking forward) at the individual level #neuroskyence #devpsych #PsychSciSky

This is my favourite YouTube video of all time, and since today marks three years since its release, I thought I’d share it. It’s a brilliant example of edutainment, and has inspired my own talks. We scientists could learn a lot about presenting in a fun and engaging way! youtu.be/yUaNHA-WQWg?...

Interested in Network hubs, cortical hierarchies, and gradients? Ever wonder where they come from? Check our latest review, where we cover different approaches to mapping hubs, models for their evolution, and mechanisms for how they develop: osf.io/preprints/os...

Position open for a neuroimaging focused postdoc to come work with us in Sydney Feel free to get in touch for a chat if you have any questions about it :) usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

Another excellent study by @dulaclab.bsky.social and collaborators. This new @cp-cell.bsky.social study uncovers a key role for the thalamus in the neural control of social hierarchy 🧪🧠🧬 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Are you interested in our work on complex physical systems and applications (to neural systems)? Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘 We have two open positions: 1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA... 2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation (PACE) in Treatment-Resistant Depression Punchline: PERSONALIZED network neuroscience works. *Easily* the most important paper I’ve been part of. Read the manuscript for details. Watch the movies for *amazing* testimonial. 1/2

Spatial transcriptomics reveals human cortical layer and area specification www.nature.com/articles/s41... - early emergence of layers; graded differentiation along A/P axis, w/ early, sharp V1/V2 boundary

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Kane Pavlovich, Alex Fornito, et al: The efficacy of resting-state fMRI denoising pipelines for motion correction and behavioural prediction doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

For the first time in four decades, a new algorithm has improved upon the speed limit for calculating the fastest route to every point in a network. @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social‬ reports: www.quantamagazine.org/new-method-i...

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? ⤵️

At 18:30 UK time, I will be presenting my work on learning and exploration across development at the @cogscisociety.bsky.social Glushko Dissertation Prize Session! #CogSci participants can join at this link: underline.io/events/489/s...

Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our new preprint led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social where review the physics and physiology of cortical waves and their implications for psychological function: osf.io/preprints/ps... @nsb-lab.bsky.social

Updated version of this preprint, with brand new title and everything: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great resource, out today in @natneuro.nature.com: An integrated single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomics atlas reveals the molecular landscape of the human hippocampus @stephaniehicks.bsky.social @martinowk.bsky.social & colleagues 🧪🧠🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

JOB ALERT! We're seeking a postdoctoral scientist to join Developmental Imaging at @mcri.bsky.social in Melbourne. Role will involve working with international partners on a new project charting brain growth in children with NF-1 Please reach out for more information www.seek.com.au/job/86090834

1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Better version of the meme.

Replication Crisis xkcd.com/3117/

Fab new work from @kanepav.bsky.social with @jchrispang.bsky.social looking at how different measures of inter-regional FC are resistant to motion-related noise and how they can improve (or not) BWAS effect sizes. Peep the thread!

New pre-print from @alexfornito.bsky.social, @jchrispang.bsky.social, and myself looking at the sensitivity of different methods used to estimate FC/EC in relation to residual motion artifacts and behavioural prediction www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New 2 year position as an Imaging Data Infrastructure Specialist Located a the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) & the University of Newcastle (UoN), in partnership with the National Imaging Facility (NIF), Apply here: www.seek.com.au/job/85537666

Thalamus and consciousness: a systematic review on thalamic nuclei associated with consciousness www.frontiersin.org/journals/neu...

1/ Mapping synaptic connectivity between individual neurons is extremely laborious. We developed BRISC, a new method that makes it possible to map inputs onto 100s of neurons in the same animal in a matter of weeks! Led by Alex Becalick and @antblot.bsky.social. 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Have you been using ABCD data? Are you measuring psychopathology with the CBCL? You will want to check out our latest preprint, led by @kanepav.bsky.social, which shows that the constructs measured by the tool fail to meet many basic validity tests. Peep the thread!

Have you ever been transfixed by the colour palette of the Melbourne tram network? Well I have... so I made a package called {melbourne}! So far it includes a colour palette called "melb_trams()". More to come, stay tuned! 🔗 Check it out: github.com/dionnecargy/... #RStats #DataScience #Rcoding

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

Thrilled to present MIND! A model for how the sensorimotor–association axis of the neocortex develops. Huge thanks to the incredible multidisciplinary team who made this happen. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Latest work from the Sestan lab exploring the development of cortical organisation along the sensorimotor-association axis. Using developmental transcriptomics, in vivo genetic models, viral circuit tracing, histology, neuroimaging & more —across species. Something for everyone, hopefully!

I really cooked with this one

How does the human brain coordinate hierarchical cortical development? Our work in Nature Neuroscience identifies a role for thalamocortical structural connectivity in the expression of hierarchical periods of cortical plasticity & environmental receptivity in youth 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Good morning folks. If you’re around #OCNS2025, maybe come by today for a chat about optimal communication in brain networks? ✨

The OHBM Time Machine places all recorded talks/sessions from OHBM annual meetings onto YouTube *for free*. Sessions from 2015-2024 are available to watch now, with 2025's recordings coming in the next couple of months - watch this space. Explore the time machine yourself: www.youtube.com/@OHBM

🚨 Apply NOW for the 2025 Neuro–Irv & Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes! Rewarding #OpenScience in neuroscience - the Tanenbaum Open Science Institute 💡 $80K Main Prize 🎓 $10K Intl. Trainee Prize 🍁 $5K Canadian Trainee Prize 🔗 www.mcgill.ca/neuro/open-s...) 🗓️ Aug 15

New preprint! Why are long-range connectomic interactions in the cortex dominant in shaping dynamics in some experiments but apparently negligible in others? We (w/ R Maran, @elimuller.bsky.social) address this question by studying a new hybrid model of cortical dynamics. arxiv.org/abs/2506.19800