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...

In the latest episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, @drbreaky.bsky.social and @macshine.bsky.social describe a scale-free property of brain activity conserved across diverse species, suggesting a universal principle of activity underlying cognition. www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

🔥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...

The keynote speaker for the OHBM Virtual Satellite Meeting is Dr. Michael Breakspear, @drbreaky.bsky.social! You won’t want to miss his talk – your only chance will be to register and catch it live at 12:00-13:00 UTC on September 11! 🔗 https://humanbrainmapping.org/25SEASIG #OHBM #SEASIG

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

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

MAYBE DON’T EMAIL ME AT THE WEEKEND, THEN.

On this auspicious day, I finally bit the bullet & asked my super post-doc @annabhlr.bsky.social to teach me how to code & run Python (today!) Coding lifeline now goes: BASIC (1982); FORTRAN (1990); MAPLE (1992); MATLAB (1999); PYTHON (2025) (a bit of a gap between the last two!)

Program member Professor Michael Breakspear @drbreaky.bsky.social will be presenting "Modelling the brain as a wave machine" at Pint of Science in Newcastle on May 20, 2025 Follow the link to book your tickets! 👇 pintofscience.com.au/event/brains...

Looking forward to presenting our work on cortico-hippocampal coupling and wave-wave interactions as a basis for some core human cognitions 5pm May 6th EST (US) 8am May 7th AEST (Sydney) Zoom link: columbiacuimc.zoom.us/j/92736430185 Thanks to WaveClub conveners Erfan Zabeh & Uma Mohan

What does parenthood, depression, and psychedelics do to your brain? Very proud to see Winnie Orchard joining this stellar grp of Aussie neuros @lenaedibrainz.bsky.social @lucacocchineuro.bsky.social ky.social & @drbreaky.bsky.social for a FREE public lecture in June. @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

We can't wait to hear from from Dr. Michael Breakspear in two weeks in our monthly online seminar series on traveling waves of neural oscillations. Join us on May 6th at 5-6p ET! Please note the change in time to accommodate our Aussie friend @drbreaky.bsky.social

We are hiring! @aurinaarn.bsky.social and I are jointly looking for a talented Postdoc in Systems and Comp Neuro at Monash (AUS). If you like neuroimaging 🧠, comp models 💻, genetics 🧬, brain disorders 🤕, and/or evolution 🐵🐭, this could be the job for you!! careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

An opportunity to *join our group* as a postdoc researcher analyzing complex physical systems, and the time-varying data they produce (with applications to sleep)! Join us @sydneyphysics.bsky.social on a great campus in a beautiful city! Please share 🙂 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

🧠🌡️ New preprint out! BRAIN TEMPERATURE may be a key factor in understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease and brain cancer: doi.org/10.31219/osf... 'Temperature matters: Insights into brain thermoregulation and its impact on neural activity and health'

New preprint: "Temperature matters: Insights into brain thermoregulation and its impact on neural activity and health" osf.io/preprints/os...

Program members Dr Alexander Thorpe and Professor Michael Breakspear @drbreaky.bsky.social presented today @hmriaustralia.bsky.social as part of the HMRI Weekly Research Seminar Series. Thanks to our researchers for their fascinating presentations! #neuroscience #researcher #neuromodulation #brain

I feel ill watching this storm build and approach the communities of northern NSW and Brisbane

Important caveats of working in surface space with off-the-shelf cortical meshes by @jaysonjeg.bsky.social

Do you work on surface MRI such as HCP data? Our paper is finally out in Imaging Neuroscience, showing biases in surface fMRI. The revised ms has many new insights! TLDR: Vertices are much closer to each other in sulci, resulting in (fake) high spatial autocorrelation. (1/5)

It was bangin' work by you too Kevo, waaaay before hemodynamic travelling waves got their time in the sun ...

I have had other papers pass this mile stone, but this one is special as it was my 1st, first-author paper, and was the output from my PhD many moons ago! @drbreaky.bsky.social @mschira.bsky.social

New group photo taken by the talented media team at @hmriaustralia.bsky.social

Summary of the disastrous situation for science in the US & by collaboration, globally ".. leaders hostile to science & unqualified for their roles; executive orders that restrict meetings, publications, travel & grant making; censoring ideas & even certain words" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Our latest paper is out! A well powered high resolution mapping of the grey-matter regions associated with Alzheimer's, progression to Alzheimer's disease, cognition and functioning. @drbreaky.bsky.social @barkhof.bsky.social @michelleklupton.bsky.social

Check out the schedule of events linked with OHBM 2025 - Brain connectivity workshop, June 20-22 - Hackathon, June 21-23 - Neurodesk, June 21 - Brain gradients, June 23 - Precision network therapeutics, June 29 Register now! We look forward to welcoming you to Brisbane! @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Amazing work from @jchrispang.bsky.social plus @alexfornito.bsky.social and team!!

Saying farewell to @jaysonjeg.bsky.social who just completed a lovely PhD (plus his training in psychiatry) ... he is off to join the @macshine.bsky.social lab & no doubt achieve great things

Early bird registrations for the 2025 Brain Connectivity Meeting now open June 20 (arrive) until June 22 on the beautiful North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), near Brisbane (location of OHBM) qimrberghofer.eventsair.com/brain-connec...

🎉 Thrilled to announce that our course on Neural Field Theory & Brain Networks has been accepted for #OHBM2025! Third year teaching computational neuroscience at OHBM. Can't wait to explore brain dynamics in Brisbane! @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @drbreaky.bsky.social @johndgriffiths.bsky.social

With advance of LLMs, its inevitable they are going to be used to prepare manuscripts. I haven't (yet) but I see a role even as an experienced author. It's surprising that most journals don't yet have formal policies. The minimum should be a checklist on submission & a verbal statement in the paper

This sounds catastrophic: " a wide range of restrictions, including the abrupt cancellation of meetings such as grant review panels ... a communications pause, a freeze on hiring, and an indefinite ban on travel." www.science.org/content/arti...

Brains minimize energy consumption while maximizing computation. In humans, this trade-off is reconciled towards complex behaviors & hence relatively high energy use Review & synthesis with @sharnajamadar.bsky.social @annabhlr.bsky.social & Hamish Deery tinyurl.com/47c9n65w osf.io/preprints/os...

Therapist: tell me about your fantasies Me, a Full Professor: declaring email bankruptcy, deleting my university email account, and deleting my university shared calendar Therapist: I... I... not that kind Me: 🤷‍♂️

I used VVD Viewer for this #FluorescenceFriday video: 141 volumes from the #HHMIJanelia FlyLight Split-GAL4 #Drosophila driver collection. The animation comes from a high-level description processed by neuVid. Such a rapid tour of the data has questionable scientific value, but it's fun to watch!

Hi BlueSky fam, for my first post and to celebrate our recent paper being physically published I thought I’d do a summary thread! This has been my most favourite (and toughest) work to date. Please help share around!! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... (Reach out if you can’t access)

The Brain Connectivity Workshop 2025 will be held just before #OHBM2025 on the paradise that is Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) a one hour ferry ride from Brisbane Registration will open shortly (cost to be <$600 for travel registration & accomodation) so please plan your flights accordingly

A Timeline in Whole Brain Modelling: John Griffiths, Sorenza Bastiaens & Neda Kaboodvand link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Metastability demystified — the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future Dynamic systems theory review paper with Fran Hancock, Fernando Rosas & friends rdcu.be/d3bh9

The last grant application of the year is finally in - time to take a deep breath and do the stats. I submitted 5 grants as lead CI and was involved in 3 others. The result? 4 rejections and 1 ruled ineligible up to date. What do you reckon, how many papers I could have written in all that time?

Imaging Neuroscience new-paper posts from 2023. At the end of December we'll post the much bigger 2024 montage (even Rocky had a montage).

Almost 2 years ago, @chrisbehler.bsky.social made a bold move across the globe with me so I could take on my dream postdoc - without having a job perspective for himself. Fast forward, and I’m so proud of him and the amazing project he’s building during his PhD! 🧠

Morning ride and surf

Looking forward to presenting our new "two sheet" cortico-hippocampal neural field and neural mass models

Here's another sample of the amazing speaker lineup for Whistler Brain 2025. @drbreaky.bsky.social @anastasiayendiki.bsky.social Register here: medicine.yale.edu/mrrc/about/s... Abstract submission is open - get yours in!

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I’m thrilled to share our latest research paper, available on bioRxiv. In this study, we elucidated fundamental signal propagation modes representing unique aspects of neural resource allocation across established large-scale networks. The video I’m sharing highlights one of these five modes.

Very happy to participate in this years Rising Tide blockade of the world's largest coal port - making international headlines for an end to coal and a just transition www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

The brain expresses activity in complex patterns, reflecting the influence of cytoarchitectural, biochemical & genetic properties. Eigenstrapping is our method for inferring the similarity between two such brain maps while excluding spurious (chance) relationships www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A few days before Rising Tide 2024 - protest on world’s largest coal port. State Govt taking a draconian approach to try and shut down legitimate public protest this year despite local council approval for what’s been a peaceful and fun event over last 12 years