Congratulations to these Orygen early career researchers, whose innovative work has been recognised with new grants 👏 More details: bit.ly/46BpOdj @sidchop.bsky.social @stephmiles.bsky.social

Hej, Melbourne #rstats folks! Please join me for my in-person workshop on C++ Programming for Faster Statistical Modelling in R on Monday, Sep 29! Lot's of goodies for econometricians and statisticians here! Register at: wombat2025.numbat.space #rstats #rcpp

Neuromorphic hierarchical modular reservoirs | doi.org/10.1101/2025... How does hierarchical modularity shape computational function? ⤵️

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 ⤵️

in preparation for next week's NACS speaker, today's target article

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 ⤵️

🚨 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

The BRIDGE Lab has officially been launched! 🔗 bridgelab.ucsd.edu 👉 we Bridge Research in Imaging, Development, Genetics and Emerging mental health 🧠 🧬 🚸 🌉 please don't be shy to reach out if you are interested in learning more about our lab's research!

Our latest work is now out in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! We examined the role of the basal forebrain and its influence on intrinsic brain networks in depressive and anxiety disorders. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... @psychunimelb.bsky.social, @mbciu.bsky.social, #UnimelbMDHS

🔍 OHBM's SIGs and Committees spotlight research reflecting the topics and challenges that matter to their communities. Explore their selections here: apertureneuro.org/pages/906-fe... @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social @ohbm-com.com @ohbmossig.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

🔥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 @cahbir.bsky.social and @rutgersbhi.bsky.social are hiring! Multiple open area and open rank faculty jobs, wonderful colleagues, amazing resources, and one of the largest communities of brain science research groups on the planet. Please apply and share widely. jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/209...

🧠 We're hiring a computational postdoc! 3+ years with me & @mitulamehta.bsky.social on @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded social cognition/paranoia research at the IoPPN. Lead & develop computational work, collaborate with experimentalists on psychosis/THC data. DM for details! lnkd.in/eCMy9Jf5

Adaptive learning is coordinated across behaviour, time and neurobiology (from synapses and dendrites, to astrocytes and the systems level). If you’ve ever wondered how noradrenaline helps shape these multiscale learning processes, you might like this: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

NIMH Data Archive is now also imposing NIST/ISO requirements (like NBDC). Not sure how many labs actually have the resources to meet these requirements. Is the golden era of open brain imaging data basically over?

Early bird registration for #WOMBAT2025 ends this week! WOMBAT is a data analytics workshop in Melbourne featuring the latest open source software. 📅 29-30 September (day 1 is tutorials, day 2 is the main event) 📍 In-person | Melbourne CBD, Australia wombat2025.numbat.space

Great write up of the @nature.com study on MRI economics by @bttyeo.bsky.social's research group! With @avramholmes.bsky.social @sidchop.bsky.social @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social

Resting-state fMRI data predicts what people are thinking and how they're thinking it ⬇️

As federal support vanishes for research addressing the root causes of health disparities in the United States, we are left with a dangerous void and an urgent need to rethink science funding, says Vani Pariyadath go.nature.com/4mlvEGo

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

🎉 WOMBAT is a fantastic event and I'm proud to be co-organising it this year. It's a great opportunity for us to share the latest open-source software and techniques among data analysts from academic, industry, and government.

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

My brilliant labmate, Keith Dodd, created this non-aggressive denoising pipeline for fMRI data for his dissertation! It has been super useful on some of our high-motion datasets, and I highly suggest folks check it out for their own studies 🧠📈🪲: direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

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...

just out in Molecular Psychiatry 😍: spinal & cortical alterations in processing of self-produced sensations in psychosis including: touch, interoception, fMRI, SEP, HEP, behavior🧠🫀 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky @paulasalamone.bsky.social @adamenmalm.bsky.social @rkaldewaij.bsky.social rdcu.be/exN0e

Are you leading an #OpenScience initiative advancing the field of #neuroscience? Don’t miss this opportunity to be recognized for your contributions, submit your application for the Neuro-Irv and Helga Cooper Foundation Open Science Prizes today! Apply now at the link in the comments #datasharing

Everyone should try out the Trandiagnostic Connectome Project (TCP) dataset! Openly available on @openneuro.bsky.social

For me, this work is a classic @ohbmofficial.bsky.social story: In 2023 I wasn't working with @bttyeo.bsky.social but I overheard him at his poster pointing to some accuracy curves saying "I don't why they have this particular shape". That kicked off the collab that led to these results.

V useful paper by @bttyeo.bsky.social @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social in @nature.com. Scan longer if you want to predict behav using fMRI and save $. Great use of the TCP data: (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...).

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 paper! We introduce an efficient set of statistical features for fMRI time series (calibrated on mouse manipulation experiments and tested on mouse and human data): catchaMouse16. Paper: doi.org/10.52294/001... Code (python/Matlab/C): github.com/DynamicsAndN...

Prefrontal axons going to lots of places! doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... #neuroskyence

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!

Pleased to say that our story of how a theory of self-supervised learning in cortical layers accounts for several experimental observations is now out 🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ketamine helped me escape my negative thoughts - then it nearly killed me www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#OHBM2025 was a blast -- the perfect way to celebrate submitting my PhD thesis with y'all 🎉 It was an honor (and so fun!) to represent the Aussie imaging community alongside a fab panel in the LOC Symposium, sharing my final thesis work on homotopic connectivity: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Fantastic dissection focused on WM tracts. quite long but there are obvious sections to skip (e.g. approx 0:00-30:00 and 1:25-1:45). i daresay it rivals Dr Lennart Heimer's video.

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Our educational session has kicked off @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

NetNeuroLab posters + talks at @ohbmofficial.bsky.social synapse types! neurotransmission connectomes! mouse maps! neuromorphic networks! generative models! neuropeptides! ⤵️

NSB Lab (past & present) has a host of workshops, talks, symposia, and posters to present at #OHBM2025! On Tuesday, Daniel Margulies and @alexfornito.bsky.social are running the educational session on Brain Modes, Components, and Gradients. Interested in whole-brain structure and function...?

We're very pleased to congratulate Orygen's Prof. Lianne Schmaal on receiving the inaugural International College of Neuropsychopharmacology (CINP) President's Brain Health Research Award! Details: bit.ly/3HHJiUA

New preprint out! We mapped brain vulnerability in Alzheimer’s using MIND networks + population modelling. Put this together with a brilliant team @raibethlehem.bsky.social @sarahmorganuk.bsky.social and many more still making their way to Bluesky 🧠 doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.10.25328978

The Transdiagnostic Connectome Project: an open dataset for studying brain-behavior relationships in psychiatry doi.org/10.1038/s415...

So glad to see this released!

Check out our latest open data release. n=240, most with a dsm-5 dx with extensive phenotying (~100 scales/subscale), rest and task functional imaging. See @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social's thread below for deets and links 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

Our latest @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social data release is now "live!" Available on NDA and @openneuro.bsky.social and spearheaded by @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social, @sidchop.bsky.social, and Connor Lawhead.

Terrific podcast relevant to our debates here about “What is an emotion?” But in the case of emotion, it’s turned up to 11 b/c (unlike “representation”), everyone alive has intuition and interest about the answers (including the public). www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Our (Greg Fonzo and Charlie Nemeroff) commentary on @mattwall.bsky.social's recent paper comparing effects of psilocybin and escitalopram on emotional responses in the brain. psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...