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

For those interested in a neuroscience PhD - the University of Minnesota Graduate Program in Neuroscience www.neuroscience.umn.edu is hosting virtual open house events coming up on Oct 6th and Oct 30th. Learn about the program and meet students and faculty! Register here: forms.gle/kANEp4Fmd3ut...

my neighborhood. the school my kids attend. nobody should have to experience what we and our community have gone through the past three weeks. period. ban assault rifles. ban high-capacity mags. ban bump stocks.

“Assault rifles turn survivable injuries into fatal ones. They turn small tragedies into mass tragedies.” It’s that simple. www.startribune.com/several-annu...

🚨 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

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Sad day for peope who still believe brain areas are the primary organizational units of function in the brain. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The two key studies of the International Brain Laboratory @intlbrainlab.bsky.social are out today! A brain-wide map of neural activity during complex behaviour www.nature.com/articles/s41... Brain-wide representations of prior information in mouse decision-making www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Extraordinary resource! "Comprehensive recordings from 621,733 neurons in 297 brain areas of 139 mice (12 labs) performing a decision-making task with sensory, motor & cognitive components: a public dataset to understand how computations distributed across & within brain areas drive behaviour."👇🧪

New work with @shiyanliang.bsky.social‬, @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social, @intlbrainlab.bsky.social, Anna Levina. We uncover the principles that organize single-neuron timescales across the entire brain, unifying regional specialization with universal brain-wide dynamics: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share our new preprint on the brain-wide organization of intrinsic timescales at single neuron resolution. Work w/ @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social, @intlbrainlab.bsky.social, Anna Levina, @engeltatiana.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧠 PhD opening in our lab @HU_Berlin! Work on NeuroGeneConnect: genetics 🧬 + neuroimaging 🧠 of brain networks. Closing date: 17/09/25 Details & apply 👉 hu.berlin/mpphd Ref: DR/180/25 PostDoc call coming soon too!

Tackling gun violence shouldn’t be a Democrat or Republican issue. We should work together as Americans to stop another act of terror from happening again. That starts with a ban on assault weapons. Our children deserve to grow up without the fear and trauma of gun violence.

<Taps sign> Your network won’t work without gap junctions that comprise at least in some neuronal cell classes, 25% of the potential synaptic signaling.

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Is precision functional brain imaging in babies possible? YES! We show this in not one but two new preprints out of WashU and @umn-midb.bsky.social! 1️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🐣👶🧠

Awesome write up!

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

Hell yeah - this is great!

This is fucking amazing.

My new university's logo is a PSI! How frickin cool is that! Help me grow a new lab at in IU Bloomington! We're seeking brilliant young scientists interested in memory representations, neuromodulation & aging. Coordinator: bit.ly/3Hu3UzT Postdoc: bit.ly/4oBZF6j Accepting GS apps in the Fall!

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...

mfs really using linkedin these days?

We wrote a piece for @naturemedicine.bsky.social 🧠 Menstrual cycle irregularities can be both cause and consequence of wide-ranging health issues. Embracing this complexity could reveal novel brain–body interactions and advance neuroscience. Check out our commentary www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Amazing stuff

So stoked to see this in press! Diverging network architecture of the C. elegans connectome and signaling network journal: journals.aps.org/prxlife/acce... preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2412.14498 1/3

Precision Functional Mapping (PFM). 8 yrs ago some told us it wasn't interesting. Now it's helping cure depression as part of PACE (Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation), ... commercialized by @turingmedical.bsky.social. osf.io/preprints/ps... www.cell.com/neuron/comme...

The dearth of reviewers for papers often overlooks the expertise of lesser-known ECRs. If you know an ECR with expertise in neuroimaging, individual differences, and/or social cognition who is interested in reviewer experience for Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, please reach out to me!

I've been thinking a lot about the preprint in terms of my own career. I grew up academically in computational labs. My papers were abstract early on and they only got more abstract as I progressed. The model was: find a new exciting mathematical tool. Apply it to brain imaging data. Write it up. 1/

apply. do it. to one. to the other. to both.

When nothing worked, this did. Precision functional mapping is here for treatment-resistant depression. This is what hope looks like. 💡

Read the LinkedIn posts - remarkable project decades in the making.

This is the future. The reality of biological #psychiatry. We listen to the patient, create a personalized map of their brain, use algorithms to disrupt stuck networks, and adapt the stimulation over time while continuing our quest to understand those networks.

what a privilege to have been a part of such meaningful work this early in my career! So excited for the future of personalized intervention! So inspired to continue the work standing on the shoulder of scientists who brought us here today! 🧠

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...

Using Precision Functional Mapping (PFM) we mapped Mike’s unique brain networks. We found his salience network was 4× larger than normal - it encroached on mood and attention systems.

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

New 3D reconstructions of Drosophila sensory neurons reveal striking diversity in dendrite shape, even among neurons of the same type. These findings open up new questions about how neuron structure relates to sensory function. buff.ly/dfRVVsm

If you have expertise in MRI/behavioral data collection and are eager to break into the women's brain health/human neuroendocrinology field, this is an outstanding opportunity for you! Plus you get to live in beautiful Santa Barbara ☀️ 🌊 🌴 ⛰️

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Very relevant for the downstream applicability of connectomics research: www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... #neuroscience 🧪

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Are police more right-wing and biased against marginalized groups than the general public? If so, why? My new article in @pnas.org w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social, Newman, and Sears provides some answers. 🧵1/n

A great way to help reduce the citation gap is to alter your own citation practices. We built a shiny app that makes it easy to check (and adjust) the gender balance of your references before submitting papers: dcosme.shinyapps.io/citation-gap...

Niceeee www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Amazing stuff. Literally was telling a colleague last Thursday that “somebody should really validate PFM network boundaries with another modality and stimulation” (paraphrased). Then this shows up. Excellent science.

Holy shit 🪰

When I started my PhD (and until my 1st fac appt) I believed advances in large-scale neuro would come from more powerful modeling. There’s still a place for that oc, but we’re still in imaging infancy, and the best value per $ in terms of new insight comes from well designed common sense experiments