Looking forward to joining a fantastic panel to talk about dementia research!

🚨 New paper 🚨 Did you ever wonder if the spatial similarity of receptor PET maps matters for their use in molecular-informed fMRI analyses? Here we systematically investigate this. 🧵

I am recruiting a postdoctoral researcher and a PhD student, funded by a new ERC grant. The grant focuses on the role of the hippocampus in visual perception, using 7T fMRI (hippocampal subfields, cortical layers) and MEG+iEEG. The intended start dates for both positions are in early 2027. 🧠🟦 1/3

New preprint from the team - what's the role of frontal cortex - LPFC & MCC - in learning about progress towards goals? Data from the checking project collected by Fred Stoll. New analyses by Xiaoqi Xu. With Matteo di Volo, Manu Procyk, & skytorial from @nilskolling.bsky.social below

Happy to share that our paper on objective quality assessment for "precision" fMRI is now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social A recap of what it does, what's new since the preprint, and code you can run on your own data. cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Look how far we've come in just a few years! We're fast as well! It turns out, recruiting reviewers is much easier when they're not being used as free labor for massively profitable publishers Support free-to-publish and Open Access science by submitting to Open Mind today! direct.mit.edu/opmi

New preprint w/ @akalt.bsky.social, Juliane Schubert, Nathan Weisz, & @clarepress.bsky.social 🎉 Predictive-brain accounts treat "prediction error" as one signal. We find it's two jobs, in two dissociable systems. And one of them you can watch in the pupil, as people listen to a story. 🧵 (1/9)

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Massimiliano Facca, Alessandra Bertoldo, et al: Glucose metabolism echoes long-range temporal correlations in the human brain doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

How do other animals experience time? It's been a pleasure to work with @singhal.bsky.social and @anilseth.bsky.social on a paper exploring how temporal illusions and other experimental strategies can shed light on this. It's our today! www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Our first Impact Factor is 3.0 — an important milestone for a new journal. As with most new journals, the first IF is affected by the smaller publication volume in the launch year. Latest citation data are encouraging, and the journal’s IF is set to rise in 2027.

1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

We are delighted to announce that Shella Keilholz will shortly become the Editor-in-Chief of Imaging Neuroscience, following the selection process described in our Author Guide. Steve Smith is stepping down as EiC after serving for three years, following the transition from NeuroImage.

I'll be presenting two posters at OHBM this week - come say hi! [0510] Spatial collinearity constrains multivariate molecular enriched network estimation ↳ Monday & Tuesday [1985] Locus Coeruleus Connectivity Confers Cognitive Resilience in Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease ↳ Wednesday & Thursday

How can we acquire new knowledge and skills on a daily basis while remaining the same person? I'm excited to share our new preprint led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social & Ally Dworetsky tackling this question, just in time for #OHBM2026: doi.org/10.64898/202... 🧵👇 #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

What matters most for childhood brain organization? We analyzed 649 variables. The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers. Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES. In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Here's a bit of unusual work on error processing and error awareness from our lab, which we've been working on off and on for around eight years: www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S245... Details in thread

It has been super fun to work on this, where we learned that: 1) Mouse PFC is needed for model-based override of habits. 2) Separate PFC populations encode a 'policy' and the current 'value'. 3) The policy and value codes alternate theta sweeps towards the goal. ...and much much more!

Excited to see this out in PNAS. A fabulous project by Adam Pines and the Williams lab: across psychedelics (LSD, Psilo, MDMA), species, and datasets, a very consistent story—reduced propagation of activity into the default mode network (DMN). Congrats Adam! 🧠🍄 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

If these research directions resonate with you and you're interested in joining our team, we now have 2 open PhD positions! More information about the positions: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/... More information about our research: www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/906930/natur... #NeuroJobs

Want your mice to learn your task faster? 🐭 According to this paper giving a huge reward (10x typical size) in a subset of trials strongly shortens training times: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Paying peer reviewers works. Expanded Fast & Fair experiment @biologyopen.bsky.social: • 5.5 vs 37.7 working days to decision with reviews • ~3 vs ~9 reviewer invitations per manuscript • no reduction in editor-assessed review quality • similar acceptance rates www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Postdoctoral opportunity in ML / deep learning / multimodal prediction for AD risk in the Buckley lab! To apply, please send a CV and a 1-page cover letter explaining your technical skills, career goals, and why this specific position is a good fit. Please see link! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Do humans show sex differences in brain activation? If so, are these task-specific or general — and do they relate to sex differences in brain anatomy and behavior? We dove deep into these questions in a new paper just out in Nature Communications | tinyurl.com/3rdrb524

Glad to finally have this paper out and wrapped up -- our last "edgy" paper before NSF grant expired The dual interpretation of edge time series: Time-varying connectivity versus statistical interaction Work led by @h-merritt.bsky.social with @mandymejia.bsky.social www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

In a meta-analysis of 210 biomedical AI studies that statistically compared models under cross-validation, 97% used invalid statistical tests. Here's our new preprint doi.org/10.64898/202... led by @tianchu.bsky.social @hetuli.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social @nichols.bsky.social 1/N

“Autism subtypes identified using cross-species functional connectivity analyses” Excellent work by @gozziale.bsky.social and colleagues, now out in @natneuro.nature.com 🧪🧠🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Incredibly excited to share the latest published work from the lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Using a range of techniques, including closed-loop optogenetics, we show that the ACC modulates pupil linked arousal in real time. Great summary of our findings here: scienceblog.com/your-brain-h...

See also the commentary by Chen, Rosen & Polimeni in the same issue: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A series of lovely recent papers have framed *in vivo* ACh modulation of DA release as unconfirmed. *Last year* @jiaxuanqi.bsky.social showed clear in vivo cholinergic modulation of DA during birdsong learning, including evidence that ACh is permissive for learning while DA is instructive. Read on👇

"The common conception that the brain is primarily for thinking, or other cognitive processes, is potentially misleading... [the brain's actual function is] allostasis: the predictive regulation of competing demands from internal bodily systems" www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... hmm.

Excited to see the final version of our manuscript out! We find that OPM-MEG reliably captures neural activity comparable to other neuroimaging methods. Thank you to the reviewers for their thoughtful feedback and to @s-michelmann.bsky.social for his mentorship on this project. 🧠😄

Really pleased that this work with @dudman.bsky.social is now out in Neuron: A global dopaminergic learning rate enables adaptive foraging across many options

Rogier Mars has a new book on how brains evolved!

We are looking for two Research Assistants to conduct experiments and data analyses investigating the neural mechanisms of strategic and social decision-making using head-fixed (1) and freely-moving (1) behavioural paradigms in mice. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

The prefrontal cortex controls memory organization in the hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

After rereading the cool hidden brain paper (www.frontiersin.org/journals/sys...) I decided to make a new version. Code and everything available here: github.com/koerding/neu... Most popular: hippocampus. Why are diagonal band, medial geniculate nucleus, and interposed nucleus so unpopular?

⚠️New review on video games for cognitive citizen science! "From Players to Participants: Citizen Science and Video Games to Understand Cognition" arxiv.org/abs/2604.24321

How do exclusion and adversity drive social learning in adolescence? Here, @drjk.bsky.social, Lyn Ellett and I show that social exclusion reduces adolescent belief flexibility about others at a later point in time, and reduces the ability to generalise from social cues - 🧵 1/5

How does the thalamus support consciousness? Our new study uses resting‑state fMRI to show nucleus‑specific thalamocortical connectivity changes during anaesthesia and in disorders of consciousness. #Neuroscience #Consciousness #fMRI #Thalamus academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...

Paper alert! Very happy to see Chloe's amazing mouse-human comparative-to-translational paper out: doi.org/10.1016/j.eb... @oxcin.bsky.social /w @mristam.bsky.social

I always assumed that brain function had to line up with cytoarchitectonics. It turns out I was wrong. Human cortex, especially PFC, is tiled by chains of functional patches that subdivide and interlink architectonic areas into parallel processing streams. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

A wave of new papers discuss the merits and limitations of lesion network mapping. #neuroskyence By @avaskham.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/brain-imagin...

Now out in PNAS with @jaeyoungson.bsky.social, Alice Xia, @apaxon.bsky.social & @orielf.bsky.social. Medial temporal lobe encodes predictive representations of people's real-world social networks which afford them key advantages in social navigation. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧵

14 things PhD supervisors can do to help their students www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Dopamine D1 and D2 receptors differentially control strength and dynamics of abstract decision codes in the primate prefrontal cortex doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #neuroscience

Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1

It’s brutal in academia right now. A lot is out of our control, but it doesn’t cost anything to remember that there are humans behind papers and grants…reviewers, program officials and funders can be more empathetic in the face of unprecedented chaos in the US scientific enterprise.

Interesting new preprint from UK Biobank data on blood biomarkers in psychiatry. In ~47,500 people, plasma NfL was modestly elevated in bipolar and depressive disorders, while GFAP was largely unchanged. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

"Early-career academics, especially those who are conscientious mentors, can end up being punished for doing the kind of work that universities claim to value." This hits home. Luckily I managed to be able to prioritize my own "game" over the years, but it's hard www.nature.com/articles/d41...