At #ICON? – Join us tomorrow to hear about novel measurement & manipulation approaches for neuromodulatory systems! 🗓️Sept 19, 🕚11:45 am 🏫Room Sé #ICON2025 #CogNeuro #AcademicSky #LocusCoeruleus #neuroskyence

🔵 I'm interrupting my social media hiatus to flag this important preprint from the Bruchas lab (is he not on Bluesky!?) together with @davidweinshenker.bsky.social. Very difficult experiments to show that dopamine release from LC terminals is independent of VTA 🔥 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

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...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Representational Geometries of Perception and Working Memory: A Pilot Study Tomoya Nakamura's first fMRI project ... in which we hereby release a preprint as a way of pre-registration 🧠📈

Come to Melbourne for the 2025 Conference of the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology Check out the great keynotes - submit your abstract Come join this exciting community of researchers Nov 24-25 - Register now! #philosophy #neuroskyence #philsky sites.google.com/monash.edu/a...

Of potential interest to those keen on motor control and/or multi-task networks. Congrats to Elom and Eric. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Excited to share my latest work with @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social & @andpru.bsky.social! We asked: How does the motor cortex account for arm posture when generating movement? Paper 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/10

Online Now: Noradrenaline drives learning across scales of time and neurobiological organisation

New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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

does someone good at coding & analysis want to work remotely w/ us in the coming few months (before end of 2025), as a paid consultant? project will be on neurofeedback (fMRI, ECoG, calcium imaging). we'll work towards developing the experiments & analysis pipelines together. if so pls DM me ur CV🧠📈

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...

The Australasian Dark Sky Alliance have created a petition to get the Aust. Govt to create legislation that limits light pollution and preserve Australia's Dark skies. Important for human health, wildlife and #Astronomy! Australians can sign here: www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... 🔭☄️

OHBM Oz rego + abstracts now open. Get amongst it!

✨✨ 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! 🤩

“The moon, it turns out, is a great place for men.” Nathan Heller reflects on E. B. White’s “perfect paragraph” on the 1969 moon landing.

Here's the latest installment in my series on neuroscience and the hyperreal. I look at the potential dangers of "walled garden thinking", and why extensible modeling is important. open.substack.com/pub/yohanjoh... #neuroscience

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...

My PhD student @leonielorenz.bsky.social (with Eva Geissen) has made this nice (free) online course to introduce mathematical modelling for biology: www.ebi.ac.uk/training/onl... Including both molecular and epidemiological examples

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...

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

This is Archibald. He's been holding in a sneeze since last September. Finally let it loose. 13/10 bless you buddy

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...

Impressive new paper by @nikospriovoulos.bsky.social. Clearly pushing the limits of what we can do with in-vivo imaging for the highly folded human cerebellum. Especially interesting is the careful characterization of cerebellar vasculature. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨Pre-print alert🚨 We stimulated serotonin with optogenetics while doing large-scale Neuropixel recordings across the mouse brain. We found strong widespread modulation of neural activity, but no effect on the choices of the mouse 🐭 How is this possible? Strap in! (1/9) 👇🧵 doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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

Check out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world! 🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW

Excited to share our new preprint in which we propose a biologically plausible mechanistic solution to the problem of how the brain can flexibly learn and store new representations without forgetting previously learned information. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Detailed 🧵 below 👇 1/12

Beyond happy & proud to have our paper on peptidergic neuromodulation of the #LC out! This is a project that started with naive intentions & silly curiosity, withstood 1 pandemic & 2 lab moves & made us fall in ❤️ with the most beautiful brain regions of all!! 🔵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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...

If you missed Katie Mack's Sydney Ideas talk "The End of Everything" you can watch it now on YouTube. Find out about the big rip, heat death and vacuum decay - just some of the ways the Universe might end. #Physics #Astronomy www.youtube.com/watch?v=is8j...

Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? We are now calling for formal applications from both Australian and non-Australian citizens based in the US whose work is internationally recognised as exceptional. 📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025 🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...

We systematically reviewed 23 in vitro and 26 in vivo electrophysiological studies on psychedelic compounds, with an emphasis on layer 5 pyramidal neurons. Our results challenge the simplified view that psychedelics uniformly increase cortical excitability www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... !!!

My latest for @nytimes.com -- please repost so your followers can see this for free. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Textbook neuroscience teaches that anatomy dictates function. But which aspects of anatomy determine differences in function between species? We think neuroscience is now well-placed to tackle this question. Here is our attempt at one piece of the puzzle: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

🧠 Paper out! We investigated how hippocampal and cortical ripples support memory during movie watching. We found that: 🎬 Hippocampal ripples mark event boundaries 🧩 Cortical ripples predict later recall Ripples may help transform real-life experiences into lasting memories! rdcu.be/eui9l

🧠🔬 This important study demonstrates that slow fluctuations in serotonin release during wakefulness and non-REM sleep correspond to periods of heightened arousal or enhanced offline information processing, especially in the hippocampus. Congrats to the authors! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

and yet one more: routine cerebellar neuroimaging at 9.4T—no individual B1+ calibration, robust BOLD. A glimpse of what’s to come at even higher fields. in MRM onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... with Wietske van der Zwaag, @highonfield.bsky.social‬, Desmond Tse 🎓🧠 #fMRI #cerebellum #9.4T

Your brain doesn’t just passively track time ⏳ - it structures it. In @Science.org we show that activity in 🧠 memory circuits (LEC) drifts constantly, but makes sharp jumps at key moments, segmenting life into meaningful events. (1/2) 👉 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Another great article from @thetransmitter.bsky.social and Laura Lewis, who has been working painstakingly over the last few years to help ramp up the spatiotemporal resolution of fMRI so that we can really start to dig into whole-brain signals in vivo.

Come down to the OHBM Australia Chapter desk for koalas, both in fluffy toy and chocolate form! @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social @ohbm-com.com @ohbmossig.bsky.social #OHBM

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

Going to #ohbm2025 ? Be sure to check out our work from @nsb-lab.bsky.social. Peep the thread for an overview!

A time window for memory consolidation during NREM sleep revealed by cAMP oscillation: Neuron www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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

Updated preprint: "Wider than the Sky: An Alternative to “Mapping” the World onto the Brain" (with Stuart Firestein, Columbia | Biology, and Michael Dietrich, Pittsburgh, History and Philosophy of Science) LINK: osf.io/preprints/ps...

We are seeking a scientific coordinator for my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig 😊🧠🌈 Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc! Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?

My laboratory at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada, is looking for a postdoc to study how neuromodulatory systems impact cortical processing during foraging behavior. This fully-funded position offers a collaborative environment in a great city. More info👇 can-acn.org/postdoctoral...