Big things coming in 2026 🚀: 1️⃣ More support for image-based meta-analysis 🖼️ 2️⃣ Categorical and semantic search for studies (e.g., filter by number of participants, task descriptions) 🔍 3️⃣ Explicit filters for PET/VBM 🧠 4️⃣ A searchable gallery of already run meta-analyses (a la O.G. NeuroSynth) 📚

Version control and Jupyter notebooks russpoldrack.substack.com/p/version-co... the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series.

Join us for the AI Applications in Biology Symposium at @biohub.org! A full day of talks on ML for structural biology, imaging, single-molecule & multimodal/omics data 🗓️ Feb. 20, 2026 (1 day before BPS) 📍San Francisco 🔗 shorturl.at/uQerL Attend in-person or virtual. Submit abstracts by Jan. 20!

A new study that started in the Human Brain Project - and was enabled by EBRAINS - introduces a framework for including astrocytes into large-scale simulations of brain networks. Read more: www.ebrains.eu/news-and-eve...

🔥 Global AI-Brain Initiative (AI and the Brain) aiandthebrain.substack.com/p/global-ai-... (a post for our new students; some links in it may be more widely interesting!)

Preprint is now published: doi.org/10.1002/hbm.... Special thanks to co-authors @twktan.bsky.social @kimnganngt.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social

Analog computing with waves works—and it's vastly more energy-efficient than digital. Here, it's done with light, but all waves apply. Biology exploits useful things. Our brains constantly generate electric field waves. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

1/4) I’m excited to announce that I have joined the Paradigms of Intelligence team at Google (github.com/paradigms-of...)! Our team, led by @blaiseaguera.bsky.social, is bringing forward the next stage of AI by pushing on some of the assumptions that underpin current ML. #MLSky #AI #neuroscience

Mark your calendars and tell your friends: No Kings 2.0 on October 18. The sequel will be (and HAS to be) even bigger.

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date. We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400. Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

These letters of resignation from CDC officials are VERY MUCH worth your time. PLEASE READ AND PROPAGATE.

The excellent team over at @alife2025.bsky.social have set up a 24/7 stream for #ALIFE related content in the lead up to the conference! What a great initiative. Check the post below for more details.

NeuroHackademy 2025 started today! Our 10th summer school/hackathon in neuroimaging and data science @uwescience.bsky.social, the 8th supported by NIH/NIMH. You can follow along, with videos of lectures in this YouTube playlist, posted almost as soon as they happen: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

We have argued that the brain’s Action Mode Network controls functions required for goal-directed behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Now, in new work, we show that AMN contains distinct subnetworks for making decisions, implementing actions, and processing feedback. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

The 🌍🔬 Gathering for Open Science Hardware 🔬🌍 is a global community making science tools open, accessible, and ethical. We share designs for everything from microscopes to sensors, and we hope you'll join us! 🌟 Learn more: openhardware.science 🌟 Join the conversation: forum.openhardware.science

Very proud of João VX Cardoso from the #DugueLab for the first preprint of his PhD on a computational model of traveling waves. Work in collaboration with David J. Heeger and Hsin-Hung Li. @erc.europa.eu www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Large-scale projects run the risk of stifling scientific independence. Instead, let’s explore alternative mechanisms of collaboration, writes @neuralreckoning.bsky.social. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/funding/neur...

Registration Open! FSL Course 2025 will be held fully online, 15th – 26th September. Details & registration info here: open.win.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou... The course covers lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis.

Spatiotemporal network dynamics and structural correlates in the human cerebral cortex in vitro www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #neuroscience

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Very good study by @awolna.bsky.social and @evfedorenko.bsky.social, examining the ‘extended language network’ — Language selective brain areas whose contributions to language should be better understood (bonus: feat. cerebellum) 🧪🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mental health research is at a turning point—breakthroughs can transform lives, but only with bold action, investment, and open collaboration. The time for action is now. Read our full statement here: childmind.org/blog/can-sci...

Why don't plants have brains? Answers in today's evolutionary #robotics lecture. youtu.be/u2xL0tBTG3U

My guest lecturing for the Stanford CS course Self-Improving AI Agents. The talk is online, titled "Open-ended Agent Learning in the Era of Foundation Models" (w/ more emphasis on the AI Scientist and ADAS than prior versions). Thanks profs @Azaliamirh & @achowdhery! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZBu...

🧠📈 WEBINAR - Programmatic Access to ABC Atlas Data Join us on Mar. 26, 9:30am PT for a live webinar on using our Jupyter notebooks to access datasets featured in the Allen Brain Cell Atlas. Register to receive the meeting link and webinar recording: alleninstitute.org/events/cell_...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Mosayebi-Samani, Thielscher, et al: The effect of brain tissue anisotropy on the electric field caused by transcranial electric stimulation: Sensitivity analysis and magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography doi.org/10.1162/imag...

SOBP BrainHack is officially open for registration! The hackathon will be held April 22-23 at Sick Kids Toronto. Beginners and experienced hackers welcome! Website and registration: www.repronim.org/SOBPHack-042...

Meet the game-changer: LeKiwi 🥝 Crafted by @sigrobotics and @huggingface At 1/10 the cost of the best alternative out there, it's the most accessible mobile base for $300. Easier DIY to automate chords at home! 1/ 🧵 Link and details in thread 👇

Can an entire treatment course of TMS for depression be condensed into a single day? Find out in this very inspiring conversation with Jonathan Downar here: stimulatingbrains.org/67-jonathan-...

Thank you friends for Standing Up for Science. 33 packages of Science Advocate pins are on their way to folks attending Friday @standupforscience.bsky.social rallies. They're heading to MA, DC, PA, NC, TX, NM, MJ, TN, AL, GA, MD, MN, CA, MS, FL, OH, WA, & NY. The village is showing up!

I got asked to take part in a survey about a new family of Nature journals, basically trying to add another layer of journals between Nature X journals and Nature Comm. We don't need more journals, we need alternatives to journals, why not try invent in that direction?

AIR-BORNE tour goes virtual! I'll be speaking today at 6 pm ET / 3 pm PT to Quentin Hardy, hosted online by the Commonwealth Club. Register here: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...

The DevoWorm meeting (🧠 🐚 🐣 🪱🧶💻) for March 3 is now available on YouTube youtu.be/UdQ4-1cPpFk

Pupil size reveals arousal level fluctuations in human sleep www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚗🧪 We're coming to the East Coast! We're proud to be a part of the @openmicroscopy.org Environment Community Meeting at @mblscience.bsky.social on Apr. 28 to May 1. 🎟️ Register by Mar. 17 to join us in person: www.bioimagingnorthamerica.org/events/ome-2... @bioimagingna.bsky.social

Today's #robotics lecture: selective attention. Now that I've posted this, I should get back to what I was working on before... ...if only I could remember what that was. youtu.be/BKzOfR9zWCc

Today's @usatoday.com front page First US death from measles in 10 years First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US All of this fully preventable

🔍 New must-see resource! 🧠 --> Reproducible Brain Charts – an open-data tool for mapping brain development & mental health www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 👏 Kudos to @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social and Michael Milham @childmindinstitute.bsky.social for leading this effort!

Today's evolutionary #robotics lecture: minimal cognition. youtu.be/B_rKZZe3KOI?...

I am excited to announce that I will be founding an institute for network stimulation at the University Hospital Cologne – already this coming May!

@devdynamics.bsky.social Welcome to Bluesky Developmental Dynamics, added to the Developmental Biology starter pack II. You can also patch in to more #DevBio folks by checking out the first Developmental Biology start pack here: go.bsky.app/M5AgJhn