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Jonathan Wirsich
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EEG-fMRI, multimodal connectomics
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vanmedge.bsky.social
New PhD and post-doc job openings!

Join me and Prof. Nina Kazanina @ Uni Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in an exciting project on relations and binding in language and vision, explored with cutting-edge neurophysiology (#iEEG and MEG).

Full details in the job offer below.
January 30, 2026 at 10:41 AM
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pezlarson.bsky.social
For 15(!) years I’ve been teaching introductory #MRI to grad students, and struggled to find a textbook for a wide variety of backgrounds. I'm happy to share an online textbook I created, fully open source (including code for generating figures and plots shown):
larsonlab.github.io/MRI-educatio...
Introduction to Principles of MRI — Principles of MRI
larsonlab.github.io
January 10, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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abim-ch.bsky.social
It's snowing! Right on time to ensure next week #ABIM2026 will be unforgettable from the morning enjoyment of the Alps to the afternoon science fest. ⛷️ Speaking of which, our full program (including the abstracts booklet) is online, check it out: www.unige.ch/ABIM/program
Final Program 2026
www.unige.ch
January 8, 2026 at 3:12 PM
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vferat.bsky.social
Happy to share that our #Python implementation of GEDAI (Generalized Eigenvalue De-Artifacting Instrument) is now available 🐍 💻 🧠
neurotuning.github.io/gedai/dev/in...
GEDAI — gedai
neurotuning.github.io
January 8, 2026 at 1:33 PM
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schwartzlab.bsky.social
"Maître-assistant.e" position available — more information at this link: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
Maître assistant-e - Fonds National (6667)
jobs.unige.ch
December 16, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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gershbrain.bsky.social
The best brain-machine interface remains the mouth. Evolution spent 4B years of evolution on R&D developing the device, so I guess it's not that surprising. Yet it still rarely appears as a baseline in evaluations of new devices.
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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neural-reckoning.org
Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
Two posts from Bluesky. The first one shows a figure from a paper published in Nature Scientific Reports full of totally incoherent AI fabricated gibberish words. The other a comment on a recently published paper by eLife discussing the paper and its peer reviews which were published along with the paper.
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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elife.bsky.social
Evidence from 14 research funding programmes confirms that early winners tend to keep winning (Matthew effect). But the idea that an early setback makes you stronger later doesn’t replicate widely.
buff.ly/UEtcRd4
eLife Assessment This important study reports the results of efforts to replicate two phenomena of significant interest to early-career scientists and scientific policymakers: the Matthew effect and the early-career setback effect. Several previous studies of these effects have focused on early-career researchers with grant proposals that fell just below or just above a funding threshold. Those just above the threshold were more likely to be successful when they applied for funding later in the career (an example of the well-known Matthew effect), while those just below were more likely to go on to have stronger publication records (the early-career setback effect). In this study the Matthew effect was found to be robust across funders, and to generalize from those close to the funding threshold to the whole population. The early-career setback effect was not robust across funders and did not generalize to the whole population. The evidence reported is convincing.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
jwirsich.bsky.social
Check out our newest demonstrating feasabilty of sub-mm whole brain EEG-fMRI at 7T.
Happy to have been part of this amazing collaboration and thank you so much to Cristina and João for leading this project 😊👍.
imagingneurosci.bsky.social Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Nov 6
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by C. Sainz Martinez, J. Jorge, et al:

An optimized framework for simultaneous EEG-fMRI at 7T enabling safe, high-quality human brain imaging with millisecond temporal resolution and sub-millimeter spatial resolution

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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pessoabrain.bsky.social
Is the the neuroimaging community (broadly conceived) submitting to 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗲 again?????

Not to be publication police but the shift had seemed major 1-2 years ago.
Looking at the editorial board it seems to have serious scientists once more.
Curious about thoughts of the community.
October 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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rmcelreath.bsky.social
Monty Python understood p-hacking
October 23, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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bagshaap.bsky.social
Enrico Amico and I have a project with competitively awarded studentships available through the MIBTP doctoral landscape award:
Decoding Human Thalamocortical Interactions with Invasive Electrophysiology
warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

Please circulate and get in touch if interested.
October 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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abim-ch.bsky.social
Get ready for the biggest #ABIM yet! 🥳 We're celebrating our 20th anniversary with a special edition you won't want to miss.
🗓️ Registration & abstract submission: www.unige.ch/ABIM/partici...
💰Early bird fee ends November 9th!
#ABIM2026 #neuroimaging
The names of the speakers: Melanie Boly Ray Dolan Davide Folloni Laura Gwilliams Charles Hillman Hilleke Hulshoff Pol Jean-Rémi King Daniel Margulies Lucia Melloni
October 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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neuromeditate.bsky.social
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Code: github.com/neurotuning/...
October 10, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social
A speech about what drives me, how science and open source are bitter victories, unable to make improve the world if society does not embrace them for the better:
gael-varoquaux.info/personnal/a-...
A national recognition; but science and open source are bitter victories
I have recently been awarded France’s national order of merit, for my career, in science, in open source, and around AI. The speech that I gave carries messages important to me (French below;...
gael-varoquaux.info
October 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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emilyjacobs.bsky.social
When @laurapritschet.bsky.social & Pavel Shapturenka set out to build the 28&Me + 28&He datasets, I don't think any of us could've predicted the spectacularly creative ways the datasets would be used years later. That's the power of open science. 👇🏼
October 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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knzw783.bsky.social
#emotion
Armony, J., & Vuilleumier, P. (2025). The Cambridge handbook of human affective neuroscience (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. doi.org/10.1017/9781...
The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience
Cambridge Core - Cognition - The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience
doi.org
October 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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layerfmri.bsky.social
New layer-fMRI preprint using simultaneous layer-fMRI with EEG at 7T. Establishing an acquisition and analysis setup to capture layer-fMRI correlates of spontaneous alpha power variations.
By Marsh et al.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
October 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social
Normative framework of bigger tech

(aka, me trolling the tech audience)
gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · Oct 1
Come to my lightning talk
At @pydataparis.bsky.social in a few minutes
October 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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benjaminkay.bsky.social
Ever wondered if your interesting brain-behavior correlation was over- or under-estimated due to head motion, but were afraid to ask? We’ve created a motion impact score for detecting spurious brain-behavior associations, now available in Nature Communications!
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
September 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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francescasaviola.bsky.social
Excited to share such a career milestone 🌟 Our new @pnas.org paper shows how E–I balance drives dynamic brain adaptation.

Thanks to @jorgejovicich.bsky.social, @dimitrivdv.bsky.social, @asiaferrari.bsky.social, @bcassone.bsky.social & amazing co-authors 🙏
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Disentangling metabolic and neurovascular timescales supporting cognitive processes | PNAS
The balance between neural excitation and inhibition (EIB), governed by glutamatergic and GABAergic neurotransmission, is an essential mechanism su...
www.pnas.org
September 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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naturalselection.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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larshubatsch.bsky.social
This was my first paper with the new @elife.bsky.social model. Have to say, while I don't agree with all the reviewers' comments the new process is awesome. We can directly reply to their concerns and it'll be obvious what changed between revisions when we upload the revised version :) 4/4
September 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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laurentsheybani.bsky.social
We are hiring !

👩🏼‍🎓👨‍🎓🧑🏼‍🎓👨🏿‍🎓👩🏿‍🎓👩‍🎓

I am looking for a motivated person interested in a PhD in basic neuroscience, for a project at the edge between epilepsy and sleep.

If you are interested, check the job announcement:
jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
Assistant-e (A2) (6548)
jobs.unige.ch
September 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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imagingneurosci.bsky.social
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.
September 5, 2025 at 2:59 AM