Marcella Montagnese
@mmontagnese.bsky.social
Junior Research Fellow - Cambridge 🌈 AI in Medicine 🧠| Network Neuroscience | Psychosis | Neurodegeneration | Google Women Techmakers Ambassador
Very excited to be able to finally share our latest work, "Cloud computing for equitable, data-driven dementia medicine," just published in The Lancet Digital Health!
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
more info in thread: 🧵
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
more info in thread: 🧵
Cloud computing for equitable, data-driven dementia medicine
Dementia poses an increasing global health challenge, and the introduction of new
drugs with diverse activity profiles underscores the need for the rapid development
and deployment of tailored predict...
www.thelancet.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Very excited to be able to finally share our latest work, "Cloud computing for equitable, data-driven dementia medicine," just published in The Lancet Digital Health!
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
more info in thread: 🧵
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
more info in thread: 🧵
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Looking forward to returning to the Cambridge Film Festival!
@kermodemovie.bsky.social & I will be chatting to @amonwarmann.bsky.social PLUS special guest @neilkbrand.bsky.social will join to discuss silent film scores!
Join us at the Picturehouse on Friday 6.55pm. Head to CFF website for tickets
@kermodemovie.bsky.social & I will be chatting to @amonwarmann.bsky.social PLUS special guest @neilkbrand.bsky.social will join to discuss silent film scores!
Join us at the Picturehouse on Friday 6.55pm. Head to CFF website for tickets
October 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Looking forward to returning to the Cambridge Film Festival!
@kermodemovie.bsky.social & I will be chatting to @amonwarmann.bsky.social PLUS special guest @neilkbrand.bsky.social will join to discuss silent film scores!
Join us at the Picturehouse on Friday 6.55pm. Head to CFF website for tickets
@kermodemovie.bsky.social & I will be chatting to @amonwarmann.bsky.social PLUS special guest @neilkbrand.bsky.social will join to discuss silent film scores!
Join us at the Picturehouse on Friday 6.55pm. Head to CFF website for tickets
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Ultra-low-field brain MRI morphometry: T-RT reliability and correspondence to high-field MRI | doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... | w/ !! FREE DATA !! T1w & T2w scans of 23 healthy participants from 3T GE Premier & 2x 64mT Hyperfine Swoop in many resolutions, i.e. 390 scans! openneuro.org/datasets/ds0... [1/n]
September 29, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Ultra-low-field brain MRI morphometry: T-RT reliability and correspondence to high-field MRI | doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... | w/ !! FREE DATA !! T1w & T2w scans of 23 healthy participants from 3T GE Premier & 2x 64mT Hyperfine Swoop in many resolutions, i.e. 390 scans! openneuro.org/datasets/ds0... [1/n]
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Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
rb.gy
September 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5
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
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
Another great team effort, spearheaded and driven by @mmontagnese.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Structural Similarity Networks Reveal Brain Vulnerability in Dementia
INTRODUCTION: Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterised by inter-individual heterogeneity in brain degeneration, limiting diagnostic and prognostic precision. We present a novel framework integrating ...
doi.org
June 17, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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
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
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Amnesty Italia
@amnestyitalia
Sono passati nove anni dal rapimento e dalla morte di Giulio Regeni. Continuiamo a chiedere verità e giustizia. #9annisenzagiulio #veritàegiustiziaperGiulio
@amnestyitalia
Sono passati nove anni dal rapimento e dalla morte di Giulio Regeni. Continuiamo a chiedere verità e giustizia. #9annisenzagiulio #veritàegiustiziaperGiulio
January 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Amnesty Italia
@amnestyitalia
Sono passati nove anni dal rapimento e dalla morte di Giulio Regeni. Continuiamo a chiedere verità e giustizia. #9annisenzagiulio #veritàegiustiziaperGiulio
@amnestyitalia
Sono passati nove anni dal rapimento e dalla morte di Giulio Regeni. Continuiamo a chiedere verità e giustizia. #9annisenzagiulio #veritàegiustiziaperGiulio
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Terribly sad! Film director David Lynch dies at 78, family says www.bbc.com/news/article...
Film director David Lynch dies at 78, family says
The Oscar-nominated writer and filmmaker is famous for the film Mulholland Drive and the TV series Twin Peaks.
www.bbc.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Terribly sad! Film director David Lynch dies at 78, family says www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Super excited to share our lates preprint, in collaboration with my amazing students Elisabeth and Verena, Lucy MacGregor (Cambridge) and Chris Mathys (Aarhus): Guided by Expectations: Overweighted Semantic Priors in Schizotypy and their Links to Glutamate
osf.io/preprints/ps...
A thread🧵:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
A thread🧵:
OSF
osf.io
January 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Super excited to share our lates preprint, in collaboration with my amazing students Elisabeth and Verena, Lucy MacGregor (Cambridge) and Chris Mathys (Aarhus): Guided by Expectations: Overweighted Semantic Priors in Schizotypy and their Links to Glutamate
osf.io/preprints/ps...
A thread🧵:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
A thread🧵:
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🚨 14 DAY REMINDER! 🚨
Only 14 days left to submit your content for #OHBM2025 in Brisbane, Australia! 🗒️ The deadline is December 17, 2024, at 11:59 PM EST. Don’t miss this chance to share your research—follow the link in comments to submit! #Neuroscience #CallforContent
Only 14 days left to submit your content for #OHBM2025 in Brisbane, Australia! 🗒️ The deadline is December 17, 2024, at 11:59 PM EST. Don’t miss this chance to share your research—follow the link in comments to submit! #Neuroscience #CallforContent
December 3, 2024 at 12:00 PM
🚨 14 DAY REMINDER! 🚨
Only 14 days left to submit your content for #OHBM2025 in Brisbane, Australia! 🗒️ The deadline is December 17, 2024, at 11:59 PM EST. Don’t miss this chance to share your research—follow the link in comments to submit! #Neuroscience #CallforContent
Only 14 days left to submit your content for #OHBM2025 in Brisbane, Australia! 🗒️ The deadline is December 17, 2024, at 11:59 PM EST. Don’t miss this chance to share your research—follow the link in comments to submit! #Neuroscience #CallforContent
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Four new positions at U Cambridge. I'm biased, but it's a terrific place to live and work.
Associate Professor / Professor of Developmental Plasticity and Robustness
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49343/
Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/
Associate Professor / Professor of Developmental Plasticity and Robustness
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49343/
Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/
December 2, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Four new positions at U Cambridge. I'm biased, but it's a terrific place to live and work.
Associate Professor / Professor of Developmental Plasticity and Robustness
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49343/
Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/
Associate Professor / Professor of Developmental Plasticity and Robustness
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49343/
Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/
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Heard y'all like some science animations! 🧪🧠🟦
Sometimes interesting stuff might be hiding in the state-space of neurons, even if the individual neurons' activity does not seem particularly interesting! 💫
Sometimes interesting stuff might be hiding in the state-space of neurons, even if the individual neurons' activity does not seem particularly interesting! 💫
November 15, 2024 at 10:01 AM
Heard y'all like some science animations! 🧪🧠🟦
Sometimes interesting stuff might be hiding in the state-space of neurons, even if the individual neurons' activity does not seem particularly interesting! 💫
Sometimes interesting stuff might be hiding in the state-space of neurons, even if the individual neurons' activity does not seem particularly interesting! 💫
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Haven’t seen one of these yet. Let me know who I missed!https://go.bsky.app/PR8rVkF
November 15, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Haven’t seen one of these yet. Let me know who I missed!https://go.bsky.app/PR8rVkF
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CPsy journal now on Bluesky! please follow for updates...
Hello everyone! The Computational Psychiatry journal is now on Bluesky... Please follow for updates about articles, special issues, and #CPsy job and conference announcements. Our Co-Eds-in-Chief are here too: @xiaosigu.bsky.social and @drrickadams.bsky.social
November 14, 2024 at 12:29 PM
CPsy journal now on Bluesky! please follow for updates...
Such a great visualisation of LLMs matrix and layers operations - from Brendan Bycroft - bbycroft.net/llm
LLM Visualization
A 3D animated visualization of an LLM with a walkthrough.
bbycroft.net
November 14, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Such a great visualisation of LLMs matrix and layers operations - from Brendan Bycroft - bbycroft.net/llm
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Starter pack for psychosis/SMI researchers, clinicians, and people with lived experience. Please help me add more folks, or self-nominate!
October 27, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Starter pack for psychosis/SMI researchers, clinicians, and people with lived experience. Please help me add more folks, or self-nominate!
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Here is a chapter I wrote on Prediction Error and Delusions for the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Delusions: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
The prediction error theory | 36 | The Routledge Handbook of Philosoph
Computational approaches to explaining the symptoms of psychiatric illnesses are undergoing a renaissance. This chapter will describe the development of
www.taylorfrancis.com
October 28, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Here is a chapter I wrote on Prediction Error and Delusions for the Routledge Handbook on the Philosophy of Delusions: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
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Lots of updates from me this week! I am offering a PhD project on autobiographical memory interventions in psychosis with brilliant co-supervisors Amy Hardy and Caitlin Hitchcock as part of the #MRCDTP25 catalogue this year. Information is here: (kcl-mrcdtp.com).
September 26, 2024 at 12:39 PM
Lots of updates from me this week! I am offering a PhD project on autobiographical memory interventions in psychosis with brilliant co-supervisors Amy Hardy and Caitlin Hitchcock as part of the #MRCDTP25 catalogue this year. Information is here: (kcl-mrcdtp.com).
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A thread of some of our favourite papers from #ICHR researchers. No.1: @mmontagnese.bsky.social
As an ECR Marcella led this great ICHR working group on multimodal hallucinations. Truly "fused" hallucinations are quite rare - but lots of multimodality out there.
academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
As an ECR Marcella led this great ICHR working group on multimodal hallucinations. Truly "fused" hallucinations are quite rare - but lots of multimodality out there.
academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
A Review of Multimodal Hallucinations: Categorization, Assessment, Theoretical Perspectives, and Clinical Recommendations
Abstract. Hallucinations can occur in different sensory modalities, both simultaneously and serially in time. They have typically been studied in clinical
academic.oup.com
September 21, 2024 at 7:47 AM
A thread of some of our favourite papers from #ICHR researchers. No.1: @mmontagnese.bsky.social
As an ECR Marcella led this great ICHR working group on multimodal hallucinations. Truly "fused" hallucinations are quite rare - but lots of multimodality out there.
academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
As an ECR Marcella led this great ICHR working group on multimodal hallucinations. Truly "fused" hallucinations are quite rare - but lots of multimodality out there.
academic.oup.com/schizophreni...
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Wellcome aboard @theichr.bsky.social!
These are *the* people to follow for all things hallucination research related 😎
These are *the* people to follow for all things hallucination research related 😎
The International Consortium on Hallucinations Research (@theichr.bsky.social)
Official account of the ICHR
hallucinationconsortium.org
theichr.bsky.social
September 9, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Wellcome aboard @theichr.bsky.social!
These are *the* people to follow for all things hallucination research related 😎
These are *the* people to follow for all things hallucination research related 😎
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Excited to share a new paper w Dani Bassett on "Causation in neuroscience: keeping mechanism meaningful" in Nature Reviews Neuroscience
We explore different meanings of mechanism in the field, the challenges this presents & how to move forward. 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We explore different meanings of mechanism in the field, the challenges this presents & how to move forward. 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Causation in neuroscience: keeping mechanism meaningful - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
‘Mechanism’ is a frequently used causal concept in neuroscience but can have different meanings that are often not specified. In this Review, Ross and Bassett explore these different meanings and ...
www.nature.com
January 12, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Excited to share a new paper w Dani Bassett on "Causation in neuroscience: keeping mechanism meaningful" in Nature Reviews Neuroscience
We explore different meanings of mechanism in the field, the challenges this presents & how to move forward. 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We explore different meanings of mechanism in the field, the challenges this presents & how to move forward. 🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New paper out in Nature Neuro, wherein we ask:
How do perceptual and mnemonic brain networks share information?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Massive work with Ed Silson, Brenda Garcia, and @carolinerobertson.bsky.social
How do perceptual and mnemonic brain networks share information?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Massive work with Ed Silson, Brenda Garcia, and @carolinerobertson.bsky.social
A retinotopic code structures the interaction between perception and memory systems - Nature Neurosc...
The authors show that functionally paired visual and memory brain areas share a common neural code, which structures their communication. This code is visual in nature and uses a push–pull dynamic t...
www.nature.com
January 2, 2024 at 2:12 PM
New paper out in Nature Neuro, wherein we ask:
How do perceptual and mnemonic brain networks share information?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Massive work with Ed Silson, Brenda Garcia, and @carolinerobertson.bsky.social
How do perceptual and mnemonic brain networks share information?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Massive work with Ed Silson, Brenda Garcia, and @carolinerobertson.bsky.social
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🚨Excited to announce the opening of 2 fully funded PhD and 3 senior research/postdoctoral 3y+ positions to work on the statistical physics of #ComplexNetworks!
The focus will be on climate #resilience & coupled complex processes.
Join us: we'll have fun!
#ScienceJobs #Jobs
The focus will be on climate #resilience & coupled complex processes.
Join us: we'll have fun!
#ScienceJobs #Jobs
October 13, 2023 at 4:53 PM
🚨Excited to announce the opening of 2 fully funded PhD and 3 senior research/postdoctoral 3y+ positions to work on the statistical physics of #ComplexNetworks!
The focus will be on climate #resilience & coupled complex processes.
Join us: we'll have fun!
#ScienceJobs #Jobs
The focus will be on climate #resilience & coupled complex processes.
Join us: we'll have fun!
#ScienceJobs #Jobs
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Beautiful work and tools for studying complex systems like the brain!
nature.com/articles/s43...
(not sure if authors yet on bluesky)
nature.com/articles/s43...
(not sure if authors yet on bluesky)
September 27, 2023 at 2:21 AM
Beautiful work and tools for studying complex systems like the brain!
nature.com/articles/s43...
(not sure if authors yet on bluesky)
nature.com/articles/s43...
(not sure if authors yet on bluesky)
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Are you #LGBTQ+ & studying/working in science, tech, engineering, or maths (or related fields!)? Well now there’s a feed for our community where you can introduce yourself, share your work, or events/resources! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ #LGBTQSTEM
September 20, 2023 at 3:19 AM
Are you #LGBTQ+ & studying/working in science, tech, engineering, or maths (or related fields!)? Well now there’s a feed for our community where you can introduce yourself, share your work, or events/resources! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ #LGBTQSTEM
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~Unreasonably~ pleased with how this final image turned out #rstats #ggplot #tidybayes
Ordered Beta regression models rule and everyone should try them out www.robertkubinec.com/post/limited...
Ordered Beta regression models rule and everyone should try them out www.robertkubinec.com/post/limited...
September 26, 2023 at 1:49 AM
~Unreasonably~ pleased with how this final image turned out #rstats #ggplot #tidybayes
Ordered Beta regression models rule and everyone should try them out www.robertkubinec.com/post/limited...
Ordered Beta regression models rule and everyone should try them out www.robertkubinec.com/post/limited...