Phivos Phylactou
@phivph.com
MSCA Fellow | I make people play boring video games and then zap their brains with magnetic pulses to understand how memory works.
Nihilism survivor.
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Nihilism survivor.
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Phivos Phylactou
@phivph.com
· Jun 16
Here’s how I’ve been utilising the excessive amounts of coffee I’m consuming at @westernu.bsky.social lately.
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**Come work with us!!**
Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Please share!!
Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Please share!!
Research Associate: Neural Control of Movement in - Cardiff University - Job Details
Job Details: Research Associate: Neural control of movement in Parkinson's Disease School of Healthcare Sciences, Card
krb-sjobs.brassring.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:55 AM
**Come work with us!!**
Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Please share!!
Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
Please share!!
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Our next monthly meeting:
Dr Daniel T Corp will talk about:
Big NIBS data: a repository and pipeline for big data analyses in NIBS
bignibsdata.com
Friday 31st 🎃ctober at 14:00 GMT
Meeting link via Slack & GitHub (link in profile) - join us!
#TMS #BrainStim #NIBS
Dr Daniel T Corp will talk about:
Big NIBS data: a repository and pipeline for big data analyses in NIBS
bignibsdata.com
Friday 31st 🎃ctober at 14:00 GMT
Meeting link via Slack & GitHub (link in profile) - join us!
#TMS #BrainStim #NIBS
bignibsdata.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Our next monthly meeting:
Dr Daniel T Corp will talk about:
Big NIBS data: a repository and pipeline for big data analyses in NIBS
bignibsdata.com
Friday 31st 🎃ctober at 14:00 GMT
Meeting link via Slack & GitHub (link in profile) - join us!
#TMS #BrainStim #NIBS
Dr Daniel T Corp will talk about:
Big NIBS data: a repository and pipeline for big data analyses in NIBS
bignibsdata.com
Friday 31st 🎃ctober at 14:00 GMT
Meeting link via Slack & GitHub (link in profile) - join us!
#TMS #BrainStim #NIBS
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Open assistant professor position in noninvasive brain stimulation in cognition at Maastricht University: www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3557...
Assistant Professor in Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation in Cognition
Welcome to the Brain Stimulation and Cognition lab at Maastricht University! Our goal: The Brain Stimulation and Cognition group at Maastricht University aims to unravel the psychological and neural m...
www.academictransfer.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Open assistant professor position in noninvasive brain stimulation in cognition at Maastricht University: www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3557...
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Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.
OpenWMData
A collection of publicly available<br>working memory datasets
williamngiam.github.io
October 22, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Any early-career researchers in #workingmemory wanting to contribute to an #openscience initiative? I'm looking for help building up a data hub resource for the field. Volunteers can expect to devote a few hours, and might pick up insights into handling research data and how to use Github.
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my department - medical biophysics - is seeking a new chair
informal inquiries welcome
please share
www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
informal inquiries welcome
please share
www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
www.uwo.ca
October 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
my department - medical biophysics - is seeking a new chair
informal inquiries welcome
please share
www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
informal inquiries welcome
please share
www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...
Happy 10-20 day to all other nerds who celebrate.
October 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Happy 10-20 day to all other nerds who celebrate.
Our (@eester.bsky.social, @nkonstantinou.bsky.social) Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project RESTORE now has an online home, where you can follow news & updates:
www.phivph.com/projects/res...
www.phivph.com/projects/res...
phivph.com - RESTORE
Project RESTORE is a HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global Postdoctoral Fellowship (see it on CORDIS).
The overarching aim of RESTORE is to employ state-of-the-art and innovative approaches to...
www.phivph.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Our (@eester.bsky.social, @nkonstantinou.bsky.social) Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project RESTORE now has an online home, where you can follow news & updates:
www.phivph.com/projects/res...
www.phivph.com/projects/res...
2025: “I’ve got this innovative idea to study pupil responses as a measure of brain stimulation”
Meanwhile in 1875:
Meanwhile in 1875:
October 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
2025: “I’ve got this innovative idea to study pupil responses as a measure of brain stimulation”
Meanwhile in 1875:
Meanwhile in 1875:
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To find out about how #TMS #BrainStim users collect, analyse & share their data, we've made a very brief TMS survey:
forms.gle/83Abpj5F8qzd...
It should take you less than 5 minutes & does not ask for any personal information.
We'll use the answers to plan our future work.
Please share!
🙏🙏🙏
⚡
forms.gle/83Abpj5F8qzd...
It should take you less than 5 minutes & does not ask for any personal information.
We'll use the answers to plan our future work.
Please share!
🙏🙏🙏
⚡
TMSMultiLab survey
TMSMultiLab is a community of ~70 researchers using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). We aim to share methods code and data, to reach consensus & encourage best practice in TMS research methods...
forms.gle
October 10, 2025 at 11:33 AM
To find out about how #TMS #BrainStim users collect, analyse & share their data, we've made a very brief TMS survey:
forms.gle/83Abpj5F8qzd...
It should take you less than 5 minutes & does not ask for any personal information.
We'll use the answers to plan our future work.
Please share!
🙏🙏🙏
⚡
forms.gle/83Abpj5F8qzd...
It should take you less than 5 minutes & does not ask for any personal information.
We'll use the answers to plan our future work.
Please share!
🙏🙏🙏
⚡
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If you are interested in a postdoc fellowship working on concurrent brain stimulation and imaging (e.g. TMS-fMRI doi.org/10.1101/2025...), then check out this unique opportunity and get in touch (deadline for expressions of interest is 13 Oct).
cambridgeneuroworks.org/programmes/f...
cambridgeneuroworks.org/programmes/f...
Fellowship Programme - Cambridge NeuroWorks
Fellowship programme Cambridge NeuroWorks is proud to introduce the Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship Programme, offering two transformative fellowship streams …
cambridgeneuroworks.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
If you are interested in a postdoc fellowship working on concurrent brain stimulation and imaging (e.g. TMS-fMRI doi.org/10.1101/2025...), then check out this unique opportunity and get in touch (deadline for expressions of interest is 13 Oct).
cambridgeneuroworks.org/programmes/f...
cambridgeneuroworks.org/programmes/f...
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New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!
N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!
🧵below
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!
N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!
🧵below
September 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
New Open dataset alert:
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!
N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!
🧵below
🧠 Introducing "Spacetop" – a massive multimodal fMRI dataset that bridges naturalistic and experimental neuroscience!
N = 101 x 6 hours each = 606 functional iso-hours combining movies, pain, faces, theory-of-mind and other cognitive tasks!
🧵below
It is with immense honour that I share that as of today, I’m officially an MSCA fellow @unevadareno.bsky.social benefitting from the minds of @eester.bsky.social & @nkonstantinou.bsky.social
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September 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
It is with immense honour that I share that as of today, I’m officially an MSCA fellow @unevadareno.bsky.social benefitting from the minds of @eester.bsky.social & @nkonstantinou.bsky.social
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Over the past couple of years I was lucky enough to call @westernu.ca my academic home.
During my time here I:
☕️ Drunk 849L of coffee.
💩 Stepped on geese poop 56 times.
🧻 Consumed ~1.5km of institutional toilet paper.
🪒 Grew 37 gray hairs.
⚡️ Delivered hundreds of thousands of TMS pulses.
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During my time here I:
☕️ Drunk 849L of coffee.
💩 Stepped on geese poop 56 times.
🧻 Consumed ~1.5km of institutional toilet paper.
🪒 Grew 37 gray hairs.
⚡️ Delivered hundreds of thousands of TMS pulses.
1/3
August 23, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Over the past couple of years I was lucky enough to call @westernu.ca my academic home.
During my time here I:
☕️ Drunk 849L of coffee.
💩 Stepped on geese poop 56 times.
🧻 Consumed ~1.5km of institutional toilet paper.
🪒 Grew 37 gray hairs.
⚡️ Delivered hundreds of thousands of TMS pulses.
1/3
During my time here I:
☕️ Drunk 849L of coffee.
💩 Stepped on geese poop 56 times.
🧻 Consumed ~1.5km of institutional toilet paper.
🪒 Grew 37 gray hairs.
⚡️ Delivered hundreds of thousands of TMS pulses.
1/3
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Our Meet the Team talks are back on September 17th! Our next speakers are kNOw-PAIN collaborators Dr. Anna Zajacova and Dr. Naveen Poonai! To join, click the zoom link on our website: knowpain.ca/meettheteam
August 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Our Meet the Team talks are back on September 17th! Our next speakers are kNOw-PAIN collaborators Dr. Anna Zajacova and Dr. Naveen Poonai! To join, click the zoom link on our website: knowpain.ca/meettheteam
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New paper day! Whereas earlier studies have shown that human eye movement patterns are influenced by the physical properties of remembered stimuli, we show that they are also influenced by stimulus meaning. h/t to Ali Pexsa (not on bluesky) who led this work.
tinyurl.com/4y4aev3a
tinyurl.com/4y4aev3a
Human eye movements track stimulus meaning
Working memory (WM) is a capacity- and duration-limited system that enables the representation and processing of fleeting sensory phenomena. Human fMRI studies indicate that brain areas associated wit...
www.biorxiv.org
August 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
New paper day! Whereas earlier studies have shown that human eye movement patterns are influenced by the physical properties of remembered stimuli, we show that they are also influenced by stimulus meaning. h/t to Ali Pexsa (not on bluesky) who led this work.
tinyurl.com/4y4aev3a
tinyurl.com/4y4aev3a
New preprint out, where we show that TMS-induced pupil dilations can be used as a measurable proxy of cortical excitability.
With:
@frasermacrae.bsky.social
@freekvanede.bsky.social
@daspainbrain.bsky.social
@drsmschabrun.bsky.social
et al.
Details below 🧵 [1/n]
With:
@frasermacrae.bsky.social
@freekvanede.bsky.social
@daspainbrain.bsky.social
@drsmschabrun.bsky.social
et al.
Details below 🧵 [1/n]
Transcranial magnetic stimulation induced pupil dilations can serve as a cortical excitability measure https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668303v1
August 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
New preprint out, where we show that TMS-induced pupil dilations can be used as a measurable proxy of cortical excitability.
With:
@frasermacrae.bsky.social
@freekvanede.bsky.social
@daspainbrain.bsky.social
@drsmschabrun.bsky.social
et al.
Details below 🧵 [1/n]
With:
@frasermacrae.bsky.social
@freekvanede.bsky.social
@daspainbrain.bsky.social
@drsmschabrun.bsky.social
et al.
Details below 🧵 [1/n]
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WM researchers of all ages across the globe, see you tomorrow at 9am CDT (2pm GMT)!
www.wmsymposium.org
www.wmsymposium.org
a man in a tie is screaming and saying i get to see you tomorrow
ALT: a man in a tie is screaming and saying i get to see you tomorrow
media.tenor.com
July 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
WM researchers of all ages across the globe, see you tomorrow at 9am CDT (2pm GMT)!
www.wmsymposium.org
www.wmsymposium.org
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Can you believe that WMS2025 (July 8-11) is less than a week away? If you are interested in Working Memory Research, WMS2025 is THE BEST online conference with THE AWESOMEST community of researchers across the globe! So DON'T FORGET TO CHECK IT OUT!
www.wmsymposium.org/home
www.wmsymposium.org/home
Working Memory Symposium
Date: July 8-11 Program is now Available!
www.wmsymposium.org
July 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Can you believe that WMS2025 (July 8-11) is less than a week away? If you are interested in Working Memory Research, WMS2025 is THE BEST online conference with THE AWESOMEST community of researchers across the globe! So DON'T FORGET TO CHECK IT OUT!
www.wmsymposium.org/home
www.wmsymposium.org/home
Here’s how I’ve been utilising the excessive amounts of coffee I’m consuming at @westernu.bsky.social lately.
June 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Here’s how I’ve been utilising the excessive amounts of coffee I’m consuming at @westernu.bsky.social lately.
Reposted by Phivos Phylactou
Our Siemens 7T Collaboration Scientist is moving to support the Siemens 7T Terra.X Impulse at Stanford. Siemens is rehiring for our position, located in Canada's National Ultra-High Field MRI platform cfmm.uwo.ca in London, Ontario 🇨🇦. onehealthineers.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SHSJB/job/OA...
Centre of Functional and Metabolic Mapping - Western University
Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.
cfmm.uwo.ca
June 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Our Siemens 7T Collaboration Scientist is moving to support the Siemens 7T Terra.X Impulse at Stanford. Siemens is rehiring for our position, located in Canada's National Ultra-High Field MRI platform cfmm.uwo.ca in London, Ontario 🇨🇦. onehealthineers.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SHSJB/job/OA...
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For TMS studies to be reproducible and for us to build on each other’s findings, we need to report what we actually did during the experiment.
We've built and now are evaluating the TMS-RAT (Reporting Assessment Tool).
Check out our website! - built by @thehandlab.bsky.social
We've built and now are evaluating the TMS-RAT (Reporting Assessment Tool).
Check out our website! - built by @thehandlab.bsky.social
The TMS-RAT v1.0 is now being tested!
It's a checklist / guidance tool to help researchers report #TMS studies & to facilitate quantitative comparisons in #systematicreviews & #meta-analyses
All the data will be made freely available; an interactive website will be coming. Stay tuned!
tms-rat.org
It's a checklist / guidance tool to help researchers report #TMS studies & to facilitate quantitative comparisons in #systematicreviews & #meta-analyses
All the data will be made freely available; an interactive website will be coming. Stay tuned!
tms-rat.org
tms-rat.org
June 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
For TMS studies to be reproducible and for us to build on each other’s findings, we need to report what we actually did during the experiment.
We've built and now are evaluating the TMS-RAT (Reporting Assessment Tool).
Check out our website! - built by @thehandlab.bsky.social
We've built and now are evaluating the TMS-RAT (Reporting Assessment Tool).
Check out our website! - built by @thehandlab.bsky.social
It’s not my fault. Semi-formal could also mean half the people come in formal wear, and the rest are casual 🤷🏼♂️
June 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It’s not my fault. Semi-formal could also mean half the people come in formal wear, and the rest are casual 🤷🏼♂️
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🎉 #FENS is proud to welcome the Cyprus Neuroscience Society (C.N.S.) as our newest member!
👉 https://loom.ly/t2ihcc4
Welcome, C.N.S. – we’re thrilled to have you! 🌟
👉 https://loom.ly/t2ihcc4
Welcome, C.N.S. – we’re thrilled to have you! 🌟
June 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🎉 #FENS is proud to welcome the Cyprus Neuroscience Society (C.N.S.) as our newest member!
👉 https://loom.ly/t2ihcc4
Welcome, C.N.S. – we’re thrilled to have you! 🌟
👉 https://loom.ly/t2ihcc4
Welcome, C.N.S. – we’re thrilled to have you! 🌟
Are you coming to London Health Research Day @westernu.bsky.social ? Come to our ( @daspainbrain.bsky.social , @drsmschabrun.bsky.social ) talk to find out how we’ve been using TMS induced pupil dilations to measure cortical excitability. You can also hear all about it at @vssmtg.bsky.social
May 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Are you coming to London Health Research Day @westernu.bsky.social ? Come to our ( @daspainbrain.bsky.social , @drsmschabrun.bsky.social ) talk to find out how we’ve been using TMS induced pupil dilations to measure cortical excitability. You can also hear all about it at @vssmtg.bsky.social
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Happy 40th Birthday #TMS 🥳🧲🎈
Published in the Lancet on 11th May 1985, a 1-page report of a new device & the 1st TMS-evoked MEP changed brain stimulation research & treatment forever
We celebrated with Professor Barker two weeks ago in Birmingham
Here's to 40 more years!
doi.org/10.1016/s014...
Published in the Lancet on 11th May 1985, a 1-page report of a new device & the 1st TMS-evoked MEP changed brain stimulation research & treatment forever
We celebrated with Professor Barker two weeks ago in Birmingham
Here's to 40 more years!
doi.org/10.1016/s014...
May 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Happy 40th Birthday #TMS 🥳🧲🎈
Published in the Lancet on 11th May 1985, a 1-page report of a new device & the 1st TMS-evoked MEP changed brain stimulation research & treatment forever
We celebrated with Professor Barker two weeks ago in Birmingham
Here's to 40 more years!
doi.org/10.1016/s014...
Published in the Lancet on 11th May 1985, a 1-page report of a new device & the 1st TMS-evoked MEP changed brain stimulation research & treatment forever
We celebrated with Professor Barker two weeks ago in Birmingham
Here's to 40 more years!
doi.org/10.1016/s014...