Prof. Vladimir Litvak
@vlitvak.bsky.social
Neuroscientist and (kind of) programmer studying the links between the depths of the brain and its surface. Former Kiev, Jerusalem, Wuerzburg, Haifa.
Pinned
We now live in that branch of history where there was no Munich pact, the Czechs fought Hitler for 3 years weakening both sides but the Nazis are still
in power with their opponents in concentration camps and propaganda at full swing (+nukes). Is just a ceasefire enough? That’s what it’s all about.
in power with their opponents in concentration camps and propaganda at full swing (+nukes). Is just a ceasefire enough? That’s what it’s all about.
And one can definitely learn from it how to write the most useful review.
I’m really impressed with qedscience.com. Not perfect but the best qualitative jump I’ve seen in AI output since the original ChatGPT. Even the kind of dumb things it sometimes says, a human reviewer could say as well, but many of the points are spot on.
q.e.d Science
Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation
qedscience.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
And one can definitely learn from it how to write the most useful review.
I’m really impressed with qedscience.com. Not perfect but the best qualitative jump I’ve seen in AI output since the original ChatGPT. Even the kind of dumb things it sometimes says, a human reviewer could say as well, but many of the points are spot on.
q.e.d Science
Critical Thinking AI for constructive criticism and science evaluation
qedscience.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I’m really impressed with qedscience.com. Not perfect but the best qualitative jump I’ve seen in AI output since the original ChatGPT. Even the kind of dumb things it sometimes says, a human reviewer could say as well, but many of the points are spot on.
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#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺
This Friday, October 24th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Terence Sanger, MD, PhD.
This talk will be online only. 12 Queen Square Seminar room (4th Floor) will be available if you need a space to watch the stream. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
This Friday, October 24th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Terence Sanger, MD, PhD.
This talk will be online only. 12 Queen Square Seminar room (4th Floor) will be available if you need a space to watch the stream. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
October 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
#BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert! 🎺
This Friday, October 24th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Terence Sanger, MD, PhD.
This talk will be online only. 12 Queen Square Seminar room (4th Floor) will be available if you need a space to watch the stream. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
This Friday, October 24th, the Brain Meeting speaker will be Terence Sanger, MD, PhD.
This talk will be online only. 12 Queen Square Seminar room (4th Floor) will be available if you need a space to watch the stream. For more information:
www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event
Who says a scientist’s life is boring? Was nice to see some friends from times long gone in this movie.
youtu.be/46svA-C939s?...
youtu.be/46svA-C939s?...
Bat Island: The New Era of Science
YouTube video by Weizmann Institute of Science
youtu.be
October 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Who says a scientist’s life is boring? Was nice to see some friends from times long gone in this movie.
youtu.be/46svA-C939s?...
youtu.be/46svA-C939s?...
Looks amazing! Congratulations!
New paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering by @timonmerk.bsky.social !
We built a platform that unites AI-based brain signal decoding with connectomics across 123 hours of recordings from 73 patients. A step toward adaptive, network-level neurotechnology.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We built a platform that unites AI-based brain signal decoding with connectomics across 123 hours of recordings from 73 patients. A step toward adaptive, network-level neurotechnology.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Invasive neurophysiology and whole brain connectomics for neural decoding in patients with brain implants - Nature Biomedical Engineering
A modularized open-source pipeline for invasive brain signal decoding bridges the gap between closed-loop neuromodulation and clinical brain–computer interface approaches in a large patient cohort.
www.nature.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Looks amazing! Congratulations!
Reposted by Prof. Vladimir Litvak
A birthday is a good time to reflect! To mark SPM @ 30, this month's issue of Cerebral Cortex features deeply insightful commentaries on neuroimaging analysis from Ed Bullmore, Peter Bandettini, Peter Fox, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Klaas Enno Stephan, Viktor Jirsa, et al [1/2] academic.oup.com/cercor/issue
Issues | Cerebral Cortex | Oxford Academic
Publishes papers on the development, organization, plasticity, and function of the cerebral cortex, including the hippocampus.
academic.oup.com
September 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
A birthday is a good time to reflect! To mark SPM @ 30, this month's issue of Cerebral Cortex features deeply insightful commentaries on neuroimaging analysis from Ed Bullmore, Peter Bandettini, Peter Fox, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Klaas Enno Stephan, Viktor Jirsa, et al [1/2] academic.oup.com/cercor/issue
DBS Think Tank @dbsthinktank.bsky.social taking place next week is always the highlight of my year. Its Rising Stars event showcasing the work of talented early career DBS researchers starts in an hour. Don’t miss. ufl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: DBS Think Tank Rising Stars Challenge. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
DBS is a rapidly developing area of neuroscience that has revolutionized the treatment of a variety of neurological and psychiatric disorders. From Parkinson’s disease to depression, DBS has the poten...
ufl.zoom.us
August 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
DBS Think Tank @dbsthinktank.bsky.social taking place next week is always the highlight of my year. Its Rising Stars event showcasing the work of talented early career DBS researchers starts in an hour. Don’t miss. ufl.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
This is very exciting as it could provide a way to identify stimulation targets for syndromes for which no stimulation data exists at all as long as there is some genetic data. Congratulations!
🚨 New preprint out! 🚨
“Translating the Transcriptome: A Connectomics Approach for Gene-Network Mapping and Clinical Application”
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 
🧵 A short thread:
“Translating the Transcriptome: A Connectomics Approach for Gene-Network Mapping and Clinical Application”
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025... 
🧵 A short thread:
August 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This is very exciting as it could provide a way to identify stimulation targets for syndromes for which no stimulation data exists at all as long as there is some genetic data. Congratulations!
Great news! Ningfei is a great scientist and a highly valued collaborator. I’m looking forward to working with him in the new capacity.
Super excited for Ningfei Li to receive the highly prestigious NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund – as of yesterday, Ningfei is Full Professor at the Xian University and has joined a new AI institute! We are both excited to continue our collaboration on @lead-dbs.org and connectomic DBS!
August 18, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Great news! Ningfei is a great scientist and a highly valued collaborator. I’m looking forward to working with him in the new capacity.
Reposted by Prof. Vladimir Litvak
We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
🧠 New preprint alert!
medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...
SEEG in epilepsy affords a rare opportunity to record and stimulate in brain regions that are difficult to access, including the white matter. Could we leverage this to map circuits relevant to psychiatric symptoms?
If so, where would one start? 👇
medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...
SEEG in epilepsy affords a rare opportunity to record and stimulate in brain regions that are difficult to access, including the white matter. Could we leverage this to map circuits relevant to psychiatric symptoms?
If so, where would one start? 👇
July 1, 2025 at 4:21 AM
🧠 New preprint alert!
medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...
SEEG in epilepsy affords a rare opportunity to record and stimulate in brain regions that are difficult to access, including the white matter. Could we leverage this to map circuits relevant to psychiatric symptoms?
If so, where would one start? 👇
medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...
SEEG in epilepsy affords a rare opportunity to record and stimulate in brain regions that are difficult to access, including the white matter. Could we leverage this to map circuits relevant to psychiatric symptoms?
If so, where would one start? 👇
Reposted by Prof. Vladimir Litvak
Poster 1323 at #OHBM2025 - Suvadeep Maiti from the FIL will present his important work validating cluster-level inference based on random field theory correction, for 1D and 2D electrophysiological data in SPM. [6/7]
June 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Poster 1323 at #OHBM2025 - Suvadeep Maiti from the FIL will present his important work validating cluster-level inference based on random field theory correction, for 1D and 2D electrophysiological data in SPM. [6/7]
Reposted by Prof. Vladimir Litvak
Thursday 11:30 at #OHBM2025 - Arjun Ramaswamy from the FIL will give an oral presentation on "Electrophysiological Correlates of Reinforcement Learning in the Human Ventral Tegmental Area", in the Higher Cognitive Functions session. [3/7]
June 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Thursday 11:30 at #OHBM2025 - Arjun Ramaswamy from the FIL will give an oral presentation on "Electrophysiological Correlates of Reinforcement Learning in the Human Ventral Tegmental Area", in the Higher Cognitive Functions session. [3/7]
Reposted by Prof. Vladimir Litvak
Lots of exciting work being showcased by the SPM Team and other Fellows from the UCL Department of Imaging Neuroscience at #OHBM2025 this week! A thread 🧵 ... [1/7]
June 23, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Lots of exciting work being showcased by the SPM Team and other Fellows from the UCL Department of Imaging Neuroscience at #OHBM2025 this week! A thread 🧵 ... [1/7]
To learn more about SPM-Python check out @johmedr.bsky.social ‘s comprehensive presentation from our last M/EEG course youtu.be/XiJvLLUJogk?...
June 24, 2025 at 1:55 AM
To learn more about SPM-Python check out @johmedr.bsky.social ‘s comprehensive presentation from our last M/EEG course youtu.be/XiJvLLUJogk?...
Reposted by Prof. Vladimir Litvak
The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025
Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at #OHBM2025. Try the beta for yourself at github.com/spm/spm-python [2/7]
GitHub - spm/spm-python: The Python interface to SPM
The Python interface to SPM. Contribute to spm/spm-python development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025
Reposted by Prof. Vladimir Litvak
NEW DEADLINE: Friday 20th June 🚨
MEG‑UKI 2025 lands in London (16–18 July)! A 3-day deep dive into the brain—naturalistic neuroscience, OP-MEG, cutting-edge methods, and real-world impact. Keynotes by Dominik Bach & Jamie Ward. Art, abstracts, and more!
Register here: meguk.ac.uk/registration/
MEG‑UKI 2025 lands in London (16–18 July)! A 3-day deep dive into the brain—naturalistic neuroscience, OP-MEG, cutting-edge methods, and real-world impact. Keynotes by Dominik Bach & Jamie Ward. Art, abstracts, and more!
Register here: meguk.ac.uk/registration/
June 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
NEW DEADLINE: Friday 20th June 🚨
MEG‑UKI 2025 lands in London (16–18 July)! A 3-day deep dive into the brain—naturalistic neuroscience, OP-MEG, cutting-edge methods, and real-world impact. Keynotes by Dominik Bach & Jamie Ward. Art, abstracts, and more!
Register here: meguk.ac.uk/registration/
MEG‑UKI 2025 lands in London (16–18 July)! A 3-day deep dive into the brain—naturalistic neuroscience, OP-MEG, cutting-edge methods, and real-world impact. Keynotes by Dominik Bach & Jamie Ward. Art, abstracts, and more!
Register here: meguk.ac.uk/registration/
My main fear is not of a nuclear war but of the scenario where humanity simultaneously creates a lot of problems for itself and degrades its ability to deal with these problems. And then instead of coming together everyone will end up fighting each other.
June 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
My main fear is not of a nuclear war but of the scenario where humanity simultaneously creates a lot of problems for itself and degrades its ability to deal with these problems. And then instead of coming together everyone will end up fighting each other.
It’s always interesting to read detailed patient accounts of the DBS procedure. I never stop being amazed by how it can turn a person’s life around.
In January, our Board member Janette Sinclair underwent Deep Brain Stimulation surgery to treat her Parkinson's.
Four months on, she's written a frank account of her experience - the highs and the lows - from start to end.
👉 Read Janette's story: buff.ly/z78May6
#Parkinsons #DeepBrainStimulation
Four months on, she's written a frank account of her experience - the highs and the lows - from start to end.
👉 Read Janette's story: buff.ly/z78May6
#Parkinsons #DeepBrainStimulation
May 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
It’s always interesting to read detailed patient accounts of the DBS procedure. I never stop being amazed by how it can turn a person’s life around.
Please share and sign (if you are UK-based). There was a similar petition regarding cars that worked. More important than ever to #StandWithUkraine petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
Petition: Transfer UK Warrior Infantry Fighting Vehicles to Ukraine
The UK has approximately 632 Warrior IFVs: 80 awaiting near-term disposal and the rest expected to be scrapped by 2030. The Government should offer to transfer them to Ukraine. We think this would pro...
petition.parliament.uk
May 27, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Please share and sign (if you are UK-based). There was a similar petition regarding cars that worked. More important than ever to #StandWithUkraine petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
A funded PhD position focused on spinal OPM recordings. Please share www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
PhD opportunities in the Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences
A Spinal Research-funded position is available to study full-time for a PhD registered at UCL
www.ucl.ac.uk
May 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A funded PhD position focused on spinal OPM recordings. Please share www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-scienc...
Reposted by Prof. Vladimir Litvak
🎺 #BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert!
This Friday, May 30th, the brain meeting speaker will be Aysegul Gunduz giving a talk entitled "Closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation for the Treatment of Involuntary Movements"
All welcome, in person or online. Full details here: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event/closed...
This Friday, May 30th, the brain meeting speaker will be Aysegul Gunduz giving a talk entitled "Closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation for the Treatment of Involuntary Movements"
All welcome, in person or online. Full details here: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event/closed...
May 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
🎺 #BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert!
This Friday, May 30th, the brain meeting speaker will be Aysegul Gunduz giving a talk entitled "Closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation for the Treatment of Involuntary Movements"
All welcome, in person or online. Full details here: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event/closed...
This Friday, May 30th, the brain meeting speaker will be Aysegul Gunduz giving a talk entitled "Closed-loop Deep Brain Stimulation for the Treatment of Involuntary Movements"
All welcome, in person or online. Full details here: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event/closed...
Reposted by Prof. Vladimir Litvak
🚨 Two PhD positions open in Barcelona!
Work with Diego Vidaurre on machine learning at the intersection of methods, neuroscience, and clinical applications.
Details:
🔗 www.crm.cat/call/89/phd-...
🔗 www.crm.cat/call/88/phd-...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky
Work with Diego Vidaurre on machine learning at the intersection of methods, neuroscience, and clinical applications.
Details:
🔗 www.crm.cat/call/89/phd-...
🔗 www.crm.cat/call/88/phd-...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky
Call - Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
www.crm.cat
May 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🚨 Two PhD positions open in Barcelona!
Work with Diego Vidaurre on machine learning at the intersection of methods, neuroscience, and clinical applications.
Details:
🔗 www.crm.cat/call/89/phd-...
🔗 www.crm.cat/call/88/phd-...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky
Work with Diego Vidaurre on machine learning at the intersection of methods, neuroscience, and clinical applications.
Details:
🔗 www.crm.cat/call/89/phd-...
🔗 www.crm.cat/call/88/phd-...
#neuroskyence #psychscisky
Reposted by Prof. Vladimir Litvak
Only 4 days left! ⌛
Click the link below and submit your abstract by the 25th of May at midnight. 👉 meguk.ac.uk/abstract-sub...
Click the link below and submit your abstract by the 25th of May at midnight. 👉 meguk.ac.uk/abstract-sub...
May 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Only 4 days left! ⌛
Click the link below and submit your abstract by the 25th of May at midnight. 👉 meguk.ac.uk/abstract-sub...
Click the link below and submit your abstract by the 25th of May at midnight. 👉 meguk.ac.uk/abstract-sub...