🔥🔥Great news!🔥🔥

The registration deadline for the Noosa Brain Workshop is extended to Nov 17.

Register by this date to guarantee accomodation:

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🔥🔥 NOOSA Brain Workshop 2026 🔥🔥

Less than 3 weeks left to secure register with accomodation for the Noosa Brain Workshop Feb 23-26, 2026.

Places are filling fast - sign up before November 10!

Details: tinyurl.com/5capskbj

Interested in the mechanisms shaping the extraordinary complexity of the connectome?

Then check out our new preprint, lead by
Francis Normand with a stellar team, showing how geometry constrains connectome architecture:

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Full thread here:
tinyurl.com/sfv3yf73

🔥ATTENTION!🔥

Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open!

Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns.

Details:
tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6

Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...

Interested in Network hubs, cortical hierarchies, and gradients? Ever wonder where they come from? Check our latest review, where we cover different approaches to mapping hubs, models for their evolution, and mechanisms for how they develop:

osf.io/preprints/os...

Lovely new work exploring how nervous system geometry constrains calcium dynamics in larval zebrafish:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our new preprint led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social where review the physics and physiology of cortical waves and their implications for psychological function:

osf.io/preprints/ps...

@nsb-lab.bsky.social

Bootstrapping and simple simulations reveal that consistent (i.e,. cross-site correlations of r>0.5) effects can be observed for schizophrenia with sample sizes >150, but much larger samples may be needed for other disorders, consistent with a low SNR of the disease phenotype

The low consistency can't be really explained by variations in preprocessing, clinical, demographic, or other data characteristics

We look at the consistency of CT/VBM differences across 59 studies of 5 disorders and generally find that correlations between pairs of studies are low (i.e., 5<0.16). As a benchmark, the average cross-site correlation in Alzheimer's is r>0.5.

1000s of studies have been published mapping neuroanatomical changes in psychiatric disorders. Can we ever converge on robust disease phenotypes? Our latest PP led by Trang Cao in a huge collab effort investigates this question...

@nsb-lab.bsky.social