Steve Smith
@fmrib-steve.bsky.social
Brain imaging research, Oxford
EiC, Imaging Neuroscience https://bsky.app/profile/imagingneurosci.bsky.social
EiC, Imaging Neuroscience https://bsky.app/profile/imagingneurosci.bsky.social
For people using the @ukbiobank.bsky.social UKB RAP cloud system for brain imaging analyses:
In order to make RAP much easier to use, we have created a Docker which is easy to install and gives you a graphical desktop, FSLeyes and the HCP wb_view.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
In order to make RAP much easier to use, we have created a Docker which is easy to install and gives you a graphical desktop, FSLeyes and the HCP wb_view.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Imaging-friendly docker for UK Biobank RAP
An Easy Docker for Brain Imaging Visualisation on UKB RAP Paul McCarthy1 Stephen Smith1 1FMRIB, OxCIN, NDCN, Oxford University, UK Queries: email paul.mccarthy@ndcn.ox.ac.uk and stephen.smith@ndcn....
docs.google.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:06 AM
For people using the @ukbiobank.bsky.social UKB RAP cloud system for brain imaging analyses:
In order to make RAP much easier to use, we have created a Docker which is easy to install and gives you a graphical desktop, FSLeyes and the HCP wb_view.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
In order to make RAP much easier to use, we have created a Docker which is easy to install and gives you a graphical desktop, FSLeyes and the HCP wb_view.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
(with apologies to non-UK folks) - we just discovered this *amazing* cheese - semi-hard, with a taste that is a confusingly incredible combination of being both subtle and yet rich and complex.
parkfarm.co.uk/products/mer...
parkfarm.co.uk/products/mer...
Merry Wyfe - A cider washed rind cheese - Bath Soft Cheese
The Merry Wyfe - An award-winning washed-rind cheese made with our Wyfe of Bath curds which are pressed and then washed in cider every other day for four weeks
parkfarm.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 3:56 PM
(with apologies to non-UK folks) - we just discovered this *amazing* cheese - semi-hard, with a taste that is a confusingly incredible combination of being both subtle and yet rich and complex.
parkfarm.co.uk/products/mer...
parkfarm.co.uk/products/mer...
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I often think about the fact that all the universities in 🇨🇦 together did not produce 11 Nobel Prizes in that period (or since). Not from a lack of brilliance, but from a lack of steady funding and the insistence on significant teaching loads and mind-numbing committee memberships for all faculty.
Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.
sites.stat.columbia.edu
October 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I often think about the fact that all the universities in 🇨🇦 together did not produce 11 Nobel Prizes in that period (or since). Not from a lack of brilliance, but from a lack of steady funding and the insistence on significant teaching loads and mind-numbing committee memberships for all faculty.
Latest processing of UK Biobank brain imaging data - now with 82,000 usable first-scan datasets. Correlating brain IDPs with 13,000 non-imaging variables gives a rich manhattan-stye plot. 324,000 Bonferroni-significant associations.
August 22, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Latest processing of UK Biobank brain imaging data - now with 82,000 usable first-scan datasets. Correlating brain IDPs with 13,000 non-imaging variables gives a rich manhattan-stye plot. 324,000 Bonferroni-significant associations.
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Many UK universities likely to walk away from journal agreements after publishers put forward proposals with “year-on-year price rises” rather than cheaper deals demanded by national negotiators, @davidprosser.bsky.social tells @jgro-the.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/busines...
‘Business-as-usual’ offers from publishers raise walk-away fears
Disappointing offers which ‘miss financial reality’ faced by UK higher education have heightened speculation that institutions will ditch proposed deals
www.timeshighereducation.com
August 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Many UK universities likely to walk away from journal agreements after publishers put forward proposals with “year-on-year price rises” rather than cheaper deals demanded by national negotiators, @davidprosser.bsky.social tells @jgro-the.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/busines...
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Where is the money going? In the case of for-profit publishers it's very clear:
Your open access fees fund corporate profit margins.
Profit margins for large academic publishers can far exceed those of household names like Amazon and Apple.
chart source: bit.ly/4leULKi
#scipub #academicsky
Your open access fees fund corporate profit margins.
Profit margins for large academic publishers can far exceed those of household names like Amazon and Apple.
chart source: bit.ly/4leULKi
#scipub #academicsky
July 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Where is the money going? In the case of for-profit publishers it's very clear:
Your open access fees fund corporate profit margins.
Profit margins for large academic publishers can far exceed those of household names like Amazon and Apple.
chart source: bit.ly/4leULKi
#scipub #academicsky
Your open access fees fund corporate profit margins.
Profit margins for large academic publishers can far exceed those of household names like Amazon and Apple.
chart source: bit.ly/4leULKi
#scipub #academicsky
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Congratulations to Holly Schofield and @curlyryes.bsky.social for being chosen from over 350 papers that were published by @imagingneurosci.bsky.social in 2024.
Holly accepted the award at OHBM in Brisbane and Ryan celebrated the win from Dublin!
www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/scienti...
Holly accepted the award at OHBM in Brisbane and Ryan celebrated the win from Dublin!
www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/scienti...
June 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Congratulations to Holly Schofield and @curlyryes.bsky.social for being chosen from over 350 papers that were published by @imagingneurosci.bsky.social in 2024.
Holly accepted the award at OHBM in Brisbane and Ryan celebrated the win from Dublin!
www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/scienti...
Holly accepted the award at OHBM in Brisbane and Ryan celebrated the win from Dublin!
www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/scienti...
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It's Pride Month. On the weekend, we were delighted to have a Pride breakfast celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer members of the University of Oxford. And then proceeded to join the Oxford Pride parade. The weather was wet -- but that didn't dampen spirits
June 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
It's Pride Month. On the weekend, we were delighted to have a Pride breakfast celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer members of the University of Oxford. And then proceeded to join the Oxford Pride parade. The weather was wet -- but that didn't dampen spirits
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🧪 Scientists are pushing back against the gutting of US research funding. Now scientists outside of the NIH and members of the public can sign on in support of the Bethesda declaration: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
More about the Bethesda declaration: apnews.com/article/nih-...
More about the Bethesda declaration: apnews.com/article/nih-...
Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE
Support NIH Staff Now!
www.standupforscience.net
June 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🧪 Scientists are pushing back against the gutting of US research funding. Now scientists outside of the NIH and members of the public can sign on in support of the Bethesda declaration: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
More about the Bethesda declaration: apnews.com/article/nih-...
More about the Bethesda declaration: apnews.com/article/nih-...
I guess the main difference between social media and the BBC is that you won't see "popcorn" on any BBC pages today?
June 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I guess the main difference between social media and the BBC is that you won't see "popcorn" on any BBC pages today?
Indeed - and Oxford Labour just as bad, concreting over every bit of green they can, destroying the countryside for future generations.
@cllrsbrown.bsky.social
@maryoxford.bsky.social
@annarailton.bsky.social
@cllrsbrown.bsky.social
@maryoxford.bsky.social
@annarailton.bsky.social
What did we do to deserve this government? It promised change, and many people voted on that basis, in good faith. But the change is from bad to worse. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn
www.theguardian.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Indeed - and Oxford Labour just as bad, concreting over every bit of green they can, destroying the countryside for future generations.
@cllrsbrown.bsky.social
@maryoxford.bsky.social
@annarailton.bsky.social
@cllrsbrown.bsky.social
@maryoxford.bsky.social
@annarailton.bsky.social
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🏳️🌈Happy Pride Month from OxCIN! 🏳️🌈
If you're in Oxford, come and say hi at our inclusive research-themed stall at the Pride festival in South Park this Saturday!
If you're in Oxford, come and say hi at our inclusive research-themed stall at the Pride festival in South Park this Saturday!
June 2, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🏳️🌈Happy Pride Month from OxCIN! 🏳️🌈
If you're in Oxford, come and say hi at our inclusive research-themed stall at the Pride festival in South Park this Saturday!
If you're in Oxford, come and say hi at our inclusive research-themed stall at the Pride festival in South Park this Saturday!
Happy to see my first first-author paper in Imaging Neuroscience (along with @fmrib-karla.bsky.social and @nichols.bsky.social):
Characterising ongoing brain aging and baseline effects from cross-sectional data
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Characterising ongoing brain aging and baseline effects from cross-sectional data
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
May 29, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Happy to see my first first-author paper in Imaging Neuroscience (along with @fmrib-karla.bsky.social and @nichols.bsky.social):
Characterising ongoing brain aging and baseline effects from cross-sectional data
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Characterising ongoing brain aging and baseline effects from cross-sectional data
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
sunny spring day yesterday - time for some macro pics in the garden
May 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
sunny spring day yesterday - time for some macro pics in the garden
Not *always* so cute!
May 14, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Not *always* so cute!
First trip to The Mainland
May 9, 2025 at 6:39 AM
First trip to The Mainland
Geese exploring Beckmann Island
May 9, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Geese exploring Beckmann Island
Gosling Birth Day! Best part of May.
May 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Gosling Birth Day! Best part of May.
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Registration Open! FSL Course 2025 will be held fully online, 15th – 26th September. Details & registration info here: open.win.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...
The course covers lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis.
The course covers lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis.
May 8, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Registration Open! FSL Course 2025 will be held fully online, 15th – 26th September. Details & registration info here: open.win.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...
The course covers lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis.
The course covers lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis.
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Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social & @wmatchin.bsky.social for organizing this, for giving me the opportunity to present on behalf of @imagingneurosci.bsky.social, and for this excellent write-up of the session 🙏🏻
Next up: #ISMRM2025 🏝 diffusion study group, where I'll make a cameo to talk about this!
Next up: #ISMRM2025 🏝 diffusion study group, where I'll make a cameo to talk about this!
New post by @bradpostle.bsky.social and @wmatchin.bsky.social: "New Directions in Scientific Communication", regarding symposium at #CNS2025, including participants @anastasiayendiki.bsky.social, Jacqueline Fulvio, and Michael Frank
www.cogneurosociety.org/symposia/?sy...
doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
www.cogneurosociety.org/symposia/?sy...
doi.org/10.21428/8e6...
New Directions in Scientific Communication in Cognitive Neuroscience
doi.org
May 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social & @wmatchin.bsky.social for organizing this, for giving me the opportunity to present on behalf of @imagingneurosci.bsky.social, and for this excellent write-up of the session 🙏🏻
Next up: #ISMRM2025 🏝 diffusion study group, where I'll make a cameo to talk about this!
Next up: #ISMRM2025 🏝 diffusion study group, where I'll make a cameo to talk about this!
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We're excited to announce that WIN is now the Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging: OxCIN! Our mission: developing and deploying neuroimaging and related technology to solve big challenges in basic neuroscience and brain health. oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/vision
April 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We're excited to announce that WIN is now the Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging: OxCIN! Our mission: developing and deploying neuroimaging and related technology to solve big challenges in basic neuroscience and brain health. oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/vision
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As well as a new name, OxCIN also has a brand new Director: Karla Miller! @fmrib-karla.bsky.social We are grateful for 10 years of superb leadership by Heidi Johansen-Berg @heidijoberg.bsky.social and excited to see the new ideas Karla will bring. More about Karla: oxcin.ox.ac.uk/people/karla...
April 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
As well as a new name, OxCIN also has a brand new Director: Karla Miller! @fmrib-karla.bsky.social We are grateful for 10 years of superb leadership by Heidi Johansen-Berg @heidijoberg.bsky.social and excited to see the new ideas Karla will bring. More about Karla: oxcin.ox.ac.uk/people/karla...
And Early Purple Orchids also near Oxford - who knew some orchids come out so early!
April 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
And Early Purple Orchids also near Oxford - who knew some orchids come out so early!