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František Váša @frantisekvasa.bsky.social · Sep 29

More recent by Levi: Generalised-Hilbert Mamba for Super-resolution (GAMBAS), still for paediatric ultra-low-field MRI: arxiv.org/abs/2504.04523 | The updated multi-input GAMBAS+ recently won 1st place at the MICCAI ULF Enhancement Challenge: www.synapse.org/Synapse:syn6... (paper online soon) [4/n]

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František Váša @frantisekvasa.bsky.social · Sep 29

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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Austin Benn @neurabenn.bsky.social · Jul 10

Fitting title for tonight 🥵

Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social · Jul 10

Hot Summer Nights the new album by the Natural Philosophers is out now.
If you would like to help:

Stream it a few times
Post reply mentioning a track you like by name.

Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52...
Apple Music
music.apple.com/us/album/hot...
Soundcloud
soundcloud.com/npwa/sets/ho...

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Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social · Jul 10

Hot Summer Nights the new album by the Natural Philosophers is out now.
If you would like to help:

Stream it a few times
Post reply mentioning a track you like by name.

Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52...
Apple Music
music.apple.com/us/album/hot...
Soundcloud
soundcloud.com/npwa/sets/ho...

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UCL Centre for Consciousness Research @uccr.bsky.social · Jun 17

Coming out @ www.psychedelicscience.org

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Austin Benn @neurabenn.bsky.social · Jun 6

Precon_all is finally citeable! I’m relieved, pleased, thrilled and all other superlatives to present to you our preprint describing the inner workings of the precon_all pipeline for semi-automated non-human cortical surface reconstruction! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/10

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Masud Husain @masudhusain.bsky.social · May 30

I'm planning to write an editorial in @brain1878.bsky.social entitled "If patients only knew".
It's about obstacles that slow down or prevent people from participating in clinical studies and the pace of initiating #ClinicalTrials. If you have experience or comments please message me and repost.

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Adam Turnbull @adamgturnbull.bsky.social · May 23

Just to be clear this is not something we can tell from this study and any suggestion that it might be seems dangerous to me.

Nico Dosenbach @ndosenbach.bsky.social · May 22

Stimulants rescue cognition and brain functional architecture if you didn’t sleep enough … short term: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Is it possible that this is a true rescue, or is it just a temporary cover up and there will be a price to pay … maybe decades later? Asking for a friend.

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Robert leech @leechbrain.bsky.social · May 18

This accumulating process has been obvious since at least 2021. I assumed Labour would reluctantly intervene to help. That they won't almost guarantees that UK academia will become an even more cruel/anti-intellectual place to work, even for those in RG universities. So I'm leaving.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · May 18

At the start of this government there was lots of talk about ending the war on universities. But now the crude rhetoric about "ivory towers" has started up again.

Yet there are a whole bunch of things government could do to avoid a disaster without spending huge sums.

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Stephanie Rossit @stephanierossit.bsky.social · May 15

What an absolute pleasure it was to welcome the brilliant @f-geranmayeh.bsky.social for our seminar series at @psychologyuea.bsky.social. Fascinating and important work on using LLMs in stroke. Great speaker :)

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Toby Wise @tobywise.bsky.social · May 9

If anyone is interested in coming to London to work on interesting computational psychiatry questions feel free to get in touch!

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · May 8

Choose Science. Choose Europe.

A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.

With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.

Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · May 4

The end of the mass university era in England and Wales is now base case in my view after the last week. Much of Blue Labour, much of Britain's Right and a great number of voters will welcome that. But it's an interesting and arresting example of minoritarian state policy capture.

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · Apr 28

"UPFs affect health beyond the individual impact of high content of critical nutrients – sodium, trans fats and sugar"

< This study does not show this.

Food that's high in salt, trans fats, and sugar are bad for health.

Whether the 'ultra processing' makes any difference to this is unknown.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Apr 28

Ultra-processed food increases risk of early death, international study finds

About 14% of premature deaths in England attributable to unhealthy food, the most among surveyed countries Consuming large amounts of ultra-processed food (UPF) increases the risk of an early death, according to a international study that has reignited calls for a crackdown on UPF. Each 10% extra intake of UPF, such as bread, cakes and ready meals, increases someone’s risk of dying before they reach 75 by 3%, according to research in countries including the US and England. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Apr 25

two points on EHRC advice on trans people's use of public toilets:

1) trans people are being required to out themselves when using loo in public

2) how is it enforceable? What about cis people who don't conform to stereotypical appearance?

it's shit.

www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

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Simon Dahan @dahansimon.bsky.social · Jan 24

[1/5] I'm very happy to share that our latest paper: “SIM: Surface-based fMRI Analysis for Inter-Subject Multimodal Decoding from Movie-Watching Experiments”, has been accepted to #ICLR2025! 🎉

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Emma Robinson @ICLR2025 @metricsemma.bsky.social · Apr 26

Come see our poster #61 at 3pm @iclr-conf.bsky.social #iclr2025 surface deep learning for generalising fMRI decoding across different human brains with @dahansimon.bsky.social @gabriben.bsky.social

Simon Dahan @dahansimon.bsky.social · Jan 24

[1/5] I'm very happy to share that our latest paper: “SIM: Surface-based fMRI Analysis for Inter-Subject Multimodal Decoding from Movie-Watching Experiments”, has been accepted to #ICLR2025! 🎉

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · Apr 25

Fuck the EHRC. Inhumane Trumpian bullshit

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Apr 25

www.equalityhumanrights.com/media-centre...

An interim update on the practical implications of the UK Supreme Court judgment | EHRC

www.equalityhumanrights.com

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Mark H Johnson @markhjoh.bsky.social · Apr 25

From our 'infant sibs' cohorts we are finding increasing evidence for Chronogeneity as a way to view heterogeneity in autism. In other words, different ages of onset may reflect different types of neurodiversity.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

www.medrxiv.org

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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · Apr 20

www.zeit.de/digital/inte...

Platform decay: The enshittification of everything

The enshittocene began in platforms like Facebook, but it spread to the analog world. Is everything just going to decay? Not necessarily.

www.zeit.de

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Takaki Komiyama @takakikomiyama.bsky.social · Apr 17

Our new paper is out in Science.

What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons.

Congrats Jake!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Distinct synaptic plasticity rules operate across dendritic compartments in vivo during learning

Synaptic plasticity underlies learning by modifying specific synaptic inputs to reshape neural activity and behavior. However, the rules governing which synapses will undergo different forms of plasti...

www.science.org

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Saad Jbabdi @saadjbabdi.bsky.social · Apr 4

Incredibly flexible simulator brought to you by the talented @michielcottaar.bsky.social. Can feed arbitrary sequences (e.g. with pulseq) and model lots of microstructure features (diffusion, permeability, susceptibility, MT). Allows multimodal simulations. Fully documented and open. :)

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · Apr 8

𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀: 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆
How can network science tackle complex biological systems?
Substantially reworked version
Largely conceptual, would be happy to see others fill in details or collaborate if people find it of value
osf.io/preprints/os...
#complexity

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Jessica Royer @jroyer.bsky.social · Mar 30

open, multimodal, 7T MRI dataset led by @donnagift.bsky.social 🌟

Donna Gift Cabalo @donnagift.bsky.social · Mar 30

Our open-source multimodal precision MRI dataset is officially out! 🧲🧠🧲

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

osf.io/mhq3f/

@borismontreal.bsky.social @jroyer.bsky.social @themindwanders.bsky.social @jordandekraker.bsky.social

Multimodal precision MRI of the individual human brain at ultra-high fields - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Multimodal precision MRI of the individual human brain at ultra-high fields

www.nature.com

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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · Mar 28

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Paresh Malhotra @pareshmalhotra.bsky.social · Mar 27

‘Exodus’ of clinical researchers sparks concern over future of UK healthcare in @financialtimes.com today. Lots of change needed.

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