Mark Schira
@mschira.bsky.social
Neuroscientist interested in highres MRI, visual system, brain anatomy and what the universal transfer functions of a) cortex, b) cerebellum and c) the hippocampus might be.
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Yesterday, @ofgulban.bsky.social gave a great talk about efficient imaging of small veins.
It was inspiring. Impressive how much information is there waiting to be harvested.
youtu.be/7wStzJNUXic?...
It was inspiring. Impressive how much information is there waiting to be harvested.
youtu.be/7wStzJNUXic?...
Faruk Gulban: Meso-Vessel Imaging with 7 T MRI
YouTube video by Layer fMRI
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Yesterday, @ofgulban.bsky.social gave a great talk about efficient imaging of small veins.
It was inspiring. Impressive how much information is there waiting to be harvested.
youtu.be/7wStzJNUXic?...
It was inspiring. Impressive how much information is there waiting to be harvested.
youtu.be/7wStzJNUXic?...
Always great to listen to.
Yesterday, @ofgulban.bsky.social gave a great talk about efficient imaging of small veins.
It was inspiring. Impressive how much information is there waiting to be harvested.
youtu.be/7wStzJNUXic?...
It was inspiring. Impressive how much information is there waiting to be harvested.
youtu.be/7wStzJNUXic?...
Faruk Gulban: Meso-Vessel Imaging with 7 T MRI
YouTube video by Layer fMRI
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Always great to listen to.
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I'm thankful for Sci-Hub, even though I have access to most journals through multiple institutions.
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I'm thankful for Sci-Hub, even though I have access to most journals through multiple institutions.
The highest quality MRI of living child brains. 0.5 mm resolution makes all the difference, our manuscript is on bioRxiv
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We have #ARC DP funding for 2026 to 2028!
If you are interested in child brain anatomy and development, we are looking for PhD students!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We have #ARC DP funding for 2026 to 2028!
If you are interested in child brain anatomy and development, we are looking for PhD students!
Paediatric MRI: High-Resolution in vivo 3T Methods
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful tool for investigating the brain in vivo but is limited by image resolution and scan artefact. In paediatric research, these limitations are compounded b...
www.biorxiv.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
The highest quality MRI of living child brains. 0.5 mm resolution makes all the difference, our manuscript is on bioRxiv
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We have #ARC DP funding for 2026 to 2028!
If you are interested in child brain anatomy and development, we are looking for PhD students!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We have #ARC DP funding for 2026 to 2028!
If you are interested in child brain anatomy and development, we are looking for PhD students!
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🪑 Armchair activists, assemble! 😜
We need YOU to sign our petition to the Port to stop coal ships during the Blockade.
The Port calls itself “a global leader in sustainability” — let's pressure them to live up to that claim.
risingtide.nationbuilder.com/stop_the_coa...
We need YOU to sign our petition to the Port to stop coal ships during the Blockade.
The Port calls itself “a global leader in sustainability” — let's pressure them to live up to that claim.
risingtide.nationbuilder.com/stop_the_coa...
October 9, 2025 at 1:43 AM
🪑 Armchair activists, assemble! 😜
We need YOU to sign our petition to the Port to stop coal ships during the Blockade.
The Port calls itself “a global leader in sustainability” — let's pressure them to live up to that claim.
risingtide.nationbuilder.com/stop_the_coa...
We need YOU to sign our petition to the Port to stop coal ships during the Blockade.
The Port calls itself “a global leader in sustainability” — let's pressure them to live up to that claim.
risingtide.nationbuilder.com/stop_the_coa...
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No I don't!
I actually want to save time from doing useless admin stuff, so I can spend MORE time reading, understanding and writing research papers!
I actually want to save time from doing useless admin stuff, so I can spend MORE time reading, understanding and writing research papers!
October 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
No I don't!
I actually want to save time from doing useless admin stuff, so I can spend MORE time reading, understanding and writing research papers!
I actually want to save time from doing useless admin stuff, so I can spend MORE time reading, understanding and writing research papers!
I upgrade to MacOS Tahoe, and it is literally broken. There so many issues, it is beyond count. The newest hit is, I wrote a file with excel and want to open it with another application. But Apple refuses.
October 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I upgrade to MacOS Tahoe, and it is literally broken. There so many issues, it is beyond count. The newest hit is, I wrote a file with excel and want to open it with another application. But Apple refuses.
If I understand this correctly, this is huge. It increases the theoretical maximum efficiency of solar cells from 29% to 42%.
And it’s apparently close to application.
www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/10/02/s...
And it’s apparently close to application.
www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/10/02/s...
Singlet fission research breakthrough unlocks high solar cell efficiency
University of New South Wales researchers have filed patent protection and are working to scale production of a new class of photostable organic molecules proven to boost silicon solar cell efficiency...
www.pv-magazine-australia.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
If I understand this correctly, this is huge. It increases the theoretical maximum efficiency of solar cells from 29% to 42%.
And it’s apparently close to application.
www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/10/02/s...
And it’s apparently close to application.
www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/10/02/s...
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Okay, this is tough for me. The em dash has long been one of my writing ticks! (Drives my editors bonkers.)
I'm not a robot. Honest.
With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...
I'm not a robot. Honest.
With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...
With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Okay, this is tough for me. The em dash has long been one of my writing ticks! (Drives my editors bonkers.)
I'm not a robot. Honest.
With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...
I'm not a robot. Honest.
With the Em Dash, A.I. Embraces a Fading Tradition www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...
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I’m about halfway through this update (first 11 tutorials are done). I think they’re a lot better. Using a consistent @easystats.github.io workflow throughout will - I think - massively reduce the cognitive load for students. Looking forward to road testing in autumn term.
Probably no-one except me uses my R tutorials in their teaching, but if you do, I'm re-writing them over the next 6-9 months. My goal is to streamline them based on 5 years of using them in class, but if you have (polite) requests/suggestsions let me have them. www.discovr.rocks/discovr/
discovr: a package of interactive tutorials | discovr
Statistics education
www.discovr.rocks
August 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
I’m about halfway through this update (first 11 tutorials are done). I think they’re a lot better. Using a consistent @easystats.github.io workflow throughout will - I think - massively reduce the cognitive load for students. Looking forward to road testing in autumn term.
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One reason I developed LayNii IDA was to more easily explore my 0.35 mm multi echo human brain data. Here I’m observing blood motion artifacts across echos. The arterial signal *appear* to move across several millimeters. Best captured in short readout windows (e.g. ~3 ms readout windows in GRE).
July 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
One reason I developed LayNii IDA was to more easily explore my 0.35 mm multi echo human brain data. Here I’m observing blood motion artifacts across echos. The arterial signal *appear* to move across several millimeters. Best captured in short readout windows (e.g. ~3 ms readout windows in GRE).
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Introducing our new favorite stimulus. A few minutes are enough to map the visual preferences of thousands of neurons.
Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and
@kenneth-harris.bsky.social
Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and
@kenneth-harris.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Introducing our new favorite stimulus. A few minutes are enough to map the visual preferences of thousands of neurons.
Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and
@kenneth-harris.bsky.social
Mapping the visual cortex with Zebra noise and wavelets
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
By Sophie Skriabine and Max Shinn, with Samuel Picard and
@kenneth-harris.bsky.social
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🧠✨ Excited to share that our literature review on retinotopic mapping in the human visual cortex is now published!
tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b
Amazing collab with Noah Benson and Alex Puckett! We hope this will be a helpful resource for pRF modellers and visual neuroscientists!
tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b
Amazing collab with Noah Benson and Alex Puckett! We hope this will be a helpful resource for pRF modellers and visual neuroscientists!
Human retinotopic mapping: From empirical to computational models of retinotopy | JOV | ARVO Journals
tinyurl.com
July 17, 2025 at 4:56 AM
🧠✨ Excited to share that our literature review on retinotopic mapping in the human visual cortex is now published!
tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b
Amazing collab with Noah Benson and Alex Puckett! We hope this will be a helpful resource for pRF modellers and visual neuroscientists!
tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b
Amazing collab with Noah Benson and Alex Puckett! We hope this will be a helpful resource for pRF modellers and visual neuroscientists!
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Thanks @fmri-today.bsky.social for the interview! I really enjoyed sharing my work on your podcast.
Really fun conversation between @rosannaolsen.bsky.social and @fmri-today.bsky.social on the Neurosalience podcast.
open.spotify.com/episode/1EX0...
open.spotify.com/episode/1EX0...
Neurosalience #S5E14 with Rosanna Olsen - The hippocampus, aging, memory, and discovery
OHBM Neurosalience · Episode
open.spotify.com
June 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Thanks @fmri-today.bsky.social for the interview! I really enjoyed sharing my work on your podcast.
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MAYBE DON’T EMAIL ME AT THE WEEKEND, THEN.
July 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
MAYBE DON’T EMAIL ME AT THE WEEKEND, THEN.
The thing I find mind boggling is that most people believe the shocking lying propaganda that gas stoves are better than induction cooktops. The audacity of this propaganda in face of the facts that the superiority of induction is obvious to anybody that has ever seen a decent one.
Pressure is building on the AEMC to reign in accelerated depreciation requests by gas networks to cover the cost of future stranded assets.
“Not fair” to force consumers to pay for gas death spiral, says advocate
Pressure is building on the AEMC to reign in accelerated depreciation requests by gas networks to cover the cost of future stranded assets.
reneweconomy.com.au
July 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
The thing I find mind boggling is that most people believe the shocking lying propaganda that gas stoves are better than induction cooktops. The audacity of this propaganda in face of the facts that the superiority of induction is obvious to anybody that has ever seen a decent one.
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Huge China auction delivers another stunning fall in battery storage prices. It is being hailed as a potential tipping point for “round the clock” renewables.
“Watershed moment:” Big battery storage prices hit record low in huge China auction
Huge China auction delivers another stunning fall in battery storage prices. It is being hailed as a potential tipping point for “round the clock” renewables.
reneweconomy.com.au
July 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Huge China auction delivers another stunning fall in battery storage prices. It is being hailed as a potential tipping point for “round the clock” renewables.
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Australia’s decision makers are letting off carbon bombs, dressing up as Elvis and are not even bothered to ratify a crucial high seas treaty. What hope do we have?
Parkinson Report: Australia’s decision makers are ignoring climate, hailing coal and impersonating Elvis
Australia’s decision makers are letting off carbon bombs, dressing up as Elvis and are not even bothered to ratify a crucial high seas treaty. What hope do we have?
reneweconomy.com.au
June 30, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Australia’s decision makers are letting off carbon bombs, dressing up as Elvis and are not even bothered to ratify a crucial high seas treaty. What hope do we have?
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This 💯
Challenging the status quo: A guide to open and reproducible neuroimaging for early career researchers | Imaging Neuroscience | MIT Press direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Challenging the status quo: A guide to open and reproducible neuroimaging for early career researchers | Imaging Neuroscience | MIT Press direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Challenging the status quo: A guide to open and reproducible neuroimaging for early career researchers
Abstract. In the last decade, neuroimaging research has seen a proliferation of open tools, platforms, and standards aimed at addressing the reproducibility crisis in the field. The growing awareness ...
direct.mit.edu
June 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This 💯
Challenging the status quo: A guide to open and reproducible neuroimaging for early career researchers | Imaging Neuroscience | MIT Press direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
Challenging the status quo: A guide to open and reproducible neuroimaging for early career researchers | Imaging Neuroscience | MIT Press direct.mit.edu/imag/article...
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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
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This is your quarterly reminder that the hippocampus is a cortical (not subcortical) structure! Nicola Palomero-Gallagher underscored this point during our #OHBM2025 educational course!
June 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
This is your quarterly reminder that the hippocampus is a cortical (not subcortical) structure! Nicola Palomero-Gallagher underscored this point during our #OHBM2025 educational course!
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Retinotopic mapping Fans
Just finished my poster for OHBM. The results blow the discussion about V2 & V3 layout wide open. We find hemispheric asymmetry!
Fantastic work by my student Ruby Barahona, collaboration with the also fantastic @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social and Noah Benson.
Just finished my poster for OHBM. The results blow the discussion about V2 & V3 layout wide open. We find hemispheric asymmetry!
Fantastic work by my student Ruby Barahona, collaboration with the also fantastic @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social and Noah Benson.
June 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Retinotopic mapping Fans
Just finished my poster for OHBM. The results blow the discussion about V2 & V3 layout wide open. We find hemispheric asymmetry!
Fantastic work by my student Ruby Barahona, collaboration with the also fantastic @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social and Noah Benson.
Just finished my poster for OHBM. The results blow the discussion about V2 & V3 layout wide open. We find hemispheric asymmetry!
Fantastic work by my student Ruby Barahona, collaboration with the also fantastic @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social and Noah Benson.
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Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
April 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”
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#OHBM2025 is around the corner, and I will be there to share the latest development on deepRetinotopy, our toolkit for predicting retinotopic maps from brain anatomy! Please come by poster #1531 on Friday and Saturday!
June 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
#OHBM2025 is around the corner, and I will be there to share the latest development on deepRetinotopy, our toolkit for predicting retinotopic maps from brain anatomy! Please come by poster #1531 on Friday and Saturday!