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Alex Wiesman @alexwiesman.bsky.social · 17h

Incredibly grateful for this support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation

With the new infrastructure, our Neurophysiology of Aging and Neurodegeneration Lab at @sfu.ca has already begun to develop exciting research - stay tuned! 🧠 👀

Simon Fraser University @sfu.ca · 23h

Eight SFU researchers have received over $1.4M through the John R. Evans Leadership Fund from the Canada Foundation for Innovation. From advancing clean energy and trustworthy AI to Indigenous sovereignty and more, these projects are driving research that benefits communities across Canada.

Eight outstanding SFU researchers awarded over $1.4 million from John R. Evans Leadership Fund

www.sfu.ca

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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus

Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)

Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social

docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 11d

This is a major milestone for @sylviavilleneuve.bsky.social & PREVENT-AD. Their vision & dedication have led to a series of impactful studies & high-profile publications, and the future promises insights as this unique dataset continues to grow.

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The PREVENT‐AD cohort: Accelerating Alzheimer's disease research and treatment in Canada and beyond

The PResymptomatic EValuation of Experimental or Novel Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease (PREVENT-AD) is an investigator-driven study that was created in 2011 and enrolled cognitively normal older ...

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 14d

A fascinating update about how deep and fast MEG noninvasive imaging can be: differentiation b/w thalamus subnuclei, slow vs fast sleep spindles, and the talent and skills of Emily Coffey & her team. Grateful for being aboard this collaborative work.

doi.org/10.1002/hbm....

Exploring Deep Magnetoencephalography via Thalamo‐Cortical Sleep Spindles

Results from functional connectivity analyses of MEG data (left) show that many thalamic nuclei can be distinguished via functional connectivity (right). However, results depend on the metric and con...

doi.org

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M. Natasha Rajah 🇨🇦 @mnrajah.bsky.social · 14d

A lot of money & effort goes into building large cohorts that then shape analysis and models that are used for treatment planning - let’s try our best to be inclusive in their creation! End/

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Simon Fraser University @sfu.ca · 15d

What if you have epilepsy, but the drugs that are supposed to control your seizures don’t work?

A new SFU clinical study is exploring how magnetoencephalography (MEG) can improve outcomes for patients undergoing epilepsy surgery in Western Canada.

Innovating epilepsy care: SFU study explores advanced brain imaging for B.C. patients

A Simon Fraser University-led clinical research study is evaluating how advanced brain imaging could improve epilepsy surgery in British Columbia. Epilepsy affects more than 50,000 people in B.C., a...

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Jason da Silva Castanheira @jasondasilvac.bsky.social · 16d

Quantifying rhythmic and arrhythmic brain activity is a hot 🥵 topic. But how independent are the two components from one another? 🤔 In my latest work with @smfleming.bsky.social & @matlandry.bsky.social, I explore the relationship between the two.

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Quantifying Rhythmic and Arrhythmic Components of Brain Activity

Brain activity comprises both rhythmic (periodic) and arrhythmic (aperiodic) components. These signal elements vary across healthy aging, and disease, and may make distinct contributions to conscious ...

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genomebc.bsky.social @genomebc.bsky.social · 16d

🚀 Big news from
@sfuscience.bsky.social

Canada’s fastest academic supercomputer is live after an $80M upgrade.
🌟 Shoutout to Dr. Fiona Brinkman, whose pioneering microbial genomics work will leverage this power to accelerate science.

Read more: scienmag.com/sfu-unveils-...

SFU Unveils Canada's Fastest Academic Supercomputer Following $80

Simon Fraser University (SFU) located in Burnaby, British Columbia, is making headlines once again as the esteemed institution unveils its latest cutting-edge supercomputing system, aptly named

scienmag.com

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Andreas Horn @andreashorn.org · 17d

🔥🔥🔥Glad to see this finally out – huge congratulations to @timonmerk.bsky.social & @julianneumann.bsky.social & team!!

Wolf-Julian Neumann @julianneumann.bsky.social · 17d

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...

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

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 17d

In my life I've seen treatments for AIDs developed, vaccines for Ebola and malaria, and now this. Medical science is one is the areas that still consistently seems to make these miraculous advances and I'm genuinely grateful to everyone involved.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Anna Weinberg @annaweinberg.bsky.social · 17d

Delighted to share that we are currently hiring for a tenure-track position (open rank) in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at McGill University. Come join a great department! Link to apply: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill....

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Tiffany Ito @tiffanyito.bsky.social · 19d

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Assistant Professor

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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 18d

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉

📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · Feb 27

(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health

Major mental disorders are increasingly understood as disorders of brain development. Large and heterogeneous samples are required to define generalizable links between brain development and psychopat...

doi.org

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · 18d

Excited to release the SPOT grid: a new image set that factorially crosses scene-object & texture-pattern pairings.

We hope these stimuli will be useful to researchers aiming to (partially) disentangle the contributions of lower- and higher-level visual features to behavior & brain activity.

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8x8 grid depicting the approach to stimulus creation. Feature pairs are on the axes and images are in the cells. The x-axis represents the high-level feature pairs: setting (green) and object (teal). For example, the first column of images all depict “truck” (object) in “field” (setting) rendered in various textures and patterns. The y-axis represents low-level feature pairs: texture (blue) and pattern (purple). For example, the first row of images all depict different objects and settings rendered as if drawn with crayon (texture) and containing large horizontal edges (pattern).

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 21d

Resting-State fMRI and the Risk of Overinterpretation: Noise, Mechanisms, and a Missing Rosetta Stone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676611v1

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M. Natasha Rajah 🇨🇦 @mnrajah.bsky.social · 22d

While Canada plans for another round of CERC hirings (which costs millions); support to retain international talent & support 🇨🇦 researchers may be cut!

Sign this letter to request @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social to stop the proposed cuts to
research & innovation!

CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 22d

In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science.

Join Canada's research & science community and tell PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024.

Send a letter: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...

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Decision, Action, and Neural Computation (DANC) lab @danclab.bsky.social · 23d

🚨Postdoc job offer🚨
Are you interested in beta bursts? Want to help drive methods for laminar inference with MEG? Now hiring a postdoc: run head-cast MEG experiments, help build our laMEG toolbox, and collaborate across Lyon–Marseille–Strasbourg. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please repost! 🧠📈

Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Post-doctorate - Beta bursts & laminar MEG (M/F)

emploi.cnrs.fr

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MattBrookesMEG @mattbrookesmeg.bsky.social · 23d

Today we retired our cryogenic MEG system after 18 years of faithful service! And of course we celebrated the occasion with pizza and beer!! But the future of MEG
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social
is looking bright as we move to our new OPM-MEG platforms!!
@cercamagnetics.bsky.social

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SFU Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology @sfuneuro.bsky.social · 24d

Tune in next week when we host Dr. Alex Wiesman for a talk titled "Neurochemistry shapes brain signalling in healthy and pathological aging". For more information, visit: rebrand.ly/3ezfpco

SFU Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology @sfuneuro.bsky.social · Sep 11

We are excited to announce our upcoming seminar series! Join us on September 25th, at 2:30 pm PDT, for a talk from @alexwiesman.bsky.social titled "Neurochemistry shapes brain signalling in healthy and pathological aging". For more information, visit: rebrand.ly/3ezfpco

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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 25d

Network spreading and local biological vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
doi.org/10.1038/s420...

How do brain network structure and local biological features shape the spatial patterning of atrophy in ALS? @asafarahani.bsky.social investigates ⤵️

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 29d

The Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge has a tenure-track position for a neuroscientist studying brain function across the life span in nonhuman animals. Join a terrific community of researchers in a beautiful part of the country.🧠🧪 Re-post
uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8586

The image depicts the University of Lethbridge, located in Southern Alberta, Canada. The prominent building shown in the image is the Science Commons, which is situated on the university campus within the coulee landscape.

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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI).

Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Alex Wiesman @alexwiesman.bsky.social · 29d

Excited to synthesize this line of research and share some of our new findings!

SFU Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology @sfuneuro.bsky.social · Sep 11

We are excited to announce our upcoming seminar series! Join us on September 25th, at 2:30 pm PDT, for a talk from @alexwiesman.bsky.social titled "Neurochemistry shapes brain signalling in healthy and pathological aging". For more information, visit: rebrand.ly/3ezfpco

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · Sep 10

New study ✨!
⍺ regulates perceptual switches during binocular rivalry:
⍺↓ before dominant percepts, ↑ before mixed percepts + PO connectivity shifts from top-down to feedforward after perceptual alternations
Led by Janine Mendola @mcgill.ca, w/ E Mokri & @jasondasilvac.bsky.social

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Alex Wiesman @alexwiesman.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations Sylvain - so very well deserved!! 🙌🥂

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