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Martin Wiener @martinwiener.bsky.social · 1d

POSTDOC Opening: I'm hiring a postdoc to work with me, @ayeletlandau.bsky.social, and Yuval Benjamini on a 4-year NSF funded project to understand timing and memorability in the visual system. fMRI, EEG, eye-tracking all included.

If interested, please DM or email me for more information!

Martin Wiener @martinwiener.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thanks to NSF and BSF, we've received a CRCNS grant!! 🎉

I'll be working with the amazing @ayeletlandau.bsky.social and Yuval Benjamini to explore and understand how our sense of time and image memorability are linked. ⌛🧠

We have 2(!) post-doc opportunities available - details coming soon!

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Holmes Lab @holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social · 2d

Holmes Lab + Parkes Lab had a great fall social a few weeks back!! Pottery painting (including an awesome brain-art mug by @ambrains.bsky.social 🧠). Thank you to our awesome mentors @avramholmes.bsky.social and @lindenmp.bsky.social for encouraging these great lab events! 💫

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 8d

The neural control & computation lab is recruiting!

If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch.

www.ncclab.ca

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P-SPINE @spinephilly.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are excited to announce our 2025 SPINE Fellows! We also appreciate everyone who submitted applications this year - it was great to read about everyone's awesome science! If you have not already, please register for SPINE by 9/24 and submit poster abstracts by 9/22 (extended) at spinephilly.org!

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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 14d

Exciting news! 🎉 Our Computational Neuroscience course has been awarded NIH BRAIN Initiative funding! Students will get hands-on experience w real BRAIN Initiative datasets, helping them build computational skills that are essential for the future of neuroscience.

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Linden Parkes @lindenmp.bsky.social · 16d

Congratulations!!!!

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Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 16d

I've been waiting some years to make this joke and now it’s real:

I conned somebody into giving me a faculty job!

I’m starting as a W1 Tenure-Track Professor at Goethe University Frankfurt in a week (lol), in the Faculty of CS and Math

and I'm recruiting PhD students 🤗

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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 17d

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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Orygen @orygen.org.au · 17d

Congratulations to these Orygen early career researchers, whose innovative work has been recognised with new grants 👏

More details: bit.ly/46BpOdj
@sidchop.bsky.social @stephmiles.bsky.social

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 20d

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

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katie b, phd @62442katieb.bsky.social · 24d

I'm officially recruiting grad students in FIU's Cognitive Neuroscience PhD program! 🧠✨

The @bottenlab.bsky.social uses precision and population approaches to study neurodevelopmental variability. Reach out if interested! (contact info on bottenlab.github.io) Apps due 12/1! cn.fiu.edu

(pls share)

The BottenLab

Endocrine & environmental influences on teen brain development

bottenlab.github.io

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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 Excited to share the latest preprint form the lab ➡️https://tinyurl.com/32d3be9f

Here we tackle a long-standing chicken-or-egg 🐣🥚question in #autism and developmental neuroscience

➡️ Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence" of #autism?

Check out what we found!
🧵1/n

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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 25d

Interested in hippocampal dynamics and their interactions with cortical rhythms?

Our physically constrained model of cortico-hippocampal interactions - complete with fast geometrically informed numerical simulation (available at embedded github repo)

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

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Vincent Bazinet @vincebaz.bsky.social · 29d

Our recent work on spin tests is now published in Imaging Neuroscience🎉

As always, the code to reproduce our results and figures is available on github: github.com/netneurolab/...

Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 29d

The effect of spherical projections on spin tests for brain maps | doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Spin tests are the de facto null model for map-to-map comparisons in brain imaging. Why don't they perfectly control false positives? @vincebaz.bsky.social explores ⤵️

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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 29d

In the latest episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, @drbreaky.bsky.social and @macshine.bsky.social describe a scale-free property of brain activity conserved across diverse species, suggesting a universal principle of activity underlying cognition.

www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Michael Breakspear and Mac Shine explain how brain processing changes across neural population scales

Breakspear and Shine find a scale-free property of brain activity that is conserved across diverse species, suggesting that a universal principle of brain activity underlies cognition.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Roselyne Chauvin @roselynechauvin.bsky.social · Sep 9

Want to know the behind the scenes of the "Disuse-driven plasticity in the human thalamus and
putamen" paper? discover @ndosenbach.bsky.social and I interview by @cp-cellreports.bsky.social

www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Q&A with Nico U.F. Dosenbach and Roselyne Chauvin

Nico U.F. Dosenbach and Roselyne Chauvin spoke with Cell Reports about their recent paper, in which they observed subcortical plasticity in humans following a 2-week arm/hand-casting paradigm with dai...

www.cell.com

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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...

jobs.wisc.edu

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Sep 5

Launched in 2023, Imaging Neuroscience is now firmly established, with full indexing (PubMed, etc.) and 700 papers to date.

We're very happy to announce that we are able to reduce the APC to $1400.

Huge thanks to all authors, reviewers, editorial team+board, and MIT Press.

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Ted Satterthwaite @ted-satterthwaite.bsky.social · Sep 7

New preprint from stellar IRTG PhD student Amelie Rauland + team on white matter bundle reconstruction! Shows that WM bundles can be reliably extracted from simple 32-direction dMRI & features predict cognition - huge potential for legacy and clinical data. Thread 👇

www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

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Linden Parkes @lindenmp.bsky.social · Sep 5

Come work with us!! Open rank faculty call!!

Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · Sep 5

The @cahbir.bsky.social and @rutgersbhi.bsky.social are hiring! Multiple open area and open rank faculty jobs, wonderful colleagues, amazing resources, and one of the largest communities of brain science research groups on the planet. Please apply and share widely.

jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/209...

Human Neuroimaging Faculty Positions in Rutgers Brain Health Institute

The Center for Advanced Human Brain Imaging Research (CAHBIR), a component of the Rutgers Brain Health Institute (BHI) on the Busch campus in Piscataway, NJ, is recruiting for two open rank (Assistant...

jobs.rutgers.edu

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Sep 5

🔥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...

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Avram Holmes @avramholmes.bsky.social · Sep 4

Latest
@holmeslab-bhi.bsky.social
preprint. Here, integrating genetic, post-mortem, and diffusion MRI data, Rowena Chin examines the heritability and cellular associates of late-life decline in white matter integrity.
@cahbir.bsky.social @rutgersbhi.bsky.social

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

The cellular associates of late life changes in white matter microstructure

The microstructural architecture of white matter supporting information flow across local circuits and large-scale networks changes throughout the lifespan. However, the genetic and cellular factors u...

www.biorxiv.org

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Linden Parkes @lindenmp.bsky.social · Aug 28

Now get an ultra-wide monitor.

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Linden Parkes @lindenmp.bsky.social · Aug 28

Mechanical keyboard ❤️

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Linden Parkes @lindenmp.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hive mind, do I know anyone who has worked the the HCP MEG data before? I am trying to work with MNE Python, but I am hitting some barriers with the HCP head digitization data. I found this toolbox, mne.tools/mne-hcp/inde..., but it hasn't been maintained in the last 10 years.

#neuroskyence

MNE-HCP — MNE-HCP 0.1.dev12 documentation

mne.tools

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