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Giorgio Marinato @neurogima.bsky.social · 7d

At the #OPM conference in Marseille @robertoostenveld.bsky.social reminded us the importance to take care of our FOSSS software we use and develop. Adopt the practices from the paper led by @brittawestner.bsky.social and co-authored by the main MEEG toolbox developers

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Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software

Abstract. Most scientists need software to perform their research (Barker et al., 2020; Carver et al., 2022; Hettrick, 2014; Hettrick et al., 2014; Switters & Osimo, 2019), and neuroscientists are no ...

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Guillaume Dumas @introspection.bsky.social · Aug 8

📌 We lay the groundwork for a generative neurophenomenology:
→ integrating first-person experiential data (e.g. micro-phenomenology) at dyadic level
→ with third-person data at the interpersonal, physiological level
→ formalized with modern computational frameworks (2/3)

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Lukas Muttenthaler @lukasmut.bsky.social · Aug 14

Join us for the Re-Align^{3} community event & hackathon at #CCN2025 in room A2.11! There will be lots of 🌶️ discussions on 🧠🤖

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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · Aug 11

The moment we've all been waiting for— #CCN2025 is HERE! Today we start with satellite events, and tomorrow the main conference begins in Amsterdam! We'll be sharing daily updates about each day's program, so follow the CCN account to stay in the loop. Can't wait to see everyone!

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Olivier Coulon @ocoulon.bsky.social · May 16

We are recruiting two PhD students on cortical folding variability and organisation before birth, using fetal MRI. Come and join a motivated and happy team with tons of great fetal data, in a sunny, friendly, and inclusive environment.
tinyurl.com/foldsOrganis...
tinyurl.com/foldingVaria...

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ILCB_France @ilcb.bsky.social · May 16

🚨 Only 4 days left! 🚨

Don't miss this chance: The ILCB is offering 1 postdoc position (2 years) in Language, Communication & the Brain.

🗓️ Deadline: May 20, 2025
👉 Apply now: www.ilcb.fr/postdoc-call/

#PostdocOpportunity #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #LanguageResearch #ScienceJobs #AcademicJobs

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Giorgio Marinato @neurogima.bsky.social · Feb 13

Not just a color blindness topic: some color maps create the effect of artificial boundaries that are simply not there in the data

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The misuse of colour in science communication - Nature Communications

The accurate representation of data is essential in science communication, however, colour maps that visually distort data through uneven colour gradients or are unreadable to those with colour vision...

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Pablo Samuel Castro @pcastr.bsky.social · Feb 10

Can LLMs be used to discover interpretable models of human and animal behavior?🤔

Turns out: yes!

Thrilled to share our latest preprint where we used FunSearch to automatically discover symbolic cognitive models of behavior.
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Krish D. Singh @magnetokrishio.bsky.social · Feb 6

We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous
CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Giorgio Marinato @neurogima.bsky.social · Dec 5

In the group we will need some large scale online behaviorals to be integrated with our MEG data and modelling.
Yesterday's 1.5 hours tutorial on Pavlovia was everything you need to start in no time.
Thanks @hirstrj.bsky.social and @psychopy.bsky.social

PsychoPy @psychopy.org · Nov 18

Join us for one of our online workshops!

🧠 Dec 2nd: Intro to PsychoPy Builder
🌐 Dec 4th: Online research with Pavlovia
👩‍💻 Dec 5th: Extending Builder with Code Snippets
🐍 Dec 6th: Coding an Experiment in Python
👁️ Dec 9th: Intro to Eye tracking

Home — PsychoPy®

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Bluesky @bsky.app · Dec 3

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Altmetric @altmetric.com · Dec 3

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research.

A Place of Joy.

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky
Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03784-6

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · Jul 29

#CogNeuro seeks unified theories of behavioral, physiological, and mental states. To this aim, our #NatureNeuro Perspective proposes a new framework centered on #TaskDemands & across-task generalization. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

w/ @aschmid.bsky.social S.Kaplan @cibaker.bsky.social D.Kravitz🧵

Centering cognitive neuroscience on task demands and generalization - Nature Neuroscience

Task demands are a primary determiner of behavior and neurophysiology. Here the authors discuss how understanding their influence through multitask studies and tests of generalization is the key to ar...

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Andrea Brovelli @brovelli.bsky.social · Nov 25

HOI: A Python toolbox for high-performance estimation of Higher-Order Interdependencies from multivariate data 🚀
Here is the link to the paper 🌐
Documentation with theoretical background about the metrics and some useful examples here
brainets.github.io/hoi/
Have fun🛝
And give us feedback

HOI : High-Performance Estimation of Higher-Order Interactions — HOI 0.0.5 documentation

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Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · Nov 13

HOI: A Python toolbox for high-performance estimation of Higher-Order Interdependencies from multivariate data

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HOI: A Python toolbox for high-performance estimation of Higher-Order Interactions from multivariate data

Neri et al., (2024). HOI: A Python toolbox for high-performance estimation of Higher-Order Interactions from multivariate data. Journal of Open Source Software, 9(103), 7360, https://doi.org/10.21105/...

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Duncan Astle @duncanastle.bsky.social · Oct 12

Weaker brain wiring constraints increase multifinality in network outcomes. Specifically, when you weaken the drive to connect neighbours you get more topologically dissimilar networks. Whereas when you weaken the distance penalty, you get connections forming in different places.

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Duncan Astle @duncanastle.bsky.social · Oct 12

How did we test this? Starting with a neonatal seed network, we simulated the formation of new connections using a computational model. We varied the modelling constraints, and tested whether systematic changes in those constraints shift the properties of the resulting networks

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Duncan Astle @duncanastle.bsky.social · Oct 12

*New paper*

W/ Sofia Carozza (not a twit) & @danakarca.bsky.social, in PNAS

The adaptive stochasticity hypothesis shorturl.at/clz02 Bottom line: heightened stochasticity makes brains robust to random/targeted attacks, but more often results in non-normative phenotypes

Mini thread below!

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Harry H Behjat @aitchbi.bsky.social · Oct 14

Happy to share our work on 🧠 graph structure learning from EEG ✨ wherein we use eigenmodes of learned graphs to decompose EEG maps & extract features.

Paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.bs...

#neuroskyence #compneurosky #neuroimaging #EEG

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eLife @elife.bsky.social · Oct 13

We’re pleased to announce a new #SparksOfChange series of personal stories from #neurodivergent researchers navigating academia. Our first two stories are from authors who both received their diagnoses as adults. 1/4 elifesciences.org/inside-elife...

Being Neurodivergent in academia. A new sparks of change series. Text is accompanied by an orange illustration of a stick figure sitting on a brain.

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