Stuart Oldham
@stuartoldham.bsky.social
Post-doc at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute.
I am interested in brain development, neural connectivity, and spending too much time creating PowerPoints.
I am interested in brain development, neural connectivity, and spending too much time creating PowerPoints.
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Paper alert: Our study led by @evapillai.bsky.social and @sudimukherjee.bsky.social showing that mechanical properties of the #brain actively shape the molecular landscape during development and #axonpathfinding is finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @pdncambridge.bsky.social @fau.de @MPZPM
Long-range chemical signalling in vivo is regulated by mechanical signals - Nature Materials
Tissue stiffness mediated by Piezo1 is shown to regulate the expression of diffusive guidance cues in the developing Xenopus laevis brain, revealing a crosstalk between mechanical signals and long-ran...
www.nature.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Paper alert: Our study led by @evapillai.bsky.social and @sudimukherjee.bsky.social showing that mechanical properties of the #brain actively shape the molecular landscape during development and #axonpathfinding is finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @pdncambridge.bsky.social @fau.de @MPZPM
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Very happy to see this last thesis paper in press @natcomms.nature.com! We combine intracranial EEG with multimodal MRI to study how interregional similarity in neurophysiology relates to different network scales ⚡ 🧠
Full story 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Full story 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
January 5, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Very happy to see this last thesis paper in press @natcomms.nature.com! We combine intracranial EEG with multimodal MRI to study how interregional similarity in neurophysiology relates to different network scales ⚡ 🧠
Full story 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Full story 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An effective trick I somehow forget but pleasantly rediscover every grant I write: "Walk and talk" ideas through to organize and shape thoughts; return home to transcribe and sift through. Makes the day much more fun than continuous keyboarding.
January 16, 2026 at 10:35 AM
An effective trick I somehow forget but pleasantly rediscover every grant I write: "Walk and talk" ideas through to organize and shape thoughts; return home to transcribe and sift through. Makes the day much more fun than continuous keyboarding.
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A major part of our future health & prosperity lies in medical research. There are billions of available dollars that can be used for vital medical science. Please join the campaign for our government to act urgently to fully disperse these funds: aamri.org.au/mrff/
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
Most researchers miss out on innovation grants while medical fund sits on $25b
Nine in 10 Australian researchers had their “ideas grant” applications rejected last year, even as Australia’s medical investment fund sits on $5 billion more than it was designed to hold.
www.theage.com.au
January 3, 2026 at 10:22 PM
A major part of our future health & prosperity lies in medical research. There are billions of available dollars that can be used for vital medical science. Please join the campaign for our government to act urgently to fully disperse these funds: aamri.org.au/mrff/
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
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**Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization**
New paper I anticipate will become a classic in neuroscience and a must-read for students at all levels.
Understanding brain function beyond brain areas.
#neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper I anticipate will become a classic in neuroscience and a must-read for students at all levels.
Understanding brain function beyond brain areas.
#neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
**Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization**
New paper I anticipate will become a classic in neuroscience and a must-read for students at all levels.
Understanding brain function beyond brain areas.
#neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New paper I anticipate will become a classic in neuroscience and a must-read for students at all levels.
Understanding brain function beyond brain areas.
#neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️
Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️
December 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️
Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️
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🧠New preprint!
What if cortical geometry alone already encodes much of white-matter organization?
We introduce a subject-specific, reversible cortical folding model that unfolds and refolds the brain from a single T1w MRI; no diffusion, no ML.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
What if cortical geometry alone already encodes much of white-matter organization?
We introduce a subject-specific, reversible cortical folding model that unfolds and refolds the brain from a single T1w MRI; no diffusion, no ML.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
🧠New preprint!
What if cortical geometry alone already encodes much of white-matter organization?
We introduce a subject-specific, reversible cortical folding model that unfolds and refolds the brain from a single T1w MRI; no diffusion, no ML.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
What if cortical geometry alone already encodes much of white-matter organization?
We introduce a subject-specific, reversible cortical folding model that unfolds and refolds the brain from a single T1w MRI; no diffusion, no ML.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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🚨new work with the dream team @danakarca.bsky.social @loopyluppi.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @stuartoldham.bsky.social @duncanastle.bsky.social
We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
December 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🚨new work with the dream team @danakarca.bsky.social @loopyluppi.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @stuartoldham.bsky.social @duncanastle.bsky.social
We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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OMG check out the venue for this excellent workshop.
December 12, 2025 at 1:59 AM
OMG check out the venue for this excellent workshop.
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Come and join our team! We are looking for a Research Officer to help with recruitment and assessment on a large-scale human brain imaging study:
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December 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Come and join our team! We are looking for a Research Officer to help with recruitment and assessment on a large-scale human brain imaging study:
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My very normal, by the book presentation from this years OHBM is now available. So if you weren't at OHBM, were there but happened to miss it, or if you did see it and just want to relive it all over again, here is your chance :)
I'm quite fond of this one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP86...
I'm quite fond of this one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP86...
OHBM 2025 | Oral Session | Stuart Oldham | Only a matter of time: developmental heterochronicity c…
YouTube video by Organization for Human Brain Mapping
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December 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
My very normal, by the book presentation from this years OHBM is now available. So if you weren't at OHBM, were there but happened to miss it, or if you did see it and just want to relive it all over again, here is your chance :)
I'm quite fond of this one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP86...
I'm quite fond of this one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP86...
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🎉 The OHBM 2025 Annual Meeting content is now LIVE on our YouTube channel!
Catch up on the Talairach lecture, keynotes, symposia, educational courses, and oral sessions—all available to watch anytime.
➡️Watch here: www.youtube.com/c/organizati...
#OHBM2025 #OHBM #Neuroimaging #BrainMapping
Catch up on the Talairach lecture, keynotes, symposia, educational courses, and oral sessions—all available to watch anytime.
➡️Watch here: www.youtube.com/c/organizati...
#OHBM2025 #OHBM #Neuroimaging #BrainMapping
December 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🎉 The OHBM 2025 Annual Meeting content is now LIVE on our YouTube channel!
Catch up on the Talairach lecture, keynotes, symposia, educational courses, and oral sessions—all available to watch anytime.
➡️Watch here: www.youtube.com/c/organizati...
#OHBM2025 #OHBM #Neuroimaging #BrainMapping
Catch up on the Talairach lecture, keynotes, symposia, educational courses, and oral sessions—all available to watch anytime.
➡️Watch here: www.youtube.com/c/organizati...
#OHBM2025 #OHBM #Neuroimaging #BrainMapping
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Check out our latest paper, led by Jason Kim, out now in Nature Communications‼️🧠
The brain computes by processing information over time through interactions between connectivity and dynamics that are hard to model. Here we infer these interactions from data and find they better predict cognitive performance! www.nature.com/articles/s41... w/ @lindenmp.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Check out our latest paper, led by Jason Kim, out now in Nature Communications‼️🧠
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🔥🔥The Program for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now Available!!! 🔥🔥
We have an incredible line up of confirmed speakers!
Commuter registrations are still available, but places are limited.
Check the website for details:
www.monash.edu/turner-insti...
We have an incredible line up of confirmed speakers!
Commuter registrations are still available, but places are limited.
Check the website for details:
www.monash.edu/turner-insti...
November 28, 2025 at 3:51 AM
🔥🔥The Program for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now Available!!! 🔥🔥
We have an incredible line up of confirmed speakers!
Commuter registrations are still available, but places are limited.
Check the website for details:
www.monash.edu/turner-insti...
We have an incredible line up of confirmed speakers!
Commuter registrations are still available, but places are limited.
Check the website for details:
www.monash.edu/turner-insti...
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Reposted by Stuart Oldham
What are the most important aspects of a job talk for an assistant professor? 👀
Mine include:
1. Understandable to the (general) audience
2. Generate a sense of excitement
3. Clear sense of future directions
Usually these things work better when there’s not too much crammed in.
Mine include:
1. Understandable to the (general) audience
2. Generate a sense of excitement
3. Clear sense of future directions
Usually these things work better when there’s not too much crammed in.
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
What are the most important aspects of a job talk for an assistant professor? 👀
Mine include:
1. Understandable to the (general) audience
2. Generate a sense of excitement
3. Clear sense of future directions
Usually these things work better when there’s not too much crammed in.
Mine include:
1. Understandable to the (general) audience
2. Generate a sense of excitement
3. Clear sense of future directions
Usually these things work better when there’s not too much crammed in.
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Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using The Transmitter's interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts in leading neuroscience journals. Explore more: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/p...
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
Putting 50 years of neuroscience on the map
Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using our interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Navigate the rise and fall of research topics over five decades using The Transmitter's interactive map, which is based on a semantic analysis of nearly 350,000 abstracts in leading neuroscience journals. Explore more: www.thetransmitter.org/publishing/p...
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
#neuroskyence #StateOfNeuroscience
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Axonal pathfinding of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells forms the optic nerve. Credit to Dr. Matthew Bostock @houartlab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
November 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Axonal pathfinding of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells forms the optic nerve. Credit to Dr. Matthew Bostock @houartlab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪
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Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...
Obituary – Jonathan Smallwood
www.cbs.mpg.de
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...
In case anyone is interested, I've put that animation I made of brain development from 21-40 weeks GA on YouTube for your enjoyment/reference🤰👶🧠 Now you don't need to go to that other place anymore to find it 😁
youtu.be/C20GQ5CtVt0
Plus the code is now up!
github.com/StuartJO/Fet...
youtu.be/C20GQ5CtVt0
Plus the code is now up!
github.com/StuartJO/Fet...
Fetal Brain Development: From 21 to 40 Weeks Gestation
YouTube video by Stuart0193
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 1:19 PM
In case anyone is interested, I've put that animation I made of brain development from 21-40 weeks GA on YouTube for your enjoyment/reference🤰👶🧠 Now you don't need to go to that other place anymore to find it 😁
youtu.be/C20GQ5CtVt0
Plus the code is now up!
github.com/StuartJO/Fet...
youtu.be/C20GQ5CtVt0
Plus the code is now up!
github.com/StuartJO/Fet...
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Chirag Mehra, Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh, et al:
Zero-phase-delay synchrony between interacting neural populations: implications for functional connectivity-derived biomarkers
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Zero-phase-delay synchrony between interacting neural populations: implications for functional connectivity-derived biomarkers
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
November 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Chirag Mehra, Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh, et al:
Zero-phase-delay synchrony between interacting neural populations: implications for functional connectivity-derived biomarkers
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
Zero-phase-delay synchrony between interacting neural populations: implications for functional connectivity-derived biomarkers
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵
November 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Happy to share our review "Investigating hierarchical critical periods in human neurodevelopment” in @npp-journal.bsky.social! We examine neurobiological, environmental & behavioral evidence for human critical periods in sensory and association cortex +discuss new research directions rdcu.be/eMkVU 🧵
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Morphogenesis and morphometry of brain folding patterns across species | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Morphogenesis and morphometry of brain folding patterns across species | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 11, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Morphogenesis and morphometry of brain folding patterns across species | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Morphogenesis and morphometry of brain folding patterns across species | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Our School is recruiting! Come and join a great team
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does brain connectivity drive spread of pathological proteins in Alzheimer’s disease?
✨ preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
if the question intrigues you, please read on 🧵⤵️
✨ preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
if the question intrigues you, please read on 🧵⤵️
October 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
does brain connectivity drive spread of pathological proteins in Alzheimer’s disease?
✨ preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
if the question intrigues you, please read on 🧵⤵️
✨ preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
if the question intrigues you, please read on 🧵⤵️