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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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.
Reposted by Stuart Oldham
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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Our School is recruiting! Come and join a great team
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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 🧵⤵️
Reposted by Stuart Oldham
📢 OHBM Australia 2025 Updates!
🖼️ Poster abstract submissions open until Oct 20
👉 Submit here: ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
🏆 Award nominations are now open!
🎖️ Early Career Researcher Award
🌟 Emerging Leadership Award
🗓️ Due by Oct 20
👉 ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/call-f...
🖼️ Poster abstract submissions open until Oct 20
👉 Submit here: ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
🏆 Award nominations are now open!
🎖️ Early Career Researcher Award
🌟 Emerging Leadership Award
🗓️ Due by Oct 20
👉 ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/call-f...
OHBM Australia: 2025 Annual Meeting
OHBM Australia: Uniting the Australian human brain mapping community
ohbm-aus.github.io
September 23, 2025 at 6:18 AM
📢 OHBM Australia 2025 Updates!
🖼️ Poster abstract submissions open until Oct 20
👉 Submit here: ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
🏆 Award nominations are now open!
🎖️ Early Career Researcher Award
🌟 Emerging Leadership Award
🗓️ Due by Oct 20
👉 ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/call-f...
🖼️ Poster abstract submissions open until Oct 20
👉 Submit here: ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
🏆 Award nominations are now open!
🎖️ Early Career Researcher Award
🌟 Emerging Leadership Award
🗓️ Due by Oct 20
👉 ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/call-f...
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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
📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io
(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)
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
September 22, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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
📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io
Reposted by Stuart Oldham
Reposted by Stuart Oldham
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
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
September 19, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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
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
Reposted by Stuart Oldham
Don't forget! Abstracts due Sept 22 📝
Don’t miss out!
Don’t miss out!
✨✨ We are excited to announce the OHBM Australian Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting! 🧠🇦🇺
📢 Abstract submissions & registration now OPEN (abstract submission closes September 15th at 5pm)
📍 Melbourne 🏙️☕
📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025
ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
We hope to see you there! 🤩
📢 Abstract submissions & registration now OPEN (abstract submission closes September 15th at 5pm)
📍 Melbourne 🏙️☕
📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025
ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
We hope to see you there! 🤩
September 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Don't forget! Abstracts due Sept 22 📝
Don’t miss out!
Don’t miss out!
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⏰ Don’t forget – The OHBM Australia Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting is coming up!
📍 Melbourne
📅 Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025
Abstract submissions close soon (September 15th 5pm)!!😮
📢 Register to secure your place today!
ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
📍 Melbourne
📅 Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025
Abstract submissions close soon (September 15th 5pm)!!😮
📢 Register to secure your place today!
ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
OHBM Australia: 2025 Annual Meeting
OHBM Australia: Uniting the Australian human brain mapping community
ohbm-aus.github.io
September 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
⏰ Don’t forget – The OHBM Australia Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting is coming up!
📍 Melbourne
📅 Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025
Abstract submissions close soon (September 15th 5pm)!!😮
📢 Register to secure your place today!
ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
📍 Melbourne
📅 Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025
Abstract submissions close soon (September 15th 5pm)!!😮
📢 Register to secure your place today!
ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
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🔥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...
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...
September 5, 2025 at 1:29 AM
🔥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...
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...
Reposted by Stuart Oldham
Hands down, this video is **the best educational video** I’ve ever seen on YouTube. Content and animations aside, the sound design by itself is a piece of art 🤯
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGLN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGLN...
Graph Theory in State-Space
YouTube video by 2swap
www.youtube.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Hands down, this video is **the best educational video** I’ve ever seen on YouTube. Content and animations aside, the sound design by itself is a piece of art 🤯
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGLN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGLN...
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🚨🚨🚨 Don't forget our annual meeting is coming up! Registration and abstract submission is open!🚨🚨🚨
✨✨ We are excited to announce the OHBM Australian Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting! 🧠🇦🇺
📢 Abstract submissions & registration now OPEN (abstract submission closes September 15th at 5pm)
📍 Melbourne 🏙️☕
📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025
ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
We hope to see you there! 🤩
📢 Abstract submissions & registration now OPEN (abstract submission closes September 15th at 5pm)
📍 Melbourne 🏙️☕
📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025
ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
We hope to see you there! 🤩
September 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
🚨🚨🚨 Don't forget our annual meeting is coming up! Registration and abstract submission is open!🚨🚨🚨
Reposted by Stuart Oldham
New findings help to explain why it has been so challenging to predict brain signaling from the connectome alone.
By Holly Barker
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/w...
By Holly Barker
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/w...
Worms help untangle brain structure/function mystery
The synaptic connectome of most animals bears little resemblance to functional brain maps, but it can still predict neuronal activity, according to two preprints that tackle the puzzle in C. elegans.
www.thetransmitter.org
August 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
New findings help to explain why it has been so challenging to predict brain signaling from the connectome alone.
By Holly Barker
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/w...
By Holly Barker
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/w...
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Excellent new review by @claireocallaghan.bsky.social on how noradrenaline drives learning across multiple scales of neurobiological organization - from cells to networks www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Noradrenaline drives learning across scales of time and neurobiological organisation
The noradrenergic system plays a diverse role in learning, from optimising learning
behaviour to modulating plasticity. Work bridging across micro- and macroscale levels
is revealing how noradrenaline...
www.cell.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Excellent new review by @claireocallaghan.bsky.social on how noradrenaline drives learning across multiple scales of neurobiological organization - from cells to networks www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Excited to share the latest preprint from the lab:
Rethinking scale in network neuroscience: Contributions and opportunities at the nanoscale
We argue that there’s a natural compatibility of network neuroscience tools with synapse-resolved connectomes.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.16760
Rethinking scale in network neuroscience: Contributions and opportunities at the nanoscale
We argue that there’s a natural compatibility of network neuroscience tools with synapse-resolved connectomes.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.16760
August 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Excited to share the latest preprint from the lab:
Rethinking scale in network neuroscience: Contributions and opportunities at the nanoscale
We argue that there’s a natural compatibility of network neuroscience tools with synapse-resolved connectomes.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.16760
Rethinking scale in network neuroscience: Contributions and opportunities at the nanoscale
We argue that there’s a natural compatibility of network neuroscience tools with synapse-resolved connectomes.
arxiv.org/abs/2508.16760
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New paper🥳
🧠 In TLE, brain changes go beyond the temporal lobe & beyond normal aging.
Our ENIGMA study (769 patients, 18 sites) found widespread gray & white matter decline, especially after 55. By Judy Chen and a terrific intl' team
Time for earlier diagnosis & deeper research
bit.ly/3HRYeQt
🧠 In TLE, brain changes go beyond the temporal lobe & beyond normal aging.
Our ENIGMA study (769 patients, 18 sites) found widespread gray & white matter decline, especially after 55. By Judy Chen and a terrific intl' team
Time for earlier diagnosis & deeper research
bit.ly/3HRYeQt
August 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
New paper🥳
🧠 In TLE, brain changes go beyond the temporal lobe & beyond normal aging.
Our ENIGMA study (769 patients, 18 sites) found widespread gray & white matter decline, especially after 55. By Judy Chen and a terrific intl' team
Time for earlier diagnosis & deeper research
bit.ly/3HRYeQt
🧠 In TLE, brain changes go beyond the temporal lobe & beyond normal aging.
Our ENIGMA study (769 patients, 18 sites) found widespread gray & white matter decline, especially after 55. By Judy Chen and a terrific intl' team
Time for earlier diagnosis & deeper research
bit.ly/3HRYeQt
Reposted by Stuart Oldham
✨✨ We are excited to announce the OHBM Australian Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting! 🧠🇦🇺
📢 Abstract submissions & registration now OPEN (abstract submission closes September 15th at 5pm)
📍 Melbourne 🏙️☕
📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025
ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
We hope to see you there! 🤩
📢 Abstract submissions & registration now OPEN (abstract submission closes September 15th at 5pm)
📍 Melbourne 🏙️☕
📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025
ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
We hope to see you there! 🤩
August 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
✨✨ We are excited to announce the OHBM Australian Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting! 🧠🇦🇺
📢 Abstract submissions & registration now OPEN (abstract submission closes September 15th at 5pm)
📍 Melbourne 🏙️☕
📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025
ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
We hope to see you there! 🤩
📢 Abstract submissions & registration now OPEN (abstract submission closes September 15th at 5pm)
📍 Melbourne 🏙️☕
📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025
ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
We hope to see you there! 🤩
Reposted by Stuart Oldham
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Vincent Bazinet, Zhen-Qi Liu and Bratislav Misic:
The effect of spherical projection on spin tests for brain maps
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
The effect of spherical projection on spin tests for brain maps
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
August 23, 2025 at 4:07 AM
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Vincent Bazinet, Zhen-Qi Liu and Bratislav Misic:
The effect of spherical projection on spin tests for brain maps
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
The effect of spherical projection on spin tests for brain maps
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...