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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 3d

Accepting registrations now :)

www.monash.edu/turner-insti...

Workshop

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats @bogglerapture.bsky.social ! V well deserved

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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for the figure @bttyeo.bsky.social 🙂🧠🙏🏽!

Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 6d

In this review, @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Hugh Garavan examine how task and resting-state fMRI can reveal brain-behavior relationships in youth, highlighting current controversies and challenges, outlining solutions, and proposing future directions in developmental neuroscience research.

Task and resting state fMRI modelling of brain-behavior relationships in developmental cohorts

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data are often used to inform individual differences in cognitive, behavioral, and psychiatric phenotypes. These so-called “brain-behavior” association stu...

www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 7d

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Joshua A. Karpf, Christopher D. Kroenke, et al:

Characterization of normative fetal rhesus macaque brain development with magnetic resonance imaging

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 19d

Check out the new release from @themindwanders.bsky.social 🧠🌎 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social

Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social · Jul 19

In a non trivial way the #climate_crisis is reducible to shortcomings in human intelligence. This idea is behind my new release with the Natural Philosophers with Attitude: "Hot Summer Nights". Please check it out!
Spotify
open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52...
Soundcloud
soundcloud.com/npwa/sets/ho...

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 18d

And Trang Cao!!!

Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 18d

Huge congrats to a fab team on this massive effort!

Francis Normand
@m-gajwani.bsky.social
@jchrispang.bsky.social
J Cruddas
@arshiyasan.bsky.social
Alex Holmes
@stuartoldham.bsky.social
Peter Robinson

Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 18d

Huge congrats to a fab team on this massive effort!

Francis Normand
@m-gajwani.bsky.social
@jchrispang.bsky.social
J Cruddas
@arshiyasan.bsky.social
Alex Holmes
@stuartoldham.bsky.social
Peter Robinson

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 18d

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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Michael W. Cole @mwcole.bsky.social · 23d

Lab’s latest is out in Imaging Neuroscience, led by Kirsten Peterson: “Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding”, where we demonstrate a major improvement to standard fMRI functional connectivity (correlation) 1/n

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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 27d

Inter-individual variability of neurotransmitter receptor and transporter density in the human brain | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 29d

𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻-𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
Spatially distributed and regionally unbound cellular resolution brain-wide processing loops in mice
𝗕𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀?
Dynamical processing winding through most brain regions.
Looks like a must read.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence

Spatially distributed and regionally unbound cellular resolution brain-wide processing loops in mice

Until recently, it has been possible to examine activity in the brain globally through regional averaging or locally at cellular resolution. These studies characterized regions as functionally homogen...

www.biorxiv.org

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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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Brokoslaw Laschowski @drlaschowski.bsky.social · Sep 5

Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience.

#neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Professor - Computational Cognitive Neuroscience

jobs.utoronto.ca

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Marie-Constance Corsi @mconstancecorsi.bsky.social · Sep 5

🧠 Join us for the Brain Models for Multimodal Integration Symposium!
📅 12 September 2025 | ⏰ 12:00–13:15 UTC | 🌐 Virtual Event

Thrilled to co-chair w/ @pierpasorre.bsky.social at the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social Satellite Meeting! Feat. D. Depannemaecker & @gianmarcoduma.bsky.social ma.bsky.social.

https://ohbm-environment.org/ohbm-satellite-event/

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Sep 5

Amen!

Armin Raznahan @bogglerapture.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is an absolutely miraculous meeting! Can’t recommend it highly enough - sizzling science and great peeps … all in middle of paradise.

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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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Sep 5

Big thanks to our fab organising committee:
@toddc.bsky.social
@mallarchak.bsky.social
J Cabral
J Bijsterbosch
@bttyeo.bsky.social
@lucinauddin.bsky.social
@drbreaky.bsky.social
M Woolrich
D Margulies

@nsb-lab.bsky.social

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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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xjwang.bsky.social @xjwang.bsky.social · Aug 21

And a podcast at Brain inspired www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Xiao-Jing Wang outlines the future of theoretical neuroscience

Wang discusses why he decided the time was right for a new theoretical neuroscience textbook and how bifurcation is a key missing concept in neuroscience explanations.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · Aug 18

News from ENIGMA-Epilepsy! 🧠

Our latest study links polygenic risk for TLE-HS to cortical thinning in kids—mirroring patterns in adult patients.

Early imaging-genetics insights could reveal interplay of epilepsy risk and phenotypes before symptoms emerge.

Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1093/brai...

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Aug 17

Many thanks to an amazing team including @rsuarezsaa.bsky.social, @jchrispang.bsky.social, D Margulies, M van den Heuvel, @stuartoldham.bsky.social A Holmes, @ashleasegal.bsky.social, N Sestan, and @laurarosefenlon.bsky.social!
@nsb-lab.bsky.social

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Aug 17

Interested in Network hubs, cortical hierarchies, and gradients? Ever wonder where they come from? Check our latest review, where we cover different approaches to mapping hubs, models for their evolution, and mechanisms for how they develop:

osf.io/preprints/os...

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Aug 15

A great opportunity !!!

Claire O'Callaghan @claireocallaghan.bsky.social · Aug 15

@alexfornito.bsky.social @drbreaky.bsky.social

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Aug 14

Great news!

Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · Aug 14

All @imagingneurosci.bsky.social papers are now on PubMed! 🧠

Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Aug 13

All the paperwork linking Imaging Neuroscience into PubMed Central is now sorted.

All papers (previous and new - 680 to date) are fully indexed:

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/journals/?te...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=%2...

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Aug 13

Lovely new work exploring how nervous system geometry constrains calcium dynamics in larval zebrafish:

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

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wbialek.bsky.social @wbialek.bsky.social · Aug 9

It was an honor to write this, but also great fun. A chance to look back at the classics, and think about the path forward. #Physics is a beautiful human endeavor. journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst...

Emergence of Brains

This review traces how ideas from statistical physics evolved into foundational models of neural computation, shaping modern AI and culminating in the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics.

journals.aps.org

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