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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 5d

HippoMaps: an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@jordandekraker.bsky.social @borismontreal.bsky.social @jclauneuro.bsky.social @neuroak.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social @donnagift.bsky.social

HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of human hippocampal organization - Nature Methods

HippoMaps provides an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities such as histology, fMRI, structural MRI and EEG.

www.nature.com

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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 5d

congratulations Armin!!!

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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus

Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)

Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social

docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 15d

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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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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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 19d

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Nature @nature.com · 21d

There is increasing interest in using AI tools not only to listen in on animal speech, but also to potentially talk back

go.nature.com/4pqGYCP

AI is helping to decode animals’ speech. Will it also let us talk with them?

The complexity of vocal communication in some primates, whales and birds might approach that of human language.

go.nature.com

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 23d

The peer review process: 3 strangers yelling “more cowbell” at your life's work

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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 24d

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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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 28d

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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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 28d

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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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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Sara Larivière @saratheriver.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 𝗔̲𝗯̲𝘀̲𝘁̲𝗿̲𝗮̲𝗰̲𝘁̲ ̲𝗗̲𝗲̲𝗮̲𝗱̲𝗹̲𝗶̲𝗻̲𝗲̲ ̲𝗔̲𝗽𝗽𝗿̲𝗼̲𝗮̲𝗰̲𝗵̲𝗶̲𝗻̲𝗴!̲ 🚨

The Neuroimaging of Epilepsy Worldwide (NEW) is hosting, for the second year in a row, a networking and talk session at the Annual Meeting of the CLAE/LCCE in Calgary 🐎.

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Zhiqiang Sha (X: @sha_zhiqiang) @zhiqiangsha.bsky.social · Sep 4

🔥🧠Excited to announce that I am recruiting PhD students this fall. Our lab uses neuroimaging (MRI) and computational modeling to study the mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders, bridging genetic factor, brain circuitry, early life stress, and psychopathology. Please feel free to DM me.

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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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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · Aug 24

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

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Ravi Menon, Ph.D. @northernthrux.bsky.social · Aug 19

Please repost. The Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping is looking for a Preclinical MRI physicist (9.4T and 15.2T Bruker Advance Neo). You will join a team of 14 dedicated staff in Canada's National Ultra-high field MRI platform who also operate 3T and 7T human scanners in the same facility.

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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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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · Aug 19

🎉 New paper in press at @epilepsiajournal.bsky.social

"MRI-negative epilepsy: A systematic review and meta-analysis" led by Ravnoor Gill et al.

We highlight ambiguities in the term "MRI-negative" & stress better imaging and analysis to improve epilepsy care

👉 doi.org/10.1111/epi....

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Alex Ngo @alexngo.bsky.social · Aug 19

Epilepsy imaging-genetics paper is fresh off the press!

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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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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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · Aug 8

We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · Jul 27

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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social · Jul 10

Hot Summer Nights the new album by the Natural Philosophers is out now.
If you would like to help:

Stream it a few times
Post reply mentioning a track you like by name.

Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52...
Apple Music
music.apple.com/us/album/hot...
Soundcloud
soundcloud.com/npwa/sets/ho...

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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · Jul 17

1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social

AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements...

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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