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Allen Institute @alleninstitute.org · Apr 9

How does the brain work?

Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · Mar 5

We're recruiting for new postdoc and RA positions on our @erc.europa.eu project "ConsciousComputation"

To apply and for more details, please see:

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

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

Very happy to chat to anyone interested! 🧠🧪

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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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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Michael Gaebler @michaelgaebler.com · Feb 6

What a rich dataset - and in @bidsstandard.bsky.social !

Thanks for making it openly available and kudos for this accomplishment!

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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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · Jan 29

𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝘂𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘀
The insula is the place of magic in the brain... (one of them at least)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
(h/t @jrbneuropsiq.bsky.social )
#neuroskyence

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Sheila Crowell @sheilacrowell.bsky.social · Jan 22

A colleague in study section had the meeting abruptly end with the message "Sorry for any inconvenience: This meeting has been cancelled due to White House's Executive Order pausing external communications from NIH and other federal health-related agencies." @drugmonkey.bsky.social

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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · Jan 20

Brains minimize energy consumption while maximizing computation. In humans, this trade-off is reconciled towards complex behaviors & hence relatively high energy use

Review & synthesis with @sharnajamadar.bsky.social @annabhlr.bsky.social & Hamish Deery

tinyurl.com/47c9n65w
osf.io/preprints/os...

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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · Jan 17

🚨 Big News! For the 1st time in years, OHBM is offering Late-Breaking Poster Abstract Submissions!
📅 Submit: Feb 24 – Mar 3, 2025 (11:59 pm EST, USA)
🧠 Poster abstracts only
Don't miss this chance to share your cutting-edge neuroscience research! Guideline link in comments.

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Nature Reviews Neuroscience @natrevneuro.nature.com · Jan 17

The brain’s action-mode network — a Perspective by Nico U. F. Dosenbach, Marcus E. Raichle & Evan M. Gordon
@ndosenbach.bsky.social @gordonneuro.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The brain’s action-mode network - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

The brain enters an action-mode of function during goal-directed behaviour. In this Perspective, Dosenbach, Raiche and Gordon describe “action-mode” as an informative functional label that reduce...

www.nature.com

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Mar 15

Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text.

“In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “

Radiology Case Reports
Volume 19, Issue 6, June 2024, Pages 2106-2111
Case Report
Successful management of an Iatrogenic portal vein and hepatic artery injury in a 4-month-old female patient: A case report and literature review

In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. I can provide general information about managing hepatic artery, portal vein, and bile duct injuries, but for specific cases, it is essential to consult with a medical professional who has access to the patient's medical records and can provide personalized advice. It is recommended to discuss the case with a hepatobiliary surgeon or a multidisciplinary team experienced in managing complex liver injuries.

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Professor Sarosh Irani @mayo-aing.bsky.social · Jan 14

Very pleased to see this online @NeuroCellPress
With colleagues at @MayoClinicNeuro @MayoFL_NeuroRes @MayoClinic Rochester, we summarise state of the art (and some history 😃) in autoimmune neurology…..ENJOY!!

dlvr.it/THL45K

Toward curing neurological autoimmune disorders: Biomarkers, immunological mechanisms, and therapeutic targets

This article by Segal et al provides a comprehensive overview of immunopathogenic mechanisms of autoimmune neurological disorders, focusing on the interplay between humoral and cellular immunity, rece...

dlvr.it

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Brad Hulse @bradkhulse.bsky.social · Jan 15

Happy head direction cell day y’all!

On this day, 41 years ago, Jim Ranck recorded the first “HD cell” in his Brooklyn lab in 1984.

Jim shared the news with the world at SFN that year, showing a video of the cell’s firing on a TV he somehow acquired and brought to his poster… (1/3)

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UCL News @uclnews.bsky.social · Jan 15

UCL colleagues and alumni have paid tribute to award-winning researcher, Professor Eleanor Maguire @uclqsion.bsky.social, whose studies into spatial awareness and memory led to a deeper understanding of how the brain works and had a profound impact on neuroscience www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ja...

Tribute to pioneering cognitive neuroscientist Professor Eleanor Maguire

UCL colleagues and alumni have paid tribute to the award-winning researcher, Professor Eleanor Maguire, whose groundbreaking studies into spatial awareness and memory, led to a deeper understanding of...

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · Jan 13

🚨 New fMRI preprint from our lab 🚨

"Brain dynamics during architectural experience: prefrontal and hippocampal regions track aesthetics and spatial complexity"

Led by Lara Gregorians with co-authors, Zita Patai, Pablo Fernandez Velasco & Fiona Zisch.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroskyence

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Lingzhong Fan @lingzhongfan.bsky.social · Jan 13

Mapping Early Brain Maturation: Anatomical Substrates of Cortical Connectivity Shifts in Neonates
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Mapping Early Brain Maturation: Anatomical Substrates of Cortical Connectivity Shifts in Neonates

Understanding the early development of brain connectivity is essential for unraveling the mechanisms of brain maturation. In this study, we utilized diffusion MRI data from 242 term neonates to chart ...

www.biorxiv.org

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Jan 14

Wow, just wow.
V different approach reveals numerous problems in Scientific Reports - cf deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-o...
I do hope @springernature.bsky.social will start to publish reviewer reports and editor info as we suggested

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Matthias Nau @matthiasnau.bsky.social · Jan 14

New paper with @lexkidder.bsky.social, Ed Silson, and @cibaker.bsky.social! We show that recall of people, places, and objects engages distributed cortical regions, with medial parietal & ventral temporal cortices showing distinct functional organizations. 1/2 doi.org/10.1523/ENEU...

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Douglas Garrett @garrettneuro.bsky.social · Jan 13

*How* does the hippocampus encode the world around us? Leo Waschke and Fabian Kamp bring the 🔥, showing that single-neuron spiking variability in hippocampus dynamically tracks sensory content during memory formation in humans. Our latest in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Single-neuron spiking variability in hippocampus dynamically tracks sensory content during memory formation in humans - Nature Communications

The hippocampus is thought to encode the content of stimuli, but how it does so is unknown. The authors show that when hippocampal spiking variability tracks the abstract building blocks of individual...

www.nature.com

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Awais Aftab @awaisaftab.bsky.social · Jan 13

Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants”

British journalists and editors, this is for you

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/dummies-gu...

Dummies Guide to “The British Professor Leading the Controversial Backlash Against Antidepressants”

British journalists and editors, this is for you

www.psychiatrymargins.com

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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · Jan 6

It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly.

www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire

Eleanor Maguire | 1970 - 2025 | Online-Tribute.com

Learning and memory are so fundamental to us, so enmeshed throughout cognition, that ‘solving’ memory, unpacking its neural mechanisms and being able to conceptualise it fully will, I believe, res…

www.online-tribute.com

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Carsten Finke @carstenfinke.bsky.social · Jan 12

*** Two doctoral scholarships available by Max Planck School of Cognition @MPS_cog and Berlin School of Mind and Brain @MindaBrain funded by DAAD ***

👉 Two topics: (1) Heart and Brain & (2) Autoimmune #encephalitis
👉 International applicants only

All details: mind-and-brain.de/doctoral-pro...

Foto of the Berlin School of Mind and Brain on a sunny day.

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Carsten Finke @carstenfinke.bsky.social · Jan 12

Great team work with:

Tim Hartung
Frederik Bartels
Joseph Kuchling
Stephan Krohn
Maron Mantwill
Selina Yogeshwar
Katharina Wurdack
Johanna Leidel
Michael Scheel

Carsten Finke @carstenfinke.bsky.social · Jan 12

#MRI in autoimmune #encephalitis

👉 we reviewed the currrent evidence
👉 what to expect and what NOT to expect in clinical MRI studies of patients with autoimmune encephalitis

#openaccess

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

MRI of a patient with limbic encephalitis showing FLAIR hyperintense signal in the hippocampus bilaterally

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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · Nov 16

First post on this platform 👋. Glad to reconnect with old friends, and also learn from new contacts. Will post about intersecting themes: human evolution, genetics (esp. aDNA), neuroscience & cognition. Currently focusing on brain organoids and early developmental changes that may have had an impact

cortical organoid [image credit: O. Leonardi, who is leading this collaborative project]

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jcrwhittington.bsky.social @jcrwhittington.bsky.social · Dec 8

New paper out in #Neuron: A general theory of sequential working memory in prefrontal cortex and RNN/SSMs with their exact neural mechanism. Plus unifying this new mechanism with the alternate mechanism of hippocampal cognitive maps! (1/9)

www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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