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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · 12d

It was such a pleasure to chat to Andy Jahn (of Andy's Brain Book fame) about SPM25, together with Olivia Kowalczyk (@liviasimela.bsky.social) and Johan Medrano (@johmedr.bsky.social) from the SPM team

Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 12d

In this video, Andy Jahn discusses the latest developments in #SPM, the latest release #SPM25 and our recent #SPM Homecoming with the wonderful @corticalpete.bsky.social, @liviasimela.bsky.social and @johmedr.bsky.social.

youtu.be/VqzvUPV7pk8?...

SPM Homecoming & SPM25 | Prof. Peter Zeidman, Dr. Olivia Kowalczyk & Dr. Johan Medrano

YouTube video by Andy's Brain Tube

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · 13d

I am delighted to welcome Josie Linnell @jlinnell.bsky.social as a new PhD student in the Neurovascular Modelling Group at the FIL! Josie will investigate the earliest stages of Alzheimer's using fMRI, together with Natalie Ryan's team at the UCL Dementia Research Centre @uclqsion.bsky.social

Research at ARUK @alzheimersresearchuk.org · 19d

Congratulations to PhD student @jlinnell.bsky.social and supervisor @corticalpete.bsky.social! Their project will use MRI scans to detect cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). #ARUKfunded

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · 22d

"The journal offers a magnificent fireworks display of reflections on the past, present and future of SPM. Yet, the debate extends far beyond SPM. It touches on crucial issues such as how to interpret the growing body of neuroimaging data and explain it in a biologically plausible way" - Ed. [2/2]

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · 22d

A birthday is a good time to reflect! To mark SPM @ 30, this month's issue of Cerebral Cortex features deeply insightful commentaries on neuroimaging analysis from Ed Bullmore, Peter Bandettini, Peter Fox, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Klaas Enno Stephan, Viktor Jirsa, et al [1/2] academic.oup.com/cercor/issue

Issues | Cerebral Cortex | Oxford Academic

Publishes papers on the development, organization, plasticity, and function of the cerebral cortex, including the hippocampus.

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · 27d

* Keen observers of neuroimaging history will note that we've marked 30 years rather arbitrarily, from around the time the code was re-written in 1994, which introduced SPM as we know it today. But as Prof Bullmore points out in his commentary, SPM is a few years older than that!

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · 27d

We're marking 30 years* of SPM this year, a milestone we share with the journal Cerebral Cortex! Just out:

A very nice commentary on SPM's impact by Ed Bullmore - doi.org/10.1093/cerc...

...accompanying a review by SPM's devs on what went well and what could be done better doi.org/10.1093/cerc...

From mapping to explaining brain function: the generative theoretical ambition of SPM

Abstract. Statistical Parametric Mapping is a widely used package of software for brain image analysis. It has also been the vehicle for sustained theoreti

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations Mona, very well deserved!

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · Jul 23

Many congrats Nadine and Steve! This looks very elegant indeed!

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · Jul 16

Thanks so much Rimona! Really nice you were there!

Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · Jun 23

And huge thanks to James Bonaiuto of @danclab.bsky.social - their fantastic laminar MEG toolbox laMEG paved the way to SPM-Python! github.com/danclab/laMEG

Decision, Action, and Neural Computation (DANC) lab @danclab.bsky.social · Jun 23

So cool to see this taking off! Soon laMEG won't have to support our own compiled version of SPM

Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · Jun 23

Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at #OHBM2025. Try the beta for yourself at github.com/spm/spm-python [2/7]

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · Jun 23

The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025

Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · Jun 23

Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at #OHBM2025. Try the beta for yourself at github.com/spm/spm-python [2/7]

GitHub - spm/spm-python: The Python interface to SPM

The Python interface to SPM. Contribute to spm/spm-python development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · May 9

Don't miss our upcoming #SPM course for #EEG & #MEG online from 19-22 May 2025! 🧠

We'll cover preprocessing, source reconstruction, DCM & OPM analyses. Practicals will include SPM-Python!

Programme: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/docs/cou...

Register by May 11th 👇 onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...

Course schedule - SPM Documentation

Documentation of the SPM Software for neuroimaging

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

🎺🎺🎺 We will be hosting #MEGUKI2025 this July and hope that lots of you will be able to join us, including for the kick off day focusing on #naturalistic neuroscience.

More details and info on how to submit abstracts below 👇

MEGUKI 2025 @meguki2025.bsky.social · May 6

Drumroll please... 🥁

Abstract submission for MEG-UKI 2025 is now open!!!
All the details can be found meguk.ac.uk/meg-uki-2025/

We are looking forward to welcoming you to London!

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · Apr 2

Excited to share a new PhD studentship, using fMRI and MEG to detect early changes in Alzheimer's disease, fully funded for a UK student by @alzheimersresearchuk.org . Situated at UCL in Queen Square, London. Join us! tinyurl.com/nvmgroupphd

Detecting early neurovascular dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA) at University College London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Detecting early neurovascular dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease and Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy (CAA) at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · Mar 13

Don't miss out on securing your spot for our upcoming #SPM course for #fMRI and #MRI/#VBM!

Join us in London 23-25 April! Reserve your place now! 🧠⬇️

onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · Feb 18

Brilliant work from the FIL OPM-MEG team!

👻 George oOoOoOo’Neill 👻 @goneill.bsky.social · Feb 18

HOT OFF THE PRESS - Back in 2019 we started asking ourselves what could you to demonstrate where werable, OPM-MEG technology could fit into naturalistic #neuroskyence.

One snag, we'd have to build the system from scratch first...

Anyway its 2025, read the paper here -> doi.org/10.1162/imag...

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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · Feb 14

We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

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).

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · Feb 3

Brilliant! haha not at all, it's a badge of honour! 🤓🔬

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · Jan 25

Sounds like we have a winner!

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · Jan 24

Coming soon!

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · Jan 24

Can we find the earliest adopters of SPM on Bluesky? Full marks to @jonsimons.bsky.social for SPM96!

Jon Simons @jonsimons.bsky.social · Jan 24

Happy birthday! SPM96 was the first version I used. Any earlier adopters out there?

Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · Jan 24

Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰

To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.

Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...

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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · Jan 24

Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰

To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software.

Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · Jan 6

I am so grateful to Eleanor Maguire for being such an amazing teacher and mentor. We have set up a web page for sharing memories of Eleanor, via the link below.

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…

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · Dec 20

Moreover, a unique contribution of fMRI is haemodynamics, and I think DCM for fMRI will be very important for laminar fMRI, where modeling laminar vasculature is needed in order to deconvolve the superficial bias. See the beautiful work in this paper as an example doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... [5/5]

Redirecting

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Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · Dec 20

So if you want to relax those strict assumptions made by the GLM, you might want DCM for fMRI. E.g. you could test the hypothesis that an interaction in one brain region can be explained by afferents from main effects expressed in two other brain regions. [4/5]

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