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Alessandro Gozzi

@gozziale.bsky.social

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Senior scientist at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Rovereto, Italy) 🧠 🐁 Functional Neuroimaging, Brain (dys)connectivity and Autism ERC Grantee https://www.iit.it/it/people-details/-/people/alessandro-gozzi

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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · Mar 6

Can we use brain scans to identify biologically distinct "autisms"? And If so, how?

In our latest cross-species study 🐭👨 with @iitalk.bsky.social we dive into these questions!

Find out more here 👇👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Benjamin Kay @benjaminkay.bsky.social · 8d

Ever wondered if your interesting brain-behavior correlation was over- or under-estimated due to head motion, but were afraid to ask? We’ve created a motion impact score for detecting spurious brain-behavior associations, now available in Nature Communications!
doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 5d

Anytime!! (And thanks!!)

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Armin Raznahan @bogglerapture.bsky.social · 5d

Some news …! 🤗

So excited to get started next year, and very grateful for the opportunity.

Looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues - old and new.

Watch this space for posting on fully funded positions as the new lab starts up !

Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · 6d

🔊We are delighted to announce the appointment of Armin Raznahan as the new WA Handley Professor of Psychiatry.

Professor Raznahan is a child & adolescent psychiatrist, joining us from the US National Institute of Mental Health Intramural Research Program.

More: www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/armin-r...

An image of Professor Armin Raznahan, Incoming WA Handley Professor of Psychiatry, with a quote from him saying: "Returning to the UK to work and learn with the remarkable community at Oxford is a real privilege. There is such a unique landscape of opportunity across the university and local NHS Trusts to both advance our understanding of the developing human brain and make a difference in the way we care for youth experiencing mental health difficulties."

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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats!!!

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Mallar Chakravarty @mallarchak.bsky.social · 6d

Check out this great summary of our recent paper on the impact of exposure to #THC during gestation.

Thanks @douglasresearch.bsky.social !!

Orig paper here:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Varun Warrier @vw1234.bsky.social · 7d

It is now clear that more people are being diagnosed as autistic in their teens and as adults than in childhood. A prevailing theory is that those diagnosed later have "milder" form of autism, and later diagnosis entirely due to social factors.

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Jingnan Du @jingnandu.bsky.social · 12d

Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner

Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13d

The brain is incredibly densely connected. Human cerebral cortex may have as many as *one trillion* connections.

Most of those cortical connections are recurrent, inside each area. What do they do?

New paper from me in Annual Reviews: 🧪 🧠📈 1/

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Active Filtering: A Predictive Function of Recurrent Circuits of Sensory Cortex | Annual Reviews

Our brains encode many features of the sensory world into memories: We can sing along with songs we have heard before, interpret spoken and written language composed of words we have learned, and reco...

www.annualreviews.org

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Ravi Menon, Ph.D. @northernthrux.bsky.social · 13d

Science is self correcting. Finally!

Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method

Several MRI artifacts contribute to the neuronal activity signal picked up by the method, according to a preprint the authors posted this month.

www.thetransmitter.org

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Mac Shine @macshine.bsky.social · 12d

random neuroimaging question: does anyone in bluesky-land have access to the loadings for neurosynth topics in schaefer 400 (yeo7) space? #neuroskyence @misicbata.bsky.social @richardfbetzel.bsky.social @borismontreal.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social

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Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 13d

The Biological Psychiatry family of journals is now officially on Bluesky!

Follow us for the latest research in psychiatric neuroscience, cognitive neuroimaging, and global open science from our three leading journals.

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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 13d

Global brain activity (indexed by Ca2+ in the cortex) can be described by a latent arousal manifold — reliably tracked by pupil dynamics 🤯🤯
▶️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature

Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.

www.nature.com

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🌙 Lune Bellec @lune-bellec.bsky.social · Sep 8

Many brain imaging “biomarkers” for autism have been proposed. Most aim for balanced accuracy (matching sensivity/specificity) on datasets where cases and controls are split 50/50. 1/🧵

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Julia Belluz @juliabelluz.bsky.social · 15d

Well, well, well. After a long wait, the big day is here!

@kevinh-phd.bsky.social and I finally get to share with you the book we've worked so long and hard on

I wrote a little substack about the question that powered every chapter of Food Intelligence

juliabelluz.substack.com/p/the-big-da...

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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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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 19d

Congrats!!!

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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 21d

Neuromorphic hierarchical modular reservoirs | doi.org/10.1101/2025...

How does hierarchical modularity shape computational function? ⤵️

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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 21d

We are hiring for our psilocybin clinical trial.

1. Research Officer (testing and screening), 2 positions
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

2. Research Officer (Peer Navigator)
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

DM if you have questions.

@wellcomeleap.bsky.social

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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Mattia Chini @mattiachini.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 2 Postdoc openings in Neuroscience – Liège, Belgium 🚨

We are recruiting for a project on brain development & autism that includes:

⚡ Neuropixels recordings
⚡ Opto/chemo
⚡ Behavior
⚡ Neural network modeling

If you know someone, tag them or RT for visibility! 🙏
www.fens.org/careers/job-...

2 Postdoc Positions in Systems Neuroscience - Federation of European Neuroscience Societies

www.fens.org

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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 21d

Congrats!!!!

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 21d

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Matthew R. Lowerison, Pengfei Song, et al:

Comparison of high-frequency ultrasound transducers for microvascular localization microscopy in the mouse brain

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 22d

Strategies for effective coding agent usage - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series russpoldrack.substack.com/p/strategies...

Strategies for effective coding agent usage

Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 5, Part 4

russpoldrack.substack.com

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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 22d

Network spreading and local biological vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
doi.org/10.1038/s420...

How do brain network structure and local biological features shape the spatial patterning of atrophy in ALS? @asafarahani.bsky.social investigates ⤵️

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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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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 24d

Ahah thanks @valeriejsydnor.bsky.social
if you say so...😅🙌