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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 5d

When @laurapritschet.bsky.social & Pavel Shapturenka set out to build the 28&Me + 28&He datasets, I don't think any of us could've predicted the spectacularly creative ways the datasets would be used years later. That's the power of open science. 👇🏼

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Yu Kanazawa @knzw783.bsky.social · 6d

#emotion
Armony, J., & Vuilleumier, P. (2025). The Cambridge handbook of human affective neuroscience (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. doi.org/10.1017/9781...

The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience

Cambridge Core - Cognition - The Cambridge Handbook of Human Affective Neuroscience

doi.org

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layerfmri.bsky.social @layerfmri.bsky.social · 6d

New layer-fMRI preprint using simultaneous layer-fMRI with EEG at 7T. Establishing an acquisition and analysis setup to capture layer-fMRI correlates of spontaneous alpha power variations.
By Marsh et al.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · 7d

Normative framework of bigger tech

(aka, me trolling the tech audience)

Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · 7d

Come to my lightning talk
At @pydataparis.bsky.social in a few minutes

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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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Francesca Saviola @francescasaviola.bsky.social · 14d

Excited to share such a career milestone 🌟 Our new @pnas.org paper shows how E–I balance drives dynamic brain adaptation.

Thanks to @jorgejovicich.bsky.social, @dimitrivdv.bsky.social, @asiaferrari.bsky.social, @bcassone.bsky.social & amazing co-authors 🙏
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Disentangling metabolic and neurovascular timescales supporting cognitive processes | PNAS

The balance between neural excitation and inhibition (EIB), governed by glutamatergic and GABAergic neurotransmission, is an essential mechanism su...

www.pnas.org

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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 19d

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Jonathan Wirsich @jwirsich.bsky.social · 20d

good idea! any open datasets you could recommend from your group as a starting point?

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Lars Hubatsch @larshubatsch.bsky.social · 22d

This was my first paper with the new @elife.bsky.social model. Have to say, while I don't agree with all the reviewers' comments the new process is awesome. We can directly reply to their concerns and it'll be obvious what changed between revisions when we upload the revised version :) 4/4

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Laurent Sheybani @laurentsheybani.bsky.social · 23d

We are hiring !

👩🏼‍🎓👨‍🎓🧑🏼‍🎓👨🏿‍🎓👩🏿‍🎓👩‍🎓

I am looking for a motivated person interested in a PhD in basic neuroscience, for a project at the edge between epilepsy and sleep.

If you are interested, check the job announcement:
jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

Assistant-e (A2) (6548)

jobs.unige.ch

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Jonathan Wirsich @jwirsich.bsky.social · 29d

Maybe. But what would it mean anyways 😉:
bsky.app/profile/hyru...
2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=n...

Yann Harel @hyruuk.bsky.social · Aug 13

This year at #CCN25 we showed the importance of OOD evaluation to adjudicate between brain models. Our results demonstrate these trivial but key facts :
- high encoding accuracy ≠ functional convergence
- human brain ≠ NES console ≠ 4-layers CNN
- videogames are cool

w/ @lune-bellec.bsky.social 🙌

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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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Fraser Aitken @fraser-a.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our review discussing the potential use of laminar fMRI for probing the role of cortical layers in epileptic seizure propagation and spread as well as it possible future clinical applications out in Brain (well as accepted manuscript!)

academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...

The potential of laminar functional MRI in refining the understanding of epilepsy in humans

Aitken et al. highlight laminar fMRI as a tool to connect the neural effects of anti-seizure medications with the microcircuits that generate seizures in e

academic.oup.com

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Karolis Degutis @karolisdegutis.bsky.social · Aug 30

Happy to see this out: our new preprint shows that laminar GE-BOLD fMRI decoding isn’t immune to vascular draining biases. Simulations reveal false positives due to multivariate signal spread across layers, but oversampling + deconvolution can (sometimes) improve specificity.

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · Aug 30

Vascular draining confounds laminar decoding in fMRI https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.26.672278v1

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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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Jonathan Wirsich @jwirsich.bsky.social · Aug 18

Data available via @ebrains.bsky.social : doi.org/10.25493/B3B... Also big thanks to their contribution :)

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Jonathan Wirsich @jwirsich.bsky.social · Aug 18

Interested in Epileptic Discharges? In need of a data set to validate your source reconstruction models based on clinical outcome? Check out our newest: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Big thanks to B. Vorderwülbecke, S. Vuillémoz et al. ! - @seeber.bsky.social @cibm.bsky.social

High-Density EEG Source Localisation of averaged interictal epileptic Discharges validated by surgical Outcome - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - High-Density EEG Source Localisation of averaged interictal epileptic Discharges validated by surgical Outcome

www.nature.com

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Courtois Project on Neuronal Modelling @cneuromod.ca · Aug 7

In 2019, the CNeuroMod team and 6 participants began a massive data collection journey: twice-weekly MRI scans for most of 5 years. Data collection is now complete! 1/🧵

Poster titled "Neuromod: The Courtois Project on Neuronal Modelling" with logos from Université de Montréal and the Centre de recherche de l'Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal.

Large bold text reads:
6 BRAINS – 987H-fMRI – 18 TASKS
Followed by the subtitle:
Naturalistic & Controlled – Multimodal / Perception + Action
Each letter in "18 TASKS" contains thumbnails from various visual tasks.

The central table summarizes 32 datasets grouped by primary domain (Vision, Audition, Language, Memory, Action, Other). For each dataset, the table indicates which stimulus modalities were used (Vision, Speech, Audio, Motion), what responses were collected (Physiology, Eye tracking, Explanations, Actions), and how many sessions and subjects were scanned. The overall visual style is playful and bold, with rainbow colors for modality types and rich iconography indicating data types.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 12

5. It has been centuries since any one human could know everything that is known; understand everything that is understood.

This is a remarkable power of science. We delegate trust and authority to experts as internally established in ways that are remarkably resilient to mistakes and malfeasance.

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Esther Kuehn @estherkuehn.bsky.social · Aug 11

Thanks to all (co)authors & reviewers for their contribution to this study on #layer specific changes in #sensory #cortex across the #lifespan in #humans & #mice now out in @natneuro.nature.com Here is a short summary of our findings 1/6

DZNE research center @dzne.science · Aug 11

🧠 The human brain ages less than thought and in layers – at least in the area of the cortex responsible for the sense of touch. See study @natneuro.nature.com by @estherkuehn.bsky.social and colleagues at DZNE, @hih-tuebingen.bsky.social and @uni-magdeburg.de:

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Layer-specific changes in sensory cortex across the lifespan in mice and humans - Nature Neuroscience

The principal layer architecture of the sensory cortex is altered with aging. The authors show that overall thinning of the primary somatosensory cortex is driven by deep layer degeneration but that l...

www.nature.com

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Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting @abim-ch.bsky.social · Jul 12

Get ready for a milestone! The 20th Alpine Brain Imaging Meeting (ABIM) will take place January 11-15, 2026. We have a fantastic lineup of speakers and many special events planned, from our ski races to scientific debates on the past (& next!) 20 years of neuroimaging research. #ABIM2026

The names of the speakers in alphabetical order:
Melanie Boly
Ray Dolan
Davide Folloni
Laura Gwilliams
Charles Hillman
Hilleke Hulshoff Pol
Jean-Rémi King
Daniel Margulies
Lucia Melloni

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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · Aug 4

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise

Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

reeserichardson.blog

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Jul 31

Here's a quick blogpost about alternative publishing models. You can bring a horse to water, and indeed wave the bucket temptingly under its nose, but it is likely to gallop off elsewhere. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...
@ec.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social

New publishing models will only work if authors embrace them

Complaints about the broken academic publishing system have been around for years and are getting louder. A common theme is that with the r...

deevybee.blogspot.com

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Jonathan Wirsich @jwirsich.bsky.social · Jul 30

No statement on the code availability... sharing the statistical maps of the group analysis is not restricted by privacy laws in Europe? It's the year 2025, this should be enforced more consistently by the editors

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Jul 29

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Alice Giubergia, Denis Peruzzo, et al:

Multi-echo versus single-echo EPI sequences for task-fMRI: A comparative study

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

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