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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 1d

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Michael Okun @michaelokun.bsky.social · 1d

Can a brain parasite move us? YES. Movement disorders can present as part of a Toxoplasmosis infection. What is Toxo? Garg and colleagues describe in a new paper in Tremor and Other Hyperkinetic Movements how central toxoplasmosis can cause a wide spectrum of movement disorders like hemichorea.

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Harry H Behjat @aitchbi.bsky.social · 1d

does brain connectivity drive spread of pathological proteins in Alzheimer’s disease?

✨ preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

if the question intrigues you, please read on 🧵⤵️

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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure this is showing: the paper is not yours to write

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 20d

New preprint! What happens if you add neuromodulation to spiking neural networks and let them go wild with it? TLDR: it can improve performance especially in challenging sensory processing tasks. Explainer thread below. 🤖🧠🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Neuromodulation enhances dynamic sensory processing in spiking neural network models

Neuromodulators allow circuits to dynamically change their biophysical properties in a context-sensitive way. In addition to their role in learning, neuromodulators have been suggested to play a role ...

www.biorxiv.org

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AJ Simon @ayejaysimon.bsky.social · 2d

New preprint alert!

We used connectome-based predictive modeling in a transdiagnostic sample to identify brain network correlates of wide array of behavioral measures. We also identify where networks supporting cognition overlap with those linked to diagnostically related clinical symptomatology.

Transdiagnostic connectome-based predictive modeling of many behavioral phenotypes reveals brain network mediators of clinical-cognitive relationships

Connectome-based predictive modeling (CPM) applied to functional MRI connectivity data can identify brain networks that vary with behavioral measures across subjects. The prediction strength also prov...

www.biorxiv.org

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Big news!🚨
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.

I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!

Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 2d

🧠🎼 What does it take to restore movement? Neuroscientist and engineer, @juangallego.bsky.social, joins the new Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology at the Champalimaud Foundation.

🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...

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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 5d

Distributed neural computation and the evolution of the first brains https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.03.680388v1

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 4d

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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 4d

Some warned me against AAL and I’ve seen many people go for Schaefer/Glasser. But then some others think non-anatomical parcellations are confused and recommend Desikan-Killiany/Julich. I think it’s fair to pick one and replicate with another. No? @misicbata.bsky.social @richardfbetzel.bsky.social

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 5d

Electric fields shape biological structure. Is there any doubt they shape neural processing? Spoiler alert: No.
Field-mediated bioelectric basis of morphogenetic prepatterning
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Field-mediated bioelectric basis of morphogenetic prepatterning

The endogenous electric field of a simplified bioelectric network model of an embryo facilitates the autonomous formation of voltage patterns. Transient exogenous electric fields can leverage this pro...

www.cell.com

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Network Science Institute @nunetsi.bsky.social · 5d

Exciting things in Topological Neuroscience! #NetSI_London @lordgrilo.bsky.social co-organized the “Topology of Human and Synthetic Minds” workshop at King’s College London, launching a new collaboration to advance this field.

#KIHSM 🔗 tinyurl.com/4zhs2m83
#NetSI_London 🔗 tinyurl.com/25ts6as4

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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social · 5d

"The connectome is like a road map."

ATV catching big air, labelled "neuropeptides."

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Neil Shubin @neilshubin.bsky.social · Nov 24

Your reminder that many of the muscles, nerves and bones you use to hear and talk with correspond to gill structures in fish. 🧪 #evolution #paleontology

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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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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 7d

The neural control & computation lab is recruiting!

If you're interested in using large-scale neural population recordings to study how the brain learns to produce complex and flexible behaviours, please get in touch.

www.ncclab.ca

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Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 7d

Message for participants of the #SNUFA 2025 spiking neural network workshop. We got almost 60 awesome abstract submissions, and we'd now like your help to select which ones should be offered talks. Follow the "abstract voting" link at snufa.net/2025/ to take part. It should take <15m. Thanks! ❤️

SNUFA 2025

Spiking Neural networks as Universal Function Approximators

snufa.net

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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 8d

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Lifespan Trajectories of Asymmetry in White Matter Tracts | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Manlio De Domenico @manlius.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 Thrilled to release the official repository of the @comunelab.bsky.social!

It centralizes access to decade-long research outputs, including 57 data sets and 22 code libraries.

A titanic effort: 28,000 lines of code

We hope to accelerate #openScience in #ComplexSystems

👉 github.com/CoMuNeLab

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 19d

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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Charlotte Volk @charlottevolk.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 New preprint alert!

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We propose a theory of how learning curriculum affects generalization through neural population dimensionality. Learning curriculum is a determining factor of neural dimensionality - where you start from determines where you end up.
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A 🧵:

tinyurl.com/yr8tawj3

The curriculum effect in visual learning: the role of readout dimensionality

Generalization of visual perceptual learning (VPL) to unseen conditions varies across tasks. Previous work suggests that training curriculum may be integral to generalization, yet a theoretical explan...

tinyurl.com

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Prof Rick Adams @drrickadams.bsky.social · 8d

Post doc job alert 📢! Announcing a v exciting job on a Wellcome-funded project in my group at UCL, looking at auditory hallucinations... Advert here 👀: rb.gy/230w8l - deadline is end of Oct. Please apply! 1/5

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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Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 9d

Manuel Brenner and I managed to organize this workshop not knowing we were gonna end up being new neighbors this month. The lineup speaks for itself.

There were some last minute cancellations so we jumped in to fill their big shoes and will talk about the future directions of the new labs too!

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Arman Behrad @armanbehrad.bsky.social · 10d

What defines a brain state? 🧠
If you are also interested in answering this question, join us in "Toward a joint definition of neural-behavioral states", #BernsteinConference full-day workshop, Co-orgnized by @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social and I. (1/4)

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Marcus Ghosh @marcusghosh.bsky.social · 13d

Are #NeuroAI and #AINeuro equivalent?

@rdgao.bsky.social draws a nice distinction between the two.

And introduces Gao's second law:
“Any state-of-the-art algorithm for analyzing brain signals is, for some time, how the brain works.”

Part 1: www.rdgao.com/blog/2024/01...

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Ali Shiravand @alishiravand.bsky.social · 9d

Great initiative:
The Max Planck AI Network PhD Program
ai.mpg.de

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