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

And to match their spirit of openness, we’ve released the code, containers, and data. Anyone can rerun the entire analysis.

Co-lead authors: @clarken.bsky.social and @surchs.bsky.social
Paper: doi.org/10.1093/giga...
Github: github.com/SIMEXP/autis...
Zenodo archive: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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

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

The signature was discovered in a balanced cohort of ~1,000 individuals and replicated in an independent sample (thanks to the ABIDE I & II wonderful participants and the researchers who shared their data 💜💜💜). 5/🧵

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

A positive result means someone is about seven times more likely to actually have an autism diagnosis. This rivals the best imaging markers, while still being found in about 1 in 200 people in the general population. 4/🧵

Scatterplot showing individual risk (positive predictive value) versus prevalence in the general population for different autism risk markers. Rare monogenic syndromes (green diamonds) confer very high risk but are extremely rare; common genetic variants (yellow triangles) are widespread but confer very low risk; copy number variants (pink triangles) sit in between. Previous imaging-based models (red dots) achieve modest risk. The new High-Risk Signature (orange circle) replicates across datasets, confers a sevenfold increased risk of autism, and is present in about 1 in 200 people.

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

We turned the problem on its head. Instead of trying to classify everyone, we built a brain signature that only makes predictions when it’s confident. 3/🧵

Diagram comparing how different autism risk markers identify individuals. Each circle represents the overlap between people labeled by a marker (grey), people with autism (purple), and those labeled who actually have autism (blue). Monogenic syndromes label very few people but with high accuracy; existing imaging models label many people but with low accuracy; the High-Risk Signature (HRS) approach identifies a small subset with a higher proportion of true autism cases.

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

Real life isn’t balanced. Autism affects about 1% of the population. In that setting, a biomarker with 80% balanced accuracy would catch one true case for every twenty false alarms. 2/🧵

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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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🌙 Lune Bellec @lune-bellec.bsky.social · Aug 24

"A murder of butterflies" has a nice ring to it.

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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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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · Aug 8

Mapping cerebral blood perfusion and its links to multi-scale brain organization across the human lifespan | doi.org/10.1371/jour...

How does blood perfusion map onto canonical features of brain structure and function? @asafarahani.bsky.social investigates @plosbiology.org ⤵️

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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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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · Aug 5

Automated testing with GitHub Actions - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series russpoldrack.substack.com/p/automated-...

Automated testing with GitHub Actions

Better Code, Better Science: Chapter 4, Part 7

russpoldrack.substack.com

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🌙 Lune Bellec @lune-bellec.bsky.social · Aug 1

I find AI coding most useful to comment / suggest on what I do. Your disastrous experience with code generation matches mine. But as a side kick it's incredibly positive IMO.

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OHBM Sustainability & Environmental Action SIG (SEA-SIG) @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social · Aug 1

🥁... we are SO happy to officially announce that registration is now OPEN for our OHBM Virtual Satellite Meeting, taking place September 10-12!

This has been a major goal of the SEA-SIG for a while now and we're so excited to show you what we've been working on!

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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · Jul 31

🌍🧠 Join us for the OHBM & SEA-SIG Virtual Satellite Meeting!
📅 Sept 10–12, 2025 | 🕛 12–15 UTC
💻 Online via Zoom
🔗 More info: https://humanbrainmapping.org/25SEASIG
#OHBM #SEASIG

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Courtois Project on Neuronal Modelling @cneuromod.ca · Jul 30

New CNeuroMod-THINGS open-access fMRI dataset: 4 participants · ~4 000 images (720 categories) each shown 3× (12k trials per subject)· individual functional localizers & NSD-inspired QC . Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2507.09024 Congrats Marie St-Laurent and @martinhebart.bsky.social !!

four brain maps showing noise ceiling estimates in response to image presentation

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You’d prefer an astronaut, PhD @iamdamion.bsky.social · Jul 28

1/11 Very excited to say that our preprint, Precision functional mapping reveals less inter-individual variability in the child vs. adult human brain, is up on biorxiv!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Precision functional mapping reveals less inter-individual variability in the child vs. adult human brain

Human brain organization shares a common underlying structure, though recent studies have shown that features of this organization also differ significantly across individual adults. Understanding the...

www.biorxiv.org

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hardmaru @hardmaru.bsky.social · Jul 13

Google’s Gemini 2.5 paper has 3295 authors

arxiv.org/abs/2507.06261

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Feilong Ma @feilong.bsky.social · Jul 11

Excited to share our News&Views on Kamitani Lab's NatComputSci paper! Their neural code converter enables transformation of brain activity patterns across individuals, and it doesn't need shared stimuli or connectivity information!
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Advancing neural decoding with deep learning - Nature Computational Science

A recent study introduces a neural code conversion method that aligns brain activity across individuals without shared stimuli, using deep neural network-derived features to match stimulus content.

www.nature.com

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Cole Hurwitz @colehurwitz.bsky.social · Jul 11

Excited to co-organize our NeurIPS 2025 workshop on Foundation Models for the Brain and Body!
We welcome work across ML, neuroscience, and biosignals — from new approaches to large-scale models. Submit your paper or demo! 🧠 🧪 🦾

Mehdi Azabou @mehdiazabou.bsky.social · Jul 11

Excited to announce the Foundation Models for the Brain and Body workshop at #NeurIPS2025! 🧠📈 🧪

We invite short papers or interactive demos on AI for neural, physiological or behavioral data.

Submit by Aug 22 👉 brainbodyfm-workshop.github.io

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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · Jul 10

This is why I think the platonic rep hypothesis doesn’t apply to brain-ANN alignment, since most existing (functional?) models are implicitly or explicitly trained to mimic humans.

The assumption of PRH is that the networks are trained independently which doesn’t hold in brain-ANN comparisons.

Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · Jul 10

This is what I tried to get at with the attempted “extension”, from the usual (sensory rep) PRH to a broader cognitive PRH, via imitation learning of language behavior (IMO all LLMs are trained to mimic humans, unless they independently discover language 😅).

Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · Jul 10

Usually this is applied to sensory representations, and centaur tries to use language data to extend the theory to cognition, via language behavior data.

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🌙 Lune Bellec @lune-bellec.bsky.social · Jun 27

Using intracranial brain recordings to guide representations in a vision-action AI model leads to faster and better training arxiv.org/abs/2506.208...

Brain2Model Transfer: Training sensory and decision models with human neural activity as a teacher

Transfer learning enhances the training of novel sensory and decision models by employing rich feature representations from large, pre-trained teacher models. Cognitive neuroscience shows that the hum...

arxiv.org

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Shawn Manuel @shwnmnl.bsky.social · Jun 25

Just wrapped up my first real foray into analyzing brain data at Brainhack School 2025 a couple weeks ago 🧠💻

I focused on comparing fMRI techniques on a single subject, using fear as a case study.

school-brainhack.github.io/project/many...

The Many Faces of Fear: Univariate, Predictive and Representational …

Brainhack School

school-brainhack.github.io

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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · Jun 20

Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain | doi.org/10.1038/s415...

What is the best measure of functional connectivity (FC)?

led by @zhenqi.bsky.social in @natmethods.nature.com ⤵️

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Catherine Lebel @catherinealebel.bsky.social · Jun 20

Research assistant job posting is live! Come join us in Calgary and be part of a supportive, interdisciplinary team.

careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1631661...

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Avishek ghosh @avishekcolours.bsky.social · Jun 19

Few originals available
Anyone interested can DM me.

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