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Elliott Wimmer @elliottwimmer.bsky.social · Aug 28

📢 We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! 📢

Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.

🔗 apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io

🚨closes September 12th!

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Rob Seymour @neurofractal.bsky.social · Jul 16

Naturalistic Neuroscience day at #MEGUKI2025 🧠🌿. Excited to hear about the ways in which MEG and wearable sensors can tell us something about the brain in the real world! @meguki2025.bsky.social

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Rob Seymour @neurofractal.bsky.social · Jun 11

www.researchgate.net/profile/Madh... This one is even more. Well. Weird 😂💀

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Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social · Jun 10

We officially launched our new Magnetoencephalography with Optically Pumped Magnetometers (OPM-MEG) brain scanner last week with a special open day.

OPM-MEG measures tiny magnetic fields generated by the activity of neurons in the brain.

A room full of people watching a man present at the front.

A purple helmet dotted with lots of small sensors and wires.

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Rob Seymour @neurofractal.bsky.social · Jun 6

Excited for the OPM-MEG Oxford Launch Day today! @cercamagnetics.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social Some exciting talks and an interactive lab demo awaits!! 🧠🧲

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · May 27

🚨 Two PhD positions open in Barcelona!
Work with Diego Vidaurre on machine learning at the intersection of methods, neuroscience, and clinical applications.

Details:
🔗 www.crm.cat/call/89/phd-...
🔗 www.crm.cat/call/88/phd-...

#neuroskyence #psychscisky

Call - Centre de Recerca Matemàtica

www.crm.cat

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Rob Seymour @neurofractal.bsky.social · May 20

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Imaging the human hippocampus with optically-pumped magnetoencephalography

Optically-pumped (OP) magnetometers allow magnetoencephalography (MEG) to be performed while a participant’s head is unconstrained. To fully leverage this new technology, and in particular its capacit...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Rob Seymour @neurofractal.bsky.social · May 20

Anyone interested in the opportunities of OPM-MEG? Come to our launch day of the Oxford @cercamagnetics.bsky.social system! www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/events/opm-l.... Talks by @olejensen.bsky.social @mattbrookesmeg.bsky.social and Holly Schofield 🧠🧲

OPM Launch Event at OHBA

www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk

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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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Rob Seymour @neurofractal.bsky.social · Apr 16

Last paper from my PhD finally published! We show that when taking another's visual perspective autistic adolescents don't use a social, embodied transformation 🧒🔃 strategy but favour a bottom-up visual 👀 strategy instead.

doi.org/10.1111/ejn....

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Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · Mar 28

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Mar 20

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Floris P. de Lange, et al:

Typical neural adaptation for familiar images in autistic adolescents

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

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AntonioFR @antferrui.bsky.social · Mar 17

Excited to share our latest story! We found disentangled memory representations in the hippocampus that generalized across time and environments, despite the seemingly random drift and remapping of single cells. This code enabled the transfer of prior knowledge to solve new tasks

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Rob Seymour @neurofractal.bsky.social · Feb 18

And my dance moves are still as lame 6 years later.

Well done @goneill.bsky.social - awesome data with many, many applications for future naturalistic experiments with neurotech 👏🧠📷📹

👻 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).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Rob Seymour @neurofractal.bsky.social · Feb 12

I think you need to be careful about the application of the spatial projector given it's a temporal method too. Updating the balancing weights in MNE won't be trivial

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bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Jan 8

** Reminder: Deadline approaching **
Come join our team! One more week to apply for our MEG researcher position. Applications are due on January 15. 🗓️

bachlab @bachlab.bsky.social · Nov 26

📢 JOB ALERT: We are looking to hire a postdoc or PhD researcher interested in working on naturalistic #neuroimaging with an wearable MEG. Apply by Jan 15 and reach out any time for more information.

www.caian.uni-bonn.de/en/team/oppo...

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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…

www.online-tribute.com

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Rob Seymour @neurofractal.bsky.social · Jan 6

I was lucky enough to be part of Eleanor's lab 2020-2024. Eleanor possessed a towering work ethic, immense clarity of thought and always had a witty turn of phrase. She truly cared about the members of her lab and I will be forever grateful for her mentorship.

www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire

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Rob Seymour @neurofractal.bsky.social · Dec 20

Looking forward to getting the Oxford OPM system fully functional in 2025! 🧠 @cercamagnetics.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social

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Rob Seymour @neurofractal.bsky.social · Dec 16

Hey! Good to hear from you Harrison :) They've replaced the ribbon cables with some thinner, lower noise cables. Email me about osl and OPMs! I'm putting together a pipeline at the moment 😊

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Rob Seymour @neurofractal.bsky.social · Dec 7

Made the move over 👋. Hey Bluesky!

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Rob Seymour @neurofractal.bsky.social · Apr 13

Excited to be in Toronto for @CNSmtg #CNS2024! Will be presenting our poster on combining OPMs and naturalistic virtual reality to study autobiographical memory on Sunday 5-7pm. Come say hi 👋 🧠

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dorottya hetenyi @dotproduct.bsky.social · Mar 15

Super excited to share the very first preprint from my PhD: Pre-stimulus alpha oscillations encode stimulus-specific visual predictions. [1/8] #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #compneurosky biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Pre-stimulus alpha oscillations encode stimulus-specific visual predictions

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

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Rob Seymour @neurofractal.bsky.social · Dec 11

That's the vibe we're going for! 😁

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