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Cackling O'Brien, Chief Witch-gineer 🔵 @radobrien.myatproto.social · 10d

ok this breakdown of AI writing indicators is incredible. Huge shout-out to the Wikipedia community for this

Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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David V. Smith @dvsmith.bsky.social · 9d

New work led by @mattmattoni.bsky.social

“Overall, results suggest that BOLD activation to reward tasks, and likely other fMRI tasks, is more appropriate for within-person study than between-person study, highlighting a need for intensive longitudinal neuroimaging designs.”

bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 10d

Precision Imaging for Intraindividual Investigation of the Reward Response https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.678878v1

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Rich Holman @richholman.com · 26d

Every computer needs a "cleaning keyboard" mode where the keys would be inactive while you wipe them down

why not just clean it while the computer is shut down?

while the computer is what now

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Hunter Schone @hunterschone.bsky.social · Aug 21

Now out in @natneuro.nature.com

What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?

Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation

www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02037-7

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Erica Busch @elbusch.bsky.social · Aug 12

Excited to be in Amsterdam for #CCN2025! Come learn about a project combining many of my favorite interests - naturalistic neuroimaging, development, & manifold learning (of course). Catch me at poster C181 on Fri - “Intrinsic dimensionality of brain activity manifolds across tasks and development”

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Caterina Gratton @caterinagratton.bsky.social · Aug 14

The lateral prefrontal cortex 🧠— which we think of as critical for goal driven behavior + is a target for psychiatric treatments— is fundamentally different in individuals relative to the group averages we’ve often studied.

👇see preprint and thread, led by Zach Ladwig
#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

Image of brain networks in a group average and individual LPFC. Individuals show:
1) smaller FP network
2) more interdigitation
3) conserved motifs
4) idiosyncratic features
This was validated with task and rest fMRI

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Rodrigo Braga @rodbraga.bsky.social · Aug 5

🚨 New Preprint 🚨

Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation (ES) to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects

By Cyr et al.

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Q: Can we use individualized network maps from precision fMRI to modulate a targeted network via intracranial ES?

A: Yes!

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Jason Climer @jrclimer.bsky.social · Jul 23

I’m excited to share my final co-first author paper from my postdoc in Dan Dombeck's lab!

We explored how behavior, senses, and neurons influence how much information in the brain changes over time.

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

#science #research #neuroscience #hippocampus #placecells

Hippocampal representations drift in stable multisensory environments - Nature

Tracking of individual place cells in mouse CA1 shows that representational drift is not influenced by changes in environment or behaviour, and is lower for more excitable place cells.

www.nature.com

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Stories of WiN @storiesofwin.bsky.social · Jul 9

New profile! Dr. Sarah Heilbronner (@srheilbronner.bsky.social‬) uses cutting-edge neuroanatomical and neuroimaging techniques to decipher the wiring diagram of the primate brain. Follow the link below to learn more!

www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

#StoriesOfWiN #WomenInNeuroscience

Dr. Sarah Heilbronner — Stories of WiN

uses cutting-edge neuroanatomical and neuroimaging techniques to decipher the wiring diagram of the primate brain

www.storiesofwin.org

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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · Jun 16

In these tumultuous times, still happy to report a scientific achievement: our preprint on affordance perception was just published in PNAS!

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Using behavior, fMRI and deep network analyses, we report two key findings. To recapitulate (preprint 🧵lost on other place):

Representation of locomotive action affordances in human behavior, brains, and deep neural networks | PNAS

To decide how to move around the world, we must determine which locomotive actions (e.g., walking, swimming, or climbing) are afforded by the immed...

www.pnas.org

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Mark Lescroart @neuromdl.bsky.social · Jun 12

🚨Paper alert!🚨
TL;DR first: We used a pre-trained deep neural network to model fMRI data and to generate images predicted to elicit a large response for each many different parts of the brain. We aggregate these into an awesome interactive brain viewer: piecesofmind.psyc.unr.edu/activation_m...

Cortex Feature Visualization

piecesofmind.psyc.unr.edu

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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · Jun 9

🎺 #BrainMeeting 🧠 Alert!

This Friday, June 13th, the brain meeting speaker will be Adam Steel with a talk entitled “Mechanisms underlying perceptual and mnemonic interaction in the brain”

This will be an online only meeting. All are welcome. Details here: www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/event/mechan...

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Mariam Aly @mariamaly.bsky.social · May 13

When you successfully anticipate future events, what happens to your ability to encode the present? 🤔

Successful prediction increases the likelihood of successful encoding. We speculate about how switching between distinct encoding & prediction states can produce this effect.
osf.io/preprints/ps...

OSF

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Emily Finn @esfinn.bsky.social · May 9

Despite everything going on, I may have funds to hire a postdoc this year 😬🤞🧑‍🔬 Open to a wide variety of possible projects in social and cognitive neuroscience. Get in touch if you are interested! Reposts appreciated.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Apr 24

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees:

Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and…

1. Download your NSF award letters.

2. Print PDF your annual reports.

3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports.

NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

Due to maintenance, Research.gov (including access to NSF-PAR, GRFP, PES, and ETAP) will be unavailable from Fri., 4/25 at 10:00 PM ET to Sat., 4/26 at 1:00 PM ET. NSF apologizes for any inconvenience.

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Adam Steel @neurosteel.bsky.social · Apr 10

I'm very excited to speak at UBC next Thursday!

UBC Psychology @ubcpsych.bsky.social · Apr 10

Join us for our colloquium with Dr. Adam Steel, Assistant Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who will share insights on 'Mechanisms underlying perceptual and mnemonic interaction in the brain'. April 17 | 12:30 - 2:00 pm | Kenny Rm 4001 bit.ly/429cbRB

Colloquium with Dr. Adam Steel on mechanisms underlying perceptual and mnemonic interaction in the brain - UBC Department of Psychology

Join Dr. Adam Steel for a talk on 'mechanisms underlying perceptual and mnemonic interaction in the brain'.

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Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · Apr 8

Likely hiring one postbac trainee for @fmri-today.bsky.social's Section on Functional Imaging Methods. Give the relatively later start time for the search, I'm not yet sure how quickly this search will happen. If you are interested, apply and reach out ASAP. fim.nimh.nih.gov

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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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Nome @nome.bsky.social · Mar 12

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.

Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .

Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.

media.tenor.com

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Adam Steel @neurosteel.bsky.social · Feb 28

Where can we sign up to get a meeting link?

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Jonathan A. Michaels @jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · Jan 20

Reflective piece by Eve Marder – "What happened to the pursuit of truth"
rupress.org/jgp/article/...

What happened to the pursuit of truth? | Journal of General Physiology | Rockefeller University Press

The knowledge in our brains, not in our phones, is necessary for creative thinking and the pursuit of truth.

rupress.org

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Peter Angeli @pangeli95.bsky.social · Jan 14

New paper out in @pnas.org with @laurendinicola.bsky.social, Noam Saadon-Grosman, Mark Eldaief and Randy Buckner!

We revisited the functional specialization of the human hippocampal long axis across two independent datasets, with some surprising results.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

www.pnas.org

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Adam Steel @neurosteel.bsky.social · Jan 7

A network linking scene perception and spatial memory systems in posterior cerebral cortex - Nature Communications

Navigation requires integration of visual information with spatial memory representations. Steel et al. describe a new network of brain areas that facilitates the interaction between these perceptual ...

www.nature.com

Adam Steel @neurosteel.bsky.social · Jan 7

We provide a link to download our localizer, along with the probabilistic parcels of the place memory areas.

We hope that this will encourage more research into these regions, which we think play a key role in integrating memory and perception for scenes.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Topography of scene memory and perception activity in posterior cortex – a publicly available resource

Adaptive behavior in complex environments requires integrating visual perception with memory of our spatial environment. Recent work has implicated three brain areas in posterior cerebral cortex - the...

www.biorxiv.org

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Adam Steel @neurosteel.bsky.social · Jan 7

We also compare the group-based probabilistic location of the place memory areas with resting state networks, functional atlases, and large-scale gradients.

These results establish the PMAs at inflection points along the cortical hierarchy between unimodal sensory and transmodal, apical regions.

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