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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations!

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 9d

Fyi if you're an educator looking for videos about the brain and/or how neuroscience is done, check out
@brainfacts.org's YouTube page: youtube.com/@brainfactsorg
It includes submissions to their Brain Awareness Week video contest, which can be quite fun! #neuroskyence

BrainFacts.org

BrainFacts.org is an authoritative source of information about the brain and nervous system for the public. The site is a public information initiative of The Kavli Foundation, the Gatsby Charitable F...

youtube.com

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 28d

Deadline Oct 15: Asst. prof. (tenure track), AI in Psych Science, @uoftpsychology.bsky.social jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Assistant Professor - Artificial Intelligence in Psychological Science

jobs.utoronto.ca

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M. Natasha Rajah 🇨🇦 @mnrajah.bsky.social · Aug 19

Woohoo 🥳

Congratulations to Sara for also succeeding defending her MA thesis (co-supervised by @rosannaolsen.bsky.social) yesterday !!

@researchtmu.bsky.social

BHEAM Lab @bheamlab.bsky.social · Aug 19

Congratulations Sara Ahmed from the BHEAM Lab Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University on being a 2025 CIHR Vanier Scholar!!!

Read more about Sara’s research at:

www.torontomu.ca/graduate/fut...

Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship recipient: Sara Ahmed, Psychology PhD student

www.torontomu.ca

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Jamie Hanson @jamielarsh.bsky.social · Aug 7

Mapping cerebral blood perfusion and its links to multi-scale brain organization across the human lifespan journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Mapping cerebral blood perfusion and its links to multi-scale brain organization across the human lifespan

How does cerebral blood perfusion map onto micro-, meso- and macro-scale brain structure? Using arterial spin labeling data from the Human Connectome Project, this study provides a detailed characteri...

journals.plos.org

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Xiongbo Wu @xiongbowu.bsky.social · Jul 30

🚨 New preprint alert!

Excited to share our latest work on alpha/beta activity, eye movements, and memory.

Across 4 experiments combining scalp EEG/iEEG with eye tracking, we show that alpha/beta activity directly reflects eye movements, and only indirectly relates to memory.

👇 Highlights (1/7):

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

Low-frequency brain oscillations reflect the dynamics of the oculomotor system: a new perspective on subsequent memory effects https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.29.667451v1

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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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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · Jul 19

Great photo!

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Samantha Joel @datingdecisions.bsky.social · Jul 14

Western University is offering new scholarships of up to 40k CAD for four years to doctoral students who are studying at, have an offer from, or have had an offer rescinded from one of the top 100 American universities.

Come and study with me or one of my colleagues!

Daniel Ansari 🇨🇦 @numcog.bsky.social · Jul 8

Graduate students who have an offer to study in the US but are reconsidering or have been denied entry or current grad students who want to leave, then consider coming to Western University in Canada. Our University just launched a US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Program : grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

US-CAN Doctoral Excellence Award

Western University, in vibrant London, Ontario, delivers an academic and student experience second to none.

grad.uwo.ca

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Allie Sinclair @asinclair.bsky.social · Jul 14

Excited to share my new lab website!

The Learning & Behavior Change Lab will launch at Rice in July 2026. I’ll be recruiting over the next year! @ricesocsci.bsky.social

www.sinclairlab-rice.com

Sinclair Lab

The Learning & Behavior Change Lab at Rice University, directed by Dr. Sinclair

www.sinclairlab-rice.com

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Jan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · Jul 8

This is how you can test selected comparisons in #tidyplots 0.3.1 📋

#rstats #dataviz #phd

library(tidyplots)

study |>
tidyplot(x = treatment, y = score, color = treatment) |>
add_mean_dash() |>
add_sem_errorbar() |>
add_data_points() |>
add_test_pvalue(comparisons = list(c(1,3),c(2,4)))

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OHBM Communications Committee (ComCom) @ohbm-com.com · Jul 5

We loved Dr Joana Cabral's excellent keynote at #OHBM2025

In our latest #BrainBite, we created a summary of some of her work, written for non-experts.

Could slow rhythmic brain waves be key to understanding cognition? Read the article here: www.ohbm-com.com/brain-bites/...

Keynote series Dr. Joana Cabral - The Brain’s Slow Dance: How Macroscale Oscillations Orchestrate Long-Range Neural Communication — OHBM Communications

A groundbreaking study led by Dr. Joana Cabral (University of Minho) reveals how slow, brain-wide oscillations—detected via ultrafast fMRI—coordinate long-range neural communication in female rats. ...

www.ohbm-com.com

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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · Jun 6

An Analysis of 200 pairwise statistics for functional brain connectivity in tasks such as hub mapping, distance relationships, structure-function coupling and behavior prediction highlights their effectiveness for neurophysiological applications.

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

Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain - Nature Methods

In this Analysis, Liu et al. benchmark more than 200 pairwise statistics for functional brain connectivity in tasks such as hub mapping, distance relationships, structure–function coupling and behavio...

www.nature.com

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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · Jul 1

@giuliaabaracc.bsky.social @franklandlab.bsky.social @sjo09.bsky.social @richardfbetzel.bsky.social @fmri-today.bsky.social @vborghesani.bsky.social @cherylkeller.bsky.social @toddc.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social so many #Scientistswhorun

Anna Behler (she/her) @annabhlr.bsky.social · Jul 1

Thanks to @rosannaolsen.bsky.social, I’ve just joined Strava! Any fellow neuroscientists on there? Heard there are many researchers - let’s connect!

www.strava.com/athletes/174...

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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · Jun 29

I also explored the city via the ferry and walked/ran across at least three bridges each day. I was blown away by beautiful Brisbane on my very first trip to Australia!

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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · Jun 29

I got to see some old friends and made some new ones along the way.

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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · Jun 29

That's a wrap on #OHBM2025! I taught in an educational course on hippocampal neuroanatomy and gave a symposium talk on the role of medial temporal lobe subregions in associative inference

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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · Jun 24

This is your quarterly reminder that the hippocampus is a cortical (not subcortical) structure! Nicola Palomero-Gallagher underscored this point during our #OHBM2025 educational course!

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OHBM Trainees @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social · Jun 23

"It takes a village to raise a child."

Thanks to all the members of the SP-SIG and everyone who has helped behind the scenes with the upcoming events at #OHBM2025

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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · Jun 23

Loved meeting some of the Brizzie locals!

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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · Jun 23

Enjoying a day at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary before #OHBM2025 🐨🦘

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OHBM Trainees @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social · Jun 22

🎉🎉#OHBM2025 is just around the corner! Remember to visit the SP-SIG stall next to the registration desk and add stickers to your badge describing your research interests!

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Joel Voss @vosstacular.bsky.social · Jun 22

Searching for a postdoc to work on 2 newly NIH-funded projects using intracranial EEG with TMS and direct electrical stimulation to investigate hippocampal networks supporting episodic memory. Research Scientist could also work for post-post-doc candidates. Plz spread!
cnoir.bsd.uchicago.edu/join/

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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · Jun 21

Looking forward to meeting you!

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Rosanna Olsen @rosannaolsen.bsky.social · Jun 20

@ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @ohbm-dic.bsky.social @ohbm-australia.bsky.social