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Seán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 1d

Felicidades Juan!

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 2d

On this week’s cover of The Lancet, a new letter: “Gaza’s healthocide: medical societies must not stay silent”.

Read the letter and more in our latest issue: tinyurl.com/5n85x448

Cover of The Lancet's Oct 4, 2025 issue. Cover quote reads: "Most medical and surgical societies worldwide have remained silent or issued vague statements about Gaza's healthocide [...] Staying silent while pretending to be neutral is, in effect, a form of complicity."

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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 6d

Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 8d

If you are @ #BernsteinConference we have 4 posters, thread👇
P II 25, Tue 18–19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P IV 5, Wed 14-15:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P II 25, Tue 18-19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P I 11, Tue 16:30-18: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...

Bernstein Conference 2025

Conference Abstracts

abstracts.g-node.org

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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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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 12d

Very excited for this year Bernstein! @bernsteinneuro.bsky.social

We'll bring a bunch of new work, here's a thread with the summaries.

Please check them out if you are interested in (low rank) RNN and distributed computations.

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Laurence Hunt @lhuntneuro.bsky.social · 12d

Looking for a PhD next year? Want to come and work on the next generation of OPM-MEG/EEG biomarkers in computational psychiatry?

Apply for our MRC iCase studentship with @mkflugge.bsky.social, collabs with @lilweb.bsky.social + industrial placement at P1Vital:
www.medsci.ox.ac.uk/study/gradua...

Development of robust, single-subject markers of predictive inference for computational psychiatry

www.medsci.ox.ac.uk

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Seán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 13d

More cool work linking cell-types, systems and cognition by @jorgefmejias.bsky.social and team.

Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 13d

Cortical networks with multiple interneuron types generate oscillatory patterns during predictive coding
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
#neuroscience

Cortical networks with multiple interneuron types generate oscillatory patterns during predictive coding

Author summary Predictive coding (PC) suggests that the brain constantly generates expectations about the world and updates these expectations based on incoming sensory input. While being a prominent ...

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Seán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 14d

This is brilliant Kris. I love it.

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Kris Jensen @kristorpjensen.bsky.social · 14d

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!

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

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Jake Quilty-Dunn @quiltydunn.bsky.social · 16d

New publication forthcoming in BBS, co-authored with John Krakauer: a commentary on @smfleming.bsky.social & @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's groundbreaking target article.

We critique widespread assumptions in cognitive neuroscience about the role of internal models in implicit cognition. (1/7)

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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 16d

Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉

📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · Feb 27

(1/18) Now out on BioRxiv‼️ Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health | doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Funded by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

Reproducible Brain Charts: An open data resource for mapping brain development and its associations with mental health

Major mental disorders are increasingly understood as disorders of brain development. Large and heterogeneous samples are required to define generalizable links between brain development and psychopat...

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Cian O'Donnell @cianodonnell.bsky.social · 19d

updated version of our paper on bayesian modelling for whole-brain cell count data: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre....

People spend 1-2 years collecting these kinds of gene-expression/anatomy/IEG data... what's another 1-2 months learning + applying Bayes to get more stats bang for your buck 😍

Figure 4B from Dimmock et al showing bar chart of mean cell count change between two groups of animals for t-test vs a Bayesian model. Bayesian model consistently shows smaller uncertainty intervals and more statistically significant group changes.

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Seán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 19d

Ha!

Seán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 19d

I think the right way to pronounce anything is in your native accent (if you're speaking your first language). There is too much expectation in Academia that we all sound middle-class American or posh South of England

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Seán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 21d

GRMA a chara

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Seán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 21d

Legend. Well deserved Luke

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Seán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks Marcus

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Seán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks Joao!

Seán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks Roxana!

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Seán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 21d

Grazie Alessandro!

Seán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 22d

thanks Luke!

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Seán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks Katharina!

Seán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 22d

Very grateful to be among an inspiring group of @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellows for the next 4-7 years. We will infuse brain anatomy into AI to study shared principles and important differences in cognition across species. www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...

UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships

Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.

www.ukri.org

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Ken Miller @kenmiller.bsky.social · 22d

Haaretz wrote Hebrew-only article re IDF soldiers with PTSD from Gaza combat experiences. Various awful testimonies, including this from a sniper who daily served at GHF aid sites, w job to shoot any of the desperate unarmed people who crossed an invisible line.

www.haaretz.co.il/news/magazin...

Graphic of an IDF sniper along with a quote from a sniper: "There's a line that if the Gazans waiting for food cross, I can shoot them. It's like a game of cat and mouse. They try to come from a different way every time, and I'm there with the sniper rifle, and the officers are shouting at me, 'Take it down, take it down.' I fire 50-60 bullets every day, I've stopped counting Xs. I have no idea how many I killed, a lot. Children."

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