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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 5d

Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin bietet Stelle als W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät in Berlin - jetzt bewerben!

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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 4d

Yes 🙌

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Nature Methods @natmethods.nature.com · 5d

HippoMaps: an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@jordandekraker.bsky.social @borismontreal.bsky.social @jclauneuro.bsky.social @neuroak.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social @donnagift.bsky.social

HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of human hippocampal organization - Nature Methods

HippoMaps provides an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities such as histology, fMRI, structural MRI and EEG.

www.nature.com

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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 5d

Amazing 🤩

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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks to the Natural Philosophers with Attitude (shorturl.at/1HWtK); NUFA (shorturl.at/yvKXi); Martin (shorturl.at/0PQbW); Seyma Bayrak and Wolf-Julian Neumann and also BigBrain Project for their contributions. If you would like me to add your work in the jukebox as well, please reach out!

Spotify – Web Player

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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 19d

Hello! It has been a while, but for the Hector Fellow Academy I created a small project at the interface of neuroscience and music. In short, it is like a neuro-jukebox of projects of friends and colleagues integrating music and art. I thought it would be nice to share here
cng-lab.github.io/kiosk

NEUROSONICS

cng-lab.github.io

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Michael W. Cole @mwcole.bsky.social · 24d

Lab’s latest is out in Imaging Neuroscience, led by Kirsten Peterson: “Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding”, where we demonstrate a major improvement to standard fMRI functional connectivity (correlation) 1/n

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Nature @nature.com · Jul 22

Nature research paper: Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep

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Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep - Nature

Research on Drosophila neurons shows links between the need to sleep and aerobic metabolism, indicating that the pressure to sleep may have a mitochondrial origin.

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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 25d

Thank you 😍

Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 26d

Another social cerebellar dream team effort: Cerebellar growth is associated with domain-specific cerebral maturation and socio-linguistic behavioural outcomes - thanks Katerina Manoli and co for wonderful work! Thanks also to @imprsconi.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Cerebellar growth is associated with domain-specific cerebral maturation and socio-linguistic behavioral outcomes

The cerebellum's involvement in cognitive functions is increasingly recognized, yet its developmental contribution to cognition remains poorly understood. The cerebellum undergoes rapid development in...

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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · Sep 5

Woop woop 🙌

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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · Sep 4

Very happy to announce that I have been awarded the ERC starting grant for my proposal SOCIAL CONNECTIONS (SOCO). Super grateful for the support and feedback from my team, friends, colleagues and institutions @mpicbs.bsky.social and @fz-juelich.de along the way 😍

erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

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

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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · Aug 28

Very cool 🆒

Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 27

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation

Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...

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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · Aug 28

rdcu.be/eCVaQ Neurodevelopmentally rooted epicenters in schizophrenia: sensorimotor-association spatial axis of cortical thickness alterations - bravo Yun Shuang Fan and team 😍🌸

Neurodevelopmentally rooted epicenters in schizophrenia: sensorimotor-association spatial axis of cortical thickness alterations

Molecular Psychiatry - Neurodevelopmentally rooted epicenters in schizophrenia: sensorimotor-association spatial axis of cortical thickness alterations

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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · Aug 25

Bravo Meike Meik! @meikehettwer.bsky.social 😍🎷🧠💪

Meike Hettwer @meikehettwer.bsky.social · Aug 25

The end of a PhD journey 🎓 What a ride - full of lovely people, exciting science, coding tunnels, coffee-brainstorms & amazing conferences! Whole-hearted thank you to all who shared the journey & celebrated with me - especially @sofievalk.bsky.social, @sbe.bsky.social [email protected] 💐🥳❤️

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Neuronline (SfN) @neuronline.sfn.org · Mar 5

Are you frustrated with the cost of college textbooks?

@thekirbylab.bsky.social and @cjcharvet.bsky.social detail the creation of an open-access textbook, "Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience" and how to implement it into your curriculum.

Read on Neuronline: bit.ly/3D7hnvD

Why You Should Use This Open Access Textbook for Neuroscience Learning

<p>College education, including tuition and textbook costs, is simply too expensive. That is why Elizabeth J. Kirby, an associate professor at Ohio State University, and Christine Charvet, an assistan...

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Aug 17

Interested in Network hubs, cortical hierarchies, and gradients? Ever wonder where they come from? Check our latest review, where we cover different approaches to mapping hubs, models for their evolution, and mechanisms for how they develop:

osf.io/preprints/os...

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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · Aug 15

I spotted a sea eagle nest and found Amber and think this is worth sharing.

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Claire O'Callaghan @claireocallaghan.bsky.social · Aug 15

Position open for a neuroimaging focused postdoc to come work with us in Sydney

Feel free to get in touch for a chat if you have any questions about it :)

usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Aug 2

Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our new preprint led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social where review the physics and physiology of cortical waves and their implications for psychological function:

osf.io/preprints/ps...

@nsb-lab.bsky.social

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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Graves of Celtic princes suggest powerful role for women in ancient Germany

Status and power were inherited along maternal lines, DNA and other evidence indicate

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Thomas Hinault @thinault.bsky.social · Aug 2

Registrations for the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social and @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social virtual satellite meeting are now open, with an exciting program !

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Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social · Jul 10

Hot Summer Nights the new album by the Natural Philosophers is out now.
If you would like to help:

Stream it a few times
Post reply mentioning a track you like by name.

Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52...
Apple Music
music.apple.com/us/album/hot...
Soundcloud
soundcloud.com/npwa/sets/ho...

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Ivan Alcantara @ivancalcantara.bsky.social · Jul 30

How do animals decide if they should forage for food or stay home to take care of newborn offspring? Whose needs come first? For my PhD work now out in Nature, we examined how hunger and parenting neurons interact and are reshaped postpartum in mice 🧵⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A hypothalamic circuit that modulates feeding and parenting behaviours - Nature

Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of mouse hypothalamus and behavioural experiments show that specific hypothalamic networks regulate conflicting feeding versus parenting behaviours of female mice.

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Child and Family Mental Health Lab @cfmhlab.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚀 Unsere Arbeitsgruppe an der TU Dresden sucht Verstärkung!

Wir bieten eine Postdoc-Stelle (E13 TV-L, Elternzeitvertretung) ab 01.10.2025 an der Professur für Klinische Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie.

Bewirb dich bis 15.8. und werde Teil unseres Teams!

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