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Stuart Oldham
@stuartoldham.bsky.social
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Post-doc at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. I am interested in brain development, neural connectivity, and spending too much time creating PowerPoints.
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Harry H Behjat @aitchbi.bsky.social · 1d
does brain connectivity drive spread of pathological proteins in Alzheimer’s disease?

✨ preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

if the question intrigues you, please read on 🧵⤵️
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OHBM Australia @ohbm-australia.bsky.social · 15d
📢 OHBM Australia 2025 Updates!
🖼️ Poster abstract submissions open until Oct 20
👉 Submit here: ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...

🏆 Award nominations are now open!

🎖️ Early Career Researcher Award
🌟 Emerging Leadership Award

🗓️ Due by Oct 20
👉 ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/call-f...
OHBM Australia: 2025 Annual Meeting
OHBM Australia: Uniting the Australian human brain mapping community
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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
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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...
doi.org
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José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 19d
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 19d
Interested in the mechanisms shaping the extraordinary complexity of the connectome?

Then check out our new preprint, lead by
Francis Normand with a stellar team, showing how geometry constrains connectome architecture:

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Full thread here:
tinyurl.com/sfv3yf73
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OHBM Australia @ohbm-australia.bsky.social · 23d
Don't forget! Abstracts due Sept 22 📝
Don’t miss out!
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OHBM Australia @ohbm-australia.bsky.social · Aug 25
✨✨ We are excited to announce the OHBM Australian Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting! 🧠🇦🇺

📢 Abstract submissions & registration now OPEN (abstract submission closes September 15th at 5pm)

📍 Melbourne 🏙️☕
📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025

ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...

We hope to see you there! 🤩
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OHBM Australia @ohbm-australia.bsky.social · Sep 8
⏰ Don’t forget – The OHBM Australia Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting is coming up!

📍 Melbourne
📅 Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025

Abstract submissions close soon (September 15th 5pm)!!😮

📢 Register to secure your place today!

ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...
OHBM Australia: 2025 Annual Meeting
OHBM Australia: Uniting the Australian human brain mapping community
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · Sep 5
🔥ATTENTION!🔥

Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open!

Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns.

Details:
tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6

Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...
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Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · Sep 2
Hands down, this video is **the best educational video** I’ve ever seen on YouTube. Content and animations aside, the sound design by itself is a piece of art 🤯

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGLN...
Graph Theory in State-Space
YouTube video by 2swap
www.youtube.com
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OHBM Australia @ohbm-australia.bsky.social · Sep 2
🚨🚨🚨 Don't forget our annual meeting is coming up! Registration and abstract submission is open!🚨🚨🚨
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OHBM Australia @ohbm-australia.bsky.social · Aug 25
✨✨ We are excited to announce the OHBM Australian Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting! 🧠🇦🇺

📢 Abstract submissions & registration now OPEN (abstract submission closes September 15th at 5pm)

📍 Melbourne 🏙️☕
📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025

ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...

We hope to see you there! 🤩
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · Aug 29
New findings help to explain why it has been so challenging to predict brain signaling from the connectome alone.

By Holly Barker

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/w...
Worms help untangle brain structure/function mystery
The synaptic connectome of most animals bears little resemblance to functional brain maps, but it can still predict neuronal activity, according to two preprints that tackle the puzzle in C. elegans.
www.thetransmitter.org
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 29
Excellent new review by @claireocallaghan.bsky.social on how noradrenaline drives learning across multiple scales of neurobiological organization - from cells to networks www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
Noradrenaline drives learning across scales of time and neurobiological organisation
The noradrenergic system plays a diverse role in learning, from optimising learning behaviour to modulating plasticity. Work bridging across micro- and macroscale levels is revealing how noradrenaline...
www.cell.com
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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · Aug 26
Excited to share the latest preprint from the lab:

Rethinking scale in network neuroscience: Contributions and opportunities at the nanoscale

We argue that there’s a natural compatibility of network neuroscience tools with synapse-resolved connectomes.

arxiv.org/abs/2508.16760
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Stuart Oldham @stuartoldham.bsky.social · Aug 26
Yessss, one of us, one of us #PowerPointGang
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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · Aug 24
New paper🥳

🧠 In TLE, brain changes go beyond the temporal lobe & beyond normal aging.

Our ENIGMA study (769 patients, 18 sites) found widespread gray & white matter decline, especially after 55. By Judy Chen and a terrific intl' team

Time for earlier diagnosis & deeper research
bit.ly/3HRYeQt
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OHBM Australia @ohbm-australia.bsky.social · Aug 25
✨✨ We are excited to announce the OHBM Australian Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting! 🧠🇦🇺

📢 Abstract submissions & registration now OPEN (abstract submission closes September 15th at 5pm)

📍 Melbourne 🏙️☕
📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025

ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...

We hope to see you there! 🤩
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · Aug 23
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Vincent Bazinet, Zhen-Qi Liu and Bratislav Misic:

The effect of spherical projection on spin tests for brain maps

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Arielle Keller @ariellekeller.bsky.social · Aug 19
✨ New paper ✨ in JAMA Pediatrics! We discuss how understanding the timing ⏰ of stressful events relative to neurodevelopment can help us better identify risk factors (looking backward) and predict future psychopathology (looking forward) at the individual level
#neuroskyence #devpsych #PsychSciSky
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katesfdamme.bsky.social @katesfdamme.bsky.social · Aug 19
Timing and plasticity are critical to progress in research on stress and neurodevelopment

@ariellekeller.bsky.social
@jamapediatrics.com
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Neurodevelopmental Timing Links Stress and Psychopathology
This Viewpoint discusses the importance of contextualizing stressful experiences and the neurodevelopmental trajectory to predict the risk of psychopathology.
jamanetwork.com
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Stuart Oldham @stuartoldham.bsky.social · Aug 18
This is my favourite YouTube video of all time, and since today marks three years since its release, I thought I’d share it. It’s a brilliant example of edutainment, and has inspired my own talks. We scientists could learn a lot about presenting in a fun and engaging way!

youtu.be/yUaNHA-WQWg?...
How to Identify a Seal
YouTube video by William Burwin
youtu.be
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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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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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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · Aug 12
Another excellent study by @dulaclab.bsky.social and collaborators. This new @cp-cell.bsky.social study uncovers a key role for the thalamus in the neural control of social hierarchy 🧪🧠🧬

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Molecular and neural control of social hierarchy by a forebrain-thalamocortical circuit
Social hierarchy in unfamiliar male mice is regulated by the mediodorsal thalamus acting as a hub whose altered expression of the voltage-gated ion channel Trpm3 and synaptic plasticity drive inhibiti...
www.cell.com
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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · Aug 11
Are you interested in our work on complex physical systems and applications (to neural systems)?

Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘

We have two open positions:

1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Physics)
Full time, 2-year fixed term position with potential to extend. Located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics. Exciting opportunity to conduct research in a world-leading interdisciplinary...
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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · Aug 10
Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation (PACE) in Treatment-Resistant Depression

Punchline: PERSONALIZED network neuroscience works.

*Easily* the most important paper I’ve been part of.

Read the manuscript for details. Watch the movies for *amazing* testimonial.

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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · Aug 8
Spatial transcriptomics reveals human cortical layer and area specification www.nature.com/articles/s41... - early emergence of layers; graded differentiation along A/P axis, w/ early, sharp V1/V2 boundary
Spatial transcriptomics reveals human cortical layer and area specification - Nature
Multiplexed error-robust fluorescence in situ hybridization (MERFISH) together with deep-learning-based nucleus segmentation enabled the construction of a highly detailed and informative spatially res...
www.nature.com
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