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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 8d

Great piece by @jonathanjarry.bsky.social on the descent of Sabine Hossenfelder, from science communicator to contrarian outrage-monger www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Sabine Hossenfelder Asks If Science Is Dying. It’s Not.

Physics is dying. It’s mathematical fiction. Science is failing. Most of academic research that your taxes pay for is almost certainly bullshit. I don’t trust scientists. Would you believe me if I tol...

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Jingnan Du @jingnandu.bsky.social · 12d

This finding suggests a novel and efficient strategy of using only task-based data to estimate networks within an individual’s own anatomy as well as estimate the task response within those networks. (9/13)

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Jingnan Du @jingnandu.bsky.social · 12d

By pooling extensive resting-state and task data, we were able to triple the amount of data available for analysis within each individual, enabling precise mapping of five higher-order association networks within the thalamus. (6/13)

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · 12d

Amazing work led by Jingnan! Pooling in task and rest data can give us a lot of discovery potential like discovering hard to find networks in the thalamus (bulk of my postdoc work with Randy). Task data can be used to define networks and activations from left out runs can be investigated. Cool work!

Jingnan Du @jingnandu.bsky.social · 12d

Our new paper is out now in Neuron! 🎉 With @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social @maxwellelliott.bsky.social Joanna Ladopoulou, Wendy Sun, Mark Eldaief, and Randy Buckner

Paper link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Sep 7

We also kicked off our very first data collection for the Precision Imaging study — exploring brain dynamics through EEG 🧠⚡

Excited and grateful to see this amazing group of researchers and trainees working to understand the complexities of the human brain

Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Sep 7

A week full of gratitude and cheer at the Integrative Neusocience & Technology (INT) Lab, IIT Gandhinagar — celebrating Rhilee’s birthday 🎂 and Teacher’s Day 🙏💫

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Aug 27

So true. It's my fourth week of teaching here, I am still struggling before every class.

Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · Aug 27

I'm playing a game with myself called "let's see how long I can live in denial about the new semester starting".

My first teaching day is next Thursday.

Perhaps I should work on my syllabus...

a man is laying on a couch wearing a blue shirt and making a funny face .

Alt: a man is laying on a couch wearing a blue shirt and making a funny face saying "nope".

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Aug 27

Hoping that one day meditation science would be as advanced as the science on exercise and this work is some efforts towards that.

Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Aug 27

So, how does this help? It furthers the science towards objective measures of the degree and depth of meditation. And once we can measure it, we can improve it. It might be helpful for those interested in taking their meditation experiences to a deeper level.

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Aug 27

The dynamics would represent a slowing down of brain processes but unlike sleep which is shown by even slower oscillations. It can be understood as a stage between fully awake and sleep, something which ancient texts on Yoga have pointed out as Turiya.

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Aug 27

Compared to control participants who are listening to relaxing music where nothing drastic is happening.

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Aug 27

Also, the aperiodic signals (1/f slope) have a sharp change in exponent during the relaxation phase - the spectrogram flattens out.

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Aug 27

Something interesting is happening in the brain during SKY. The breathing period triggers theta oscillations in the brain, which leads to an increase in low theta and delta oscillations during the meditation period coupled with a sharp decrease in alpha oscillations.

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Aug 27

Glad to share that our study on the brain dynamics during rhythmic breath-based meditation is finally published in npj Mental Health Research. Here, we studied EEG on Sudarshan Kriya Yoga (SKY) practice on 43 subjects.

Paper Link: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Unlocking deep relaxation: the power of rhythmic breathing on brain rhythms - npj Mental Health Research

npj Mental Health Research - Unlocking deep relaxation: the power of rhythmic breathing on brain rhythms

www.nature.com

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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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Tom Possidente (He/Him) @tom-poss.bsky.social · Jul 25

My 1st first (co)author paper is up on BioRxiv!

How does functional connectivity in the human cortex differ during visual and auditory working memory (WM) tasks? Do those changes correlate with behavior? We take a stab at some answers:

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Dynamic task-based reorganization of sensory-biased and supramodal working memory networks in the human cerebral cortex

Sensory working memory is supported by a distributed set of brain regions. Visual working memory and auditory working memory recruit different networks, which include posterior sensory cortices and mu...

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Jul 1

Fascinated and inspired by the book. Also, because I have an Erdos number of 5, so have some connection to the genius mathematician.

Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Jul 1

Another thing I liked about his approach to problem solving was that he said that truly wonderful problems tend to fight back. This is true for most sciences; the things worthy of knowing will take their time, so you have to be patient and determined.

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Jul 1

developed that fascination in those who came in contact with him. One thing that caught my attention was his claim that mathematics is infinite; even when physics, biology, and possibly neuroscience are solved, there would still be mathematics to work on.

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Jul 1

He was truly focused on mathematics, worked 19 hours a day, would reach to some mathematician's place unannounced and say "My brain is open" as a means to start collaboration. He had his eccentricities, but he loved his field more than anything and

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Jul 1

I usually don't get time to read books as much as I would like. Had the opportunity the read one while traveling last few days "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers", a fascinating read about one of the most productive and collaborative mathematicians ever, Paul Erdos!

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Jun 20

We are hosting an outreach program in Chicago and Bay area, interested people can check it out here: iitgn.ac.in/assets/pdfs/...
Deadline extended to few more days.

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Jun 20

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IIT Gandhinagar | Faculty Recruitment - Open Call: Priority Areas

The official website of the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar

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Vaibhav Tripathi @vaibhavtripathi.bsky.social · Jun 20

Join the vibrant set of Neuroscience researchers at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. Great facilities, smart students, colleagues, and a peaceful campus! We are expanding to all areas of Neuroscience. Please apply if interested, share, and reach out if you need more information.

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⭐️ RAVEN @sunnydaze27.bsky.social · Jun 7

Lego art 🍳 😄

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