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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Jayson Jeganathan, Michael Breakspear, et al: Spurious correlations in surface-based functional brain imaging doi.org/10.1162/imag...

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Do you know (or are you) a senior scientist in the USA who might like to move to Canada in the near future? The 2026 call for CERCs (Canada Excellence Research Chairs) was posted last month: 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 🇨🇦

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We are hiring Closing soon but still time! Associate/Full Prof position in Cognitive Neuroscience. Amazing department, rated top in UK for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry & Neuroscience. Can hire internationally, flagging for USA colleagues (all countries welcome). Come join us in London

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In 2025, we continue to advocate for policy based on scientific evidence. This 2020 Editorial, “We need leaders that believe in scientific evidence”, resonates today as loudly as ever: plos.io/34lyl59. PLOS Biology also continues to push for DEI and a diverse scientific community: plos.io/3rzxczU 🧪

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This is a new blog post from our lab by Katen Kelly. Katen is starting to work with Indigenous communities to identify ways to improve culturally appropriate care for persons with Alzheimer’s and related dementias. @sfuneuro.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social www.armcintosh.com/blog/2025/2/...

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HOT OFF THE PRESS - Back in 2019 we started asking ourselves what could you to demonstrate where werable, OPM-MEG technology could fit into naturalistic #neuroskyence. One snag, we'd have to build the system from scratch first... Anyway its 2025, read the paper here -> doi.org/10.1162/imag...

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Dear colleagues of the MEG community I have recently commenced a project at Aarhus University, Denmark, called: Re-integration of the cerebellum . Therefore, I am recruiting a Postdoc for 2½ years to begin September 1st 2025. The deadline for the application is March 20th 2025.

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#AcademicChatter #Jobs #Canada Hearing from several people how devastating things are at NIH CDC & FDA. I will be posting any jobs in Canada 🇨🇦 I hear about for PhDs on this thread. Please add yours! 1/

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🚨Job alert!🚨 Are you curious about curiosity, and looking for a post-doc position? Then please consider applying: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Feel free to e-mail/DM me if you have questions. Thanks very much for sharing/re-posting!

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📣 Brock #PsychSciSky are hiring a Tenure-Track Teaching-Intensive Asst Prof to teach our 2nd year stats course and a few other stats/methods courses. Pluses: beautiful Niagara, CANADA, strong faculty union, ample TA support, collaborative colleagues. brocku.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/brocku_caree...

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We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

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Dear colleagues of the MEG community I have recently commenced a project at Aarhus University, Denmark, called: Re-integration of the cerebellum. Therefore, I am recruiting a Postdoc for 2½ years to begin September 1st 2025. The deadline is March 20th 2025. international.au.dk/about/profil...

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delighted to share our work revealing a new type of excitatory hippocampal neuron we call the "ovoid cell", which has really exquisite properties relative to adjacent pyramidal cells! superb work of first-author @adriennekinman.bsky.social and many others in the lab www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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We have a new lab blog answering the question, "So what's new?" It highlights recent work with @laurennross.bsky.social, the construction of a lifespan brain model, and the first efforts in sociocultural neuroscience. It's been a busy couple of years! www.armcintosh.com/blog/2025/2/...

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Recent executive orders targeting marginalized communities underscore the urgent need for inclusive biomedical research. Our latest work, now out in print, explores how interconnected social identities impact brain biology and mental health, providing a roadmap for more equitable research.

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We are very excited to announce the open release of a new 170 participant dataset: Linked MEG, TMS, multimodal 3T MRI, 7T MRI, Connectom MRI, cognitive /questionnaire data. Immense effort from a fabulous CUBRIC team. Paper by Carolyn McNabb et al: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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In a new preprint with @kleind.bsky.social, we ask two questions: (Q1) People differ in how they perceive the similarity of stimuli in their environment. How can we model the features underlying similarity judgments in arbitrary domains, while accounting for individual differences? osf.io/agpb5_v1 🧵

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New paper from the Hirschmann group @hhu.de: DBS in the MEG at beta frequency. 😎 www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

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Feeling like a bit of a rebel in these times Editing a new SI for Neurobiology of Aging - “Brain Resilience & DIVERSITY in Aging & Dementia” Please consider submitting your work & share broadly. This work is essential for supporting healthy aging for ALL. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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I am looking for a Postdoc to work in my group at Karolinska Institute in projects that combine brain imaging with machine learning, genetics & proteomics in aging and neurodegenerative diseases. To apply please go to: ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/... (Deadline: 20.Feb.2025) Please retweet. Thanks!

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Saw this circulating. #buyCanadian

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A special Bluetorial about one of my mentors Ruth Kirschstein Among Ruth Kirschstein’s many contributions to American science was the development and expansion of programs intended to increase participation of people from groups underrepresented in biomedical research.

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Hey if anyone is considering backing up any datasets for some reason today, the Open Science Framework has free storage up to 5G/private repository, and up to 50G/public repository. (The OSF is run by a 501c3 (Center for Open Science), so if you do this you might also consider making a donation.)

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📣Faculty Position Opening! Assistant or Associate Professor in Cardiac Arrhythmias Department of Biomedical Physiology & Kinesiology @ Simon Fraser University 🗓️Applications due by March 15, 2025 www.academicwork.ca/jobs/assista...

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Happy 30th birthday year to SPM!! 🎈🍰 To get the party started, we are delighted to announce SPM 25.01, a major new version of the open-source neuroimaging software. Read the preprint to discover what's new arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12081 and download SPM for free from Github github.com/spm/spm/rele...

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I've been working with the Wilson-Cowan neural mass model for a while now and, over time, I've accumulated a bunch of tools to explore/visualize it. I recently decided to collect it all into a github repository available here if anyone is interested: github.com/NeuroLife77/...

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Can we predict brain health across a lifetime? Just as a knee injury at 20 might cause problems later, researchers are exploring how early brain experiences shape future brain health. Subscribe & listen 👉 youtu.be/JCYZNUa1w8s

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This is just a short love letter to PubMed: absolutely one of the best things US agencies have ever done for science. 'When I were a lad': we had databases of articles (Science Citation Index Expanded or Medline) but the only way to access text was to find the physical journal then photocopy it.

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🚨INTERESTING TALK KLAXON🚨 Happening TODAY at 2 Pacific! Join via Zoom! Coyote Practices Neuroscience: The Cultural Determinants of Indigenous Brain Health and Settler Colonialism! Dr. Michael Yellow Bird, Professor, Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba! www.sfu.ca/neuro-instit...

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I'm looking forward to Michael Yellow Feather's talk at @sfuneuro.bsky.social, "Coyote Practices Neuroscience: The Cultural Determinants of Indigenous Brain Health and Settler Colonialism." Please join via Zoom if you can't attend in person. www.sfu.ca/neuro-instit...

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Come join us @umontreal.ca - We're looking to recruit a Professor in the field of neurobiology, with a focus on linking neurodevelopment to neural circuit function and dysfunction. #neuroskyence #neuroscience 🧪 See ad below - www.fens.org/careers/job-...

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🚨🚨New SPM version alert! 🚨🚨 Introducing SPM 25.01, plus a more modern, open ethos to its development. Some more information about whats changes can be found here - arxiv.org/abs/2501.12081 Stable release - www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/software/ GitHub developer version - github.com/spm/spm

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A collaborative #openaccess review on how electrophysiological brain recording and imaging at multiple scales, from cells to large-scale brain networks, contribute to defining neurostimulation targets. #parkinson www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

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Incredibly happy and proud to share our newest work in Science Transl Med showing that Aβ promotes neuronal hyperconnectivity, thereby driving tau spread across connected brain regions. Many thanks to first authors @sebroemer.bsky.social and Fabian Wagner! science.org/doi/10.1126/... Thread below

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Announcing a new week-long program for young computational neuroscience/ behavior professors to talk about rigorous science, mentoring, lab management, and networking in a stunning retreat setting. Do great science as a community and have fun doing so.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

If you use BOLD based fMRI in your research, take a moment to wish Seiji Ogawa a happy 91st birthday on Sunday, Jan 19th. His research launched thousands of careers and provided an invaluable to look inside our brains.

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Hello Bluesky! @vcalhoun.bsky.social, Kent Kiehl and I are teaching our 3-day #fMRI course live online Feb 5 - 7, 2025! #SPM, #ICA, path analysis, #DataScience We've been at it for >20 years & love talking methods & connecting with colleagues! Register at: sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

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Postdoc alert! We have a postdoc position open on our T32 training grant in lang sci at UConn (for US Citizens only, regrettably). Work with one or more of our mentorship team (including me!) Details here, and feel free to reach out w/ questions. cncct.research.uconn.edu/postdoc-trai...

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The Department of Psychology at NDSU is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in Cognitive Psychology, broadly defined. Applications due Feb. 10. Please share widely! tinyurl.com/2k4u6ncy

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New paper from Düsseldorf! 🧲 🧠 📝 MEG study on brain oscillations in corticobasal syndrome (CBS), a rare neurological disorder belonging to the so-called atypical Parkinson syndromes. Marius Krösche and Jan Hirschmann spearheaded this work. Just out now in 2025! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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A reminder about our position at SickKids/U of T. Accepting applications until February 15th. Please share widely. can-acn.org/scientist-se...

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New open-ended lectureship in our department - come and work with me! jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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You can read our new paper on modelling multiple data streams with varying dimensionality (alternately titled "What am I going to do with all these dimensions?!") if you want to. It's not even a little bit illegal.

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