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(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)

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Great opportunity to learn about Qualia Structure and IIT at this summer school in Italy in October

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[Application Open!] 2025 Oct 5-17 in Italy. Summer school on Qualia Structure + Integrated Information Theory. Deadline 2025 Feb 28. Please see docs.google.com/document/d/1... for the financial support, program and application details! RT please!

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[Trailer] Summer School Announcement: Learn Qualia Structure & Integrated Information Theory in Venice youtube.com/watch?v=L4kU... produced by Prof Alex Maier at Vanderbilt U. His YouTube channel is full of highly engaging contents!

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[What is it like to be in the Qualia Structure summer school] 24 June 19: Michael Robinson - introduction to computational sheaf theory (topology, category theory, as well) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6id... First of 7 consecutive videos alternating theory and demos. Highly accessible!

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Have you ever wondered about the symmetry of music? We have an upcoming lecture-recital with Artem Pulemotov & Denis Collins (UQ), brought to life by ARIA-nominated Ensemble Offspring Registrations essential ($5) 🧮🎶 bit.ly/4k8jVtP #mathsky #CCWMXSMRI #MathsAtTheMuseum #IDM2025

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🚨3 days remaining to submit your abstract to our Physical Networks Satellite @netsciconf.bsky.social! Working on complex networks in which physical constraints & embeddings matter? Send your abstract to [email protected] by 17th Feb! Details: sites.google.com/view/physnet... #NetSci25

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TMS is delivered to the DLPFC in depression to modulate SGC activity But axons linking DLPFC and SGC are absent. How then does TMS stimulation delivered to the DLPFC modulate SGC activity? Check out Caio's work on how stimulation effects propagate in the absence of direct anatomical paths

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Synaptome architecture shapes regional dynamics in the mouse brain | www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by Justine Hansen Big news: there are all sorts of different synapse types in the brain 👀‼️⤵️

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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

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Fab new work looking at treatment relevance of psychiatric GWAS hits by @aurinaarn.bsky.social @bendfulcher.bsky.social and team!

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Do psychiatric GWASs find drug targets? Excited to see our work linking GWAS and pharmacological treatments in psychiatric disorders now published in JAMA Psychiatry jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧬💊🎯 Big thanks to @bendfulcher.bsky.social @alexfornito.bsky.social Mark Bellgrove 🧵👇

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Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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1/ Excited to share our latest preprint! 🚀 We introduce Spectral Normative Modeling (SNM)—a novel approach leveraging graph spectral methods to advance brain charting towards personalized precision medicine. 🔗 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Sensory inputs trigger a fast-traveling wave, followed by a slower wave carrying top-down info (value/choice). The late wave reactivates ensembles in superficial cortical layers. Touch-evoked traveling waves establish a translaminar spacetime code www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #neuroscience

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Amazing work from @jchrispang.bsky.social plus @alexfornito.bsky.social and team!!

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For my first-ever bluesky post, I'm really excited to share our new preprint "Geometric influences on the regional organization of the mammalian brain" with @alexfornito.bsky.social and a superstar 17-person team! (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Our latest preprint by @jchrispang.bsky.social and a massive team showing how geometry constrains regional patterning of the mammalian brain. 100s of brain maps, >20 species, & plenty of modelling. Congrats to James on this huge effort. Peep the thread for more info…

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Check out the schedule of events linked with OHBM 2025 - Brain connectivity workshop, June 20-22 - Hackathon, June 21-23 - Neurodesk, June 21 - Brain gradients, June 23 - Precision network therapeutics, June 29 Register now! We look forward to welcoming you to Brisbane! @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

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Wonderful and really important work 👏👏

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Geometric influences on the regional organization of the mammalian brain (!) Great new work lead by James Pang, @alexfornito.bsky.social & star collaborators! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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That looks amazing 😱 & is right before gradients-workshop.github.io (June 23) & @ohbm.bsky.social (June 24-28)

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Early bird registrations for the 2025 Brain Connectivity Meeting now open June 20 (arrive) until June 22 on the beautiful North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), near Brisbane (location of OHBM) qimrberghofer.eventsair.com/brain-connec...

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Full PhD scholarship + stipend (for an Australian or international student) to join our group and study the nonlinear dynamics of sleep (or related topics in time-series analysis of complex dynamical systems). Apply here (via Project 7): www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

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Does technology evolve as biology? In many ways, it does. Is it continuous or occurs in bursts? By analyzing the evolution of programming languages with @svalver.bsky.social, we found the answer. Wrok started at @sfiscience.bsky.social. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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SFI is a research hub, home to between 20 and 50 resident and visiting researchers at any given time. SFI is currently seeking applications for full-time resident faculty. These 5+year appointments offer broad intellectual freedom and encouragement to take risks. 1/2

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DOOM: The Gallery Experience. https://bobatealee.itch.io/doom-the-gallery-experience

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Huge congrats to @anniegbryant.bsky.social on getting this fab work out!

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THE best presentation of study figures ever! 😆 "We presented scaled versions of this puzzle to both people and ants (Fig. 1 A and B)." per Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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📣 First three years of my PhD have culminated in this work now published at PLoS Computational Biology! 🥳 We take a deep dive into all the many ways we can slice n dice fMRI dynamics to quantify biologically relevant properties 🧠🧮 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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The effect of spherical projections on spin tests for brain maps | biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Spin tests are the de facto null model for map-to-map comparisons in brain imaging. Why don't they perfectly control false positives? @vincebaz.bsky.social explores ⤵️

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🚨 Job alert 🚨 IT:U is hiring 5 professors (open rank) in Data Science, very broadly defined! Focuses include (among others): 1. Theoretical Foundations of Data Science 2. Data Science in Biological Systems 3. Data Science in Human Mobility it-u.at/en/careers/p... 1/2

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So excited to share this preprint, led by Sophie Dvali and Andy Leifer, along with Caio Seguin and myself. Diverging network architecture of the C. elegans connectome and signaling network. arxiv.org/abs/2412.14498

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Structural and genetic determinants of zebrafish functional brain networks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.12.20.629476v1

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📢Jianfeng Feng and colleagues present the Digital Brain, a platform capable of simulating spiking neuronal networks with up to 86 billion neurons and 47.8 trillion synapses. www.nature.com/articles/s43... #neuroskyence #compneuro 🔓https://rdcu.be/d4byX

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The Brain Connectivity Workshop 2025 will be held just before #OHBM2025 on the paradise that is Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) a one hour ferry ride from Brisbane Registration will open shortly (cost to be <$600 for travel registration & accomodation) so please plan your flights accordingly

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Not sure why @macshine.bsky.social @drbreaky.bsky.social + co are not posting more about their fantastic paper from last week: "Multiscale organization of neuronal activity unifies scale-dependent theories of brain function" www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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OHBM has confirmed that Dec 17 is a hard deadline for abstracts.

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The third edition of my textbook, Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos, was published today. You can preview the first 68 pages on Google Books, or take a look at the preface below to see what's new. The main new thing is a chapter on the Kuramoto model! Hope you enjoy it.

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I've been arguing that we will be able to train foundation models on neural data from different species, because I suspect that there are sufficiently preserved motifs in neural computation across the phylgenetic tree. This paper appears to support that idea! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... 🧠📈 🧪

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In today's lecture in my nonlinear dynamics and chaos course, I tried to give intuition for where chaos comes from. It's caused by repeated stretching and folding of phase space.

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Today's Nobel lecture by John Hopfield is brilliant and moving. Fascinating to hear how hard he worked at finding the right problem. And how he arrived at that fateful discovery that got many of us into neuroscience. (And how it was useful that PNAS was unreviewed!) www.youtube.com/live/lPIVl5e...

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I have created a starter pack for #dream research 🧠🧪💤 go.bsky.app/DCNDUtJ I don't have a lot of contacts yet so let me know if you want to join or if I should add someone in particular!

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New pre-print from @alexfornito.bsky.social, James Pang, and myself, looking at the effects of rs-fMRI pre-processing pipelines on FC quality and behavioural predictions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Sixth (and last) episode of our "Nature of Intelligence" podcast is out! This time I'm in the hot seat -- Abha interviews me about "AI's changing seasons" and lots of other AI-related stuff. www.santafe.edu/culture/podc...

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#Physics #art 6 - "The electron tree" representing the medical physics research of Annette Haworth. These images (made by Joerg Lehmann @joerglehmann.bsky.social) were created by high energy electrons colliding with a block of Perspex. Explanation in the thread... ⚛️

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