Excited about this one!

Runhao Lu | 陆润豪@runhaolu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Using time-resolved EEG/MEG decoding?🧠 Here’s a new approach! No feature engineering (decode from raw signals), but capturing info that standard decoding often misses (oscillatory/aperiodic activity, connectivity). Lightweight, INTERPRETABLE, and easy to use. (1/6) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨Two weeks away!🚨 Reminder that our first workshop of the year will happen in two weeks featuring @russpoldrack.org. 🧠 Better Code, Better Science 📅22 April 2026 🔗Register: forms.gle/WRUdGQEpd5is... #OHBM #OpenScience

Utterly delighted to have been awarded 5 years of research funding from the ERC to study low-activity brain states that could underpin flexible rule use. Let’s see what "pinging" can tell us about how task sets are assembled and changed!

School of Biological Sciences@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣 Four exceptional researchers in the School of Biological Sciences have been awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) grants! Congratulations to all ERC awardees! @camzoology.bsky.social @pdncambridge.bsky.social @campsydept.bsky.social

Delighted to see this special issue completed, in honour of our extraordinary friend and mentor John Duncan :)

Moataz Assem@moatazassem.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The special issue celebrating John Duncan's retirement is now out! Check out all the gem articles here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10QN6R7VQSM and the editorial (see next figure in the thread for an entertaining analysis) doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Outstanding keynote this morning from the incredible Lucia Navarre de Laura at the www.tmsfmriworkshop.org. These developments are really going to transform the field.

NNinet Lab@ninetlab.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Lucia Navarro de Lara presenting at the 3rd TMS-fMRI Workshop, cool technology coming into the field of concurrent neuromodulation-imaging

Jing Jiang kicking off our www.tmsfmriworkshop.org with her keynote on bridging TMS-fMRI with stimulation + invasive neural recordings to work out: can we truly reach deep brain regions through cortical TMS targets? #tms

Suitably exotic location for a TMS-fMRI WORKSHOP!! Can't wait to see everyone later. #tms #fmri #concurrenttmsfmri www.tmsfmriworkshop.org

Setting off on a 3 hour journey without my laptop feels... weird. But you can hardly take a laptop to the WIMBLEDON LADIES FINAL :-D

Yet another new paper from the brilliant Runhao Lu @runhaolu.bsky.social together with outstanding undergraduate student Isabelle Woods Rogan. Arrhythmic TMS is (probably!) still the best control choice for alpha entrainment studies. But watch out, TMS affects aperiodic activity too.

Runhao Lu | 陆润豪@runhaolu.bsky.social · last yr.

New results! We tested different control conditions for rh-TMS entrainment and showed ar-TMS performs best (matching sensory without inducing oscillatory effects). Also explored how rh-TMS/ar-TMS/sham-TMS differentially impact Oscillatory and Aperiodic activity! www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

Chaos on the trains up to Glasgow today (looking forward to giving the Psychology seminar tomorrow), but isn't it nice how rail disruption magically gives us Brits "permission" to talk to one another!

I'm getting to announce a lot of new papers this week! This one, led by the fabulous duo of @jadebjackson.bsky.social and @catrionascrivener.bsky.social shows that artefact free concurrent #TMS-fMRI is possible - with surprisingly short interslice gaps.

Jade Jackson (Savun)@jadebjackson.bsky.social · last yr.

Setting up a concurrent TMS-fMRI experiment ⚡🧠? Check out our paper just out on when to deliver TMS pulses between MR slice gaps to avoid signal loss. doi.org/10.1016/j.jn.... Thanks to @catrionascrivener.bsky.social M. Correia M. Mada and @alexwoolgar.bsky.social

When we started this project we thought we were dotting the is and crossing the ts - it seemed obvious that codes in frontoparietal control regions should generalise between modalities. By the time we finished, it seemed obvious that they should not! As always the answer is somewhere in between...

Jade Jackson (Savun)@jadebjackson.bsky.social · last yr.

In what way is the frontoparietal network domain general? We show it uses the same neural resources to represent rules in auditory and visual tasks but does so with independent codes doi.org/10.1162/IMAG..., thanks to A Rich, D Moerel, @linateichmann.bsky.social, J Duncan @alexwoolgar.bsky.social

Delighted to see this - the culmination of discussions begun by the ocean in Greece (at our international workshop on TMS-fMRI) - now out in print! I learnt a lot, and made many friends, along the way to this one. Next TMS-fMRI workshop will be in Mexico in Sept, EOI at www.tmsfmriworkshop.org

Nature Protocols@natprot.nature.com · last yr.

New Article! Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience

Thank you Becca! Always great fun to talk about combining neuroimaging approaches in cog neuro. Super interesting day at Cambridge Imaging Festival so far, with talks from across Depts and Schools, and fantastic to hear the vision of our PVC-R for more interdisciplinary research in this space.

Becca Williams@beccasue99.bsky.social · last yr.

Fantastic start to Cambridge Imaging festival as @alexwoolgar.bsky.social absolutely got our attention 🧐 discussing the power of combining neuroimaging and stimulation approaches 🧠⚡to research... well... attention... #neuroskyence #cogsci

Excellent statement from Nature’s editorial board. The last section on “How to respond” is the most important. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

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Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires: uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com

Still one of the best "how to give a presentation" presentations out there

How to Speak

YouTube video by MIT OpenCourseWare

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I had a brilliant time visiting @yorkpsychology.bsky.social today - so many interesting chats and exciting ideas for new analyses, experiments, and collaborations! Days like these are what makes our job so much fun :)

Aidan Horner@aidanhorner.bsky.social · last yr.

Brilliant @yorkpsychology.bsky.social seminar today from @alexwoolgar.bsky.social. Beautiful work on the causal role of the MD network on feature selection and attention #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition

Horray, another paper from the brilliant Runhao Lu @runhaolu.bsky.social is out now in Brain Stimulation! Our first adventure with TMS-EEG and decoding, finding a specific role for parietal alpha in enhancing behaviour-driving codes for where to attend in space.

Runhao Lu | 陆润豪@runhaolu.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨New paper alert!⚡🧠Using concurrent TMS-EEG & MVPA in a selec attention task, we show parietal alpha rh-TMS (entrainment) specifically and causally enhances spatial attention ('where' info) coded by ERPs and alpha power, but not 'what' info or visual features. www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

Please come and work with us and the amazing @lauragwilliams.bsky.social ! Really special project using E/MEG to look at receptive language in non speakers. Please repost!

Laura Gwilliams@lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 2y ago

postdoc opportunity in @alexwoolgar.bsky.social and my lab, based in Cambridge UK! seeking someone with excellent analytical skills to join our project using time-resolved human neuroimaging to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic individuals 🧠✨ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48835/

We are hiring! We're looking for a great project manager to help with a large-scale Wellcome funded study. If you know of anyone that this might appeal to, please share. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49880/

We were very lucky that the brilliant Nadene Demody could organise the SCR at her college for our Christmas lunch this year! Season's greetings to you all from the Woolgar lab :-D

Concurrent TMS-fMRI is hot stuff if you want causal inference with your whole-brain recordings. Come and hear me spill the beans on why you might want in on this magnet-on-magnet action - webinar on Jan 22nd: marketing.magventure.com/referral_reg....

First lab paper since moving to bluesky! In which I learnt not to ignore aperiodic #EEG #MEG signals.... Led by the fabulous Runhao Lu.

Runhao Lu | 陆润豪@runhaolu.bsky.social · 2y ago

✨New paper @commsbio.bsky.social !! Using MEG/EEG, we investigated domain-general cognitive systems in human brains implemented by aperiodic and oscillatory responses. Great collaboration with @alexwoolgar.bsky.social , John Duncan, and Nadene Dermody. rdcu.be/d34pt

Thanks Earl for reposting our work! (Our following study intergrating MEG and fMRI data will be coming soon...)

Earl K. Miller@earlkmiller.bsky.social · 2y ago

Aperiodic and oscillatory systems underpinning human domain-general cognition www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #neuroscience

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Altmetric@altmetric.com · 2y ago

There are already many articles for which there is more attention on Bluesky than on other comparable micro-blogging sites, meaning the academic community and the general public have clearly adopted Bluesky as one of its core places to disseminate and discuss new research. A Place of Joy.

Job Alert!! The School of Biological Sciences at Cambridge is recruiting FOUR new interdisciplinary Assoc Prof/Profs in #BioSci: Developmental Plasticity and Robustness bit.ly/49o5ehh Evolutionary Genomics bit.ly/3Zxuy19 Molecular & Cell Biol bit.ly/4gcr9Ky Infection/Immunity bit.ly/4eXGGgm Join us!

School of Biological Sciences@cambridgebiosci.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are recruiting leading scientists in the Biological Sciences to join our interdisciplinary and innovative research community at the University of Cambridge! Find out more about the positions and the School: bit.ly/4fMTBmF Apply by 26 January 2025!

Great talk from Runhao Lu this morning on the potentially important role of aperiodic neural activity in domain general cognition - and how to track it across MEG and fMRI. See also his preprint here! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Cambridge Methods in #CognitiveNeuroscience Day #CBUMethodsDay

This is kind of incredible- within a few weeks, most of my network from Twitter has reconstituted here on Bluesky- and I’m getting increasingly useful tips about neuroscience, stats, and psychology papers and code! Guys, I think we did it!