New preprint ↙️ Functional fragmentation and structural drivers of thalamo-cortical circuits in temporal lobe epilepsy >functional circuit dysfunction in TLE >mediated by hippocampal pathology >associated to seizure generalization and outcome by Rui Ding et al. 💫 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

July is many things but also preprint month, this time with another dive into non-isocortex territory 🤿. www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Selective convergence and graded divergence of hippocampal and amygdala subregions using functional connectivity

The hippocampus and amygdala are neighboring medial temporal lobe structures linked to memory and affect, yet how their subregions are jointly embedded within distributed isocortical systems remains u...

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Opportunities and pitfalls of data contextualization in neuroimaging — a Roadmap by Jessica Royer, Casey Paquola, Sara Larivière, Justine Y. Hansen, Sofie L. Valk, Bratislav Misic, Robert Leech, Jonathan Smallwood & Boris C. Bernhardt #neuroscience #neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Correlating brain maps across datasets is everywhere in neuroimaging. Here we ask: when you contextualize a brain map against genes, metabolism, or connectivity... What can you really conclude? How can we do better? We explore these questions here: tinyurl.com/2dudkevc

Opportunities and pitfalls of data contextualization in neuroimaging - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Despite rapid exploitation of the opportunities that contextualization of brain maps affords, potential limitations have received little attention. In this Roadmap, Royer et al. provide practical guid...

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preprint🥳 Connectome-wide mega-analysis identifies a reproducible functional network signature of temporal lobe epilepsy -hypo+hyper connectivity -patient/site consistent -constrained by 🧠 wiring -tracks clinical status and info for outcome by @kexie.bsky.social et al doi.org/10.64898/202...

🚀 We are hiring: a PhD position is available in my lab (gozzilab.it) at @iitalk.bsky.social, Italy. Project: large-scale brain network mapping in behaving mice using functional ultrasound imaging (FUSI). 📅 Deadline: March 31 🔗 tinyurl.com/4jtetxa9 Reshares appreciated 😊

I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.

22 years of Brain Science: what CoSyNe tells us about the evolution of Neuroscience

Tracking the intellectual DNA of Computational and Systems Neuroscience through its flagship meeting

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How does superficial white matter contribute to large-scale #brain function? @borismontreal.bsky.social &co use an approach based on 3D histology & 7-Tesla MRI to reveal associations between superficial #WhiteMatter microstructure & diverse cortical properties @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/460WNIz

Very happy to see this last thesis paper in press @natcomms.nature.com! We combine intracranial EEG with multimodal MRI to study how interregional similarity in neurophysiology relates to different network scales ⚡ 🧠 Full story 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🍤 hippocampus = the brain's memory machine 🍤 unique cytoarchitecture, highly connected with multiple networks, & very variable across individuals video shows hippocampal shape variations across 250-ish young HCP adults study hippocampus with open tools like hippomaps doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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📢 Publication Alter! 🎉 Excited to share that our work, “Personalized biomarkers of multiscale functional alterations in temporal lobe epilepsy”, is now out in Nature Communications #TLE #MRI #biomarker 🔗 Full paper: rdcu.be/eQKLX 📣 Full post (credit to @borismontreal.bsky.social): bit.ly/48uJL7r

Personalized biomarkers of multiscale functional alterations in temporal lobe epilepsy

Nature Communications - Xie and colleagues show that MRI-based brain function maps can identify patient-specific abnormalities in temporal lobe epilepsy, track how they spread along brain networks,...

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Ke Xie@kexie.bsky.social · last yr.

✨ What makes the brain's functional organization different in each #TLE patient? 🧠 ✨ We used a large sample (298 healthy adults, 282 TLE, 45 disease controls) + normative modeling to capture individualized functional disruptions. 🔎 #epilepsy #neuroimaging #precisionmedicine doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New preprint ↙️ Using 2 independent 7T fMRI datasets (HCP & our PNI dataset 🧲 💅 ), we found that intersubject synchronization 👯 during movies aligns closely with cortical gradients 🌈, especially along the visual-to-transmodal axis by Meaghan Smith & a terrific team ↙️ doi.org/10.1101/2025...

For researchers in Canada and the USA 👇 Online info session about ERC research grants, on Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 at 12:00 noon ET (9:00 AM PT, 6:00 PM CEST). The meeting is free but advance registration is required. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/worldwide/no...

ERC Grants: Q&A and testimonials

EURAXESS North America will host an online meeting with officials from the European Research Council Executive Agency, which administers ERC grants, as well as current ERC grantees, who will share the...

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HippoMaps: an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @jordandekraker.bsky.social @borismontreal.bsky.social @jclauneuro.bsky.social @neuroak.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social @donnagift.bsky.social

HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of human hippocampal organization - Nature Methods

HippoMaps provides an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities such as histology, fMRI, structural MRI and EEG.

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🚨 New paper in Nature Methods: HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG) Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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

Golia Shafiei@goliashf.bsky.social · last yr.

(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)

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

There is increasing interest in using AI tools not only to listen in on animal speech, but also to potentially talk back go.nature.com/4pqGYCP

AI is helping to decode animals’ speech. Will it also let us talk with them?

The complexity of vocal communication in some primates, whales and birds might approach that of human language.

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The peer review process: 3 strangers yelling “more cowbell” at your life's work

Interested in hippocampal dynamics and their interactions with cortical rhythms? Our physically constrained model of cortico-hippocampal interactions - complete with fast geometrically informed numerical simulation (available at embedded github repo) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The effect of spherical projections on spin tests for brain maps | doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... 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 ⤵️

The Dept. of Psychology at the U. Wisconsin–Madison has an opening for an Assistant Professor in the area of Computational Neuroscience and/or Cognitive Science, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence (AI). Domain of behavior or cognition is open. Details at jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of Psychology - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Come join us at University of Toronto. We're hiring a Professor of computational cognitive neuroscience. #neuroAI #compneuro jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

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🔥🧠Excited to announce that I am recruiting PhD students this fall. Our lab uses neuroimaging (MRI) and computational modeling to study the mechanisms of neurodevelopmental disorders, bridging genetic factor, brain circuitry, early life stress, and psychopathology. Please feel free to DM me.