@enekourunuela.com just put together a simple and fast search of #OHBM2026 content at me-ica.github.io/ohbm-2026-mu... (Select "All posters" for more than just multi-echo). 1/2

1 more week to register for NOWCAM. visit. nowcam.org for details.

My first ISRW. Great meeting! CC: UBC grads @omransafi.com @brandonforys.com

Eitan Schechtman@eitans.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Still pumped up from yesterday's international sleep replay workshop! Provocative talks, engaging discussion groups & enthusiastic engagement by all attendees from undergrads to full professors. Stay tuned for info on the next one. And now, on to @cnsmtg.bsky.social. Check out our lab's posters!

Time isn’t just a clock on the wall — it’s how you remember it! Come see me at poster session B (B67) on Sunday morning if you’re interested in how segmenting in space affects how we remember time! Here’s sneak peek of the novel VR paradigm we used. #CNS2026 youtube.com/shorts/2y6Jp...

Virtual Reality Events

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Many great talks and discussions on now at the International Sleep Replay Workshop before #CNS2026! I'm also presenting my work on motivational factors predicting choices given rewards, losses, and shifting cognitive effort demands at CNS (D126, Monday 8-10 AM). Please come by if you are there!

CNS 2026! Be sure to register - it will be great to see so many cognitive science and neuroscience folks coming to Vancouver. And be sure to also check out the affiliated International Sleep Replay Workshop: isrw.bio.uci.edu

CNS 2026 Annual Meeting@cnsmtg.bsky.social · 9mo ago

#CNS2026 Registration is OPEN! 🎉 Join us in Vancouver, BC for an unforgettable meeting packed with cutting-edge science! Don’t miss out — secure your spot today! cogneurosociety.org/registration/ @cogneuronews.bsky.social #CognitiveNeuroscience #Neuroscience

1. Media coverage of a new paper by @ryantomm.bsky.social w @brandonforys.com, @dr-stan.bsky.social et al. Building on Stan’s rodent work, Ryan found that > depression levels were associated w reduced capacity to learn to actively button-press to avoid a nasty sound www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Depression Curbs Ability to Actively Avoid Unpleasant Events

Depression in young patients is linked to difficulty in taking action to avoid something unpleasant, while the ability to withdraw and not act remains intact.

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For >5 years, the International Sleep Replay Workshops have brought together scientists studying sleep & memory. The next ISRW will be on March 6th in Vancouver (before @CogNeuroNews). Follow the link for details + to join the mailing list - see you there! isrw.bio.uci.edu

The recording of yesterday's multi-echo fMRI users meeting is now up! youtu.be/LUyvXA81AEs?... @enekourunuela.com @tsalo.bsky.social

Multi-echo fMRI users meeting - May 27th 2025

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Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · last yr.

The next multi-echo fMRI users meeting is scheduled for May 27th. Details here: groups.google.com/g/tedana-new...

I just published a new substack post focusing on "holding in personhood." Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Naomi Askenazi, & Ariane Boulet describe their work using dance, music, and technology to hold people in relationship when communication channels are restricted: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

Holding in Personhood

Oh, the days, they waste away, like an unplayed game.

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So wonderful to be a part of this awesome meeting - thanks @danielhandwerker.bsky.social! If you're interested in working with multi-echo and tedana, be sure to join these monthly meetings.

Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · last yr.

The recording of the multi-echo fMRI users meeting is now live! youtu.be/dlFtgWP4ItY?...

𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 "theoretical framework to analyse individual variability in biological and artificial systems that perform flexible decision-making tasks" Looks like must read! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Interesting🧵⤵️

Brandon Forys@brandonforys.com · 2y ago

Why can sounds like dogs barking or a phone ringing sound pleasant in some situations, but very unpleasant in others? We explored this question in our new paper out now in @plosone.org: doi.org/10.1371/jour... (a thread):

An image-computable model of speeded decision-making - our latest in @elife.bsky.social combining a CNN with a response time model. TL/DR: Training to reproduce human RTs results in different kinds of representations versus purely task-optimized training.

Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcula... The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵

Cool new paper from Brandon Forys et al. Congrats! [Bonus: the figure in the paper suggests that the "newer" (and nicer) building is where my lab is. 😀]

Brandon Forys@brandonforys.com · 2y ago

Why can sounds like dogs barking or a phone ringing sound pleasant in some situations, but very unpleasant in others? We explored this question in our new paper out now in @plosone.org: doi.org/10.1371/jour... (a thread):

Why can sounds like dogs barking or a phone ringing sound pleasant in some situations, but very unpleasant in others? We explored this question in our new paper out now in @plosone.org: doi.org/10.1371/jour... (a thread):

Hear it here: Built environments predict ratings and descriptions of ambiguous sounds

The built environments we move through are a filter for the stimuli we experience. If we are in a darker or a lighter room or space, a neutrally valenced sound could be perceived as more unpleasant or...

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Yesterday, I taught the first class of the first undergrad course I'm teaching - cognitive neuroscience - and it was so exciting to see so many students from a variety of academic backgrounds coming together. It looks like it will be a great semester with this talented group!

A related question: I would really like to incorporate LLMs into the class. Does anyone have good examples of how they have used them in graduate teaching?

Russ Poldrack@russpoldrack.org · 2y ago

I have been teaching a grad seminar for 10 years and I'd like to rework it to make it more engaging. Have any of you brought active learning techniques into your graduate seminars? I'd love to hear how you went about it and any tips you might have. Here is the syllabus: github.com/poldrack/psy...

Great talk by @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social at #UBC on the amazing work being done with the Virtual Brain to model and understand how brain activity - and corresponding network - shift with aging. A very powerful tool!

I know many people use VSCode or similar for fMRI analysis scripting, but I’ve really come to like PyCharm - good SFTP interface for working with compute clusters, Copilot inline for code checking, etc. I just wish it could handle remote Jupyter notebook mounting a little more nicely…random thought!

OpenNeuro.org is now on Bluesky! Follow us for project updates and exciting new datasets.

With so many new people flooding onto Blue Sky I thought I'd re-post this just-out cognitive neuroscience paper from my lab - the fruit of many years and much labour.

Beck Todd@beckety.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our paper led by Mana Ehlers w James Kryklywy, @brandonforys.bsky.social, et al. is finally out! We model neural instantiation of specific affective information acquired with learning. It's the result of a huge amount of work and persistence in the face of obstacles: direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

How do DA and 5HT drugs alter reinforcement learning? Join us next Wednesday for talks by @anahitm.bsky.social, Diego Pizzagalli, Michael Browning, Roshan Cools, Emma Robinson, Yael Niv, Cath Harmer, Isabel Berwian, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social and Anne Collins. Links etc: acplab.org/2024/11/15/r...

👋 I’m Brandon, a PhD student at UBC Psychology with @beckety.bsky.social and Alan Kingstone. I investigate factors driving our choices in cognitive effort + features of our environment that affect how we interpret everyday stimuli, as well as the neural representations of avoidance and reward.

Announcing: BIDS Validator 2.0 This is a complete rewrite to base the validator on the declarative BIDS schema. Most importantly, this validator boasts long-awaited support for BIDS Derivative datasets. bids-standard.github.io/bids-validat... #BIDS #BrainImagingDataStructure

Thanks for the post @beckety.bsky.social - well said and excited to see this out at long last!

Beck Todd@beckety.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our paper led by Mana Ehlers w James Kryklywy, @brandonforys.bsky.social, et al. is finally out! We model neural instantiation of specific affective information acquired with learning. It's the result of a huge amount of work and persistence in the face of obstacles: direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

New substack post. I interview entrepreneur & special effects producer Philipp Wolf on his strengths-based approach to neurdivergence, his midlife autism diagnosis, and swyvl, his company designing XR to share the experience of neurodivergent nervous systems: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

Simulating neurodiversity

An interview with Philipp Wolf

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I just published a new substack post on dancing with neurodiversity. If you like it please subscribe (for free). open.substack.com/pub/becketto...

What drives our choices to use more or less cognitive effort for reward? I’m excited to share our new paper out now in #eNeuro: “Short-term memory capacity predicts willingness to expend cognitive effort for reward.” doi.org/10.1523/ENEU...

Short-term memory capacity predicts willingness to expend cognitive effort for reward

We must often decide whether the effort required for a task is worth the reward. Past rodent work suggests that willingness to deploy cognitive effort can be driven by individual differences in percei...

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