📢 New paper out in @nathumbehav.nature.com: we identify a previously undescribed fast thalamic oscillation (~19–45 Hz) in rare intracranial human recordings that appears specifically during wakefulness and REM sleep — but disappears during NREM sleep. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I built a bluesky labeler for neuroscience methods. 1️⃣ follow/subscribe to: @neuromethods.bsky.social 2️⃣ like the post with your favorite method ➡️ get a shiny methods label in your profile/posts. 🌟

main goal for this year: find a new job! 🙂 looking for a role with fun & complex technical challenges & within a great community. my main expertise is in signal processing/EEG/MEG, but topic-wise I am quite flexible. science/industry both great! starting mid-year. nschawor.github.io/cv

Asking informally: does anyone know someone who might be interested in a postdoc focused on understanding changes in memory representations driven by attention using EEG? ⚡️Thanks!

Somehow I've only just now gotten around to signing this. Highly recommended! openletter.earth/open-letter-... Great initiative by @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and others. Interesting to note how many AI experts are in fact signing this...

What an engaging discussion at our IGOR panel "Have we solved the replication crisis?"🔎 Special thanks to @deevybee.bsky.social @brittawestner.bsky.social A. Hildebrandt & S. Jeung for their insights about the current state and future of Open Science, and to the moderator @gordonfeld.bsky.social

🔍 Have we solved the replication crisis? Join us for an IGOR panel discussion on the state of Open Science in biological psychology more than a decade after the crisis first hit. 📅 Friday, 10 Oct | 10:00–11:00 CET 💻 Online (contact us for the link) #OpenScience #neuroskyence #academicsky [1/3]

At the #OPM conference in Marseille @robertoostenveld.bsky.social reminded us the importance to take care of our FOSSS software we use and develop. Adopt the practices from the paper led by @brittawestner.bsky.social and co-authored by the main MEEG toolbox developers direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software

Abstract. Most scientists need software to perform their research (Barker et al., 2020; Carver et al., 2022; Hettrick, 2014; Hettrick et al., 2014; Switters & Osimo, 2019), and neuroscientists are no ...

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Our #CCN2025 GAC debate w/ @gretatuckute.bsky.social, Gemma Roig (www.cvai.cs.uni-frankfurt.de), Jacqueline Gottlieb (gottlieblab.com), Klaus Oberauer, @mschrimpf.bsky.social &‬ @brittawestner.bsky.social asks: 📊 What benchmarks are useful for cognitive science? 💭 2025.ccneuro.org/gac

@brittawestner.bsky.social is talking about #OpenSource software in academia. There's not enough room for people focusing on this, which is a problem for the development of new software, but also their maintaining (which is especially problematic when others build on your software...)! #OpenScience

This workshop is FREE btw

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · last yr.

✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/

✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/

Important message. TLDR; cite the software not the paper.

Britta Westner@brittawestner.bsky.social · last yr.

Ever used open-source (neuroscience MEG/EEG) software? Please take a moment to check out this report from within. This paper is very close to my heart, because we are moving towards a crisis … 🧵 bsky.app/profile/imag...

An important commentary on the state of M/EEG software and the perverse fact we all rely on something which there is little reward in writing and maintaining. This needs to change. That, or we never allow these authors to ever get on a plane together.

Britta Westner@brittawestner.bsky.social · last yr.

Ever used open-source (neuroscience MEG/EEG) software? Please take a moment to check out this report from within. This paper is very close to my heart, because we are moving towards a crisis … 🧵 bsky.app/profile/imag...

While maintenance is a big part of the software life-cycle, user support can be just as time consuming - if not more so. Support needs can be reduced by providing (and maintaining) decent documentation, but this is also not something that funders seems to consider important.

An important call from a lot of people I worked together with on MNE Python. If you use free open source software for your research, please read this. It's a lot of work building the tools that we as scientists use. In turn, we can help them by e.g. citing them correctly.

Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al: Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Ever used open-source (neuroscience MEG/EEG) software? Please take a moment to check out this report from within. This paper is very close to my heart, because we are moving towards a crisis … 🧵 bsky.app/profile/imag...

Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Tim M. Tierney, et al: Cycling on the Freeway: The perilous state of open-source neuroscience software doi.org/10.1162/imag...

🧵 1/5 Excited to share our latest @joss-openjournals.bsky.social 🧪 #paper: UnfoldSim.jl New @julialang.org package to simulate continuous event-based time series for #EEG & beyond! 📜 doi.org/10.21105/jos... 🛠 github.com/unfoldtoolbo... With @judithschepers.bsky.social, Luis Lips & Maanik Marathe

Congrats to @brittawestner.bsky.social (NEMOlab alumna 😊), Floris @predictivebrain.bsky.social, and team! Did you win more cake? 🧁🍰🧁🍰😜

Steve Smith@fmrib-steve.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to announce the 500th paper published by Imaging Neuroscience ! @imagingneurosci.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social We've come a long way in a short time and are hugely grateful to the neuroimaging community for your support. Hope to see lots of you at OHBM @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Honoured to be paper number 500, together with my co-authors @predictivebrain.bsky.social et al! 🎉 Congratulations, @imagingneurosci.bsky.social and thanks to the Editors for making the famous move to start from scratch 💙

Steve Smith@fmrib-steve.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to announce the 500th paper published by Imaging Neuroscience ! @imagingneurosci.bsky.social @mitpress.bsky.social We've come a long way in a short time and are hugely grateful to the neuroimaging community for your support. Hope to see lots of you at OHBM @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

New paper published with co-first-author Ella Bosch, and Christian Utzerath, Jan Buitelaar, and @predictivebrain.bsky.social ! We find that neural adaptation to familiar images is not different between autistic and non-autistic peers. #MEG #neuroscience

Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Floris P. de Lange, et al: Typical neural adaptation for familiar images in autistic adolescents doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Encouraging to see 5000+ protesters at our local Amsterdam protests against the budget cuts in higher education in the NL! In this time of geopolitical tensions, changing climate, democratic backsliding, & tech revolutions, governments should *invest* in knowledge & the future of the next generation

What are you doing on 28-31 October 2025? Save the date & join us at PracticalMEEG 3d edition in Aix-en-Pce with hands-on training in MEEG data, plenary lectures & other exciting new features like posters sessions, toolbox bouquet and more: cuttingeeg.org/practicalmee... Registration coming soon!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5nE... Important and painful

How Germany's elite research institution fails young scientists | DW Documentary

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3500 people protesting the right-wing Dutch government's 1.3 billion € budget cuts to higher education. This is an extinction-level event for dutch research, and @Radboud_uni @radboudumc and the HAN are having none of it. #nijmegen #woinactie #doehetniet

En ook de derde dag van de estafettestaking in het Hoger Onderwijs, vandaag in Nijmegen, is een groot succes. Het rode vierkant van #WOinActie wappert aan de toren, en duizenden studenten, docenten, wetenschappers en sympathisanten protesteren tegen de aangekondigde bezuinigingen. #DoeHetNiet

Against the budget cuts in higher education. 🟥

“We believe that healthy universities are a backbone of a thriving democracy. They promote critical thinking, independent research & informed debates. The planned cuts threaten academic freedom, innovation and equal access to education. A weakened university system means a weakened democracy.” 5/n

If you are working at Radboud University, I encourage you to join the strike! Here is the programme: www.ru.nl/en/about-us/... 2/n

Demonstrations against budget cuts on 13 March | Radboud University

Staff members have announced that they will join a relay strike on Thursday 13 March against the Dutch Cabinet’s cuts to the education budget. Some students also want to demonstrate.

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🧠 Do you know about Research Software Engineers (RSEs)? #RSEMidlands2025 #MATLAB #MATLABAmbassador 💻 Academic outputs increasingly depend on software, yet academia primarily rewards papers, not the code behind them! 📝