Very honoured to receive the Collaboration Award at this year's @raynorproject.bsky.social Summit! With so many brilliant scientists in one community, it's hard *not* to collaborate. Many thanks to the RCP to everyone involved.
Caroline Nettekoven
@carobellum.bsky.social
✨Cerebellum✨, Neuroimaging, Brain Stimulation, ML & NLP Wellcome Early Career Fellow at University of Oxford 🇬🇧 Formerly Postdoc at Western University 🇨🇦 & University of Cambridge 🇬🇧 PhD at University of Oxford 🇬🇧 https://www.caroline-nettekoven.com
Lots of great discussions with everyone at my #OHBM poster on our multi-task approach for precision mapping. Still time to come chat with me tomorrow at poster #2085 if you’re not too tired from club night! @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social #OHBM26 #neuroskyence #fmri
Come chat with me at poster #2085 about rest and task differences (and similarities) for precision mapping! #OHBM26 @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
Arrived at #OHBM26 with new science and lots of sunscreen in tow ☀️ Come talk to me Wednesday (12:45) and Thursday (13:45) at poster #2085 about our resting-state to multi-task comparison! By then I hopefully won’t be burnt to a crisp, but otherwise look for the lobster 🦞 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
I will miss #OHBM2026 this year, but if you go make sure you see these four amazing posters from current and former members of the lab !
So looking forward for this! It’ll be a late night chat for me, but any time is a good time to talk about exciting science 🧠⚡️
Stimulating Brains@stimulatingbrains.org · 3mo agoFor the next stimulating brains talk session, we're going to span across three continents with @carobellum.bsky.social and @macshine.bsky.social! Join us on June 25th at 6 PM EST (11 PM BST/8 AM AEST next day) for another amazing session! Free to attend 🎉 👉 talks.stimulatingbrains.org
Check out the shiny new version of the SUIT toolbox! Enabling fast, but careful analysis of cerebellar data. Brilliant work from Yao, Yaping and the whole team! #neuroskyence #neuromaging #fmri
Jörn Diedrichsen@diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social · 3mo agoSUITPy 2.1 is here - a Python-version of our toolbox for cerebellar isolation, normalization, atlassing, and flatmap visualization. The processing pipeline now works fully automatically from birth to old age. suitpy.readthedocs.io www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
For nearly two decades resting-state fMRI has ruled supreme. And resting-state is suprisingly powerful. But we can do so much better by using broad batteries of tasks with the right design. Here a double-punch delivered by two papers from @carobellum.bsky.social and @basselarafat.bsky.social!
basselarafat.bsky.social@basselarafat.bsky.social · 5mo agoYou have 10 minutes of task fMRI to map functional brain regions in an individual. Three decisions matter: How do you localize regions? Which tasks do you include? How do you arrange tasks in your experiment? Here, we tackle all three! Preprint👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Are you thinking about acquiring multi-task fMRI for your study but don’t know where to start? @bassel_arafat just published a toolbox to optimally select tasks and run them in the MRI scanner - with many commonly used tasks ready to go! Check out the preprint below 👇
basselarafat.bsky.social@basselarafat.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe MultiTaskBattery toolbox is live: 20+ implemented tasks, object-oriented design and a battery optimizer built in! Docs: multitaskbattery.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Github: github.com/DiedrichsenL... With @carobellum.bsky.social Jinkang Derrick Xiang @diedrichsenjorn.bsky.social 🙌
This study looks great - this issue has finally been getting the attention it deserves - if network architecture is ‘intrinsic’ it should say something about connectivity across tasks …
Caroline Nettekoven@carobellum.bsky.social · 6mo agoCheck out our new preprint! We directly tested a common assumption in neuroimaging: Is resting-state the best estimate of intrinsic organization? Spoiler: Across datasets and brain systems, multi-task fMRI did better. 👇
Really great work demonstrating the importance of task-based responses in characterizing the functional organization of the brain. Congrats to @carobellum.bsky.social and the rest of the team!
Caroline Nettekoven@carobellum.bsky.social · 6mo ago🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8
@carobellum.bsky.social really wanted to know how well resting-state correlations can predict which areas co-activate over a wide array of tasks. It turns out that you are better off running a short Multi-task battery, even if the tasks are completely different from the ones you want to predict!
Caroline Nettekoven@carobellum.bsky.social · 6mo ago🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8
Cool demonstration that using multiple tasks (diversity is important) may be more informative than resting state for uncovering individual functional connectivity patterns
Caroline Nettekoven@carobellum.bsky.social · 6mo ago🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8
Diversity matters. Multi-task, multisensory, crossmodal.
Caroline Nettekoven@carobellum.bsky.social · 6mo ago🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8
Task fMRI for the win! This is such great work, and a brilliant explainer thread too.
Caroline Nettekoven@carobellum.bsky.social · 6mo ago🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8
"Resting-state can be highly reliable. But reliability does not guarantee validity."
Caroline Nettekoven@carobellum.bsky.social · 6mo ago🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8
This looks awesome and I will now be having all subjects play WarioWare in the scanner
Caroline Nettekoven@carobellum.bsky.social · 6mo ago🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8
Diversity of tasks>>resting state for predictive power.
Caroline Nettekoven@carobellum.bsky.social · 6mo ago🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8
Check out our new preprint! We directly tested a common assumption in neuroimaging: Is resting-state the best estimate of intrinsic organization? Spoiler: Across datasets and brain systems, multi-task fMRI did better. 👇
bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 6mo agoMulti-task fMRI outperforms resting-state fMRI for revealing task-invariant organization of the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.09.710558v1
🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization. But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture? We tested this directly. 🧵1/8
Language areas in the cerebellar mapped by @coltoncasto.bsky.social: www.thetransmitter.org/language/cer... Very consistent with @carobellum.bsky.social functional atlas, but providing deeper details. By now the "terra incognita" of the cerebellum isn't so "incognita" anymore!
Cerebellum responds to language like cortical areas
One of four language-responsive cerebellar regions may encode meaningful information, much like the cortical language network in the left hemisphere, according to a new study.
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The cerebellum supports high-level language?? Now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social, we systematically examined language-responsive areas of the cerebellum using precision fMRI and identified a *cerebellar satellite* of the neocortical language network! authors.elsevier.com/a/1mUU83BtfH... 1/n 🧵👇
I don't know enough to have my own view on this paper or response, but to me this is science social media at its best: doing post publication peer review of papers that make big claims. Bravo @alexanderhuth.bsky.social
Alexander Huth@alexanderhuth.bsky.social · 8mo agoThis paper had a pretty shocking headline result (40% of voxels!), so I dug into it, and I think it is wrong. Essentially: they compare two noisy measures and find that about 40% of voxels have different sign between the two. I think this is just noise!
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Super important post for people in transcranial ultrasound neurostim - please read👇🏼
Elsa Fouragnan@efouragnan.bsky.social · 10mo agoA brain injury was reported in a trial using ultrasound, framed as low-intensity TUS. Kim Butts Pauly and I reviewed the case and disagreed with how it's presented. Key acoustic data are missing. Case: doi.org/10.1016/j.br... Letters: www.elsa-fouragnan.com/blog | web.stanford.edu/~kimbutts/Le...
📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢 🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method. Please RT www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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