Universities must stop protecting bullies — or more people will leave science www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Someone tried to "clean up" parts of voxel-wise activations with AI and the results were HORRENDOUS. Cluster shapes changed, some crosshairs moved outside the clusters, the brain underlay grew new sulci and underwent some affine skewing, etc. Goes without saying but please don't ever do this.

Simultaneous speech and gesture decoding for multimodal communication in paralysis www.nature.com/articles/s41... Shows neural signals recorded with a single high-density electrocorticography implant can support simultaneous decoding of speech & gestures Commentary www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Simultaneous speech and gesture decoding for multimodal communication in paralysis - Nature Neuroscience

Brosler et al. develop a brain–computer interface that simultaneously decodes speech and gestures from a single cortical implant to animate a virtual avatar, providing a step toward more flexible comm...

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the Delta DIY MRI Workshop (building an ultra-low field scanner) at JHU in Baltimore was super fun and educational last week. highly recommended.

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First report on fMRI data from the absolute monster 11.7T Iseult MRI scanner at the NeuroSpin centre in France. Cool stuff. direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

Human fMRI at 11.7T: Assessing Feasibility, Stability, and Reliability on the Iseult Scanner

Abstract. Ultra-high-field MRI promises major gains in BOLD sensitivity but introduces severe challenges such as RF field inhomogeneity, B0 field inhomogeneity, motion and vibration-induced field vari...

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Launching scienceofplacebo.org: a living bibliography of placebo and nocebo research. New papers screened & tagged daily by design, population, outcome and findings, with a searchable database (currently about 5,000 papers), an interactive researcher map, events, news and discussion.

Science of Placebo

A research hub for the science of placebo and nocebo effects: a daily-updated feed of new papers, a searchable tagged database, bibliometrics, events, resources and discussion.

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AI watermarking is more clever and complex than i had imagined youtu.be/BFksx2M93sw?...

Google has secretly been watermarking your text for years.

YouTube video by Alberta Tech

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Have you ever felt like something was missing from your #fmri results? Have you been worried about potential reproducibility issues? Well, this new @natmethods.nature.com article with 40+ coauthors shows how the simple change to transparent thresholding helps both. Go Figure! rdcu.be/B4tikBETdQZa

We're currently hiring a new director for the renowned UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. The director will be appointed as a Professor in our psychology department: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07814

Director of the Center for Mind and Brain & Professor of Psychology

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Can real-time brain feedback be combined with targeted brain stimulation? Beynel et al. demonstrate the feasibility of integrating real-time #fMRI neurofeedback with #rTMS—and share valuable technical lessons for future studies. 🔗 apertureneuro.org/article/1655...

Longitudinal Precision Functional Mapping in Psychiatry jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Longitudinal Precision Functional Mapping in Psychiatry

This Viewpoint discusses longitudinal precision functional mapping in psychiatry.

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Nothing in my experimental-cognitive/math-psych background could have prepared me for the unique horror of large-scale routinely-collected medical and educational data

Just had my daily reminder of how wonderful the NIH peeps are who handle all of the work involved in managing grants for those of us out here in extramural land. The NIH staff really are the best humans, working so hard to ensure that the science can continue in incredibly challenging times.

they have some exciting things cooking: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Deep Computational Anatomy via Latent-Aligned Multiview Normalizing Flows

In modeling complex probability distributions, normalizing flows provide exact-likelihood, bijective mappings between empirical data and tractable latent spaces. Building on this foundation, latent-al...

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my abstract "Functional MRI comparisons of a motor task at 3T, 5T and 7T" was accepted at @asfnr.bsky.social. hope to you see you down in Newport Beach in October!

Now in Science: How does the brain’s navigation system allocate its limited representational resources during behavior? We found that grid cells sweep toward locations of interest, providing a potential mechanism for allocating spatial attention in the cognitive map.🧵 science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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#dipy #dmrizerotohero #diffusionmri #neuroimaging #tractography #brainmapping #python #neuroscience | Diffusion Imaging in Python

🍃 Welcome to Week 30 of our Diffusion MRI Zero To Hero series! Over the past 29 weeks, we have walked through the entire diffusion MRI pipeline - from what diffusion MRI even is, all the way to mappi...

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www.jneurosci.org/content/46/2...

My Fifty Years Thinking about Emotional Consciousness in the Brain

This piece provides an overview of my fifty-year career as a neuroscientist. I spent much of this time trying to understand what emotions are and how they relate to human behavior and consciousness. I...

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wanted to learn @nilearn.bsky.social GLM-ing at NeuroHackademy, so as part of a group project I analyzed the open dataset "Study Forrest" localizers at the group level (n=15), visualized with alpha thresholding (also nilearn). here's the body localizer, corrected at p<0.001 via permutation testing:

had an absolute blast in the 2 week NeuroHackademy workshop up at University of Washington

Thanks to Kshipra Guranandan, my notebook on how to design efficient fMRI experiments (for activity, connectivity and pattern analysis) is now available in Python as a Jupyter notebook (as well as previous Matlab): github.com/RikHenson/fM...

GitHub - RikHenson/fMRIefficiency

Contribute to RikHenson/fMRIefficiency development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Proprietary LLMs impede scientific transparency and reproducibility Comment by Killian L. McLoughlin, Alexis Palmer, J. Nathan Matias & M. J. Crockett Web: go.nature.com/4wDYqGI PDF: rdcu.be/ftzkM

The 2026 fMRI Summer Course with @fmri-today.bsky.social has begun and the recordings and slides are shared here: fmrif.nimh.nih.gov/SummerCourse

Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why paying peer reviewers works, according to a journal’s editor-in-chief

A biology journal that paid peer reviewers found that the approach cut the time to a first editorial decision by 85% and maintained high-quality reviews.

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Multiscale characterization of the human claustrum from histology to MRI www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Dr. Tianye Zhai’s careful and exhaustive new paper evaluating the effects of numerous fMRI denoising pipeline components, alone and in combination, just came out in HBM - check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Benchmarking fMRI Denoising Pipelines

This paper benchmarked fMRI denoising pipelines on task- and resting-state, single- and multi-echo fMRI datasets, in a modern 1-step regression framework, with pre-whitening and time-shifted physiolo...

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In-scanner thoughts contribute to resting-state functional connectivity pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42365014/ I've long thought that this is the "elephant in the room" of resting state #fMRI esp. for comparing groups. If two groups think & feel differently in the scanner, of course rsfMRI will differ!

been enjoying @neurodesk.org lately

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Andrea Brandstetter, Katrin Amunts, et al: Organization, fine structure, and stereotaxic maps of the human Bed nucleus of the Stria terminalis doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...