I am very excited for this OHBM @ohbmofficial.bsky.social symposium on axonal and myelin measurement USING MRI/DWI and their contributions to the g-ratio and neural signal conduction estimation!! @stikov.bsky.social @siawooshmr.bsky.social @mfcallaghan.bsky.social @mathieuboudreau.bsky.social

Happy to share our new publication on the role of endothelial cells in age-related cognitive dysfunction, published in @ebiomedicine.bsky.social. Thanks to all coauthors, incl. Dimitrios Spyropoulos, @dorotheazi.bsky.social, @talongden.bsky.social, and many more. www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

Trump USAID Cuts Killed One Million People 750,000 died in the first year. By 2030 defunding USAID will kill 9.4 Million people, and 2.5 Million Children under the age of 5. Trump’s most lethal policy will almost surely be his 71 percent cut in humanitarian aid. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/o...

Opinion | This Is What Happened When Trump Abandoned the World’s Poorest Children

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📢📢 As part of the #OHBM2026 brainhack, we're organising a workshop about the #hMRI toolbox for the processing and analysis of #MRI relaxometry data in #neuroscience studies. The workshop will take place on June 12th - just prior to #OHBM2026. See 👇 for details Everyone welcome 🤗

Christophe Phillips@chphillips.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Let me highlight the hMRI Workshop, co-organised with the BrainHack on Friday June 12 from 1:30pm till 6:30pm CEST. Speakers list includes Olga Dmitrichenko, @fkherif.bsky.social, @antoinelutti.bsky.social, @chphillips.bsky.social, and Baris E. Ugurcan. See Brainhack details 👇 and... 1/5

Don't miss tonight's Opening Plenary Session: Hear from 2025-2026 ISMRM President, Mark A. Griswold, and 2025-2026 ISMRM Program Chair, Kathryn Keenan, followed by our first 2026 named lecturer! LAUTERBUR LECTURE by Kirsten Donald 15:45 | Plenary Hall (CTICC 2 | Halls 8-10) #ISMRM2026 #ISMRT2026

Watch ISMRM 2026 Plenary Sessions—LIVE and FREE! All plenary sessions from the ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Cape Town are being live streamed and open to the global MR community. Join from anywhere: https://ow.ly/sno750YS4lI #ISMRM2026 #ISMRT2026 #GlobalMR

Catch the Young Investigator Awards oral presentation tomorrow morning! 08:20 | Auditorium 2 at CTICC #ISMRM2026 #ISMRT2026

Lamellar Normative Modelling of the Hippocampus Across the Human Lifespan | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I took a 10-year break from g-ratio imaging to focus on vendor-neutral MRI. In the meantime, Alexander Gow at the American Society for Neurochemistry (ASN) and @jackvanhorn8.bsky.social at the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social have been leading a g-ratio revival. 1/2

New paper out from our lab, together with Anat Perry! We asked if empathy is reduced when watching someone in pain in a pre-recorded video or live. Short answer: no, at least as far as our behavioral and electrophysiological measurements go. Check out the long answer in the paper: rdcu.be/fdEMr

Harald Lesch bringt es auf den Punkt: Viele sind “geschockt, dass wir demonstrieren müssen für den gesunden Menschenverstand, für erneuerbare Energien.” Aber angesichts von Reiches fossiler Lobbypolitik müssen wir das tun - und das werden wir morgen bundesweit. Erneuerbare Energien verteidigen!

1/6 Our paper is out today in Nature Communications! From the SFB/TRR 289 Treatment Expectation @sfb-trr-289.bsky.social we show that temporal expectations shape somatosensory perception - for both painful heat AND non-painful cold stimuli.

The #ERC just announced new rules! erc.europa.eu/news-events/... If you got a B score before, you’re blocked for 2 years (instead of 1). A C score means 3-year exclusion. This applies to the 2027 call for now, but I’d expect this to stick. Important for anyone planning to apply this round!

Applying for an ERC grant in the 2027 competitions: what you need to know

The ERC plans to launch the grant competitions under its 2027 Work Programme between July 2026 and June 2027, with the calls for proposals introducing several changes to the eligibility rules for appl...

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The Obleser lab will be hiring soon! New postdoc (fully funded) and new PhD or part-time postdoc position (soft-money funded). Spread the word. Start in Sept/Oct. Watch out for official announcements! Please be in touch. auditorycognition.com obleserlab.com hoerhanse.de lemmi.uni-luebeck.de

Academic friends, It's beyond heartbreaking to watch what's unfolding in Iran & the region. A few of us drafted an open letter calling for protection of civilians & of educational, research, medical & cultural institutions. Please read & sign if you agree: sites.google.com/view/protect... #IranWar

Protect Academic Life in Iran

We, the undersigned academics and researchers from around the world, express our profound concern over recent military strikes on Iran, the retaliatory responses, and the reported impact on civilian l...

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Speechless. Widely considered the MIT of Iran, Sharif has given the US some of its best engineers, and some of my most talented (and kind, and thoughtful) colleagues—some of whom who have chosen the US as their home.

Bita Moghaddam@bita137.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Sharif University in Tehran was just bombed Founded in 1965, it is one the most elite science and engineering institutions in the world. Alumni include the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, first woman to win the Fields Medal Here is the list of other alumni en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Ihr wisst ja alle, dass Theo Müller mit der AfD abkumpelt. Aber ist allen klar, wie es um die Qualität seiner Produkte steht? Und wie viel Müll der Konzern um sich wirft? www.zdf.de/video/portra...

Die Wahrheit über Müller - Food Stories mit Sebastian Lege

Von der Dorfmolkerei zum globalen Konzern: Müller prägt den Milchmarkt mit Joghurt, Käse & Co. Was steckt hinter dem Erfolg - und wie steuert das Unternehmen seine Produktion?

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1/9 New preprint by Laurin Mordhorst: 3D histology validates 2D histology for axon radius distributions and conduction velocities. We asked: if individual axons vary along their length, can classic 2D histology still reflect white-matter organization? Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our latest results on bioRxiv! Our EEG study shows that human brain activity consecutively supports both Bayesian integration and prediction‑error signalling. Plot twist: prediction‑error signalling appears to be consistent with the Reverse Hierarchy Theory! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Michiel Cottaar, Saad Jbabdi, et al: Multi-modal Monte Carlo MRI simulator of tissue microstructure doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Looking for a #PhD or #postdoc position on predictive processing? 🧠 Please, get in touch if you are the perfect fit to join my lab at @ruhr-uni-bochum.de

Wir haben 2 Professuren in Bielefeld zu besetzen. 1) W2 Allgemeine Psychologie und Neurobildgebung (Nachfolge Werner Schneider) www.uni-bielefeld.de/uni/karriere... & 2) eine Lotte-Köhler-Stiftungs-Juniorprofessur (W1) für Psychodynamische Psychotherapie www.uni-bielefeld.de/uni/karriere...!

We are delighted to see departmental alumni Eleanor Maguire, and her former PhD student Sir Demis Hassabis, honoured in the UCL Faces project, as part of UCL’s bicentenary celebrations. Read about their valuable contributions on the UCL Faces webpage. www.ucl.ac.uk/about/search...

The human brain reimagined: Eleanor Maguire, transforming understanding of neuroscience

Eleanor Maguire transformed our understanding of human memory and how we approach neuroscience research, inspiring generations of scientists and paving the way for some of our biggest breakthroughs.

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🧠 New bioRxiv preprint from the Microstructure MRI lab (first author: Francisco J. Fritz): “Longitudinal whole-human-brain quantitative MRI study on autolysis, fixation, rehydration, and shrinkage effects.” www.biorxiv.org/content/bior... 1/8

Klaas Enno Stephan notes “Three decades is an unusually long period for a purely academic software to exist, enjoy enormous popularity, and stay at the top of the game”. Go #SPM, go #MethodsTeam members, past and present, from all around the world! 🧠🌏

Department of Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · 11mo ago

“From mapping to explaining brain function: the generative theoretical ambition of SPM” - our article in Cerebral Cortex forms part of our 30(ish) year celebration of SPM. academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...

I am now hiring a PhD student in deep learning for medical images, to work at the Department of Biomedical Engineering (IMT) for our ELLIIT project on federated learning. Application deadline February 19. web103.reachmee.com/ext/I011/853...

How do priors influence speech processing? Do they enhance expected signals or highlight the unexpected (prediction errors)? @fabianschneider.bsky.social' s work shows: It depends!

Fabian Schneider@fabianschneider.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Same sound, different perception: Do expectations change what you hear?👂🧠 We paired faces w topics and played the same ambiguous speech w different faces. The brain sharpened sensory signals toward predictions and showed gated prediction errors at higher levels. Read @plosbiology.org. Blueprint👇

Kein Internet, kein Telefon: Das iranische Regime legt im Kampf gegen die Massenproteste die Kommunikation des Landes lahm. Die Menschen gehen offenbar trotzdem weiter auf die Straße. Auch wenn sie um ihr Leben fürchten müssen.

Iran – Internetsperre: Dann eben Aufstand ohne Internet

Kein Internet, kein Telefon: Das iranische Regime legt im Kampf gegen die Massenproteste die Kommunikation des Landes lahm. Die Menschen gehen offenbar trotzdem weiter auf die Straße. Auch wenn sie um ihr Leben fürchten müssen.

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Bradley G. Karat, Jelle Veraart, et al: Revisiting the interpretation of axon diameter mapping using higher-order signal representations doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Preprint on PANDORA by Aslan Abivardi: A massive archive of UK Biobank brain imaging from 82K subjects. For each of 98 sub-modalities (e.g., FA from dMRI), the images are collated into a convenient subjectsXvoxels HDF5 file. pages.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/pandora/web/ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...