Some years ago, Michael Breakspear (@drbreaky.bsky.social), myself and Andreas Daffertshofer published a review of the Kuramoto model in the context of #ComputationalNeuroscience. It became a popular introduction to modelling #synchronisation in the brain. www.frontiersin.org/journals/hum...

Frontiers | Generative Models of Cortical Oscillations: Neurobiological Implications of the Kuramoto Model

Understanding the fundamental mechanisms governing fluctuating oscilla- tions in large-scale cortical circuits is a crucial prelude to a proper knowl- edge...

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Artificial intelligence (AI) holds transformative potential for the care of people with mental health illnesses. This review explores key domains, applications & challenges that must be addressed to ensure safe, effective, & sustainable clinical integration. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

People have been looking at "AI & brains" through the lens of LLMs/transformers. But what latent diffusion? (think text-to-image/video platforms such as Midjourney). **Class conditioned latent diffusion and semantically cued hippocampus share a remarkably similar computational architecture...**

David Jones@davidjonesbrain.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🧵1/12 What if the DMN, limbic system, hippocampus, neural oscillations, gradients, dementia syndromes, mixed pathology, and aphantasia all fall out of the same generative brain computation? 🤯#endalz Introducing #SLOD (preprint): a new #NeuroAI framework w/ @drbreaky.bsky.social

Who is planning to go to the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social Australia chapter meeting? I'm leaving Australia soon so want to meet as many lovely Aussies as possible on my conference tour 😀

It was a great pleasure presenting preliminary results from my ongoing study on social-affective inference and constricted affect at the @newybrains.bsky.social lunch symposium series. We found some interesting first effects of positive affective surprise and bodily responses. 🙂

Interested in hippocampal dynamics and their interactions with cortical rhythms? Our physically constrained model of cortico-hippocampal interactions - complete with fast geometrically informed numerical simulation (available at embedded github repo) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In the latest episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, @drbreaky.bsky.social and @macshine.bsky.social describe a scale-free property of brain activity conserved across diverse species, suggesting a universal principle of activity underlying cognition. www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

Michael Breakspear and Mac Shine explain how brain processing changes across neural population scales

Breakspear and Shine find a scale-free property of brain activity that is conserved across diverse species, suggesting that a universal principle of brain activity underlies cognition.

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🔥ATTENTION!🔥 Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open! Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns. Details: tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6 Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...

The keynote speaker for the OHBM Virtual Satellite Meeting is Dr. Michael Breakspear, @drbreaky.bsky.social! You won’t want to miss his talk – your only chance will be to register and catch it live at 12:00-13:00 UTC on September 11! 🔗 https://humanbrainmapping.org/25SEASIG #OHBM #SEASIG

New 2 year position as an Imaging Data Infrastructure Specialist Located a the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) & the University of Newcastle (UoN), in partnership with the National Imaging Facility (NIF), Apply here: www.seek.com.au/job/85537666

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience, Generation of surrogate brain maps preserving spatial autocorrelation through random rotation of geometric eigenmodes direct.mit.edu/imag/article... Produces surrogates for null hypothesis testing of nonlinear effects within and correlations between brain maps

MAYBE DON’T EMAIL ME AT THE WEEKEND, THEN.

On this auspicious day, I finally bit the bullet & asked my super post-doc @annabhlr.bsky.social to teach me how to code & run Python (today!) Coding lifeline now goes: BASIC (1982); FORTRAN (1990); MAPLE (1992); MATLAB (1999); PYTHON (2025) (a bit of a gap between the last two!)

Program member Professor Michael Breakspear @drbreaky.bsky.social will be presenting "Modelling the brain as a wave machine" at Pint of Science in Newcastle on May 20, 2025 Follow the link to book your tickets! 👇 pintofscience.com.au/event/brains...

Brains and Bugs: Breakthroughs in Viruses & Mental Health

Explore ground breaking research on new therapies to prevent respiratory diseases and how computational neuroscience is revolutionising our understanding o…

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Looking forward to presenting our work on cortico-hippocampal coupling and wave-wave interactions as a basis for some core human cognitions 5pm May 6th EST (US) 8am May 7th AEST (Sydney) Zoom link: columbiacuimc.zoom.us/j/92736430185 Thanks to WaveClub conveners Erfan Zabeh & Uma Mohan

WaveClub@waveclubseminar.bsky.social · last yr.

We can't wait to hear from from Dr. Michael Breakspear in two weeks in our monthly online seminar series on traveling waves of neural oscillations. Join us on May 6th at 5-6p ET! Please note the change in time to accommodate our Aussie friend @drbreaky.bsky.social

What does parenthood, depression, and psychedelics do to your brain? Very proud to see Winnie Orchard joining this stellar grp of Aussie neuros @lenaedibrainz.bsky.social @lucacocchineuro.bsky.social ky.social & @drbreaky.bsky.social for a FREE public lecture in June. @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

We can't wait to hear from from Dr. Michael Breakspear in two weeks in our monthly online seminar series on traveling waves of neural oscillations. Join us on May 6th at 5-6p ET! Please note the change in time to accommodate our Aussie friend @drbreaky.bsky.social

We are hiring! @aurinaarn.bsky.social and I are jointly looking for a talented Postdoc in Systems and Comp Neuro at Monash (AUS). If you like neuroimaging 🧠, comp models 💻, genetics 🧬, brain disorders 🤕, and/or evolution 🐵🐭, this could be the job for you!! careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

An opportunity to *join our group* as a postdoc researcher analyzing complex physical systems, and the time-varying data they produce (with applications to sleep)! Join us @sydneyphysics.bsky.social on a great campus in a beautiful city! Please share 🙂 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Physics)

Full time, 2-year fixed term position with potential to extend. Located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics. Exciting opportunity to conduct research in a world-leading interdisciplinary...

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🧠🌡️ New preprint out! BRAIN TEMPERATURE may be a key factor in understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease and brain cancer: doi.org/10.31219/osf... 'Temperature matters: Insights into brain thermoregulation and its impact on neural activity and health'

New preprint: "Temperature matters: Insights into brain thermoregulation and its impact on neural activity and health" osf.io/preprints/os...

Program members Dr Alexander Thorpe and Professor Michael Breakspear @drbreaky.bsky.social presented today @hmriaustralia.bsky.social as part of the HMRI Weekly Research Seminar Series. Thanks to our researchers for their fascinating presentations! #neuroscience #researcher #neuromodulation #brain

I feel ill watching this storm build and approach the communities of northern NSW and Brisbane

Important caveats of working in surface space with off-the-shelf cortical meshes by @jaysonjeg.bsky.social

Do you work on surface MRI such as HCP data? Our paper is finally out in Imaging Neuroscience, showing biases in surface fMRI. The revised ms has many new insights! TLDR: Vertices are much closer to each other in sulci, resulting in (fake) high spatial autocorrelation. (1/5)

It was bangin' work by you too Kevo, waaaay before hemodynamic travelling waves got their time in the sun ...

Kevin Aquino 🧠🔑@kevinaquino.bsky.social · last yr.

I have had other papers pass this mile stone, but this one is special as it was my 1st, first-author paper, and was the output from my PhD many moons ago! @drbreaky.bsky.social @mschira.bsky.social

I have had other papers pass this mile stone, but this one is special as it was my 1st, first-author paper, and was the output from my PhD many moons ago! @drbreaky.bsky.social @mschira.bsky.social

New group photo taken by the talented media team at @hmriaustralia.bsky.social

Summary of the disastrous situation for science in the US & by collaboration, globally ".. leaders hostile to science & unqualified for their roles; executive orders that restrict meetings, publications, travel & grant making; censoring ideas & even certain words" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

Opinion | American Science is Under Attack

The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.

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Our latest paper is out! A well powered high resolution mapping of the grey-matter regions associated with Alzheimer's, progression to Alzheimer's disease, cognition and functioning. @drbreaky.bsky.social @barkhof.bsky.social @michelleklupton.bsky.social

Grey‐Matter Structure Markers of Alzheimer's Disease, Alzheimer's Conversion, Functioning and Cognition: A Meta‐Analysis Across 11 Cohorts

We meta-analysed results from 11 neuroimaging cohorts of elderly participants, to estimate the morphometricity (total association with brain measurements) of 17 traits of interest, and to identify th...

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