My suggestion is to have Tokyo-level-busy slides full of text and equations all in different fonts that are just there for half of the talk. It always helps 🔥

Itai Yanai@itaiyanai.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

In two weeks, I will be presenting my work at #PNIRS2026 in New Orleans! I'm so excited to see you all there. I will also be chairing a poster blitz with @iriskayichat.bsky.social and @estellethiggins.bsky.social And don't forget to join us at the early career social event! 🍻 @pnirs.bsky.social

We're organizing a full-day Neuro-AI workshop at OHBM with a 90-minute-long hands-on session to cover all the nitty-gritty of it. If you're around, come join us. Besides the practical aspects, we have a stellar line-up of speakers to learn from and discuss with: kuffmode.github.io/OHBM2026Neur...

🚨 The actual paper is now out on @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... In this opinion piece, @duncanastle.bsky.social and I explore the human brain through the lens of optimality and Pareto-optimality theory.

Embracing the suboptimal organization of the human brain

Human brain architecture is guiding brain-inspired artificial intelligence (AI) and has been treated as an optimal template, whose deviations could ma…

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Kayson Fakhar@kayson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

For all the esteemed scholars out there who prefer gaining knowledge the correct way, here’s a summary of our upcoming opinion piece, delivered to you by Jesus himself. But seriously, science communication is about to get a lot worse and better at the same time.

Folks, this will be at 15:00 **UK time** like other talks. Apparently UK time and UTC are not always the same, something that I learnt just today!

Kayson Fakhar@kayson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

And here comes the next episode of Making Connections. We'll be hosting @manlius.bsky.social on Thursday (May 14th) at 15 UTC. Read more and register via the link below: sites.google.com/view/makingc...

I decided to respond to one of those emails inviting me to promote my research — it looks like a genuine website with real scientists. However, I'd like them to be more transparent about their goals. Everything was written sincerely, but I'm not sure it will help...

I don’t think the problem is attention itself but on what does the brain invest it to get the highest return. We have the same budget as our grandparents had but we now also have fast food equivalent of content to spend our focus on so why bother with the boring stuff anymore.

Marieke van Vugt@mvugt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Interesting discussion of whether attention spans are decreasing. I have trouble with one argument, though: that lab tasks are necessarily a good measure of real-world attention. They are surely less messy, but they may not actually reflect real life www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Last reminder: this is happening today at 15:00 UTC.

Kayson Fakhar@kayson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Heads up! We have an update on the topic, still reservoir computing but now more relevant for neuro-folks. Read more here: sites.google.com/view/makingc...

Hi folks, reminder that this is happening next Thursday.

Kayson Fakhar@kayson.bsky.social · 5mo ago

G'day connection makers. On **April 16th**, we're hosting Georg Northoff telling us about intrinsic timescales. If it sounds interesting, here's the link to register: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

G'day connection makers. On **April 16th**, we're hosting Georg Northoff telling us about intrinsic timescales. If it sounds interesting, here's the link to register: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Folks, this is happening tomorrow.

Kayson Fakhar@kayson.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Next Thursday (March 19th), at 15 UTC, we host Joana Cabral to tell us more about eigenmodes and resonance decomposition. Read and register here if you'd like to tag along: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Intestinal interoceptive dysfunction drives age-associated cognitive decline www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Intestinal interoceptive dysfunction drives age-associated cognitive decline - Nature

Age-related microbiome changes increase medium-chain fatty acid-producing bacteria, driving GPR84-mediated myeloid inflammation, impaired vagal signalling and hippocampal dysfunction; targeting this g...

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Next Thursday (March 19th), at 15 UTC, we host Joana Cabral to tell us more about eigenmodes and resonance decomposition. Read and register here if you'd like to tag along: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I was a bit frustrated that Iranian regime’s role in this war is being minimized and people’s historical struggle is ignored so I made a game for you to be the people and see where your decisions take you instead: kuffmode.github.io/mirage/

This is happening tomorrow, and again, mind the -1 hour time shift.

Kayson Fakhar@kayson.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This Thursday (March 5th), we're hosting Changsong Zhou, but mind the time shift (from our usual 15:00 UTC to 14:00). Here's the registration link + more information about the talk: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I enjoyed writing this post for The Mental Elf about my favourite topic: the effects of social connection on physical health! I would love to hear your thoughts. Thank you, dear @eimearfoley.bsky.social , for the opportunity.

The Mental Elf@thementalelf.bsky.social · 6mo ago

💕 Does oxytocin help wounds heal faster? Not on its own. In 80 healthy couples, intranasal oxytocin accelerated wound healing only when paired with affectionate touch and partner appreciation. Oxytocin acts as a "social amplifier". buff.ly/IvuBcTq #Oxytocin #SocialHealth #RelationshipScience

Delighted to present our SOMs tutorial with fresh-out-of-print slides at @mrccbu.bsky.social Weekly Seminar today! Even better getting to present alongside @estherina.bsky.social 🙌

This Thursday (Feb 5th) we're hosting Dr. Salvador Durá-Bernal with a talk on “Large-scale biophysical models of neuronal circuits to study brain function and disease”. Here's the registration link and the abstract: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Reminder that this is happening today.

Kayson Fakhar@kayson.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This Thursday at 3PM (UTC), we'll host @barabasi.bsky.social at the Making Connections seminar series. I'm sure it'll be a very stimulating and inspiring talk, so if you'd like to join, register via the link below: sites.google.com/view/makingc...

New preprint 🎉 Psych constructs are complex. Symptoms overlap, people rarely fit neat categories, and patterns are non-linear. Most methods compromise this richness. Self-Organising Maps don't. We provide a step-by-step tutorial with annotated R code to make them accessible. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

🚨new work with the dream team @danakarca.bsky.social @loopyluppi.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @stuartoldham.bsky.social @duncanastle.bsky.social We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Researchers from MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge and University of Cambridge showed that the brain stays in the adolescent phase until our early thirties. Find out more in the BBC article 👉 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgl6klez226o

Happy LGBTQ+STEM Day! To mark the occasion, LGBTQ+ and ally scientists alike introduced our new pride flag to the @mrccbu.bsky.social

We are excited to announce #COGNESTIC 2026 @mrccbu.bsky.social in Cambridge, between 14-25 Sep 2026. Our 2-week summer school provides training in state-of-the-art methods for open neuroimaging analysis and great opportunities for professional networking: www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/events/cogne...

🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research 🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available 📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site 🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Assimilation-induced dehumanization: Psychology research uncovers a dark side effect of AI

Assimilation-induced dehumanization: Psychology research uncovers a dark side effect of AI

As AI becomes more empathetic, a surprising psychological shift occurs. New research finds that interacting with emotionally intelligent machines can make us see real people as more machine-like, subtly eroding our respect for humanity.

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📣 We are recruiting! Please share!! Are you a bioinformatician / computational scientist who wants to apply your skills to understanding regulatory biology and improving rare disease diagnosis and treatment? 🧠 💻 🧬 🩺 We have two roles available 👇 🧵 1/4

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

Stomach–brain coupling indexes a dimensional signature of mental health - Nature Mental Health

Using a relatively large and diverse sample of mostly young adults, this study by Banellis, Rebollo and colleagues examines associations between regional stomach–brain coupling and mental health and i...

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📣 We are expanding! Repost 🙏🏽 - Postdoc (funded by @simonsfoundation.org grant on synchronisation between cognitive representations and stepping) - Project Associates - Create your role! (Reach out if you are keen on these topics and these roles do not define you 👀🤗) www.neuroact.in

*New Paper* How genes for IQ shape brain organisation. Amazing work led by Alicja Monaghan @mrccbu.bsky.social reveals 2 ways. First, they’re associated w/ the ‘costs’ of network formation. Second, they define ‘high value’ areas within the network. How she did it…🧵 doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Brain wiring economics, network organisation and population-level genomics

Abstract. What role do our genes play in shaping the structural organisation of the living human brain? Across a sample of 2,153 children (9–11 years old), we address this question, focusing on common...

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