New paper in Science Advances! We show that congenital blindness reduces myelination in the human visual cortex, challenging the long-standing idea that thicker visual cortex in blind people mainly reflects disrupted pruning. (1/4) doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Congenital blindness reduces myelination in human visual cortex

Altered myelin and microstructure in congenital blindness illuminate how sensory experience guides human brain development.

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The #brains of #blind people reorganize differently than previously thought: a Polish-German team of researchers from the @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social & @lenastroh.bsky.social @nikweiskopf.bsky.social shows how the lack of visual experience affects the maturation of the brain. tinyurl.com/yrfa7scv

The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought

The brains of blind people reorganize differently than previously thought

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This gorgeous essay from the social-media-less Lily Hu is everything: on what it means to "do" philosophy amidst pressure to automate it (with lessons that travel much more broadly). Rhymes with brilliant insights from @biblioracle.bsky.social @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Ted Chiang & others

Lily Hu · Un-Doing Philosophy

Analytic philosophers in the United States are increasingly embracing AI, both by taking advisory positions at tech companies and by using large language models for their own research and writing. Som...

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The ISMRM Education Committee is launching the ISMRM Educational Lecture Series: a new educational platform designed to engage junior and early-career MRI researchers. Register for this FREE virtual meeting to learn more: https://ow.ly/No7I50Z5g6P #ISMRM #ISMRT #MagneticResonance #MedicalImaging

🧠 PhD position: computational brain origami. Fully funded 4-year PhD on a new NWO-funded project combining 7T MRI, population receptive field mapping, and computational neuroscience to understand why human brains fold the way they do. 📢 vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda... #PhD #Neuroscience #Hiring

ANOTHER assistant professorship available in my department. Focus on contemporary neuroimaging applications to neuropsychology and psychopharmacology. #NeuroJobs vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

How dynamics arise from the structure is my biggest interest. In this study, we started with a small step and asked how structure constrains dynamics. Spoiler: would that it were so simple… (1/6)

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Inter- and intra-individual variability in structure-function coupling in human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.25.707886v1

🧠 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

Job alert 🚨 Fully funded PhD position available in our Maastricht lab! Are you interested in the relationship between memory and prediction, and have a track record of neuroimaging/decoding? Please apply! #NeuroJobs www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3576...

PhD Candidate: Cognitive Computational Neuroscience of Memory and Prediction

Welcome to Maastricht University! Are you fascinated by how the brain remembers and predicts information, and how it can tell apart representations of past and future? At Maastricht University, you wi...

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2024 was the first full calendar year for Imaging Neuroscience @mitpress - 350 papers published. We're proud of how the brain imaging community enthusiastically embraced open access non-profit publishing. Our aim is to be *your* journal. Full size PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/1M170...

Congratulations Laurin!

Siawoosh Mohammadi@siawooshmr.bsky.social · 8mo ago

1/5 Big congratulations to Dr. Laurin Mordhorst on completing his PhD! 🎓 His dissertation focused on axon-radii mapping—a challenging problem and a significant step forward for quantitative neuroimaging.

On this day of Christmas I bring to you: Christmas carols generated by a tiny vintage neural net. This is from 2017, when I trained the neural net from scratch on my laptop using just Christmas carols. In retrospect I can see the neural net got mixed signals www.aiweirdness.com/christmas-ca...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Laurin Mordhorst, Siawoosh Mohammadi, et al: MRI-scale histology validates spatial sensitivity of in-vivo MRI-based axon radius estimation doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

We are looking for “Data Scientist or ML/AI expert” who will work at the cutting edge of data science and neuromaging in a collaboration between @mpicbs.bsky.social and the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF). Deadline: 10th Nov. 2025. Apply here:

Data Scientist or Machine Learning / AI expert (m/f/d)

Data Scientist or Machine Learning / AI expert (m/f/d) to join the AI and High-Performance Data Analytics division of MPCDF.

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#fluorescencefriday special. Half marmoset 🧠 cleared and stained using SHIELD and imaged by lightsheet microscopy. Courtesy of Jesleen Saini @shahrzadbahrampour.bsky.social and @stefan-everling.bsky.social

Nice demo by Mark Lescroart @neuromdl.bsky.social on EPI imaging of a single #fMRI slice. Great for teaching! :) vimeo.com/143701608?fl...

fMRI_EPI_KspaceAcquisition_short

This is a demonstration of how a single slice of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is collected. Before this makes any sense, you will need to understand…

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Hi! If you or someone you know is looking for a PhD, look no further: a position just opened in my lab in Maastricht on cortical vasculature with advanced microscopy and tissue clearing. Very good salary, lively city, and super pretty brain data await!

PhD on Investigating Human Cortical Angioarchitecture with 3D Histology

Welcome to Maastricht University! The Computational Brain Connectivity lab (CBClab) at Maastricht University is looking for a PhD to investigate Human Cortical Angioarchitecture with 3D Histology Meth...

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Luke Edwards@lukejoeledwards.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A colleague of mine at the CBCLab at Maastricht University, Sven Hildebrand, is looking to hire a PhD student to investigate the arrangement of blood vessels in the human brain cortex using 3D postmortem histology: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3549... Application deadline the 31st of October.

A colleague of mine at the CBCLab at Maastricht University, Sven Hildebrand, is looking to hire a PhD student to investigate the arrangement of blood vessels in the human brain cortex using 3D postmortem histology: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3549... Application deadline the 31st of October.

A colleague of mine at the CBCLab at Maastricht University, Sven Hildebrand, is looking to hire a PhD student to investigate the arrangement of blood vessels in the human brain cortex using 3D postmortem histology: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3549... Application deadline the 31st of October.

Science is self correcting. Finally!

Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method

Several MRI artifacts contribute to the neuronal activity signal picked up by the method, according to a preprint the authors posted this month.

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Proposal for how to fix family wise error rates. For every uncorrected p value you must add an extra letter to the claim. “Eating chocolate maaaaaaaaay be associated with lower rates of stroke”

Ein Plädoyer für Tauben: steady.page/de/db21f...

Genies der Lüfte

🕊️Tauben erkennen Picassos, diagnostizieren Krebs und hören Infraschall. Warum wir eines der klügsten Tiere unserer Städte als "Ratten der Lüfte" verachten.

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We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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I’m happy to share that our manuscript on the cortical depth-dependency of the GE- and SE-BOLD point spread function at 7 Tesla is now available on bioRxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Spatial specificity of the functional gradient echo and spin echo BOLD signal across cortical depth at 7 T

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at high magnetic field strengths (≥ 7 T) is a promising technique to study the functioning of the human brain at the spatial scale of cortical columns and ...

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We have two permanent lectureships currently available at York - home and overseas applicants are welcome! Please share: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

If you hate statistics like I do, then you'll love my free lectures. Putting science before statistics, 20 lectures from basics of inference & causal modeling to multilevel models & dynamic state space models. It's all free, made with love and sympathy. 🧪 #stats www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

New Post: AI Is Here To Stay - www.possibilityspace.org/blog/posts/h... I wrote a new blog (on new blog software!) about how AI is here to stay. But what exactly does that mean, anyway?

- Poster 1832, "In vivo MRI histology revisited: en route to hMRI toolbox 1.0", cf. hdl.handle.net/2268/328894 and taking part in the "30 Years of SPM: Celebrating the Evolution of Neuroimaging Analysis" roundtable, cf. hdl.handle.net/2268/329963 Drop by if interested. 😃

We are hiring a PhD candidate for a fully funded project on Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) MR imaging at the @giga-crc-hi.bsky.social! The project aims at applying CEST MRI to study ageing and detect AD-related biomarkers. All practical details on www.linkedin.com/posts/christ...

PhD position in CEST MRI | Christophe Phillips

We are hiring a PhD candidate for a fully funded project on CEST MR imaging at the GIGA CRC human imaging ! The project aims at applying Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) MR imaging to stud...

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