🚨Job Search announcement 🚨 @psychillinois.bsky.social is searching for an assistant prof in cognitive neuroscience. Come join us! Pls RT 🙏 Full ad: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... #neuroskyence #psychscisky #neuroimaging

1/ New paper out today from my group, in @natneuro.nature.com, in which we review the anatomical & functional data on insula structure across species. This was a "whole lab" project led by @joeycharbonneau.bsky.social. It's been a 5 year in the making (a full 3 years in review)! rdcu.be/fyd7T

Comparative insights into insula structure and function

Nature Neuroscience - Charbonneau et al. compare how the insula is structured and functions in humans, monkeys and rodents, revealing similarities and differences across species that are likely to...

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A bunch of neuroscientists in Bordeaux, what could go wrong? See y'all there!

The Organization for Human Brain Mapping@ohbmofficial.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#OHBM2026 is almost here! 🧠🎉 Before traveling to Bordeaux, check out our Know Before You Go guide for everything you need to prepare for the meeting. 🔗 Review the full guide here: mailchi.mp/humanbrainma...

Rui strikes again. A. M. A. Z. I. N. G.

Rui Xu@rui-xu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New preprint as my first post! "Monosynaptic connections link functionally similar regions in human cortex." We use electrical stimulation + fMRI in epilepsy patients to map whole-brain monosynaptic connectivity at 42 cortical sites. doi.org/10.64898/202... 1/n

(1/5) Our paper is out now in Neuron! bsky.app/profile/cp-n... The LPFC has fine-scale organization that gets missed in group-averaged data because of inter-individual variability. It is visible in individuals in both resting-state and task data.

Neuron@cp-neuron.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The University approves plans for the Cambridge Mind and Brain Institute (CMBi). An evolution of the renowned CBU, bridging across Schools and Departments, the new Institute will integrate discovery science with clinical innovation to transform brain health. #Neuroscience #MentalHealth

In excel???

Stimulating Brains@stimulatingbrains.org · 6mo ago

It was a tremendous honor to speak with the one and only Karl Friston – not about the Free Energy Principle, but for a change about the history of SPM. Did you know the very first version of SPM was programmed in Excel? That and much more here 👇👇 stimulatingbrains.org/79-karl-fris...

📣 📣 📣 The Department of Psychology is offering 8 funded, part-time PhD training posts. If you are interested in doing a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience in a supportive and friendly environment, with training in fMRI, EEG and TMS/tDCS methods, please get in touch at francesca.branzi@liverpool.ac.uk!

Out in the UK today! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Fox, the Shrew, and You

A leading neuroscientist describes the long evolutionary process that led to the human brain

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When your last phd paper is finally accepted for publication #metgala #badbunny #neuroscience #academia

DEADLINE EXTENDED Apply before 26-April-2026

Arabs In Neuroscience (AiN)@arabsinneuro.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Even with everything happening across our region, we’re continuing to create space for learning, connection, and science. Applications are now open for students & TAs Deadline: April 19 Apply now ↓ arabsinneuro.org/school/ #ArabCompNeuro26 #Neuroscience #CompNeuro #ArabSTEM #MENA #STEM

Our new paper on brain networks engaged during imagining is out now in Neuron! Here is a download link (free for 50 days): authors.elsevier.com/c/1msNE3BtfH... Congratulations to Nate Anderson for leading this work @rementurus.bsky.social 🧵

Rodrigo Braga@rodbraga.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨 🧠 We have a new preprint out where we studied which brain networks are engaged during mental imagery and self-generated thought. We used a precision fMRI approach along with multidimensional experience sampling (mDES) to get trialwise self-reports from each participant about what they imagined.

I am going to call this the fMRI dead salmon moment for computational modelling

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The digital sphinx: Can a worm brain control a fly body? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.20.713233v1

What an abstract! "The resulting digital sphinx produces highly realistic fly walking - yet it is biologically meaningless. This exercise teaches us nothing about either animal"

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The digital sphinx: Can a worm brain control a fly body? https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.20.713233v1

Check out our new preprint! We directly tested a common assumption in neuroimaging: Is resting-state the best estimate of intrinsic organization? Spoiler: Across datasets and brain systems, multi-task fMRI did better. 👇

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Multi-task fMRI outperforms resting-state fMRI for revealing task-invariant organization of the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.09.710558v1

At Invited Symposium 2 on precision mapping of prefrontal cortex (PFC), @moatazassem.bsky.social shares striking evidence of functionally distinct multiple-demand patches in PFC track category-selective images of objects vs faces vs letters vs other types of visual stimuli! #CNS2026

If you are attending #CNS2026, see you at our frontal lobe focused symposium this sunday morning. www.cogneurosociety.org/invited-symp... @cogneuronews.bsky.social

Excited to see this Version Of Record of my work out in @elife.bsky.social! elifesciences.org/articles/106... We investigate the mental representation of geometric shapes in adults and children using fMRI and MEG. Each figure has a video of me explaining the figure: go and read it, or read below.

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#JNeurosci: Kuo et al. show that computational models of neural population responses can reconcile findings between mouse and primate, demonstrating how common computational principles allow for direct translation between their visual systems. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1133-25.2025

After a long visa delay, I’ve finally arrived in Chicago 🎉 I’ll be here for the year as a visiting fellow hosted by Rodrigo Braga, working on intracranial EEG + precision fMRI to study working memory and cognitive control! Stay tuned! @rodbraga.bsky.social US folks: happy to connect & give talks.

Hmmmm.... interesting!

I may be a *little* biased but this 📘 is GREAT! If you ever found language structure interesting, but were turned off by implausible and overly complicated accounts, this book is 4U: a simple and empirically grounded account of the syntax of natural lgs. A must-read for lang researchers+aficionados!

New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press. This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...

New book! I have written a book, called Syntax: A cognitive approach, published by MIT Press. This is open access; MIT Press will post a link soon, but until then, the book is available on my website: tedlab.mit.edu/tedlab_websi...

In the 2020 Election Project, Meta collaborated w/ academics to study how FB impacts elections. ⬇️ @aanixel.bsky.social, @fassiluisa.bsky.social & I argue that such research collaborations, w/ clear conflicts of interest, should be regulated. Would love to hear thoughts!💬 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We need transparency standards for social media research that involves companies | PNAS

We need transparency standards for social media research that involves companies

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Woooooooo!!!! Yeaaaaaaaa!!!

Prof. Alex Woolgar@alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Utterly delighted to have been awarded 5 years of research funding from the ERC to study low-activity brain states that could underpin flexible rule use. Let’s see what "pinging" can tell us about how task sets are assembled and changed!

🧠 New paper alert (the 1st one from our new lab)! Led by 1st author & VR wizard @jaquent.bsky.social @natcomms.nature.com How do our brains distinguish novel from familiar places as we explore our environments, e.g., a new city? 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🧵 Thread below with key findings ⬇️

The special issue celebrating John Duncan's retirement is now out! Check out all the gem articles here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10QN6R7VQSM and the editorial (see next figure in the thread for an entertaining analysis) doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

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

Join us next tuesdsy for this not to be missed free event!

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge@cmbi.bsky.social · last yr.

What does it mean to be both animal and thinker? Join @moatazassem.bsky.social and John Duncan on 25 November at Murray Edwards College for the launch of John’s new book ‘The Animal and the Thinker.’ Get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-animal...