Nice to see the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social app works well cross-platform. With your OHBM login, talks/sessions/posters you flag to appear on My Schedule are synced, across the web version ohbm.floq.live/event/ohbm-2... & the mobile app apps.apple.com/us/app/ohbm/... | play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Still some spaces left in next month's FSL course!

Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN)@oxcin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Register now for the in-person FSL Course 2026 in Bordeaux, France! 🗓️ June 22-26, 2026 🧠 Covering: lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis 🔗 open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...

In a meta-analysis of 210 biomedical AI studies that statistically compared models under cross-validation, 97% used invalid statistical tests. Here's our new preprint doi.org/10.64898/202... led by @tianchu.bsky.social @hetuli.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social @nichols.bsky.social 1/N

Very excited to play with the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 2026 abstract browser by Satra Ghosh & Mario Senden abstractatlas.brainkb.org/ohbm2026 - it allows flexible searching, by abstract text, methods used, or 'claims', as mined by different LLMs, and exploring by semantic similarity in 2D and 3D

Great to hear from @loiclnlg.bsky.social speaking for the Oxford Healthcare Data Science CDT on Tools for Environmentally Sustainable Research using AI and High Performance -- included a shoutout to great work of @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social on footprint of neuroimaging processing tools

Some Simple Economics of AGI: "because intelligence is now an abundant commodity, the nature of human work must adapt—toward roles as intent directors, verifiers and underwriters, or creators in the non-measurable economy where value is anchored in human connection" arxiv.org/abs/2602.20946

Some Simple Economics of AGI

For millennia, human cognition was the primary engine of progress on Earth. As AI decouples cognition from biology, the marginal cost of measurable execution falls to zero, absorbing any labor captura...

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Register now for the in-person FSL Course 2026 in Bordeaux, France! 🗓️ June 22-26, 2026 🧠 Covering: lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis 🔗 open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...

Calling out to other #DataLad users: At @oxcin.bsky.social we're thinking of replacing an XNAT instance that transfers data from our scanner and archives data with a service built on top of DataLad. Any thoughts or experiences people can share?

Come to the Oxford Big Data Institute and join the @smartbiomed.bsky.social project to work on complex developmental longitudinal data including brain imaging! 3 year postdoc supervised by myself, Naomi Wray and Wesley Thompson my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Save the date 👆🧵 Neuroimaging Statistics Workshop, 12-13 June, @ohbmofficial.bsky.social 2026 satellite meeting, w/ @ohbmossig.bsky.social's BrainHack. Keith Worsley lecture by Sir. John Aston, + great work at Neuro/Stats/ML/AI interface. Registration opens soon! sites.google.com/view/nsw2026

NeuroStats2026

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Future @ohbmofficial.bsky.social meeting dates just annouced: * 2027 - Toronto, Canada * 2028 - Yokohama, Japan www.ohbm-com.com/blog/futurem...

Next Stops for OHBM: Toronto, Canada in 2027 and Yokohama, Japan in 2028 — OHBM Communications

We are thrilled to announce the locations for our next two upcoming Annual Meetings! The 2027 OHBM Annual Meeting will be held in Toronto, Canada, followed by the 2028 OHBM Annual Meeting in Yokohama,...

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A systematic meta-analysis is hard work—and curation is often the hardest part. Y'all know this better than anyone, and we want to make it easier. What’s one specific piece of information you consistently had to find or extract from every paper? Tell us about it: tally.so/r/QKVbQG #neuroscience

a man is standing in a kitchen with his hands on his chest and asking for help .

Alt: Tom Cruise is standing in a kitchen with his hands on his chest and asking for help, saying "Help me, Help you"

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PROVIDENT: Best practice for PROspectiVe Imaging Research DEsign and coNducT. From @nihr.bsky.social Statistics's Imaging Studies section; harnesses many years of experience (& horror stories) integrating imaging into clinical trials. Biscombe et al. doi.org/10.1016/j.ra... doi.org/10.1016/j.ra...

Statistical Machine Learning post doc positions, w/ Oxford BDI-Novartis Collaboration for AI in Medicine, working on building causal predictive models for MS using a massive clinical trials MRI dataset. Join us on this unique collaboration! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Delighted to see that @ohbmossig.bsky.social has confirmed dates for the 2026 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social brain hack! ohbm.github.io/hackathon2026/ 11-13 June Thur-Sat, in the usual 3 days before the meeting, at the Campus Victoire, University of Bordeaux Looking forward to it!

AiMed2026 - 7-9 May in Kraków - a dual-track program to bring together clinical and technical experts at the intersection of AI and medicine. Co-chaired by my brilliant @oxpop.bsky.social colleague @bwpapiez.bsky.social piebm.org/campaigns/ai...

AI in Medicine 2026

The most comprehensive review conference in internal medicine. 73 lectures, 20.5 CME credits. Organized by McMaster University, the home of EBM.

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Excited to share our manuscript about BrainEffeX, a tool for exploring fMRI effect sizes. Includes why we made it, how to use it + contribute, and how we made it. @sneuroble.bsky.social @psychonetrics.bsky.social @alexkfischbach.bsky.social @nichols.bsky.social @dscheinost.bsky.social & MINDS Lab

Aperture Neuro@apertureohbm.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Shearer et al. introduce an interactive web application for exploring fMRI effect maps: doi.org/10.52294/001... @halleeshearer.bsky.social @sneuroble.bsky.social @ohbmossig.bsky.social #OpenDatasets #SpecialIssue

Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science arxiv.org/abs/2510.22254 - our latest, led by @ericwbridgeford.bsky.social

Ten Simple Rules for AI-Assisted Coding in Science

While AI coding tools have demonstrated potential to accelerate software development, their use in scientific computing raises critical questions about code quality and scientific validity. In this pa...

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Happy to be a part of Anya Topiwala's new work, using Mendelian Randomisation with @ukbiobank.bsky.social & Million Veteran Program, finding that even modest alcohol consumption increases risk of dementia. ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...

Alcohol use and risk of dementia in diverse populations: evidence from cohort, case–control and Mendelian randomisation approaches

Objectives To investigate the relationship between alcohol consumption and dementia. Design Prospective cohort and case–control analyses combined with linear and non-linear Mendelian randomisation. ...

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𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 – 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 Special issue of 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨, supported by @amstatnews.bsky.social ASA Sections on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR) and Statistics in Epidemiology (SIE) Submission details: tinyurl.com/47enwhwz

Epic work led by Habib Ganjgahi is out in Nature Medicine... data-driven clustering of MS finds 3 distinct states, early/mild, active, advanced, w/ transition to the advanced state only occuring through the active state... replicated twice! doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Really nice study, and extends some of the ideas developed in this paper pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32673043/

Thomas Yeo@bttyeo.bsky.social · last yr.

1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415...

For me, this work is a classic @ohbmofficial.bsky.social story: In 2023 I wasn't working with @bttyeo.bsky.social but I overheard him at his poster pointing to some accuracy curves saying "I don't why they have this particular shape". That kicked off the collab that led to these results.

Thomas Yeo@bttyeo.bsky.social · last yr.

3/11 Tom's model explains empirical prediction accuracies well across 76 phenotypes from 9 resting-fMRI & task-fMRI datasets (R2 = 0.89), spanning many scanners, acquisitions, racial groups, disorders & ages. Does this mean that we should collect large datasets with short scans?

1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Wasn't aware of tinyplot... an overlay package to make base R graphics easier to use. While I use ggplot2 for some tasks there are many situations where I prefer base R plotting, and this tool will be super helpful in those seetings.

Grant McDermott@gmcd.bsky.social · last yr.

`tinyplot` v0.4.2 is now available on CRAN + R-universe 🎉 Mostly bug fixes, but includes some important integration improvements for Positron IDE users. Release notes: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW... #rstats

Looking forward to presenting our team's research on AI for EHR at The Big Data Institute at Oxford on July 10th at 2 pm! Thanks to Sumeeta and Prof @nichols.bsky.social for organising. Link: talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/590...

Artificial intelligence for electronic health records

For our next talk, in Machine Learning, we will be hearing from Dr Shishir Rao, Senior Research Scientist, Deep Medicine research group, NDWRH, University of Oxford. We’re delighted to host Shishir in...

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Excited to share our latest preprint: "Neurosynth Compose: A Web-Based Platform for Flexible and Reproducible Neuroimaging Meta-Analysis" Here, we cover the why, what, and how of the next generation Neurosynth ecosystem for reproducible neuroimaging meta-analysis. osf.io/preprints/os...

Almost recovered from #OHBM2025... has anyone else found the E-posters nearly imposible to find. They are here, discoverable through the app and the browser-link-out button ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/inde...

Thomas Nichols@nichols.bsky.social · last yr.

Public service announcement: Don’t forget to upload your #OHBM2025 poster PDF, at ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/

Public service announcement: Don’t forget to upload your #OHBM2025 poster PDF, at ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/

The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025

Department of Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · last yr.

Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at #OHBM2025. Try the beta for yourself at github.com/spm/spm-python [2/7]