Last week we celebrated the winners of the 2026 OxCIN Good Citizen Awards at our very first annual Summer Party. Congrats to all our members who were recognised for their efforts in making our culture more positive, inclusive, open and collaborative! 🏆 Read more: www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/news/good-ci...

Good Citizen Awards 2026

Winners announced at the first OxCIN Summer Party

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One more week to apply for OxCIN Global Scholars! 🎯For early-career MRI researchers in the Global South 💻Remote 1-year affiliation with OxCIN 🧠Training in MRI physics & FSL 🌎Build global connections 🗓️Deadline 28 June 2026 🔗https://www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/training/global-scholars Please repost!

We are celebrating Pride Month at OxCIN with Pride Snacks: a series of bite-sized talks highlighting people and organisations who promote LGBTQIA+ inclusivity in our field. Today we heard from our radiographer Samira about her volunteer work for Pride in STEM! prideinstem.org

The OxCIN MRI Graduate Programme and the Paediatric Neuroimaging Group with their parent information video 'My Baby's Brain' both won a Highly Commended award at yesterday's Vice-Chancellor's Awards! Many congratulations to everyone involved. Find out more: www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/news/oxcin-m...

Quick! Register by June 12th for the next in-person FSL Course! 🗓️ June 22-26, 2026 📍 Bordeaux, France 🧠 Covering: lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis 🔗 More info: open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...

Huge congratulations to our Global Scholars @arijitbhattacharya.bsky.social and Patrick Filima, who received a @wellcometrust.bsky.social and @globalbioimaging.bsky.social Imaging4All Access Grant to visit Oxford in person! Global Scholars applications are open until June 28th! lnkd.in/dWVi5cwG

Why do some young athletes have long-term symptoms after injury, even when their brain looks normal? Student Izabelle Lovgren and neurosurgeon Tim Lawrence are using advanced MRI scans to reveal subtle changes in brain structure, metabolism, and connectivity. Read more: tinyurl.com/3vyubkkz (3/3)

Brain injury in young athletes examined in new Oxford study

Researchers use MRI scans to uncover why some children have worse outcomes after a head injury.

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Supported by a Seed Award from oxhealthbrc.bsky.social, researchers mattweightman26.bsky.social and Hao-Lun Fu are exploring faster, more practical ways to assess brain health with a new portable EEG headband. The goal: pitch-side brain technology for safer decisions in real time! (2/3)

This Brain Injury Awareness Week we're excited to share some of the work happening at OxCIN! Our researchers are using EEG and MRI to improve how we detect and monitor mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI), such as concussion. www.headway.org.uk/about-headwa... (1/3)

Action for Brain Injury (ABI) Week

Action for Brain Injury (ABI) Week

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Last week we celebrated the retirement of our beloved radiographer of 13 years, Mike Sanders. One of the first winners of our Good Citizen Awards, Mike will forever be part of OxCIN lore for his uniquely entertaining Magnet Safety Training and Public Engagement performances. Happy retirement Mike! ✈️

New research from @neuroecologylab.bsky.social @oxcin.bsky.social helps address the large between-species gap that currently exists in #TranslationalNeuroscience by building a mouse-to-human brain translational model from gene expression. Read #openaccess now 👇

Translating brain anatomy and disease from mouse to human in latent gene expression space

Our work provides i) a quantitative bridge across evolutionary divergence between the human and the predominant preclinical species, ii) a predictive framework to help design and evaluate disease mode...

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Register by May 15 for the OPM-FLUX Toolkit! 🗓️ 13-16 July 2026 📍 St Catherine's College, Oxford 🎯 For anyone new to using OPM-MEG in cognitive and clinical neuroscience 🔗 www.neuosc.com/fluxtoolkit2...

FLUX Toolkit (4d), Oxford July 2026 | Neuronal Oscillations

The FLUX toolkit course focuses on teaching analysis for MEG data applied in clinical and cognitive neuroscience investigations.

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Congratulations to our members who are shortlisted for a Vice-Chancellor's Award! The OxCIN MRI Graduate Programme is nominated for a Teaching Award, and the Paediatric Neuroimaging Group's video project 'My Baby's Brain' is up for a Research Engagement Award. Find out more: tinyurl.com/bdee9rk2

OxCIN members shortlisted for 2026 Vice-Chancellor's Awards

Congratulations to the MRI Graduate Programme and 'My Baby's Brain'!

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Many congratulations to Betina Ip, Nima Khalighinejad, and Will Clarke, who have all been deservingly awarded the title of Associate Professor!

Register now for the next 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 🔗 More info: open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...

Paper alert! Very happy to see Chloe's amazing mouse-human comparative-to-translational paper out: doi.org/10.1016/j.eb... @oxcin.bsky.social /w @mristam.bsky.social

NEWS: Oxford scientists uncover how the brain resolves emotional ambiguity @oxcin.bsky.social scientists find a key emotional centre deep in the human brain directly influences how we interpret ambiguous social cues.

Oxford scientists uncover how the brain resolves emotional ambiguity

Non-invasive ultrasound study reveals causal role of the amygdala in interpreting uncertain emotions.

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Apply now for OxCIN Global Scholars! 🎯For early-career MRI researchers in the Global South 💻Remote 1-year affiliation with OxCIN 🧠Training in MRI physics & analysis, inc FSL 🌎Build global connections 🗓️Apply by 28 June 2026 🔗https://www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/training/global-scholars Please repost!

Today we celebrated the OxCIN researchers practising, promoting, and advancing Open Science. Congratulations to the OxCIN Open Science Ambassadors' Award winners @levikumle.bsky.social and @gauravbhalerao.bsky.social! Read more about their work: tinyurl.com/2h9ncfcy

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...

Happy World Sleep Day! OxCIN sleep researchers are at the JR Hospital today, talking to the public about sleep research and practical tips to improve sleep habits. Read more about our studies and ways to get involved: www.win.ox.ac.uk/research/res...

OxCIN researchers are part of a world-first clinical trial funded by charity Race Against Dementia to treat Lewy Body Dementia with Focused Ultrasound Stimulation. Read more from BBC Oxfordshire: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sir Jackie Stewart's son on the impact dementia has had on family

Mark Stewart talks ahead of a new ultrasound trial in Oxford to help prevent Lewy Body Dementia.

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Happy International Women and Girls in Science day! From our Director to our postdocs, students, and core staff, we are lucky to have so many talented women at OxCIN. But women still only account for 1 in 3 researchers globally, and it's time for change! www.un.org/en/observanc...

International Day of Women and Girls in Science | United Nations

The purpose of the day is to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls.

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Our Clinical Neuroimaging course 2025/26 is now open! 🧠 Learn how to use & interpret MRI in your clinical practice 💻 Fully online & self-paced ✅ CPD accredited 🗓️ Register by April 30th! 🔗 www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/traini... vimeo.com/886487930

Oxford Clinical Neuroimaging Course

This is "Oxford Clinical Neuroimaging Course" by OxCIN on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Save the date! FSL Course 2026 is provisionally planned in-person​ for June 22nd - 26th in Bordeaux, France. More details and the registration link will be posted on the FSL Course website soon. open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...

Congratulations to OxCIN's researchers who were recognised on the 2025 Clarivate Highly Cited list: Jesper Andersson, Paul Harrison, Masud Husain, Daniel Margulies, Philip McGuire, Karla Miller, Tom Nichols, and Steve Smith. Read more: tinyurl.com/3hxcddpr Full list: clarivate.com/highly-cited...

Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025

The Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list identifies and celebrates individuals who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research. Through rigorous selection criteria and ...

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Our Clinical Neuroimaging course 2025/26 is now open! 🧠 Learn how to use & interpret MRI in your clinical practice 💻 Fully online & self-paced ✅ CPD accredited 🗓️ Register by April 30th! 🔗 www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/traini... vimeo.com/886487930

Oxford Clinical Neuroimaging Course

This is "Oxford Clinical Neuroimaging Course" by OxCIN on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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📖 Out now! Introduction to Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Acquisition and Analysis by William Clarke, Adam Berrington, and Saad Jbabdi @saadjbabdi.bsky.social A comprehensive yet accessible handbook including online practicals. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3uvab9j9 #Neuroimaging #MRS #Spectroscopy #OUP

Happy #WorldRadiographyDay! At OxCIN, our radiographers make cutting-edge brain imaging possible — combining clinical skill, research expertise and participant care. Over the past year, our Radiography Team have completed 1686 scans. 🔗 oxcin.ox.ac.uk/research/core-staff 1/4

Happy World Radiography Day to our wonderful OxCIN radiographers, who make all of our MR research possible! Why not take a moment today to acknowledge the radiographers in your life? I've heard they enjoy chocolate...