Happy to be serving as editor for MMB. Excited about what is to come.

Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB)@mmb-journal.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hello world! 👋 We’re Minds, Machines, and Brains (MMB) 👤🤖🧠 a new open access journal from @mitpress.bsky.social exploring the principles of intelligence and cognition across natural and artificial minds. Submissions open this Fall! 🔗 direct.mit.edu/mmb

🔭JOB ALERT🔬 Fully-funded PhD (+ soon postdoc) openings in my lab @cimecunitrento.bsky.social in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. TOPIC: Investigating predictive neural representations in naturalistic settings using MEG-based dynamic RSA

New Yorker cartoon feels about right

Excited to share our work: Subtype-resolved norepinephrine imaging with an engineered α1D-adrenergic receptor indicator: Cell Reports Methods www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Subtype-resolved norepinephrine imaging with an engineered α1D-adrenergic receptor indicator

Rohner et al. develop Alpha1DLight, an α1D-adrenergic receptor-derived fluorescent indicator that enables subtype-resolved norepinephrine imaging. The sensor shows high affinity, reversible responses,...

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Just finished this one, 'The Joy of X' by Steven Strogatz (2012). It's thought provoking and it explores some tricky concepts but above all, for a book on a traditionally maligned subject, it's readable for those of us who aren't mathematicians #booksky #books #maths 📚

🧠💡 Inter-individual variability of neurotransmitter receptor and transporter density in the human brain. Explore how this #OpenAccess study from 'Brain Structure and Function' maps variation across neurotransmitter systems and what it means for understanding the human brain. bit.ly/4bGuJgb

Dimensionality reduction is how the brain acquires knowledge. Cool new paper from the late, great, Mark Stokes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Learning shapes neural geometry in the primate prefrontal cortex - Nature Neuroscience

Learning transforms prefrontal cortex activity from flexible, high-dimensional representations into compact, task-relevant and abstract codes, enabling efficient generalization of learned rules to new...

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THIS. WAS. NOT. MISALIGNED. unintended yes. but this is a model that they trained for "red teaming", i.e. THEY LITERALLY TRAINED THE MODEL TO BE A HACKER AND WERE EVALUATING ITS HACKING ABILITIES. why is everyone acting surprised it acted like a hacker when that's what they told it to do?

Yoshua Bengio@yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 2w ago

This incident is deeply concerning. AI agents are willing to cheat and deceive to achieve misaligned and unintended goals, behaviours which have been demonstrated in controlled tests for months. Now, this real-world case should serve as a wake-up call. www.wired.com/story/openai...

Three new lectureship positions available at the School of Psychology, University of Leeds: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSE550/l...

Lecturer (Teaching and Research) in Psychology (Three Posts) at University of Leeds

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer (Teaching and Research) in Psychology (Three Posts) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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New paper in which we compare resting state networks based on fNIRS and fMRI data doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

#Aging drives changes in the #brain and #metabolism, but how independent are these effects? This study by @asafarahani.bsky.social, @misicbata.bsky.social &co identifies two axes of brain-body associations, each primarily related to age or metabolic health. 🧪#AcademicSky plos.io/4eoIu3L

1/ A deep brain region known as the A13 plays a central role across a diverse range of behavioural functions (in rodents). To our knowledge, no human homologue has been identified to date. In this #preprint, we map the human A13!🎯 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Seeking two Postdoctoral Fellows in (i) Biophysical Modeling (thevirtualbrain.org) in People at Risk of Alzheimer Disease; (ii) Network Neuroscience of Naturalistic Language in Aging Risk Factors. We seek computationally sophisticated highly motivated PhD's: labs.utdallas.edu/braincircuit....

Join us at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig as a fully funded 4-year postdoc position (m/f/d) in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience (Area: Social Cognition). Excellent infrastructure with a leading scientific network. Apply by 13 July: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/44...?

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Andrew D Wilson@adw.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Finally reading @anilseth.bsky.social’s book ‘Being You’ so I can be mad about his theory of perception (it’s a living 🤷‍♂️). Just saw this sentence about dreams, though, and I feel like it’s wrong; I experience dreams when I wake up, not when they’re happening 🤔 Thoughts?

⚡ The brain has a thermostat that matches blood flow to neural activity in real time. Chronic electrical stimulation breaks it. The therapeutic stimulation BCIs deliver may be undermining the metabolic environment those devices depend on. 🧵

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?

We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog

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Brain-wide distributed processing underlying natural vision and audition www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... "prefrontal cortex coordinated brain dynamics through synergistic interactions independently of sensory modality and previous sensory experience"

New preprint (doi.org/10.64898/202...) shows that where you look next is an economic decision. Saccades trade off effort-costs (measured via pupil) against monetary rewards. 1) By default, participants have strong saccade direction preferences (e.g., cardinal over diagonal, up over down) (1/4)

Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand | Nature Neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fixation duration on natural scenes is explained by memory encoding not processing demand - Nature Neuroscience

By combining magnetoencephalography and eye tracking, this study sheds light on why people fixate on some parts of natural scenes longer than others. Rather than visual complexity, fixation durations ...

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Estonian contribution to worls economy is hard to oversell

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

Many of you asked how we create those pretty whole-brain plots with the cortical outline. We just made it available as a Python package: pni-lab.github.io/quickbrain/

(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 · 3mo ago

📢PhD job alert! A exciting PhD project that involves using MEG and biophysical modelling to try to predict effects of a glutamatergic treatment for psychosis... plus you can develop your own side project. Join our great team! 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 proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at laion-fmri.hebartlab.com What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵

LAION-fMRI - a 7T fMRI dataset of human vision

LAION-fMRI (LfMRI / LAION MRI dataset): 5 subjects, 25,052 launch-release natural images, 165 acquired 7T fMRI sessions with single-trial GLMsingle betas, retinotopy, localizers, and diffusion.

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Surface-based image reconstruction optimization for high-density functional near-infrared spectroscopy, new in #Neurophotonics. 🧠💡 Read the open-access article here: https://bit.ly/47yKd3M #fNIRS #optics

Our brains don’t think in a steady stream. They rhythmically “scan” different alternatives, using attention cycles to sample and compare choices. Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain - Nature Communications

How humans process competing information when making multi-alternative decisions remains unclear. Here, the authors show that the brain resolves the trade-off between “evaluating within” and “comparin...

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A reminder that "Biological Aging" isn't a real thing. It's just a hyped up-term for biomarkers, and knowledge of biomarkers is only useful if that specific knowledge leads to better outcomes through improved decision making. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Arts and cultural engagement ‘linked to slower pace of biological ageing’

Research from UCL suggests visiting art galleries or museums, singing and painting can help improve health outcomes

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