Happy New Year from Imaging Neuroscience - here is the 2025 montage, from 440 papers. Full size montage PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/19gjQ...

Make it your New Year resolution to add a #workingmemory dataset to OpenWMData so that we can curate our field's precious data, start testing theories and benchmarking models across datasets, conduct secondary analyses and meta-research using the data itself, and help me feel like I'm, like, alive.

OpenWMData

A collection of publicly available working memory datasets

williamngiam.github.io

netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1101/2025... Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️

When you hear "deep and crisp and even" these days, is your first thought of snow... or of pizza? On this week's Rare Earth we discuss the joys of winter, what nature (esp hedgehogs!) is up to in the cold, and how our relationship with winter is changing. Listen here: www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Tracking coordinated cellular dynamics directly from images -- New method paper by labmates @bgraedel.bsky.social & @macdobry.bsky.social ! Python package & @napari.org plugin, all the good stuff: Paper: doi.org/10.1242/jcs.... Code: github.com/pertzlab/arc... Plugin: github.com/pertzlab/arc...

This is part of the reason why I teach & make YouTube videos on how AI is used in science: I don't want all the baggage from genAI & chatbots to prevent the public from supporting or trusting better & more grounded forms of AI.

Niall Firth@niallfirth.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Finally @mmitchell.bsky.social explains why generative AI hype can blind us to the AI breakthroughs that we should really celebrate. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1...

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

We don't actually trust AI. We trust the companies behind it. As Maria Antoniak notes, every "private" chat flows through corporate systems with long histories of data misuse. If we care about AI ethics, we need to name power, not anthropomorphize models.

Evening routine: 1. brew tea 2. sip tea 3. hate tuberculosis

Generate a heartwarming advert for your bookshop:

There's a source of relief in videos like this. For so long we have had professionals who are afraid of calling out the idiocy of billionaires, because they view it as "unprofessional" to have opinions and ethics. And that's why communicators like @acollierastro.bsky.social are especially important

live long and prosper (if you have a billion dollars)

YouTube video by Angela Collier

youtu.be

Peaking in high school: tragic Peaking in preschool because your parents are paleontologists and you know all the dinosaurs: magic

The first step in the ~14,500 km journey (as the crow flies) to Wasa was a taxi to the airport. The second is a flight to Oslo*. It's masks on time. *Yes, this #fieldwork involves *a lot* of carbon. Let's hope the data is worth it... sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/11/h...

Heading South

Tomorrow, I’m heading south, though more correctly, I’m first heading north to head south. Fieldwork in Antarctica starts next week..

sternaparadisaea.net

Researchers extract latent representation of humanity's future from latest AI model

ClutchScience (Jen Phillips)@clutchscience.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Caption this

Anyone can publish new ideas even when centralized institutions don't support those ideas. Bluesky really is the printing press, a publisher, and a network of other independent publishers all at once.

A “universal” pattern of cortical brain oscillations may be less ubiquitous than previously proposed. By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/brain-waves/...

Dispute erupts over universal cortical brain-wave claim

The debate highlights opposing views on how the cortex transmits information.

thetransmitter.org

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :) The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used > neal.fun/size-of-life/

is there a *mr* information?

Netflix limited series about the tortured genius artist who created old VHS covers

www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Saloni's guide to data visualization

Why data visualization matters, and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.

scientificdiscovery.dev

Here's a little round up of my 2025 year in #DataViz featuring 💜 Some of my favourite #RStats charts 💜 A look back at 5 years of #TidyTuesday 💜 Links to cool #QuartoPub and visualisation things I've seen this year Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/year-in...

My year in data visualisation – Nicola Rennie

A round up of my projects this year, highlighting some of my favourite charts from 2025, and looking back on five years of TidyTuesday contributions.

nrennie.rbind.io

Elusive Cures is 6 months old today! In the post below, I told you about what was involved in making it happen (with gratitude to everyone involved). Here's an update about what's happened since. /1 bsky.app/profile/nico...

Nicole Rust@nicolecrust.bsky.social · last yr.

Elusive Cures is my first book. I was surprised by how much was required to make it happen (beyond writing it). If you're curious, here's the who and how behind it ... 🧵 (My amazing publisher: @princetonupress.bsky.social)

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...

Feeling guilty about the never-ending pile of unread books taking space on your shelf? Just say you are practicing tsundoku! Wikipedia's tsundoku article is considered a stub, or a very basic description of the topic. Consider improving it with reliable sources ➡️ w.wiki/7vhv