Now final in @elife.bsky.social: #Synesthetes really do 'see' when reporting colors while reading (typeface gray) numbers: pupils change according to the perceived colors' brightness - if a synesthete sees a bright yellow, the pupils become smaller. elifesciences.org/articles/110...

Christoph Strauch@cstrauch.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We show that synesthesia is sensory and automatic in nature: the pupil scales with the brightness of experienced synesthetic colors. doi.org/10.7554/eLif... Now in its new dress @elife.bsky.social (convincing & valuable in round 1). If anyone wants to pick up the method, happy to share & explain!

This graph took me 3 years to make. It's perhaps the largest-ever #metaanalysis of #TMS #BrainStim data. It includes my first real scientific discovery 🧵: When you stimulate the hand with a brief electric pulse, your brain and spinal cord are momentarily less excitable: muscle output decreases 1/n

We have a few spots left in our upcoming workshop in Eugene, OR October 12-14, 2026. Please join us! greenhouselab.github.io/motorbrainst... #neuroskyence #sensorimotor #TranscranialMagneticStimulation

The TMS-RAT is finally out in Brain Stimulation. Check it out here: www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S193...

Development and Validation of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Reporting Assessment Tool (TMS-RAT)

A standardised tool for comprehensive reporting can improve transparency, support consistent documentation, and enable comparison across transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies. To date, the m...

brainstimjrnl.com

Nick Holmes@thehandlab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

⚡ #TMS #Preprint ⚡🐀 🧪 🧠 🧵 Brain stimulation methods are complex; reproducibility depends on knowing what was done. @solyas.bsky.social's paper reports work with myself & 15 other @tmsmultilab.bsky.social members to develop a modular, flexible reporting tool: the TMS-RAT doi.org/10.64898/202...

In 2025, experts presented the latest evidence on the climate crisis to Westminster. Their findings are brought together in the new film, The National Emergency Briefing. Join us on Wednesday for a screening, followed by a discussion with Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh @cast-centre.bsky.social.

University to host screening of National Emergency Briefing film on the climate and nature crisis

15 July event will be hosted by Professor Lorraine Whitmarsh, Advisor on the film

bath.ac.uk

Every month, ~25 researchers from ~10 countries join our presentations & discussions on #TMS methods & results It's the BrainStim World Cup ⚽ But Free. And no knockouts You can join us too! Find meeting links on our Github/Slack. Get in touch if you can't find the link github.com/TMSMultiLab/...

Meetings

Resources, data and code to help you run a TMS laboratory - TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab

github.com

TMSMultiLab@tmsmultilab.bsky.social · last mo.

Tomorrow's TMSMultiLab Meeting #17: "Re-assessing the effects of rTMS: A meta-analysis" With Dr Emir Yassi Come to find out: Does rTMS work? 14h UTC+1, zoom link in the usual places! ⚡️🧠🧲 doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

Happy to share that StimulEYE found its home at the TMS journal: doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

Phivos Phylactou@phivph.com · last yr.

New preprint out, where we show that TMS-induced pupil dilations can be used as a measurable proxy of cortical excitability. With: @frasermacrae.bsky.social @freekvanede.bsky.social @daspainbrain.bsky.social @drsmschabrun.bsky.social et al. Details below 🧵 [1/n]

In the June 2026 meeting of TMSMultiLab: Dr Emir Yassi will present a new #meta-analysis of repetitive #TMS studies, published recently: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... TMSMultiLab meets on the last Friday of every month. For details see our GitHub pages or join our Slack github.com/TMSMultiLab/... 🧠⚡🧲

Last night, I was one of the recipients of the University of Bath Doctoral Recognition Award for ‘commitment to quality research practice, commitment to real-world impact, and commitment to the research community.’ A little (needed) confidence boost just a few months before submitting my thesis!

#RStats challenge and potential community project: * Create a minimal package 'dumpsterfire' that triggers as many 'R CMD check' issues as possible! Fun, but could also become a excellent resource for illustrating and understanding package check issues Here's a start: github.com/HenrikBengts...

coming s👀n to a preprint server near you...

Nick Holmes@thehandlab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Now *that* is a large sample size #MetaAnalysis of #TMS #BrainStim #electromyography #EMG #MEP #preprint will be coming: one day this season...

Happening today! Invite your #BrainStim & #TMS friends :-) meeting link via our github (or just get in touch!) github.com/TMSMultiLab/...

TMSMultiLab@tmsmultilab.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This Friday: designing & building software to analyse #TMS & EMG data, with Gleb Perevoznyuk. 14:00 GMT+1, ZOOM See you there!

We present 2 versions of TMS-RAT: Version 1.0 provides *recommendations* for TMS reporting. There are 80 items (72 fully tested), but some did not reach high inter-rater reliability. v1.0 is for further development. Version 1.1 is fully-tested & all 50 items have high inter-rater reliability ⚡🐀.

Could we improve the reproducibility of TMS studies by improving how we report our methods? Let’s try that. 17 of us worked on developing and validating the TMS-RAT, a tool to guide reporting and evaluate the completeness of reporting in TMS studies. Check out the preprint👇🏻 All feedback welcome!

Nick Holmes@thehandlab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

⚡ #TMS #Preprint ⚡🐀 🧪 🧠 🧵 Brain stimulation methods are complex; reproducibility depends on knowing what was done. @solyas.bsky.social's paper reports work with myself & 15 other @tmsmultilab.bsky.social members to develop a modular, flexible reporting tool: the TMS-RAT doi.org/10.64898/202...

There’s probably a proper post coming from @thehandlab.bsky.social soon, but you heard it from me first. TMS-RAT ⚡️🐀 just landed. @solyas.bsky.social @tmsmultilab.bsky.social

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Development and Validation of the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Reporting Assessment Tool(TMS-RAT) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.18.706460v1

TMSMultiLab's next monthly meeting: 27th February 14:00 GMT 🤝⚡️🧠 "Dose-response (input-output) curves: Ground truth for testing TMS methods?" by me (@TheHandLab) Details & Zoom link via github 👇 & slack (request an invite) github.com/TMSMultiLab/...

Meetings

Resources, data and code to help you run a TMS laboratory - TMSMultiLab/TMSMultiLab

github.com

Watch out for this absolute beast of a meta-analysis 🐲

Nick Holmes@thehandlab.bsky.social · 7mo ago

sneak preview of the #TMS #MetaAnalysis I've been working on for two years... this isn't the main result, but it's one of the prettiest graphs I've made in some time, so it's worth bragging about. there's a *lot* going on in this graph - to be explained in a (near?) future thread..! #BrainStim

The most compelling null finding you're likely to see

Solya Székely@solyas.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Check out our new preprint!! 🤏👀 Motor Imagery Vividness Does Not Predict the Ability to Judge Object Weight from Observed Hand Actions doi.org/10.31234/osf... We explored the relationship between the ability to understand hand actions and self-reported motor/general visual imagery vividness.

Check out our new preprint!! 🤏👀 Motor Imagery Vividness Does Not Predict the Ability to Judge Object Weight from Observed Hand Actions doi.org/10.31234/osf... We explored the relationship between the ability to understand hand actions and self-reported motor/general visual imagery vividness.

Now published in the Journal of Neurophysiology: journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.... Get in touch if you think this tool could help in your science! We will be developing improvements and extensions over the next year.

ATHENA: automatically tracking hands expertly with no annotations | Journal of Neurophysiology | American Physiological Society

Studying naturalistic hand behaviors is challenging due to the limitations of conventional marker-based motion capture, which can be costly, time-consuming, and encumber participants. Although markerl...

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Jonathan A. Michaels@jonathanamichaels.bsky.social · 12mo ago

We're thrilled to introduce ATHENA: Automatically Tracking Hands Expertly with No Annotations – our open-source, Python-based toolbox for 3D markerless hand tracking! Paper: www.biorxiv.org/content/10....

Are you someone, or do you know anyone, who has pain in their arm/hand/shoulder (for any reason) and would be interested in contributing to ONLINE research on movement perception in upper limb pain? Participate/find out more here: run.pavlovia.org/Szekely/unil...

Today at 14:00 GMT 👀🧠🧲⚡️

TMSMultiLab@tmsmultilab.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This month's #TMS MultiLab meeting will be given by @phivph.com Phivos Phylactou, on: "The eyes are the window to t̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶l̶ brain excitability" Friday 28th, 14:00 GMT 👀🧠🧲⚡️ Get the meeting link from our GitHub pages or Slack channel - get in touch if you can't find it! github.com/TMSMultiLab/...

Who wants to be a postdoc in Cardiff? Great place, great looking project, fantastic PI✨

Jen Davies@jendavies.bsky.social · 9mo ago

**Come work with us!!** Three-year post-doc position funded by Parkinson's UK available Cardiff University - using TMS to study inhibition of planned stepping movements and better understand freezing of gait. Full details here - krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear... Please share!!

To find out about how #TMS #BrainStim users collect, analyse & share their data, we've made a very brief TMS survey: forms.gle/83Abpj5F8qzd... It should take you less than 5 minutes & does not ask for any personal information. We'll use the answers to plan our future work. Please share! 🙏🙏🙏 ⚡

TMSMultiLab survey

TMSMultiLab is a community of ~70 researchers using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). We aim to share methods code and data, to reach consensus & encourage best practice in TMS research methods...

forms.gle

Friday is a big day for the TMS-RAT🤩

TMSMultiLab@tmsmultilab.bsky.social · 11mo ago

This Friday's Monthly Meeting is given by Solya Szekely @solyas.bsky.social who will tell us about the TMS-RAT 🐀 Project. In this project, 18 members of TMSMultiLab created, developed & tested a tool for #SystematicReview #MeyaAnalysis & reporting in #TMS research Join us! tms-rat.org

This fall I will have a blind student in my coding class for the first time. Do any other instructors or visually impaired coders have advice beyond making sure my book has useful alt-text for the images? #rstats #accessibility Class book: psyteachr.github.io/reprores-v5/

Had a wonderful time at #BACN last week. I’m very grateful for all the in-depth discussions, and so excited that our project with @mmarneweck.bsky.social was awarded the poster prize 🏆

We're now up to 29 labs across 16 countries for our replication project! There is still room for more labs to join us. We are particularly seeking labs capable of testing native English speakers, though all labs are welcome to participate. For more information: rolfzwaan.substack.com/p/memory-mis...

This year, I spent March–June at the University of Oregon, working with @mmarneweck.bsky.social on an fMRI analysis of the representational pattern similarity of lip and hand movements after upper-limb amputation. Excited to share this at #BACN25 ✨ Find me at the datablitz/poster sessions on Friday!

Over the last few months, members of TMSMultiLab have read, analysed & assessed #TMS research papers to produce a new tool: 17 people 333 papers 80 criteria 2 raters per paper The dataset contains 53,280 ratings! It's an immense piece of work, the first empirical contribution of TMSMultiLab... ☺️