Sylvain Baillet

Why do our brains think and feel so differently—even when we're doing nothing at all? This study shows how our resting brain activity is partly written in our genes, especially those tied to emotion and cognition. Nature and nurture, once again, tightly interwoven.

Genetic foundations of interindividual neurophysiological variability Individual brain activity profiles are shaped by lifelong genetic influences.

Very proud to share this one🥹! We show that personalized signatures of brain activity are heritable and relate to the expression of specific genes. That means my brain-fingerprint is very similar to my twin brother's! #ResearchIsMeSearch🧠 🧬 ♊️

Genetic foundations of interindividual neurophysiological variability Individual brain activity profiles are shaped by lifelong genetic influences.

function.
🌟 @jasondasilvac.bsky.social @misicbata.bsky.social | Justine Hansen | Jonathan Poli
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@theneuro.bsky.social @mcgill.ca

Genetic foundations of interindividual neurophysiological variability Individual brain activity profiles are shaped by lifelong genetic influences.

🧬🧠 Our latest study shows that individual brain dynamics are partly written in our genes. We found that heritable neurophysiological traits align with adult cortical gene expression and psychological function.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@theneuro.bsky.social @mcgill.ca

Une nouvelle page s’écrit pour la recherche au CHUM! | CHUM - Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal Une nouvelle page s’écrit pour la recherche au CHUM! Nous avons le grand plaisir d’annoncer la nomination de M. Sylvain Baillet, Ph.D., à titre de directeur de la recherche et de l’innovation du CHU...

Big news, and more to come, from our lab.

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Neurophysiological encoding of aversive prediction errors : PAIN odeling and magnetoencephalography to detect time-resolved activations underlying pain expectations and aversive PE signals in the human brain. The task entailed learning probabilistically changing cu...

🚨New paper in PAIN w/ R. Gopalakrishnan, @torwager.bsky.social, @mcgill.ca Mathieu Roy, et al.

Neurophysiological encoding of aversive prediction errors.

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@theneuro.bsky.social

Best bunch!

Full 🧵 about our latest paper with @maxlevinson.bsky.social 👇

TSA to End Shoe Removal Requirement at Airport Security Checkpoints Most passengers had been required to remove their footwear at checkpoints since 2006, a policy later eased only for members of trusted traveler programs.

TSA is said to have begun dropping its requirement for travelers to remove shoes at airport security checkpoints. The agency has not officially announced this change and did not confirm the new policy, which appears to be taking effect at airports across the U.S.

Paper here: doi.org/10.1167/jov....

How Tiny Eye Movements Reveal the Fragility of Visual Perception — Baillet Lab [ neuroSPEED ] Our latest study, led by grad student Max Levinson and published in the Journal of Vision , explores why our conscious perception often does not match the physical world accessible to our senses. Usi...

Sensorimotor control meets visual consciousness.
Our new Journal of Vision paper led by @maxlevinson.bsky.social shows that microsaccades reset visual processing & delay perceptual illusions (here, filling-in). www.neurospeed-bailletlab.org/news/zl2erl3... 🧵

One Last Slide from the Chair — Baillet Lab [ neuroSPEED ] As OHBM 2025 concludes in Brisbane, outgoing Chair Sylvain Baillet reflects on three decades of the Organization’s evolution—from his first poster session as a graduate student in Paris in 1995 to the...

It’s been an immense privilege to serve as Chair of the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social Organization for Human Brain Mapping this past year. As OHBM 2025 wraps up in Brisbane, I’m sharing a few reflections on the Society’s evolution over the past 30 years.
www.neurospeed-bailletlab.org/news/closing...

What a delightful surprise to spot the @mcgillu ⁦coat of arms on one of the pillars of ⁦‪the Grand Court of the University of Queensland ‬⁩!

Feeling pumped like an OPM tonite after the closing of #OHBM2025. Thanks everyone for making it a special experience again! ⁦‪

Agreed! Strong and didactic.

Join us tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. at the General Assembly to share your thoughts and ideas on how to continue to grow and improve OHBM @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Great energy in the room today for the first poster session of #ohbm2025.

Loving the post-it board.
« why did you choose @ohbmofficial.bsky.social ? »
@ohbmossig.bsky.social ❤️
#ohbm2025

The 2025 annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social begins tonight in the beautiful city of Brisbane 🇦🇺 ! #OHBM2025

We'll be there! 👇
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PBEEE/Quebec Merit Scholarship for Foreign Postdocs and Visiting Research Student and Visiting Researchers **Note that the FRQ is in the process of revamping their webpages. We will update links soon as we can with the current 2025 year's information. Be sure to check back to see if any eligibility or docu...

Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec?

Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!

www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...

The eLife reviewers were not convinced either: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Support NIH Staff Now!

🧪 Scientists are pushing back against the gutting of US research funding. Now scientists outside of the NIH and members of the public can sign on in support of the Bethesda declaration: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

More about the Bethesda declaration: apnews.com/article/nih-...

Rivals or Teammates?

What happens when scientists with opposing theories come together - not to win, but to learn?

🌐 arc-cogitate.com

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A Blood Test for Alzheimer’s: What to Know

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/h...

Watching our MEG helium recycler recycling be like.

Excited to welcome @tivabaral.bsky.social as our new Assistant Professor at McGill University School of Population and Global Health!

I look forward to seeing her grow in research and teaching in global public health

Bravo aux 73 chercheurs et chercheurs-cliniciens/cliniciennes de @healthsciences.mcgill.ca pour leur remarquable performance au concours de bourses salariales du FRQS:
65% de taux de réussite, soit >1/3 de ttes les bourses distribuées à travers la province－meilleure performance en >5 ans!

Make science more collegial: why the time for ‘adversarial collaboration’ has come Bringing together proponents of rival theories to test their ideas against each other can advance science — but only if all sides can accept that they might be wrong.

"This collegial spirit must be revived in future collaborations in consciousness, and in other fields. We need more of them as a way to advance science."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What a week! Our @nature.com paper is out, and we discussed the results with @ronyhirsch.bsky.social and Oscar Ferrante at the (brain inspired podast)[https://bsky.app/profile/thetransmitter.bsky.social/post/3loli33na7k2f]! Thanks to all the @arc-cogitate.bsky.social members for making this possible