Sofie Valk

W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin bietet Stelle als W2-Professur "Open Science" an der Philosophischen Fakultät in Berlin - jetzt bewerben!

Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin
www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

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HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of human hippocampal organization - Nature Methods HippoMaps provides an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities such as histology, fMRI, structural MRI and EEG.

HippoMaps: an open-source resource for studying the human hippocampus at different scales and with different modalities.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@jordandekraker.bsky.social @borismontreal.bsky.social @jclauneuro.bsky.social @neuroak.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social @donnagift.bsky.social

Amazing 🤩

Thanks to the Natural Philosophers with Attitude (shorturl.at/1HWtK); NUFA (shorturl.at/yvKXi); Martin (shorturl.at/0PQbW); Seyma Bayrak and Wolf-Julian Neumann and also BigBrain Project for their contributions. If you would like me to add your work in the jukebox as well, please reach out!

Hello! It has been a while, but for the Hector Fellow Academy I created a small project at the interface of neuroscience and music. In short, it is like a neuro-jukebox of projects of friends and colleagues integrating music and art. I thought it would be nice to share here
cng-lab.github.io/kiosk

Lab’s latest is out in Imaging Neuroscience, led by Kirsten Peterson: “Regularized partial correlation provides reliable functional connectivity estimates while correcting for widespread confounding”, where we demonstrate a major improvement to standard fMRI functional connectivity (correlation) 1/n

Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep - Nature Research on Drosophila neurons shows links between the need to sleep and aerobic metabolism, indicating that the pressure to sleep may have a mitochondrial origin.

Nature research paper: Mitochondrial origins of the pressure to sleep

go.nature.com/40oC7Y4

Thank you 😍

Cerebellar growth is associated with domain-specific cerebral maturation and socio-linguistic behavioral outcomes The cerebellum's involvement in cognitive functions is increasingly recognized, yet its developmental contribution to cognition remains poorly understood. The cerebellum undergoes rapid development in...

Another social cerebellar dream team effort: Cerebellar growth is associated with domain-specific cerebral maturation and socio-linguistic behavioural outcomes - thanks Katerina Manoli and co for wonderful work! Thanks also to @imprsconi.bsky.social
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Woop woop 🙌

Very happy to announce that I have been awarded the ERC starting grant for my proposal SOCIAL CONNECTIONS (SOCO). Super grateful for the support and feedback from my team, friends, colleagues and institutions @mpicbs.bsky.social and @fz-juelich.de along the way 😍

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Neurodevelopmentally rooted epicenters in schizophrenia: sensorimotor-association spatial axis of cortical thickness alterations Molecular Psychiatry - Neurodevelopmentally rooted epicenters in schizophrenia: sensorimotor-association spatial axis of cortical thickness alterations

rdcu.be/eCVaQ Neurodevelopmentally rooted epicenters in schizophrenia: sensorimotor-association spatial axis of cortical thickness alterations - bravo Yun Shuang Fan and team 😍🌸

Bravo Meike Meik! @meikehettwer.bsky.social 😍🎷🧠💪

Why You Should Use This Open Access Textbook for Neuroscience Learning <p>College education, including tuition and textbook costs, is simply too expensive. That is why Elizabeth J. Kirby, an associate professor at Ohio State University, and Christine Charvet, an assistan...

Are you frustrated with the cost of college textbooks?

@thekirbylab.bsky.social and @cjcharvet.bsky.social detail the creation of an open-access textbook, "Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience" and how to implement it into your curriculum.

Read on Neuronline: bit.ly/3D7hnvD

Interested in Network hubs, cortical hierarchies, and gradients? Ever wonder where they come from? Check our latest review, where we cover different approaches to mapping hubs, models for their evolution, and mechanisms for how they develop:

osf.io/preprints/os...

Sea eagle nest!

Amber

I spotted a sea eagle nest and found Amber and think this is worth sharing.

Position open for a neuroimaging focused postdoc to come work with us in Sydney

Feel free to get in touch for a chat if you have any questions about it :)

usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...

Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our new preprint led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social where review the physics and physiology of cortical waves and their implications for psychological function:

osf.io/preprints/ps...

@nsb-lab.bsky.social

Graves of Celtic princes suggest powerful role for women in ancient Germany Status and power were inherited along maternal lines, DNA and other evidence indicate

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Registrations for the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social and @ohbmenvironment.bsky.social virtual satellite meeting are now open, with an exciting program !

Hot Summer Nights the new album by the Natural Philosophers is out now.
If you would like to help:

Stream it a few times
Post reply mentioning a track you like by name.

Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52...
Apple Music
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Soundcloud
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A hypothalamic circuit that modulates feeding and parenting behaviours - Nature Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of mouse hypothalamus and behavioural experiments show that specific hypothalamic networks regulate conflicting feeding versus parenting behaviours of female mice.

How do animals decide if they should forage for food or stay home to take care of newborn offspring? Whose needs come first? For my PhD work now out in Nature, we examined how hunger and parenting neurons interact and are reshaped postpartum in mice 🧵⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚀 Unsere Arbeitsgruppe an der TU Dresden sucht Verstärkung!

Wir bieten eine Postdoc-Stelle (E13 TV-L, Elternzeitvertretung) ab 01.10.2025 an der Professur für Klinische Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie.

Bewirb dich bis 15.8. und werde Teil unseres Teams!

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tud.link/gs7b7p

Brain Surfaces of 70 primate species

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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!

🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

A group of handdrawn fish.

Why I 🧡 the web.

drawafish.com

Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested!
More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

Have you been using ABCD data? Are you measuring psychopathology with the CBCL? You will want to check out our latest preprint, led by @kanepav.bsky.social, which shows that the constructs measured by the tool fail to meet many basic validity tests. Peep the thread!

Global access to brain science: OHBM launches channel with 1,000+ talks | Radboud University What if you could journey back in time to hear world-leading neuroscientists present the ideas that shaped today's brain science? A new open-access initiative led by researchers from the Donders Insti...

🎥🌍 Over 1,000 neuroscience talks now free on YouTube and published at @apertureohbm.bsky.social. 🧠 “Now anyone, anywhere can binge-watch brain science like a box set,” says @stephforkel.bsky.social:

www.ru.nl/en/donders-i...

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