Nikolaus Weiskopf

What a view from the office!

Data Scientist or Machine Learning / AI expert (m/f/d) Data Scientist or Machine Learning / AI expert (m/f/d) to join the AI and High-Performance Data Analytics division of MPCDF.

We are looking for “Data Scientist or ML/AI expert” who will work at the cutting edge of data science and neuromaging in a collaboration between @mpicbs.bsky.social and the Max Planck Computing and Data Facility (MPCDF).

Deadline: 10th Nov. 2025.

Apply here:

🔎Wir suchen zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine engagierte und kompetente Persönlichkeit für die

Verwaltungsleitung (m/w/d)
in Vollzeit | unbefristet | #Leipzig
Bitte hier bewerben: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?

#wissenschaft #administration #career #maxplanck

The 1st #IMPRS CoNI Retreat is underway at the Augustinian Monastery in Erfurt! Our doctoral researchers connect through speed dating, alumni talks & AI sessions, plus workshops on open science & more. Grateful to all alumni & experts for sharing their insights! 😍😃🧠

imprs-coni.mpg.de
#PhDLife

Interested in the brain 🧠 & in doing a PhD 👩‍🎓 🧑‍🎓 in the field of Cognitive NeuroImaging @mpicbs.bsky.social @unileipzig.bsky.social @tudresden.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social? Check out lnkd.in/egb9quuj & apply until 📅 Nov 2 through lnkd.in/eepFkaJs. 👉Excited to receiving your application! 🤩

🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research
🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available
📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site
🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Spatial specificity of the functional gradient echo and spin echo BOLD signal across cortical depth at 7 T Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at high magnetic field strengths (≥ 7 T) is a promising technique to study the functioning of the human brain at the spatial scale of cortical columns and ...

I’m happy to share that our manuscript on the cortical depth-dependency of the GE- and SE-BOLD point spread function at 7 Tesla is now available on bioRxiv!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are seeking a scientific coordinator for my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig 😊🧠🌈

Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc!

Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?

🧠 Want to do a PhD in neuroimaging?
🏥 Want to have clinical impact?
👨‍🏫 Want to have an amazing supervisor to guide you?

Look no further... 👇

We have an open postdoc position with Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social and Emily Holmes, at the Emotional Cognition Lab dtalmi.wixsite.com/emotional-co..., @uniofcam.bsky.social to conduct advanced memory modelling. Details here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50770/ Apply by 21.4!

Beautiful work from the @mpicbs.bsky.social! Tractography of short association fibres at 200 mu with @nikweiskopf.bsky.social &other colleagues not yet @bsky

U-fibres! <3

More exciting work on short association fibres led by the fabulous Fakhereh Movahedian Attar, together with Evgeniya Kirilina, @denischaimow.bsky.social, @lukejoeledwards.bsky.social, @tstr137.bsky.social, @siawooshmr.bsky.social, @nikweiskopf.bsky.social et al.

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

📢Registration is open for the 3rd GRC on *Tissue Microstructure Imaging*, happening July 12-18 at Stonehill College (Easton, MA, USA).

Register early and spread the word!!

Full program and registration:
www.grc.org/tissue-micro...

Challenges in replicating layer-specificity of working memory processes in human dlPFC Although working memory reliably activates the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC), the functional significance of its distinct cytoarchitectonic layers is not well understood in humans. A recent f...

Excited to share our latest preprint: "Challenges in replicating layer-specificity of working memory processes in the human prefrontal cortex.”, where we attempted to replicate layer-specific fMRI findings in the human dlPFC during a working memory task.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great job opportunity: Important Head of IT leadership position at our @mpicbs.bsky.social is open.

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Saskia Helbling:

Inferring laminar origins of MEG signals with optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs): A simulation study

direct.mit.edu/imag/article...

DCM is just a framework for estimating the statistical evidence for state-space models, which are fitted to time series data using Bayesian methods. Each model is a hypothesis. So the question is, what's the right data and models for your question. [1/5]

Logo of the MindBrainBody Symposium

📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025!

📆 March 10-12, 2025
📍 Berlin & online
🔎 mindbrainbody.de

Keynotes:
- Ivan de Araujo
- Nadine Gogolla
- Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social
- Markus Ullsperger
- Tor Wager
- Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social

#interoception

Looking for a PhD in Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuroscience or related in Germany? One week left to apply for the Max Planck School of Cognition: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
#PsychSciSky #compneurosky #neuroskyence #NeuroAI #Neuroimaging

#OHBM peeps might be interested in following Aperture Neuro, @apertureohbm.bsky.social , the organization official (and supported) publication outlet!

And check it on apertureneuro.org

[clears throat, first BlueSky post]
The 2025 Gordon Research Conference on *Tissue Microstructure Imaging* program is out!
This unique meeting format offers a unifying look at tissue microstructure based on #MRI, #US, #optics, #EM , #x-ray, #photoacoustic, etc.
Join us July 12-18 & repost! More 👇

Read on the recent metascience retraction at NHB and how the authors have not been forthcoming with the truth, how they ended up engaging in many practices and decisions they would call QRPs themselves, and how due to power dynamics only their false framing gets media coverage (with one exception).

Let's create an #MRI researcher starter pack! There are a couple that are neuroimaging-based, but not really the method development community. I started putting together a few profiles, but please spread the word and tell me who else to add. If there is already one, let me know! go.bsky.app/EVqd6pe

Human short association fibers are thinner and less myelinated than long fibers The size and complexity of the human brain requires optimally sized and myelinated fibers. White matter fibers facilitate fast communication between distant areas, but also connect adjacent cortical r...

Recently, we preprinted our paper on the question if short and long white matter fibers in the human brain are different in fiber diameter, myelination, and g-ratio, using electron microscopy and deep learning approaches!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Computational Psychiatry Conference University of Minnesota (July 16-18, 2024)

Join us for the Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org July 14-16 2025 in beautiful Tübingen, Germany. Proposals for symposia can now be submitted. Each symposium should have 4 speakers, and we are looking for symposia across the range from basic to clinical and big data.

Don't miss out on securing your spot for our upcoming #SPM course for #fMRI and #MRI/#VBM!

Join us online from 14-16 October! The deadline to reserve your place is 13 October, and approaching fast! 🧠⬇️

onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/conferences-...

We are now on Bluesky! 🧠

While we have appreciated the capacity to engage with colleagues on X, we have collectively decided to leave the platform because we feel Bluesky will be a more optimal platform for our scientific discourse.

It's an amazing Nobel week for Queen Square as two people who worked at No. 12 and No. 17-19 get two Nobel prizes in two consecutive days. Not sure there is another location where this kind of coincidence has ever happened.