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Next week, we launch our first Research Training Workshop! Join us to learn about PCA, ICA, and SVD. All are welcome to attend. For more information, visit: rebrand.ly/z9umlrp

Tune in next week as we host Jason Chan for a talk titled "From cognition to action in Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders." For more info, visit: rebrand.ly/e4hu4yn

#CNS2026 Satellite - International Sleep Replay Workshop, Friday, March 6, 2026, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, Grand Ballroom

CNS 2026 will be preceded by a one-day satellite event focusing on sleep and memory - the 5th International Sleep Replay Workshop. Learn more: isrw.bio.uci.edu

@cnsnews.bsky.social

The astrocytic ensemble acts as a multiday trace to stabilize memory - Nature Emotional experience evokes signalling in astrocytes, which form an ensemble that is reinforced by secondary astrocytic state changes resulting from repeated experience, leading to memory stabilizatio...

𝗘𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻??
Astrocytes in the regulation of fear memories!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroskyence
h/t @claeneuro.bsky.social

📢 To Prospective Ph.D. students: I am planning to accept a #PhD graduate student for Fall 2026 through the Brown #Neuroscience Department. Learn more about our research and how to apply on our lab website! 🧠👇👇👇

sites.brown.edu/oh-ctnlab/av...

Excited to share our latest work is up on bioRxiv! Looking at capillary flow speed changes we show that psilocybin prolongs the neurovascular coupling response to a visual stimulus. 🍄🔬🧠🩸

@chris-schaffer.bsky.social @alexkwan.bsky.social @sn-lab.bsky.social

Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

SFU tops national rankings again as Canada’s leading comprehensive university

SFU is Canada’s top comprehensive university! 🍁

Continuing a tradition of excellence, Maclean's has ranked SFU in the top spot for 17 of the last 18 years, describing it as a "contemporary, inventive, and forward thinking" institution.

Learn more at the link below.

Check out our latest paper, a collaboration with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social using gamified computational psychiatry measures to explore brain-behavioral correlates of decision making!

🧪🧠 My lab is seeking Experimental Psychology (Psych Science) graduate trainees for Fall 2026.

Please consider applying

www.torontomu.ca/psychology/p...

Deadline for applications is December 1, 2025

#neurosky #phd

We are excited to announce the launch of our Research Training Workshop series! Our first workshop will be an introduction to dimensionality reduction, including PCA, ICA and SVD. All are welcome. To learn more, visit: rebrand.ly/ee5864b

SFU School of Medicine opens applications, announces plans for new Surrey location

Exciting news for SFU and BC students.
www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stor...

So great to see this moving forward.

Incredibly grateful for this support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation

With the new infrastructure, our Neurophysiology of Aging and Neurodegeneration Lab at @sfu.ca has already begun to develop exciting research - stay tuned! 🧠 👀

🚨 New paper in Nature Methods:
HippoMaps: multiscale cartography of the human hippocampus

Open-source tools & data to explore structure and function of the 🍤🧠 (histology, in/ex vivo MRI, iEEG)

Led by @jordandekraker.bsky.social

docs: hippomaps.readthedocs.io
paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The PREVENT‐AD cohort: Accelerating Alzheimer's disease research and treatment in Canada and beyond The PResymptomatic EValuation of Experimental or Novel Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease (PREVENT-AD) is an investigator-driven study that was created in 2011 and enrolled cognitively normal older ...

This is a major milestone for @sylviavilleneuve.bsky.social & PREVENT-AD. Their vision & dedication have led to a series of impactful studies & high-profile publications, and the future promises insights as this unique dataset continues to grow.

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Exploring Deep Magnetoencephalography via Thalamo‐Cortical Sleep Spindles Results from functional connectivity analyses of MEG data (left) show that many thalamic nuclei can be distinguished via functional connectivity (right). However, results depend on the metric and con...

A fascinating update about how deep and fast MEG noninvasive imaging can be: differentiation b/w thalamus subnuclei, slow vs fast sleep spindles, and the talent and skills of Emily Coffey & her team. Grateful for being aboard this collaborative work.

doi.org/10.1002/hbm....

A lot of money & effort goes into building large cohorts that then shape analysis and models that are used for treatment planning - let’s try our best to be inclusive in their creation! End/

Innovating epilepsy care: SFU study explores advanced brain imaging for B.C. patients A Simon Fraser University-led clinical research study is evaluating how advanced brain imaging could improve epilepsy surgery in British Columbia. Epilepsy affects more than 50,000 people in B.C., a...

What if you have epilepsy, but the drugs that are supposed to control your seizures don’t work?

A new SFU clinical study is exploring how magnetoencephalography (MEG) can improve outcomes for patients undergoing epilepsy surgery in Western Canada.

Quantifying Rhythmic and Arrhythmic Components of Brain Activity Brain activity comprises both rhythmic (periodic) and arrhythmic (aperiodic) components. These signal elements vary across healthy aging, and disease, and may make distinct contributions to conscious ...

Quantifying rhythmic and arrhythmic brain activity is a hot 🥵 topic. But how independent are the two components from one another? 🤔 In my latest work with @smfleming.bsky.social & @matlandry.bsky.social, I explore the relationship between the two.

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SFU Unveils Canada's Fastest Academic Supercomputer Following $80 Simon Fraser University (SFU) located in Burnaby, British Columbia, is making headlines once again as the esteemed institution unveils its latest cutting-edge supercomputing system, aptly named

🚀 Big news from
@sfuscience.bsky.social

Canada’s fastest academic supercomputer is live after an $80M upgrade.
🌟 Shoutout to Dr. Fiona Brinkman, whose pioneering microbial genomics work will leverage this power to accelerate science.

Read more: scienmag.com/sfu-unveils-...

🔥🔥🔥Glad to see this finally out – huge congratulations to @timonmerk.bsky.social & @julianneumann.bsky.social & team!!

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

In my life I've seen treatments for AIDs developed, vaccines for Ebola and malaria, and now this. Medical science is one is the areas that still consistently seems to make these miraculous advances and I'm genuinely grateful to everyone involved.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

McGill University in early Autumn

Delighted to share that we are currently hiring for a tenure-track position (open rank) in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at McGill University. Come join a great department! Link to apply: mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill....

University of Colorado Boulder Psychology & Neuroscience is searching for TWO tenure track assistant professors!!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

#socialpsychology #cogpsyc #PsychSciSky #PsychJob
#psycjobs #psychology

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Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉

📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH...
🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io

8x8 grid depicting the approach to stimulus creation. Feature pairs are on the axes and images are in the cells. The x-axis represents the high-level feature pairs: setting (green) and object (teal). For example, the first column of images all depict “truck” (object) in “field” (setting) rendered in various textures and patterns. The y-axis represents low-level feature pairs: texture (blue) and pattern (purple). For example, the first row of images all depict different objects and settings rendered as if drawn with crayon (texture) and containing large horizontal edges (pattern).

Excited to release the SPOT grid: a new image set that factorially crosses scene-object & texture-pattern pairings.

We hope these stimuli will be useful to researchers aiming to (partially) disentangle the contributions of lower- and higher-level visual features to behavior & brain activity.

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Resting-State fMRI and the Risk of Overinterpretation: Noise, Mechanisms, and a Missing Rosetta Stone https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676611v1

While Canada plans for another round of CERC hirings (which costs millions); support to retain international talent & support 🇨🇦 researchers may be cut!

Sign this letter to request @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social to stop the proposed cuts to
research & innovation!

🚨Postdoc job offer🚨
Are you interested in beta bursts? Want to help drive methods for laminar inference with MEG? Now hiring a postdoc: run head-cast MEG experiments, help build our laMEG toolbox, and collaborate across Lyon–Marseille–Strasbourg. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Please repost! 🧠📈

Today we retired our cryogenic MEG system after 18 years of faithful service! And of course we celebrated the occasion with pizza and beer!! But the future of MEG
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social
is looking bright as we move to our new OPM-MEG platforms!!
@cercamagnetics.bsky.social