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@neurofractal.bsky.social

Cognitive neuroscientist at Oxford ๐Ÿง . Interested in OPM-MEG, neural oscillations and social interaction. https://neurofractal.github.io/

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This is awful news. Jonny was one of my Masters thesis advisors at York. I remember that summer fondly, full of theoretical chats with Beth and Jonny and frequent trips to the pub! Jonny was an immensely supportive, calm and trusting mentor. I will miss him too.

16.11.2025 14:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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BIOMAG 2025๏ผŒๅœจ็บฟไผš่ฎฎ๏ผŒไผš่ฎฎ็›ดๆ’ญๅนณๅฐ๏ผŒ็ฝ‘็ปœไผš่ฎฎ็›ดๆ’ญ๏ผŒ็พŽ่ฟชๅบทไผšๅŠก้€š๏ผŒๅญฆๆœฏไผš่ฎฎ็ฎก็†็ณป็ปŸ๏ผŒไผš่ฎฎๆดปๅŠจ็ฎก็†๏ผŒๆณจๅ†Œ็ญพๅˆฐ็ฎก็†๏ผŒไผšๅœบๅนป็ฏ็‰‡ไผ ่พ“่ฝฌๆ’ญ๏ผŒPPTไผ ่พ“๏ผŒไผš่ฎฎ็ฝ‘็ปœ็›ดๆ’ญ๏ผŒ็”ตๅญๅฃๆŠฅ็ฎก็†็ณป็ปŸ๏ผŒๅŒปๅญฆไผš๏ผŒไผšๅ‘˜็ฎก็†็ณป็ปŸ

Exciting news from the chairs of Biomag 2026, Prof. Jiahong Gao and Prof. Huan Luo โ€” the conference website is now live: biomag2026.scimeeting.cn The meetings take place in Beijing, 23โ€“25 August 2026. Save the date and start thinking about ideas for posters and symposia! Please share with colleagues

11.11.2025 17:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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LLMs highlight the importance of interaction in human language learning Recent years have seen large language models (LLMs) achieve impressive performance with core linguistic abilities. This can be taken as a demonstration that, contrary to long-held assumptions about in...

Human language acquisition and use is fundamentally interactive. By contrast, LLMs are generally assumed to be passive learners that merely soak up vast amounts of data, like a sponge. In this opinion piece, we argue that the picture is more nuanced 1/2

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

12.10.2025 01:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ข We're hiring a Research Assistant in cognitive neuroscience & computational psychiatry! ๐Ÿ“ข

Join us at UCL to conduct an MEG study of reward & memory, exploring how brain signals link to variability in apathy and anhedonia.

๐Ÿ”— apply from next week: lmdlab.github.io

๐Ÿšจcloses September 12th!

28.08.2025 08:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Naturalistic Neuroscience day at #MEGUKI2025 ๐Ÿง ๐ŸŒฟ. Excited to hear about the ways in which MEG and wearable sensors can tell us something about the brain in the real world! @meguki2025.bsky.social

16.07.2025 09:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

www.researchgate.net/profile/Madh... This one is even more. Well. Weird ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ’€

11.06.2025 09:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A room full of people watching a man present at the front.

A room full of people watching a man present at the front.

A purple helmet dotted with lots of small sensors and wires.

A purple helmet dotted with lots of small sensors and wires.

We officially launched our new Magnetoencephalography with Optically Pumped Magnetometers (OPM-MEG) brain scanner last week with a special open day.

OPM-MEG measures tiny magnetic fields generated by the activity of neurons in the brain.

10.06.2025 14:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Excited for the OPM-MEG Oxford Launch Day today! @cercamagnetics.bsky.social @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social Some exciting talks and an interactive lab demo awaits!! ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿงฒ

06.06.2025 09:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Call - Centre de Recerca Matemร tica

๐Ÿšจ Two PhD positions open in Barcelona!
Work with Diego Vidaurre on machine learning at the intersection of methods, neuroscience, and clinical applications.

Details:
๐Ÿ”— www.crm.cat/call/89/phd-...
๐Ÿ”— www.crm.cat/call/88/phd-...

#neuroskyence #psychscisky

27.05.2025 09:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Imaging the human hippocampus with optically-pumped magnetoencephalography Optically-pumped (OP) magnetometers allow magnetoencephalography (MEG) to be performed while a participantโ€™s head is unconstrained. To fully leverage this new technology, and in particular its capacit...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

20.05.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
OPM Launch Event at OHBA

Anyone interested in the opportunities of OPM-MEG? Come to our launch day of the Oxford @cercamagnetics.bsky.social system! www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/events/opm-l.... Talks by @olejensen.bsky.social @mattbrookesmeg.bsky.social and Holly Schofield ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿงฒ

20.05.2025 15:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

๐ŸŽบ๐ŸŽบ๐ŸŽบ We will be hosting #MEGUKI2025 this July and hope that lots of you will be able to join us, including for the kick off day focusing on #naturalistic neuroscience.

More details and info on how to submit abstracts below ๐Ÿ‘‡

06.05.2025 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Last paper from my PhD finally published! We show that when taking another's visual perspective autistic adolescents don't use a social, embodied transformation ๐Ÿง’๐Ÿ”ƒ strategy but favour a bottom-up visual ๐Ÿ‘€ strategy instead.

doi.org/10.1111/ejn....

16.04.2025 17:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word
www.nature.com/naturecareer...

28.03.2025 07:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 122    ๐Ÿ” 140    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Britta U. Westner, Floris P. de Lange, et al:

Typical neural adaptation for familiar images in autistic adolescents

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

20.03.2025 06:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Excited to share our latest story! We found disentangled memory representations in the hippocampus that generalized across time and environments, despite the seemingly random drift and remapping of single cells. This code enabled the transfer of prior knowledge to solve new tasks

17.03.2025 01:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 144    ๐Ÿ” 57    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

And my dance moves are still as lame 6 years later.

Well done @goneill.bsky.social - awesome data with many, many applications for future naturalistic experiments with neurotech ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ“ท๐Ÿ“น

18.02.2025 18:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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UCL โ€“ University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging

14.02.2025 11:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 65    ๐Ÿ” 59    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

I think you need to be careful about the application of the spatial projector given it's a temporal method too. Updating the balancing weights in MNE won't be trivial

12.02.2025 13:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

** Reminder: Deadline approaching **
Come join our team! One more week to apply for our MEG researcher position. Applications are due on January 15. ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ

08.01.2025 09:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Eleanor Maguire | 1970 - 2025 | Online-Tribute.com Learning and memory are so fundamental to us, so enmeshed throughout cognition, that โ€˜solvingโ€™ memory, unpacking its neural mechanisms and being able to conceptualise it fully will, I believe, resโ€ฆ

It is with profound sadness that we share the devastating news that Eleanor Maguire passed away on January 4th. She was a phenomenally brilliant neuroscientist, with immense passion for her work and many remarkable accomplishments. We will miss her terribly.

www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire

06.01.2025 11:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 134    ๐Ÿ” 66    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

I was lucky enough to be part of Eleanor's lab 2020-2024. Eleanor possessed a towering work ethic, immense clarity of thought and always had a witty turn of phrase. She truly cared about the members of her lab and I will be forever grateful for her mentorship.

www.online-tribute.com/EleanorMaguire

06.01.2025 10:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Looking forward to getting the Oxford OPM system fully functional in 2025! ๐Ÿง  @cercamagnetics.bsky.social @oxneuro.bsky.social

20.12.2024 19:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hey! Good to hear from you Harrison :) They've replaced the ribbon cables with some thinner, lower noise cables. Email me about osl and OPMs! I'm putting together a pipeline at the moment ๐Ÿ˜Š

16.12.2024 18:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Made the move over ๐Ÿ‘‹. Hey Bluesky!

07.12.2024 09:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Excited to be in Toronto for @CNSmtg #CNS2024! Will be presenting our poster on combining OPMs and naturalistic virtual reality to study autobiographical memory on Sunday 5-7pm. Come say hi ๐Ÿ‘‹ ๐Ÿง 

13.04.2024 13:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pre-stimulus alpha oscillations encode stimulus-specific visual predictions bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

Super excited to share the very first preprint from my PhD: Pre-stimulus alpha oscillations encode stimulus-specific visual predictions.ย [1/8] #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky #compneurosky biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

15.03.2024 09:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

That's the vibe we're going for! ๐Ÿ˜

11.12.2023 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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OPMs are going social! First two person data looking promising ๐Ÿคž

11.12.2023 21:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

The first MEG data I ever collected was on that scanner!! ๐Ÿ˜ญ

14.11.2023 19:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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