Stuart Oldham

does brain connectivity drive spread of pathological proteins in Alzheimer’s disease?

✨ preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

if the question intrigues you, please read on 🧵⤵️

OHBM Australia: 2025 Annual Meeting OHBM Australia: Uniting the Australian human brain mapping community

📢 OHBM Australia 2025 Updates!
🖼️ Poster abstract submissions open until Oct 20
👉 Submit here: ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...

🏆 Award nominations are now open!

🎖️ Early Career Researcher Award
🌟 Emerging Leadership Award

🗓️ Due by Oct 20
👉 ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/call-f...

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

Interested in the mechanisms shaping the extraordinary complexity of the connectome?

Then check out our new preprint, lead by
Francis Normand with a stellar team, showing how geometry constrains connectome architecture:

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Full thread here:
tinyurl.com/sfv3yf73

Don't forget! Abstracts due Sept 22 📝
Don’t miss out!

OHBM Australia: 2025 Annual Meeting OHBM Australia: Uniting the Australian human brain mapping community

⏰ Don’t forget – The OHBM Australia Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting is coming up!

📍 Melbourne
📅 Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025

Abstract submissions close soon (September 15th 5pm)!!😮

📢 Register to secure your place today!

ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...

🔥ATTENTION!🔥

Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open!

Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns.

Details:
tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6

Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...

YouTube video by 2swap Graph Theory in State-Space

Hands down, this video is **the best educational video** I’ve ever seen on YouTube. Content and animations aside, the sound design by itself is a piece of art 🤯

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGLN...

🚨🚨🚨 Don't forget our annual meeting is coming up! Registration and abstract submission is open!🚨🚨🚨

Worms help untangle brain structure/function mystery The synaptic connectome of most animals bears little resemblance to functional brain maps, but it can still predict neuronal activity, according to two preprints that tackle the puzzle in C. elegans.

New findings help to explain why it has been so challenging to predict brain signaling from the connectome alone.

By Holly Barker

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/connectome/w...

Noradrenaline drives learning across scales of time and neurobiological organisation The noradrenergic system plays a diverse role in learning, from optimising learning behaviour to modulating plasticity. Work bridging across micro- and macroscale levels is revealing how noradrenaline...

Excellent new review by @claireocallaghan.bsky.social on how noradrenaline drives learning across multiple scales of neurobiological organization - from cells to networks www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Excited to share the latest preprint from the lab:

Rethinking scale in network neuroscience: Contributions and opportunities at the nanoscale

We argue that there’s a natural compatibility of network neuroscience tools with synapse-resolved connectomes.

arxiv.org/abs/2508.16760

Yessss, one of us, one of us #PowerPointGang

New paper🥳

🧠 In TLE, brain changes go beyond the temporal lobe & beyond normal aging.

Our ENIGMA study (769 patients, 18 sites) found widespread gray & white matter decline, especially after 55. By Judy Chen and a terrific intl' team

Time for earlier diagnosis & deeper research
bit.ly/3HRYeQt

✨✨ We are excited to announce the OHBM Australian Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting! 🧠🇦🇺

📢 Abstract submissions & registration now OPEN (abstract submission closes September 15th at 5pm)

📍 Melbourne 🏙️☕
📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025

ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...

We hope to see you there! 🤩

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Vincent Bazinet, Zhen-Qi Liu and Bratislav Misic:

The effect of spherical projection on spin tests for brain maps

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

✨ New paper ✨ in JAMA Pediatrics! We discuss how understanding the timing ⏰ of stressful events relative to neurodevelopment can help us better identify risk factors (looking backward) and predict future psychopathology (looking forward) at the individual level
#neuroskyence #devpsych #PsychSciSky

YouTube video by William Burwin How to Identify a Seal

This is my favourite YouTube video of all time, and since today marks three years since its release, I thought I’d share it. It’s a brilliant example of edutainment, and has inspired my own talks. We scientists could learn a lot about presenting in a fun and engaging way!

youtu.be/yUaNHA-WQWg?...

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...

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...

Molecular and neural control of social hierarchy by a forebrain-thalamocortical circuit Social hierarchy in unfamiliar male mice is regulated by the mediodorsal thalamus acting as a hub whose altered expression of the voltage-gated ion channel Trpm3 and synaptic plasticity drive inhibiti...

Another excellent study by @dulaclab.bsky.social and collaborators. This new @cp-cell.bsky.social study uncovers a key role for the thalamus in the neural control of social hierarchy 🧪🧠🧬

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Physics) Full time, 2-year fixed term position with potential to extend. Located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics. Exciting opportunity to conduct research in a world-leading interdisciplinary...

Are you interested in our work on complex physical systems and applications (to neural systems)?

Wanna join us in Sydney? 🐨 🦘

We have two open positions:

1. Postdoc position: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

2. Fully-funded PhD position: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

Personalized Adaptive Cortical Electro-stimulation (PACE) in Treatment-Resistant Depression

Punchline: PERSONALIZED network neuroscience works.

*Easily* the most important paper I’ve been part of.

Read the manuscript for details. Watch the movies for *amazing* testimonial.

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Spatial transcriptomics reveals human cortical layer and area specification - Nature Multiplexed error-robust fluorescence in situ hybridization (MERFISH) together with deep-learning-based nucleus segmentation enabled the construction of a highly detailed and informative spatially res...

Spatial transcriptomics reveals human cortical layer and area specification www.nature.com/articles/s41... - early emergence of layers; graded differentiation along A/P axis, w/ early, sharp V1/V2 boundary

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Kane Pavlovich, Alex Fornito, et al:

The efficacy of resting-state fMRI denoising pipelines for motion correction and behavioural prediction

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

New Method Is the Fastest Way To Find the Best Routes | Quanta Magazine A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.

For the first time in four decades, a new algorithm has improved upon the speed limit for calculating the fastest route to every point in a network. @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social‬ reports: www.quantamagazine.org/new-method-i...

Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️

CogSci 2025 The 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society presents the latest research across cognitive science and highlights the theme of Cognition in Context.

At 18:30 UK time, I will be presenting my work on learning and exploration across development at the @cogscisociety.bsky.social Glushko Dissertation Prize Session! #CogSci participants can join at this link: underline.io/events/489/s...

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