DrBreaky

Who is planning to go to the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social Australia chapter meeting? I'm leaving Australia soon so want to meet as many lovely Aussies as possible on my conference tour 😀

It was a great pleasure presenting preliminary results from my ongoing study on social-affective inference and constricted affect at the @newybrains.bsky.social lunch symposium series.
We found some interesting first effects of positive affective surprise and bodily responses. 🙂

Interested in hippocampal dynamics and their interactions with cortical rhythms?

Our physically constrained model of cortico-hippocampal interactions - complete with fast geometrically informed numerical simulation (available at embedded github repo)

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

Michael Breakspear and Mac Shine explain how brain processing changes across neural population scales Breakspear and Shine find a scale-free property of brain activity that is conserved across diverse species, suggesting that a universal principle of brain activity underlies cognition.

In the latest episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, @drbreaky.bsky.social and @macshine.bsky.social describe a scale-free property of brain activity conserved across diverse species, suggesting a universal principle of activity underlying cognition.

www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...

🔥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...

The keynote speaker for the OHBM Virtual Satellite Meeting is Dr. Michael Breakspear, @drbreaky.bsky.social! You won’t want to miss his talk – your only chance will be to register and catch it live at 12:00-13:00 UTC on September 11!

🔗 https://humanbrainmapping.org/25SEASIG

#OHBM #SEASIG

New 2 year position as an Imaging Data Infrastructure Specialist

Located a the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) & the University of Newcastle (UoN), in partnership with the National Imaging Facility (NIF),

Apply here: www.seek.com.au/job/85537666

Thnx Ben :-)

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience,

Generation of surrogate brain maps preserving spatial autocorrelation through random rotation of geometric eigenmodes

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

Produces surrogates for null hypothesis testing of nonlinear effects within and correlations between brain maps

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MAYBE DON’T EMAIL ME AT THE WEEKEND, THEN.

thanks @earlkmiller.bsky.social‬ !! 😎

good eyes!

On this auspicious day, I finally bit the bullet & asked my super post-doc @annabhlr.bsky.social to teach me how to code & run Python (today!)

Coding lifeline now goes:

BASIC (1982); FORTRAN (1990); MAPLE (1992); MATLAB (1999); PYTHON (2025)

(a bit of a gap between the last two!)

Brains and Bugs: Breakthroughs in Viruses & Mental Health Explore ground breaking research on new therapies to prevent respiratory diseases and how computational neuroscience is revolutionising our understanding o…

Program member Professor Michael Breakspear
@drbreaky.bsky.social will be presenting "Modelling the brain as a wave machine" at Pint of Science in Newcastle on May 20, 2025

Follow the link to book your tickets! 👇
pintofscience.com.au/event/brains...

Looking forward to presenting our work on cortico-hippocampal coupling and wave-wave interactions as a basis for some core human cognitions

5pm May 6th EST (US)
8am May 7th AEST (Sydney)

Zoom link: columbiacuimc.zoom.us/j/92736430185

Thanks to WaveClub conveners Erfan Zabeh & Uma Mohan

What does parenthood, depression, and psychedelics do to your brain? Very proud to see Winnie Orchard joining this stellar grp of Aussie neuros @lenaedibrainz.bsky.social @lucacocchineuro.bsky.social ky.social & @drbreaky.bsky.social for a FREE public lecture in June. @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

We can't wait to hear from from Dr. Michael Breakspear in two weeks in our monthly online seminar series on traveling waves of neural oscillations.

Join us on May 6th at 5-6p ET!
Please note the change in time to accommodate our Aussie friend
@drbreaky.bsky.social

We are hiring!

@aurinaarn.bsky.social and I are jointly looking for a talented Postdoc in Systems and Comp Neuro at Monash (AUS).

If you like neuroimaging 🧠, comp models 💻, genetics 🧬, brain disorders 🤕, and/or evolution 🐵🐭, this could be the job for you!!

careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

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...

An opportunity to *join our group* as a postdoc researcher analyzing complex physical systems, and the time-varying data they produce (with applications to sleep)!

Join us @sydneyphysics.bsky.social on a great campus in a beautiful city!

Please share 🙂

usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

🧠🌡️ New preprint out!

BRAIN TEMPERATURE may be a key factor in understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease and brain cancer:

doi.org/10.31219/osf...

'Temperature matters: Insights into brain thermoregulation and its impact on neural activity and health'

... and their disturbance in metabolic and neurodegenerative disorders

This new preprint led by @annabhlr.bsky.social and Christian Behler focusses on these topics in health

Given that core neuronal reactions (like everything in biology) are temperature dependent, the absence of focussed research on brain temperature, thermoregulation and its measurement (thermometry)is amazing

New preprint: "Temperature matters: Insights into brain thermoregulation and its impact on neural activity and health"

osf.io/preprints/os...

Program members Dr Alexander Thorpe and Professor Michael Breakspear @drbreaky.bsky.social presented today @hmriaustralia.bsky.social as part of the HMRI Weekly Research Seminar Series.

Thanks to our researchers for their fascinating presentations!

#neuroscience #researcher #neuromodulation #brain

I feel ill watching this storm build and approach the communities of northern NSW and Brisbane

Important caveats of working in surface space with off-the-shelf cortical meshes by @jaysonjeg.bsky.social

Do you work on surface MRI such as HCP data? Our paper is finally out in Imaging Neuroscience, showing biases in surface fMRI. The revised ms has many new insights!
TLDR: Vertices are much closer to each other in sulci, resulting in (fake) high spatial autocorrelation. (1/5)

It was bangin' work by you too Kevo, waaaay before hemodynamic travelling waves got their time in the sun ...

I have had other papers pass this mile stone, but this one is special as it was my 1st, first-author paper, and was the output from my PhD many moons ago!

@drbreaky.bsky.social @mschira.bsky.social