James Read-Tannock

Words attributed to the Buddha's aunt!

Where'd it go?

A black and white close up portrait of a young woman smiling warmly. She is wearing a pilot's glasses, resting above her forehead, a cap, and a woolly turtle neck sweater.

Suzanne Melk (1908-1951) was a French pilot and female aviation pioneer.
She earned her a pilot's license in 1935.
In 1937 she became an instructor, and she trained dozens more women.
During World War II she volunteered as an ambulance driver transporting injured members of the French Resistance.

A black and white Carl Van Vechten portrait of Margaret Bonds, a Black woman in her 40s, posing seated at a chair with a confident expression. She is looking at the viewer, almost smiling, has short hair, and is wearing an elegant buttoned blouse, made with a light color fabric, and adorned with symmetrical embroidered details. The background looks like a theatre curtain.

Margaret Bonds (1913–1972) was a composer, pianist, arranger, and teacher, known for her popular arrangements of African-American spirituals and frequent collaborations with Langston Hughes.
She is also the first Black soloist to perform with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
📷 Carl Van Vechten, 1956

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)

🎨🧑‍🎨 Looking for a tool to visualize subcortical/thalamic data in 2D? Check out this python-based package I put together (subcortex-visualization on PyPI), plus a guide for creating your own custom atlas meshes and vector graphics! All feedback/tips welcome 😊

anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...

Autonomic physiological coupling of the global fMRI signal Nature Neuroscience - The brain and body are necessarily connected. Here the authors show that brain blood flow and electrical activity are coupled with systemic physiological changes in the body.

First post on an exciting new manuscript online today @natneuro.nature.com - in collab with @lucinauddin.bsky.social and Catie Chang. We take a fresh look at the physiological dynamics associated with the global signal 🧠 ...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Read here:
rdcu.be/ek01F

New pre-print reviewing time-series analysis methods based on information theory, with an aim to be accessible, and with a broad focus on applications in neuroimaging.

Congratulations @anniegbryant.bsky.social

At present (to my knowledge) a 25kg bag of flour is anything from £436 ($580) in the south and £640 ($840) in the north.

Vegetables per kilo are:
Tomatoes/cucumbers £11 ($15)
Aubergines £18 ($25)
Potatoes £30 ($40)

Please help our friends in Gaza!! Please share their stories!!

We are recruiting two PhD students on cortical folding variability and organisation before birth, using fetal MRI. Come and join a motivated and happy team with tons of great fetal data, in a sunny, friendly, and inclusive environment.
tinyurl.com/foldsOrganis...
tinyurl.com/foldingVaria...

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Kristofor E. Pas, Alexandru V. Avram, et al:

Direct segmentation of cortical cytoarchitectonic domains using ultra-high-resolution whole-brain diffusion MRI

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

The Transmitter datasets survey What datasets do you mostly rely on? We want to hear from you.

We want to hear from you! Given recent changes to publicly available data, @thetransmitter.bsky.social wants to know what datasets are most important to the neuroscience community. What datasets do you use in your research?

#neuroskyence

thetransmitter.typeform.com/datasets?utm...

Jeremiah Cohen standing in front of a giant green neuron.

THIS IS ONE NEURON! Jaw dropping.

It distributes a particular neurotransmitter (norepinephrine) across the mouse brain; it’s a locus coeruleus neuron.

@jeremiahycohen.bsky.social and colleagues at the @alleninstitute.bsky.social are using new biotech to see things never seen before.

The result of a large (42 authors!) collaboration:
"Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation"
arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824
TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.

Network renormalization - Nature Reviews Physics The renormalization group (RG) is a theoretical framework to transform systems across scales and identify critical points of phase transitions. In recent years, efforts have extended RG to complex net...

𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Wait, that works with simple systems in physics where small scale signals ("details") average out. But how about more "interesting" complex systems?
New approaches are breaking ground there. Great review paper.
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Multimodal precision MRI of the individual human brain at ultra-high fields - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Multimodal precision MRI of the individual human brain at ultra-high fields

Our open-source multimodal precision MRI dataset is officially out! 🧲🧠🧲

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

osf.io/mhq3f/

@borismontreal.bsky.social @jroyer.bsky.social @themindwanders.bsky.social @jordandekraker.bsky.social

Very happy to see this out! In this work I demonstrate the potential of OPMs for laminar MEG and investigate the impact of factors such as sensor counts, number of measurement axes, co-registration errors, misestimated forward models…
Already looking forward to Imaging Neuroscience’s 2025 collage!

A lot of fun was had representing @notts-psych.bsky.social in the gorgeous Nottingham Central Library 👌🏻.

I had a great time visiting @notts-psych.bsky.social yesterday! Thanks to everyone for being so welcoming and for the really interesting chats!

Thank you for saying this: it's so valuable to have someone with your expertise in parliament. The taxation system is rigged in favour of the wealthiest and it is undermining the economy!

I'm speechless. What a tragic story

A comparison, showing a hippo standing in shallow water, and a see-through model of a hippo with an extremely thin layer of subcutaneous fat and skin over a body that's thick with muscle.

Additionally, hippos - despite being massive - have almost no fat on them. All of that impressive bulk is muscle.

2% body fat. Compare that to Elephants, which are around 8-10%, or rhinos, which are 10-20%.

The average human is around 20-40%, for reference.

They're *all* muscle.

Diagram showing Twitter activity data. It compares how much people have talked about different political parties in Germany versus how often were pushed to people's "for you" feed, indicating a clear bias towards the anti-immigration AfD and BSW parties.

If you keep using #Twitter, be aware that the content pushed to your feed is extremely distorted towards right-wing/anti-immigrant ideology. This paper provides clear evidence for that:

"Political Biases on X before the 2025 German Federal Election"
arxiv.org/abs/2503.02888

wtf

Musk breaking stuff to sell a fix? That’s exploitation, not innovation.

Mary T. Smith, a black and white photo by George Snyder. She is smiling for the camera, wearing again a fun outfit, with big stylish sunglasses, and a long striped coat. Behind her, there's like an art station, it looks like a bus stop construction, with abstract, minimal paintings on each surface. A dryish tree on the background, maybe it's Autumn.

This yard-show tradition was centuries old, but almost no outsider knew about it, this not-for-our-eyes cubism, fauvism, expressionism, surrealism, dada, abstract expressionism, pop, minimalism, graffiti, postmodern, neo-this, neo-that, neo-everything. Or proto-everything.

Mary T. Smith, photo William Arnett. She is a Black woman with a big smile and a very fun outfit that matches the art that she is standing next to. It is a sunny day at the garden, and she wears a black and white checkered dress. On her side, there's a row of abstract portraits using the same colours. There is also a larger portrait that uses green and white, matching the green of the grass.

Mary T. Smith (1904–1995) was a prolific artist within the tradition that unfolded in the southern US after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
From the late 60s-70s, Black people came out from their houses, factories, or fields, and intensified their creation of artistic yard shows... 🧵

A little extra:
Thanks to Souls Grown Deep I have also learned so much about quilt artists and I have so much respect for them!
Each creation is so unique, in a long tradition of mothers and grandmothers -and community leaders!
🧵 There is a thread here:
bsky.app/profile/merr...

Beauty tips were always peer to peer; the difference is that now the peers are intermediated by social media apps/algorithms. If anything it's more centralised than ever

YouTube video by Prem Sikka House of Lords Care Homes 5 Feb 2025

30%-40% of public money given to England's care homes vanishes in profits, little left for frontline services.

Almost all care homes forcibly closed between 2011 and 2023 were operated by for-profit companies.

Profits and care can't be combined.

Watch the Minister's reply.