Prof. Alex Woolgar

I know right? Public ballot!

Setting off on a 3 hour journey without my laptop feels... weird. But you can hardly take a laptop to the WIMBLEDON LADIES FINAL :-D

Yet another new paper from the brilliant Runhao Lu @runhaolu.bsky.social together with outstanding undergraduate student Isabelle Woods Rogan. Arrhythmic TMS is (probably!) still the best control choice for alpha entrainment studies. But watch out, TMS affects aperiodic activity too.

Chaos on the trains up to Glasgow today (looking forward to giving the Psychology seminar tomorrow), but isn't it nice how rail disruption magically gives us Brits "permission" to talk to one another!

I'm getting to announce a lot of new papers this week! This one, led by the fabulous duo of @jadebjackson.bsky.social and @catrionascrivener.bsky.social shows that artefact free concurrent #TMS-fMRI is possible - with surprisingly short interslice gaps.

Consensus guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI in cognitive and clinical neuroscience - Nature Protocols We present best practice guidelines for the use of concurrent TMS-fMRI, experimental design, technical requirements and data interpretation, illustrated via 12 use cases.

It's finally out in print!! bit.ly/3HTk9Gz thank YOU for bringing the community together and making this idea turn into reality

When we started this project we thought we were dotting the is and crossing the ts - it seemed obvious that codes in frontoparietal control regions should generalise between modalities. By the time we finished, it seemed obvious that they should not! As always the answer is somewhere in between...

Delighted to see this - the culmination of discussions begun by the ocean in Greece (at our international workshop on TMS-fMRI) - now out in print! I learnt a lot, and made many friends, along the way to this one. Next TMS-fMRI workshop will be in Mexico in Sept, EOI at www.tmsfmriworkshop.org

Thank you Becca! Always great fun to talk about combining neuroimaging approaches in cog neuro. Super interesting day at Cambridge Imaging Festival so far, with talks from across Depts and Schools, and fantastic to hear the vision of our PVC-R for more interdisciplinary research in this space.

Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

Excellent statement from Nature’s editorial board.

The last section on “How to respond” is the most important.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires:
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YouTube video by MIT OpenCourseWare How to Speak

Still one of the best "how to give a presentation" presentations out there

I had a brilliant time visiting @yorkpsychology.bsky.social today - so many interesting chats and exciting ideas for new analyses, experiments, and collaborations! Days like these are what makes our job so much fun :)

Horray, another paper from the brilliant Runhao Lu @runhaolu.bsky.social is out now in Brain Stimulation! Our first adventure with TMS-EEG and decoding, finding a specific role for parietal alpha in enhancing behaviour-driving codes for where to attend in space.

Please come and work with us and the amazing @lauragwilliams.bsky.social ! Really special project using E/MEG to look at receptive language in non speakers. Please repost!

We are hiring! We're looking for a great project manager to help with a large-scale Wellcome funded study. If you know of anyone that this might appeal to, please share.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49880/

My favourite is when I misread shopfitting as shoplifting in big letters on the side of a van :)

We were very lucky that the brilliant Nadene Demody could organise the SCR at her college for our Christmas lunch this year! Season's greetings to you all from the Woolgar lab :-D

Concurrent TMS-fMRI is hot stuff if you want causal inference with your whole-brain recordings. Come and hear me spill the beans on why you might want in on this magnet-on-magnet action - webinar on Jan 22nd: marketing.magventure.com/referral_reg....

Aperiodic and oscillatory systems underpinning human domain-general cognition Communications Biology - Using MEG/EEG, this study reports that aperiodic broadband power, rather than oscillations, reflects a core response to diverse cognitive demand that links to the...

Now out! rdcu.be/d34pt

First lab paper since moving to bluesky! In which I learnt not to ignore aperiodic #EEG #MEG signals.... Led by the fabulous Runhao Lu.

Thanks Earl for reposting our work! (Our following study intergrating MEG and fMRI data will be coming soon...)

They were! That preprint only has the MEG side, but the fMRI and fusion preprint is coming soon. Meanwhile yes I believe vidoes will be put up soon on the @mrccbu.bsky.social website, right @olafhauk.bsky.social?

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

Job Alert!! The School of Biological Sciences at Cambridge is recruiting FOUR new interdisciplinary Assoc Prof/Profs in #BioSci:
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Join us!

Runhao Lu addressing the CBU Methods Day with his slide of take home messages behind him.

Great talk from Runhao Lu this morning on the potentially important role of aperiodic neural activity in domain general cognition - and how to track it across MEG and fMRI. See also his preprint here! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Cambridge Methods in #CognitiveNeuroscience Day #CBUMethodsDay

This is kind of incredible- within a few weeks, most of my network from Twitter has reconstituted here on Bluesky- and I’m getting increasingly useful tips about neuroscience, stats, and psychology papers and code! Guys, I think we did it!

Here are some things that neuroscientists don't like to call "correlation":

1990s: "reverse correlation"
2000s: "granger causality"
2010s: "functional connectivity"
2020s: "subspace communication"

Hugely proud of Tianyi (Chentianyi Yang) for a fantastic presentation on methods to uncover the mathematical transformations underpinning language processing visible in #ANNs and #MEG #EEG data at #CBUMethodsDay today- at the end of his first year of PhD studies, no less!