Whelan Lab TCD

If you are curious about AI and its ethical concerns, origins, strengths and weaknesses. Then @pintofscienceie.bsky.social from May 19th to 21st is for you. This year, seven researchers from @tudublin.bsky.social are talking about their research related to AI.

Join 2025 Flux Conference!☘️

Dublin, Sep 4-6, 2025
#Neuroscience #Child

Thursday was a great day Harvey McCone passed his PhD Viva on timing and evidence in decision making
It has been an absolute joy and pleasure co-supervising Harvey with @redmondoconnell.bsky.social
Thanks to the examiners @whelanlabtcd.bsky.social and @tomrhysmarshall.bsky.social

Information Evening - Online Cert/Dip/M.Sc.in Managing Risk & System Change Join Trinity College Dublin on Thursday March 13th from 6p.m. to learn more about Fully Online PG Qualifications in Risk Management.

Information Evening - Online Cert/Dip/M.Sc.in Managing Risk & System Change this evening AT 6PM www.eventbrite.ie/e/informatio...

Looking forward to this Predictive Brain Health Modelling (PBHM) event! Esp. good for trainees wondering about + and - of post-PhD life outside academia 🤓 @clairegillan.bsky.social @lorinanaci.bsky.social @rhodricusack.bsky.social @svenvanneste.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

"From Academia to Application:
Personalised Approaches to Digital
Mental Health" - Guest lecture from Dr. Sean Kelley this Wednesday April 30th at 4pm LB11, Llyod Building. This event will be hosted by Prof Robert Whelan. This event is open to staff & students. For more, please see myndgard.com

We are currently seeking applications for the role of Race Equality Officer to work with us at @tcddublin.bsky.social in our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Office.

Deadline for applications is 9 May 2025.

universityvacancies.com/trinity-coll...

Irish study to assess dementia risk from sports-related brain injury in 360 retired athletes Research will seek former high-performance players in rugby, soccer or Gaelic games aged between 40 and 59  

Irish study to assess dementia risk from sports-related brain injury in 360 retired athletes

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Tonight RTE 1 9.30 is the first episode of new series Hooked - How Addiction Hijacks your Brain. Thank you to our contributors for their faith in the project and sharing their experiences, esp Dr. Brian Pennie who leads this series in a bid to demystify addiction. Producer @aoifestokes.bsky.social

Now hiring an Associate Prof. in Developmental Psychology in School of Psychology at @tcddublin.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK079/a... #hiring #sciencecareers

Activism and Science: Anne Urai and Clare Kelly on responding to the climate and biodiversity crises How an economic framework may inspire new ways to tackle the climate crisis.

1/ Why are so many scientists silent on the climate crisis?

We interviewed neuroscientists @anne-urai.bsky.social & @clarekelly.bsky.social on their participatory workshops designed to stimulate scientists from awareness to activism.
buff.ly/SSf99Q2

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial @brain1878.bsky.social If you agree with the sentiments please repost. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

Introduction to EEG/MEG data analysis - YouTube Introduction to EEG/MEG data analysis playlist featuring multiple videos split into topics set out below. Presented by Olaf Hauk from the MRC CBU. EEG/MEG me...

I put some introductory #EEG / #MEG videos together, based on our introduction to #neuroimaging at the @mrccbu.bsky.social
: youtube.com/playlist?lis.... They should cover the most common aspects of EEG/MEG analysis, including pre-processing, source estimation and functional connectivity.

Great to see our app Sea Hero Quest discussed as a potential application for cognitive monitoring in Alzheimer's disease:
#neuroskyence

Representing brain-behavior associations by retaining high-motion minoritized youth Population neuroscience datasets provide an opportunity for researchers to estimate reproducible effect sizes for brain-behavior associations because …

Cool new fMRI paper by @tcddublin.bsky.social alum @jivr.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Head motion higher in minoritized youth but can be addressed, improving sample representation ( w/ @clarekelly.bsky.social @lucinauddin.bsky.social )

Huttenlocher Award - Flux Society

I am beyond happy to receive this news, it is an honour, especially as I've been interested in Huttenlocher's work since my undergraduate days.
A prize is recognition of many people and I'm grateful to have worked with fantastic mentors, students and postdocs

fluxsociety.org/awards/hutte...

For those of you interested in pulling excellent papers from this journal, I have created a public collection: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi...

Looking forward to welcoming everyone to Dublin!! We're very excited to host Flux in Ireland @rhodricusack.bsky.social @flavinska.bsky.social (some of the LOC on Bluesky)

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Gabriel Byczynski, Sven Vanneste, et al:

Neural signatures of online and offline motor learning: An ALE meta-analysis

doi.org/10.1162/imag...

Psychologically & politically unhitching ourselves from our deadly fixation on economic growth is key to addressing our planetary crisis. This comprehensive review from an all-star team outlines the strong case for post-growth, evidence for post-growth policies & remaining research gaps. Read it!

Bayesian p-curve mixture models as a tool to dissociate effect size and effect prevalence - Communications Psychology Statistically significant group-level effects are often misinterpreted to imply an effect is typical in the population. This Resource provides a method and software tool to infer the population preval...

Statistically significant group-level effects are often taken to imply an effect is typical in the population. This Resource provides a method and software tool to infer the population prevalence of experimental effects directly.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

📣 Abstract submissions are open for Dementia Research Network Ireland's Early Career Researcher day on March 4 in Queen's University Belfast: dementianetwork.ie/news-item/dr...

This is a fantastic opportunity for early career professionals to showcase their research. Travel bursaries available!

radiata-ai/brain-structure · Datasets at Hugging Face We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Here's a new open dataset of ~4000 processed brain structural MRIs from across the lifespan:
huggingface.co/datasets/rad...

Get it in three lines of code:
pip install datasets
from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("radiata-ai/brain-structure", trust_remote_code=True)

Comparison of whole-brain task-modulated functional connectivity methods for fMRI task connectomics - Communications Biology Large-scale neural mass simulations revealed best task-modulated functional connectivity methods for different fMRI designs and fundamental limitations for detecting rapid modulations of neural synchr...

An absolute MUST READ for anyone doing task-related connectivity analyses w fMRI data.

So many good things in here! 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

fMRI Course Instructors

Hello Bluesky!
@vcalhoun.bsky.social, Kent Kiehl and I are teaching our 3-day
#fMRI course live online Feb 5 - 7, 2025!
#SPM, #ICA, path analysis, #DataScience

We've been at it for >20 years & love talking methods & connecting with colleagues!

Register at:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

Responsible use of population neuroscience data: Towards standards of accountability and integrity - Biological Psychiatry www.biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com/article/S000...

Methods for analyzing large neuroimaging datasets A fully open-access book with a truly practical guide to analyzing large neuroimaging datasets. Get the book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-0716-4260-3 Hosted on the Open Science...

Should also mention: associated OSF resource osf.io/d9r3x/ with links to code & demo videos. Again, huge tks to contributors incl. @oesteban.bsky.social @amarquand.bsky.social @engra.me @clarekelly.bsky.social @jivr.bsky.social @christiangaser.bsky.social

Beyond Increasing Sample Sizes: Optimizing Effect Sizes in Neuroimaging Research on Individual Differences doi.org/10.1162/jocn... new in @jocn.bsky.social

Methods for Analyzing Large Neuroimaging Datasets This Open Access volume explores advancements in methodologies, efficient code management, and scalable data processing of neuroimaging datasets.

This book now available *open access* through Springer Neuromethods: link.springer.com/book/10.1007....

@brainalien.bsky.social and I extend heartfelt thanks to all contributing authors for their exceptional work, w/ special gratitude to Paul Thompson @ptenigma.bsky.social for an inspiring foreword