Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667730v1
03.08.2025 11:15 β π 11 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1@apodschun.bsky.social
Researcher at IPU Berlin and neuroscience PhD student @humboldtuni.bsky.social with a background in psychology, neuroscience and network science. Into films: sometimes directs, writes, produces.
Targeting intracranial electrical stimulation to network regions defined within individuals causes network-level effects https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.31.667730v1
03.08.2025 11:15 β π 11 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1Very pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! π
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!
Glad to see this one out - massive effort by Aaron Warren and @rolstonjohn.bsky.social - and a major milestone toward treating disorders of consciousness with DBS!
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Ireland launches global talent fund! www.researchireland.ie/funding/glob...
If you're a neuroscience professor (assistant/associate/full) and would consider relocating to the vibrant and booming city of Dublin, please get in touch!
1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social
AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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
π§ͺ Scientists are pushing back against the gutting of US research funding. Now scientists outside of the NIH and members of the public can sign on in support of the Bethesda declaration: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
More about the Bethesda declaration: apnews.com/article/nih-...
My conference is more cinematic than yours (at @netsciconf.bsky.social )
04.06.2025 16:32 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0A graphic for the Marie SkΕodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), showing a historical portrait of Marie SkΕodowska-Curie overlaid with an image of four young researchers walking down a hallway. The European Commission logo is in the top left. Text reads: "Marie SkΕodowska-Curie Actions β β¬404.3 million to support postdoctoral researchersβ
Choose Science. Choose Europe.
A new Marie SkΕodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open.
With a budget of β¬404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond.
Apply by 10 September β europa.eu/!fBTMgF
Absolutely incredible work by Davide Momi, John Griffiths,and a stellar team of neuroscientists with a multidimensional view of brain dynamics.
This work gives us a WHOLE BRAIN map of excitability.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Many apparent disagreements over the utility of neural manifolds come from a lack of clarity on what the term really encompasses, argues @mattperich.bsky.social
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
Extremely disappointing & cowardly. The American Psychological Association is rescinding diversity requirements. Not due to any actual mandate from the federal government, but only because it may *someday* face pressure from the government www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...
28.03.2025 01:16 β π 205 π 102 π¬ 20 π 35did you enjoy creating it? did you have fun? does it make you happy thinking about it and sharing it? then that's it. you did it. you found the secret sauce. "was that a waste of time?" of course not, fuckface. expressing yourself creatively is always worthwhile. you're doing great
12.03.2025 15:58 β π 9367 π 4268 π¬ 61 π 70Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
Gender imbalance in citations most pronounced in high-impact neuroscience journals https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.19.638905v1
20.02.2025 15:16 β π 11 π 9 π¬ 0 π 0#WomeninSTEM accelerate science and make our work possible. Today, we join other science organizations around the world by recognizing the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. #WomenInScienceDay
11.02.2025 21:03 β π 44 π 11 π¬ 0 π 1For my first-ever bluesky post, I'm really excited to share our new preprint "Geometric influences on the regional organization of the mammalian brain" with @alexfornito.bsky.social and a superstar 17-person team! (1/n)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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)
Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesnβt get to decide what gender a person is.
20.01.2025 20:00 β π 57722 π 10558 π¬ 519 π 196Brains minimize energy consumption while maximizing computation. In humans, this trade-off is reconciled towards complex behaviors & hence relatively high energy use
Review & synthesis with @sharnajamadar.bsky.social @annabhlr.bsky.social & Hamish Deery
tinyurl.com/47c9n65w
osf.io/preprints/os...
Gender inequality remains a significant social issue, disproportionately impacting cisgender and heterosexual women as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual plus individuals. This meta-analysis aims to investigate the relationship between gender essentialismβa belief that views gender as biologically determined and immutableβand system-justifying beliefs (SJB) that sustain and legitimize existing social order. A four-level meta-analysis of 51 studies was conducted, comprising 118 samples and 327 effect sizes, with a total of 29,252 participants (sample sizes ranging from 21 to 2,803, 40% cisgender men, mean age of 29.52 years). Results revealed a moderately strong, significant, and positive association between gender essentialism and SJB,Β ZrΒ = 0.391,Β SEΒ = 0.029,Β t(326) = 13.499,Β pΒ < .0001, 95% confidence interval (CI) [0.334, 0.448]. This relationship was not significantly moderated by the participantβs group status (majority vs. minority) but was influenced by the type of SJB considered and the target of gender essentialism. Specifically, gender essentialist beliefs were more strongly related to justifications of gender asymmetry (e.g., sexism, heterosexism) than to general hierarchical attitudes (e.g., social dominance orientation). Additionally, this association was stronger for essentialism of marginalized individuals (e.g., transgender individuals and people with diverse gender identities) compared to relatively privileged groups (e.g., cisgender and heterosexual people). These findings suggest that gender essentialism may help both majority and minority groups to rationalize existing inequalities. This highlights the need for future research to focus on the social construction of gender to mitigate its impact on marginalized groups and reduce the reinforcement of social inequalities
Gender Essentialism and System Justification
New meta-analysis "highlights a connection between gender essentialism - the belief that gender is biologically fixed and unchangeable - and the perception that current gender inequalities are justified."
doi.org/10.1037/sgd0...
#SocialPsyc #Psychology
Human brain dynamics are shaped by rare long-range connections over and above cortical geometry.
Some new results to inform this debate.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
J. Phys. Complex.: Dynamical systems and complex networks: a Koopman operator perspective
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-072X/ad9e60
Researchers spend approximately 45% of their time on administrative activities related to #grants rather than actual #research. The current #competition in research #funding has significant drawbacks; evidence-based improvements of the funding system are required: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
22.12.2024 19:05 β π 519 π 238 π¬ 19 π 39How convenient - this tree already comes with ornaments! ππ§ͺ
Get into the holiday spirit with this beautiful cell tree by @oozguc.bsky.social from @ibecbarcelona.eu. This beautiful fusion of science and art was made using our Lamin B1 stem cell line!
What would you want to see under your cell tree?
Metastability demystified β the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future
Dynamic systems theory review paper with Fran Hancock, Fernando Rosas & friends
rdcu.be/d3bh9
A few words on the preprint! 1/
09.12.2024 17:01 β π 11 π 7 π¬ 1 π 0Havenβt seen one of these yet. Let me know who I missed!https://go.bsky.app/PR8rVkF
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