Found a really nice Dutch grant for turning our WARN-D pipeline that forecasts depression onset for young adults into an actionable system for people at risk. Grant requires a Dutch tech partner, preferably with an existing app that can be adapted to ours needs. Any interest? Please get in touch.
Hi folks! For a methods validation paper, we're looking for a large, cross-sectional, psychometric dataset that will show considerable heterogeneity in item responses, preferably, based on different classes/clusters/groups of people. Open access optimal, but if you have one you'd share w me ...
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data.
If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition.
eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
This looks beautiful. And very timely translational work also for the fMRI folk who just got a fresh reminder about the complexities of their signal. Not sure if you discuss in the paper because it doesn't download for me atm :-)
I had some experts in the field recommend to call it simply fMRI signal rather than BOLD for greater accuracy. And for a decade I watched what I felt was much of the fMRI community more or less ignore these issues, it would be great to see more integration of these findings.
As Alex points out the complexities are known for two decades now, recommend the review. Several papers pointing out stronger relationships to LFP than spikes already back then, Niessing 05, Viswanathan 07, Sawamura and Vogels did a detailed study of fmri adaptation and its issues specifically.
Friends in Boston!! Please join me Tuesday evening (10/28) for this event at the Harvard Science Center. Free and open to all (just register).
Elusive Cures is targeted at non-experts and experts alike. Its message is empathetic and optimistic.
www.harvard.com/event/nicole...
Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood.
If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...
Open Call for Expressions of Interest: become a Max Planck Director & redefine what’s possible in science! We offer scientific independence, long-term stable funding & exceptional infrastructure. Lead your own department & open new frontiers of research. Apply by 31 Oct 2025 → www.mpg.de/directors
That sounds really cool, looking forward to it!
I actually experience face pareidolia with the upper part of that tree. And I am not sure if this has a name, but related to our tendency to see faces there is certainly our tendency to add faces to things :-)
In Germany we have the word Muße which denotes a peaceful free time with inner quiet. It is associated with creativity. Apparently the Romans also had such a notion.
I’ve officially moved to BlueSky - yes i’m a little slow! You’ll soon get a following notice from me as I ‘bridged’ my X account - I hope that wasn’t a mistake.
Welcome Michele! This place has some nice features so you can find new and old friends. E.g. feeds/lists like brain and mind researchers and women in neuroscience and neuroskyence and fantastic nerdy communities on bees, sharks, books... And you can be on those lists too, just message the list owner
Pleased to say "Space, Time, and Memory", an academic book by Oxford University Press edited by the inimitable Lynn Nadel & Sara Aronowitz is now out.
I contributed a chapter, "Memory and Planning in Brains and Machines".
You can download the entire book for free:
library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...
🧠🤖 Computational Neuroscience summer school IMBIZO in Cape Town is open for applications again!
💻🧬 3 weeks of intense coursework & projects with support from expert tutors and faculty
📈Apply until July 1st!
🔗https://imbizo.africa/
We want to hear from you! We’re conducting a survey on the state of neuroscience. This week’s question is: What are the most important neuroscience findings of the past five years?
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/state-of-neu...
Yossi Yovel's book is out! 🦇 Yossi, the Batman, is not only a super original neuroscientist, he's also a great writer and adventurer. Recenlty he's been releasing, one by one, his tales from the jungles. Get his book on promotion here: bit.ly/TheGeniusBatBN
is anyone working on cortical waves (traveling, rotational, etc) looking for a faculty position? we'll soon be hiring in Korea, at our center where multiple labs (ephys, optical imaging, human neuroimaging) are interested in collaborating w/ theoreticians
pls DM/email for informal inquiries
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A book cover for Bird Brains and Behavior: A Synthesis. The images on the cover include a Turkey vulture in flight, a singing song sparrow, a drawing of a black browed albatross brain, and a foraging whimbrel.
The cover of our new book has been approved!
Due out this August through MIT Press and the online version will be open access.
#neuroskyence #ornithology 🪶🧠
If any science illustrators are available to do a rush job on illustrations (around "mood") that will appear in an upcoming documentary (due EOD Sunday), please let me know. My DMs are open & my contact info is here:
www.nicolecrust.com/nicole
Thank you!
Über 12.000 Wissenschaftler fordern entschlossene Klimapolitik von der Bundesregierung
www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de/app/consent/...
Matthew Smith and I cowrote this obituary about Carl Olson, who passed away recently. Carl was my postdoc mentor and was absolutely amazing. I will miss him💔
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[Admin] Hallo alle miteinander! Wir wollten auf eine Aktion hinweisen: Die Scientists 4 Future organisieren gerade einen Appell an den Bundestag, der darauf abzielt, dass die deutsche Politik die Wissenschaft ernster nehmen soll. Findet ihn ihr: www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...
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We are excited to announce that nominations are open for our “Rising stars in neuroscience” 2025 report. We seek to feature early-career researchers who have made outstanding scientific contributions and demonstrated a commitment to community-building. Submit a nominee here:
bit.ly/4bsoBXD
A French University is funding a Safe Place For Science program meant to recruit scientists who cannot continue their work in the US. www.univ-amu.fr/fr/public/a...
Alie (which is me) on a stage at a mic, in front of a tall red curtain
Alie ol’ Dadward cheesin on a red carpet holding a chrome, heart-shaped trophy award. I’m wearing a black skirt, black shirt and striped tights with old ratty combat boots
A graphic that says iHeart Podcast Awards winner! Best Science Podcast: Ologies with Alie ward
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Hey we won Best Science pod at the iHeart Awards among some fierce competition. Thanks to everyone who listens & thank you to our small but mighty team.
If you want to convert someone to an Ologite, but don’t know where to start, ologies.com is like a menu of topics.
Science matters. Like, A LOT.
