Happy New Year from Imaging Neuroscience - here is the 2025 montage, from 440 papers.

Full size montage PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/19gjQ...

OpenWMData A collection of publicly available working memory datasets

Make it your New Year resolution to add a #workingmemory dataset to OpenWMData so that we can curate our field's precious data, start testing theories and benchmarking models across datasets, conduct secondary analyses and meta-research using the data itself, and help me feel like I'm, like, alive.

Time-zone-appropriate "Happy New Year"s to all y'all!

Never thought I'd need to explain to someone that "tools" don't have to all match based on brand.

You don't need to swim in a certain brand ecosystem, dude. You can have a laptop running linux (f**k Windows), an iPad, and an android phone.

Tools don't have to match, they have to work, you know?

netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging ⤵️

Detail of a single snowflake crystal

When you hear "deep and crisp and even" these days, is your first thought of snow... or of pizza?

On this week's Rare Earth we discuss the joys of winter, what nature (esp hedgehogs!) is up to in the cold, and how our relationship with winter is changing. Listen here:
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Tracking coordinated cellular dynamics directly from images -- New method paper by labmates @bgraedel.bsky.social & @macdobry.bsky.social ! Python package & @napari.org plugin, all the good stuff:

Paper: doi.org/10.1242/jcs....
Code: github.com/pertzlab/arc...
Plugin: github.com/pertzlab/arc...

The cover of the book. Landscapes with skiproads / BOOK BURNING: Two plays by Peter De Buysser

'Tis the season for reading recommendations and o-ho-ho-ho, do I need to STRONGLY recommend Pieter De Buysser's play, "Book Burning"!

(It's published with another play by him called "Landscape with Skiproads" which I've not read yet, so no comments on it for now.)

This is part of the reason why I teach & make YouTube videos on how AI is used in science: I don't want all the baggage from genAI & chatbots to prevent the public from supporting or trusting better & more grounded forms of AI.

Jane Austen used 'however' at the beginning of a sentence, and so can you.

We don't actually trust AI.
We trust the companies behind it.

As Maria Antoniak notes, every "private" chat flows through corporate systems with long histories of data misuse. If we care about AI ethics, we need to name power, not anthropomorphize models.

Evening routine:
1. brew tea
2. sip tea
3. hate tuberculosis

get your kid hooked on throwing money in the trash as early as possible

Title: Heartwarming christmas television advert plot generator for bookshops. (choose one from each column to come up with a sentence) Choices in column 1: A lonely A grumpy A workaholic An elderly A poor Column 2: Book Shop Owner Learns The True Meaning Of Column 3: Literature Christmas Community Wealth Friendship Column 4: With help from a Column 5: Wise Celebrity Magical Kindly Clumsy Column 6: Child Mouse Parsnip Snowman Ghost Additional text below: Just add: twinkly music, wooly jumpers, computer-generated snow, poetry, bells.

Generate a heartwarming advert for your bookshop:

live long and prosper (if you have a billion dollars) YouTube video by Angela Collier

There's a source of relief in videos like this. For so long we have had professionals who are afraid of calling out the idiocy of billionaires, because they view it as "unprofessional" to have opinions and ethics. And that's why communicators like @acollierastro.bsky.social are especially important

Peaking in high school: tragic

Peaking in preschool because your parents are paleontologists and you know all the dinosaurs: magic

Heading South Tomorrow, I’m heading south, though more correctly, I’m first heading north to head south. Fieldwork in Antarctica starts next week..

The first step in the ~14,500 km journey (as the crow flies) to Wasa was a taxi to the airport. The second is a flight to Oslo*.
It's masks on time.

*Yes, this #fieldwork involves *a lot* of carbon. Let's hope the data is worth it...

sternaparadisaea.net/2025/12/11/h...

Researchers extract latent representation of humanity's future from latest AI model

Anyone can publish new ideas even when centralized institutions don't support those ideas. Bluesky really is the printing press, a publisher, and a network of other independent publishers all at once.

Dispute erupts over universal cortical brain-wave claim The debate highlights opposing views on how the cortex transmits information.

A “universal” pattern of cortical brain oscillations may be less ubiquitous than previously proposed.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/brain-waves/...

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)

The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

> neal.fun/size-of-life/

is there a *mr* information?

Your 4 year old doesn't know that you selfishly stole his vaccines and gave him a preventable illness that destroyed his immune system and led to years of suffering. But your 10 year old will google that shit. And they will never forgive you. And you deserve that hate plus more.

The day finally came.

The day I heard the sound of a dozen ball-bearings hitting the freaking floor when I pulled out one of the drawers.

Netflix limited series about the tortured genius artist who created old VHS covers

Saloni's guide to data visualization Why data visualization matters, and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.

www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

My year in data visualisation – Nicola Rennie A round up of my projects this year, highlighting some of my favourite charts from 2025, and looking back on five years of TidyTuesday contributions.

Here's a little round up of my 2025 year in #DataViz featuring

💜 Some of my favourite #RStats charts
💜 A look back at 5 years of #TidyTuesday
💜 Links to cool #QuartoPub and visualisation things I've seen this year

Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/year-in...

Elusive Cures is 6 months old today! In the post below, I told you about what was involved in making it happen (with gratitude to everyone involved). Here's an update about what's happened since. /1

bsky.app/profile/nico...