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Oxford University’s Proctors have raised concerns about insufficient expenditure on buildings and staff. They also described the introduction of OpenAI as “startling” and “problematic” and questioned whether it would undermine the integrity of online admissions.
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springy sunny sunday
Updated PANDORA preprint now available
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
When we acquire multimodal MRI data, they give us complementary views on the same tissue. How can we combine this rich information to improve the specificity of tissue modelling in MRI?
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Finally signs of spring! Last night, first sighting of Great Crested Newts - 6 large adults heading down to the pond (iphone photo not great, but you can see the male's white tail stripe and the crest flopped down along the back), and today the geese arrived for the summer.
✅ The UK Government has today granted access to half a million UK Biobank participants' coded GP data for health research.
This change will dramatically increase the power of UK Biobank's dataset to advance the diagnosis, treatment and management of conditions handled by GPs.
I'm still confused about the *real* @holland-tom.bsky.social talking about "house cows" all the time.
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three owl species that we saw near Chambal, India
One lovely day in the middle of a cold, grey, wet week. Pond is semi-frozen, sun is shining on the pollarded willows who are growing back red. A few bullrushes are starting to go to seed.
My new gig is PI of the CANN group at Trinity College Dublin and University of Oxford (50/50). Funded by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, we'll be recruiting postdocs, PhDs and an RA in Dublin and Oxford soon. So exciting! @oxcin.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @tcdscss.bsky.social
Hey Siri, can you remove the scaffolding. But seriously, even with bits of scaffolding, this is the most beautiful building I've seen.
Just got back from India - amazing wonderful country. Some pictures from the "Baby Taj" in Agra.
Easy and quick to use on the UKB RAP. Getting a local copy of one sub-modality from the central store takes a few minutes. Regression across 82K subjects and 2M voxels takes between a few seconds and a couple of hours.
Plus a tool for easy voxelwise cross-subject regression against variables such as genetics and lifestyle factors.
Also a highly efficient supervoxel version of the data - much smaller and faster to work with, but in general losing no signal or spatial detail, while also denoising.
Preprint on PANDORA by Aslan Abivardi:
A massive archive of UK Biobank brain imaging from 82K subjects. For each of 98 sub-modalities (e.g., FA from dMRI), the images are collated into a convenient subjectsXvoxels HDF5 file.
pages.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/pandora/web/
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
photo or it didn't happen !
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For people using the @ukbiobank.bsky.social UKB RAP cloud system for brain imaging analyses:
In order to make RAP much easier to use, we have created a Docker which is easy to install and gives you a graphical desktop, FSLeyes and the HCP wb_view.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I would consider Aperture Neuro as the next choice?
Hi Micah,
I.N. editors apply same "thresholds" as we *used to* at old journal, but average submissions have improved, so triage rates are lower than they used to be. At I.N. the breakdown is:
43% accept
18% reject resubmit
11% reject after review
29% triage (including 4% triage too-clinical)
HI Maria - here are some *average* timings at Imaging Neuroscience (of course any individual paper will vary):
- 62 days from initial submission to first major revision decision
- Sending paper to production to final version appearing online: 16 days (includes author proofing time)
(with apologies to non-UK folks) - we just discovered this *amazing* cheese - semi-hard, with a taste that is a confusingly incredible combination of being both subtle and yet rich and complex.
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I often think about the fact that all the universities in 🇨🇦 together did not produce 11 Nobel Prizes in that period (or since). Not from a lack of brilliance, but from a lack of steady funding and the insistence on significant teaching loads and mind-numbing committee memberships for all faculty.
I think your scanner's A2D scaling is set a little high :-)
We had published a similar plot in the early UKB brain imaging paper from @fmrib-karla.bsky.social - so this is just a quick update on that. My how the y axis has grown up!
www.nature.com/articles/nn....
Yes and maybe:
It's easy to screen them out (ignore those associations) given that all the non-brain-imaging variables are organised into nice categories.
One might also want to include body size variables as confounds, (though we do by default already use overall head size as a confound).