New preprint! w/ @mheilbron.bsky.social
We found that, even during simple natural scene viewing, human visual cortex predicts—hierarchically in central vision and at higher levels peripherally—reconciling classical predictive coding with recent evidence from animal models and AI (e.g. JEPA) (1/10)
Just out! Expectations modulate stimulus-evoked recurrent, but not feedforward, processing, and this is attention-dependent. NMDA-dependent feedback specifically supports perceptual integration (illusory contours), rather than mediating expectations (base rate). www.jneurosci.org/content/46/1...
An updated on Wellcome LEAP's $50 million FORM programme. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/03/upda...
#autism #microbiome
Professor Charlotte Summers with short blond hair is wearing a bright red blazer over a black top, standing in a modern, well-lit interior with blue and beige railings. The background features large windows and blurred foliage, creating an open and airy atmosphere.
We’re pleased to announce the appointment of Professor @charlottesummers.bsky.social as our new Dean of the Faculty of Medicine.
A member of our alumni, she joins us from the University of Cambridge where she leads the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart & Lung Research Institute.
👉 tr.ee/wtJGHv
I build a feed for european grant funding that's updated daily and (IMO) far more transparent then the official EU fundign website: michelnivard.github.io/eu-grants-fe... (inspired by the NIH equivalent @sashagusevposts.bsky.social build yesterday)
I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.
🚨🚨New work just out by the truly stellar Will Snyder - revealing rare and common genetic influences on complexity of human cortical folding !! 🚨🚨
👀 Will’s thread ⬇️ for deets, and to follow on @willsnyder.bsky.social
Huge congrats to Will & thnx to fabulous collaborators who made this possible.
very enjoyable day @cpft-nhs.bsky.social at opening of our Peterborough research hub AM & teaching our residents psychopathology PM. Somewhat sore from running the Cambridge half yesterday for the excellent CPFT Head to Toe Charity - any final donations very welcome! shorturl.at/u64Rd
This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions.
It does not.
It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed.
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Amazing. UK leading the way . Finland in silver medal position ? and I predict Switzerland could join them on the podium at some point over the next year or two
I think it's a problem for the wider public that there are so few books talking about how science is done and the lives of those who do it. occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald...
A cubic millimetre of the human brain. The whole thing is about 960,000 times this size, giving you some idea of the mind-boggling complexity we have yet to encounter. But you have to start somewhere.
OpenSAFELY is open from today! Huge thanks to all who supported this vast collaboration: whole population GP data; in a productive platform; innovative privacy protections; unprecedented support from professions, privacy campaigners; &c
Now it's over to users!
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/02...
In this episode of the Under Review podcast, I talk to @andytattersall.bsky.social about research fraud detection, papermills, and that rat.
open.spotify.com/episode/0pYD...
Has fMRI (task or rest) change ever been previously used as a safety measure for withdrawal from a trial or to stop a treatment? Can you have 'adverse BOLD fMRI signal change' like you can have adverse blood pressure change? interesting MHRA has such confidence in fMRI (trial is Pathways)
"we recommend that advice from independent clinical experts should be sought to advise what degree of adverse BOLD fMRI signal change between scans would necessitate withdrawal from the study" - UK Medicines and Healthcare regulatory authority to RCT sponsor #Medsky 🩺🧠 #fMRI #Neuroskyence
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
Our new meta-analysis & Mendelian randomization study shows that substance misuse, particularly cocaine, amphetamines, and cannabis, are associated with increased risk of stroke. Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @cambridgecardio.bsky.social @camneuro.bsky.social @vpd-hlri.bsky.social
Does anyone use the Spanish version of the RBANS ("Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status")? If you are able to send us an original form, we would be happy to compensate you for it.
Preprint alert!!! We recorded directly from the human ventral tegmental area (VTA), the principal source of cortical dopaminergic innervation, while patients performed an instrumental learning task. 🧵👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Hot take: one of the main benefits of running data analyses in 🐬 Docker 🐬 isn't reproducibility, but saving yourself (or your lab) hundreds or thousands of pounds in computer costs*. Here's how... #datascience #docker #rstudio #python
*for a very niche set of people
Pleased to be able to offer a summer placement at the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics @cardiffuni.bsky.social through this scheme.
Research Access Placements are open to undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds
@gensocuk.bsky.social
I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc...
Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.
Bright colourful tattoo on my forearm. It’s graffiti style and it reads “Hope is a practice”
I’ve had your words tattooed on my body. I need them there. They help me. I am so grateful for all you do 🙏🙏🙏💪💪💪❤️❤️❤️
A network of metabolites and their potential causal relationships. Green edges are Detected by the statistical causal inference method MR-link-2
Our paper, MR-link-2 has just been published! Offering pleiotropy robust Mendelian randomization from a single region! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
With some trepidation, I'm putting this out into the world:
gershmanlab.com/textbook.html
It's a textbook called Computational Foundations of Cognitive Neuroscience, which I wrote for my class.
My hope is that this will be a living document, continuously improved as I get feedback.
I am now hiring a PhD student in deep learning for medical images, to work at the Department of Biomedical Engineering (IMT) for our ELLIIT project on federated learning. Application deadline February 19.
web103.reachmee.com/ext/I011/853...
See Jim’s comments and the whole thread.
Congrats to @torwager.bsky.social and Deanna Barch for the @nationalacademies.org Atkinson prize!! Within the umbrella of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, they recieved it for their work in the psychiatric space (Wager: emotion/pain; Barch: Schizophrenia).
www.nasonline.org/award/atkins...
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?
"High-resolution activity maps of PFC did NOT align with cytoarchitecturally defined subregions."
Key tenet in neuroscience is that cytoarchitectonic boundaries correspond to functional ones.
NB: study in the mouse
#neuroskyence
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
