Honoured to be speaking at today's Prize-winners' session of the @britishneuro.bsky.social Member's Meeting 🏆
Come hear about Credibility in Neuroscience, and our paper with @helenagellersen.bsky.social 🧠
We compared 768 fMRI brain network pipelines - so you won't have to!
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
Diffusion MRI (dMRI) is a powerful tool to study white matter maturation. In our new preprint, we process and distribute a new resource of >24,000 ABCD dMRI scans using open source tools! We then evaluate how methods shape inferences about development.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Comparative anatomy of brain metabolism in human and macaque (and other species). The dichotomy between glucose as fuel and glucose for tissue building is conserved across species. @moohebatpe.bsky.social and @misicbata.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Bridging Histology and Tractography: First In Vivo Visualization of Short-Range Prefrontal Connections Informed by Primate Tract-Tracing
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Thalamocortical constraints on areal connectivity in the developing human brain www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03...
A retinotopic wiring principle of the human brain www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
Organization of neuropeptide systems in the human brain | doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Neuropeptides are functionally diverse signaling molecules in the brain and body.
@cebric.bsky.social curates an atlas of neuropeptide receptors and relates it to brain function @natneuro.nature.com 🧩 🧠 ⤵️
NIH is requesting comments on a new draft policy that may require human brain imaging data (and other data) from nih-funded research to only be shared via controlled access, & only with certain countries. I suggest neuroimagers read closely & submit comments by 3/18.
osp.od.nih.gov/comment-form...
Synaptome architecture shapes regional dynamics in the mouse brain | doi.org/10.1371/jour...
How do diverse synapses relate to the spatial patterning of whole-brain dynamics? Justine Hansen explores @plosbiology.org ⤵️
How may rare vs. common genetic variation separately influence how our brains – and their complex folding patterns – take shape? 🧬 🧠
Check out our new preprint (and final work from my PhD!) out now! ( + thread below) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
We think of white matter as the highways of the brain. But when we followed development along those highways, we were surprised. The journey is more complex than we thought. My final PhD paper, “Two Axes of White Matter Development”, is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! 🛣️🧠✨
🔗 bit.ly/wm2axes
🚨 New Paper: Controlling the Human Connectome with Spatially Diffuse Input Signals
Now in press at Communications Biology!
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
The strongest version of this illusion I’ve seen! Absolute head-wrecker!
Longitudinal quantitative streamline tractography: robust estimation of white matter connectivity differences | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Interested in cortical wave dynamics? Check out our review on the physics, physiology, and psychology of cortical waves led by J Cruddas with @jchrispang.bsky.social, out now in
@cp-neuron.bsky.social:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Traveling waves. Your brain has them. There must be a reason.
Cortical traveling waves in time and space: Physics, physiology, and psychology
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
#neuroscience
📢Maths in the Brain Workshop 2026 in Melbourne.
We will bring together researchers across Australia with a shared interest in understanding the brain from a quantitative perspective.
This year's keynote is delivered by Professor James Cole, University College London.
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Nine subcortical/cerebellar atlases included in the subcortex_visualization Python package (and subcortexVisualizationR package in R). The atlases are depicted in two-dimensional vector graphic format.
The extended version of my thesis procrastination project/subcortex visualization package is out now in both Python and R, now that I’ve graduated 🤠 This figure shows the 9 atlases included (and counting)!
Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Website: anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
Our latest preprint on how regional cellular, molecular, and other forms of heterogeneity shape macroscopic wave dynamics is now out:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
For a full thread, see:
x.com/_victorbarne...
Paper alert: Our study led by @evapillai.bsky.social and @sudimukherjee.bsky.social showing that mechanical properties of the #brain actively shape the molecular landscape during development and #axonpathfinding is finally out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... @pdncambridge.bsky.social @fau.de @MPZPM
Very happy to see this last thesis paper in press @natcomms.nature.com! We combine intracranial EEG with multimodal MRI to study how interregional similarity in neurophysiology relates to different network scales ⚡ 🧠
Full story 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
woman walking through woods
An effective trick I somehow forget but pleasantly rediscover every grant I write: "Walk and talk" ideas through to organize and shape thoughts; return home to transcribe and sift through. Makes the day much more fun than continuous keyboarding.
A major part of our future health & prosperity lies in medical research. There are billions of available dollars that can be used for vital medical science. Please join the campaign for our government to act urgently to fully disperse these funds: aamri.org.au/mrff/
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
**Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization**
New paper I anticipate will become a classic in neuroscience and a must-read for students at all levels.
Understanding brain function beyond brain areas.
#neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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 ⤵️
🧠New preprint!
What if cortical geometry alone already encodes much of white-matter organization?
We introduce a subject-specific, reversible cortical folding model that unfolds and refolds the brain from a single T1w MRI; no diffusion, no ML.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🚨new work with the dream team @danakarca.bsky.social @loopyluppi.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @stuartoldham.bsky.social @duncanastle.bsky.social
We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
OMG check out the venue for this excellent workshop.
Come and join our team! We are looking for a Research Officer to help with recruitment and assessment on a large-scale human brain imaging study:
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...