Close up with a beautiful nudibranch on a rocky reef. The lower half of the image is a palette of swatches made from the nudi's vibrant colours.
Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs.
But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅
First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti.
#rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates
Inter-individual variability of neurotransmitter receptor and transporter density in the human brain | doi.org/10.1007/s004...
How do neuroreceptor distributions vary across people?
Excited to share newly minted PhD Anu Korukonda's tour de force thesis work describing the impact of pathogenic tau on #locuscoeruleus function in a mouse model of early #Alzheimers. A must for #BlueSpot researchers! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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📢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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Thank you 😊 That’s a brilliant idea, I’ll be in touch!
So kind, thank you Valerie! 😊
Thank you for taking the time to check this out, and for sharing your inspiring work for the community to benefit from and build upon! 😊
Have I missed your favorite subcortical/cerebellar/brainstem atlas?? 🥲
Feel free to create an issue suggesting one, or create your own vectorized map (& hopefully share with other researchers via repo PR 🙏) following the guide in the preprint + project website!
Repo: github.com/anniegbryant...
These plots can be readily integrated with cortical surface visualizations created using the fantastic ggseg package (github.com/ggseg/ggseg) led by @drmowinckels.io, as shown here with a GABAA-a1 PET map from Hansen et al. 2026: doi.org/10.1007/s004...
Live your best data viz life below the cortical surface, with pre-vectorized atlases ready to apply to subcortical/cerebellar stats from neuroimaging, transcriptomics, cytoarchitecture, etc 💅 demo'ed here on neurotransmitter PET receptor maps from Justine Hansen & co in @misicbata.bsky.social group
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...
My very normal, by the book presentation from this years OHBM is now available. So if you weren't at OHBM, were there but happened to miss it, or if you did see it and just want to relive it all over again, here is your chance :)
I'm quite fond of this one.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP86...
New preprint: "Identifying statistical indicators of temporal asymmetry using a data-driven approach"
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15991
_Can we statistically distinguish the forward- versus reverse-time dynamics of a system from a finite time series?_
🎊Ain’t no party like a thesis submission party🎊
Honored to have submitted my PhD as a recipient of the Paulette Isabel Jones Career Development Award from The University of Sydney!
Thank you x1000000 to MVP supervisor @bendfulcher.bsky.social & co-supervisor @macshine.bsky.social 😊
Thank you all for the great chats about this work and the inspiring ideas for where to go next with this project!
And a big thank you to @bendfulcher.bsky.social and @macshine.bsky.social for your guidance and support throughout this project, as with all others of my PhD 😊
#OHBM2025 was a blast -- the perfect way to celebrate submitting my PhD thesis with y'all 🎉
It was an honor (and so fun!) to represent the Aussie imaging community alongside a fab panel in the LOC Symposium, sharing my final thesis work on homotopic connectivity:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New preprint!
Why are long-range connectomic interactions in the cortex dominant in shaping dynamics in some experiments but apparently negligible in others?
We (w/ R Maran, @elimuller.bsky.social) address this question by studying a new hybrid model of cortical dynamics.
arxiv.org/abs/2506.19800
‼️ATTENTION‼️
Social night is tonight 8pm at Paddo Tavern!!
Come for a relaxing night and unwind after a brain stimulating day! 🫠
All are welcome!! #OHBM2025
Big shout-out to @jlizier.bsky.social, whose patience, dedication, and guidance in supervising me through this project have been invaluable 🙏 Thank you also to our other fab co-authors for their insightful input as always: Oliver Cliff, @macshine.bsky.social, and @bendfulcher.bsky.social!
I learned so much through working on this piece! My goal with this is to share a beginner-friendly and intuitive guide for all my fellow visual learners out there, that also doesn’t shy away from the maths and important nitty-gritty details 😊
Unbiased opinion, but I’m really interested in how we can get the most bang for our info theory buck in computational neuroscience 🧠 So, we demo the implementation and interpretation of all 11 measures with an illustrative BOLD fMRI case study:
We organized 11 measures into 6 categories according to temporal dependency and the type(s) of dynamical properties each measure captures. These measures are summarized in one large ‘pocket reference’ schematic, and we then zoom in to discuss the ‘what/how/why’ of each measure individually 🔎
Info theory offers powerful measures for capturing complexity & interaction among elements of a complex system, like the brain! 🧠 Here's our new unified reference for key info-theoretic time series measures ft. 📊 visuals, ➗equations, & 💬descriptions:
arxiv.org/abs/2505.13080
New preprint!: "Using matrix-product states for time-series machine learning".
arxiv.org/abs/2412.15826
Quick summary below 👇
🎨🧑🎨 Looking for a tool to visualize subcortical/thalamic data in 2D? Check out this python-based package I put together (subcortex-visualization on PyPI), plus a guide for creating your own custom atlas meshes and vector graphics! All feedback/tips welcome 😊
anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...
I am so very proud announce my lab's first preprint!!
@xiaoyucaly.bsky.social delves into the mechanisms driving tau distribution:
* Tau sequence driven by connectivity dynamics
* Tau load driven by local factors
Check out her thread below
We are hiring!
@aurinaarn.bsky.social and I are jointly looking for a talented Postdoc in Systems and Comp Neuro at Monash (AUS).
If you like neuroimaging 🧠, comp models 💻, genetics 🧬, brain disorders 🤕, and/or evolution 🐵🐭, this could be the job for you!!
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
🚨 New #preprint: The molecular and cellular underpinnings of human brain lateralization
🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🧠 We identify an acetylcholine-norepinephrine axis underlying functional lateralization, along with mitochondrial and cellular correlates. 🧵1/9👇
#neuroskyence
An opportunity to *join our group* as a postdoc researcher analyzing complex physical systems, and the time-varying data they produce (with applications to sleep)!
Join us @sydneyphysics.bsky.social on a great campus in a beautiful city!
Please share 🙂
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
Thank you very much to the COGITATE Consortium for openly sharing the MEG data we used in our analyses, and to our supervisors @bendfulcher.bsky.social and @macshine.bsky.social for supporting our first fully independent PhD project. Hope you enjoy, and we’re very open to feedback! 😊