Past couple of months in and out of hospital with a stubborn pulmonary infection — finally got the all-clear.
It has been a difficult time. Thank you for your patience.
I’m so sorry if I missed your email or DM, replying to everyone soon.
that said, some people use 'components' for repeated organisational patterns in organisms:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Applications are open for the Lake Conference on Comparative and Evolutionary Neurobiology - co-hosted with Circuit Neuroscience Basel!
🗓️ Oct. 25-29, 2026
📍 Seattle, WA
🧠 All career stages welcomed.
🔗 alleninstitute.org/events/lake-conference-c...
black and blue ink painting of black hole with grid
Hey, I made some more #sciart! New Black Hole ink painting on yupo artologica.etsy.com/listing/4486...
Also out today - A quick intro piece on the role of the cerebellum in cognition. What does it do? How will we find out? This is what @actlab.bsky.social and I think the critical questions are right now. It was fun to write - especially the section on evolution....
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Sebastian Dresbach, Renzo Huber, et al:
Laminar CBV and BOLD response characteristics over time and space in the human primary somatosensory cortex at 7T
doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
@amahury.bsky.social
I’m big fan of Romain Brette’s work (maybe because in-group influence and inspiration). Maybe this is the field-to-field overlap of the argument you making. It’s all about linking the parallel thought that emerges.
Brain Surfaces of 70 primate species
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To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised!
🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Does the learned latent space: capturing diverse neural microstructures, function as a 'micro-morphospace' allow us to navigate variations in fiber architecture?
Simulation of fiber patterns might change under different hypothetical conditions a data-driven approach for mechanistic simulations?
| [G]⇆[D] 2 M k-img | 24 M latent frames ψ≤0.5 → fibre-bundles braid
W-space sweep ▶︎ 3-vol ensemble reveals cross-slice links.
Next: Working hypothesis why these emergent patterns might reflect fundamental constraints in cortical organization.
@r3rt0.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social
Thank you for organising the exciting discussing organised by @k4tj4.bsky.social and @r3rt0.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social with Prof. Robert Barton and Susan Denise Healy FRSE, on @worldwideneuro.bsky.social been a while since my last one, great to see familiar faces :)
+ @ornellabertrand.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social
...2/x
bsky.app/profile/tibb...
3/x: Generator continuing to learn an anatomical grammar of cortical fibre architecture.
4/x: Reusable Fibre-Architecture Motifs
Network disentangles and recombines stereotyped micro-patterns (U-fibres, radial glia scaffolds, long tracts) not memorizing
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@r3rt0.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social
I wrote an article earlier in the week arguing that we need to give junior researchers more independence earlier, and this should be our focus, not moonshot mega projects led by senior researchers.
I was surprised how much agreement I'm seeing.
So next question: how do we do this?
Hey folks! I got a tattoo of my beloved PIEZO ion channel on my arm! Now I can show how they activate (flatten) under pressure by flexing—Will add a bit of performance art to my science talks 🧪🧠.
🔥 Just out! Our new massive global ENIGMA-CNV study led by Ana Silva + David Linden (+90 authors!) reveals how rare copy number variants (CNVs) in the human genome disrupt brain structure. Landmark in human genetics
🧨 Basically
Rat300-PLM ▶︎ 38 GB • QC✓1050
QC✓ 1 050 — only the cleanest slices survive
RGB↻ + mirror ⇢ colour-mapped, flipped.
3/x: Generator continuing to learn an anatomical grammar of cortical fibre architecture.
4/x: Reusable Fibre-Architecture Motifs
Network disentangles and recombines stereotyped micro-patterns (U-fibres, radial glia scaffolds, long tracts) not memorizing
___
@r3rt0.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social
+ @ornellabertrand.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social
...2/x
bsky.app/profile/tibb...
Slides and discussions...1/x
Thank you for organising the exciting discussing organised by @k4tj4.bsky.social and @r3rt0.bsky.social @tibbe-evolneuro.bsky.social with Prof. Robert Barton and Susan Denise Healy FRSE, on @worldwideneuro.bsky.social been a while since my last one, great to see familiar faces :)
Excited looking forward :)
Does the learned latent space: capturing diverse neural microstructures, function as a 'micro-morphospace' allow us to navigate variations in fiber architecture?
Simulation of fiber patterns might change under different hypothetical conditions a data-driven approach for mechanistic simulations?
| [G]⇆[D] 2 M k-img | 24 M latent frames ψ≤0.5 → fibre-bundles braid
W-space sweep ▶︎ 3-vol ensemble reveals cross-slice links.
Next: Working hypothesis why these emergent patterns might reflect fundamental constraints in cortical organization.
@r3rt0.bsky.social @k4tj4.bsky.social
Rat300-PLM ▶︎ 38 GB • QC✓1050
QC✓ 1 050 — only the cleanest slices survive
RGB↻ + mirror ⇢ colour-mapped, flipped.
💡Success stories from AI4Life: From the BioImage.IO models to @bioimagearchive.bsky.social’s AI-ready datasets, and community resources like the Helpdesk, Open Calls, and Challenges — see how it all connects in one ecosystem!
Interesting new lesion meta-analysis of aphantasia, in line with the importance of a specific region in the fusiform gyrus, previously identified by @alfredospagna.bsky.social et al, for visual mental imagery 🧠
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Groundbreaking discovery! For the first time, tunneling nanotubes (TNT) have been observed in a living organism.
This major step, led by Chiara Zurzolo's team at Institut Pasteur, could reshape our understanding of cell communication & disease spread.
🔗 Read more : www.pasteur.fr/en/research-...
Diffusion tensors dancing, every voxel a footstep in the brain’s silent choreography.
Multi-shell diffusion MRI from the Human Connectome Project during my time working with UCLA Semel Neuro.
Experiments with new diffusion-field renderer : poisson-disc jitter + gamma-mapped palette.
