Training biologists in Unix command-line skills: From curriculum to interactive online tutorials As the generation of data in the life and health sciences expands rapidly, there is a growing need for professionals and students in these fields to master core bioinformatics skills, particularly tho...

Unix skills for biologists (with links to the actual markdown tutorials) dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

If you are setting up the meso-veins protocol for the first time at your 7T (doi.org/10.1126/scia...), you should watch this video where I am providing the most up to date pointers. As well as the tips on quality controlling your images: youtu.be/57URvSjUYRY

🧠 Resting-state fMRI is often treated as the gold standard for studying the brain’s intrinsic organization.

But is it actually the best way to estimate functional architecture?

We tested this directly.

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A cup with the President - Episode 39: Prof. Dr. Valentin Riedl FAU-Präsident Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger besucht in jedem Semester Professorinnen und Professoren in ihren Instituten. Dort möchte er mit ihnen ins Gespräch über ihre Forschung kommen…

Prof. Dr. Valentin Riedl untersucht, wie viel Energie das menschliche Gehirn braucht und wofür es diese einsetzt. 🧠

FAU-Präsident @hornegger.bsky.social hat den Professor für Neurobildgebung Immunologischer und Metabolischer Prozesse besucht: www.fau.de/2026/03/news...

Needed it for more reliable fMRI 👏🏽

40 percent of MRI signals misinterpreted Interpretation of numerous MRI data may be incorrect: blood flow is not a reliable indicator of brain activity.

Samira Epp and Valentin Riedl show that #fMRI blood-flow signals are not a reliable indicator of #BrainEnergy use. Around 40% can oppose neuronal activity, challenging standard interpretations: go.tum.de/211216

#Neuroscience
@fau.de

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FAU-Forschende stellen Bildgebungsmethode in der Hirnforschung in Frage Seit fast drei Jahrzehnten ist die funktionelle Magnetresonanztomographie (fMRT) eines der Hauptinstrumente der Hirnforschung. Doch eine neue, im angesehenen Fachmagazin Nature Neuroscience…

Seit fast dreißig Jahren ist die funktionelle Magnetresonanztomographie (fMRT) eines der Hauptinstrumente der Hirnforschung. Doch eine neue Studie mit FAU-Beteiligung stellt die bisherige Interpretation der gewonnenen Daten bezüglich der neuronalen Aktivität grundsätzlich in Frage.

go.fau.de/1dgci

BOLD signal changes can oppose oxygen metabolism across the human cortex, Nature Neuroscience

fMRI signals “up,” but neural metabolism might be going “down.”

In our @natneuro.nature.com paper, we demonstrate that about 40% of voxels with robust BOLD responses exhibit opposite oxygen metabolism, revealing two distinct hemodynamic modes.

rdcu.be/eUPO8
funds @erc.europa.eu
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GitHub - jmumford/randomise-prep: Generate design matrices, contrasts, and scripts to set up FSL randomise analyses. Generate design matrices, contrasts, and scripts to set up FSL randomise analyses. - jmumford/randomise-prep

Do you ever wish you could just use python to pull together the files and code for running FSL's randomise? Me too! I made this: github.com/jmumford/ran... It will even replace the numbers in the file outputs with contrast names of your choosing (and replace corrp with 1minusp).

#AIinMedicine – Bavarian Conference 2025

Register now and submit an abstract for a poster or talk 👉 lnkd.in/d6HwRubV

Don’t miss the deadline for the submission of abstracts on September 8!

A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results - Nature Communications Here, the authors present the Network Correspondence Toolbox, which enables researchers to examine and report spatial correspondence between their neuroimaging results and widely used brain atlases.

www.nature.com/articles/s41... @lucinauddin.bsky.social

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New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Nikhil Bhagwat, Yu-Fang Yang, et al:

Challenging the status quo: A guide to open and reproducible neuroimaging for early career researchers

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

GitHub - spm/spm-python: The Python interface to SPM The Python interface to SPM. Contribute to spm/spm-python development by creating an account on GitHub.

Drumroll... The SPM team will announce that SPM is now fully accessible from Python! 🐍 Learn more about SPM-Python at the SPM roundtable event (Friday, 1pm) and poster number 1841 at #OHBM2025. Try the beta for yourself at github.com/spm/spm-python [2/7]

Mitochondrial ‘landscape’ shifts across human brain Evolutionarily newer regions sport mitochondria with a higher capacity for energy production than older regions, according to the first detailed map of the organelles in a tissue slice…

Cubing the brain into 703 tiny pieces reveals that not all mitochondria in the brain are alike.

By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/mitochondria...

photo of a flamingo

Some birds have evolved to avoid the harmful effects of high blood sugar, granting insights into metabolism and ageing.
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Archive Request xkcd.com/3052

Our latest publication by @mattwall.bsky.social cautions against the widespread use of multiband sequences for fMRI doi.org/10.52294/001...

Do you use fslmaths for image processing? In our latest publication, Rorden et al. introduce niimath, a clone that offers performance optimization, improved portability, and open licensing doi.org/10.52294/001...

Great work @cebric.bsky.social ! 🫰🏽

rdcu.be/d07ia here we should how hemispheric asymmetry in the human cortex is rooted in microstructure. 🙏 Bin Wan, @amnsbr.bsky.social @sbe.bsky.social @borismontreal.bsky.social and all others not yet in Bluesky 💜

Congrats Eric @8f7h3v.bsky.social ! 🧠⚡

The eLife Model: An update on progress following changes in Web of Science indexing status Following the decision that eLife will not receive an Impact Factor in 2025, we share an update on how our model is doing since we were first placed “on hold” by Web of Science, and what we’re up to…

Following the news that eLife will not receive an Impact Factor in 2025, we’ve shared an update on how our model is doing since we were first placed “on hold” by Web of Science, and what we’re up to now. Find out more.
https://buff.ly/3ATRAFT

Hey Bluesky people! I want to invite you to attend the MRI Together workshop, a free virtual global event dedicated to fostering open, reproducible, and inclusive MR research generously supported by ESMRMB. This event will be held across multiple time zones between 3-6 December 2023.

@ytquiroz.bsky.social

If you are interested in neural manifolds, dimensionality, brain states, and/or top-down modulation you are gonna like this one! 🧠🙈💫🧪

"Neural manifolds in V1 change with top-down signals from V4 targeting the foveal region" doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...

Also enjoy this animation :) #SciArt #neuroskyence

Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform

Leaving Twitter? Here are some alternatives to checking an online Nazi bot sewer every 20 minutes | First Dog on the Moon Plant a tomato bush then lecture it on how it should grow tomatoes

BLUESKY! Twitter is awful and so is social media - what can everyone do instead? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My Postdoctoral project 🫶🏽

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