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Adeel Razi

@adeelrazi.bsky.social
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Computational Neuroscientist, NeuroAI, Causality. Monash, UCL, CIFAR. Lab: comp-neuro.github.io

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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Our new paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com. Psychedelics don’t simply disorder the brain. We found hidden, context-sensitive organisation beneath the apparent chaos -- strongest in people reporting more positive, profound experiences and a reduced sense of separation from the world. 🧵👇
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Lena Oestreich @lenaedibrainz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Excited to be presenting our symposium, "From synapse to self: computational, brain imaging and preclinical perspectives on psilocybin’s therapeutic mechanisms", at #NeuroAlliance2026! Featuring: 🧠 Claire Foldi 🧠 @lenaedibrainz.bsky.social 🧠 @adeelrazi.bsky.social 🧠 Nicholas Everett
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OHBM Australia @ohbm-australia.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🎉 Registration is now OPEN for the 2026 OHBM Australian Chapter Annual Meeting! 🇦🇺🧠🇦🇺 Get your ticket now! 🎟️🎟️🎟️ Registration: events.humanitix.com/ohbm-austral... 📝 Submit your abstract: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🏆 Nominate a colleague (or yourself) for an award: ohbm-aus.github.io/awards/
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OHBM Australia Meeting 2026
Uniting the Australian human brain mapping community.
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Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
✨ The State of the Brain 2025 features leading voices from last year's Annual Meeting, highlighting major advances in brain imaging research 🔗 apertureneuro.org/issue/13963-... @lucinauddin.bsky.social @elvisha.bsky.social @sharnajamadar.bsky.social @gozziale.bsky.social @adeelrazi.bsky.social
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Scientists are not immune to belief. Psychedelic researchers who were transformed by psychedelics Meditation scientists who built their careers around contemplative practice AI researchers convinced deep learning is the only path to intelligence Article here: adeelrazi.substack.com/p/when-exper...
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Why are there so many “foundation models” for brain if the goal is to have a single foundation model? I am often asked this question these days so I thought to put it out here. The short answer is that we are still in the exploration phase, not the consolidation phase. Theard 1/n 🧵👇
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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 25/04/2026
Wow. What a project 🤩 amid a stellar lineup of other possible collaborators including @smfleming.bsky.social @introspection.bsky.social @meganakpeters.bsky.social @adeelrazi.bsky.social - these projects sound so exciting! an incredible opportunity for early career researchers #neuroskyence
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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🚨 JOB alert: 📢 We are looking for a PhD student to work on our international @wellcometrust.bsky.social project on information gathering in OCD and Schizophrenia! If you have a background in computational psychiatry / neuroimnaging and speak German, apply here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...
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Jakob Hohwy @hohwy.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
"The Self-Evidencing Agent" - my new book - is out now with @mitpress.bsky.social Can be purchased, or just download the whole thing for free, via the 'Open Access' option. I'm grateful to @anilseth.bsky.social and Karl Friston for the generous endorsements. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255389...
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The Self-Evidencing Agent
What is it to be a human individual, an agent? According to Jakob Hohwy, it is to “self-evidence,” to actively seek out sensory evidence for one&...
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Brisbane Experimental Psychology Student Initiative (BEPSI) @brisepsi.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Maths! And Brains! In Melbourne!! Swoon 🧠 ECRs, you only have until 20th Feb to submit your abstracts. Registration is free (but you must attend) & prizes awarded to the highest quality posters and flash talks. Submit your abstracts here & see 👇 for more lnkd.in/dZtndkH3
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
📢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. 1/4🧵
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Arula Ratnakar @arula-ratnakar.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Thread 2: A way to see a stochastic differential equation is the equation below representing how X evolves in time. dW is a "stochastic increment" -- it is introducing "randomness". But a LOT changes because of that, and it is the reason the below representation is not actually a good one! (1/n)
\frac{dX(t)}{dt} = f(x) + g(x)\frac{dW(t)}{dt}
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
What do we actually mean when we say “generative model” in neuroimaging? The term is everywhere, in neuroscience and AI, but its meaning is often assumed rather than stated. In a new bioRxiv perspective, we asked how researchers really use and understand it. 🧵
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Our new paper, led by Brett Kagan and Valentina Baccetti, proposes a quantifiable, substrate-independent hierarchy of information processing to identify necessary conditions for agency, grounding agency in measurable dynamics rather than vague labels. arxiv.org/abs/2601.03498
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A Quantifiable Information-Processing Hierarchy Provides a Necessary Condition for Detecting Agency
As intelligent systems are developed across diverse substrates - from machine learning models and neuromorphic hardware to in vitro neural cultures - understanding what gives a system agency has becom...
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I am in Karachi. Let’s meet if you like to talk about brains, models, and machines!
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
1/ Why does RL struggle with social dilemmas? How can we ensure that AI learns to cooperate rather than compete? Introducing our new framework: MUPI (Embedded Universal Predictive Intelligence) which provides a theoretical basis for new cooperative solutions in RL. Preprint🧵👇 (Paper link below.)
Image of robots struggling with a social dilemma.
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Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis @trackingactions.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Joint modelling of brain and behaviour dynamics with artificial intelligence - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing our mechanistic understanding of the shared structure between the brain and higher-order behaviours. In this Review, Mathis and Mathis synthesize state-of-...
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
📢Generative Models in Neuroimaging Survey We’re running a short survey on how neuroimaging (aka #OHBM) community defines, uses & evaluates generative models, from biophysical simulations to ML-based approaches 👉 t.co/lRQj4qmknO @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 13/11/2025
Jonny Smallwood @themindwanders.bsky.social was a beloved friend and mentor. He was taken from us too soon. His was a beautiful mind who understood the beauty of minds. As ever before, his kind voice guides me and his work will continue. We miss you Jonny. www.cbs.mpg.de/news/obituar...
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Obituary – Jonathan Smallwood
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
What is consciousness, and could AI have it? It's an honour to be giving the 2025 Voltaire Lecture, this Hallowe'en (Fri 31/10), for @humanists.uk, at @conwayhall.bsky.social in London, 19:30-21:00 (also livestreamed) humanists.uk/events/volta... 👻
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What is consciousness, and could AI have it? | The Voltaire Lecture 2025, with Professor Anil Seth
Professor Anil Seth is a neuroscientist, author, and public speaker who has pioneered research into the brain basis of consciousness for more than 20 years
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Submit -- less than a week remaining!! #NeuroAI
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
This is BIG. Nobody was expecting this cure to work or even if it was possible ever to treat HD!
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
We are hiring for our psilocybin clinical trial. 1. Research Officer (testing and screening), 2 positions careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... 2. Research Officer (Peer Navigator) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... DM if you have questions. @wellcomeleap.bsky.social
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Thank you very much @prelights.bsky.social and uMontreal Neuro team for coosing and covering our preprint.
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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Integrating and interpreting brain maps | doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... Imaging and recording technologies make it possible to map multiple biological features of the brain. How can these features be conceptually integrated into a coherent understanding of brain structure and function? ⤵️
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
We are hiring for our brand new psilocybin clinical trial. Please DM if you have questions! 1. Senior Research Fellow (Clinical Trial Lead) careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... 2. Senior Clinical Psychotherapist careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Very much forward to this @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
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Stuart Oldham @stuartoldham.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Do you like brain network hubs?🧠🌐✳️Do you like genes?🧬What about neurodevelopment?👶What if I told you the latest work by @garedaba.bsky.social and myself combined all of these?🤯🤯🤯 See Gareth's thread for a primer of our findings, then read the paper for the details! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Transcriptomic divergence of network hubs in the prenatal human brain
Connections in the human brain are not uniformly distributed; instead, a dense network of long-range projections converge on highly connected hub regions located in transmodal, paralimbic, and associa...
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Aran Nayebi @anayebi.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Can a Universal Basic Income (UBI) become feasible—even if AI fully automates existing jobs and creates no new ones? We derive a closed-form UBI threshold tied to AI capabilities that suggests it's potentially achievable by mid-century even under moderate AI growth assumptions:
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
🧵Training binary or spiking neural networks is hard. Gradients vanish, surrogates are noisy, batchnorm is brittle. We propose a Bayesian approach based on KL divergence minimization—and it works. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17962 Work by James Walker & Moein Khajehnejad @neuro-ai.bsky.social 1/6
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A Principled Bayesian Framework for Training Binary and Spiking Neural Networks
We propose a Bayesian framework for training binary and spiking neural networks that achieves state-of-the-art performance without normalisation layers. Unlike commonly used surrogate gradient methods...
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Why do brains rely on inference, uncertainty, and structure… while AI systems chase rewards in unstructured worlds? Are we missing something fundamental about how intelligence emerges? #NeuroAI #InferenceOverOptimization
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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Good news - the opening for a Research Officer role within our group is now open to all applicants! Please apply if you would like to join a great team to help with recruitment and assessment on a large project linking MRI with psychopathology! careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Huge congrats to @adeelrazi.bsky.social @leonovelli.bsky.social and team on this monumental achievement - a valuable open resource for the community!
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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
ONE DAY LEFT of Early Bird registration rates! Register today! 🔗 in comments! #OHBM2025
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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
"These findings provide a new account of the large-scale neurocognitive effects of psychedelics and demonstrate the utility of using machine learning methods in assessing state- and context-dependent neural dynamics and their association with psychological outcomes." www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Interested in foundation models for #neuroscience? Want to contribute to the development of the next-generation of multi-modal models? Come join us at IVADO in Montreal! We're hiring a full-time machine learning specialist for this work. Please share widely! #NeuroAI 🧠📈 🧪
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We are hiring! We're looking for a Research Office to help out with recruitment & assessment on a large-scale study looking at the relationship between brain imaging measures and psychopathology. Please forward this link to anyone who might be interested: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/ci/en/jo...
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OHBM Australia @ohbm-australia.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🚨 We are excited to announce that the next OHBM Australia meeting will be in Melbourne on Wednesday, 12th November, 2025! Stay tuned for more details 👀
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
📢 Join us Thursday, April 3rd | 5–6 PM EST for the first NeuroAI Emerging Leaders Webinar with @anayebi.bsky.social 🧠 Title: Using Embodied Agents to Help Answer “Why” Questions in Systems Neuroscience For further updates, visit: 🔗 neuroai-workshop.github.io//NeuroAI_Web... @neuro-ai.bsky.social
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CLaE @claeneuro.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Nature Reviews Physics Network renormalization www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Network renormalization - Nature Reviews Physics
The renormalization group (RG) is a theoretical framework to transform systems across scales and identify critical points of phase transitions. In recent years, efforts have extended RG to complex net...
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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help contextualize your neuroimaging findings 🧠
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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.
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Sidhant Chopra @sidchop.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
🧩New study: "Network Constraints on 𝘪𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘷𝘰 Synaptic Alterations in Schizophrenia" medrxiv.org/content/10.1... We map a prominent brain-wide pattern of synaptic defects in people with Schizophrenia using PET, then model the molecular, cellular & connectomic features shaping this pattern 🧵1/3👇
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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Can't believe I missed this until now - truly incredible work and real landmark paper in psychedelic neuroimaging!
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Rich Haridy @richharidy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
One of the first real "wow" studies of 2025. Fascinating imaging work demonstrating how context and environment fundamentally shape a psilocybin experience.
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the only mikewilson in oz @mikewilsoninoz.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Ok, kiddos. This neuroimaging study (Monash U) explains why why you shouldn't approach psychedelics - especially psilocybin - as a clubbing or party drug. It is so, so much more important than that. My foolish youth, corrected!
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🧵 How do psychedelics shape brain activity? Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states. Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d A thread 🧵👇 1/n
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 10/03/2025
Can we enhance interoception by controlling the heart? Thrilled to share our new study, led by @ashleytyrer.bsky.social , where we use computational modeling to show that blockading peripheral noradrenaline uniquely alters awareness of heart rate & breathing! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇
A graphical abstract titled "Can Beta-Blockers Manipulate Interoception? A Placebo-Controlled Study." The image illustrates how bisoprolol and propranolol affect interoception. On the left, a green figure represents bisoprolol, showing a zoomed-in synapse where it selectively blocks β1 receptors. On the right, a purple figure represents propranolol, blocking both β1 and β2 receptors, affecting both brain and body. A psychophysics graph models interoceptive responses, showing response intensity over trials. Below, line plots compare placebo, propranolol, and bisoprolol effects on interoception—cardioception (threshold) and respiroception (slope)—indicating drug effects on bodily awareness.
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
1/ "A science of consciousness beyond pseudo-science and pseudo-consciousness" is out now! it was a joy to coauthor this commentary with Àlex Gómez-Marin @behaviOrganisms for @NatureNeuro, in which we try find some positive lessons in the clash over IIT www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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