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Alex Fornito

@alexfornito.bsky.social
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Doing cognitive neuroscience at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. We investigate brains, networks, genes, models, cognition & disorders.

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Biological Psychiatry @biologicalpsych.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In our latest episode of The Biological Psychiatry Podcast, we sit down with Dr. @sidchop.bsky.social from @orygen.org.au and the @unimelb.edu.au to discuss his latest work distinguishing the effects of psychotic illness and antipsychotic medication on the brain.
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Differential Effects of Psychotic Illness and Antipsychotics on the Brain
In this episode of The Biological Psychiatry Podcast, Dr. Elvisha Dhamala sits down with Dr. Sidhant Chopra from Orygen and the University of Melbourne to discuss his recent paper published in Biologi...
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wonderful new work by @sidchop.bsky.social distinguishing illness-related and antipsychotic-related longitudinal brain changes in first episode psychosis in collab with @orygen.org.au
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thankful to be part of this fab collab led by @trangcao.bsky.social, S Saha, & Z Tao showing that geometric eigenmodes facilitate identification of potential biomarkers for hereditary ataxias: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Check Our latest led by @sidchop.bsky.social - a blinded RCT separating effects of illness and antipsychotics on longitudinal cortical thickness changes in first episode psychosis
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
An updated roadmap for brain-mental health associations in the UK Biobank www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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bioRxivpreprint @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Systematic evaluation of structural connectome thresholding in whole-brain network modelling www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Not sure how to visualise your connectome data? Check our latest led by @m-gajwani.bsky.social & C Adamson on NeuroMarvl: an open source web-based platform for visualising and sharing connectomes! Paper: tinyurl.com/2t7ftu9d Software: tinyurl.com/yrv3xja3 @nsb-lab.bsky.social
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thank-you @thetransmitter.bsky.social for covering our recent work led by @trangcao.bsky.social on the reproducibility of MRI phenotypes in psychiatry Story: www.thetransmitter.org/spectrum/neu... Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Neuropsychiatric MRI brain signatures fail reproducibility test
Small neuroimaging studies are unlikely to capture consistent anatomical changes related to conditions such as autism, schizophrenia and mood disorders, according to a new “wake-up call” study.
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Our latest out now in @natneuro.nature.com led by @trangcao.bsky.social looking at the reproducibility of MRI morphometry phenotypes in psychiatric disorders. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thread: x.com/TrangCao2016...
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The cross-site reproducibility of MRI morphometric phenotypes in psychiatric disorders - Nature Neuroscience
A large analysis of MRI studies in five psychiatric disorders reveals that maps of brain volume differences in psychiatric illness are rarely reproducible, highlighting the need for alternative approa...
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The topology of adolescent mental health | medRxiv www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Lorenzo Posani @lorenzoposani.com · 15/07/2026
Out today on @nature.com! Connecting neural specialization, population geometry, and their functional implications across the cortical hierarchy. So grateful for this beautiful and fun collaboration with @shuqiw.bsky.social, S Muscinelli, L Paninski, and @stefanofusi.bsky.social!
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Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy - Nature
Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure, supporting a computational regime geared towards high-dimensional, highly separable neural representations.
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Interested in the principles shaping connectome architecture? See our latest in @cp-cell.bsky.social led by F Normand @nsb-lab.bsky.social A simple model using geometric eigenmodes captures cortical connectomes of different species. Paper: tinyurl.com/3r43spf5 Thread: tinyurl.com/vx74hp6u
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Attending #OHBM2026? Check out our team’s work! @nsb-lab.bsky.social
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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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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Our latest, led by @ivaili.bsky.social out now in Nature Mental Health using normative modelling to understand the heterogeneity of atypical FC in autism. Peep the thread...
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Frustrated with DSM? Interested in @hitop-system.bsky.social as a potential alternative? Check our latest, led by J Tiego, using a bottom-up approach in a transdiagnostic twin sample evaluating the validity & heritability of the HiTOP model: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Working with ABCD data? Been using the CBCL? Check our latest out now led by K Pavlovich with T Constable & J Tiego. Diving deep into the psychometric properties of the CBCL, we find that widely assumed latent structures are not valid in the ABCD sample. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Assessing the Psychometric Properties of the Child Behaviour Checklist in the ABCD Study
The Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL) is a widely used measure of psychopathology in developmental research and serves as the primary measure in the landmark Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development st...
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Jianxun Ren @jianxunren.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
In case this important point gets overlooked: along with our Nature paper, we’ve publicly released two large and scarce datasets—PIPD and PIET. IMHO, these are the best open Parkinson's and Tremor datasets available to date. See threads (1/4) 👇 nature.com/articles/s41...
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Parkinson’s disease as a somato-cognitive action network disorder - Nature
The substantia nigra and all Parkinson’s disease deep-brain stimulation targets are selectively connected to the somato-cognitive action network rather than to effector-specific motor regions.
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ilaria Ricchi, Dimitri Van De Ville, et al: Spine-prints: Transposing brain fingerprints to the spinal cord doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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...
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Thomas Nichols @nichols.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Statistical Machine Learning post doc positions, w/ Oxford BDI-Novartis Collaboration for AI in Medicine, working on building causal predictive models for MS using a massive clinical trials MRI dataset. Join us on this unique collaboration! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Come along for a fantastic workshop if you’re in town!
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
🔥🔥Final announcement!🔥🔥 Only 3 days and a few places left to register for the Noosa Brain Workshop! Registrations close 5pm Feb 1, AEDT. Check the website for the Program and get in quick! www.monash.edu/turner-insti...
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Sarah Yip @yiplab.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Looking for a postdoc in #computationalpsychiatry? Apply here to join an interdisciplinary team and work with a large longitudinal transdiagnostic dataset postdocs.yale.edu/posts/2026-0... @RobbRutledge @xiaosigu @DrChrisPitt @PearlsonGodfrey @ACNPorg @YaleMed
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Computational Psychiatry Postdoctoral Associate Opening at Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Data quality biases normative models derived from fetal brain MRI | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) holds transformative potential for the care of people with mental health illnesses. This review explores key domains, applications & challenges that must be addressed to ensure safe, effective, & sustainable clinical integration. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Annie G. Bryant @anniegbryant.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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...
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.
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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...
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Only a few more days to get your application in to come and join our team as a Research Officer helping with recruitment on a large-scale brain imaging project! Applications close Jan 30: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
🔥🔥The Noosa Brain Workshop Registration Deadline is approaching!!!🔥🔥 Speakers are confirmed and registration closed Feb 1st. Only a few places are left so get in now! Details here: www.monash.edu/turner-insti...
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Hua Xie, Seok-Jun Hong, et al: Local-global functional gradients of the thalamus capturing different aspects of thalamic structure and function doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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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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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
🔥🔥Exciting news!!!🔥🔥 The invited speaker schedule for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop has been finalised! Commuter registrations are still available, but close Feb 1. 3 more weeks to get in!!! Register here: www.monash.edu/turner-insti...
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Gaute Einevoll @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Episode #36 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On low-dimensional manifolds in motor cortex – with Sara Solla @sasolla.bsky.social theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn36 Manifold analysis has changed our thinking on how cortex works. One of the pioneers of this modelling approach explains.
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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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 ⤵️
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Toward Robust Neuroanatomical Normative Models: Influence of Sample Size and Covariates Distributions | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Cross-species consensus atlas of the primate basal ganglia | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Maxime Chamberland @maxchamb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🧠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...
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Human cortical networks trade communication efficiency for computational reliability. | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
New lab paper - will say more about this in a little while
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Exciting announcement! Our Institute is calling for applications for a EMCR 2-year fellowship . Come and join a great team @turnerinstitute! Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/ci/en/jo...
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Our latest preprint led by T Constable testing the hypothesis that brain changes mediate the effects of trauma on psychopathology: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... Peep Toby's extended thread on the other platform: x.com/constable_to...
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Toby Constable on X: "NEW PREPRINT OUT! 👀 Trauma is linked to both brain changes and mental illness… But in a large MRI study, we show that differences in grey matter and functional connectivity do not necessarily explain trauma-related psychopathology 🧵👇" / X
NEW PREPRINT OUT! 👀 Trauma is linked to both brain changes and mental illness… But in a large MRI study, we show that differences in grey matter and functional connectivity do not necessarily explain trauma-related psychopathology 🧵👇
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Lucina Uddin @lucinauddin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
J'ai hâte gradients! gradients-workshop.github.io 🧠 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social
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Gradients 2026
A workshop on gradients in brain organzation in June 2026
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Xiaole Z. Zhong, J. Jean Chen, et al: The link to steady-state oxidative metabolism and hemodynamics varies across rs-fMRI metrics: A whole-brain assessment using macrovascular correction doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Optimism for abundant whole-brain connectomes and connectomic screening | Nature Methods www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Optimism for abundant whole-brain connectomes and connectomic screening - Nature Methods
Connectomics has so far outpaced the Moore’s law predictions about technological progress. At this pace, many whole-brain connectomes and connectomic screening will soon be realistic.
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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...
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Exciting new work from @lindenmp.bsky.social and friends! Inferring intrinsic neural timescales using optimal control theory www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Inferring intrinsic neural timescales using optimal control theory - Nature Communications
Here, the authors develop novel dynamical methods to model brain regions’ intrinsic neural timescales (INTs) from data, and find that they couple whole-brain structural connectivity to dynamic switchi...
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Sex-specific brain structural predictors and outcomes of adolescent depression trajectories | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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