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Alex Wiesman

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Scientist studying neural dynamics in Parkinson's disease at SFU. Tryhard home cook | sci-fi nerd | movie buff. Views my own.

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Dr. Cate Peña @cate-cholamine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is the best Substack I’ve ever read open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...
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Opinion: I Miss When The NIH Payline Was 40% And We All Mouth-Pipetted Phenol
By Dr. Douglas R. Waverly, Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Yale University
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're in turbulent times in health research with unprecedented advances coupled with funding challenges. CIHR is at the cross-roads of this and is looking for a special advisor to the President (2 days a week, secondment). Be part of the solution. cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54823.html
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Special Advisor to the President - CIHR
Canada has exceptional health research talent and a strong record of scientific discovery. The challenge—and the opportunity—is to ensure more discoveries lead to better health, stronger health systems, new therapies and technologies, and a globally competitive life sciences sector.
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Happy to announce that I am searching for for a graduate student, starting Fall 2027. If you want to study the neural mechanisms of reaching and grasping, come join us in the rich environment of the Sensorimotor Superlab. For details: www.pruszynskilab.com/positions.html
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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So excited that our work is now published in PLOS Biology!! 🎉 Check out the final version here: doi.org/10.1371/jour... And for a bit more context and what we found, here’s our earlier thread: bsky.app/profile/goli...
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Decision, Action, and Neural Computation (DANC) lab @danclab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our multilayer MEG paper is out today in Nature Communications: depth-resolved laminar inference in humans 🧠#neuroskyence www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Multilayer MEG source modelling enables depth-resolved laminar inference in humans - Nature Communications
Researchers developed a multilayer MEG framework that estimates activity across cortical depth non-invasively. Simulations and three human datasets show when reliable laminar inference is possible, en...
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Rik Henson @rhens.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So thankful to the University of Cambridge for enabling a new chapter in the long history of the APU/CBU (since MRC decided to close all its units…)
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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
👉 Tenure-track opening in neuroscience @crchum.bsky.social @umontreal.ca crchum.carrieresante.gouv.qc.ca/poste/profes...
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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience | doi.org/10.1038/s415... Our lab’s internal toolkit for accomplishing everyday tasks in brain imaging @natprot.nature.com ⤵️
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netneurotools: a trainee-oriented approach to network neuroscience - Nature Protocols
This is a Perspective covering a Python toolbox for neuroscience research that enables users to fetch datasets, construct networks and null models, estimate graph metrics, fit statistical models and v...
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Alex Wiesman @alexwiesman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm thrilled to be one of this year's Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research, and humbled to be a part of such an inspiring cohort of neuroscientists 🧠🎉 Huge thanks to @braincanada.bsky.social & CIHR Institute of Aging for the support - it's incredibly helpful for our growing lab at @sfu.ca
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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My department is looking to hire 3 new faculty members! Please share widely. Assistant Professor - Cognitive: apply.interfolio.com/193975 Assistant Professor - Social Psychology: apply.interfolio.com/193979 Associate/Full Professor - Mental Health: apply.interfolio.com/193984
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Two tenure track positions are open in Computer Science @mcgill.ca ! Secure Software mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill... Quantum Computing mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill... Come join our department, and live in the coolest city in North America! (Yeah, I stand by that.)
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Computer Science: Secure Software and Computer Systems
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ok, this "there are two separate brains" thing appears to be making the rounds, and I want to be absolutely clear: this is a press office overhyping some perfectly reasonable science that won't come as a surprise to most developmental biologists.
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Markus Butz @markusbutz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Apply and work with Ash!
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Sally Xie @xallysie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
SFU social psych is hiring a tenure-track Asst Prof!! 🤩🎉 Our search prioritizes Black scholars. Come join a wonderful dept full of smart, kind people, and do psych research surrounded by mountains, ocean, a city, and natural beauty in BC. Please share widely & happy to answer qsts! flyn.im/dGFOwuT
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Job Search
Job Search
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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We're hiring! The York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC) is looking for a Senior Technical Specialist to support & develop MRI. This is a new role to reflect our commitment to pushing forward MRI research at York. Come join the team! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/seni... #neurojobs #neuroskyence #psychscisky
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Jobs - The University of York
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Cory Inman @brainscout.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Psychology Department at the University of Utah is currently seeking applicants for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Human Neuroscience. Please share the advertisement below with anyone in your professional network who is on the market! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/206...
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 03/09/2026
We are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. Please apply or forward to anyone who might be interested! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor, Psychology - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of Psychology at Stanford University is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position, with a research focus on developmental and/or social psychology. In addition ...
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Biyu Jade He @biyuhe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📣 My lab at NYU currently has two open post-doc positions. We are interested in understanding perception, thinking, and hallucinations. We employ a range of cutting-edge techniques in human neuroscience (e.g., 7T fMRI, MEG, iEEG/DES) and computational approaches (e.g., DNN modeling).
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Advice for new PhD students: choose a mentor who is committed to your training, not just your project. The most important product of your PhD - even more important than the science - is YOU, a newly trained scientist.
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Tahnée Engelen @tahnee-engelen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Come join my team at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social! I have an open PhD position (3 years fully funded) for a project investigating interoception and mental health, using lots of fun methods (EEG, EGG, tACs, TMS). More info and applications here: ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor... #NeuroJobs
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Doctoral Researcher, RCF project
Department of Psychology is seeking to recruit a Doctoral Researcher to work in the RCF project starting 1 November 2026, or as soon as possible after that for three years. The fixed-term position is ...
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Centre de recherche du CHUM @crchum.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Félicitations à @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social et Josée Côté pour leur élection à l’Académie canadienne des sciences de la santé (ACSS). Une reconnaissance de leur contribution exceptionnelle à l’avancement des connaissances en sciences de la santé. @umontreal.ca @chumontreal.bsky.social
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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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Elizabeth Heinrichs-Graham @heinrichs-graham.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My lab is hiring two full-time research assistants to work on our imaging studies of young children and adolescents! My team is incredible and we'd love to add more awesome people to the mix. 😊 Lots of opportunities for training and advancement! Please share with any and all! tinyurl.com/36ap3zh3
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Research Assistant I - CASI Lab
We have an opening for a full-time Research Assistant in the Cognitive and Sensory Imaging Laboratory (CASI Lab) at the Institute for Human Neuroscience at Boys Town National Research Hospital. Succes...
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Valentin Ourry @ourryvalentin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If you wonder how to analyze data on reserve and resilience, we just published a comprehensive review that should be useful! dx.doi.org/10.1002/alz.... @sylviavilleneuve.bsky.social @dbartres-faz.bsky.social Jake Vogel Rory Boyle Colin Groot @maudewagner.bsky.social #Alzheimer #Reserve #OpenScience
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Theoretical and practical challenges for capturing reserve and resilience in aging and Alzheimer's disease: A narrative review
The concepts of reserve and resilience in aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are widely used but their operationalization remains challenging and often lacks conceptual and methodological consistency...
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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
💡Alzheimer’s disease does not unfold on a single clock. 👉Our new study is out today. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Prediction of mild cognitive impairment progression using time-sensitive multimodal biomarkers
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) develops silently for years before symptoms emerge, making early identification of at-risk individuals essential for prevention trials and early intervention. We tested whethe...
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Randy McIntosh @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
All Canadian Scientists should consider this post carefully. I've been to a couple of these pubic consultations by CIHR, and there are a lot of problems/complaints voiced, but few solutions. Read the thread - maybe we'll find a path to solutions.
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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We're hiring! Postdoc position to study the neural control of reaching using high-density multi-area electrophysiology. 5 years of funding, great collaborative environment. Please share with anyone who may be interested. For details, see: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Pruszynski Postdoc 2026
Postdoctoral Researcher, Control Policies in the Primate Motor Circuit Pruszynski Lab @ Sensorimotor Superlab​ The Pruszynski Laboratory at Western University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to j...
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Rukuang Huang, Mark Woolrich, et al: MEG-GPT: A transformer-based foundation model for magnetoencephalography data doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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UBC Psychology @psych.ubc.ca · 24/07/2026
Join our department! We're hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology with anticipated start date of July 1, 2027. Apply by October 1, 2026. Pls. share! Learn more and apply: psych.ubc.ca/job-opportun...
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Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Clinical Psychology - UBC Department of Psychology
The Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia–Vancouver campus (psych.ubc.ca) encourages applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in clinical psyc...
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Max Heiman @heiman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
For neuroscience PhDs with a strong interest in teaching and mentoring: MIT is hiring a scientific program manager to support activities around a new NIH neuroscience PhD training grant. Salary range $91k - $129k #NeuroJobs careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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Scientific Program Manager
MIT - Scientific Program Manager - Cambridge MA 02139
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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
New collaborative review of neurophysiological alterations in severe mental illness. 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @crchum.bsky.social @theneuro.bsky.social
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Jason da Silva Castanheira @jasondasilvac.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Interested in how we plan over our imagination? Come to Brazil 🇧🇷 & my poster P1-E-37 at #CogSci2026! Here, @smfleming.bsky.social and I use computational modelling to demonstrate that planning over our imaginations, untethered from perception, relies on mental representations.
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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Neuroscientist Brenda Milner turns an incredible 108 years old today! In the 1950s she uncovered the role the hippocampus plays in consolidating memories, and in the 1970s she published her seminal studies of speech lateralization. Wishing her all the best today! tinyurl.com/3am8syhf #WomenInSTEM
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Building a Kingdom in the Brain’s Unfashionable District: Brenda Milner’s Century of Neuropsychology
There are scales and metrics you use to evaluate the lives of most neuropsychologists, and then there are those you have to invent in order to speak with any degree of justice about people like Brenda...
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).
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Jason da Silva Castanheira @jasondasilvac.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Out now in eLife, our new and improved paper on Attention and planning. Here, we explore how attention acts like an inductive bias that selects relevant information on which to plan. 📍🗺️👀 (1/5) elifesciences.org/articles/108... @smfleming.bsky.social
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How attention simplifies mental representations for planning
Spatial attention controls the information people become aware of and, in turn, incorporate into simplified perceptual representations for use in multi-step planning.
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Biyu Jade He @biyuhe.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
New paper alert from our lab! nature.com/articles/s41... We used stimuli sequences following 1/f statistical patterns—an ubiquitous statistical structure in natural stimuli—to probe predictive processing in the human brain. How does the brain predict upcoming sensory inputs based on past inputs?
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Neural mechanisms of time-forward predictions for naturalistic auditory tone sequences - Nature Communications
A longstanding question is how the brain predicts complex, naturalistic sensory events and updates those predictions when expectations are violated. Using intracranial recordings, the authors show tha...
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Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 08/07/2026
Good news everyone! 🎉 The new version 3.0 of graph-tool is just out with major improvements! See below. graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N
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Megan Hagenauer @mhagenauer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🧠 I think a lot of people are surprised when I say that I hate high impact publishing. I encountered a particularly poignant example today while reviewing a paper of why this style of publishing sucks: 🧵
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Mark Thornton @markthornton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Now in press at Cortex! "False discovery rate correction promotes confounded neuroimaging designs" Paper 🔓: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Effect of confound mass on true positive rates under test-wise FDR correction in completely arbitrary data. Confound mass represents how large a confound is in terms of the product of the number of tests it is present in, and its mean effect size across these tests. Results are shown at differing combinations of true effect size, number of tests with true (i.e., non-confound) effects, and sample size. Inflated surface maps of meta-analytic z-statistics from Neurosynth for low-level confounds (top) and high-level cognitive tasks (bottom). Red reflects positive activations, blue reflects negative (de)activations, and darker colors indicate larger z-statistics. Maps are thresholded at |z| = 1 for visualization purposes.The difference in integrated true positive rate between parcel-wise FDR and parcel-wise FWER (y-axis) is plotted as a function of confound effect size. Each point represents 1 out of 5000 studies simulated for each combination of task and confound. Smoothed loess lines are used to better show the overall trends.Effect of FDR-based publication bias on observed confound effects sizes. Simulated meta-analytic confound effect sizes are visualized through violin plots for each combination of task effect and confound effect examined in the neural data simulations. Meta-analyses featuring publication bias (orange) substantially inflate these effect size estimates in all cases, relative to meta-analyses featuring no publication bias (blue). Moreover, this bias was present – and in most cases larger – in the subset of studies that were included in the meta-analysis specifically when the publication bias was based on FDR instead of FWER integrated true positive rates (green).
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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Decline of Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...
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Decline of Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This week I had two grants rejected and submitted two grants.
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Circle Of Life
ALT: Circle Of Life
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵
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Inside the new political screening that’s stalling NIH grants
Mandatory reviews by top health officials and checks for 235 disfavoured terms have left hundreds of vetted grant applications in administrative limbo.
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Tim Lawn @timlawn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🚨 New paper 🚨 Did you ever wonder if the spatial similarity of receptor PET maps matters for their use in molecular-informed fMRI analyses? Here we systematically investigate this. 🧵
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Valentin Riedl @vavatin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Out now in @pnas.org We present a new metabolism-weighted brain connectome that incorporates each region’s energy expenditure into the mapping of brain connectivity. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Kabir Arora, Linda Drijvers, et al: A collaborative guide to Rapid Invisible Frequency Tagging (RIFT): Methods, insights, and recommendations doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
In our 30th year, absolutely ticked pink to receive our third successive Platform Support Grant in support of Western's Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping. A testament to the amazing technical staff in this unique-in-Canada facility. Co-funded with @westernu.ca @schulichmeddent.bsky.social
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SFU Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology @sfuneuro.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Join us for our Trainee Spotlight Seminar on June 25! Hear from SFU PhD students Daniel Tay and Justin Wang as they present research. June 25 | 2:30 PM PDT SFU Big Data Hub + Zoom More info: sfu.ca/neuro-institute/events #Neuroscience #BrainResearch #SFU #Neurotechnology
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
We are delighted to announce that Shella Keilholz will shortly become the Editor-in-Chief of Imaging Neuroscience, following the selection process described in our Author Guide. Steve Smith is stepping down as EiC after serving for three years, following the transition from NeuroImage.
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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to postle@wisc.edu
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Our interests in human memory and cognition encompass the cognitive and neural basis of working memory, attention, control, and consciousness.News  Madison Symposium on Memory & Control. On 30 May 202...
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