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OHBM Trainees @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🚨Two weeks away!🚨 Reminder that our first workshop of the year will happen in two weeks featuring @russpoldrack.org. 🧠 Better Code, Better Science 📅22 April 2026 🔗Register: forms.gle/WRUdGQEpd5is... #OHBM #OpenScience

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Utterly delighted to have been awarded 5 years of research funding from the ERC to study low-activity brain states that could underpin flexible rule use. Let’s see what "pinging" can tell us about how task sets are assembled and changed!

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Delighted to see this special issue completed, in honour of our extraordinary friend and mentor John Duncan :)

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Outstanding keynote this morning from the incredible Lucia Navarre de Laura at the www.tmsfmriworkshop.org. These developments are really going to transform the field.

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Jing Jiang kicking off our www.tmsfmriworkshop.org with her keynote on bridging TMS-fMRI with stimulation + invasive neural recordings to work out: can we truly reach deep brain regions through cortical TMS targets? #tms

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Suitably exotic location for a TMS-fMRI WORKSHOP!! Can't wait to see everyone later. #tms #fmri #concurrenttmsfmri www.tmsfmriworkshop.org

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Setting off on a 3 hour journey without my laptop feels... weird. But you can hardly take a laptop to the WIMBLEDON LADIES FINAL :-D

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Yet another new paper from the brilliant Runhao Lu @runhaolu.bsky.social together with outstanding undergraduate student Isabelle Woods Rogan. Arrhythmic TMS is (probably!) still the best control choice for alpha entrainment studies. But watch out, TMS affects aperiodic activity too.

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Chaos on the trains up to Glasgow today (looking forward to giving the Psychology seminar tomorrow), but isn't it nice how rail disruption magically gives us Brits "permission" to talk to one another!

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I'm getting to announce a lot of new papers this week! This one, led by the fabulous duo of @jadebjackson.bsky.social and @catrionascrivener.bsky.social shows that artefact free concurrent #TMS-fMRI is possible - with surprisingly short interslice gaps.

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

When we started this project we thought we were dotting the is and crossing the ts - it seemed obvious that codes in frontoparietal control regions should generalise between modalities. By the time we finished, it seemed obvious that they should not! As always the answer is somewhere in between...

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Delighted to see this - the culmination of discussions begun by the ocean in Greece (at our international workshop on TMS-fMRI) - now out in print! I learnt a lot, and made many friends, along the way to this one. Next TMS-fMRI workshop will be in Mexico in Sept, EOI at www.tmsfmriworkshop.org

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Thank you Becca! Always great fun to talk about combining neuroimaging approaches in cog neuro. Super interesting day at Cambridge Imaging Festival so far, with talks from across Depts and Schools, and fantastic to hear the vision of our PVC-R for more interdisciplinary research in this space.

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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Here is an open letter signed from UChicago AAUP signed by over 200 faculty to our administration on what we believe this moment requires: uchicagoaaup.wordpress.com

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Steve Most @sbmost.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Still one of the best "how to give a presentation" presentations out there

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How to Speak

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I had a brilliant time visiting @yorkpsychology.bsky.social today - so many interesting chats and exciting ideas for new analyses, experiments, and collaborations! Days like these are what makes our job so much fun :)

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Horray, another paper from the brilliant Runhao Lu @runhaolu.bsky.social is out now in Brain Stimulation! Our first adventure with TMS-EEG and decoding, finding a specific role for parietal alpha in enhancing behaviour-driving codes for where to attend in space.

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Please come and work with us and the amazing @lauragwilliams.bsky.social ! Really special project using E/MEG to look at receptive language in non speakers. Please repost!

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Duncan Astle @duncanastle.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

We are hiring! We're looking for a great project manager to help with a large-scale Wellcome funded study. If you know of anyone that this might appeal to, please share. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49880/

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Project Manager (Part Time, Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Project Manager (Part Time, Fixed Term) in the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge.

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

We were very lucky that the brilliant Nadene Demody could organise the SCR at her college for our Christmas lunch this year! Season's greetings to you all from the Woolgar lab :-D

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Eva Feredoes @evalab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Concurrent TMS-fMRI is hot stuff if you want causal inference with your whole-brain recordings. Come and hear me spill the beans on why you might want in on this magnet-on-magnet action - webinar on Jan 22nd: marketing.magventure.com/referral_reg....

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

First lab paper since moving to bluesky! In which I learnt not to ignore aperiodic #EEG #MEG signals.... Led by the fabulous Runhao Lu.

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Runhao Lu | 陆润豪 @runhaolu.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Thanks Earl for reposting our work! (Our following study intergrating MEG and fMRI data will be coming soon...)

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 03/12/2024

Scientists, academics, researchers: We’re excited to share that @altmetric.com is now tracking mentions of your research on Bluesky! 🧪

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Job Alert!! The School of Biological Sciences at Cambridge is recruiting FOUR new interdisciplinary Assoc Prof/Profs in #BioSci: Developmental Plasticity and Robustness bit.ly/49o5ehh Evolutionary Genomics bit.ly/3Zxuy19 Molecular & Cell Biol bit.ly/4gcr9Ky Infection/Immunity bit.ly/4eXGGgm Join us!

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Great talk from Runhao Lu this morning on the potentially important role of aperiodic neural activity in domain general cognition - and how to track it across MEG and fMRI. See also his preprint here! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Cambridge Methods in #CognitiveNeuroscience Day #CBUMethodsDay

Runhao Lu addressing the CBU Methods Day with his slide of take home messages behind him.

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John Anderson 🇨🇦 @janderz8.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This is kind of incredible- within a few weeks, most of my network from Twitter has reconstituted here on Bluesky- and I’m getting increasingly useful tips about neuroscience, stats, and psychology papers and code! Guys, I think we did it!

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 01/12/2024

Here are some things that neuroscientists don't like to call "correlation": 1990s: "reverse correlation" 2000s: "granger causality" 2010s: "functional connectivity" 2020s: "subspace communication"

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Hugely proud of Tianyi (Chentianyi Yang) for a fantastic presentation on methods to uncover the mathematical transformations underpinning language processing visible in #ANNs and #MEG #EEG data at #CBUMethodsDay today- at the end of his first year of PhD studies, no less!

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Agree - really exciting stuff from JeYoung Jung at Cambridge Methods in #CognitiveNeuroscience Day today. Here's hoping that with this much signal we have a better chance if connecting these observations! #fUS

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Thanks to Lizzie for taking us through how dosing parietal TMS based only on motor threshold tends understimulate people by an average of 15%! The resulting pattern of BOLD responses are not so simple to understand.

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Coleman Lab @colemanlab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This week’s Science Without Anguish post is out: the slippery slope to imposter syndrome in research and how to escape it. Please tell your colleagues on or off social media. 🧪 www.sciencewithoutanguish.com/blog/we-are-...

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Tim Kietzmann @timkietzmann.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

🧵Join us for a short tour of how a large-scale MEG dataset collected during active vision made us question it all. New work with Carmen Amme, Philip Sulewski, Eelke Spaak, Martin Hebart, and Peter König. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Saccade onset, not fixation onset, best explains early responses across the human visual cortex during naturalistic vision

Visual processing has traditionally been investigated using static viewing paradigms, where participants are presented with streams of randomized stimuli. Observations from such experiments have been ...

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

IMO, it will stay :) these papers make strong arguments for fMRI as important in converging on mechanisms across methods/ studies: elifesciences.org/articles/21397 nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06670-9 And questions of “how” and “why” are really difficult, maybe beyond any one method or scale?

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What the success of brain imaging implies about the neural code

For brain imaging to be useful despite its limitations in measuring neural activity, the neural code must be smooth both in a traditional sense and functionally.

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🌙 Lune Bellec @lune-bellec.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

In the past 6 years, we've worked on the cneuromod.ca dataset. The aim was to have tasks covering various cognitive domains for building next-gen multimodal neuroAI models. 6 participants were scanned for up to 200 hours of fMRI each. We just finished acquisitions. 6/🧵

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This is interesting. More to learn here, especially if different subjects show brain-behaviour relationships in opposite directions!

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Prof. Alex Woolgar @alexwoolgar.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Can't wait to start our new collaborative project with Laura, using these exciting methods to study receptive language processing in non-speaking autistic people

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

More evidence that working memory is not persistent activity. Instead, it is dynamic on/off states with short-term synaptic plasticity. Intermittent rate coding and cue-specific ensembles support working memory www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

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Intermittent rate coding and cue-specific ensembles support working memory - Nature

By recording large populations of neurons in behaving monkeys using newly developed silicon probes, we show that intermittent periods of memorandum-specific spiking coexist with synaptic mechanis...

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CogCompNeuro @cogcompneuro.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇 #NeuroAI #CompNeuro

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I’m seriously loving this platform. It’s like a school reunion. Meeting up with old friends, remembering the good times and forgetting all the bad stuff

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Jon Simons @jonsimons.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Great news that the Cambridge Biosciences Doctoral Training Partnership will be funded by one of UKRI BBSRC's new Doctoral Landscape Awards, offering PhD training across the breadth of BBSRC Strategic and Discovery Bioscience. Applications to start in October 2025 are now open!

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Major funding awarded to support the next generation of researchers

The School of Biological Sciences has received one of the BBSRC Doctoral Landscape Awards announced by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to support our Cambridge Biosciences Doctoral Training

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Prof. Lucy Cheke @lucycheke.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I've made a starter pack of Psych and Neuro people at the university of Cambridge. let me know if you're not on there and you should be! go.bsky.app/27CwvEW

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