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Amin Saberi

@amnsbr.bsky.social
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Postdoc, Cognitive Neurogenerics Group at MPI-CBS & FZJ-INM7 | MD PhD aminsaberi.me

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CMC Unit @cmc-unit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We, the Natural Decision Making Group and the Embodied Decision Making Group, are joining forces to establish the CMC Unit, a joint research unit to uncover computational, biological, and ecological principles underlying adaptive decision-making. You can read more about us here: cmc-unit.org
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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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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Brain structural variations across neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions are systematically constrained by the brain's intrinsic architecture > www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Lifespan brain structural variation reveals shared organization across mental health conditions
Elucidating the neurobiological basis of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions (NDPCs) remains challenging because brain alterations vary within diagnoses and overlap across them. Whether dive...
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Renato Duarte @rcfduarte.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I tracked every keyword in 22 years of Cosyne abstracts to map how computational neuroscience evolved — from Bayesian brains to neural manifolds to LLMs — and where it's heading next.
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22 years of Brain Science: what CoSyNe tells us about the evolution of Neuroscience
Tracking the intellectual DNA of Computational and Systems Neuroscience through its flagship meeting
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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Synaptome architecture shapes regional dynamics in the mouse brain | doi.org/10.1371/jour... How do diverse synapses relate to the spatial patterning of whole-brain dynamics? Justine Hansen explores @plosbiology.org ⤵️
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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🚀 We are hiring: a PhD position is available in my lab (gozzilab.it) at @iitalk.bsky.social, Italy. Project: large-scale brain network mapping in behaving mice using functional ultrasound imaging (FUSI). 📅 Deadline: March 31 🔗 tinyurl.com/4jtetxa9 Reshares appreciated 😊
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Arman Behrad @armanbehrad.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Wanna compare dynamics across neural data, RNNs, or dynamical systems? We got a fast and furious method🏎️ The 1st preprint of my PhD 🥳 fast dynamical similarity analysis (fastDSA): 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2511.22828 💻: github.com/CMC-lab/fast... I’ll be @cosynemeeting.bsky.social - happy to chat 😉
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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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Amin Saberi @amnsbr.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
✨ New preprint ✨ Introducing cuBNM, a toolbox we developed to run brain simulations *much* more efficiently on GPUs 🎉🚀 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Documentation: cubnm.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ GitHub: github.com/amnsbr/cubnm 1/n 🧵
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Kevin Mitchell @wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Great review on The Genetics of Human Handedness: Microtubules and Beyond www.cell.com/trends/genet... - handedness is such an interesting phenotype!
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Genetics of human handedness: microtubules and beyond
Handedness (i.e., the preference to use either the left or the right hand for fine motor tasks) is a widely investigated trait. Handedness heritability is consistently estimated to be 25%. After decad...
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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Excited to share that our work introducing the Reproducible Brain Charts (RBC) data resource is now published in Neuron!! 🎉 📚 Read the paper: authors.elsevier.com/c/1lpaF3BtfH... 🧠 Explore the RBC dataset: reprobrainchart.github.io
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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
The effect of spherical projections on spin tests for brain maps | doi.org/10.1162/IMAG... Spin tests are the de facto null model for map-to-map comparisons in brain imaging. Why don't they perfectly control false positives? @vincebaz.bsky.social explores ⤵️
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Alessandro Gozzi @gozziale.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🚨 Excited to share the latest preprint form the lab ➡️https://tinyurl.com/32d3be9f Here we tackle a long-standing chicken-or-egg 🐣🥚question in #autism and developmental neuroscience ➡️ Is excitation–inhibition (E:I) imbalance a "cause" or a "consequence" of #autism? Check out what we found! 🧵1/n
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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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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
My lab is at @ohbmofficial.bsky.social in Brisbane! Find us at the @gradientsworkshop.bsky.social - great talks by @wanb.bsky.social Katerina Manoli (and others) Then we are at the educational sessions where @claraweber.bsky.social will present @amnsbr.bsky.social work on E/I balance.
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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Very happy about this paper and what we learned from it!! Please see Amins thread for more juice 🧃 and let us know if you are also on the E/I journey and like to try our toolbox
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Leon Lotter @leondlotter.de · 05/06/2025
Amazing new paper on individual development of E/I balance during adolescence, first-authored by @amnsbr.bsky.social! Read @ Science Advances: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Bonus: Amin developed a tool to run biophysical network modelling on GPUs – because why shouldn't he? cubnm.readthedocs.io
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Adolescent maturation of cortical excitation-inhibition ratio based on individualized biophysical network modeling
Individualized simulations reveal a decrease in excitation-inhibition ratio in association areas throughout adolescence.
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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This is awesome!
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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
⭐ new paper Maturation of cortical excitation-inhibition (EI) in adolescence now in Science Advances 💥 A true tour de force of multimodal MRI, connectomics & GPU-powered 🤖!! biophysical modelling by hiball superheroes 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️ @amnsbr.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social @sbe.bsky.social
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Amin Saberi @amnsbr.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🧠⚖️📉 How does the cortical excitation-inhibition ratio mature during adolescence? We asked this in our new paper just out in #ScienceAdvances ✨ “Adolescent maturation of cortical excitation-inhibition ratio based on individualized biophysical network modeling” 📄 www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 🧵⤵️
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Adolescent maturation of cortical excitation-inhibition ratio based on individualized biophysical network modeling
Individualized simulations reveal a decrease in excitation-inhibition ratio in association areas throughout adolescence.
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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
We are seeking a scientific coordinator for my research group at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig 😊🧠🌈 Could be ideal for a gap year between MSc and PhD or PhD and postdoc! Please out more here: recruitingapp-5218.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/43...?
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Scientific Coordinator (m/f/d) Part-time (50%) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
Scientific Coordinator (m/f/d) Part-time (50%) | Karriereportal Max-Planck-Institut für Kognitions- und Neurowissenschaften
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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
⭐ preprint ⭐ In-vivo evidence for increased tau deposition in temporal lobe epilepsy ➡️ Using [¹⁸F]MK-6240 PET, we show increased tau in young and middle aged TLE ➡️ Tau aggregation potential mechanism of disease progression & cognitive decline ➡️ pdf bit.ly/4mmlTYH by Raul Cruces & a super team
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gradientsworkshop.bsky.social @gradientsworkshop.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The gradients workshop is happening soon! Please join us on June 23rd in Brisbane for a full day of gradient fun! 🌈 ✅ Amazing speaker line up ✅ Poster presentation ✅ Flash talks for selected abstracts Deets on program, abstract submission, and registration 👉 gradients-workshop.github.io
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Gradients of Brain Organisation, Brisbane 2025
GRADIENTS WORKSHOP
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Simon Eickhoff @sbe.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Our #metaanalysis (n = 231) in JAMAPsych reveals consistent brain abnormalities across #sleep disorders involving affective and cognitive hubs in sgACC, amygdala/hippocampus Short-term sleep deprivation shows a distinct picture, affecting the thalamus jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Boris Bernhardt @borismontreal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
in press @natcomms.nature.com 🌟 "Multimodal gradients unify local and global cortical organization" 7T MRI + cytoarchitectonics reveal a sensory-paralimbic axis of areal specialization & integration led by superstar Yezhou Wang & a terrific team of friends & colleagues ▶️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Ke Xie @kexie.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
✨ What makes the brain's functional organization different in each #TLE patient? 🧠 ✨ We used a large sample (298 healthy adults, 282 TLE, 45 disease controls) + normative modeling to capture individualized functional disruptions. 🔎 #epilepsy #neuroimaging #precisionmedicine doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Personalized Biomarkers of Multiscale Functional Alterations in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) presents with substantial inter-patient variability in clinical and neuroimaging manifestations. This multicenter study examined inter-individual differences in spatial pa...
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Mashbayar Tugsbayar @tmshbr.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Top-down feedback is ubiquitous in the brain and computationally distinct, but rarely modeled in deep neural networks. What happens when a DNN has biologically-inspired top-down feedback? 🧠📈 Our new paper explores this: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Top-down feedback matters: Functional impact of brainlike connectivity motifs on audiovisual integration
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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
While the world burns, we cook up a new preprint! doi.org/10.1101/2025... Biophysical modeling is a key tool to derive mechanistic insights into the brain. These models are governed by biologically meaningful parameters (unlike artificial neural networks), but the dirty secret ... 1/N
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Giacomo Bignardi @giacomobignardi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Our study is now out in @naturecomms.bsky.social! Here, we integrate large-scale registry musicality data from twins to investigate the genetics of music enjoyment 🧬🎶🧑‍🤝‍🧑
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Donna Gift Cabalo @donnagift.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Our open-source multimodal precision MRI dataset is officially out! 🧲🧠🧲 www.nature.com/articles/s41... osf.io/mhq3f/ @borismontreal.bsky.social @jroyer.bsky.social @themindwanders.bsky.social @jordandekraker.bsky.social
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Multimodal precision MRI of the individual human brain at ultra-high fields - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Multimodal precision MRI of the individual human brain at ultra-high fields
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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
📢 We have a new #NeuroAI postdoctoral position in the lab! If you have a strong background in #NeuroAI or computational neuroscience, I’d love to hear from you. (Repost please) 🧠📈🤖
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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Brain function fluctuates daily—but what drives these changes? direct.mit.edu/imag/article... super proud of Deniz Yilmaz and Bianca Serio and thankful for the open data of @emilyjacobs.bsky.social and Laura Pritschet 🌈👫 studying hormonal fluctuations in functional gradients ❤️‍🔥
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Bratislav Misic @misicbata.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Synaptome architecture shapes regional dynamics in the mouse brain | www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Led by Justine Hansen Big news: there are all sorts of different synapse types in the brain 👀‼️⤵️
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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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Alexandra John @johnalexandra.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
For all the thalamus lovers❤️‍🔥 : Excited to share that our Paper is out now✨Huge thanks to @sofievalk.bsky.social and all collaborators @meikehettwer.bsky.social, @wanb.bsky.social, @amnsbr.bsky.social, @jroyer.bsky.social, @borismontreal.bsky.social, @linaschaare.bsky.social, Seyma Bayrak
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James Pang @jchrispang.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
For my first-ever bluesky post, I'm really excited to share our new preprint "Geometric influences on the regional organization of the mammalian brain" with @alexfornito.bsky.social and a superstar 17-person team! (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Geometric influences on the regional organization of the mammalian brain
The mammalian brain is comprised of anatomically and functionally distinct regions. Substantial work over the past century has pursued the generation of ever-more accurate maps of regional boundaries,...
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Rick Betzel @richardfbetzel.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A few words on the preprint! 1/
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Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
There's so many ML tools coming out that purport to increase your productivity, but what should you actually pay attention to? Here's my roundup www.neuroai.science/p/ml-tools-f...
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ML tools for neuroscientists
Which tools should you be using?
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Simon Eickhoff @sbe.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The limiting factor for MRI based prediction of behavioral traits may be neither the imaging nor the pipeline or learning algorith but rather the reliability of the target phenotypes Thought provoking work my Martin Gell et al: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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How measurement noise limits the accuracy of brain-behaviour predictions - Nature Communications
Our ability to identify associations between behaviour and brain imaging is important for uncovering markers of cognition and disease. Here, the authors illustrate the importance of the reliability of...
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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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 💜
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Microstructural asymmetry in the human cortex
Nature Communications - The human cortex displays an anterior-to-posterior asymmetry, identified via both post-mortem and in vivo microstructural measurements. Microstructural asymmetry is...
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The brain expresses activity in complex patterns, reflecting the influence of cytoarchitectural, biochemical & genetic properties. Eigenstrapping is our method for inferring the similarity between two such brain maps while excluding spurious (chance) relationships www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
A website update on what neuro - bio - social then means in terms of what we do and plan to do: www.cbs.mpg.de/independent-... 💜🧠✨NBS galore (next to remaining cognitive neurogenetics RGL at Research Center Jülich 💙)
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Sofie Valk @sofievalk.bsky.social · 10/11/2023
The human #cortex consists of layers with unique properties. @amnsbr @sofievalk &co show that regional variation of laminar thickness profiles in human #isocortex is associated with the cortical #connectome & hierarchical organization #PLOSBiology plos.io/3QW7WDm
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The regional variation of laminar thickness in the human isocortex is related to cortical hierarchy ...
The human isocortex consists of tangentially organized layers with unique cytoarchitectural properties. This study shows that the regional variation of high-resolution histology-based laminar thicknes...
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