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Arshiya Sangchooli (They/he)

@arshiyasan.bsky.social
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🧠 Neuroscientist, PhD candidate, lapsed MD 🇦🇺 Monash (Neural Systems and Behaviour Lab), ex Uni Melbourne, Tehran Uni 👨‍🔬Computational modelling, spatial patterns, MRI processing, tractography, cog-neuro, addiction AuDHD 🌈 English & Persian flavors

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Steven Meisler @stevenmeisler.com · 01/10/2026
There are many MRI approaches for studying myelin. But which ones are reliable, how do they relate to each other, and how do they behave in gray vs white matter? In our new preprint, we introduce Myelin Imaging Reliability and ReprOducibility Resource (MIRROR) 🧠🪞 📄🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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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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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today I'm releasing the "1000×1000 collection": a unified place to learn about dynamical structure. 1000 simulated time series (1000 samples each) spanning 133 dynamical processes. Have a play? 🐛 #timeseries #dynamicalsystems #complexity #opendata dynamicsandneuralsystems.github.io/1000x1000/
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shivashriganesh.bsky.social @shivashriganesh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We’re excited to share BrainWideBench, a new benchmark for evaluating how models of neural activity generalize across animals and tasks! 📄 Check out the paper here! arxiv.org/abs/2609.22064 Special shoutout to @alx-adr.bsky.social, who contributed equally as co-first authors!
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Thomas Nichols @nichols.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I ♥ Quarto... whether for mathy notes, or writing models a collaborator needs in a Word doc, I find it to be such a handy way to combine prose and math. I've been using it since @russpoldrack.org introduced me to it, and happy to share my templates to help others use it github.com/nicholst/Ihe...
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GitHub - nicholst/IheartQuarto: Templates to use Quarto for writing short technical documents
Templates to use Quarto for writing short technical documents - nicholst/IheartQuarto
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Gene Gradients Reveal Directed Structural Connectivity Across Species | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My best student experiences came from take-home problems I could think about for weeks. Hard to incentivize this outcome for today's students with AI to generate full solutions. I gave a talk on a model that aims to 'save' take-home assignments: 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=slg0... #physics #highered
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Carolina Rezaval @crezaval.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Deeply worrying to see hundreds of postdocs in Argentina left in limbo by budget cuts and delays. Science cannot thrive when talented early career researchers face such uncertainty after years of training. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Budget cuts and delays leave hundreds of Argentine postdocs in limbo
Many scientists are scrambling to make ends meet and reconsidering their future in research
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Tony Zador @tonyzador.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
How do you build a brain from a genome? We know a lot about the mechanisms and molecules Here we revisit the algorithmic problem: What kinds of programs can specify a brain within the genome’s information budget and the finite time available for development? stankerstjens.github.io/could-a-comp...
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Could a computer scientist build a brain?
How does a brain wire itself, starting from a single cell, using only the information encoded in a genome? We pose this as an engineering problem.
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Pierre Vanderhaeghen @vanderhaeghenp2.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Beautiful study by Ikuo Suzuki lab on the impact of species-specific tempo of neurogenesis. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Interspecific diversity in the neuronal composition of the mammalian cortex arises from heterochrony in neurogenesis - The EMBO Journal
Mammals share a laminar cerebral cortex, with excitatory neuron subtypes organized in distinct layers. Although this framework is conserved, subtype balance varies markedly between species due to larg...
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Noah Mitchell @npmitchell.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Morphogenesis has a memory problem. A tissue must form reproducible shape while remaining robust to noise arising across scales. How does the target geometry survive? New work led by Nico Romeo, with @davidbruckner.bsky.social: arxiv.org/abs/2607.23907
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Growth and remodeling control shape memory in morphogenetic rods
Mechanical instabilities provide a general design principle for shaping developing organs and engineering soft materials. However, in slender structures, simple elastic buckling tends to erase rather ...
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Marta Silva @martamasilva.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Check out our new paper! 🧠 Me, @xiongbowu.bsky.social and @fuentemilla.bsky.social review how reactivation at the end of events support memory formation and propose it serves multiple functions from preventing interference to helping preserve temporal continuity! ✨ www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
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Neural reactivation supports memory formation when events end
Memory routinely transforms continuous experience into discrete episodes that support flexible retrieval. We propose that these structured representations are established via rapid neural reactivation...
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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Applications are open for the 2026–27 Black In Neuro Mentorship Cohort! 🧠✨ Apply as a mentor or mentee for 1:1 matching, application support, professional development & a global neuro community. 📲 Scan the QR code to apply! #BlackInNeuro
Flyer for the Black In Neuro Mentorship Program announcing applications for the 2026–27 cohort. Participants can apply as mentors or mentees. Program benefits include 1:1 mentor matching, graduate/medical school application support, community, professional development workshops, and an honorarium. Two QR codes are provided: one for the mentor application and one for the mentee application. The flyer has a dark brown background with cream and gold accents and the Black In Neuro logo in the upper left. For questions, contact mentorship@blackinneuro.com
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Abraham Zelalem Vollan @azvollan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Now in Science: How does the brain’s navigation system allocate its limited representational resources during behavior? We found that grid cells sweep toward locations of interest, providing a potential mechanism for allocating spatial attention in the cognitive map.🧵 science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Zhihao Zheng @zhihaozheng.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Happy to share the CA3 dataset is published. First large-scale dense connectomics from hippocampus. First connectomic dataset imaged in @princetonneuro.bsky.social. A harbinger of many larger datasets to come (for both). doi.org/10.1038/s415... #hippocampus But my personal favorite is (1/2)
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Hippocampal CA3 connectomics reveals a gradient of mossy fiber inputs and selective feedforward inhibition onto pyramidal cells - Nature Neuroscience
The authors present a dense connectomic reconstruction of a 0.1 mm3 hippocampal CA3 volume and reveal spatial gradients, high convergence and cell-type-selective feedforward inhibition of inputs to py...
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Want to support Australian science? Sign off on this great initiative from @science.org.au ! restorescience.com.au
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Back Australia's Ability
Help us restore investment in Australian science
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Melike Eren @neurowithmelike.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Siibra: a software tool suite for realizing a Multilevel Human Brain Atlas from complex data resources - Nature Methods
Siibra is a software suite for working with diverse human brain atlases. It links data acquired with different modalities and at different resolution, thereby creating a Multilevel Human Brain Atlas.
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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This is one of my favourite things. Direct replication of MEG and fMRI findings in intracranial recordings and a demonstration that cortical representations update in the right direction around hippocampal ripples.
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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
📘 The OHBM 2026 Abstract Book is now available! Relive the science of #OHBM2026 by exploring the full collection of abstracts presented at this year’s Annual Meeting in Bordeaux. 🔗Access the Abstract Book here: humanbrainmapping.org/aperture-neu...
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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This paper is an absolutely beautiful combination of a deep set of cognitive ideas, a super creative task, a surprisingly impressive behaviour, and an elegant modelling framework. One of my favourite things in the last year.
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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen @lindorfflarsen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Great. Goes well with this paper on how to write bad papers: doi.org/10.1111/j.00...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92
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cjl2007.bsky.social @cjl2007.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Happy to share that our paper on objective quality assessment for "precision" fMRI is now out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social A recap of what it does, what's new since the preprint, and code you can run on your own data. cell.com/neuron/fullt...
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megan peters 🧠 @meganakpeters.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
If you're in London and want to sit in air conditioning (so I am told) tomorrow afternoon, you can also get a free lecture out of it! Come join me to talk about consciousness, neuroscience, & adversarial collaborations tomorrow afternoon at the Crick! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...
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Understanding the brain in theory and practice
A series of interactive workshops on building better experiment-theory collaborations in neuroscience.
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Marc L Seal @parkvillegeek.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Distinct Brain Maturation Pathways Relate Environmental Variation to Cognitive Development | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Tim Behrens @behrenstimb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at Sabancı University in Istanbul for a 2-year TÜBİTAK-funded position, with possible extension. Interested candidates can email me with a CV and a brief note about their research interests. More details on gunselilab.com soon.
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Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab | Istanbul | Sabanci Uni.
Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab at Sabancı University - Eren Günseli. We study how memory and attention interact, how humans control what to remember, what to forget, what to attend to, and...
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Chris Baldassano @chrisbaldassano.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This work is now published in Nature Communications! We were able to train participants to have near-perfect memory for lists of 40 words - they added creative details to their memory representations that we could measure in their behavior and brains 🧠 doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Binding items to contexts through conjunctive neural representations with the method of loci - Nature Communications
This study of a mnemonic technique found that highly effective memory is supported by “conjunctive” representations in the brain’s Default Mode Network, which reflects the unique, creative details use...
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Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
✨ Congratulations to Aperture’s Award Winners honored at #OHBM2026 ✨
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Our first Impact Factor is 3.0 — an important milestone for a new journal. As with most new journals, the first IF is affected by the smaller publication volume in the launch year. Latest citation data are encouraging, and the journal’s IF is set to rise in 2027.
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Caswell Barry @caswell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Job klaxon 📣 UCL is hiring two NeuroAI / computational neuroscience specialists (Lecturer or Associate Prof) — a big part of the new NeuroAI centre we're growing in Biosciences. Do consider applying if it's relevant to you. JD & details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX021 Happy to take questions.
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Camille Maumet @cmaumet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Happening now! #ohbm2026 #bids #provenance Come and meet Boris at his poster to discuss provenance and BIDS
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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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Cedric Boeckx @cedricboeckx.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Very cool new work on cortical folding, led by @r3rt0.bsky.social, showing the influence of the geometry of the the unfolded neocortex 🧪🧠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Cortical folding patterns are encoded in the geometry of the unfolded neocortex.
Cortical folding patterns are conserved across individuals of gyrencephalic species and are closely related to cytoarchitectural organisation, connectivity, and function. Early morphogen gradients hav...
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Roberto Toro @r3rt0.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
What signals organise the global layout of the neocortex? Come to poster #2558 #OHBM2026 on Wednesday 13h45 or Thursday 14h45 to chat about folding, geometry, mechanics and genes! @k4tj4.bsky.social @julien-lefevre.bsky.social
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NSB Lab @nsb-lab.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
#2177 Francis Normand bridges the gap between geometric eigenmodes and functional gradients in the cortex with perturbation theory And in #2766 Gabriella Chan uses a production and spreading model to investigate the genetic and connectomic constraints on gray matter volume changes in schizophrenia!
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NSB Lab @nsb-lab.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
And #0403, where Marko Ruslim models individual-specific wave propagation of neural activity along the visual hierarchy ! Now the final Wednesday/Thursday posters: In #2128, Yinuo Shu describes how topologically complex connections support the diversity and flexibility of brain attractor dynamics!
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NSB Lab @nsb-lab.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Other Monday/Tuesday posters: #0425 by recent alumnus @dralexholmes.bsky.social, on cortical geometric constraints on hierarchical sensory integration #0676 where @m-gajwani.bsky.social investigates the self-similarity of human brain organization across scales using fractal mathematics ❄️
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NSB Lab @nsb-lab.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
How reproducible are morphometric phenotypes in psychiatric conditions? Hint: for most disorders, reproducibility may require very large sample sizes. See poster #1729 (Wed/Thurs), led by @trangcao.bsky.social You can also checkout the preprint: medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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NSB Lab @nsb-lab.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Interested in thalamocortical connections and automatically reconstructing them? See poster #2176 (Wed/Thurs) on our bespoke thalamocortical tractography pipeline developed by @priscilatlevi.bsky.social and @arshiyasan.bsky.social, balancing personalization and biological plausibility!
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NSB Lab @nsb-lab.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Check Neuromodes, our new brain geometry package for simulating activity, understanding brain structure or organisation differences, null modelling and more! Led by @victor-barnes.bsky.social @izachpope.bsky.social @m-gajwani.bsky.social Poster #2027 (Wed/Thurs) github: github.com/NSBLab/neuro...
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NSB Lab @nsb-lab.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Good afternoon #OHBM2026 ! NSB Lab (past & present) is presenting a host of fantastic posters, talks & software over the coming few day so keep your eyes peeled 👀 and come talk to us! @alexfornito.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social Details 👇
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Aperture Neuro @apertureohbm.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
🧠 Visit Aperture Neuro at #OHBM2026! Stop by Exhibit Table #60 in Exhibition Hall 1 starting tomorrow to learn more about our latest innovations supporting neuroscience research and connect with the team. 📍 Exhibition Hall 1 | Table #60 #Neuroscience #BrainMapping #Neuroimaging #ResearchTools
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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Working on your schedule for #OHBM2026? Save some energy for the last day to discuss the latest in precision imaging of the infant brain with @reznikdaniel.bsky.social, Jucha Willers Moore from @kingspfig.bsky.social and @camerontellis.bsky.social!
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Dr Cyril Pernet @cyrilrpernet.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
hey #OHBM2026 attendees - this year I have a booth to speak about publicneuro.eu. Come and see how we can help you share personal / 'protected' data, or just come get a new sticker for your laptop and say hello
logo for https://publicneuro.eu/
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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
🎤 1 Day Until #OHBM2026 One exclusive Talairach Lecture you won’t want to miss ✨ 🧠 Join Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., D.M.Sc. for this year’s distinguished Talairach Lecture at OHBM 2026. 📍See you tomorrow in Bordeaux! #OHBM2026 #TalairachLecture #Neuroimaging #BrainMapping #Neuroscience
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Tim Lawn @timlawn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I'll be presenting two posters at OHBM this week - come say hi! [0510] Spatial collinearity constrains multivariate molecular enriched network estimation ↳ Monday & Tuesday [1985] Locus Coeruleus Connectivity Confers Cognitive Resilience in Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease ↳ Wednesday & Thursday
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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
If you are attending @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social come by and check out our poster on how excessive censoring hurts parcellation and personalized TMS target accuracy. Poster number 2399 Presenting on Wednesday, June 17 (12:45-13:45) and Thursday, June 18 (13:45-14:45)
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Silvia Gini @silviagini.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
With OHBM 2026 starting tomorrow, I’m excited to share this perspective piece @gozziale.bsky.social and I contributed to @apertureohbm.bsky.social State of the Brain 2025 collection! 🧠 doi.org/10.52294/001...
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Expanding the cross-species lens: Rodents in focus | Published in Aperture Neuro
By Silvia Gini, Alessandro Gozzi. Cross-species functional neuroimaging is evolving from a niche pursuit to an emerging theme in systems neuroscience, with the potential to broaden the questions we ca...
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