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Golia Shafiei @goliashf.bsky.social · 6h

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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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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epithelial mechanics fan club @epimechfc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Can mathematics explain how biological patterns are formed? Alan Turing thought so. Join me, @benswedlund.bsky.social, as we explore his reaction-diffusion theory and how it transformed our understanding of pattern formation and self-organisation.

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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Now published in PLoS Computational Biology! A cortical model combining geometric wave propagation with connectome-wired fast-conducting non-local projections (which strongly shape rapid stimulus-evoked responses but contribute little to slower spontaneous fluctuations) doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Modeling the influences of non-local connectomic projections on geometrically constrained cortical dynamics

Author summary Despite the complex wiring patterns found in the cortical connectome, many dynamical properties of macroscale cortical activity can be surprisingly well explained by treating the cortex...

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We are offering a new round of 4 Physics Foundation PhD scholarships @sydney.edu.au Available in any area of #physics or #astronomy. Please send to any students (domestic and international) who may be interested. Deadline 18th October. ⚛️ ☄️ www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

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Physics Foundation Scholarship

A stipend scholarship to support PhD students who are undertaking research within School of Physics, Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney.

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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New preprint from Kieran: We introduce a new data-driven method, feature-based slow feature analysis (f-SFA), to track non-stationarity from time-series data (with no generative model). It beats benchmarks on chaotic systems and tracks sleep depth continuously from EEG. arxiv.org/abs/2609.01651

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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 08/09/2026

Mathematicians at OpenAI announced that a group of 10,000 autonomous AI agents under their direction proved that the Navier-Stokes equations can “blow up,” thus solving one of the six remaining Millennium Prize Problems. The result is not without controversy. www.quantamagazine.org/ai-has-solve...

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AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems | Quanta Magazine

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” But the massive result is not without controversy.

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COMPLEX NETWORKS 2026 @complexnetconf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

⏳ 1 week left to submit to COMPLEX NETWORKS 2026! 📅 Deadline: Sept 2, 2026. 📍 Granada, Spain | Dec 2–4. 📄 Full papers & extended abstracts welcome! 🔗 Submission platform: complexnetworks.org/submission/ #ComplexNetworks #NetworkScience #GraphLearning #ComplexSystems #CallForPapers

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cssusne.bsky.social @cssusne.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨 Submit your abstract for the #Womplexity Meets Northeast satellite at #CCS2026. Open to women researchers at all career stages to share work in a supportive, hybrid setting on Oct 15! 🗓️ New Deadline: Sept 11 🔗 Details & Submit: css-usne.github.io/womplexity-m...

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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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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Applications for the 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships are open! Katrin Schmelz just completed SFI’s Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowship, and she reflects on what the experience meant to her. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Requirements & application: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

pyhctsa is out! A native Python port of the majority of the hctsa feature library (highly comparative time-series analysis). Thousands of interpretable time-series features available via a pip install. Built by Joshua Moore. Paper: doi.org/10.21105/jos... Code: github.com/DynamicsAndN...

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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Applications are open for SFI's 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI is looking for recent Ph.D. graduates with strong quantitative and computational skills who want to pursue independent, transdisciplinary research. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Apply: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Applications now open for Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships at @sfiscience.bsky.social! apply-sfi.smapply.org/prog/complex...

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Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowship - Santa Fe Institute

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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My short (7.5 min) talk on "Comprehensive quantitative phenotyping of physiological dynamics": www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPH1...

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Comprehensive quantitative phenotyping of physiological dynamics

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Earl K. Miller @earlkmiller.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Function is not tied to specific brain structures or time scales. The brain is not just a set of parts that each “do their own job”. Instead, networks are multifunctional and active across different speeds simultaneously. doi.org/10.1073/pnas... #neuroscience

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Shared spatial and temporal principles govern connectome dynamics across timescales | PNAS

While the brain processes information at various speeds, little is known about how the functional connectome can concurrently support multiple spee...

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Roxana Zeraati @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Our paper "Neural timescales from a computational perspective" is finally out in @natneuro.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We discuss how computational models and methods can distill empirical observations on neural timescales into quantitative, testable theories of brain computation.

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Neural timescales from a computational perspective - Nature Neuroscience

This review integrates computational approaches to provide a unified view on how data analysis methods, biophysical mechanistic models and machine learning approaches can help to uncover the origins a...

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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William Gilpin @wgilpin.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

How do time series foundation models forecast unseen dynamical systems? In new experiments, we find that small transformers learn to approximate transfer operators in-context. (1/N) arxiv.org/abs/2602.18679

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A. Murat Eren (Meren) @merenbey.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism: merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...

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Unfalsifiable by Design: A Year of Trying and Failing to Reproduce a Human Microbiome and Autism Study

The myth of open data, reproducibility, responsibility, and accountability in science, and your role in it

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Sylvain Baillet @sylvainbaillet.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

🚨new lab preprint; brain fingerprinting entirely revisited: Can we differentiate individuals from just seconds of neurophysiological recordings with machine learning, without resorting to black-box approaches? In this work, Maxence Lapatrie says 'yes'. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Brendan Harris @brendanjohnharris.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

How does the visual cortex coordinate neural activity over spatial and temporal scales? We found broad θ waves organize local γ bursts and spiking, forming a flexible spatiotemporal code to multiplex feedforward/feedback signals. Now out in full @natcomms.nature.com: doi.org/10.1038/s414... 🧵

Schematic of theta waves and gamma packets recorded from the mouse visual cortex

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M. Kasiulis @quasiulysse.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

New preprint! So, say you're studying some critical transition. How do you catch its universality? Pair correlations? Boring! We threw line segments at the system, looked at intersections with clusters, and uncovered static and dynamical universal behavior of MIPS! arxiv.org/abs/2511.09444

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Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

a while ago, I made this feed for neuroscience/cognitive science summer schools. after some tuning, it generally manages to find cool events. 🙂 bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Steve Fleming @smfleming.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Scientific publishing: Rethinking how research is reviewed and published Review of how the loss of impact factor affected submissions at eLife - uneven drop across countries, but generally holding up remarkably well and shows a new model is possible elifesciences.org/articles/110...

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Scientific Publishing: Rethinking how research is reviewed and published

Taking a radical new approach to the publication process resulted in eLife losing its impact factor, but authors, reviewers, editors and funders support the journal and its efforts to reform scientifi...

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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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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 16/02/2026

My new chapter of Better Code, Better Science on AI-assisted coding is now complete! It's been completely revised in an attempt to futureproof it. Comments welcome. bettercodebetterscience.github.io/book/ai-codi...

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Coding with AI - Better Code, Better Science

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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

New toolbox for visualizing subcortex in python and R is very well made. Worth pivoting your research program to study subcortical structures just as an excuse to use it ;)

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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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Shervin Safavi @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Thrilled to see the first preprint of the lab out 🤩 Check it out if you need to compare dynamics in your data and RNN (or any other combinations of dynamical systems)!

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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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Stuart Oldham @stuartoldham.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

My very normal, by the book presentation from this years OHBM is now available. So if you weren't at OHBM, were there but happened to miss it, or if you did see it and just want to relive it all over again, here is your chance :) I'm quite fond of this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP86...

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OHBM 2025 | Oral Session | Stuart Oldham | Only a matter of time: developmental heterochronicity c…

YouTube video by Organization for Human Brain Mapping

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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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Ricard Alert Zenón @ricardalert.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

New preprint! Do you like ocean waves? We found similar waves on bacterial colonies! We found that this collective behavior, known as rippling, is nothing but surface waves on an active nematic. @princeton.edu @mpipks.bsky.social @ub.edu @icreacommunity.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Richard Gao @rdgao.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Finally got the job ad—looking for 2 PhD students to start spring next year: www.gao-unit.com/join-us/ If comp neuro, ML, and AI4Neuro is your thing, or you just nerd out over brain recordings, apply! I'm at neurips. DM me here / on the conference app or email if you want to meet 🏖️🌮

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Adam J. Eisen @adamjeisen.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

How do brain areas control each other? 🧠🎛️ ✨In our NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight paper, we introduce a data-driven framework to answer this question using deep learning, nonlinear control, and differential geometry.🧵⬇️

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Sydney Mathematics and Statistics @sydneymathsstats.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Congrats to Dr Caroline Wormell from the School of Mathematics and Statistics on their recently announced DECRA award "From chaos to clarity: reliable data-driven analysis of dynamical systems."

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Hang-Hyun Jo @socph.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Our new preprint is out in arXiv: Copula-based analytical results of horizontal visibility graphs for correlated time series arxiv.org/abs/2508.08934 This is from the collaboration with my undergraduate student Jeong-Min Lee.

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Copula-based analytical results of horizontal visibility graphs for correlated time series

The visibility graph (VG) algorithm and its variants have been extensively studied in the time series analysis as they transform the time series into the network of nodes and links, enabling to charac...

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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

New preprint: "Identifying statistical indicators of temporal asymmetry using a data-driven approach" arxiv.org/abs/2511.15991 _Can we statistically distinguish the forward- versus reverse-time dynamics of a system from a finite time series?_

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Stuart Oldham @stuartoldham.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

In case anyone is interested, I've put that animation I made of brain development from 21-40 weeks GA on YouTube for your enjoyment/reference🤰👶🧠 Now you don't need to go to that other place anymore to find it 😁 youtu.be/C20GQ5CtVt0 Plus the code is now up! github.com/StuartJO/Fet...

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Fetal Brain Development: From 21 to 40 Weeks Gestation

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Dan Lewer @danlewer.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

A "methods primer" article in the journal "BMJ Medicine", titled "Factors associated with: problems of using exploratory multivariable regression to identify causal risk factors"

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Mac Shine @macshine.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

random neuroimaging question: does anyone in bluesky-land have access to the loadings for neurosynth topics in schaefer 400 (yeo7) space? #neuroskyence @misicbata.bsky.social @richardfbetzel.bsky.social @borismontreal.bsky.social @sofievalk.bsky.social

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Fernando Rosas @frosas.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Finally published: “Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... An information-theoretic framework to analyse complex multivariate dynamical processes ✨

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Toward a unified taxonomy of information dynamics via Integrated Information Decomposition | PNAS

Our ability to understand and control complex systems of many interacting parts remains limited. A key challenge is that we still do not know how b...

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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Can a virus help uncover Turing patterns in nature? In this @commsbio.nature.com paper, researchers show how the tulip breaking virus triggers the expression of a pigment that can display a broad range of (observable) stripe patterns @philipcball.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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