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Brandon Forys

@brandonforys.com
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PhD, UBC Psychology (MCLab, BAR Lab). Incoming postdoc at University of Oxford (Exp. Psych). fMRI methods, choices and thoughts about cognitive effort. Opinions my own.

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Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
@enekourunuela.com just put together a simple and fast search of #OHBM2026 content at me-ica.github.io/ohbm-2026-mu... (Select "All posters" for more than just multi-echo). 1/2
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OHBM 2026 abstracts
An unofficial community index of OHBM 2026 posters — focused on multi-echo fMRI, but searchable across the whole meeting. Filter by day and method, browse every poster, and read abstracts in place.
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Dani Palombo @danipalombo.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
1 more week to register for NOWCAM. visit. nowcam.org for details.
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Dani Palombo @danipalombo.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
My first ISRW. Great meeting! CC: UBC grads @omransafi.com @brandonforys.com
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Omran K. Safi @omransafi.com · 06/03/2026
Time isn’t just a clock on the wall — it’s how you remember it! Come see me at poster session B (B67) on Sunday morning if you’re interested in how segmenting in space affects how we remember time! Here’s sneak peek of the novel VR paradigm we used. #CNS2026 youtube.com/shorts/2y6Jp...
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Virtual Reality Events
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Brandon Forys @brandonforys.com · 06/03/2026
Many great talks and discussions on now at the International Sleep Replay Workshop before #CNS2026! I'm also presenting my work on motivational factors predicting choices given rewards, losses, and shifting cognitive effort demands at CNS (D126, Monday 8-10 AM). Please come by if you are there!
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Brandon Forys @brandonforys.com · 06/12/2025
CNS 2026! Be sure to register - it will be great to see so many cognitive science and neuroscience folks coming to Vancouver. And be sure to also check out the affiliated International Sleep Replay Workshop: isrw.bio.uci.edu
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International Sleep Replay Workshop – International Sleep Replay Workshop
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
1. Media coverage of a new paper by @ryantomm.bsky.social w @brandonforys.com, @dr-stan.bsky.social et al. Building on Stan’s rodent work, Ryan found that > depression levels were associated w reduced capacity to learn to actively button-press to avoid a nasty sound www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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Depression Curbs Ability to Actively Avoid Unpleasant Events
Depression in young patients is linked to difficulty in taking action to avoid something unpleasant, while the ability to withdraw and not act remains intact.
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Brandon Forys @brandonforys.com · 29/08/2025
For >5 years, the International Sleep Replay Workshops have brought together scientists studying sleep & memory. The next ISRW will be on March 6th in Vancouver (before @CogNeuroNews). Follow the link for details + to join the mailing list - see you there! isrw.bio.uci.edu
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International Sleep Replay Workshop – Join us for the virtual ISRW-IV in December 2024!
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Dan Handwerker @danielhandwerker.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The recording of yesterday's multi-echo fMRI users meeting is now up! youtu.be/LUyvXA81AEs?... @enekourunuela.com @tsalo.bsky.social
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Multi-echo fMRI users meeting - May 27th 2025
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I just published a new substack post focusing on "holding in personhood." Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Naomi Askenazi, & Ariane Boulet describe their work using dance, music, and technology to hold people in relationship when communication channels are restricted: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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Holding in Personhood
Oh, the days, they waste away, like an unplayed game.
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Brandon Forys @brandonforys.com · 25/03/2025
So wonderful to be a part of this awesome meeting - thanks @danielhandwerker.bsky.social! If you're interested in working with multi-echo and tedana, be sure to join these monthly meetings.
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗹𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 "theoretical framework to analyse individual variability in biological and artificial systems that perform flexible decision-making tasks" Looks like must read! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience
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UBC Psychology @psych.ubc.ca · 11/02/2025
Interesting🧵⤵️
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 29/01/2025
An image-computable model of speeded decision-making - our latest in @elife.bsky.social combining a CNN with a response time model. TL/DR: Training to reproduce human RTs results in different kinds of representations versus purely task-optimized training.
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An image-computable model of speeded decision-making
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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Thanks to everyone's feedback, we have updated our calculator to optimize sample size N & scan time T for fMRI studies: leonoqr.github.io/ORSP_Calcula... The first new feature is that users can explore how different N & T leads to different accuracy, e.g., N=1000 & T=30min => 81% max accuracy. 🧵
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Dani Palombo @danipalombo.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Cool new paper from Brandon Forys et al. Congrats! [Bonus: the figure in the paper suggests that the "newer" (and nicer) building is where my lab is. 😀]
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Brandon Forys @brandonforys.com · 15/01/2025
Why can sounds like dogs barking or a phone ringing sound pleasant in some situations, but very unpleasant in others? We explored this question in our new paper out now in @plosone.org: doi.org/10.1371/jour... (a thread):
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Hear it here: Built environments predict ratings and descriptions of ambiguous sounds
The built environments we move through are a filter for the stimuli we experience. If we are in a darker or a lighter room or space, a neutrally valenced sound could be perceived as more unpleasant or...
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Brandon Forys @brandonforys.com · 08/01/2025
Yesterday, I taught the first class of the first undergrad course I'm teaching - cognitive neuroscience - and it was so exciting to see so many students from a variety of academic backgrounds coming together. It looks like it will be a great semester with this talented group!
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 08/01/2025
A related question: I would really like to incorporate LLMs into the class. Does anyone have good examples of how they have used them in graduate teaching?
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Brandon Forys @brandonforys.com · 11/12/2024
Great talk by @ar0mcintosh.bsky.social at #UBC on the amazing work being done with the Virtual Brain to model and understand how brain activity - and corresponding network - shift with aging. A very powerful tool!
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Brandon Forys @brandonforys.com · 28/11/2024
I know many people use VSCode or similar for fMRI analysis scripting, but I’ve really come to like PyCharm - good SFTP interface for working with compute clusters, Copilot inline for code checking, etc. I just wish it could handle remote Jupyter notebook mounting a little more nicely…random thought!
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OpenNeuro.org @openneuro.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
OpenNeuro.org is now on Bluesky! Follow us for project updates and exciting new datasets.
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OpenNeuro
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
With so many new people flooding onto Blue Sky I thought I'd re-post this just-out cognitive neuroscience paper from my lab - the fruit of many years and much labour.
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Quentin Huys @docqhuys.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
How do DA and 5HT drugs alter reinforcement learning? Join us next Wednesday for talks by @anahitm.bsky.social, Diego Pizzagalli, Michael Browning, Roshan Cools, Emma Robinson, Yael Niv, Cath Harmer, Isabel Berwian, @nathanieldaw.bsky.social and Anne Collins. Links etc: acplab.org/2024/11/15/r...
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RELMED Workshop 20th Nov 2024 – Applied Computational Psychiatry Lab
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Brandon Forys @brandonforys.com · 15/11/2024
👋 I’m Brandon, a PhD student at UBC Psychology with @beckety.bsky.social and Alan Kingstone. I investigate factors driving our choices in cognitive effort + features of our environment that affect how we interpret everyday stimuli, as well as the neural representations of avoidance and reward.
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Chris Markiewicz @markiewicz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Announcing: BIDS Validator 2.0 This is a complete rewrite to base the validator on the declarative BIDS schema. Most importantly, this validator boasts long-awaited support for BIDS Derivative datasets. bids-standard.github.io/bids-validat... #BIDS #BrainImagingDataStructure
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BIDS Validator
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Brandon Forys @brandonforys.com · 14/11/2024
Thanks for the post @beckety.bsky.social - well said and excited to see this out at long last!
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
New substack post. I interview entrepreneur & special effects producer Philipp Wolf on his strengths-based approach to neurdivergence, his midlife autism diagnosis, and swyvl, his company designing XR to share the experience of neurodivergent nervous systems: open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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Simulating neurodiversity
An interview with Philipp Wolf
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Beck Todd @beckety.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
I just published a new substack post on dancing with neurodiversity. If you like it please subscribe (for free). open.substack.com/pub/becketto...
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Brandon Forys @brandonforys.com · 12/06/2024
What drives our choices to use more or less cognitive effort for reward? I’m excited to share our new paper out now in #eNeuro: “Short-term memory capacity predicts willingness to expend cognitive effort for reward.” doi.org/10.1523/ENEU...
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Short-term memory capacity predicts willingness to expend cognitive effort for reward
We must often decide whether the effort required for a task is worth the reward. Past rodent work suggests that willingness to deploy cognitive effort can be driven by individual differences in percei...
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Brandon Forys @brandonforys.com · 03/02/2024
Fantastic post from @beckety.bsky.social, go give it a read!
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