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Cristian morales carrasco

@crimoral.bsky.social
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assist prof at BME in University of Santiago, Chile. Interested in functional brain organization (fmri). Former postdoc at UFRO and before that at Dcan labs, @MIDB, University of Minnesota.

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Robert Hermosillo @roberthermosillo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Impressive network neuroscience work by Bene Ramirez @benediktramirez.bsky.social ! This allows the field to start discussing the nuances of discrete parcellation. It's gonna have big implications for precision interventions.
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Bene Ramirez @benediktramirez.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Excited to share our new preprint introducing Precision Confidence Mapping (PCM), a framework for estimating how confident we should be in individualized functional network assignments from resting-state fMRI. Why does this matter for precision neuromodulation? 🧵👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Peter Kok @peterkok.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The hippocampus sits at the interface of perception & memory, allowing us to link past, present, & future through its role in generating predictions. Excited to share this theme issue in @royalsociety.org's Philosophical Transactions B, co-edited with @barense.bsky.social & @mariamaly.bsky.social
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Volume 381 Issue 1954 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society
Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.
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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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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Chenonceau: mesoscopic MRI deep phenotyping of a post-mortem human brain at 7 and 11.7 Tesla www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Brenden Tervo-Clemmens @tervoclemmensb.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
New preprint from the lab! Led by @martingell.bsky.social . There is something for everyone: brain-behavior prediction, latent variable modeling, test-retest reliability. 🧠📈📊 "Disentangling Brain-Psychopathology Associations: A Systematic Evaluation of Transdiagnostic Latent Factor Models"
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Benjamin Kay @benjaminkay.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
This is your brain on Ritalin. Got your attention? Stimulant medications like Ritalin (methylphenidate) do, but not in the way you might think. They don't act directly on the brain’s attention systems! Find out what's really happening in @cellpress.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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Benjamin Kay @benjaminkay.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Ever wondered if your interesting brain-behavior correlation was over- or under-estimated due to head motion, but were afraid to ask? We’ve created a motion impact score for detecting spurious brain-behavior associations, now available in Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Miles Wischnewski @miles2708.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Had a great time with Gonzalo Rivera and @crimoral.bsky.social and many others at the SimNIBS workshop. A lot of discussion on #TMS, #tDCS, and #tACS!
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Announcing the next AFNI Bootcamp: Sep 23-25, 2025. Free, open & virtual. This "Part 1" will focus on basic visualization and single subject FMRI processing, including discussions of alignment, templates, regression, ROIs and quality control. Details & registration: afni.nimh.nih.gov/bootcamp
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AFNI Bootcamp: Sep. 23-25, 2025 | afni.nimh.nih.gov
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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Is precision functional brain imaging in babies possible? YES! We show this in not one but two new preprints out of WashU and @umn-midb.bsky.social! 1️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 2️⃣: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🐣👶🧠
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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/06/2025
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 04/08/2025
so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group
AI and Fraternity, Abeba Birhane, AI Accountability Lab  

I envision a future where human dignity, justice, peace, kindness, care, respect, accountability, and rights and freedoms serve as the north stars that guide AI development and use. Realising these ideals can’t happen without intentional tireless work, dialogues, and confrontations of ugly realities – even if they are uncomfortable to deal with. This starts with deciphering hype from reality. Pervasive narratives portray AI as a magical, fully autonomous entity approaching a God-like omnipotence and omniscience. In reality, audits of AI systems reveal a consistent failure to deliver on grandiose promises and suffer from all kinds of shortcomings, issues often swept under the rug. AI in general, and GenAI in particular, encodes and exacerbates historical stereotypes, entrenches harmful societal norms, and amplifies injustice. A robust body of  evidence demonstrates that — from hiring, welfare allocation, medical care allocation to anything in between — deployment of AI is widening inequity, disproportionately impacting people at the margins of society and concentrating power and influence in the hands of few. Major actors—including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI—have willingly aligned with authoritarian regimes and proactively abandoned their pledges to fact-check, prevent misinformation, respect diversity and equity, refrain from using AI for weapons development, while retaliating against critique. The aforementioned vision can’t and won’t happen without confrontation of these uncomfortable facts. This is precisely why we need active resistance and refusal of unreliable and harmful AI systems; clearly laid out regulation and enforcement; and shepherding of the AI industry towards transparency and accountability of responsible bodies. "Machine agency" must be in service of human agency and empowerment, a coexistence that isn't a continuation of modern tech corporations’ inequality-widening,
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katja heuer @k4tj4.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Brain Surfaces of 70 primate species
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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
1/11 Excited to share our @Naturestudy led by @leonooi.bsky.social @csabaorban.bsky.social @shaoshiz.bsky.social AI performance is known to scale with logarithm of sample size (Kaplan 2020), but in many domains, sample size can be # participants or # measurements... doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Evan Gordon @gordonneuro.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
We have argued that the brain’s Action Mode Network controls functions required for goal-directed behavior. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Now, in new work, we show that AMN contains distinct subnetworks for making decisions, implementing actions, and processing feedback. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Alert!!!! “An Action Networks Model for Pain” We propose a new model for chronic pain — and highlight two functionally connected cortical networks that could revolutionize how we treat it. 👉 thread below 🧵 osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
OK, It is not just the HBCD release... docs.hbcdstudy.org It’s the ABCD Release time too! docs.abcdstudy.org nbdc-datahub.org That means the ABCC 3.0.0 is live!!! The largest release yet from the ABCD-BIDS Community Collection. This is going to be fun!! 👇 Let’s dig in.
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Benjamin Kay @benjaminkay.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
My med school textbook says stimulants like Ritalin treat hyperactivity by “stimulating” the brain’s attention and cognitive control systems. We studied children taking stimulants in the ABCD Study, and the largest differences were actually in arousal and reward networks! Check out our preprint!
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Báez-Yáñez, Petridou et al: Impact of vascular architecture, oxygen saturation, and hematocrit on human cortical depth-dependent GE- and SE-BOLD fMRI signals: A simulation approach using realistic 3D vascular networks doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...
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NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’
After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
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Thomas Yeo @bttyeo.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
It's finally here! Use the Network Correspondence Toolbox to help contextualize your neuroimaging findings 🧠
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A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results - Nature Communications
Here, the authors present the Network Correspondence Toolbox, which enables researchers to examine and report spatial correspondence between their neuroimaging results and widely used brain atlases.
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Paul Taylor @afni-pt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The result of a large (42 authors!) collaboration: "Go Figure: Transparency in neuroscience images preserves context and clarifies interpretation" arxiv.org/abs/2504.07824 TL;DR: The FMRI world can (and should) improve results interpretation and reproducibility *today*, via transparent thresholding.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Taking full advantage of new advances in brain imaging technology will require more collaboration between engineers and neuroscientists, writes @lauradata.bsky.social in the latest for our human neurotechnology series. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/human-neurot...
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fMRI can do more than you think
Advances in brain imaging technology provide new and different information about the brain.
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CantlonLab @cantlonlab.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Reasoning Algorithms: Online workshop open to all, with a bunch of speakers from cognitive development, primate cognition, neuroscience, and computational modeling 🧪🧠 obssr.od.nih.gov/news-and-eve...
https://obssr.od.nih.gov/news-and-events/events/reasoning-algorithms-across-species-diagnoses-and-development-theoretical
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Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🧵 How do psychedelics shape brain activity? Our new paper presents the largest neuroimaging study of psilocybin to date—revealing how context structures psychedelic brain states. Title: Psychedelics Align Brain Activity with Context Paper: lnkd.in/gt-kMR6d A thread 🧵👇 1/n
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Frank Beier @beierlab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Changes to MSc, PhD and postdoc funding programs from 🇨🇦 tri councils. Harmonization across councils, more awards, and new eligibility for international PhD and postdoc applicants!
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NSERC - Latest News - Launch of the new Harmonized Tri-agency Scholarship and Fellowship programs
As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.
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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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milhammichael.bsky.social @milhammichael.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Mental health research is at a turning point—breakthroughs can transform lives, but only with bold action, investment, and open collaboration. The time for action is now. Read our full statement here: childmind.org/blog/can-sci...
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
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Homepage - openRxiv
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
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Ali Cohen @aliocohen.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Excited to share this brief review where @katieinsel.bsky.social & I discuss studying adolescence to understand how brains work! We highlight avenues for future collaborative work at the intersection of cognitive, computational, & developmental neuroscience 🧠 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Current Directions in Psychological Science article entitled More Than Just a Phase: Adolescence as a Window Into How the Brain Generates Behavior
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Science Magazine @science.org · 07/03/2025
Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4
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Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events
Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration
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Compute! Paris @computeparis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
📊 Handling predictive uncertainty in machine learning is crucial for making optimal decisions. In his keynote, Olivier Grisel shares insights on evaluating and improving predictive models, focusing on ranking power and probabilistic calibration. 🎥 Watch now:
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KEYNOTE: Olivier Grisel - Handling predictive uncertainty in Machine Learning | PyData Paris 2024
Machine Learning practitioners build predictive models from "noisy" data resulting in uncertain predictions. But what does "noise" mean in a machine learning...
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 02/03/2025
PubMed has been down for at least 11 hours and we are EXTREMELY concerned. We hope it’s mere incompetence and not an official action. If any of our followers have media events today, please mention it.
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Opinion | Will They Come for PubMed Next?
Here's what we lose if the administration takes away this invaluable resource
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Neuromatch @neuromatch.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
🚨 Neuromatch Academy Course Applications are OPEN for 2025!! 🚨 Get your application in early to be a student or teaching assistant for this year’s courses! Applications are due Sunday, March 23. Apply & learn more: neuromatch.io/courses/ #mlsky #compneurosky #ai #climatesolutions #ScienceEdu 🧪
Applications are now open! 3-week courses: Comp Neuro and Deep Learning. 2-week courses: NeuroAI and Comp Tools for Climate Science.
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Eneko Uruñuela @enekourunuela.com · 28/02/2025
Do you work with multi-echo fMRI data? Or are you planning to? Say no more! Join us at the online multi-echo fMRI users meeting on March 14th. We have a prepared a super interesting agenda for you! Here are the important details you need to know 👇
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Scientific data and independence are at risk: We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political interference. By @neuralreckoning.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/policy/scien...
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Science must step away from nationally managed infrastructure
Scientific data and independence are at risk. We need to work with community-driven services and university libraries to create new multi-country organizations that are resilient to political…
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 19/02/2025
please retweet this ad for a tenured-research position in fMRI at ultra-high. Join us!
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Stuart Buck @stuartbuck.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
New essay on NIH and indirect costs: goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-c...
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Indirect Costs at NIH . . .
I wasn’t planning on spending part of a Saturday writing about cost accounting principles and the like, but NIH-world was hit with a doozy of a policy announcement on Friday night:
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Zoe McElligott @nanopharmnc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I just reached out to my senators about the NIH situation. If you need to find out how much impact NIH has in your state in terms of dollars in and their economic impact here's a link: www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...
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NIH In Your State - United For Medical Research
Select a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America.
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Konrad Kording @kordinglab.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Announcing a new week-long program for young computational neuroscience/ behavior professors to talk about rigorous science, mentoring, lab management, and networking in a stunning retreat setting. Do great science as a community and have fun doing so.
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Visit our new courses calendar, where we highlight the top neuroscience courses that should be on your radar. You can filter your search by topic. www.thetransmitter.org/courses/?utm... #neuroskyence
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Julia Moser @drjuliamoser.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Finally out in its polished form 🤩 New methodological avenues that help facilitate looking at individual brain functional organization in developmental populations 👶🧠
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nilearn.bsky.social @nilearn.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Merry Christmas everyone 🎅❄️ Santa has brought you Nilearn 0.11.0… and 0.11.1 to fix the bugs 🐞 of 0.11.0! This version includes a new “surface” API that allows to represent surface meshes and data. 🚀 Get more details here: neurostars.org/t/nilearn-re...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Spanning spatial scales with functional imaging in the human brain; initial experiences at 10.5 Tesla www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Damien Fair @drdamienfair.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The last of 4 linked commentaries on dynamic connectivity in Imaging Neuroscience, by Timothy O. Laumann, Abraham Z. Snyder, and Caterina Gratton: Challenges in the measurement and interpretation of dynamic functional connectivity doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
1 of 4 linked commentaries on dynamic connectivity in Imaging Neuroscience, by Diego Vidaurre: Dynamic functional connectivity: Why the controversy? doi.org/10.1162/imag...
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Alejandro de la Vega @neurozorro.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
Attention neuroscientsts! We just launched Neurosynth Compose: A free and open platform for neuroimaging meta-analysis. NS-Compose makes it easy to perform custom neuroimaging meta-analyses without leaving the browser. It's live, check it out! compose.neurosynth.org
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Neurosynth-Compose App
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