Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo EBRAINS @ebrains.bsky.social · 16/07/2026We are delighted to welcome Ghent University as an associate member at EBRAINS! The university is over 200 years old, offers more than 200 programmes and conducts research in many scientific disciplines. Read more: ebrains.eu/news-and-eve...ebrains.euEBRAINS welcomes Ghent University as new associate memberEBRAINS is pleased to announce that Ghent University has joined the EBRAINS AISBL as an associate member. 022
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Kayson Fakhar @kayson.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Cambridge Networks Network is back! Come have a chat if you're around. If not, you can follow us on Bluesky or even become a member (check the website). Regardless, we're looking for material to add to our resources section. Let me know if you have any. 152
Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Dissecting Spectral Granger Causality through Partial Information Decomposition arxiv.org/abs/2603.07634 0153
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 10/02/2026the cutoff scores for #MSCA postdoc fellowships are very high this year. has the score distribution shifted compared to previous years? I made a plot with scores from past years. if scores are at ceiling level, the process becomes essentially a lottery, because minor issues can lead to deductions. 36316
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Thrilled to announce the Oxford Psychological Networks Summer School (OxPNS)! This is the first-ever psychological network analysis workshop in the UK, to be held in magical Oxford from June 22-26, 2026. To apply and for more information, please visit: oxfordpns.com A brief thread 🧵 25433
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo INCF @incforg.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Reminder for mentors: Full project descriptions for INCF’s Google Summer of Code 2026 are due 1 February 2026. Submit your neuroscience-focused proposal, especially aligned with INCF standards: docs.google.com/form... #GSoC #OpenSource #Neuroscience #INCF 031
Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026"ripples" are by definition transient. And what does a transient become in the spectrum? Surprise: 1/f. Poteto potato. 081
Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · 20/01/2026OHBM asking to review up to 30 more abstracts (I did 42 already) due to lack of reviewers seems like a serious structural problem. An incentive could be a reduction or waiwer of the exorbitant registration fee. Just saying. 080
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Adrien Peyrache @apeyrache.bsky.social · 19/01/2026"The time for passive consumption has expired. Every scholar should begin contributing their expertise to Wikipedia — not as charity, but as a core duty" www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comThe academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years — now it might fail usArtificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the plane... 0146
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Felipe Fontana Vieira @felipefv.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Come and be my PhD colleague: www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...ugent.beDoctoral fellow 011
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 09/01/20261/🧵 NEW PREPRINT! Granger Causality Maps for Langevin Systems – new preprint from the incomparable Lionel Barnett, w/ Benjamin Wahl, Nadine Spychala, and me – a Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science production. Link at end of thread. 2194
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 07/01/2026After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...eiko-fried.comWARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko FriedIf you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi... 5190160
Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · 07/01/2026A hitchhiker’s guide to information theoretical measures in psychology by @nielsvs.bsky.social with me and Yves Rosseel authors.elsevier.com/c/1mOwr53na-... osf.io/preprints/ps... 03716
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 28/12/2025And like, all these posts about how the “story makes so much sense” and “resonates with what patients say”. I’m an ADHD person who takes stims and a neuroscientist and I find all of this totally incredulous. 391
Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · 26/12/2025"drug for disorder which isn't a disorder doesn't act on a brain network (which isn't a network) called as the thing in the name of said not-disorder, according to increased signal detected by a method in which increased signal possibly doesn't indicate increased activation" 1141
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo practiCal fMRI @practicalfmri.bsky.social · 23/12/2025...defining voxels by their response (-ve) implies reduced activity but doesn't prove it, and I'd prefer a principled neuroanatomical basis, or EEG, etc., which leaves me assuming a lot of vascular physio artifacts are going to be interpreted. A case for subject-specific HRF, not canonical, perhaps! 121
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Fleur Zeldenrust @fleurzeldenrust.bsky.social · 23/12/2025Out now in PLOS CB: a wonderful study by @nishantjoshi.bsky.social, together with Tansu Celikel and Sven van der Burg: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... Nishant shows here how classifying neurons based on electrophysiological properties depends critically on the input you give these neurons.lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 1133
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Stefan Haufe @sparsity.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Thank you for the great work @willenjoy.bsky.social ! An important step towards understanding and correcting bias in source localizations and functional connectivity due to source leakage. 072
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Benedikt Ehinger @benediktehinger.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Can we stop our #EEG experiments after 5 trials? Thought provoking paper: www.arxiv.org/abs/2511.23162 tldr: n=5 trials gave better cvR² than n=100% on average Kudos to the authors who went far beyond many other EEG papers in terms of additional tests & baselines (openreview.net/forum?id=c6L...) 1113
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 04/12/2025I wrote a blog post about the often stated but never explained assumption that communities in graphs should always be connected. This is inconsistent with statistical significance and null models that underlie the most widely employed methods. skewed.de/lab/posts/co...skewed.deThe perplexing “connected cluster axiom” – Inverse Complexity LabResearch group on inverse problems in complex systems and network science. 45115
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Adeel Razi @adeelrazi.bsky.social · 27/11/2025📢Generative Models in Neuroimaging Survey We’re running a short survey on how neuroimaging (aka #OHBM) community defines, uses & evaluates generative models, from biophysical simulations to ML-based approaches 👉 t.co/lRQj4qmknO @ohbmofficial.bsky.social @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social 114
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Gang Chen @gangchen6.bsky.social · 18/11/2025And the next step? Full voxel-level modeling. Recent numerical advances cracked the scalability barrier. Voxel-level hierarchical modeling is now feasible, revealing just how punishing traditional multiple-comparison adjustments really are. arxiv.org/abs/2511.12825arxiv.orgSIMBA: Scalable Image Modeling using a Bayesian Approach, A Consistent Framework for Including Spatial Dependencies in fMRI StudiesBayesian spatial modeling provides a flexible framework for whole-brain fMRI analysis by explicitly incorporating spatial dependencies, overcoming the limitations of traditional massive univariate app... 13015
Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Combo of two papers on partial information rate decomposition now out! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract... journals.aps.org/pre/abstract... Mini thread below 👇journals.aps.orgPartial Information Rate DecompositionPartial information decomposition (PID) is a principled and flexible method to unveil complex high-order interactions in multiunit network systems. Though being defined exclusively for random variable... 1164
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 16/10/2025ok, imagine you have an oscillation that is not symmetric around 0 (small direct current shift) with some amplitude modulation, for instance with 1/f-dynamics. ➡️ then these 1/f-dynamics will show up in low frequency part of spectrum (red); in addition to around oscillation peak (yellow). 2354
Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · 17/10/2025I find this paper really confusing. There are several measures (power, coherence, network communication, information based statistical dependencies) which are all measures of the "behavior" of the system, and definitely share similarities. Yet some are considered "mechanisms" underlying the others. 151
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Dr Cyril Pernet @cyrilrpernet.bsky.social · 22/09/2025arxiv.org/abs/2509.15278 check that your metadata are 'private' i.e. that they do not leak personal information -- BIDSapp available 😀arxiv.orgAssessing metadata privacy in neuroimagingThe ethical and legal imperative to share research data without causing harm requires careful attention to privacy risks. While mounting evidence demonstrates that data sharing benefits science, legit... 093
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · 16/09/2025A birthday is a good time to reflect! To mark SPM @ 30, this month's issue of Cerebral Cortex features deeply insightful commentaries on neuroimaging analysis from Ed Bullmore, Peter Bandettini, Peter Fox, Pedro Valdes-Sosa, Klaas Enno Stephan, Viktor Jirsa, et al [1/2] academic.oup.com/cercor/issueacademic.oup.comIssues | Cerebral Cortex | Oxford AcademicPublishes papers on the development, organization, plasticity, and function of the cerebral cortex, including the hippocampus. 23419
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo BeyondTheEdge @beyondtheedge.network · 08/09/2025BeyondTheEdge at the School of Complexity on "Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks" by our own @lordgrilo.bsky.social and @gin-bianconi.bsky.social with @aliceschwarze.bsky.social, @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social. Great perspectives! www.beyondtheedge.network/articles/bey...beyondtheedge.networkBeyondTheEdge goes to SicilyBeyondTheEdge researchers participated in the School of Complexity on 075
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 01/09/2025I'm specifically sharing this paper because I saw a post recently that said people who think about methodology are "attacking authors" 4214
Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · 27/08/2025"Brief segments of neurophysiological activity enable individual differentiation", but also when the neurophysiological activity (MEG data) is identical for all the subjects, we have the same differentiation. Because of the head shape, of course. pubpeer.com/publications...pubpeer.comPubPeer - Brief segments of neurophysiological activity enable individ...There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Brief segments of neurophysiological activity enable individual differentiation (2021) 050
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Laura Dugué @lauradugue.bsky.social · 17/08/2025🚨New preprint from the Dugué Lab! Happy to share our last work on #attention_rhythms, co-led by @cogsenoussi.bsky.social & former Dugué Lab PhD student @lauriegalas.bsky.social, and in collab with Niko Busch 🎉 @upcite.bsky.social | @erc.europa.eu | #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgTheta-rhythmic attentional exploration of spaceAttention facilitates stimulus processing by selecting specific locations (spatial attention) or features (feature-based attention). It can be sustained on a given location or feature, or re-oriented ... 1358
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Andrea Brovelli @brovelli.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Finally out on Nat Comms 🚀 We show that an intrinsic motivational learning signal (information gain) is encoded through synergistic and higher-order functional brain interactions and is broadcast to prefrontal reward circuits.t.cohttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62507-1 1148
Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Localizing Synergies of Hidden Factors in Complex Systems: Resting Brain Networks and HeLa Gene Expression Profile as Case Studies www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/27... 040
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Seyed (Yahya) Shirazi @neuromechanist.bsky.social · 15/07/2025🧠 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗮𝘄 𝗘𝗘𝗚 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹𝘀 - 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝘆 New research with 1,024 brain electrodes proves EEG channels DON'T reflect local brain activity underneath the electrode. paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.24.660870v1 #Neuroscience #EEG #BrainResearch 1154
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo RD PascualMarqui @pascualmarqui.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Preprint: Equations/generalizations for TC, DTC, RSI, O-information, and TSE-complexity for multivar real/cmplx data. How “connections” contribute to system inf measures. Helpful comments and reports on errors are appreciated. arXiv: 2025-07-11 doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.08773 142
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Tiago Peixoto @tiago.skewed.de · 11/07/2025There are some corners of the network science literature which adamantly claim that connected components *must* belong to different communities. Yet, ER networks can easily be disconnected, and the same is true for individual groups in SBM networks. There, splitting the components overfits. 1/4 342
Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · 08/07/2025But are they behaviors? physics.aps.org/articles/v18...physics.aps.orgWith Behaviors Like These in Complex Systems, Who Needs Mechanisms?A new study of complex systems supports a growing trend that focuses more on analyzing a system’s collective behavior rather than on trying to uncover the underlying interaction mechanisms. 1110
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 28/06/2025"The analysis of the L.L.M. users showed fewer widespread connections between different parts of their brains" This is goddamn embarrassing, man. Instructive for understanding just how bad media is on this. Like there are anatomical changes being measured. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...newyorker.comA.I. Is Homogenizing Our ThoughtsRecent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original. 411031
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Ginestra Bianconi @gin-bianconi.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Fantastic collaboration with @teo121270.bsky.social L.Giambagli R.Muolo "Global Topological Dirac Synchronization": Unveiling new dynamical states of higher-order networks with the Topological Dirac operator. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... @ioppublishing.bsky.social 0125
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Natalie Schaworonkow @nschawor.bsky.social · 23/06/2025happy that our article about mu & alpha rhythm waveform shape in development is now finally out in the open: doi.org/10.1162/jocn... oscillation frequency changes across development (one of the most robust findings in the oscillation world). in this work, we also look at waveform shape changes. 26218
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Peter Zeidman @corticalpete.bsky.social · 23/06/2025The beta release of SPM-Python is out now! Amazing work by Johan Medrano @johmedr.bsky.social , Yael Balbastre, Yulia Bezsudnova @ybezs.bsky.social and other members of their team. A new era for SPM! #OHBM2025 28837
Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Sorry this is inaccurate, this is a collider, thus a synergistic case 230
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Gaute Einevoll @gauteeinevoll.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Episode #29 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On the philosophy of simplification in computational neuroscience - with Mazviita Chirimuuta and Terrence Sejnowski theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn29 What are the pitfalls when simplifying? Panel debate at FENS meeting in Oslo. @fens.org 0163
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 20/06/2025the level of misinformation sparked because of this bananas EEG preprint is just really tragic. By the way if you think that a researcher caused cognitive decline to happen to participants in a study you should probably be freaked out by that 1328875
Daniele Marinazzo @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Localizing synergies of hidden factors across complex systems: resting brain networks and HeLa gene expression profile as case studies arxiv.org/abs/2506.09053 172
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Dan Goodman @neural-reckoning.org · 10/06/2025Fusing multisensory signals across channels and time. Now published at PLOS Comp Biol! 🎉 With @swathianil.bsky.social and @marcusghosh.bsky.social. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... TLDR, when multisensory signals vary over time, neural architecture becomes important. Biggest not always best.journals.plos.orgFusing multisensory signals across channels and timeAuthor summary We constantly detect sensory inputs, like sights and sounds, and use combinations of these signals to guide our actions. For example, by reading someone’s lips we can better converse wi... 14314
Reposted by Daniele Marinazzo Christophe Phillips @chphillips.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Quick check of the paper mentioned here under and it's rather "opaque". 🤔 Key point IMO is confusing Maxwell's equations time dependence and brain waves time scale. Anisotropy and inhomogeneity in tissue conductivity is important but it lives very well with the "quasi-static approximation".hdl.handle.netORBi: Detailed Reference 275