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DrBreaky

@drbreaky.bsky.social
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Michael Breakspear Neuroscientist, Psychiatrist, Physicist. www.systemsneurosciencegroup.com

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Stewart Heitmann, PhD @stewart-heitmann.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Some years ago, Michael Breakspear (@drbreaky.bsky.social), myself and Andreas Daffertshofer published a review of the Kuramoto model in the context of #ComputationalNeuroscience. It became a popular introduction to modelling #synchronisation in the brain. www.frontiersin.org/journals/hum...
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Frontiers | Generative Models of Cortical Oscillations: Neurobiological Implications of the Kuramoto Model
Understanding the fundamental mechanisms governing fluctuating oscilla- tions in large-scale cortical circuits is a crucial prelude to a proper knowl- edge...
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) holds transformative potential for the care of people with mental health illnesses. This review explores key domains, applications & challenges that must be addressed to ensure safe, effective, & sustainable clinical integration. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
People have been looking at "AI & brains" through the lens of LLMs/transformers. But what latent diffusion? (think text-to-image/video platforms such as Midjourney). **Class conditioned latent diffusion and semantically cued hippocampus share a remarkably similar computational architecture...**
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Katharina V. Wellstein @kvwellstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Who is planning to go to the @ohbmofficial.bsky.social Australia chapter meeting? I'm leaving Australia soon so want to meet as many lovely Aussies as possible on my conference tour 😀
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Katharina V. Wellstein @kvwellstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
It was a great pleasure presenting preliminary results from my ongoing study on social-affective inference and constricted affect at the @newybrains.bsky.social lunch symposium series. We found some interesting first effects of positive affective surprise and bodily responses. 🙂
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Interested in hippocampal dynamics and their interactions with cortical rhythms? Our physically constrained model of cortico-hippocampal interactions - complete with fast geometrically informed numerical simulation (available at embedded github repo) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
In the latest episode of @braininspired.bsky.social, @drbreaky.bsky.social and @macshine.bsky.social describe a scale-free property of brain activity conserved across diverse species, suggesting a universal principle of activity underlying cognition. www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...
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Michael Breakspear and Mac Shine explain how brain processing changes across neural population scales
Breakspear and Shine find a scale-free property of brain activity that is conserved across diverse species, suggesting that a universal principle of brain activity underlies cognition.
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
🔥ATTENTION!🔥 Registration for the 2026 Noosa Brain Workshop is now open! Join us for some amazing science, sun, and surf in one of Australia's most beautiful beach towns. Details: tinyurl.com/arbc5pp6 Check out or incredible list of confirmed speakers. More to come...
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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
The keynote speaker for the OHBM Virtual Satellite Meeting is Dr. Michael Breakspear, @drbreaky.bsky.social! You won’t want to miss his talk – your only chance will be to register and catch it live at 12:00-13:00 UTC on September 11! 🔗 humanbrainmapping.org/25SEASIG #OHBM #SEASIG
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
New 2 year position as an Imaging Data Infrastructure Specialist Located a the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI) & the University of Newcastle (UoN), in partnership with the National Imaging Facility (NIF), Apply here: www.seek.com.au/job/85537666
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience, Generation of surrogate brain maps preserving spatial autocorrelation through random rotation of geometric eigenmodes direct.mit.edu/imag/article... Produces surrogates for null hypothesis testing of nonlinear effects within and correlations between brain maps
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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
MAYBE DON’T EMAIL ME AT THE WEEKEND, THEN.
Dear Colleague
It appears that your Wellbeing
Awareness training has not yet been completed.
This e-learning forms part of the University's strategy to improve health and wellbeing amongst its staff and is an important means of providing you with key information on how to manage work-life pressures.
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
On this auspicious day, I finally bit the bullet & asked my super post-doc @annabhlr.bsky.social to teach me how to code & run Python (today!) Coding lifeline now goes: BASIC (1982); FORTRAN (1990); MAPLE (1992); MATLAB (1999); PYTHON (2025) (a bit of a gap between the last two!)
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HMRI Brain Health Research Program @newybrains.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Program member Professor Michael Breakspear @drbreaky.bsky.social will be presenting "Modelling the brain as a wave machine" at Pint of Science in Newcastle on May 20, 2025 Follow the link to book your tickets! 👇 pintofscience.com.au/event/brains...
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Brains and Bugs: Breakthroughs in Viruses & Mental Health
Explore ground breaking research on new therapies to prevent respiratory diseases and how computational neuroscience is revolutionising our understanding o…
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Looking forward to presenting our work on cortico-hippocampal coupling and wave-wave interactions as a basis for some core human cognitions 5pm May 6th EST (US) 8am May 7th AEST (Sydney) Zoom link: columbiacuimc.zoom.us/j/92736430185 Thanks to WaveClub conveners Erfan Zabeh & Uma Mohan
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Sharna Jamadar @sharnajamadar.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
What does parenthood, depression, and psychedelics do to your brain? Very proud to see Winnie Orchard joining this stellar grp of Aussie neuros @lenaedibrainz.bsky.social @lucacocchineuro.bsky.social ky.social & @drbreaky.bsky.social for a FREE public lecture in June. @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
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WaveClub @waveclubseminar.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We can't wait to hear from from Dr. Michael Breakspear in two weeks in our monthly online seminar series on traveling waves of neural oscillations. Join us on May 6th at 5-6p ET! Please note the change in time to accommodate our Aussie friend @drbreaky.bsky.social
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James Pang @jchrispang.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We are hiring! @aurinaarn.bsky.social and I are jointly looking for a talented Postdoc in Systems and Comp Neuro at Monash (AUS). If you like neuroimaging 🧠, comp models 💻, genetics 🧬, brain disorders 🤕, and/or evolution 🐵🐭, this could be the job for you!! careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
An opportunity to *join our group* as a postdoc researcher analyzing complex physical systems, and the time-varying data they produce (with applications to sleep)! Join us @sydneyphysics.bsky.social on a great campus in a beautiful city! Please share 🙂 usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate (Physics)
Full time, 2-year fixed term position with potential to extend. Located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics. Exciting opportunity to conduct research in a world-leading interdisciplinary...
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chrisbehler.bsky.social @chrisbehler.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🧠🌡️ New preprint out! BRAIN TEMPERATURE may be a key factor in understanding and treating Alzheimer’s disease and brain cancer: doi.org/10.31219/osf... 'Temperature matters: Insights into brain thermoregulation and its impact on neural activity and health'
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
New preprint: "Temperature matters: Insights into brain thermoregulation and its impact on neural activity and health" osf.io/preprints/os...
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HMRI Brain Health Research Program @newybrains.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Program members Dr Alexander Thorpe and Professor Michael Breakspear @drbreaky.bsky.social presented today @hmriaustralia.bsky.social as part of the HMRI Weekly Research Seminar Series. Thanks to our researchers for their fascinating presentations! #neuroscience #researcher #neuromodulation #brain
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I feel ill watching this storm build and approach the communities of northern NSW and Brisbane
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Important caveats of working in surface space with off-the-shelf cortical meshes by @jaysonjeg.bsky.social
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Jayson Jeganathan @jaysonjeg.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Do you work on surface MRI such as HCP data? Our paper is finally out in Imaging Neuroscience, showing biases in surface fMRI. The revised ms has many new insights! TLDR: Vertices are much closer to each other in sulci, resulting in (fake) high spatial autocorrelation. (1/5)
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
It was bangin' work by you too Kevo, waaaay before hemodynamic travelling waves got their time in the sun ...
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Kevin Aquino 🧠🔑 @kevinaquino.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
I have had other papers pass this mile stone, but this one is special as it was my 1st, first-author paper, and was the output from my PhD many moons ago! @drbreaky.bsky.social @mschira.bsky.social
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
New group photo taken by the talented media team at @hmriaustralia.bsky.social
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Summary of the disastrous situation for science in the US & by collaboration, globally ".. leaders hostile to science & unqualified for their roles; executive orders that restrict meetings, publications, travel & grant making; censoring ideas & even certain words" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...
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Opinion | American Science is Under Attack
The Trump administration hobbles research and endangers the public health.
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Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne @baptistecd.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Our latest paper is out! A well powered high resolution mapping of the grey-matter regions associated with Alzheimer's, progression to Alzheimer's disease, cognition and functioning. @drbreaky.bsky.social @barkhof.bsky.social @michelleklupton.bsky.social
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Grey‐Matter Structure Markers of Alzheimer's Disease, Alzheimer's Conversion, Functioning and Cognition: A Meta‐Analysis Across 11 Cohorts
We meta-analysed results from 11 neuroimaging cohorts of elderly participants, to estimate the morphometricity (total association with brain measurements) of 17 traits of interest, and to identify th...
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Andrew Zalesky @andrewzalesky.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Check out the schedule of events linked with OHBM 2025 - Brain connectivity workshop, June 20-22 - Hackathon, June 21-23 - Neurodesk, June 21 - Brain gradients, June 23 - Precision network therapeutics, June 29 Register now! We look forward to welcoming you to Brisbane! @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Amazing work from @jchrispang.bsky.social plus @alexfornito.bsky.social and team!!
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Saying farewell to @jaysonjeg.bsky.social who just completed a lovely PhD (plus his training in psychiatry) ... he is off to join the @macshine.bsky.social lab & no doubt achieve great things
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Early bird registrations for the 2025 Brain Connectivity Meeting now open June 20 (arrive) until June 22 on the beautiful North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah), near Brisbane (location of OHBM) qimrberghofer.eventsair.com/brain-connec...
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davemomi.bsky.social @davemomi.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🎉 Thrilled to announce that our course on Neural Field Theory & Brain Networks has been accepted for #OHBM2025! Third year teaching computational neuroscience at OHBM. Can't wait to explore brain dynamics in Brisbane! @ohbmtrainees.bsky.social @drbreaky.bsky.social @johndgriffiths.bsky.social
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
With advance of LLMs, its inevitable they are going to be used to prepare manuscripts. I haven't (yet) but I see a role even as an experienced author. It's surprising that most journals don't yet have formal policies. The minimum should be a checklist on submission & a verbal statement in the paper
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This sounds catastrophic: " a wide range of restrictions, including the abrupt cancellation of meetings such as grant review panels ... a communications pause, a freeze on hiring, and an indefinite ban on travel." www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Brains minimize energy consumption while maximizing computation. In humans, this trade-off is reconciled towards complex behaviors & hence relatively high energy use Review & synthesis with @sharnajamadar.bsky.social @annabhlr.bsky.social & Hamish Deery tinyurl.com/47c9n65w osf.io/preprints/os...
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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Therapist: tell me about your fantasies Me, a Full Professor: declaring email bankruptcy, deleting my university email account, and deleting my university shared calendar Therapist: I... I... not that kind Me: 🤷‍♂️
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Philip Hubbard @philiphubbard.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I used VVD Viewer for this #FluorescenceFriday video: 141 volumes from the #HHMIJanelia FlyLight Split-GAL4 #Drosophila driver collection. The animation comes from a high-level description processed by neuVid. Such a rapid tour of the data has questionable scientific value, but it's fun to watch!
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Brandon Munn @bmunn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Hi BlueSky fam, for my first post and to celebrate our recent paper being physically published I thought I’d do a summary thread! This has been my most favourite (and toughest) work to date. Please help share around!! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... (Reach out if you can’t access)
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The Brain Connectivity Workshop 2025 will be held just before #OHBM2025 on the paradise that is Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) a one hour ferry ride from Brisbane Registration will open shortly (cost to be <$600 for travel registration & accomodation) so please plan your flights accordingly
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
A Timeline in Whole Brain Modelling: John Griffiths, Sorenza Bastiaens & Neda Kaboodvand link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Metastability demystified — the foundational past, the pragmatic present and the promising future Dynamic systems theory review paper with Fran Hancock, Fernando Rosas & friends rdcu.be/d3bh9
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Anna Behler (she/her) @annabhlr.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The last grant application of the year is finally in - time to take a deep breath and do the stats. I submitted 5 grants as lead CI and was involved in 3 others. The result? 4 rejections and 1 ruled ineligible up to date. What do you reckon, how many papers I could have written in all that time?
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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Imaging Neuroscience new-paper posts from 2023. At the end of December we'll post the much bigger 2024 montage (even Rocky had a montage).
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Anna Behler (she/her) @annabhlr.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Almost 2 years ago, @chrisbehler.bsky.social made a bold move across the globe with me so I could take on my dream postdoc - without having a job perspective for himself. Fast forward, and I’m so proud of him and the amazing project he’s building during his PhD! 🧠
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Morning ride and surf
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Looking forward to presenting our new "two sheet" cortico-hippocampal neural field and neural mass models
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Todd Constable @toddc.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Here's another sample of the amazing speaker lineup for Whistler Brain 2025. @drbreaky.bsky.social @anastasiayendiki.bsky.social Register here: medicine.yale.edu/mrrc/about/s... Abstract submission is open - get yours in!
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