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DrBreaky

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

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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This is exciting work Evan, but to my eye, these look like the thresholded "nodes" of underlying geometric eigenmodes - that is, something you would see if you plucked a guitar string and looked at the peaks
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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
Dave and I will both be presenting this work through the year and I look forward to seeing where it goes! osf.io/preprints/ps...
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Compromises in the timing of the forward and backward reconstruction cause allostatic stress which\, left unmitigated, lead to the major proteinopathies/dementias
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Here @davidjonesbrain.bsky.social & I take a deep dive into the idea that the hippocampus might be a "latent diffusion engine" - explaining working memory/cued recollection, imagination, & perception
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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 · 19/07/2025
Thnx Ben :-)
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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
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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 · 11/07/2025
thanks @earlkmiller.bsky.social‬ !! 😎
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
good eyes!
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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
... and their disturbance in metabolic and neurodegenerative disorders
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This new preprint led by @annabhlr.bsky.social and Christian Behler focusses on these topics in health
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Given that core neuronal reactions (like everything in biology) are temperature dependent, the absence of focussed research on brain temperature, thermoregulation and its measurement (thermometry)is amazing
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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
Stay an extra day before OHBM starts (just a hour or so away) or return to Brisbane or other satellite events on the 23rd www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/in...
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Early Bird Registration by 15 March USD $595 inc welcome drinks, 2 day meeting, accommodation + ferry ride between Brisbane & the island BCW have a unique format, featuring short presentations (15 minutes, 3 slides) then 45 minutes of discussion brain-connectivity-workshop.org/bsw/zwei/bcw
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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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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I guess this is the inevitable way forward. I personally find it useful as a casual read if I get a bit stuck but I don't use any of the text verbatim in a manusript
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
With a few prompts, one could get quite a lot of a draft written, or a badly worded draft re-written. I'm not a fan as the end written result is very "AI generic" (even with fact checking) but I'm guessing it might be useful for some.
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DrBreaky @drbreaky.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I think an open acknowledgement of "assist phrasing" is something of a start, although the term is a bit vague and leaves a lot of variability for interpretation
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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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