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ISMRM @ismrm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We’re excited to introduce Karla Miller, Ph.D., the 2027 Lauterbur Lecturer! Join us in Vancouver for the 2027 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition. LEARN MORE: ow.ly/JzSi50ZMNaX #ISMRM2027 #ISMRM #ISMRT #MRI #MagneticResonance #Radiology #MedicalImaging #MRTechnologists #Radiographer

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Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN) @oxcin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We proudly present the 2026/27 OxCIN Global Scholars: Aya Ahmad, Aparna Somaraj, Tanmay Singhal, Yazdan Rezaee Jouryabi, and Salma Mowafi! They'll join OxCIN remotely for a year, participate in our MRI Graduate Course, present their work, and beome part of our global community. tinyurl.com/yc44kk3j

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

As of yesterday, Shella is now the EiC! She will be fantastic :-)

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest.

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

As part of OHBM online meetings next week: "25 years of FSL" Register by Monday. Talks from: Stephen Smith, Frederik Lange, Ludovica Griffanti, Rezvan Farahibozorg, Amy Howard and Hossein Rafipoor, William Clarke, Michiel Cottaar.

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Here is the summary of the various OHBM sessions, Sept 2-4.

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

@shepherdneame.bsky.social trying to find Bishops Finger on tap in canterbury this weekend. Help!

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FSLeyes @fsleyes.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A new FSLeyes is out (v1.20.0) with support for .trx tractography files (thanks @arokem.org !) and MRtrix3 .mif files. Full details at open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/fsl/fs...

open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk

fsleyes release history — FSLeyes documentation

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Yet more unnecessary destruction of Oxford's green spaces by Oxford Labour. Please build on brownfield sites instead. @cllrsbrown.bsky.social @maryoxford.bsky.social @clvoxford.bsky.social

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

grass snake smelling for food on the pond

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

moorhen parent and teen taking a break from eating the newts

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Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN) @oxcin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Quick! Register by June 12th for the next in-person FSL Course! 🗓️ June 22-26, 2026 📍 Bordeaux, France 🧠 Covering: lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis 🔗 More info: open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

the Elysium pond is so full of life today - including goslings doing their first underwater warp-drive

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Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My wife is in Alzheimer's research. It turns out that the same bogus "quantile regression" methods that have been used to exaggerate genomic findings (bsky.app/profile/ent3...) are also being used to promote marginally effective AD treatments.

medpagetoday.com

Study Questions Methods Used in Alzheimer's Drug Analysis

Quantile aggregation may lead to overstated claims about amyloid-cognition relationships

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The Organization for Human Brain Mapping @ohbmofficial.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

🔦 Speaker Spotlight: Angela Laird, Ph.D. 🎤 Reliability Across the Eras: From Early Discoveries to Population Neuroscience 🧠 Pioneer in neuroimaging meta-analysis (ALE, NiMARE, Neurosynth), shaping how we synthesize brain data at scale. 🔗 www.humanbrainmapping.org/2026-feature...

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

the creatures in Elysium really love a sunny day

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Have you ever looked close-up at the "boring, white" blossoms of a horse chestnut tree? They are amazing!

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Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN) @oxcin.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Many congratulations to Betina Ip, Nima Khalighinejad, and Will Clarke, who have all been deservingly awarded the title of Associate Professor!

portraits of Betina Ip, Nima Khalighinejad, and Will Clarke (left to right)

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Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN) @oxcin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Register now for the next in-person FSL Course 2026 in Bordeaux, France! 🗓️ June 22-26, 2026 🧠 Covering: lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis 🔗 More info: open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...

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Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN) @oxcin.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Apply now for OxCIN Global Scholars! 🎯For early-career MRI researchers in the Global South 💻Remote 1-year affiliation with OxCIN 🧠Training in MRI physics & analysis, inc FSL 🌎Build global connections 🗓️Apply by 28 June 2026 🔗https://www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/training/global-scholars Please repost!

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Oxford University’s Proctors have raised concerns about insufficient expenditure on buildings and staff. They also described the introduction of OpenAI as “startling” and “problematic” and questioned whether it would undermine the integrity of online admissions. gazette.web.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

Oxford skyline (Liv Cashman at unsplash)

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Updated PANDORA preprint now available www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Saad Jbabdi @saadjbabdi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

When we acquire multimodal MRI data, they give us complementary views on the same tissue. How can we combine this rich information to improve the specificity of tissue modelling in MRI?

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Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN) @oxcin.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Register now for the in-person FSL Course 2026 in Bordeaux, France! 🗓️ June 22-26, 2026 🧠 Covering: lectures & hands-on practicals on structural, functional, diffusion and resting state brain image analysis 🔗 open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Registration is now open for the 2026 FSL Course. 22-26 June, in Bordeaux (the week after OHBM). open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...

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FSL Course

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Finally signs of spring! Last night, first sighting of Great Crested Newts - 6 large adults heading down to the pond (iphone photo not great, but you can see the male's white tail stripe and the crest flopped down along the back), and today the geese arrived for the summer.

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UK Biobank @ukbiobank.ac.uk · 10/02/2026

✅ The UK Government has today granted access to half a million UK Biobank participants' coded GP data for health research. This change will dramatically increase the power of UK Biobank's dataset to advance the diagnosis, treatment and management of conditions handled by GPs.

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Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN) @oxcin.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Save the date! FSL Course 2026 is provisionally planned in-person for June 22nd - 26th in Bordeaux, France. More details and the registration link will be posted on the FSL Course website soon. open.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/pages/fslcou...

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

three owl species that we saw near Chambal, India

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

One lovely day in the middle of a cold, grey, wet week. Pond is semi-frozen, sun is shining on the pollarded willows who are growing back red. A few bullrushes are starting to go to seed.

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Seán Froudist-Walsh @seanfw.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

My new gig is PI of the CANN group at Trinity College Dublin and University of Oxford (50/50). Funded by the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, we'll be recruiting postdocs, PhDs and an RA in Dublin and Oxford soon. So exciting! @oxcin.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @tcdscss.bsky.social

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Hey Siri, can you remove the scaffolding. But seriously, even with bits of scaffolding, this is the most beautiful building I've seen.

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Just got back from India - amazing wonderful country. Some pictures from the "Baby Taj" in Agra.

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Preprint on PANDORA by Aslan Abivardi: A massive archive of UK Biobank brain imaging from 82K subjects. For each of 98 sub-modalities (e.g., FA from dMRI), the images are collated into a convenient subjectsXvoxels HDF5 file. pages.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/pandora/web/ www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

For people using the @ukbiobank.bsky.social UKB RAP cloud system for brain imaging analyses: In order to make RAP much easier to use, we have created a Docker which is easy to install and gives you a graphical desktop, FSLeyes and the HCP wb_view. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Imaging-friendly docker for UK Biobank RAP

An Easy Docker for Brain Imaging Visualisation on UKB RAP Paul McCarthy1 Stephen Smith1 1FMRIB, OxCIN, NDCN, Oxford University, UK Queries: email paul.mccarthy@ndcn.ox.ac.uk and stephen.smith@ndcn....

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

(with apologies to non-UK folks) - we just discovered this *amazing* cheese - semi-hard, with a taste that is a confusingly incredible combination of being both subtle and yet rich and complex. parkfarm.co.uk/products/mer...

parkfarm.co.uk

Merry Wyfe - A cider washed rind cheese - Bath Soft Cheese

The Merry Wyfe - An award-winning washed-rind cheese made with our Wyfe of Bath curds which are pressed and then washed in cider every other day for four weeks

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Ravi Menon @northernthrux.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I often think about the fact that all the universities in 🇨🇦 together did not produce 11 Nobel Prizes in that period (or since). Not from a lack of brilliance, but from a lack of steady funding and the insistence on significant teaching loads and mind-numbing committee memberships for all faculty.

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Latest processing of UK Biobank brain imaging data - now with 82,000 usable first-scan datasets. Correlating brain IDPs with 13,000 non-imaging variables gives a rich manhattan-stye plot. 324,000 Bonferroni-significant associations.

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Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Many UK universities likely to walk away from journal agreements after publishers put forward proposals with “year-on-year price rises” rather than cheaper deals demanded by national negotiators, @davidprosser.bsky.social tells @jgro-the.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/busines...

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‘Business-as-usual’ offers from publishers raise walk-away fears

Disappointing offers which ‘miss financial reality’ faced by UK higher education have heightened speculation that institutions will ditch proposed deals

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Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Where is the money going? In the case of for-profit publishers it's very clear: Your open access fees fund corporate profit margins. Profit margins for large academic publishers can far exceed those of household names like Amazon and Apple. chart source: bit.ly/4leULKi #scipub #academicsky

Chart shows profit margin for Elsevier is 38%, for Springer-Nature is 27%... this is in comparison to companies like Apple (25%), Amazon (5%)... There are non-publishing companies like Microsoft with big margins (34%), but overall the chart shows that academic publishing companies have surprisingly large profits when compared to more "famous" large companies that are household names. "Source" line says "yahoo finance, RELX investor presentations, Spring Nature Annual Reports

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Cerca Magnetics Limited @cercamagnetics.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Congratulations to Holly Schofield and @curlyryes.bsky.social for being chosen from over 350 papers that were published by @imagingneurosci.bsky.social in 2024. Holly accepted the award at OHBM in Brisbane and Ryan celebrated the win from Dublin! www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/scienti...

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Tim Soutphommasane @timsout.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It's Pride Month. On the weekend, we were delighted to have a Pride breakfast celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer members of the University of Oxford. And then proceeded to join the Oxford Pride parade. The weather was wet -- but that didn't dampen spirits

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Paula Croxson (she/her) @paulacroxson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

🧪 Scientists are pushing back against the gutting of US research funding. Now scientists outside of the NIH and members of the public can sign on in support of the Bethesda declaration: www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec... More about the Bethesda declaration: apnews.com/article/nih-...

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Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

Support NIH Staff Now!

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I guess the main difference between social media and the BBC is that you won't see "popcorn" on any BBC pages today?

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Steve Smith @fmrib-steve.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Indeed - and Oxford Labour just as bad, concreting over every bit of green they can, destroying the countryside for future generations. @cllrsbrown.bsky.social @maryoxford.bsky.social @annarailton.bsky.social

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